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Beyond Compare
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Version: 4.2.6 updated
Upload Date: 17 Aug 18
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 170

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Beyond Compare is a commercial, cross-platform and full featured graphical software that provides a file compare and directory synchronization utility for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

Quickly compare any types of files

The software has been designed to allow users to easily and quickly compare any type of files, including text documents, images, MP3s, HEX data, or entire drives. It even supports folder comparison operations and can compare Adobe PDF (.pdf) and Microsoft Word (.doc) files.

Features powerful commands

Beyond Compare features powerful commands that allow you to ignore the differences you’re not interesting in and focus only on the ones you really want to view, merge changes, generate reports, as well as to synchronize your files across multiple devices.

Compare entire drives

With Beyond Compare, you will be able to quickly compare entire drives, directories and folders, check modified times and file sizes, integrate zip archives and FTP sites seamlessly, as well as to use byte-by-byte comparisons.

It is an intelligent application

Beyond Compare is an intelligent application that will automatically choose the best way to compare files and folders, displaying the results in the format you want. It allows you to view and edit text files with syntax highlighting, using comparison rules that have been created specifically for documents, HTML and source code.

Supports a wide range of Linux distributions

Beyond Compare supports a wide range of Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, openSUSE, Debian GNU/Linux, Mageia, Linux Mint, and any other DEB- or RPM-based operating system.

Runs on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms

Both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures are supported, but keep in mind that the latter requires 32-bit compatibility libraries, which will be installed automatically if you use the default package manager of your Linux distribution.

What is new in this release:

  • Fixes crashes on macOS 10.14 Mojave beta and SFTP connection failures for sites hosted on WPEngine.

What is new in version 4.2.5:

  • On Linux, added KDE5 context menu support.
  • On Windows, fixed BcClipboard incompatibility with MS Excel, Powershell ISE, and Visual Studio.
  • Multiple other bug fixes.

What is new in version :

  • Cloud Services:
  • Fixed WebDAV showing invalid subfolders with the same name as the parent folder.
  • Command Line:
  • Linux: Fixed excessive CPU usage when launching a second comparison from the command line.
  • FTP:
  • Unix: Fixed crash when loading an FTP profile with the timezone set to Rome.
  • Misc:
  • View tab bar no longer shows "Select Tab" and "Close Other Tabs" commands if there is only one tab.
  • Updated various icons.
  • MP3 Compare:
  • Improved handling of AENC, GEOB, and APIC tags.
  • Options:
  • Added "Minimum clip length" to clipboard manager to avoid saving passwords or other short text (defaults to 32).
  • Reports:
  • Fixed display of custom display filter names (e.g. "[Differences]" instead of "Differences" when orphans not included).
  • Fixed UTF-8 reports not including a byte order mark, causing problems when importing them into Excel or viewing them in some web browsers.
  • Sessions:
  • Session Settings dialog's "Swap sides" button now also affects "Disable editing" checkboxes.
  • Text Views:
  • Unix: Fixed accented characters being entered as '?' when typed.
  • Crashes:
  • macOS: Fixed startup crash on macOS 10.13 High Sierra beta.
  • Unix: Fixed Folder Compare crash when opening Options dialog from the Log panel.

What is new in version 4.2.2:

  • macOS/Linux: Fixed ESC key not closing the Folder Compare "Compare Contents" dialog. (Broken in 4.2.0)
  • Windows: Installer now registers BCompare.exe in the App Paths registry key so it can be used from the Windows Run dialog or ShellExecute without a path.
  • Windows: Added SHA-256 code signatures to pdftotext.exe and patch.exe.
  • macOS: Fixed crash at launch when Beyond Compare.app is on a case sensitive file system and has been upgraded from a previous release. (Broken in 4.2.0)
  • macOS: Fixed crash when dragging & dropping an alias onto Beyond Compare.

What is new in version 4.1.7:

  • Archives:
  • Upgraded 7-zip libraries to 16.02 to fix code execution vulnerability in UDF (.img, .iso) decoder (CVE-2016-2334 and CVE-2016-2335).
  • Windows: Added support for PKZip v1 legacy compression algorithms (Implode, Reduce, Shrink).
  • Cloud Services:
  • Fixed support for Unicode paths and filenames on SharePoint WebDAV servers.
  • Fixed support for connecting to Amazon S3 buckets in the eu-west-1 region that were created in 2013 and earlier.
  • Fixed resource leak when uploading/downloading from Microsoft OneDrive.
  • Windows: "Open With" for WebDAV profiles now passes http:// URLs to the requested application instead of BC-specific profile: ones.
  • Improved error message if an S3 bucket is stored in an unrecognized AWS region.
  • Fixed loading WebDAV folder listings that include empty getcontentlength entries.
  • Command Line:
  • Fixed /fileviewer= switch to use fixed English phrases instead of translated strings.
  • File Formats:
  • OS X/Linux: Fixed importing file formats with external helper executables.
  • Fixed loading .docx files that have been modified using MiniZip.
  • File Views:
  • "Save File Using Profile" now handles "Editing disabled" just like "Save File on File System As" does.
  • Changed button caption in "Save Changes?" confirmation dialog from "Save None" to "Discard All".
  • Installer:
  • .msi packages now use SHA-256 code signing signatures instead of SHA-1 ones.
  • Misc:
  • Fixed support for scrolling using laptops/tablets with precision touchpads (.e.g, Surface Pro).
  • OS X: Fixed support for Beyond Compare "Services" menu extensions in apps other than Finder.
  • Added Japanese as an official language.
  • Time limited license keys now show a warning on the Home view when close to the expiration, and show the expiration date in the About dialog.
  • Options:
  • Improved appearance of Options dialog and Home view for themes with dark backgrounds.
  • Reports:
  • Fixed Picture Compare Report to use printer DPI instead of screen DPI.
  • Fixed Picture Compare Report handling of empty comparison.
  • Fixed plain text output of right justified text.
  • Fixed plain text output handling of gap lines.
  • Fixed Table Compare plain text output of interleaved headers.
  • Table Compare:
  • Fixed performance regression introduced in 4.1.4.
  • Text Views:
  • Windows: Fixed displaying emoji characters when "Enable font linking in editors" is enabled.
  • Linux: Fixed slow performance when long lines are visible.
  • Text Merge:
  • Output files will now be written using file format external conversion settings.
  • Crashes:
  • Windows: Fixed crash when opening a file on 64-bit Windows.
  • Windows: Fixed crash when opening Options dialog to Tweaks panel while DisableCheckForUpdates registry tweak is active.

What is new in version 4.1.6:

  • Fixed copying/moving files between disks/partitions/servers not working or not preserving DOS 8.3 names, NTFS ACLs, creation dates, or Unix xattrs. (Broken in 4.1.4)
  • Windows: Fixed support for adding files with non-ASCII filenames to zip archives.
  • Added INCLUDE-EMPTY option to scripting SNAPSHOT command.
  • OS X/Linux: Added/fixed support for Unix mode within zip archives.

What is new in version 4.1.3:

  • Bug fixes for Hex Compare, FTP, SFTP, and Asian language input on OS X.

What is new in version 4.1.2:

  • Improves performance and stability, especially under OS X.
  • Fixes issues introduced by IPv6 support.

What is new in version 4.1.1 Build 20615:

  • This release fixes exporting file formats. It also adds a tweak to disable IPv6 support.

What is new in version 4.0.6 Build 19729 / 4.1.0 Build 20251 Beta:

  • Windows/Linux: Added 64-bit (x86-64) native installs, with support for significantly larger comparisons.
  • Linux: Updated user interface to use Qt 4.8 instead of Qt 3.3.
  • OS X/Linux: Added read/write support for .7z archives and read-only support for many additional types (.iso, .rar, .dmg, etc).
  • Added support for .xz and .tar.xz archives.
  • OS X: Added MP3 compare with playback support.
  • Windows: Added support for Microsoft OneDrive.
  • Windows: Comparing MS Excel spreadsheets (.xls/.xlsx) is now significantly faster and no longer requires Excel.
  • OS X/Linux: Added support for MS Word documents (.doc/.docx).
  • Linux: "PDF Documents" file format is now included by default.
  • Linux: Find & Replace regular expression support is now based on PCRE.
  • Windows: Added support for IPv6.
  • Added support for 3-way merges in the "External" format.

What is new in version 4.0.6:

  • This version fixes SSL/TLS connection issues and adds support for non-interactive import of settings.

What is new in version 4.0.5 Build 19480:

  • Fixed support for connecting through SSL using FTPS, Webdav, and other connection methods after patches for Poodle exploit.
  • Fixed re-prompting for an SSH private key passphrase if the first one entered isn't correct.
  • Fixed loading the public key portion of a PuTTY .ppk file when the private key is encrypted.

What is new in version 4.0.4 Build 19477:

  • This version fixes issues on OS X 10.6-10.8.

What is new in version 4.0.3 Build 19420:

  • Notable Changes:
  • OS X: Fixed code signature failure on OS X 10.9 and 10.10.
  • Bug fixes and polish.
  • Archives:
  • Linux: Added support for symlinks in .rpm archives.
  • Linux: Fixed support for .rpm archives containing files with spaces in their names.
  • Linux: Improved error message when rpm isn't installed.
  • OS X/Linux: Fixed support for archive files on smb:// servers.
  • Windows: Improved error message when unable to load a 7-zip provided archive format.
  • Windows: Tweaked descriptions of some 7-zip provided archive formats.
  • Windows: Fixed support for uncompressed Shockwave Flash files (.swf) and added support for zlib compressed ones.
  • File Views:
  • OS X/Linux: Fixed editing files on SMB servers using the smb:// path syntax.
  • Added accelerators to popup menu commands.
  • Fixed File Info panel text clipping.
  • Folder Compare:
  • Improved speed when opening Compare Contents results dialog.
  • Actions menu is no longer hidden while in "Align with..." mode.
  • Folder Sync:
  • Fixed swapping overridden sync actions.
  • FTP:
  • Fixed support for connecting to FTP servers that disconnect in response to a HOST command.
  • Hex Compare:
  • Fixed "Go to next difference in files after copying to other side".
  • Home View:
  • Added "Edit Defaults" button when the session editing panel is hidden and a new session type is selected in the treeview.
  • Improved visibility handling of the session edit panel.
  • HTTP:
  • Fixed support for HTTP comparisons of SOAP services that don't accept HEAD requests.
  • Misc:
  • OS X: Fixed code signature failure on OS X 10.9 and 10.10.
  • OS X: Fixed failure to write log file when set to continuously do so.
  • OS X: Fixed some files in the Beyond Compare.app bundle being stored as duplicates rather than symbolic links.
  • Improved position and sizing of floating in-line edits in folder compare and table compare.
  • Session Settings dialog's "Scope" combobox is now aligned vertically with the Ok/Cancel buttons.
  • Options:
  • Fixed File Views Gutter Font swatch clipping.
  • Picture Compare:
  • Increased max zoom to 2000%.
  • Tweaked drawing of selected pixel in the details grid.
  • Settings:
  • Installing BC4 into a BC3 portable folder now moves BC3 settings into a subfolder and offers to import them.
  • Fixed importing settings from some older releases.
  • Subversion:
  • Windows: SSL connections will now trust self-signed and expired certificates instead of being unable to connect.
  • Text Compare:
  • Edit menu is no longer hidden while in "Align with..." mode.
  • Fixed Text Replacement handling of right-sided difference.
  • Crashes:
  • Fixed crash when performing a Quick Compare with an External Format.
  • Fixed crash when using the FTP Quick Connect "Connect & Browse" button when the "Host" edit is empty.
  • Fixed Text Merge crash when changing "Merge to" changes detected file format.
  • OS X: Fixed crash when showing Hex Compare find frame.

What is new in version 4.0.1 Build 19165:

  • Notable Changes:
  • Added MOVETO scripting command that accepts the same arguments as COPYTO.
  • HTTP proxy information is now read from the system and will prompt for a username/password if necessary.
  • Improved folder browse dialog's FTP "Quick Connect" handling of passwords.
  • OS X/Linux: Unix extended attributes are now copied when creating new folders (e.g., OS X color labels).
  • Folder compare now excludes uncompared file pairs when the display filters are set to only show orphans.
  • Various other fixes.
  • Archives:
  • Fixed corruption when editing .tar archives.
  • Windows: Removed .vhd as a default extension for "MS virtual hard disk" archives since it conflicts with VHDL source code.
  • Windows: Added support for Unicode passwords on RAR archives.
  • Windows: Improved "Archive Types" descriptions for various 7-zip provided formats.
  • Fixed crash when extracting files from multiple RAR archives at once.
  • Cloud Services:
  • HTTP proxy information is now read from the system and will prompt for a username/password if necessary.
  • SSL certificates now match hosts listed in the Certificate Subject Alt Name property in addition to the Common Name.
  • Improved granularity of progress reporting so it's better than every 4MB.
  • Fixed cancelling transfers in the middle of a file.
  • File Formats:
  • External conversions now support %o variable for original filename.
  • Windows: Fixed PDF and external conversions failing for filenames with certain international characters.
  • File Views:
  • Fixed Find panel clipping the path edits.
  • Fixed Find panel updating of "Sides" when switching between "Show More" and "Show Less".
  • "Automatically reload unless changes will be discarded" tweak now affects saving a file that is compared to itself.
  • Folder Compare:
  • OS X/Linux: Unix extended attributes are now copied when creating new folders (e.g., OS X color labels).
  • Unknown files will now be filtered out if the display filters are set to only show orphans.
  • Fixed support for filename filters with path information (e.g., "dir*.txt") when "Ignore folder structure" is active.
  • Fixed support for using "Align filenames with different extensions" in combination with "Archive handling: As files always".
  • Windows: Increased threshold for unbuffered file copies from 128MB to 1GB to help with slowdowns.
  • Fixed file operation's unresponsive "Show Hidden Items" dialog.
  • Folder browse dialog path display now uses the same icons and formatting as the Home view rather than visibly using the "profile:" syntax.
  • "Copy/Move To Folder" now hides the "Folder Structure" options when they don't apply rather than just disabling them.
  • Fixed minimizing long filenames in "Confirm File Replace" dialog.
  • Toggling "Ignore Unimportant" will now hide files that were visible because they were opened in a file view.
  • Folder Sync:
  • Added captions for various toolbar buttons.
  • Fixed handling of Summary text for auto-saved sessions.
  • FTP:
  • Browse dialog's "Quick Connect" no longer includes passwords in the output path.
  • Fixed Browse dialog's Quick Connect "Save Password" checkbox so it creates a new profile or updates the existing one.
  • Browse dialog's Quick Connect "Password" edit will now fill in automatically if the username/host/port match a saved profile.
  • Fixed changing the FTP filename encoding to disable UTF-8 on servers that support it.
  • SSL certificates now match hosts listed in the Certificate Subject Alt Name property in addition to the Common Name.
  • Improved debug logging of SFTP directory listings.
  • Installer:
  • Windows: Added Amazon S3 mime.types to .msi installers.
  • Windows: Installer now prevents installation on systems that don't meet the minimum system requirements (Windows 2000, Windows XP pre-Service Pack 3).
  • Misc:
  • Windows: Closing top-level windows no longer brings background windows on top of other applications.
  • Windows: Added support for drag & drop from Explorer when the source location is on an FTP site or within a zip file.
  • Windows: Fixed drag & drop from applications that worked in v3 but not v4 (e.g., "FileLocator Pro" and "Code Co-op").
  • Windows: Fixed drag & drop showing an accept cursor for types that it didn't support.
  • Windows: Fixed inverted icons in "Explorer" submenu.
  • Linux: Fixed check for updates support for HTTP proxies.
  • OS X: Fixed dragging window by clicking on the empty space within toolbars and on the status bar.
  • Entering invalid data in registration dialog no longer assumes that it's a v3 key if it's too short to be one.
  • Options:
  • Improved detection of keyboard shortcut conflicts.
  • Fixed importing v3 file formats that replace the built-in v4 ones.
  • Linux: When upgrading preferences from v3, the old settings will be moved to ~/.config/bcompare3 so reinstalling BC3 will still have them available.
  • Linux: Fixed updating settings from v3 to v4.
  • Portable Devices (MTP):
  • Windows: Fixed images copied to some portable devices (e.g., Creative Zen) not showing as images on the device.
  • Scripting:
  • Added MOVETO command that accepts the same arguments as COPYTO.
  • Source Control:
  • Windows: Fixed error message when the svn executable isn't found.
  • Text Views:
  • Fixed "Never align differences" when using the "Patience Diff alignment".
  • Fixed "Find Whole Words Only" handling of non-western characters.
  • Fixed Find MRU handling when edit is auto-filled based on cursor position.
  • Text Compare:
  • Fixed various issues with "View as Web Page".
  • Fixed WordPerfect conversion.
  • WebDAV:
  • Fixed folders appearing as subfolders of themselves if the profile URL differed in unimportant ways from the one returned by the server.
  • Fixed errors loading subfolders as base folders because the server was returning all of the children in a LIST response even when requesting a depth of 0.
  • Fixed last modified times not appearing for certain date ranges.
  • Crashes:
  • Fixed crash when double clicking in an inactive text editor.
  • Fixed crash during search after active control on find panel has been hidden.
  • Windows: Fixed crash on Windows 8 when accessibility services are running.
  • OS X: Fixed crash when using ~username as a base folder path.

What is new in version 4.0.0 Beta Build 18847:

  • Mac OS X Version:
  • At long last, Beyond Compare runs natively on Macs!
  • BC for Mac has all the power and functionality you've come to expect from Beyond Compare, now with native look and feel, speed, and enhancements to make it feel at home.
  • New Home View:
  • The new Home View adds session search and web resources. The layout is easier to manage with on-screen controls.
  • And, we think it's prettier too!
  • 3-way Folder Merge Pro only:
  • Three-way merging now extends to folders. Compare independent changes against a common ancestor to quickly merge your changes with someone else's. It makes merging your customizations into a new release a snap.
  • Ad Hoc Unimportant Text:
  • It is now easier to define unimportant text in your Text Compares. Define unimportant terms directly from the Rules dialog, rather than having to edit your file formats.
  • WebDAV, Amazon S3, Subversion and Dropbox Support Pro only:
  • In addition to FTP, you can access WebDAV resources, Amazon S3 buckets, Subversion repositories, and Dropbox's cloud storage directly from within Beyond Compare. Organize your remote service profiles with friendly names and folder hierarchies.
  • Overhauled Picture Compare:
  • Picture Compare has a new look, with automatic zoom, pixel-level details, and simplified controls. Tolerance comparison mode uses grayscale to reveal the image along with the differences. It's also faster, uses less memory, and supports additional image formats.
  • Overhauled Preferences Dialog with Search:
  • The reorganized options dialog includes a search feature for finding specific settings quickly. Commands for all comparison types can be customized without first having to open a view.
  • Other Significant Features:
  • Hex Compare supports in-line editing and wraps lines to fit the window.
  • New View Patch command shows diff/patch files as a text comparison.
  • HTML folder comparison reports can now embed links to file comparisons.
  • Added option to align filenames with different extensions in folder compare.
  • File operations can be paused in the folder compare.
  • Added new text comparison algorithm choice based on Bram Cohen's Patience Diff.
  • Improved appearance on high DPI (retina) displays.
  • Portable media devices such as cameras, MP3 players, and Android phones can be compared.
  • 7-zip archives can be created or compared, and many other archive types have read-only support, including IMG/ISO disk images.
  • Zipx archives can be compared, complete with PPMd, LZMA, WavPack, and WinZip's JPEG compression.
  • Version Compare now compares the fixed PE header in addition to the version resource.
  • Remote Windows servers can be loaded as base folders (e.g., \\server), allowing access to all of its shares.

What is new in version 3.3.12 Build 18414:

  • Fixed double-clicking in the folder compare changing focus back to it after opening a file compare.
  • Fixed crash loading the first comparison on Windows 7+.

What is new in version 4.0.0 Beta Build 18746:

  • Amazon S3:
  • Uploads now set the mime type automatically based on the file extension using Apache's mime.types database.
  • Archives:
  • Fixed support for Unix mode, user, and group in .tar archives.
  • Dropbox:
  • Clearing passwords now also affects Dropbox profiles.
  • File Formats:
  • OS X/Linux: Fixed issues clicking the checkboxes next to the "Everything Else" list items in the File Formats dialog.
  • Folder Compare:
  • Windows: File copies (not moves) will now be unbuffered when transferring files larger than 128MB to avoid filling the disk cache.
  • Windows: Fixed progress bar display when in the "Refreshing..." or "Waiting..." state when using Windows Classic theming.
  • "Synchronize" preview now includes file color spots.
  • Folder Merge:
  • Added "Take Left/Right and Open Next Difference" commands to file viewers.
  • Added "Compare to Output" commands.
  • Non-text file formats (hex/data/picture) will now open a read-only comparison view of that type rather than the text merge.
  • Fixed merge action column visibility when the center folder is hidden.
  • Fixed "Show right changes" filter to include conflicts.
  • Fixed "Swap" display and filtering.
  • Fixed conflict status when different files have been added on the left and right sides.
  • Fixed images and other binary files showing as mergeable rather than conflicts.
  • Fixed attempting to merge binary/image files so it reports a proper error message rather than silently failing.
  • Fixed files incorrectly showing as mergeable when using a binary or CRC compare.
  • Fixed "Deleted on both sides" when merging to output to show that it's already reconciled if there isn't a file in the output.
  • Fixed folder merge delete icon coloring.
  • Fixed files being incorrectly shown as mergeable after the center file has been removed.
  • Fixed background coloring for deleted folders in folder merge.
  • Added hourglass to folder merge actions column, and prevented column from filling prematurely.
  • Windows: Fixed gray box appearing over viewer tab control when loading a saved workspace that had a folder merge in a background tab.
  • Folder Sync:
  • The commands to change a file operation can now have keyboard shortcuts.
  • Hex Compare:
  • Added "Format" toolbar button.
  • Home View:
  • OS X: Fixed treeview and viewer buttons being disabled when opening the edit panel.
  • Fixed session names in edit mode appearing behind the pin and close buttons.
  • Installer:
  • Windows: Fixed automatic update intermittently warning that Beyond Compare was already running.
  • Linux: Remove "apt-get update" from .deb package because it errors during upgrade.
  • Misc:
  • Additional color tweaks.
  • Fixed drag & drop of MTP devices and top-level storage (e.g. SD cards).
  • Fixed pasting registration keys from Outlook when they don't include the header/footer lines.
  • Picture Compare:
  • Added "Format" toolbar button.
  • Fixed content-based detection of Windows bitmap files with v4 or v5 headers.
  • Text Views:
  • OS X: Improved default color for line numbers and gutter selection lines.
  • Linux: Fixed missing UTF-8/Unicode items in character set dropdown lists.
  • Text Merge:
  • Removed "Center taken background" color option. Center text in the output now follows the "same" coloring.
  • Fixed synchronizing the current line between editors after changing the display filters.
  • Crashes:
  • Fixed folder merge crash when the comparison includes items that only exist in the output folder.
  • OS X: Fixed crash when changing a report body or title font.

What is new in version 4.0.0 Beta Build 17628:

  • Notable changes:
  • All platforms: Moved file format helper applications from program folder to user settings folder.
  • Windows: Added support for creating and editing .7z files and read-only support for many other archive types.
  • Windows: Fixed loading large directories when comparing from a Windows client against an OS X 10.9 Mavericks server.
  • OS X: smb://, cifs://, and afs:// URLs are now mounted automatically.
  • All platforms:
  • File formats with external conversions now store any external applications in the settings folder instead of the install directory.
  • Added Replace support to Find panel in Hex Compare.
  • Copying a local directory structure into an archive no longer saves the archive multiple times as the folder structure is built.
  • Folder Compare's "Find Filename" is now an embedded panel instead of a modalless window.
  • Folder Merge now performs content comparisons by default.
  • Improved help with changes for v4.
  • Hex Compare now uses "Fit to Window" by default.
  • Improved Home View's display of remote profile paths.
  • Improved "Browse Using Profile" dialog behavior for remote connections.
  • Fixed Patch Viewer's "Apply Patch" command.
  • Fixed Folder Compare "Synchronize" commands so they don't build top-level folders when "Just selection" is checked.
  • Fixed FTP MLSD listings corrupting filenames with extended characters.
  • Fixed importing xml files with non-standard names.
  • Fixed "Open With" menu so it shows keyboard shortcuts.
  • Fixed support for XCRC on FastMail.fm's FTP server.
  • Fixed changing FTP default profile settings so they update the global state.
  • Fixed support for remembering passwords for encrypted archives.
  • Fixed crash when moving profiles into subfolders.
  • Fixed Home View's Add/Move/Rename when the session list is filtered.
  • Fixed file viewer "Session Settings" dialog's behavior when the left and right file formats are different.
  • Updated various URLs so they're BC4 specific.
  • Improved performance when one side of a text comparison was significantly larger than the other.
  • Fixed folder sync session so running it doesn't make it become modified.
  • Fixed "Open With"'s %f variable when using it from the editor on the right.
  • Fixed buttons appearing on the folder compare toolbar after changing display filters.
  • Fixed Text Compare's "Next Difference" handling of lines where one side has text and the other does not
  • Fixed Data Compare's calculation of cell differences for right orphans.
  • Other minor fixes.
  • Linux:
  • Adjusted RPM and DEB repositories so BC3 and BC4 can be installed separately. Requires rename of beyondcompare to beyondcompare3 and script edits before installing BC4.
  • Fixed crash after displaying a modal dialog.
  • "~/.config/bcompare4" will be used for settings if it exists to allow multiple major versions to be installed.
  • Windows:
  • Added support for creating and editing .7z files.
  • Added read-only support for all of the archive formats that 7-zip's DLL provides.
  • Added support for password protected .7z files and split ones.
  • Updated 7-zip DLL to 9.22.
  • Fixed loading large directories when comparing from a Windows client against an OS X 10.9 Mavericks server.
  • Added Folder Merge commands to Explorer context menu.
  • Added focus rectangle to various viewers when they're empty to improve accessability.
  • Improved scaling on high DPI displays.
  • All included EXEs and DLLs are now digitally signed, have DEP and ASLR protection enabled, and have version resources.
  • Fixed support for .psd files.
  • Fixed displaying checkboxes when using "Windows Classic" theme.
  • Fixed registry compare's parsing of .reg files with "\" characters for line continuations.
  • Fixed installer not including patch.exe.
  • OS X:
  • smb://, cifs://, and afs:// URLs are now mounted automatically.
  • Added support for following Finder Alias files to compare their targets.
  • Fixed hangs after using SFTP connections.
  • Fixed copying extended attributes so they don't reset a file's last modified time to the current date.
  • Fixed folder compare's "Touch"dialog not initializing "Current system time" correctly.
  • Fixed picture compare's trackbars so they respond correctly to keypresses when they have focus.
  • Fixed buttons so they detect mouse enter/leave and don't incorrectly stay checked when they shouldn't.
  • Fixed mouse cursor not changing to an I-beam when over an edit.
  • Fixed errors written to the console when drawing toolbars.
  • Fixed path edit toolbars clipping the last button on the right side of the window.
  • Fixed crash when the available displays change.
  • Added higher resolution application icon.
  • Fixed crash when clicking "Difference not found. Next Difference File" label in the text compare.
  • Fixed miscellaneous crashes.
  • "~/Library/Application Support/Beyond Compare 4" will be used for settings if it exists to allow multiple major versions to be installed.

What is new in version 4.0.0 Beta Build 17451:

  • Fixed importing BC3 sessions in subfolders.
  • Fixed browse button so explicitly using "Browse File System..." or "Browse Using Profile..." is remembered.
  • Fixed error when trying to uninstall.
  • Fixed support for recursive FTP listings on vsFTPd servers.
  • Fixed some toolbar and editor buttons not showing when they're clicked or checked.

What is new in version 3.3.8:

  • Data Compare:
  • Updated parsing when pasting to work the same as an initial load for the
  • purposes of delimiter type, quotes, leading/trailing whitespace, and
  • consecutive delimiters.
  • Fixed Find when the only matches are in hidden columns.
  • Fixed tolerance support for localized decimal character.
  • File Formats:
  • Fixed "Registry Dumps" file format so comments only begin at the start of
  • a line.
  • File Views:
  • Fixed gutter width when adding lines adds a digit to the line numbers.
  • Fixed splitter moving after saving changes to an originally empty side.
  • Folder Compare:
  • Double clicking in the space across from an orphan file now opens a file
  • comparison view.
  • Fixed background coloring so "Same" color is only used for "Same" items.
  • Fixed "Flatten Folders" mode when sorting by path so it doesn't reset to
  • sorting by name after certain actions (e.g., Exclude).
  • Fixed support for "Name Filter Preset" with name containing parentheses.
  • Folder Sync:
  • Fixed Legend dialog.
  • Fixed resizing the window very small and then larger to preserve the
  • toolbar and panel layout.
  • FTP:
  • Added support for binary and rules-based content comparisons on FTP
  • servers that don't report file sizes.
  • Hex Compare:
  • DEL character is now shown in the ASCII panel as '.'
  • Misc:
  • Fixed displaying workspace names containing '&' characters.
  • Fixed support for keyboard shortcuts using the semicolon.
  • Fixed color combobox not invalidating when switching from an element set
  • to "Default" to one set to "Black".
  • Options:
  • Added registry value to disable check for updates for all users (Open
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare and create a DWORD value named DisableCheckForUpdates with a value of 1).
  • Fixed "Folder Display" options page's "Factory Defaults" button to reset
  • the Selection coloring's "Use System" option.
  • Fixed clearing "Shared sessions file" to update session treeviews.
  • Picture Compare:
  • Fixed "Only Difference Layout" handling of "AutoZoom".
  • Registry Compare:
  • Fixed support for modifying or deleting registry values with names
  • containing "/" characters.
  • Reports:
  • Fixed HTML report handling of leading and trailing whitespace.
  • Fixed HTML report handling of two space characters that straddle a
  • tag.
  • Fixed tab expansion in Text Compare reports.
  • Fixed Folder Compare reports to not include FTP passwords and to use
  • title# command line arguments.
  • Fixed HTML report handling of soft hyphens.
  • Fixed filename collisions when saving multiple Picture Compare HTML
  • reports to the same folder.
  • Sessions:
  • Fixed manually selected file formats not to appear in the Session dialog's
  • File Format comboboxes twice.
  • Text Edit:
  • Fixed using "Open Clipboard" in a view followed by "Open with Text Edit"
  • using current clipboard instead of the pasted view's data.
  • Text Compare:
  • Fixed displaying replacements with leading '_' characters in the Session
  • Settings dialog.
  • Fixed updating the splitter position after saving pasted text.
  • Fixed "Next Difference" behavior when there are unimportant alignment gaps.
  • Fixed crash on startup.
  • Text Merge:
  • Fixed changing file format settings to prompt before regenerating the
  • merge output.
  • Fixed center pane not detecting some grammar elements.

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