Over the years, programs focused on file compression and decompression have gained a lot of importance. We install them on our computers for multiple tasks apart from saving space on the disk drives. One of the best-known proposals in the sector is PeaZip, which has just received an important update.
Surely many of you use file compression to send content via email or share it with others. This way we combine multiple files into one and also reduce the weight of the file as such. We can also use this type of programs to protect certain information and encrypt it thanks to the additional functions included.
Along these same lines we want to focus on one of the most used proposals of this type, since its developers have just made PeaZip 10.1 available to us. Here we find an open source project that over time grows and adapts to the cities of current users.
Say that PeaZip 10.1 has just been released as a new version of this file compression and encryption software. It is a free, open source, cross-platform program for Windows, Linux and macOS. To begin with, we will tell you that it now introduces KDF scrypt as the default option instead of PBKDF2. All this in order to improve resistance to attacks for hacking passwords of the files we create here.
Keep in mind that this change is carried out for all encryption modes and can be configured to use from 64 MB to 1 GB of memory.
Other news of the PeaZip 10.1 compressor
But this important section focused on security is not the only novelty that we are going to find in the new version of the compression software. We tell you this because this version also updates the graphical user interface. Its developers add an improved navigation bar that includes an integrated compact mode, as well as support for dragging and dropping elements.
In turn, the aforementioned bar has the ability to automatically adapt to the width depending on the zoom level that we use in the application. For its part, said graphical interface now supports transparency for program themes and icons. And now PeaZip has a new theme option to optionally underline and highlight content.
In addition, from now on you can more easily access the compressor’s main menu from the System File Explorer. As for its internal operation, the new PeaZip 10.1 updates the compression settings in order to improve this rate, and corrects a problem with copying folders.
Once we know all this, we can benefit from all the advantages of this file compressor and decompressor by downloading it from its official website. We can do all this from here without spending a single euro. At first we only have to choose the version, the operating system that we have installed, and in a few seconds we will have the program at our disposal, fully updated.
