PeaZip 6.0.0 released

Written for PeaZip-archiver by Giorgio tani on 2016-02-28

The new PeaZip major release consolidates and further improves the many updates of the over-two-years long 5.x line history:
- full cross-platform Unicode-awareness for archive management (including PEA format) and file management functions, thanks to new Lazarus 1.6 / FreePascal 3.0 IDE
- improved file manager and more readable archiving/extraction UI thanks to new cleaner icon theme and flat design with better designed tabs, option menus, and progress bar

Release 6 comes with updated 7z 15.14 / p7zip 15.09 backend with faster and improved 7z compression (LZMA2 as default algorithm, sort by type for solid compression), and full support to new RAR5 format both in Windows and Linux without resorting to external non-Free Software components.

Other improvements are the ability of delete / secure delete open archive, and to recursively extract archives from path - unlike most archivers, PeaZip lists archives sent to extraction to allow double-checking and refining the selection before starting the operation.

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