Beyond Compare Changelog

What's new in Beyond Compare 5.0.0 Build 28983 Beta

Feb 27, 2024

Notable Changes:
File encoding auto-detection now matches against the entire file instead of just the first 64KB.
Added protection against SSH Terrapin vulnerability.
Various other fixes and enhancements.
Appearance:
Windows: Fixed scaled width of horizontal splitters in file views.
Archives:
Windows: Fixed reading/writing .bcss snapshots on systems where the system ANSI encoding is UTF-8.
Windows: Fixed .cab archive extraction in 64-bit builds.
Updated 7-zip library to 23.01 on all platforms.
Windows: Updated UnRAR DLL to v6.24.
File Views:
File encoding auto-detection now matches against the entire file instead of just the first 64KB.
FTP:
Updated SFTP/TLS/cloud storage library.
Added protection against SSH Terrapin vulnerability.
Misc:
Windows: Disabled path autocompletion for URLs that aren't supported.
Table Compare:
Updated Excel reading libraries.

New in Beyond Compare 4.4.7 Build 28397 (Oct 20, 2023)

New in Beyond Compare 4.4.5 Build 27371 (Feb 4, 2023)

New in Beyond Compare 4.4.4 Build 27058 (Nov 4, 2022)

New in Beyond Compare 4.4.3 Build 26655 (Jul 21, 2022)

New in Beyond Compare 4.4.2 Build 26348 (Mar 17, 2022)

New in Beyond Compare 4.4.1 Build 26165 (Dec 21, 2021)

New in Beyond Compare 4.4.0 Build 25886 (Aug 14, 2021)

Notable Changes:
Added support for TLS 1.3.
Various enhancements for SFTP support.
Updated Dropbox profiles to use new short-lived access tokens.
Linux/macOS: Fixed corruption of characters outside the Unicode basic multilingual plane (e.g., emoji).
Various fixes and enhancements.
Cloud Services:
Added support for TLS 1.3.
Updated Dropbox profiles to use new short-lived access tokens.
Linux: Fixed support for automatically trusting TLS certificates signed by a trusted certificate authority.
File Views:
Linux: Added support for https:// URLs.
Linux: Fixed corruption of characters outside the Unicode basic multilingual plane (e.g., emoji). Displaying emoji is not supported yet, so they will show as <?> U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, but will remain the original characters when saving/editing.
macOS: Fixed support for characters outside the Unicode basic multilingual plane (e.g., emoji).
macOS: Fixed "Find..." autocomplete incorrectly changing capitilization when the search string matches an MRU string.
Folder Compare:
Windows: Fixed using large buffers when loading remote network drives.
macOS: Fixed "Copy to Side" command not appearing on the toolbar or in menus if configured to do so.
FTP:
Added support for Ed25519 SSH keys.
Added support for OpenSSH's newer private key format.
Added support for [email protected] SSH HMAC algorithm.
Added support for TLS 1.3 for FTPS connections.
Fixed dropped SFTP connections when uploading files to CrushFTP.
Fixed truncated files when uploading to a Windows 10 OpenSSH server.
Fixed truncated files when downloading from an HP/Tandem NonStop SFTP server.
Adjusted SSH key exchange algorithms to be more conservative.
Installer:
Linux: Updated .deb/.rpm packages to use https for remote repositories.
Misc:
Linux: Check for Updates now uses HTTPS connections.
Linux: Fixed file sizes showing as <?> on locales that use non-ASCII characters (e.g., No-break space).
macOS: Fixed failure to launch a file comparison if an external process attempted it while BC was shutting down.
macOS: Fixed various issues with Finder extension.
macOS: Fixed file view path edits showing the old path when loading a new file.
macOS: Fixed file save dialog growing too wide and not being resizeable on macOS Big Sur and later.
macOS: Fixed ESC to close modal dialogs even if they don't have a 'Cancel' button.
Picture Compare:
macOS: Fixed "Browse Using File System" showing all file types as unselectable.
Text Merge:
macOS: Fixed "Align With" behavior.
Crashes:
Fixed intermittent crash on shutdown.

New in Beyond Compare 4.3.5 Build 24893 (Jul 13, 2020)

New in Beyond Compare 4.3.4 Build 24657 (Feb 28, 2020)

New in Beyond Compare 4.3.2 Build 24472 (Nov 2, 2019)

New in Beyond Compare 4.3.1 Build 24438 (Oct 25, 2019)

New in Beyond Compare 4.3.0 Build 24364 (Oct 10, 2019)

New in Beyond Compare 4.2.10 Build 23938 (May 29, 2019)

New in Beyond Compare 4.2.9, Build 23626 (Jan 16, 2019)

New in Beyond Compare 4.2.8 Build 23479 (Oct 30, 2018)

New in Beyond Compare 4.2.7 Build 23425 (Oct 26, 2018)

New in Beyond Compare 4.2.6 Build 23150 (Jul 14, 2018)

New in Beyond Compare 4.2.5.23088 (Jun 15, 2018)

New in Beyond Compare 4.2.4.22795 (Jan 30, 2018)

New in Beyond Compare 4.2.3.22587 (Aug 31, 2017)

New in Beyond Compare 4.2.2.22384 (May 21, 2017)

New in Beyond Compare 4.2.1.22354 (May 10, 2017)

New in Beyond Compare 4.2 Build 22302 (Apr 29, 2017)

Notable Changes:
Added clipboard monitoring app to more easily launch comparisons from text editors. Must be enabled manually in Options dialog if upgrading from 4.1 or earlier. Requires Windows Vista or later.
Added support for comparing JPEG/TIFF EXIF and IPTC metadata.
Removed "Bypass disk cache during binary comparisons" option. Due to changes in hardware, operating systems, and drivers, it no longer works as originally intended.
Upgraded Dropbox support to use v2 API. Dropbox support in v4.1.9 and earlier will stop working in June 2017.
Added support for .lzma and .tar.lzma/.tlz archives and improved RAR support.
macOS: Fixed scrolling behavior on macOS 10.12 Sierra and fixed Cmd+W/Esc inserting characters in a text editor rather than closing the view.
Improved various graphics on high DPI displays and updated many icons.
Archives:
Added support for Microsoft Help 2.x archives and ext2fs/ext3fs/ext4fs disk images.
Added support for .lzma and .tar.lzma/.tlz archives.
Improved RAR support:
Added support for RAR5 archives containing symlinks/junction points.
Archives created on Unix now display Unix attributes correctly.
Fixed CRC values for files that are split across multiple RAR volumes.
Fixed support for empty folders in archives created on Unix.
Updated UnRAR.dll to v5.40.
Fixed issue with Total Commander packer plug-ins in 64-bit builds.
Cloud Services:
Upgraded Dropbox support to use v2 API.
File last modified times can now be set.
Folder last modified times are no longer reported.
Folder listings with more than 2,000 items are now supported.
Fixed support for Amazon S3 buckets in the us-east-2 (US East Ohio), ca-central-1 (Canada Central), eu-west-2 (EU London), and ap-south-1 (Asia Pacific Mumbai) regions and removed need to explicitly support new ones.
Improved OneDrive authorization and error handling.
Deleting folders on OneDrive now deletes everything in one call instead of removing everything recursively.
Added support for connecting to Amazon S3 buckets when the requesting user doesn't have the "s3:GetBucketLocation" permission.
Added optional "Bucket" to Amazon S3 profiles to limit the profile to that bucket and to make it more obvious how to connect when the user doesn't have the ListAllBuckets permission.
Added support connecting to Amazon S3 over IPv6.
File Formats:
Added "JavaScript Source" text format.
Updated "Python Scripts" text format keywords.
Fixed "COBOL Source" text format's line number matching.
Fixed MS Word extraction when running on a system with the Korean locale.
Improved "SQL" text format to detect identifiers that start with "#".
File Views:
Added font resizing via Ctrl+Shift+MouseWheel and added "Increase Display Font Size", "Decrease Display Font Size", and "Reset Display Font Size" commands.
Added support for adding/removing Unicode byte-order marks in the "Save As" dialog.
Fixed performance issue when the merge output file is on a slow network drive.
"Save As" now has a default filename when saving the initially empty side of an orphan comparison launched from a folder comparison if the parent folder exists.
Fixed file open permissions to prevent unexpected behavior when files are open for writing by other applications.
Fixed editors not repainting during slow saves after switching tabs.
Fixed dimmed painting of items during horizontal scrolls in MP3, Registry, and Version Compare sessions.
Folder Compare:
Removed "Bypass disk cache during binary comparisons" option. Due to changes in hardware, operating systems, and drivers, it no longer works as originally intended.
Fixed canceling a rules-based or binary comparison of a large pair of files caching incorrect CRC values and causing subsequent CRC or rules-based comparisons to report immediately matching contents.
Fixed minimum column size to take margins into account.
Folder Merge:
"Compare to Output" now preserves session settings (e.g. Name Filters).
"Merge/Sync Base Folders" now preserves more session settings.
Fixed "Ignored" action, when merging to a separate output folder, to not copy the center file to the output.
Folder Sync:
Fixed toolbar appearing below the path edits.
FTP
Fixed "Hide VMS versions" support for SFTP profiles.
Fixed requesting CRC32 values over SFTP.
Fixed Profiles dialog not updating controls when switching between FTP and SFTP profiles.
Hex Compare:
Added support for switching between the hex and ANSI parts of the editor using Tab and Shift+Tab.
Installer
Start Menu icon is now just a single "Beyond Compare 4" item rather than a folder with the app, help file, and uninstaller (new installs only).
Fixed automatic upgrades of a portable install writing values in the registry if there is also an existing "For All Users" install.
Removed UACLaunch.exe from Windows installer.
Misc:
Added clipboard monitoring app to more easily launch comparisons from text editors.
"Duplicate Tab" now preserves clipboard contents, folder session parentage.
Improved various graphics on high DPI displays and updated many icons.
Fixed various high DPI issues and tweaked minimum constraints for various dialogs.
Fixed filename truncation when the whole filename doesn't fit the available space.
Toolbar gradients are no longer used under high contrast themes.
Upgraded third party libraries.
MP3 Compare:
Improved handling for various ID3 tags.
Changed ID3v2 tag names to match their ID3v1 counterparts.
Disabled character based differencing for numeric values.
Binary tags are now shown as hex digits.
"Copy" puts binary data on the clipboard if only one item is selected and it is binary.
Added separator lines below each row of the treeview.
Options:
Improved typing into "Extra line spacing" edit on "Tweaks" page.
Picture Compare
Added support for comparing JPEG/TIFF EXIF and IPTC metadata.
"Fit to Window" zooms to multiple of 100% for images smaller than 64x64.
Improved menus for going into and out of "Full Screen" mode.
Fixed NetPBM image handling of comments containing numbers.
Changed order of items in "Picture Compare Info" dialog.
Registry Compare:
"Copy" puts text on the clipboard unless only one item is selected and it is binary.
Added separator lines below each row of the treeview.
Reports:
File reports now include error messages.
Picture Compare HTML reports now scale down large images to fit the window.
Table Compare
Improved number handling accuracy by storing data as binary-coded decimals instead of floats.
Added "Alignment" session settings.
Improved typing scientific notation into "Numeric tolerance" edit.
Windows: Updated MS Excel support.
Fixed using regional number/date format settings, broken in 4.1.7.
Text Edit:
Added folder path of open file to dropdown for "Find in Files" folder edit.
Text Merge:
Changed order of items in "Text Merge Info" dialog.
Version Compare:
Added support for comparing "Dynamic Base (ALSR)" and "NX compatible (DEP)" DLL characteristics.
Disabled character based differencing for numeric values.
Binary tags are now shown as hex digits.
"Copy" puts binary data on the clipboard if only one item is selected and it is binary.
Added separator lines below each row of the treeview.
View Patch:
Added check for external file changes.
Crashes:
Fixed MP3, Registry, Version Compare crash if Ctrl+A is pressed when line details have focus and Ctrl+A isn't used as a shortcut for a menu action.
Fixed BCompareLite crash when opening/closing Options dialog.
Fixed crashes on shutdown.

New in Beyond Compare 4.2.0.22108 Beta (Feb 28, 2017)

NOTABLE CHANGES:
Added clipboard monitoring app to more easily launch comparisons from text editors. Must be enabled manually in Options dialog if upgrading from 4.1 or earlier. Requires Windows Vista or later.
System Preferences. May require a reboot.
Added support for comparing JPEG/TIFF EXIF and IPTC metadata.
Removed "Bypass disk cache during binary comparisons" option. Due to changes in hardware, operating systems, and drivers, it no longer works as originally intended.
Upgraded Dropbox support to use v2 API. Dropbox support in v4.1.9 and earlier will stop working in June 2017.
Added support for .lzma and .tar.lzma/.tlz archives.
Improved various graphics on high DPI displays and updated many icons.
CLOUD SERVICES:
Upgraded Dropbox support to use v2 API. File last modified times can now be set. Folder last modified times are no longer reported. Folder listings with more than 2,000 items are now supported.
Fixed support for Amazon S3 buckets in the us-east-2 (US East Ohio), ca-central-1 (Canada Central), eu-west-2 (EU London), and ap-south-1 (Asia Pacific Mumbai) regions and removed need to explicitly support new ones.
Improved OneDrive authorization and error handling.
Deleting folders on OneDrive now deletes everything in one call instead of removing everything recursively.
Added support for connecting to Amazon S3 buckets when the requesting user doesn't have the "s3:GetBucketLocation" permission.
Added optional "Bucket" to Amazon S3 profiles to limit the profile to that bucket and to make it more obvious how to connect when the user doesn't have the ListAllBuckets permission.
Added support connecting to Amazon S3 over IPv6.
FILE FORMATS:
Added "JavaScript Source" text format.
Updated "Python Scripts" text format keywords.
Fixed "COBOL Source" text format's line number matching.
Fixed MS Word extraction when running on a system with the Korean locale.
FILE VIEWS:
Added font resizing via Ctrl+Shift+MouseWheel and added "Increase Display Font Size", "Decrease Display Font Size", and "Reset Display Font Size" commands.
Added support for adding/removing Unicode byte-order marks in the "Save As" dialog.
Fixed performance issue when the merge output file is on a slow network drive.
"Save As" now has a default filename when saving the initially empty side of an orphan comparison launched from a folder comparison if the parent folder exists.
Fixed file open permissions to prevent unexpected behavior when files are open for writing by other applications.
Fixed editors not repainting during slow saves after switching tabs.
Fixed dimmed painting of items during horizontal scrolls in MP3, Registry, and Version Compare sessions.
FOLDER COMPARE:
Removed "Bypass disk cache during binary comparisons" option. Due to changes in hardware, operating systems, and drivers, it no longer works as originally intended.
Fixed canceling a rules-based or binary comparison of a large pair of files caching incorrect CRC values and causing subsequent CRC or rules-based comparisons to report immediately matching contents.
Fixed minimum column size to take margins into account.
FOLDER MERGE:
"Compare to Output" now preserves session settings (e.g. Name Filters).
"Merge/Sync Base Folders" now preserves more session settings.
Fixed "Ignored" action, when merging to a separate output folder, to not copy the center file to the output.
FOLDER SYNC:
Fixed toolbar appearing below the path edits.
FTP:
Fixed "Hide VMS versions" support for SFTP profiles.
Fixed requesting CRC32 values over SFTP.
Fixed Profiles dialog not updating controls when switching between FTP and SFTP profiles.
HEX COMPARE:
Added support for switching between the hex and ANSI parts of the editor using Tab and Shift+Tab.
INSTALLER:
Windows: Fixed automatic upgrades of a portable install writing values in the registry if there is also an existing "For All Users" install.
Windows: Removed UACLaunch.exe from Windows installer.
MISC:
Added clipboard monitoring app to more easily launch comparisons from text editors.
"Duplicate Tab" now preserves clipboard contents, folder session parentage.
Improved various graphics on high DPI displays and updated many icons.
Fixed filename truncation when the whole filename doesn't fit the available space.
Toolbar gradients are no longer used under high contrast themes.
MP3 COMPARE:
Improved handling for various ID3 tags.
Changed ID3v2 tag names to match their ID3v1 counterparts.
Disabled character based differencing for numeric values.
Binary tags are now shown as hex digits.
"Copy" puts binary data on the clipboard if only one item is selected and it is binary.
Added separator lines below each row of the treeview.
OPTIONS:
Improved typing into "Extra line spacing" edit on "Tweaks" page.
PICTURE COMPARE:
Added support for comparing JPEG/TIFF EXIF and IPTC metadata.
"Fit to Window" zooms to multiple of 100% for images smaller than 64x64.
Improved menus for going into and out of "Full Screen" mode.
Changed order of items in "Picture Compare Info" dialog.
REGISTRY COMPARE:
"Copy" puts text on the clipboard unless only one item is selected and it is binary.
Added separator lines below each row of the treeview.
REPORTS:
File reports now include error messages.
Picture Compare HTML reports now scale down large images to fit the window.
TABLE COMPARE:
Improved number handling accuracy by storing data as binary-coded decimals instead of floats.
Added "Alignment" session settings.
Improved typing scientific notation into "Numeric tolerance" edit.
Windows: Updated MS Excel support.
Fixed using regional number/date format settings, broken in 4.1.7.
TEXT EDIT:
Added folder path of open file to dropdown for "Find in Files" folder edit.
TEXT MERGE:
Changed order of items in "Text Merge Info" dialog.
VERSION COMPARE:
Added support for comparing "Dynamic Base (ALSR)" and "NX compatible (DEP)" DLL characteristics.
Disabled character based differencing for numeric values.
Binary tags are now shown as hex digits.
"Copy" puts binary data on the clipboard if only one item is selected and it is binary.
Added separator lines below each row of the treeview.
VIEW PATCH:
Added check for external file changes.
CRASHES:
Fixed MP3, Registry, Version Compare crash if [Ctrl+A] is pressed when line details have focus and Ctrl+A isn't used as a shortcut for a menu action.
Fixed BCompareLite crash when opening/closing Options dialog.
Fixed crash on shutdown.
ARCHIVES:
Added support for Microsoft Help 2.x archives and ext2fs/ext3fs/ext4fs disk images.
Added support for .lzma and .tar.lzma/.tlz archives.
Fixed issue with Total Commander packer plug-ins in 64-bit builds.
Improved RAR support:
Added support for RAR5 archives containing symlinks/junction points.
Archives created on Unix now display Unix attributes correctly.
Fixed CRC values for files that are split across multiple RAR volumes.
Fixed support for empty folders in archives created on Unix.
Updated UnRAR.dll to v5.40.

New in Beyond Compare 4.1.8 Build 21575 (Aug 25, 2016)

New in Beyond Compare 4.1.7 Build 21529 (Aug 19, 2016)

Notable Changes:
Text Merge output files will now be written using file format external conversion settings.
Various fixes and improvements.
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:
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).
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.
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.

New in Beyond Compare 4.1.6 Build 21095 (May 13, 2016)

New in Beyond Compare 4.1.5 Build 21031 (Mar 19, 2016)

New in Beyond Compare 4.1.4 Build 20978 (Mar 3, 2016)

Notable Changes:
Windows: Added "/32" switch to installer to force a 32-bit install on 64-bit Windows in order to work around MSSCCI source control providers that don't have 64-bit DLLs.
Windows: Fixed 64-bit build's support for Explorer submenu's Cut/Copy commands.
Re-added Table Compare support for overriding decimal and thousands separator characters.
Fixed crash when using cloud profiles (Amazon S3, Microsoft OneDrive, WebDAV) on February 29th.
Various fixes and enhancements.
Archives:
Windows: Fixed support for drag & drop of files in compressed archives from various applications.
Cloud Services:
Fixed Amazon S3 support for listing more than 1000 folders within a single parent.
Fixed Amazon S3 support for uploading very large files.
Fixed support for uploading files larger than 100MB to Microsoft OneDrive.
Command Line:
Fixed /fileviewer= support for "Folder Compare", "Folder Sync", and "Folder Merge" when passed with folder paths.
File Formats:
Fixed support for .docx files that have internal .xml files using single quotes instead of double quotes for attribute values.
File Views:
Windows: Fixed "Find what" and "Replace with" edits automatically picking MRUs.
Improved line details drawing of multi-line content in MP3 Compare, Registry Compare, and Version Compare.
Folder Merge:
Added "Ignore Same Changes" filter.
Hex Compare:
Fixed "Find Previous" to not include beyond current byte.
Installer:
Windows: Added "/32" switch to installer to force a 32-bit install on 64-bit Windows in order to work around MSSCCI source control providers that don't have 64-bit DLLs.
Misc:
Windows: Fixed 64-bit build's support for Explorer submenu's Cut/Copy commands.
Opening multiple modal dialogs on a single form will now open them sequentially rather than all at once.
Windows: Fixed Windows 7+ jumplist including auto-saved sessions that can't be loaded.
Windows: Fixed icon scaling for simple message dialogs.
Fixed memory leaks.
Fixed clipped text in About dialog.
Picture Compare:
Fixed "File Info" panel.
Reports:
Fixed filename collisions when generating HTML folder reports with linked file reports.
Fixed plain text reports handling of multiline data.
Fixed Table Compare and Registry Compare support for strike-outs in reports.
Fixed HTML linked file reports to use the same style sheet, title, and wrap setting as the parent folder report.
Footer font, header font, HTML wrap style, and style sheet URL are now stored per report type instead of globally.
Table Compare:
Re-added support for overriding decimal and thousands separator characters.
Fixed data not to be treated as numeric if thousands separators are not in correct positions.
Text Views:
"Next Difference" now scrolls line details so the difference is near the left side.
Windows: Fixed "Replace with" edit showing as selected when the panel is first shown.
Crashes:
Fixed crash when using cloud profiles (Amazon S3, Microsoft OneDrive, WebDAV) on February 29th.
Windows: Fixed crash when showing modal dialogs on 64-bit Windows installs.

New in Beyond Compare 4.1.3 Build 20814 (Dec 18, 2015)

New in Beyond Compare 4.1.2 Build 20720 (Nov 10, 2015)

Notable Changes:
Fixed connection issues introduced by IPv6 support.
Numerous bug fixes and tweaks.
Archives:
Added support for creating new .tar.bz2 archives.
Newly created archive files are now initialized with default data instead of being created as zero byte files.
Fixed creating a new 7-zip .7z archive.
Fixed load error when loading a snapshot of an empty folder compare.
File Formats:
Removed no longer supported .dbf mask from built-in MS Excel file format.
File Views:
Fixed "Keep file read-only" option when saving a file.
Folder Compare:
"Align filenames with different extensions" no longer affects folders, except to align them with archives.
"Open With" and "Copy Filename" now use URL paths instead of "profile:" based ones.
Sort by extension is now case insensitive.
Added warning panel if "Suppress Filters" is used with "Ignore Folder Structure" when folder filters may be excluding files.
Fixed "Ignore Folder Structure" not applying name filters for folders added externally and detected as part of a fast refresh.
Fixed "Exclude protected operating system files" filter not being respected if "Ignore Folder Structure" is active.
FTP:
Fixed issues with IPv6 support.
Fixed connecting to an FTP site using a URL that includes the password.
Fixed SFTP errors connecting to certain versions of OpenSSH with AES GCM enabled.
Home View:
Windows: Fixed black fringes around various graphics at > 100% DPI scaling.
Misc:
Windows: Fixed archive files not appearing in the "Browse Using Profile" dialog if Explorer's "Hide known file extensions" option is active.
Fixed context sensitive help on tabbed dialogs.
Windows: Fixed size of menu checkmarks on high DPI displays.
Windows: Fixed taskbar jumplist subcategories on Windows 8+.
Picture Compare:
Windows: Fixed loading .bmp files with extra padding after the file header.
Scripting:
Windows: Fixed garbage characters being logged for FTP URLs that include passwords.
Table Compare:
Windows: Fixed loading .xlsx files in translated releases.
Windows: Fixed conversion error loading MS Excel .xlsx files that worked in 4.0.
Crashes:
Fixed folder compare crash when the active "Align With" item is removed externally.
Fixed folder compare crash when changing folder filters while a flattened comparison is loading.
Windows: Fixed crash while saving HTML Picture Compare Report if bitmap does not have 32-bit color depth.
Fixed crash when loading workspace with undefined Z-orders.
Fixed crash on startup when loading workspaces before sessions.
Fixed crash when importing unsupported auto-saved sessions.

New in Beyond Compare 4.1.1 Build 20615 (Sep 25, 2015)

New in Beyond Compare 4.1.0 Build 20575 (Sep 22, 2015)

Notable Changes:
Windows/Linux: Added 64-bit version that handles significantly larger comparisons.
Windows: Comparing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (.xls, .xlsx) is now significantly faster and no longer requires Excel.
Windows: Added support for Microsoft OneDrive.
Added support for .xz and .tar.xz archives.
Added support for 3-way merges in the "External" format.
Added support for IPv6 to FTP and FTPS connections.
Windows: Added support for IPv6 to SFTP, WebDAV, and cloud services connections.
Windows: Added support for taskbar jump lists on Windows 7 and up.
Windows: Improved appearance when using 125%, 150%, and 200% DPI scaling and high contrast themes.
Numerous bug fixes, performance enhancements, and other improvements.
Archives:
Added support for .xz and .tar.xz archives.
Fixed problems with modifying an archive while background content comparisons are enabled.
Windows: Updated 7-zip DLL to v9.38 beta.
Windows: Updated Unrar DLL to v5.21.100.
Windows: Fixed support for .rar archives created on OS X or Linux.
Windows: Fixed performance when extracting files from multiple .rar archives.
Windows: Removed support for WinZip .zipx JPEG compression (hopefully temporarily).
Cloud Services:
Windows: Added support for Microsoft OneDrive.
Windows: Added support for IPv6.
Connection errors now include descriptive messages instead of numeric codes.
Improved default names for newly created Dropbox profiles.
Fixed memory leak when creating a new folder on Amazon S3.
Command Line:
Windows: Fixed bcomp.com/bcomp.exe so it loads BC4 instead of trying to load BC3 if it's been copied to a different folder.
fileviewer= can now accept "Folder Compare", "Folder Sync", and "Folder Merge" in addition to the file view types.
File Formats:
Added support for 3-way merges in the "External" format.
Windows: Comparing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (.xls, .xlsx) is now significantly faster and no longer requires Excel.
Windows: Fixed various issues when loading Microsoft Word documents (.doc, .docx).
Fixed "Visual Basic Source" comment definition.
Removed "Microsoft Write" support.
File Views:
Windows: Failing to save a file because it's locked against deletion will now try again using an alternate method.
Fixed editing files with file extension that match read-only archive types (e.g., .img).
Windows: Fixed access denied error when trying to overwrite a file with write permissions but not modify permissions.
Border of the viewport in the comparison thumbnail no longer covers differences.
Switched save icon color back to blue.
Folder Compare:
Added icons to the file operation progress reporting panels indicating the file operation that's occurring.
"Browse Using Profile" dialog now shows more useful text in the browse treeview when a profile has been selected but not loaded.
Fixed using "Ignore Folder Structure" to not incorrectly include/exclude files in the root of the comparison that match folder name filters.
Windows: Fixed copied junctions/symlinks showing as folders until after a refresh.
Windows: Fixed issues overwriting an existing junction/symlink.
Improved readability of selected "Align With" or "Compare To" item.
Fixed incremental search matching incorrect filenames.
Folder Merge:
Added "Session > Folder Merge Info" command.
Changed mergeable toggle icon colors.
"Compare to Output" is now only shown if "Merge to" is "Other".
FTP:
Added support for IPv6 to FTP and FTPS connections.
Windows: Added support for IPv6 to SFTP connections.
Improved behavior when trying to load an ftp:// URL with an invalid or empty username.
Added TLS/SSL version fallback when connecting to servers that don't support more recent TLS versions.
Improved port allocation behavior when using limited ports for active (PORT) transfers.
Reconnecting to a server no longer uses the HOST command if the server rejected it previously.
Fixed Quick Connect password edit showing the password in plain text if the "Username" field was empty.
Fixed Quick Connect showing "[email protected]" in the password edit when loaded with an sftp:// URL that doesn't include a password.
Fixed collisions when saving a profile into a subfolder that already contains a profile with the same auto-generated name.
Fixed parsing folder listings containing filenames with a '?' character in them.
Hex Compare:
Fixed positioning after a Find fails when selection existed beforehand.
Fixed replacing "a" with "aa" in reverse direction.
Fixed Find to not skip first occurrence when positioned immediately before it.
Home View:
Session management panel can now be maximized, hiding quick launch buttons.
Empty auto-saved sessions folders are now removed.
Installer:
Windows: .msi installers now disable check for updates by default.
Windows: Fixed support for the /noicons switch.
Windows: Fixed installer so it writes ExePath/Version to both 32-bit and 64-bit areas of the registry.
Misc:
Windows: Added support for taskbar jump lists on Windows 7 and up. Most frequently used workspaces, sessions, and session types are shown.
Windows: Improved appearance of icons on 125%, 150%, and 200% DPI scaling.
Windows: Improved appearance when using a high contrast theme.
Windows: Path edits now strip enclosing quotes from pasted strings.
Improved startup and comparison speed.
Fixed Profiles dialog's "Save As" command creating empty profiles instead of copying the selected profile's settings.
Fixed Profile dialog preventing multiple profiles from having the same name or having a name containing illegal characters.
Fixed deleting temp files after a crash to include files with extensions other than .tmp.
Reduced menu accelerator duplicates.
Improved behavior trying to register with a malformed key.
Windows: Fixed read-only temp files not being deleted.
Windows: .bcpkg files are no longer included in the Recent Documents list.
Windows: Updated application manifest to disable compatibility shims on Windows 8 and 8.1.
Windows: Fixed appearance of alpha-blended icons in the Explorer submenu.
Fixed truncated German translations.
MP3 Compare:
Added "Play" command to right click menu.
Picture Compare:
Re-added option to change the background color behind transparent images.
Portable Devices (MTP):
Improved error message when a delete or intra-device copy or move fails.
Fixed reading files potentially including data past the end of the file.
Registry Compare:
Fixed "Copy" and "Copy Key Name" commands to switch focus to the editor.
Fixed displaying "(zero-length binary value)".
Reports:
Reports for edited files now use UTF-8 instead of ANSI.
Fixed "Action could not be completed" error when saving reports that contain characters that the output format can't encode.
MP3 and Version compare reports now show comparison status in the center column when a node is collapsed.
Tweaked monochrome reports.
Scripting:
Fixed REPORT commands so they log any errors that occur and fail the script.
Fixed using ~/log.txt style filenames when using the LOG command with the APPEND: option.
Fixed scripts failing to run if they used 'smart' quotes rather than ASCII ones.
Script dialog now shows fatal errors on the "Errors" tab.
Subversion:
Improved default names for newly created profiles.
Fixed support for http://, https://, and file:// URLs in folder browse's "Quick Connect".
Fixed "Up one level" for svn:// URLs.
Fixed folder browse dialog to show the folder structure up to the repository root when loading an svn:// URL.
Fixed support for loading svn:// URLs that refer to files when the parent folder hasn't been loaded.
Fixed loading file content from a Subversion server with an untrusted SSL certificate.
Text Views:
Fixed incorrect merge output when using Patience Diff alignment.
Improved "Align With..." when aligning a selection of lines.
Windows: "Webpages" uses Internet Explorer again.
Windows: Fixed clicking on the gutter buttons while the message panel is visible.
Fixed cursor positioning on lines that contain multiple control characters.
Version Compare:
Tweaked behavior when the StringFileInfo blocks don't match the VarFileInfo Translation block.
WebDAV:
Windows: Added support for IPv6.
Improved default names for newly created profiles.
Crashes:
Fixed Folder Compare crash when using "Ignore Folder Structure" with a name filter that uses "..." to match any number of subfolders.
Windows: Fixed crash when mousing over TortoiseHg menu items in the "Explorer" submenu.
Windows: Fixed Registry Compare crash saving export file containing zero-length binary value.
Fixed Table Compare crash when saving as part of a refresh.
Fixed crash when generating folder compare reports.
Windows: Fixed crash when using "Compare Versions" in a folder merge containing .exe files that have been added or deleted.
Fixed Home view crash when a shared sessions folder is selected and the shared settings file is changed externally.
Fixed crash when closing the Profile Browse dialog while it's trying to expand a folder.
Fixed Hex Compare Next/Previous Difference crash when positioned beyond last byte.
Fixed Folder Compare crash when deleting/moving a file or folder.
Fixed Profile Browse dialog crash when trying to browse portable media devices.
Fixed crash if a MSSCCI provider returns an error code when opening or closing a connection or querying for capabilities.
Fixed crash when a portable media device was disconnected while it was in use.
Fixed crash when closing a window.
Fixed Options dialog crash when loading commands.

New in Beyond Compare 4.1.0 Build 20431 Beta (Aug 19, 2015)

Notable Changes:
Windows: Portable installs can now be either 32-bit or 64-bit.
Improved appearance of icons on 125%, 150%, and 200% DPI scaling.
Windows: Added support for taskbar jump lists on Windows 7 and up.
Various bug fixes and tweaks.
Command Line:
/fv="xyz" can now accept "Folder Compare", "Folder Sync", and "Folder Merge" in addition to the file view types.
File Formats:
Fixed "Visual Basic Source" comment definition.
File Views:
Windows: Fixed access denied error when trying to overwrite a file with write permissions but not modify permissions.
Border of the viewport in the comparison thumbnail no longer covers differences.
Folder Compare::
Windows: Fixed copied junctions/symlinks showing as folders until after a refresh.
Windows: Fixed issues overwriting an existing junction/symlink.
Fixed sync and exchange action progress bar icons.
FTP:
Fixed IPv6 FTP connections to IIS FTP servers.
Installer:
Windows: Portable installs can now be either 32-bit or 64-bit.
Misc:
Improved appearance of icons on 125%, 150%, and 200% DPI scaling.
Windows: Added support for taskbar jump lists on Windows 7 and up. Most frequently used workspaces, sessions, and session types are shown.
Windows: .bcpkg files are no longer included in the Recent Documents list.
Windows: Fixed taskbar thumbnails in 64-bit builds.
Windows: Fixed copying a file in Explorer and pasting into a path edit so it no longer includes leading/trailing " characters.
Beta expiration date is shown on the Home View.
Picture Compare:
Re-added option to change the background color behind transparent images.
Reports:
Windows: Fixed printing reports on 64-bit Windows.
MP3 and Version compare reports now show comparison status in the center column when a node is collapsed.
Tweaked monochrome reports.
Scripting:
Fixed scripts failing to run if they used 'smart' quotes rather than ASCII ones.
Table Compare:
Windows: Fixed loading .xlsx files with external 2007 table references.
Text Views:
Fixed cursor positioning on lines that contain multiple control characters.
Removed "Microsoft Write" support.
Text Compare:
Fixed MS Word .docx files not including inserted text when "Track Changes" is enabled.
Text Merge:
Fixed incorrect output when using Patience Diff alignment.
Crashes:
Fixed Table Compare crash when saving as part of a refresh.
Fixed crash when generating folder compare reports.
Windows: Fixed crash when using "Compare Versions" in a folder merge containing .exe files that have been added or deleted.

New in Beyond Compare 4.1.0 Build 20251 Beta (May 22, 2015)

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.6 Build 19729 (Feb 28, 2015)

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.5 Build 19480 (Jan 28, 2015)

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.4 Build 19477 (Jan 17, 2015)

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.3 Build 19420 (Jan 7, 2015)

Notable Changes:
Bug fixes and polish.
Archives:
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:
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:
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.

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.1 Build 19165 (Nov 14, 2014)

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.
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:
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".
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.
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.
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.

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 18847 (Sep 2, 2014)

New Home View:
The new Home View adds session search and web resources. The layout is easier to manage with on-screen controls.
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.
Windows logo Windows only:
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.

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 18746 Beta (Aug 16, 2014)

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 themeing.
"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 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.

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 18629 Beta (Jul 29, 2014)

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 18564 Beta (Jul 18, 2014)

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 18509 Beta (Jul 12, 2014)

Notable Changes:
Added option to align filenames with different extensions in folder compare.
Folder compare now displays an hourglass on the file that's being compared in the background as well as any parent folders.
Renaming/moving remote profiles updates paths in saved sessions.
Windows: Removed support for Paint Shop Pro .psp files due to poor compatibility.
Archives:
Fixed support for hybrid UDF/ISO9660 disk images to give priority to the UDF format.
Command Line:
Windows: Fixed comparison being opened twice if the existing instance is running as a standard user and a new instance is run elevated.
File Formats:
Fixed Python identifiers to be case sensitive.
Folder Compare:
Added option to align filenames with different extensions.
Added hourglass on the file that's being compared in the background as well as any parent folders.
Windows: Fixed distributed and deduplicated filesystems showing all files as symbolic links.
Windows: Fixed browse dialog so it scrolls the local disk treeview to show the selected item.
Fixed updating the "Editing Disabled" field in the status bar.
Fixed incorrect alignment when a case sensitive folder contains two items with case-insensitive matching names and different types (file/folder/symlink).
Fixed incorrectly opening files in a new folder compare window if both name and content filters were used.
Folder Merge:
Added "Up One Level" commands for center and output sides and changed "Both Sides" to "All Sides".
Removed commands and session settings options that only apply to 2-way comparisons.
Clicking in the left gutter now selects the entire comparison line.
FTP:
Improved URL encoding/decoding to handle %nn encodings better and to require them less often.
Fixed content comparisons not completing if the directory listings included truncated timestamps.
Fixed detecting VMS directories with lower case ".dir" suffixes.
Fixed matching an ftp:// URL against a saved profile to use a case insensitive compare for the hostname.
Home View:
Fixed reversed pin/unpin images on session panel.
Fixed Search selection not updating the editing panel.
Misc:
Added "Duplicate Tab" to viewer tab's context menu.
Windows: Fixed issues with scaling on high DPI displays.
Picture Compare:
Windows: Removed support for Paint Shop Pro .psp files due to poor compatibility.
Fixed selecting picture compare for images in archives or on remote servers when the file's extension is matched implicitly using the "Everything Else" file format.
Scripting:
Fixed support for "Shared scripts folder".
"Shared scripts folder" now takes priority over the current directory and is only used if the filename passed in does not include a path.
Sessions:
Renaming/moving remote profiles updates paths in saved sessions.
Table Compare:
Fixed automatic date column detection.
Text Views:
Fixed freeze while converting line endings for long files when the display is filtered.
Fixed enabling the horizontal scrollbar.
Text Compare:
Fixed case sensitivity handling in the line alignment.
Crashes:
Fixed text compare crash when double clicking in the unfocused editor.
Fixed browse dialog crash when closing the dialog while an FTP operation is in progress.
Fixed crash when reaching the maximum number of FTP log items.
OS X: Fixed folder merge crash when merging more than 3,072 files in a single Merge or Copy to Output action.
Linux: Fixed crash when using the "Generate SSH keys" dialog or when prompting for an SSH key file's passphrase.
Fixed crash when selecting multiple files to open from folder compare.

New in Beyond Compare 3.3.12.18414 (Jul 3, 2014)

New in Beyond Compare 3.3.11.18371 (Jun 27, 2014)

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 18291 Beta (Jun 5, 2014)

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 18262 Beta (May 31, 2014)

Notable Changes:
Picture Compare now compares alpha channels, supports JPEG XR and third-party WIC decoders on Windows, supports JPEG 2000, Photoshop, and raw camera formats on OS X, and has significantly improved speed, memory usage, and file format compatibility.
Added ability to pause file operations in the folder compare.
Expanded and updated help.
Scripting "FOLDER-REPORT" now accepts an "INCLUDE-FILE-LINKS" argument and "CRITERIA" accepts an "IGNORE-UNIMPORTANT" argument.
Windows: Added "Copy creation dates" folder compare/sync setting for local->local copies.
Amazon S3:
Fixed Amazon S3 progress reporting so it's updated more often than every 4MBs.
Command Line:
Windows: Fixed /? command line switch
File Formats:
Added *.dbf to "MS Excel Workbooks" format. (Mantis 1103)
File Views:
Fixed "Open/Save File Using Profile" handling of local paths. (Mantis 4872)
Folder Compare:
Added ability to pause running file operations.
Windows: Added "Copy creation dates" setting for local->local copies.
Double clicking a profile name in the folder browse dialog now launches that as a base folder. (Mantis 4770)
Folder Merge:
Added cue to indicate which path edit should have the ancestor file for 3-way merges. (Mantis 4821)
Fixed displaying proposed merge action for deleted files.
Folder Sync:
Added "Copy Creation Dates" option.
Improved interface layout to take up less vertical space.
Fixed slow performance when changing sync type. (Mantis 4651)
FTP:
Importing BC3 SFTP profiles with saved blank passwords now clears them to improve behavior when using a key pair. (Mantis 4789)
Fixed unresponsiveness when deleting cached files.
Hex Compare:
Fixed deleting bytes in the hex editor when positioned after the last one. (Mantis 4798)
Home View:
Using Ctrl+F/Cmd+F now sets focus to the session treeview's search edit.
Fixed [Ins] shortcut so it only adds a session if the session list has focus.
Installer:
Windows: Removed "Add to Quick Launch" option in installer on Windows 7 and above.
Misc:
Updated Help
Windows: Added support for drag & drop to open comparisons of UNC servers and MTP files and folders. (Mantis 4792).
Windows: Menu/tab gradients are now disabled when using the "Windows Classic" theme. (Mantis 4790)
Windows Fixed various scaling issues on high DPI displays.
Windows: Fixed toolbar appearance when the system menu font and dialog font are different. (Mantis 4873)
Fixed "Restore Factory Defaults" so it doesn't show items in red.
Options:
Added "Move Up" [Ctrl+Up] and "Move Down" [Ctrl+Down] shortcuts to rearrange lists.
Using [F2] in the Options "Open With" grid will now edit the selected item.
Picture Compare:
The alpha channel for transparent images is now compared along with the RGB values and shown in the zoomed details display with crosshatching.
Significantly improved comparison speed, memory usage, and user interface responsiveness.
Windows: Added support for JPEG XR images (.jxr;.wdp)
Windows: Added support for third party Windows Imaging Component (WIC) decoders (e.g., WebP).
"Picture Files" mask now only includes the most popular types by default. Remaining extensions are matched implicitly as part of the Picture Compare "Everything Else" file format.
Reverted offset behavior so there is only a single pair of offset values again, rather than separate ones for the left and right side.
Right image is no longer clipped if it's above/left of the left image.
Comparison offset no longer affects the display of the input images.
Darked checkerboarding for transparent images so bright glows show up better.
Inverted blend percentages so 0% shows the left image and 100% shows the right.
Added "Blend Toggle" command [F8] that switches between 0% and 100%.
Removed "Background" color and "Show transparency as checkerboarding" options.
Using the mouse wheel while the "Zoom" trackbar has focus will use the same zoom logic as everywhere else.
Windows: Improved .ico support for alpha transparency, PNG-encoded images, and images larger than 256x256.
Fixed incompatibilities with various JPEG images. (Mantis 3782, 4025)
Fixed compatibility issues with PNG and TIFF images and threading issues with GIF images.
Windows: Fixed crash when loading .TIF images and 8-bit .PCX images. (Mantis 4696)
Fixed mouse cursor flicker when adjusting comparison values (blend percent, etc).
Windows: Fixed flicker when drawing the details.
Fixed dropping files on the right or center panel to load on the appropriate side.
Fixed input images flickering when changing comparison options like the compare mode or blend percentage.
Registry Compare:
Improved performance issues when drawing extremely long multi-string registry values.
Reports:
Text Patch Report now follows the "Compare line endings" session setting and produces patches with appropriate line endings.
Picture Compare report now generates monochrome image as 8-bit images instead of 24-bit ones.
Scripting:
Added "INCLUDE-FILE-LINKS" parameter to "FOLDER-REPORT" command.
Added "IGNORE-UNIMPORTANT" parameter to "CRITERIA" command. (Mantis 1226)
Significantly improved comparison and "Resize cells to fit" speed.
Fixed support for comparing Excel dates with different formats. (Mantis 3410)
Fixed support for non-ASCII delimiters. (Mantis 3992)
Fixed displaying hints for very large cells.
Fixed support for very large cells in reports. (Mantis 4724)
Removed "Decimal separator" setting and fixed MS Excel conversion to handle decimal separators correctly. (Mantis 4831).
Text Compare:
Added "Copy to Left/Right" and "Copy Line to Side" to gutter context menu
Text Merge:
Changed line closeness calculation so it matches BC3. (Mantis 4811)
Text merges will now prompt to save the results even if the automatically generated output matches the existing output file if that output is in the temp directory. (Mantis 4783)
Added cue to indicate which path edit should have the ancestor file for 3-way merges. (Mantis 4821)
Fixed showing center line details when launched from a folder merge. (Mantis 4851)
View Patch:
Differences in line endings are now shown as differences.
Fixed support for patches containing "\ No newline at end of file". (Mantis 4844)
Crashes:
Fixed crash when selecting the already loaded autosaved session. (Mantis 4763)
Fixed crash when scrolling text viewer horizontally. (Mantis 4864)
Fixed crash when clicking a new session type in the session dropdown menu. (Mantis 4874)
Fixes Data Compare crash for very large cells. (Mantis 4857)
Fixed folder sync crash when using a content filter.
Windows: Fixed crash when opening the "Check for Updates" dialog.
Windows: Fixed crash loading the first comparison on Windows 7 and above.
Windows: Fixed "New Folder" crash in folder browse dialog.
Fix various memory leaks.

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 17905 Beta (Apr 8, 2014)

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 17887 Beta (Apr 4, 2014)

Notable changes:
Windows: Added support for portable media devices (aka "MTP") including Android 4.0+ phones and cameras.
Significant improvements to folder merge.
Added profile management and "Quick Connect" to folder browse dialog, and improved appearance and usability on OS X.
Added support for Amazon S3.
Windows: Added support for loading an SMB server as a base folder (e.g., \\server) instead of requiring a specific share (\\server\share).
Added per-profile SFTP key pairs and improved authentication handling for FTP/FTPS/SFTP.
OS X/Linux: Added support for mounting smb:// URLs automatically and preserving the URL instead of converting to the mount point's local path.
Ending a folder compare file filter with '.' will prevent '*' and '?' from matching periods in order to support matching files with no extension.
Folder merge
Replaced the left-most spacer column with icons that show the proposed merge action (Copy to Left/Right, Delete, Merge, Conflict).
Added confirmation dialogs and icons for "Merge" and "Copy to Output".
Added option to the "Merge" command to forcibly generate output with CVS-style conflict markers.
Fixed generating merge output paths for profile: and URL:// based folders.
Removed unimplemented "Merge All" command and added "Merge" to the Actions menu.
Cleaned up visibility of commands that don't make sense for the current merge output style.
Merging a file in the text merge now flags that comparison as reconciled in the folder merge as well.
Reconciling a file automatically "ignores" the the comparison so it's removed from the display.
Files in the output directory are now taken into account when automatically marking an item as reconciled.
Fixed file operation display, summary, and error logging for "Merge" and "Copy to Output" commands.
Fixed logging errors for automatic merge failures due to conflicts.
"Merge" now works when folders are selected.
Moved the "Output to" panel to the top of the window, just below the input paths.
Re-enabled gradient coloring in the center column by default.
FTP:
Added per-profile SSH private key and SSL client certificate support.
Added FTP profile option "Copy Unix permissions on upload".
Encrypted SSH private keys now prompt for the passphrase when the key is accepted by the server, rather than needing to be stored in the preferences.
Removed profile's "SSH private key passphrase" setting. If needed for automation, the key should be stored without a passphrase instead.
When logging into an SFTP site, if the username is blank the client computer's username is used automatically.
SFTP connections no longer prompt for an unused password if public key or pageant/ssh-agent authentication works.
SFTP connections will now automatically try to authenticate using ~/.ssh/id_rsa and id_dsa.
Fixed changes to a profile's login information (Username/password) not being detected when opening a new connection.
Fixed unnecessary password prompt when a profile is has an explicitly saved blank password.
Fixed SSH keyboard-interactive authentication retrying too many times.
Fixed hang when performing multiple FTP operations simultaneously.
Misc:
New sessions, profiles, and file formats are now edited and saved before adding them to their respective treeviews, to allow them to have better auto-generated names.
Ending a file filter with '.' will prevent '*' and '?' from matching periods in order to support matching files with no extension.
Launching BC from the command line with a single .patch or .diff file will now show it in the View Patch display instead of the text compare.
Added FireMonkey .fmx type to "Delphi Form Files" file format
Fixed launching external conversions in the "Helpers" directory in %AppData%.
Improved handling of Subversion authentication errors and revisions that don't have SVN:author or SVN:date properties.
Fixed "Move to folder" deleting the selected items if the source and destination were the same folder.
Fixed comparison report's "View in Browser" command.
Fixed Dropbox reporting last modified times in UTC instead of local time.
Fixed error when saving changes to large files in the hex compare.
Fixed using Find Text's "Select All" command when searching both sides of the compare.
Fixed displaying selected file's relative in the folder compare's right path edit.
Fixed support for using "XML Tidy" and "XML Sort" conversions on files with DOCTYPE definitions.
Improved error messages when parsing XML files for "XML Tidy" and "XML Sort" conversions.
Removed horizontal scrollbar in viewers that don't need them.
Fixed File Views to use local open/save dialog if clipboard is loaded
Fixed Folder Sync showing the "Sync" type as "Custom" if the default preset has been customized.
Fixed changing "Unimportance" and "Compare line endings" settings to redo the alignment in text compares.
Fixed enabling controls after saving changes fails in a file viewer.
Dropbox profiles are now authenticated before being added to the profile list.
Moved folder compare's "Filters" caption to the left of the combox to fix toolbar height.
Fixed splitter handling in File Formats, Profiles, and Folder Browse dialogs.
Fixed using Text "Replace All" to convert spaces to tabs.
Fixed crash when refreshing a file comparison.
Windows:
Optimized the shell extension so it doesn't access the disk until a comparison is actually loaded.
Fixed hang when trying to compare corrupt MS Word files.
Fixed support for some NAS devices.
Fixed deleting keys in registry compare.

New in Beyond Compare 3.3.10.17762 (Mar 13, 2014)

New in Beyond Compare 3.3.9.17611 (Mar 5, 2014)

File Views:
"Open Clipboard" now includes seconds in the time displayed in the path
edit
Fixed File Info panel initializing non-detected File Format names
Fixed handling of large text values in treeview- and grid-based compares
Folder Compare:
Fixed loading large folders when comparing against an OS X 10.9 Mavericks
file share
FTP:
Fixed support for recursive folder listings on vsFTPd servers
Fixed support for "Fetch complete timestamps" on servers that don't
support retrieving timestamps for folders
Hex Compare:
Fixed display when the "Background Contrast" preference is set to its
lowest position
Home View:
Fixed crash when using "Collapse All" with nothing selected
Misc:
Fixed crash on startup when session types have been disabled
Improved status bar, scrollbar, and grid header display on high DPI
displays
Portable installs will now look in the %AppData% settings folder for a
license key if one isn't in the exe folder
Picture Compare:
Fixed "Exteral Conversion" support for ANSI filenames
Fixed changing "Same pixels" and "Different pixels" options
Fixed "Swap Sides" when "Blend" is not 50 or "Tolerance" does not use
solid colors
Fixed handling of transformations (stretch, flip, rotate) when one side is
reloaded
Registry Compare:
Fixed performance when displaying extremely long strings
Fixed size of hints when hovering over extremely large binary values
Fixed file encoding error handling
Reports:
Text "patch" reports with the "context" style now separate the timestamp
from the filename with a tab instead of space
Text "patch" reports using the "normal" style now use "diff -r filename1
filename2" as the header line
Scripting:
Fixed scripts to not change saved sessions, particularly if they aren't
sorted by name
Fixed REGISTRY-REPORT not expanding folders when loaded from a selection
in a folder compare
Text Views:
Using "Open Clipboard" will now always treat the text as Unicode instead
of trying to auto-detect an encoding
Fixed long lines of unbroken text not being displayed correctly
Fixed line details not to scroll unnecessarily when editing
Fixed editor inserting a line ending when the first line is very long
Improved behavior when scrolling horizontally
Text Compare:
Fixed comparing matching text with different grammar types so they're
treated as a difference
Fixed handling of edits that affect multi-line grammar items
Fixed the "Session Settings" dialog's behavior when the left and right
file formats are different
Fixed incorrect character highlighting when using replacements to unalign
text
Fixed inserting first line ending when "Compare line endings" is enabled
Fixed handling of end of file in inactive editor when deleting the first
line in an orphan file
Text Merge:
Fixed crash when "Compare Line Endings" is enabled
Fixed input editors resizing incorrectly when the output editor is in a
separate window
Fixed [Esc] to close the view even if the detached output window has focus

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 17677 Beta (Feb 15, 2014)

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 17666 Beta (Feb 15, 2014)

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 17628 Beta (Feb 6, 2014)

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.
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.
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.

New in Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Build 17451 Beta (Jan 4, 2014)

New in Beyond Compare 3.3.8.16340 (Jun 20, 2013)

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.

New in Beyond Compare 3.3.7.15876 (Mar 8, 2013)

New in Beyond Compare 3.3.5.15075 (Jul 19, 2012)

New in Beyond Compare 3.3.4.14431 (Feb 25, 2012)

Notable Changes:
Fixed context menus on newer versions of Konqueror, Thunar, and Nautilus.
FILE-REPORT (and TEXT-REPORT, etc.) commands will now accept a saved file
compare session name instead of a pair of files. E.g., "file-report
layout:side-by-side output-to:printer MySession".
Archives:
Fixed extracting files where a single deflate block contains more than 1MB
of data.
Fixed zips showing non-existent files if a zip contained another zip and
the outer one had additional data after the archive comment.
Attempting to extract a file from a zip using an unsupported compression
algorithm now shows that as an error.
Split up zip error messages for "Error during extraction" and "Unsupported
compression algorithm".
Data Compare
Fixed "Extract HTML table(s)" handling of UTF-16 files.
File Formats
OpenOffice default character encoding is now UTF-8.
Fixed "COBOL Source" format to include "Identifier" definition.
"Picture Files" format added CUT, GED, MSK, PFR, and TUB to mask, removed
PAL.
File Views:
Fixed saving files with paths between 247-259 characters long.
Fixed foreground selection coloring when using white on blue system colors.
Added key accelerators to "Save changes" dialog.
Folder Compare
Long file operations will now keep Windows from going to sleep due to
inactivity.
Using "Compare to" to open a file view and then using "Next/Previous
Difference Files" now closes the file view.
FTP
Fixed support for FTP listings with filenames containing Chinese
month/year characters.
Fixed parsing Comau C5G FTP listings.
Home View:
When editing a session, dropped files/folders are ignored unless they're
on a path edit.
Expand All and Collapse All commands now affect the shared and auto-saved
sessions nodes.
Fixed behavior when using "Collapse All" hides the currently selected
session.
Misc:
Fixed menu checkboxes not showing on Vista and Windows 7 when using the
Classic Theme.
Dropping files/folders onto a path edit no longer changes the edit if the
drop results in a new view.
Added "RE Examples" buttons to Grammar Item dialog.
Improved Open/Save dialog handling of file type options.
Options:
"Customize Commands" dialog's "Default" command now checks to see if
shortcut is already in use.
Picture Compare
"Difference Offset", "Flip", and "Rotate" are now persistent session
settings.
Fixed handling of DIB, MSK, and RLE bitmap files.
Registry Compare
Fixed loading .reg files with a '\' before hex data.
Fixed loading .reg files with a ']' in a key name.
Scripting:
FILE-REPORT (and TEXT-REPORT, etc.) commands will now accept a saved file
compare session name instead of a pair of files. E.g., "file-report
layout:side-by-side output-to:printer MySession".
LOG command will now create the target folder if it doesn't exist.
Fixed support for STRIKEOUT-RIGHT-ORPHANS in TEXT-REPORT command.

New in Beyond Compare 3.3.3.14128 (Oct 29, 2011)

New in Beyond Compare 3.3.2.14050 (Sep 13, 2011)

New in Beyond Compare 3.3.1.13971 (Aug 16, 2011)

Notable Changes:
Added full context menu extensions on Linux for Konqueror (KDE), Nautilus (Gnome), and Thunar (Xfce), with configurable visibility and submenus.
Added support for passing '-' on the command line to load a file from
stdin, and added support for FIFOs on Linux.
Copying to/from FTP/SFTP servers now copies the Unix mode (rwx).
Character encoding errors during saving now prompt to use a different code
page instead of refusing to save.
Removed prompt to edit read-only files in file views.
Fixed FTP timezone autodetection.
Archives:
Fixed zips not showing files that have paths beginning with /
Fixed extracting files from some .7z archives
Improved memory usage and speed when reading/writing large snapshots
Command Line:
Added support for passing '-' on the command line to load a file from stdin.
Data Compare:
Added "Select All" button to "Find" dialog.
"Go To" dialog supports column selection in the row details.
Removed "characters per line limit" file format setting.
Improved error handling when line is too long (over 65536 characters),
particularly for multi-line cells.
Fixed editing key column settings when the default column handling is
unimportant.
Fixed crash when loading files with extremely long lines.
Fixed foreground coloring for non-text columns with differences.
Fixed hang using Find dialog's "Select All" and "Wrap Search" options.
Fixed Find "Select All" selecting the current line when it doesn't match
the search.
Fixed detection of whether to save before using new file format.
File Formats:
Improved "Bash Scripts" handling of escaped quotes and apostrophes.
Fixed "DisplayAlerts" error using MS Office conversion file formats with
Office 2000.
Fixed "PDF Documents" to use unicode handling.
Fixed "MS Excel Workbooks" to use unicode handling.
Improved "SQL" file format string definitions.
File Views:
Added default shortcuts: "Recompare"=[Ctrl+F5], "Copy File to Right and
Open Next Difference"=[Ctrl+Alt+R], "Copy File to Left and Open Next
Difference"=[Ctrl+Alt+L]
Using "Swap Sides" command now preserves the scrollbar position when the
cursor is offscreen.
"Compare Files Using" now maintains parent session link.
Fixed thumbnail flashing when a comparison is loading.
Fixed crash when painting the thumbnail.
Fixed crash after minimizing a Find dialog and switching tabs.
Fixed using "Save As" after an external conversion so the default filename
matches the input with a '.txt' extension.
Fixed focus changing from the right to left side when opening a new file.
Folder Compare:
Added default shortcuts: "Align With"=[F6], "New Folder"=[Ins], "Refresh
Selection"=[Shift+F5], "Mirror Right"=[Shift+Ctrl+R], "Mirror Left"=
Shift+Ctrl+L]
Improved Samba auto-detection.
Improved error handling of network errors when loading folder listings.
Fixed symlinks to drive roots being incorrectly detected as recursive.
Fixed renaming a symbolic link with "Follow Symlinks" active showing both
the original and renamed entries until a refresh.
Fixed recursive symlinks not getting logged as errors when trying to
expand them.
Fixed "Find" "Select All" button so it will select the current line if it
matches.
Fixed file counts so they use thousands separators.
Fixed File Filter combobox showing the wrong context menu.
Fixed invalidation when changing filters that only affect one side of a
comparison.
Disabled using large buffers to retrieve folder listings on remote servers
to help with buggy NAS devices.
Fixed crash when using "Copy file to left and open next difference" in
file compare.
Folder Sync:
Auto-generated session names now include the sync preset name and directional arrows.
FTP:
Uploading to FTP/SFTP servers now copies Unix mode (rwx) if possible.
Added support for symbolic links in Pure-FTPD's MLSD listing.
Fixed timezone autodetection, and fixed logging positive local biases as
off by 1 minute.
Fixed "Generate SSH Key Pair" dialog's "Generate" and "Cancel" buttons to
respond to [Enter] and [Esc].
Fixed FTP connections not respecting the settings for "Limit
ports used for active transfers (PORT)".
Fixed crash if a server returns an invalid date in an MDTM request.
Fixed crash when an FTP Profile's "Encoding" setting is set to either
"Unicode" or "Unicode (Big Endian)".
Fixed prompting to connect when an FTPS SSL certificate's common name
doesn't match the host name.
Fixed connecting to CrushFTP SSH servers.
Fixed freeze when reloading a Text Compare after saving changes and
copying them in the Folder Compare.
Hex Compare:
Fixed Hex find.
Text display now uses the system encoding instead of Windows-1252.
Misc:
Added [Ctrl+Q] as the default shortcut for "Session->Exit".
XML encoding detection now defaults to UTF-8 instead of ANSI.
Forms now check if active control handles key accelerator, in particular
browse edits.
Labels showing partial filenames now include the full path as a hint.
Fixed SpinEdit focus handling, in particular in response to associated key
accelerator
Fixed session tab's "Tear Off" command to affect the right-clicked tab
instead of the active one.
Fixed drag and drop reordering in various lists (File Formats, Grammars,
etc) so items can't be dropped onto unrelated windows.
Fixed converting dates to text on systems with non-ASCII characters (ex.
clipboard title on Greek systems).
Fixed error message for failed Unicode conversions.
Fixed context menu in Text Compare's "View -> Web Pages" display and in
"Check for Updates" dialog.
Fixed crash when closing BC while the help window is open on a 32-bit
Vista/Win7 system with IE9 installed.
Fixed help window hanging if Beyond Compare's foreground thread is busy.
Fixed updating menus with toolbar visibility when closing undocked toolbars.
Fixed control positions when running on Far East systems with scaled fonts.
Fixed displaying localized dates in various places. (affects Delphi
"Select Revisions" dialog, "Startup" options page, Data Compare cells, MP3
Compare tags, FTP "View Certificate" dialog)
MP3 Compare:
Added "Play Both" to "Session" menu.
Fixed crash when comparing MP3 tags with line endings.
Options:
Added explanation that Explorer integration requires non-portable install.
Added "milliseconds before incremental search resets" tweak.
"Open With" options page now confirms clearing list.
Tweaked layout for various pages.
Fixed changing "Detect partial file locks on" tweak to enable "Apply"
button.
Picture Compare:
Fixed copying to clipboard.
Registry Compare:
Added "Open in Text Edit" for files.
Added "Up One Level" spec bar buttons.
Fixed reading .reg files with comments after the first line.
Reports:
Text "XML Dump" now includes display filter, show context, ignore unimportant, and just selection states.
Folder and Picture Compare report headers now include whether unimportant differences are ignored.
Removed unnecessary "Just Selection" option from MP3, Registry, and
Version Compare reports.
Removed unnecessary "Mode" option from "File Summary" reports.
Fixed truncation if a Folder Compare report contains characters that don't
exist in the system's ANSI code page.
Fixed Text "Stats" report not to count empty on both sides as added line.
Fixed report generation when using print preview with different report
styles without closing the report dialog.
Report layouts that don't use colors no longer offer HTML difference
highlighting.
Data Compare report no longer tries to right justify floating point data.
Fixed crash generating a Picture Compare report of an empty comparison.
Fixed shortcuts displayed in hints in the Print Preview dialog.
Scripting:
Added "CRITERIA FOLLOW-SYMLINKS" option to enable the "Follow Symbolic
Links" session setting.
Added "FILTER INCLUDE-PROTECTED" option to disable the "Exclude protected
operating system files" filter, and "FILTER EXCLUDE-PROTECTED" to
re-enable it.
Fixed "PICTURE-REPORT" support for "OPTIONS:IGNORE-UNIMPORTANT".
Sessions:
Added "Locked" to "Session" menu.
Fixed extracting session name/path on CJK systems.
Source Control:
Comparisons launched from PVCS no longer treat the original file as read-only.
Fixed PVCS integration when launched from Visual Studio.
Text Views:
Character encoding errors during saving now prompt to use a different code page, rather than refusing to save.
Added default shortcuts: "Next Replacement"=[Shift+Ctrl+Alt+N], "Previous Replacement"=[Shift+Ctrl+Alt+P]
Improved "Grammar Item" dialog's "Delimited" handling when "to" must be single character (not RegEx, Escape defined).
Improved "Next/Previous Difference" handling and improved performance.
Fixed line endings being inserted when copying wrapped lines.
Fixed "View->Webpages" so it doesn't trigger the file format "Trim
trailing whitespace" or "Convert leading spaces to tabs" on save behavior.
Fixed Find matching the last match repeatedly when wrap is disabled.
Fixed character alignment gap handling when ignoring unimportant
differences (affects "Next/Previous Difference").
Fixed "Find Next/Previous" so it doesn't support editing in line mode.
Fixed crash when deleting text with gaps.
Fixed crash when changing horizontal scroll position.
Fixed Replace All with "Wrap search" behavior.
Fixed crash when using "Replace All" with "Show Differences" comparing
identical files.
Fixed crash using "Previous Difference" when first segment is character
alignment gap.
Text Compare:
Removed prompt to edit read-only files.
Declining to edit a binary files when prompted will prompt again at the next attempt instead of disabling editing.
Text Merge:
Added "Take Left Then Right" and "Take Right Then Left" to center panel's context menu and fixed position of "Copy".
Fixed crash when using certain commands with a detached output window.
Fixed "Open With" and "Open with Text Edit" in output pane.
Version Compare:
Improved error handling of malformed version information.

New in Beyond Compare 3.3.0.13755 Beta (Jun 10, 2011)

Notable Changes:
Added full context menu extensions on Linux for Konqueror (KDE), Nautilus (Gnome), and Thunar (Xfce), with configurable visibility and submenus.
Added support for passing '-' on the command line to load a file from stdin, and added support for FIFOs on Linux.
Copying to/from FTP/SFTP servers now copies the Unix mode (rwx).
Removed prompt to edit read-only files.
Fixed FTP timezone autodetection.
Archives:
Fixed zips not showing files that have paths beginning with /.
Fixed extracting files from some .7z archives.
Improved memory usage and speed when reading/writing large snapshots.
Command Line:
Added support for passing '-' on the command line to load a file from stdin.
Data Compare:
Added "Select All" button to "Find" dialog.
"Go To" dialog supports column selection in the row details.
Fixed editing key column settings when the default column handling is unimportant.
Fixed crash when loading files with extremely long lines.
File Formats:
Improved "Bash Scripts" handling of escaped quotes and apostrophes.
Fixed "DisplayAlerts" error using MS Office conversion file formats with Office 2000.
Fixed "PDF Documents" to use unicode handling.
Fixed "MS Excel Workbooks" to use unicode handling.
File Views:
Added default shortcuts: "Recompare"=[Ctrl+F5], "Copy File to Right and Open Next Difference"=[Ctrl+Alt+R], "Copy File to Left and Open Next Difference"=[Ctrl+Alt+L]
Using "Swap Sides" command now preserves the scrollbar position when the cursor is offscreen.
"Compare Files Using" now maintains parent session link.
Fixed thumbnail flashing when a comparison is loading.
Fixed crash when painting the thumbnail.
Folder Compare:
Added default shortcuts: "Align With"=[F6], "New Folder"=[Ins], "Refresh Selection"=[Shift+F5], "Mirror Right"=[Shift+Ctrl+R], "Mirror Left"= Shift+Ctrl+L]
Improved Samba auto-detection.
Improved error handling of network errors when loading folder listings.
Fixed symlinks to drive roots being incorrectly detected as recursive.
Fixed renaming a symbolic link with "Follow Symlinks" active showing both the original and renamed entries until a refresh.
Fixed recursive symlinks not getting logged as errors when trying to expand them.
Fixed "Find" "Select All" button so it will select the current line if it matches.
Fixed file counts so they use thousands separators.
Fixed File Filter combobox showing the wrong context menu.
Fixed invalidation when changing filters that only affect one side of a comparison.
Disabled using large buffers to retrieve folder listings on remote servers to help with buggy NAS devices.
Folder Sync:
Auto-generated session names now include the sync preset name and directional arrows.
FTP:
Uploading to FTP/SFTP servers now copies Unix mode (rwx) if possible.
Added support for symbolic links in Pure-FTPD's MLSD listing.
Fixed timezone autodetection, and fixed logging positive local biases as off by 1 minute.
Fixed "Generate SSH Key Pair" dialog's "Generate" and "Cancel" buttons to respond to [Enter] and [Esc].
Fixed FTP connections not respecting the settings for "Limit ports used for active transfers (PORT)".
Fixed crash if a server returns an invalid date in an MDTM request.
Fixed crash when an FTP Profile's "Encoding" setting is set to either "Unicode" or "Unicode (Big Endian)".
Fixed prompting to connect when an FTPS SSL certificate's common name doesn't match the host name.
Fixed connecting to CrushFTP SSH servers.
Fixed freeze when reloading a Text Compare after saving changes and copying them in the Folder Compare.
Hex Compare:
Fixed Hex find.
Text display now uses the system encoding instead of Windows-1252.
Linux:
Added full context menu extensions for Konqueror (KDE), Nautilus(Gnome), and Thunar (Xfce). They support all of the options the Windows release has.
Added support for comparing FIFOs from the command line.
.bcss files are now associated with Beyond Compare. (Mantis 3542)
Downloading from FTP/SFTP to a local filesystem now copies Unix mode (rwx) if possible.
Improved crash handler dialog.
Fixed errors installing .deb on Ubuntu 11.04.
Fixed text merge crash when painting center editor.
Fixed reports printing without line numbers, titles, or footers.
Fixed load error when comparing RPMs.
Fixed deleting a symbolic link to the recycle bin.
Fixed launching default browser when not running KDE or Gnome.
Fixed support for [Ctrl+A] to select all in edits.
Fixed treeviews not responding to [*] as "Expand All Subfolders".
Fixed focus issues with radio button groups.
Fixed Text "Go To" dialog's default focus.
Fixed current folder for external conversion file formats.
Fixed Hex Compare's background coloring of differences.
Misc:
Added [Ctrl+Q] as the default shortcut for "Session->Exit".
XML encoding detection now defaults to UTF-8 instead of ANSI.
Forms now check if active control handles key accelerator, in particular browse edits.
Labels showing partial filenames now include the full path as a hint.
Fixed SpinEdit focus handling, in particular in response to associated key accelerator
Fixed session tab's "Tear Off" command to affect the right-clicked tab instead of the active one.
Fixed drag and drop reordering in various lists (File Formats, Grammars, etc) so items can't be dropped onto unrelated windows.
Fixed converting dates to text on systems with non-ASCII characters (ex. clipboard title on Greek systems).
Fixed error message for failed Unicode conversions.
Fixed context menu in Text Compare's "View -> Web Pages" display and in "Check for Updates" dialog.
MP3 Compare:
Added "Play Both" to "Session" menu.
Options:
Added explanation that Explorer integration requires non-portable install.
Added "milliseconds before incremental search resets" tweak.
"Open With" options page now confirms clearing list.
Tweaked layout for various pages.
Fixed changing "Detect partial file locks on" tweak to enable "Apply" button.
Registry Compare:
Added "Open in Text Edit" for files.
Added "Up One Level" spec bar buttons.
Reports:
Text "XML Dump" now includes display filter, show context, ignore unimportant, and just selection states.
Folder and Picture Compare report headers now include whether unimportant differences are ignored.
Removed unnecessary "Just Selection" option from MP3, Registry, and Version Compare reports.
Removed unnecessary "Mode" option from "File Summary" reports.
Fixed truncation if a Folder Compare report contains characters that don't exist in the system's ANSI code page.
Fixed Text "Stats" report not to count empty on both sides as added line.
Fixed report generation when using print preview with different report styles without closing the report dialog.
Report layouts that don't use colors no longer offer HTML difference highlighting.
Data Compare report no longer tries to right justify floating point data.
Fixed crash generating a Picture Compare report of an empty comparison.
Scripting:
Added "CRITERIA FOLLOW-SYMLINKS" option to enable the "Follow Symbolic Links" session setting.
Added "FILTER INCLUDE-PROTECTED" option to disable the "Exclude protected operating system files" filter, and "FILTER EXCLUDE-PROTECTED" to re-enable it.
Fixed "PICTURE-REPORT" support for "OPTIONS:IGNORE-UNIMPORTANT".
Sessions:
Added "Locked" to "Session" menu.
Fixed extracting session name/path on CJK systems.
Source Control:
Comparisons launched from PVCS no longer treat the original file as read-only.
Text Views:
Existence of line endings is now always considered a difference.
Added default shortcuts: "Next Replacement"=[Shift+Ctrl+Alt+N], "Previous Replacement"=[Shift+Ctrl+Alt+P]
Improved "Grammar Item" dialog's "Delimited" handling when "to" must be single character (not RegEx, Escape defined).
Improved "Next/Previous Difference" handling and improved performance.
Fixed line endings being inserted when copying wrapped lines.
Fixed "View->Webpages" so it doesn't trigger the file format "Trim
trailing whitespace" or "Convert leading spaces to tabs" on save behavior.
Fixed Find matching the last match repeatedly when wrap is disabled.
Fixed character alignment gap handling when ignoring unimportant differences (affects "Next/Previous Difference").
Fixed "Find Next/Previous" so it doesn't support editing in line mode.
Fixed crash when deleting text with gaps.
Fixed crash when changing horizontal scroll position.
Text Compare:
Removed prompt to edit read-only files.
Declining to edit a binary files when prompted will prompt again at the next attempt instead of disabling editing.
Text Merge:
Added "Take Left Then Right" and "Take Right Then Left" to center panel's context menu and fixed position of "Copy".
Fixed crash when using certain commands with a detached output window.
Fixed "Open With" and "Open with Text Edit" in output pane.
Version Compare:
Improved error handling of malformed version information.

New in Beyond Compare 3.2.4.13298 (Feb 7, 2011)

New in Beyond Compare 3.2.3.13043 (Dec 10, 2010)

New in Beyond Compare 3.2.2.13000 (Dec 7, 2010)

Notable Changes
Added option to follow symbolic links when saving snapshots. Default is off, which does not match 3.1 and earlier
Archives
Added option to follow symbolic links when saving snapshots
Added script SNAPSHOT "follow-symlinks" option
Snapshots now save whether an item is a symbolic link or not (to show arrow overlay), and what the target path is
Saving a snapshot now stops when it detects a recursive symlink
Fixed crash saving a snapshot containing a filename longer than 255 bytes
Data Compare
"MS Excel Workbooks" format no longer processes macros, if they exist
Fixed trimming whitespace so it no longer removes other control characters
Fixed handling of cells that only contain whitespace
File Formats
Added comment definition to "Registry Dumps" file format
Fixed XML Tidy external conversions of filenames containing a '=' or ';' character
File Views
Fixed "Compare to Clipboard" support for external conversions for the "selection" side
Fixed unimportance handling of embedded line endings in data, MP3 registry, and version compares
Fixed color of visible line endings in data, MP3, registry, and version compares
Fixed "Open With" %l value when positioned on a gap
Folder Compare
Fixed crash when double clicking in "Compare Contents" results dialog to open a file comparison
Fixed hang after canceling a file operation dialog while it's still visiting folders (broken in 3.2.0)
Fixed file operation confirmation dialogs resizing if closed while building folders
Fixed crash when rapidly using file view's "Next Difference Files" Ctrl+M) command
Fixed "Browse for Folder" initial folder when the edited path contains environmental variables (e.g,. %Temp%)
FTP
Added "*.sh" to the default ASCII transfer list
Fixed setting last modified times on ProFTPD/Pure-FTPd servers that aren't using UTF-8 for filenames
Fixed changing "Force faster uploads on older OpenSSH servers" to enable the profile "Save" button
Misc
Fixed displaying popup hints containing a #0 character
Fixed crash on startup when using a revoked license key
Options
Exporting settings now forces an archive association (.bcpkg/.zip) when saving
Fixed "Import Settings..." crash when trying to import an invalid zip
Fixed session dropdown so it stays on screen
Picture Compare
Improved error handling when running out of memory
Removed ".cut" (Dr. Halo) file type from default file format
Registry Compare
"New Key/Value" commands now behave more like the folder compare's "New Folder"
Improved behavior when the current node isn't selected
Fixed reading .reg files with multi-line string values
Fixed support for expanding empty keys
Fixed adding new key/value when base key is empty
Scripting
Added script SNAPSHOT "follow-symlinks" option. **Default is off, which does not match earlier BC behavior
Text Views
Find Dialog's "Select All" button is now enabled when specific side chosen left, right, output)
Improved Find handling of multi-byte UTF-8 characters
Fixed "Find Previous" when nothing is selected and the match can be the current or previous character (ex "." regex)
Removed unnecessary editor invalidation/flicker when moving the cursor
Fixed find handling of multi-byte characters
Text Compare
Fixed crash when using "Go to next difference after copying to other side" changes the line ending style
Text Merge
Improved difference coloring in ancestor (center) when there are conflicting changes

New in Beyond Compare 3.2.1.12831 Beta (Sep 28, 2010)

Notable Changes:
Added Registry Compare view.
Added support for comparing, copying, and deleting NTFS junction points and symbolic links.
Archives:
Added support for reading/writing symlinks in zip and tar archives.
Added support for importing Total Commander "Packer" plug-ins from Options dialog.
Moved Total Commander "Packer" plug-ins from install folder to "Packers" subfolder.
Crashes in Total Commander plugins no longer trigger the exception handler
dialog.
Fixed support for Total Commander plugins that don't support background threads.
Fixed .tar archives showing Unix mode without 'l' for symlinks or 'd' for folders.
Fixed .tar support for archives larger than 2GB.
Fixed snapshot CRCs changing to "" after loading a new comparison.
Command Line:
Using /edit with multiple filenames now opens each in a new view.
Scripts, /qc, /automerge will now keep running if loading toolbar / folder / misc icons fails.
Data Compare:
Improved intraline comparisons of non-string data.
Fixed editing a cell so it doesn't affect the raw text of other cells.
Fixed hang trying to load certain binary files.
Fixed editing multiline cells introducing additional rows.
Fixed crash loading a file with no detectable delimiters.
Fixed changing default column handling to recompare if necessary.
Fixed crash when pasting columns in session settings dialog.
File Formats:
Fixed external conversion error message including wrong exit code.
File Views:
Orphan and empty file comparisons no longer show comparison result in status bar.
Added support for horizontal scrolling to MP3 and Version comparisons.
Fixed support for editing files via NTFS symbolic links (Vista & Windows 7).
Removed "File-New File" command from all views except "Text Edit"
Changed various commands to disable instead of hide when they're not available.
Fixed "Copy File to Left/Right" confirmation to be shown again after clearing parent session.
Folder Compare:
Added support for comparing, copying, and deleting NTFS junction points and symbolic links. Copying symbolic links requires administrator privileges.
Added "Follow symbolic links" option to Folder Compare "Handling" tab for
Windows.
"Comparison Results" dialog now shows results in the same order as the
comparison.
Fixed flicker on Windows 7.
Fixed folder sizes incorrectly including sizes of symlinked folders.
Fixed "Exclude" path handling when ignoring folder structure.
Fixed "Text content" filter Unicode support.
"Open With-Text Edit" is now customizable.
Fixed crash after performing file operations.
Fixed rename to show a filename if all of the selected files are the same if the last rename used regular expressions.
FTP:
Changing username in response to an invalid login attempt now updates the
session path.
Improved "Fast" symlink detection so symlinks pointing to files in the same parent folder will be updated based on the available folder information.
Symlinks detected incorrectly using "Fast" symlink detection will now switch to the opposite type if retrieving the file or loading the folder listing fails.
Added support for Treck Embedded FTP Server's directory listings.
Fixed support for XCRC on servers that fail for 0-byte files.
Fixed ProFTPD/Pure-Ftpd detection to use MFMT instead of SITE UTIME if it's supported.
Fixed support for NET+OS folder listings with odd permissions.
Fixed crash trying to a save text file with no line endings.
Home View:
Pressing [Enter] when multiple sessions are selected now opens all of them.
Linux:
Added support for storing Unix mode in zip files.
Fixed hang when saving.
Fixed Home View so it fits with default settings on a 1024x768 screen.
Fixed Text Edit instability.
Fixed detecting BC3Key.txt when installing .deb using 'sudo dpkg -i ...'.
Fixed "Open With-Associated Application" failing for paths containing
spaces.
Fixed hang when trying to expand a path containing a '$' followed by a non-alphanumeric character.
Fixed deleted symlinks not being removed from the comparison if "Follow
Symbolic Links" was enabled.
Fixed adding files to zip archives to set the VersionMadeBy field correctly.
Fixed hint window not passing clicks to the parent window if a modal dialog is open.
Fixed crash when trying to change FTP server timezone.
Fixed dialog context-sensitive help when using the window manager's [?]
button.
Misc:
Added "Compare to Registry" command to shell extension.
Added "Help-Context Sensitive Help" command.
Standard edition no longer includes text replacement or version control commands.
Session "Info" dialogs are now resizable.
Clicking on the "Expand" button in a treeview no longer tries to preserve the current offset.
Double clicking now only affects treeviews if the mouse is over the selected node.
"ExePath", "Version", "SupportsMerge", and "Expired" flags are now written
to both the "Beyond Compare 3" and "Beyond Compare" registry keys.
"ExePath" and "Version" are written to both HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
Fixed detection of when to automatically hide toolbars.
Options:
Added "Add Plug-in..." button to "Archive Associations" to install Total Commander packer plugins.
"Archive Associations" list is now sorted.
Picture Compare:
Fixed opening clipboard (broken in 3.2).
Fixed crash when loading a valid PNG image.
Fixed hang loading corrupt TGA images.
Reports:
Fixed handling of same items when using non-default "same color" options.
Fixed handling of font bold/italic.
Fixed crash when trying to print a report (broken in 3.2.0).
Fixed file report handling of huge amounts of files
Scripting:
Added REG-REPORT command. Supports SIDE-BY-SIDE and SUMMARY layout options.
"LOG NONE " is now considered a syntax error.
"LOG NONE" will no longer try to create a log file.
Fixed support for scripts encoded as UTF-16.
Scripts no longer give an error if you try to load a folder compare
session with the same name as a non-folder compare session.
Improved error handling of scripts with malformed characters.
Fixed 3.2.0 crash when using file-report with no files selected.
Fixed FILE-REPORT failing when more than 65,000 files are selected.
Text Edit:
Fixed "Find in Files" results splitter being lost when switching between tabs.
Fixed "File in Files" Unicode support.
Using "Find in Files" a second time now cancels previous search instead of waiting for it to complete.
Closing "Find in Files" results panel now cancels the search.
Text Views:
Fixed "Copy Line to Other Side" to follow "Go to next difference after
copying to other side" option.
Fixed scrollbars not updating when necessary.
Fixed crash when closing view with a malformed HTML file open in the webview.
Fixed "Replace All" with wrapping modifying the wrong characters.
Fixed "Aligned Details" mode to only use double-wide character handling if
necessary.
Fixed data loss when changing "Characters per line" file format setting
after making edits.
Fixed character alignment when replacements are found.
Text Compare:
"Replacements" command is now enabled even if the current text is matching
or an orphan.
Version Compare:
Added ability to get as much version information as possible when reading malformed files.
"File Size" is now shown as different if files are not binary same.

New in Beyond Compare 3.2.0.12469 Beta (Jun 22, 2010)

Notable Changes:
Added Text Edit view which includes "Find in Files" command.
File Compare Report can now mix reports from different views (text/hex/data/picture/etc).
Added "Text content" to Folder Compare's "Other Filters".
Added support for bzip2 and bzipped tar archives.
Added read/write support for Debian packages (Linux only).
Added read-only support for Total Commander packer (wcx) plugins.
Added layout, rotate, and flip commands to Picture Compare, along with various other enhancements.
Added "Exclude protected operating system files" option that excludes system and hidden files, folders, and junction points (Windows only). Enabled by default.
Added support for SSH2 authentication using OpenSSH's ssh-agent and PuTTY's pageant.
Added "Follow Symbolic Links" folder compare option which controls whether symbolic links are shown as files or the link target (Linux only).
Added "Ignore Same Changes" Text Merge command.
Added "View->Detached Output Pane" Text Merge command to show output pane in separate window.
Archives:
Added support for bzip2 and bzipped tar archives.
Added read-only support for Total Commander packer (wcx) plugins.
Added read/write support for Debian packages (Linux only).
Fixed .tar file size changing to an incorrect value if the archive included a folder named './'.
Fixed crash when saving a large snapshot on Win9x or when Logitech SetPoint is installed.
Command Line:
Added switch for single pane editor (/edit).
Data Compare:
"BOM" is now shown in the "File Info" panel if a byte order mark is detected.
Fixed cancelling unsorted alignment intermittent crash.
File Formats:
Added apostrophe delimited "string" to "HTML" file format.
Fixed RTF-to-Text conversion for hyphen characters and keywords with mixed case.
File Views:
Added "Open with Text Edit" command.
"Compare Parent Folders" now selects files from file compare (if aligned).
"Editing disabled" now shown for read-only resources (ex. CHM files).
"Next/Previous Difference Files" now traverses files in "Compare Contents" results dialog if opened from it.
"File Info" panels now highlight differences in file format, character encoding, line ending style, etc.
Improved font dropdown captions.
Re-added "Load time" to status bar display.
Fixed detecting external file changes if file's size changes but its last modified time doesn't.
Fixed external change detection so it doesn't flag transitioning from a partial date-only timestamp to a full one.
Fixed toggling "Single vertical scrollbar" tweak.
Fixed intraline difference display when mismatched characters are bold.
Fixed "Compare Files Using" after using "Open Clipboard".
Fixed crash after saving a file.
Folder Compare:
Added "Text Content" file filter.
"File Compare Report" now determines which kind of session to use for each file.
Added "Exclude protected operating system files" option that excludes system and hidden files, folders, and junction points. Enabled by default.
Added "Find Filename" dialog with advanced search options. Incremental search no longer opens separate dialog.
Added "Add To Presets" button to "Name Filters" session settings tab.
Archives (.zip, .tar, etc) can now be opened using the "Open With -> Hex Compare" menu item.
Added support for ';' characters in filename masks. They will be escaped as [;] automatically in the filters edit string.
"Sync" commands now default to "Just Selection".
"Up One Level -> Both Sides" now selects previous base folders.
"Copy to Left/Right" now respects /nobackups switch.
"Compare Contents" results dialog now differentiates between CRC and binary comparisons.
Log now shows when running file operations have been cancelled.
Added "Browse for Folder" commands to "Session" menu.
Improved "Alignment Override" dialog's regular expression support.
"Quick Compare" now supports comparing archives.
Tweaked "Touch" calendar layout.
"Folder Compare Info" dialog can now display "Unscanned folders".
"Folder Compare Info" now lists unopened archives if option to treat as file.
"Filters" combobox now has separator line between presets and MRU list.
Minor speed improvements.
Fixed crashes when Logitech SetPoint is loaded.
Fixed "Compare Contents" dialog so it only allows CRC comparisons if one of the base folders is snapshot.
Fixed caption showing progress percentage after cancelling file operation.
Fixed sort changing unexpectedly when sorting by the path column and opening a file view in a new window.
Fixed file handle leak when using a background content comparison.
Fixed crash when deleting files that are waiting for a background content comparison.
Fixed "Exclude files smaller than filter" so it doesn't match files with unknown sizes.
Fixed using "Ignore Folder Structure" and "Archive handle -> As folders always" together so it no longer includes both the zip files and their content.
Fixed crash if a folder was deleted/renamed while it or one of its subfolders was being built.
FTP:
Added support for SSH2 authentication using OpenSSH's ssh-agent and PuTTY's pageant.
Added support for copying symlinks over FTP and SFTP. Supported by OpenSSH, proftpd, ncftpd, hpss, ioftpd.
Improved "Open File on FTP Site" and "Save File on FTP Site As" dialogs.
Fixed cancel and error handling when browsing for a folder.
Hex Compare:
Tweaked "Go To" dialog size.
Misc:
Added "Edit Text File" to "Tools" menu.
Added "Edit with Beyond Compare" command to shell extension.
Added incremental search to numerous treeviews and lists (type characters to position).
Improved behavior when using "backup 'abc.txt' to folder" if target path is empty.
Improved confirmation dialog when using "Session->Exit" and "Session->Load Workspace" commands.
Improved behavior of Windows 7 taskbar live previews.
Improved "Save Snapshot" user interface and added FTP support.
Rearranged "Tools" menu.
Added and tweaked icons for various commands.
Double clicking in a path edit now selects between path delimiters instead of between spaces.
Added support for assigning keyboard shortcuts to saved Workspaces.
Fixed various tree views so clicking on expand/collapse button no longer changes current item.
Fixed crash when window focus changes while closing.
Fixed crash on startup if BC3Key.txt isn't readable.
Fixed crash on startup if deleting a previous instance's temp files failed.
Fixed crashes when starting a second instance while the first is shutting down.
Fixed crash when trying to overwrite a read-only settings file.
Fixed button hints in translated releases.
Fixed calendar day abbreviations in translated releases.
Fixed clicking past the last item in a listview so it no longer clears the selection.
Fixed appearance of owner-draw read-only comboboxes on Vista & Windows 7.
Fixed error handling to return better error messages.
Fixed crash when exporting settings when shared sessions are loaded.
MP3 Compare:
Added incremental search.
Options:
Added "Use New Compare Colors" folder view tweak (Ctrl+Shift+T) to give preview of proposed BC4 folder coloring.
Import and Export dialogs are now resizable.
Improved editing Folder Compare "Name filter presets".
Fixed support for shell extension's "Command line switches" tweak.
Fixed Export/Import to require at least some settings to be acted on.
Fixed Import population of confirmation list.
Fixed Export/Import File Format helpers unicode handling.
Fixed "File Compare Colors" handling of "Background Contrast" slider so background coloring can be disabled.
Picture Compare:
Added "Blend Mode" that blends images at customizable percentage.
Added "Rotate Clockwise", "Rotate Counterclockwise", "Flip Horizontally" and "Flip Vertically" commands.
Added "Difference Side-by-side", "Difference Over-under", "Difference Underneath", "Only Difference", "Side-by-side", and "Over-under" layouts, replacing "Hide Difference Panel" command.
Added "Show transparency as checkerboarding" option.
Moved the offset display from the status bar to the "View" toolbar.
Added the position and color of the pixel under the mouse cursor to the status bars for each pane.
Right image position now matches what's shown in the difference image.
Zoom using mouse wheel now scrolls to keep same area of picture under cursor.
Changed icons for comparison modes.
"File Info" panel no longer lists file format.
Fixed stretched image to show in new dimensions even if original had transparency.
Fixed difference offset calculation when mouse is dragged in center image
Reports:
Fixed HTML report word wrapping.
Data Compare "Summary" report now supports word wrap in printed output.
Folder Compare "Summary" report can now display "Unscanned Folders".
Fixed Hex Compare "Side-by-side" report's handling of non-printable characters and ANSI text.
Added Hex Compare "Interleaved" layout.
Scripting:
FILE-REPORT command now determines which kind of session to use for each file.
Added INTERLEAVED layout to HEX-REPORT.
Added MP3-REPORT command. Supports SIDE-BY-SIDE and SUMMARY layout options.
Added PICTURE-REPORT command. Supports SIDE-BY-SIDE and SUMMARY layout options.
Added "n of nn" counts to file operation progress in scripting dialog.
Fixed crash when using "SELECT EMPTY.FOLDERS" script command.
Text Views:
Improved display of control characters.
Improved "Line Weight" dialog's regular expression support.
"BOM" is now shown in the "File Info" panels if a byte order mark is detected.
Fixed restoring position when reloading when the cursor is on empty end of file line.
Fixed support for editing files that don't have any line ending characters.
Text Compare:
Added "Aligned Details" option that shows character alignment in the line details area with fixed-width font and gaps.
Added support for Unicode characters in Microsoft Word files.
Editing binary/read-only files now prompts for permission.
Fixed crash when editing affects whether or not file has mixed line endings.
Fixed crash when auto-indenting on a blank line.
Fixed crash when using replacements.
Text Merge:
Added "Ignore Same Changes" command.
Added "View->Detached Output Pane" command to show output pane in separate window.
Lines that only exist in the ancestor no longer show as gaps if the center pane is hidden.
Version Compare:
Added support for comparing all strings in "Variable Info" section instead of just a known list.
Added incremental search.
Improved error message when no version info available.
File size is no longer compared explicitly.
Folder Sync:
Added ability to override sync actions on a per-item basis.
Added "Next/Previous Conflict" commands, replacing "Next/Previous Difference".
"Expand subfolders when loading session" is now enabled by default.
Fixed "Nothing to Sync" appearing after sync has completed.
Tweaked "Session Settings" dialog layout and options:
Moved "Sync empty folders" and "Use recycle bin if possible" from "Sync" tab to "Handling" tab.
Removed "Only expand subfolders with differences" option.
Condensed "Archive handling" radio group to a "Synchronize within archives" checkbox.

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.11 Build 12204 (Apr 29, 2010)

Notable Changes
Added support for 64-bit Linux distributions.
Added Linux yum/apt repositories.
Added "Interleaved" style for Data Compare report.
Added support for comparing data files without a key column.
Command Line
Fixed opening Text Merge never to use quick compare.
Fixed hang when passing relative filenames containing wildcards as command
line arguments.
Data Compare
Added support for comparing files without key column.
Improved to handle any embedded line endings within delimited cell.
"Find", while positioned in details, now moves to cell containing match.
Status bar now displays number of "difference row(s)" instead of "Important
differences".
Fixed "Columns" session settings to disable controls appropriately and added
F2 shortcut for "Edit".
Fixed handling of type errors (ex. "apple" shown in strikeout if column type
is numeric, broken in 3.1).
Fixed numeric display handling not to lose precision.
Fixed crash when editing column settings.
File Formats
Fixed saving default file format with a name to show "General" page.
Fixed "Perl Scripts" definition of string.
File Views
Fixed "Next/Previous Difference Files" to be hidden if the parent session is
closed.
Fixed "Next/Previous Difference Files" crash when files are no longer
visible in parent session.
Folder Compare
"Compare Contents" results dialog no longer repositions when switching
between tabs.
Fixed file locking after moving files while rules-based content comparisons
are enabled.
Fixed error handling when copying or moving files with ":" in their name.
Fixed "Remove read-only flag when copying from a CD or DVD" when copying
folders.
Fixed enabling "Move to Folder" and "Move" commands when comparing a
snapshot to a live folder.
Fixed folder coloring when different and newer colors are the same.
Fixed disabling "New Folder" and "Set As Base Folders" when only one side is
loaded.
Fixed folders on some NAS devices showing as hidden (h) after expanding them.
Fixed using "Ignore Folder Structure" and "Archive handle -> As folders
always" together including both a zip and its contents in the folder listing.
Fixed enabling "Load" path buttons (broken in 3.1.4).
FTP
Fixed FTP listing parsing for wu-ftpd when it includes a full yyyy-mm-dd
date and hh:mm time.
Fixed MDTM support so it accepts vsFTPd's 213 result code in addition to 253.
Fixed parsing MVS folder listings where the number of extents for a file is
100 or greater.
Hex Compare
Default text color now follows color setting.
Fixed crash when changing the number of bytes per line while comparing small
files.
Home View
Fixed not to truncate captions of session buttons in certain conditions.
Fixed title font size when the system font is larger than default.
Fixed session name label so it's centered vertically relative to the session
icon.
Linux
Added support for 64-bit distributions.
Added Qt3 libraries as part of install package.
.rpm/.deb packages now register Scooter Software repository with apt/yum.
.tar.gz package now includes uninstall.sh.
.tar.gz package now installs to /usr instead of /usr/local by default.
Installer will now copy BC3Key.txt if it's present.
Context menus now handle case where KDE files are in .kde/share/kde4.
Various improvements to install.sh.
Changed default fixed-width font to "Monospace 10".
Fixed .deb packages reporting incorrect install size.
Fixed session combobox dropdown height for some font sizes.
Fixed text editor shifting characters as text is selected.
Misc
Added support for copying/pasting the #0 (null) character.
Activating a visible tab no longer tries to scroll it (broken in 3.1.10).
External program not found message now includes part of command line
(conversions, open withs).
Read-only settings files will no longer be overwritten.
Fixed short date strings using incorrect format (m/d/y instead of d/m/y) on
some Windows 7 installs.
Fixed line parsing memory access violation.
Fixed crash when opening "Enter Key" dialog while clipboard is locked by
another application.
Fixed context-sensitive help when the active control becomes disabled.
Fixed "Save Workspace As" to initially disable "OK".
Fixed handling of invalid dates in settings file.
Fixed support for plugin views with more than one property sheet.
Fixed displaying Unicode hints on various controls.
Picture Compare
Fixed hang when loading an invalid JPEG file.
Fixed image format autodetection so it doesn't reload a file after
successfully guessing the format.
Reports
Added Data Compare "Interleaved" layout.
Folder Compare "Summary" report now includes file counts in each header.
HTML reports now include tag.
Text Compare "Patch" report now uses .patch file extension.
Replaced "Strikeout left orphans" option for Text Compare "Interleaved"
report with "Strikeout left differences".
Added "Strikeout right differences" option for Text Compare "Interleaved"
report.
Scripting
Added INTERLEAVED layout option for DATA-REPORT.
Added STRIKEOUT-RIGHT-DIFFS option for INTERLEAVED layout in TEXT-REPORT.
Replaced STRIKEOUT-LEFT-ORPHANS option for INTERLEAVED layout in TEXT-REPORT
with STRIKEOUT-LEFT-DIFFS.
Text Views
"Toggle Bookmark" and "Go to Bookmark" commands can now be customized.
Text Compare
Fixed crash when comparing files with lines containing more than 32,000 of
the same character.
Trying to save a malformed binary DFM now shows an error message.

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.11 Build 12204 (Apr 29, 2010)

Notable Changes
Added support for 64-bit Linux distributions.
Added Linux yum/apt repositories.
Added "Interleaved" style for Data Compare report.
Added support for comparing data files without a key column.
Command Line
Fixed opening Text Merge never to use quick compare.
Fixed hang when passing relative filenames containing wildcards as command
line arguments.
Data Compare
Added support for comparing files without key column.
Improved to handle any embedded line endings within delimited cell.
"Find", while positioned in details, now moves to cell containing match.
Status bar now displays number of "difference row(s)" instead of "Important
differences".
Fixed "Columns" session settings to disable controls appropriately and added
F2 shortcut for "Edit".
Fixed handling of type errors (ex. "apple" shown in strikeout if column type
is numeric, broken in 3.1).
Fixed numeric display handling not to lose precision.
Fixed crash when editing column settings.
File Formats
Fixed saving default file format with a name to show "General" page.
Fixed "Perl Scripts" definition of string.
File Views
Fixed "Next/Previous Difference Files" to be hidden if the parent session is
closed.
Fixed "Next/Previous Difference Files" crash when files are no longer
visible in parent session.
Folder Compare
"Compare Contents" results dialog no longer repositions when switching
between tabs.
Fixed file locking after moving files while rules-based content comparisons
are enabled.
Fixed error handling when copying or moving files with ":" in their name.
Fixed "Remove read-only flag when copying from a CD or DVD" when copying
folders.
Fixed enabling "Move to Folder" and "Move" commands when comparing a
snapshot to a live folder.
Fixed folder coloring when different and newer colors are the same.
Fixed disabling "New Folder" and "Set As Base Folders" when only one side is
loaded.
Fixed folders on some NAS devices showing as hidden (h) after expanding them.
Fixed using "Ignore Folder Structure" and "Archive handle -> As folders
always" together including both a zip and its contents in the folder listing.
Fixed enabling "Load" path buttons (broken in 3.1.4).
FTP
Fixed FTP listing parsing for wu-ftpd when it includes a full yyyy-mm-dd
date and hh:mm time.
Fixed MDTM support so it accepts vsFTPd's 213 result code in addition to 253.
Fixed parsing MVS folder listings where the number of extents for a file is
100 or greater.
Hex Compare
Default text color now follows color setting.
Fixed crash when changing the number of bytes per line while comparing small
files.
Home View
Fixed not to truncate captions of session buttons in certain conditions.
Fixed title font size when the system font is larger than default.
Fixed session name label so it's centered vertically relative to the session
icon.
Linux
Added support for 64-bit distributions.
Added Qt3 libraries as part of install package.
.rpm/.deb packages now register Scooter Software repository with apt/yum.
.tar.gz package now includes uninstall.sh.
.tar.gz package now installs to /usr instead of /usr/local by default.
Installer will now copy BC3Key.txt if it's present.
Context menus now handle case where KDE files are in .kde/share/kde4.
Various improvements to install.sh.
Changed default fixed-width font to "Monospace 10".
Fixed .deb packages reporting incorrect install size.
Fixed session combobox dropdown height for some font sizes.
Fixed text editor shifting characters as text is selected.
Misc
Added support for copying/pasting the #0 (null) character.
Activating a visible tab no longer tries to scroll it (broken in 3.1.10).
External program not found message now includes part of command line
(conversions, open withs).
Read-only settings files will no longer be overwritten.
Fixed short date strings using incorrect format (m/d/y instead of d/m/y) on
some Windows 7 installs.
Fixed line parsing memory access violation.
Fixed crash when opening "Enter Key" dialog while clipboard is locked by
another application.
Fixed context-sensitive help when the active control becomes disabled.
Fixed "Save Workspace As" to initially disable "OK".
Fixed handling of invalid dates in settings file.
Fixed support for plugin views with more than one property sheet.
Fixed displaying Unicode hints on various controls.
Picture Compare
Fixed hang when loading an invalid JPEG file.
Fixed image format autodetection so it doesn't reload a file after
successfully guessing the format.
Reports
Added Data Compare "Interleaved" layout.
Folder Compare "Summary" report now includes file counts in each header.
HTML reports now include tag.
Text Compare "Patch" report now uses .patch file extension.
Replaced "Strikeout left orphans" option for Text Compare "Interleaved"
report with "Strikeout left differences".
Added "Strikeout right differences" option for Text Compare "Interleaved"
report.
Scripting
Added INTERLEAVED layout option for DATA-REPORT.
Added STRIKEOUT-RIGHT-DIFFS option for INTERLEAVED layout in TEXT-REPORT.
Replaced STRIKEOUT-LEFT-ORPHANS option for INTERLEAVED layout in TEXT-REPORT
with STRIKEOUT-LEFT-DIFFS.
Text Views
"Toggle Bookmark" and "Go to Bookmark" commands can now be customized.
Text Compare
Fixed crash when comparing files with lines containing more than 32,000 of
the same character.
Trying to save a malformed binary DFM now shows an error message.

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.10 Build 11626 (Feb 4, 2010)

File Formats
Improved "Perl Scripts" definition of string.
File Views
Fixed thumbnail so it updates the viewport position immediately when rapidly
scrolling.
Folder Compare
Fixed "Next/Previous Difference" so it doesn't skip archive files.
Fixed "Copy to Folder" handling of "C:\" as destination.
Fixed file sizes not to be displayed in scientific notation.
FTP
Fixed crash when closing "FTP Browse" dialog while it's still loading
folders.
Fixed crash when loading an SFTP connection to SunOS.
Fixed problems connecting through the DeleGate FTP proxy.
Fixed support for parsing LynxOS FTP folder listings with contiguous
files and IPC special files.
Fixed setting timestamps on newer IIS FTP servers.
Home View
Fixed intermittent crash when deleting only remaining session.
Misc
Fixed tooltip appearance on Vista/Windows 7 with theming enabled and
customized ToolTip font.
Fixed themed tooltips not to flash a yellow background on Vista/Windows 7.
Fixed crash when opening new tab on Windows 7.
Fixed tab control scrolling the active session tab into view.
Fixed restoring window size/position when saving the previous values failed.
Fixed Export crash after "Unable to save settings as" message shown.
Added context help to various dialogs.
MP3 Compare
Fixed crash when unable to play files on some systems.
Picture Compare
Fixed "File Info" so it does not draw using selection colors.
Reports
Fixed print preview handling of footers when there are multiple pages.
Fixed Folder Compare reports to include path column when ignoring folder structure.
Fixed Text Compare reports when one only one file has blank last line.
Fixed Text Compare "Patch" reports (broken in 3.1.7).
Scripting
Fixed crash when writing report to file with "output-options:" set to
"print-color" or "print-mono".
Sessions
Improved behavior when shared sessions file is on an unavailable network
drive.
Text Views
Fixed handling of blank lines in grammar item lists.
Fixed recalculation of comparison when inserted lines affect delimited
grammar items.
Fixed PDF comparisons of files with extended characters in their names
(broken in 3.1.9).
Text Compare
Fixed search and replace handling of mixed line endings when they are
compared.
Fixed crash when completely deleting all visible text.
Text Merge
Improved error handling during loading of files.

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.9 Build 11282 (Dec 18, 2009)

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.8 Build 11096 (Nov 16, 2009)

Notable Changes
File views now support "Open" and "Save As" dialogs on FTP sites.
Improved Data Compare support for detecting multi-line cells.
Changed confirmation dialog button order to match Windows
(Yes/YesToAll/No/NoToAll/Cancel).
Archives
Fixed snapshot loading so they show filenames that only differ in case.
Fixed crash when extracting from a 7-zip archive encounters an error.
Fixed using "Copy to Folder" on files within a zip if a matching zip on
the target doesn't already exist.
Fixed support for reading/writing files in a zip after renaming the zip.
Fixed loading a file view from a snapshot comparison so it doesn't
incorrectly flag the files as different in the folder compare.
Data Compare
"Comma Separated Values" and "MS Excel Workbooks" formats now recognize
non-Windows line endings.
Replaced "Recognized line ending styles" setting with "Line endings"
setting to improve handling of multi-line cells.
File Formats
Added ability to mark external converts as requiring ANSI filenames.
Hex, MP3, and Version views no longer show the Session Settings "Format"
tab or the format dropdown in the file info panels.
Fixed "PDF Documents" handling of non-ANSI filenames.
File Views
Session Settings dialog now supports browsing to files on FTP sites.
Fixed quick compare dialog opening the file view automatically even if
files are identical.
Fixed "Use System" selection coloring for Data, MP3 and Version compares.
Fixed "Open With" toolbar menu items to only show on sides where content
is local.
Fixed encoding crash if a cancel or error occurs during load.
Fixed encoding auto-detection incorrectly guessing UTF-8 for ANSI text.
Folder Compare
Changed confirmation dialog button order to match Windows
(Yes/YesToAll/No/NoToAll/Cancel).
Browse FTP site repopulates folders before expanding them.
File operations from a folder to a snapshot are disabled.
Fixed detecting changes in filename case during a refresh.
Fixed status bar not updating free space after file operations.
Fixed behavior when using multiple path delimiters between folder names.
Fixed comparing a folder to itself and renaming with both sides selected
so it doesn't try to rename each file twice.
Fixed moving folders between drives not showing the target folder's size
correctly until after a full refresh.
Fixed using "Create New" in browse dialog so it auto-selects the newly
created folder.
Fixed cancelling "Copy to Folder" when it's checking whether the target
folder exists.
Fixed status bar so it indicates whether the file counts are for a
selection or all visible files.
Fixed cancelling folder load during file operation preflight.
Fixed saving log with Unicode filename.
Fixed display of folders after move.
Fixed renaming an item in the browse dialog and then clicking "OK" so it
picks up the changed path.
FTP
File views now support "Open" and "Save As" dialogs on FTP sites.
Full timestamps are now retrieved when downloading files that only
include dates in FTP folder listings.
Fixed support for deleting files on Ultimodule's IDAL FTP server.
Fixed incorrect behavior when saving changes if the FTP username
includes a character.
Fixed behavior when connecting to an FTP server that supports UTF-8 from
a system with a DBCS system codepage.
Hex Compare
Added "Open Clipboard" command, with support for formats used by most
hex editors.
Fixed "Find" so it can find a search string that spans deleted bytes.
Fixed "Find" dialog's enabling of "Match character case".
Linux
Added instructions to register for all users to README.
Improved shutdown speed when waiting for background threads to terminate.
Improved error message for unhandled exceptions.
Improved auto-detection of ClearCase in Linux.
Fixed support for [Ctrl+C] when running a script.
Fixed landscape mode in scripts and print preview.
Fixed timezone combobox size/position in FTP profiles.
Fixed crash when HTTP_PROXY environmental variable includes extra
whitespace.
Misc
Increased delay before showing hint for truncated data.
Fixed status bar text overwriting itself on Vista and Windows 7.
Fixed crash when opening views when running under Wine or Crossover.
Fixed support for cancelling actions by using a dialog's [x] button.
Fixed crash on startup when running on a Vista or Windows 7 system that
doesn't have the "MS Shell Dlg" font substitutions defined.
Fixed crash or silent failure when unable to create settings export file.
Number edit now only detects real changes.
Fixed persistence of time settings (ex. last modified).
Fixed importing BC2 sessions with "&" in name or name filter.
Fixed customizing command to use [Shift+-] as shortcut.
Fixed check for updates proxy authentication.
MP3 Compare
Improved left/right arrow key handling.
Fixed loading so it doesn't keep files locked.
Picture Compare
Fixed crash when comparing high resolution images.
Reports
Improved reconciling different codepages (Data Compare and Text Compare).
Improved printer error handling.
Fixed "XML Dump" text report not to include left filename twice.
Fixed totals in "Statistics" text report of multiple files when
outputting to plain text.
Scripting
Fixed handling of composite and over-under text reports.
Sessions
Fixed display of last modified on "Specs" settings page under Vista.
Source Control
Fixed slow loading of files on ClearCase dynamic views.
Text Views
Fixed editor positioning after deleting a selection.
Text Merge
Output encoding is now follows merge rules based on input encodings.
Fixed "Take Both" crash.
Fixed crash after opening from Folder Compare and trying to show
"Difference not found" message.
Version Compare
Improved left/right arrow key handling.

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.7 Build 10865 (Sep 23, 2009)

Archives
Improved compatibilty with third-party zip software when reading/writing
filenames with extended characters.
Fixed creating new folders in an empty zip using the wrong character for
the path delimiter.
Data Compare
Fixed error handling for large files that don't have a recognized line
ending.
File Formats
Fixed importing a new file format not showing the associated masks in
the list view.
File Views
Fixed updating the file info panel's "File Format" dropdown captions.
Fixed file info panels so they show the line ending style.
Fixed support for Vista theming of MP3 and Version compares.
Fixed error handling after a cancel.
Fixed detecting "binary same" so it isn't misdetected when using
"Ignored", etc.
Fixed crash when detecting "binary same", occurred when loading a merge,
after save, toggling "Ignored".
Folder Compare
Improved responsiveness when cancelling a load of a large folder from a
local or network disk.
Improved loading speed for large snapshots, and minor speedup when
loading other folders or filtering.
Fixed copying the same .pst file to two locations simultaneously so it
no longer gives an access denied error.
Fixed Vista theming so it shows the hot selection in the center column
when the mouse is over it.
Fixed "Quick Compare" to open in new tab when appropriate.
Fixed crash when loading folders with odd filenames.
Inline rename accepted when [F2] is pressed.
Fixed crash when refreshing multiple times when using Logitech SetPoint
mouse drivers.
Folder Sync
Fixed resizing not to hide the sync parameter edits.
FTP
Fixed crash when cancelling interrupts opening of a remote connection.
Fixed read timeout connecting to vsftpd with a passive, encrypted FTPS
data connection.
Fixed VMS folder listings incorrectly including a non-existent file
named "Total of # files, #/# blocks".
Fixed support for read timeouts when downloading files using MODE Z
compression.
Hex Compare
Fixed crash when refreshing or loading a new pair of files while
scrolled to the bottom of the display.
Fixed "Go To" when no items are visible.
Home View
Added "Open as New" submenu to open a saved session in a different view
type.
"Save As..." dialog now supports saving as a different session type.
Linux
Fixed crash when clicking the "File Format" or "Encoding" dropdowns in
the file info panels.
Fixed support for SIGINT (Control-C).
Fixed closing a tab closing the entire application under Ubuntu.
Misc
Improved error handling for number edits.
Fixed File Format and FTP Profile "Encoding" dropdowns not including all
available codepages on Win9x.
Fixed out of resources error when drawing the background gradient in the
view tab bar.
Reports
Spacing for plain-text side-by-side file comparison reports launched
from a folder comparison are now calculated on a file-by-file basis
instead of padding the left side to give all reports the same width.
Significantly reduced memory usage for file compare reports involving
lots of files.
Scripting
Attempting to load a session name that matches multiple sessions is now
considered a fatal error.
Text Views
Fixed saving whitespace-only lines when both "Trim trailing whitespace"
and "Convert leading spaces to tabs" are enabled.
Text Compare
Fixed View->Webpages handling of xml files.
Fixed View->Webpages crash when loading files without write permissions.
Text Merge
Fixed crash after custom element definitions are removed from the
grammar.

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.6 Build 10721 (Aug 12, 2009)

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.5 Build 10715 (Aug 11, 2009)

Archives:
Fixed/enhanced support for detecting filename encoding when loading zips
and switching between ANSI/OEM encoding when saving zips on non-US
systems.
Fixed zip local file header corruption which prevented file extractions
in 7-zip (broken in 3.1.4).
Fixed filenames in zips always being encoded as ANSI instead of switching
to OEM encoding when possible (improves Explorer compatibility).
Fixed crash when trying to expand invalid CAB archives (broken in 3.1.4).
Fixed corruption when editing Java archives (.jar) and other zips that
include a data descriptor.
Fixed progress reporting when extracting large files in RAR archives.
Fixed displaying file sizes over 4GB in RAR archives.
Fixed crash when loading archives that don't store folders correctly.
Fixed support for Unicode characters in filenames store in Java archives
jar).
Data Compare:
Fixed crash when loading invalid data.
Fixed crash when saving while no items are visible.
File Formats
External conversions are now treated as failures if they return a non-
zero exit code or generate an empty file.
HTTP URLs will now use "file.htm" for file format matching if the URL
ends in a /.
Fixed "Python Scripts" format marking lines containing only whitespace as
important.
Fixed "MS Excel Workbooks" format so it doesn't show a dialog when it
encounters an error.
Updated PdfToText to 3.02pl3 to improve support for files generated by
Adobe Acrobat 9.
File Views:
File views now detect "Binary same" in addition to "Rules-based same".
"Next Difference Files" will now close the current view and switch focus
if the new files to compare are already open in another view.
"Next Difference Files" now goes to the next difference relative to the
files loaded in the requesting file comparison instead of the current
line in the parent folder comparison.
Reduced flicker of "File Info" panels when resizing window.
Tweaked borders and bevels to improve appearance of views.
Fixed appearance of path edits and file info bars when using "Large
buttons with text labels" option. (broken in 3.1.4).
Text and Data compares no longer throw out partial comparisons after
errors or cancels (broken in 3.1.3).
Improved error handling when unable to load file contents.
Folder Compare:
Added "Always show extension in Name column" tweak.
Improved best-fit filename mapping support introduced in 3.1.4. It now
handles arbitrary encodings, uses OEM best-fits instead of ANSI ones for
Win9x network shares (handles emdash to - changes), and supports best-fit
mappings when comparing two different encodings (eg, FTP-to-FTP).
"Open With->Associated Application" can now have a configurable shortcut.
Fixed back/forward buttons (broken in 3.1.4).
Fixed "Replace File" confirmation dialog overlapping text if the filename
is long enough to wrap twice.
Fixed behavior when a file has been replaced by a folder or vice versa
outside of BC.
Fixed error message when setting Unix mode fails so it doesn't mention
setting owner/group.
FTP:
Fixed SFTP support so it can load folders even if it encounters parse
errors when retrieving Unix owner/group and symlink targets.
Fixed FTP error messages showing as blank lines if they included extended
characters.
Home View
Fixed "Open" when multiple auto-saved sessions are selected.
Linux:
Storing BC3Key.txt in /etc will now register for all users.
Fixed invalidation issues when scrolling vertically or horizontally.
Fixed opening zips containing files with empty timestamps (broken in
3.1.0).
Fixed misalignment of missing line hashes in text editors.
Fixed paste re-pasting old data when copying text in other applications.
Fixed crash when using file format dropdowns (broken in 3.1.4).
Fixed crash during ASCII FTP transfers (broken in 3.1.4).
Fixed reading/writing last modified times in zips.
Misc
Background operations with a cancel dialog now show "Action could not be
completed" if they encounter an error.
Improved error handling and recovery when saving/loading settings files.
Fixed importing file formats and sessions disabled using "Available
session types" option.
Fixed dropdown toolbar button widths on Windows 7.
Options:
"Available session types" list is now sorted.
Fixed support for editing colors of custom text grammar elements.
Picture Compare
Fixed crash when generating HTML report.
Reports
Improved error handling when running out of memory while generating large
reports.
Fixed output of leading whitespace in HTML reports.
Scripting:
Fixed *-REPORT script commands so they support "printer" and "clipboard"
as output targets in addition to "" and "".
Text Views
Added "Unaligned" alignment option to compare files without aligning
matching lines.
"Select All", "Select Section", and toggling "Full Edit" mode are now
supported while in "Align With" mode.
Fixed "Show syntax highlighting on difference lines" so it's only used if
syntax highlighting is enabled.
Text Compare:
Fixed "View->Webpages" so it opens PHP/ASP/etc as HTML.
Fixed "Compare Selection to Clipboard" (broken in 3.1.4).
Fixed "View->Webpages" resizing of the browsers.
Text Merge:
Added "Compare To Output > Left Side|Center Side|Right Side" commands.
Version Compare:
File last modified times are no longer compared.
Fixed support for filenames with international characters.

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.4 Build 10554 (Jun 24, 2009)

Notable Changes
Added Picture Compare reports.
Replaced "File->View as Webpage" command for individual files with a
"View->Webpages" command that works on all sides.
Fixed crashes under Wine and incorrect behavior under Windows 7.
Archives
Zips now read/write Unicode filenames as documented in the official spec.
Improved auto-detection of OEM/ANSI encoding for filenames in zips.
Fixed "File not found in archive" error when trying to extract files from
a zip that uses '' as the path delimiter.
Fixed adding files to .tar.gz archives.
Fixed zip header VersionNeededToExtract fields so they match those
produced in earlier BC versions (pre-3.1).
Data Compare
File info panels now show delimiter, qualifer, ignore multiple delims,
and whether column names were found.
Fixed "Columns" session settings locking issue.
Fixed "Columns" session settings to offer "Fill Names Using Comparison"
if either file includes column names.
Fixed crash when editing cell on line with no text.
File Formats
Added "*.xsd" to "XML" file format's mask.
File Views
Path edits are now attached to the file info panels and resize when
moving horizontal splitters or switching to over-under layout.
Improved file info panel behavior when there isn't enough space to
display everything.
Fixed crash when multiple file views try to load the same file at the
same time (eg, loading a saved workspace).
Fixed "Copy File to Left/Right and Open Next Difference" when the parent
folder has changed in the background.
Fixed codepage and line ending style not showing if a load error occurred.
Fixed file views incorrectly marking a file as saved if certain types of
failures occur when saving.
Fixed files to try to reload if error occurred previously.
Tweaked Data and Text "Format" session settings layout.
Folder Compare
Added support for lining up files on ANSI/OEM network shares (Win9x) when
certain best-fit character conversions have been done (eg, dropping
unsupported diacritics). Using the "Compare filename case" option will
show these as differences, but it isn't possible to correct them unless
the original file is renamed to match the best-fit version.
Fixed crash when renaming a folder that is being compared with the
"Compare Contents" operation with a results dialog.
Transferring files with filenames containing unsupported extended
characters to Windows 9x can now give an error instead of crashing.
Fixed inconsistent detection of filtered folder contents during file
operations.
Significantly reduced memory usage when performing a large number of
binary or CRC comparisons between two local/network disks.
Folder Sync
Various updates to bring in line with the folder compare.
FTP
Fixed slow transfers when performing ASCII SFTP uploads/downloads on SFTP
v3 servers (eg, OpenSSH).
Fixed logging multi-line SFTP connection banners.
Fixed support for parsing Solaris FTP listings containing files with
mandatory locking.
Fixed parsing Solaris FTP listings with Korean dates.
Hex Compare
Fixed "Find" so it tries to scroll the entire match into view.
Linux
Fixed ASCII FTP transfers so they do correct line ending conversions.
Misc
Changed "Close Multiple Tabs" confirmation so it matches Internet
Explorer 8.
Added workaround for crashes when opening a file view in Wine.
Crashes under Wine no longer terminate the application without warning.
Portable install no longer writes "SupportsMerge" and "ArchiveMasks"
settings to the registry.
Added numerous menu keyboard accelerators.
Fixed Windows 7 taskbar thumbnail and live preview for minimized windows
and appearance after restoring a minimized window.
Fixed keyboard shortcuts when showing tabs on the taskbar in Windows 7.
Fixed crash on startup when checking for updates through a proxy.
Fixed crash when closing a window while the session combobox is open.
Fixed issues with settings persistence of floating point values on non-US
systems.
MP3 Compare
Fixed support for tags with line endings that don't match the system
default.
Options
"Available session types" no longer lists Folder Compare or Text Compare.
Fixed file format support when disabling sessions using the "Available
session types" list.
Picture Compare
Added side-by-side and summary reports.
Fixed display "(stretched)" to show when appropriate.
Reports
Improved "Just selection" stickyness.
Scripting
Added VERSION-REPORT scripting command.
Layouts supported: side-by-side, summary
Display filters supported: display-all, display-mismatches,
display-matches
Options supported: ignore-unimportant
Fixed inconsistent support for "select empty.folders".
Text Views
Replaced "File->View as Webpage" command for individual files with a
"View->Webpages" command that works on all sides.
"Find" and "Next/Previous Difference" now scroll horizontally to center
the match.
"View -> Webpages" now works when comparing clipboard contents or an
empty side.
Clicking on the current display filter after "Ignored" now refreshes
display.
Improved page up/down handling, particularly when focused in merge output.
Fixed "Find Next/Previous" crash when last find was a select all.
Fixed crash after using "Find" dialog with "Close dialog automatically"
unchecked.
Fixed moving splitters when webpages are visible.
Fixed divide by zero crash.
Fixed aligning empty range(s) (ex. after paste).
Text Compare
"Copy Line to Left/Right" can now be shown on the toolbar.
Loading the same file in both sides and saving edits on one side no
longer prompts to reload twice.
Text Merge
Fixed "Align With" command.

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.3 Build 10374 (May 14, 2009)

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.2.10221 (Apr 20, 2009)

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.1 Build 10221 (Apr 18, 2009)

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.1 Build 10218 (Apr 17, 2009)

File Views
"Find Next/Previous" (F3/Shift+F3) when starting a new instance now
repeats the previous find instead of opening the Find dialog.
After "Save As", editing is reenabled if it was disabled due to destructive
loading conversion.
Fixed crash when unable to create a folder as part of a save.
Fixed thumbnail continuing to scroll if it's capturing the mouse when
another application gains focus.
Folder Compare
"Comparison Results" dialog now shows binary same and binary difference.
Renamed "Open" (3.1.0) to "Open in New View" when folders are selected
(was "Compare in New View" prior to 3.1.0).
Fixed "Open" so it's the default menu item if 2 disjoint files are
selected. (Broken in 3.1.0).
Fixed crash when attempting to copy/move/etc and the parent's path is a
non-archive file.
Folder Sync
Fixed crash when trying to sync a subfolder into a folder that already
contains a file with the same name. (Broken in 3.1.0).
FTP
Fixed support for MVS paths. (Broken in 3.1.0).
Fixed timestamps being off by a minute when converting timezones.
(Possibly broken in 3.1.0).
Fixed support for parsing folder listings so if an appropriate list parser
isn't found it's a load error instead of showing the folder as empty.
Fixed support for Windows CE folder listings that don't include subfolders.
Hex Compare
Comparison results are now shown as binary same/difference.
Home View
Fixed crash when dragging sessions from different folders.
Linux
Fixed "Export Settings" command. (Broken in 3.1.0).
Misc
Added "Include debug messages in log" tweak to optionally write FTP folder
listings to the log.
Version information in About dialog can now be copied to the clipboard.
Improved stability after a crash while opening a new tab/window.
Fixed appearance of treeview selection rectangle on Vista in comparison
results, comparison info, and sync preview dialogs.
Reports
Fixed Text Compare Report handling of user defined elements.
Sessions
Fixed crash when selecting the "Auto-saved sessions" item from the
sessions combo when there aren't any auto-saved sessions.
Text Compare
Replaced "Open with Web Browser" command with "View as Webpage" command
that opens the web browsers inline instead of as a separate window.
Refreshing accepts any new edits made.
Text Merge
Trying to merge files that can't be edited (binary or destructive loading
conversion) is now an error condition.

New in Beyond Compare 3.1.0.10168 (Apr 10, 2009)

Notable Changes
Data Compare now supports modifying delimited and fixed width files.
Added support for third-party BC v2 plugins.
Added support for zip archives with Unicode filenames, AES encryption, and
files larger than 2GB.
Added support for comparing over HTTP.
Added support for comparing RPM files (Linux only).
Added support for creating and modifying .gz and .tar.gz files.
Fixed excessive "Refreshing..." step before large file operations or those
on slow connections.
Archives
Added support for AES zip encryption.
Added support for 64-bit zips.
Added support for storing Unicode filenames in zips.
Added support for creating and modifying .gz and .tar.gz files.
Added support for .tar files containing files with paths longer than 100
characters.
Added support for CRC32s and file sizes in .gz archives (not .tar.gz).
Added support for changing Unix owner/group and mode in .tar and .tar.gz
files.
Gzipped files that don't include a filename now use the archive's name
(without .gz) instead of "Unknown".
Deleting a folder containing files in a zip no longer saves the archive
multiple times.
Improved error handling when trying to add files to an archive.
Fixed crash creating a zip within a zip using the "New Folder" command.
Fixed crash when saving a snapshot that includes CRCs or exe version
information and excludes filtered items.
Fixed support for opening snapshot files where the original source path
had extended characters.
Fixed crash after failing to modify a zip.
Fixed cancelling a save snapshot operation when "Items excluded by file
filters" is checked or disabled.
Fixed .tar/.tgz support for extracting files where the target filename is
longer than 260 characters.
Fixed crash when using "Copy to Folder" to create a new zip.
Command Line
Data Compare
Added support for modifying delimited and fixed width files.
Added auto-detecting the pipe (|) character as a delimiter.
Added support for showing character differences within a cell.
Added "Decimal Separator" format setting.
Replaced "Trim leading and trailing whitespace" setting with "Treat
surrounding whitespace as part of delimiter".
Improved number handling for 1000s separator, converting (###) to -###,
and handling currency symbols.
Fixed crash when changing columns while columns are hidden and the view is
scrolled to the right.
Fixed crash when editing the "Other delimiter" file format field.
Fixed changing the "Trim leading and trailing whitespace" option to
refresh the comparison.
Fixed scrollbars so they're disabled if the display is empty.
File Formats
Added "Indentation" grammar item to "Python Scripts" format to make
leading whitespace important.
File Views
Added support for third-party BC v2 plugins.
Added support for comparing over HTTP.
Added "New File" command to empty the contents of the current pane.
Added "Go to next difference after copying section" option.
Added [Ctrl+Shift+V] as the default shortcut for "Open Clipboard".
"Recompare Files" can now be shown on the toolbar.
Improved Find dialog's handling of search sides.
Improved error handling when only one side of the comparison has an error.
Fixed "Access Denied" error when trying to save in a folder that allows
modifying a file but does not allow creating new ones.
Fixed opening a child view in a new window so if that view is already open
it brings it to the front instead of opening a new view.
Fixed crash when closing file views.
Fixed Load button so it tries to reload files that failed to load
previously.
Folder Compare
Merged "Compare in New View Using" and "Open With" menus and added "Open
With Associated Application" command.
Fixed excessive "Refreshing..." step before large file operations or those
on slow connections.
Creating a folder or copying/moving a file that only has a short (8.3)
name into a folder containing a file with a matching short name but
different long name is now detected and the existing file's short name is
changed to remove the conflict.
Failed content comparisons now clear any previous comparison results for a
particular pair of files.
Expand All followed by a Collapse All now cancels the expansion but
continues to build the comparison.
Added vertical scrollbar to operation error dialog
Fixed error messages so they include file paths.
Fixed binary comparisons to treat read errors as an unknown comparison
instead of a binary difference.
Fixed support for changing folder timestamps on Vista.
Fixed "Touch" and "Attributes" commands not respecting the "Disable
editing" session setting.
Fixed deleting a folder that contains filtered items so if the entire
folder is deleted to the recycle bin, it's moved as one item instead of
all of the contents individually.
Fixed crash when closing the "File Operation Error" dialog after the
progress panel has been closed automatically.
Fixed hang when counting files/folders after building them as part of a
large file operation.
Fixed refreshing so it re-sorts the display if one of the sides takes
longer than 5 seconds to finish.
Fixed crash when closing a Folder Compare/Sync while a file view has a
"Files changed, Reload?" prompt open.
Fixed display of SUID, SGID, and sticky bits in Unix permissions.
Fixed support for copying .pst files from network storage devices failing
with "The request is not supported" errors.
Fixed support for detecting locked .pst files when copying to an FTP site
or archive.
Fixed support for regular expression renames using '^' or '$' as the "Old
Mask" to add a prefix or suffix to a file.
Folder Sync
FTP
Added support for PASV replies from Microsoft FTP Service that don't
include a trailing parenthesis "Entering Passive Mode (100,1,1,1,23,45".
Opening a file view for a pair of files that are waiting for a background
content comparison now downloads the files immediately.
Improved behavior when the control channel times out during a successful
download.
Added support for detecting incorrectly resumed file transfers. Fixes
issue with duplicate file contents when downloading from sbftp.
Loading an SFTP or FTPS path in the Standard edition now shows a message
about upgrading to the Professional edition.
SSL session is now reused between data and control connections. Fixes
support for vsftpd 2.1.0.
Fixed "Touch local files when copying to an FTP site" setting incorrect
timestamps when the destination's parent folder was created as part of the
copy.
Fixed SFTP support for VanDyke VShell 3.0 (broken in 3.0.15).
Fixed crash following a dropped FTP connection when comparing file
contents or copying between FTP sites.
Fixed support for resume when comparing file contents or copying between
FTP sites.
Fixed crash when cancelling FTP transfers.
Fixed support for editing files on VMS and MVS (z/OS, OS/390) servers.
Fixed support for VxWorks and Windows CE FTP servers.
Fixed crash when rapidly using Full Refresh (Ctrl+F5).
Hex Compare
Removed "Open Clipboard" command.
Fixed hang when searching on an empty side.
Home View
Session settings page control is now resizeable.
Improved appearance after resizing.
Fixed crash when the session tree doesn't have a selection.
Fixed crash when rearranging sessions using drag and drop.
Fixed dragging a folder to preserve the lock icons on its contents.
Linux
Added support for comparing RPM files.
Added a "Show Hidden Items" context menu to "Browse for Folder" dialog.
Fixed permissions when modifying a file via a symlink.
Fixed Nautilus context menu support for fully qualified paths.
Fixed "Check For Updates" dialog so it uses the http_proxy environmental
variable.
Fixed crash when saving an HTML folder compare report.
Misc
Windows 7 taskbar will now show all view tabs. Live preview is not
supported.
Improved warning when persistent settings corruption detected on startup.
Double clicking on a tab's close button no longer creates a new tab.
Added icons for shell extension's "Merge" and "Sync" commands when shown
in a submenu.
Fixed various crashes during shutdown.
Fixed crash when trying to load a path that doesn't exist and one of the
parent folders is a non-archive file.
Fixed display of dual-platform licenses in About dialog.
Fixed crash when creating a session view window.
Fixed crash in "Browse For Folder" dialog when expanding a folder that
isn't available.
Fixed session dropdown so it adjusts its size to handle larger fonts.
Fixed position of "Additional file formats" URL in File Formats dialog.
Fixed character encoding dropdowns so they no longer reset a saved
codepage if it doesn't exist on the current system.
Update About logo to say "Version 3" rather than "Version 3.0".
Fixed shell extension's "Select Left File/Folder" text when switching
between selecting a file and a folder.
Registration dialog now closes after entering a reset key.
MP3 Compare
Added support for showing character differences within a tag.
Tag names are no longer colored red for lines with differences in the tag
value.
"Simple Data (ID3v1)", "Advanced Tag (ID3v2.3)", and "Audio" lines are
only colored red if they're collapsed and contain differences.
Removed "Open Clipboard" command.
Fixed playback of files longer than 3:37.
Fixed "Swap Sides" so it updates the display filter.
Options
Added "Available session types" option to control which sessions types
appear in the menus and Home view and are used for file format matching.
Picture Compare
Fixed crashes when loading invalid images.
Fixed appearance of "Replacements" page.
Reports
Fixed persistance of "Page breaks between reports" option.
Scripting
Scripts now set the DOS error level if a fatal error occurs.
Including '...' at the end of an EXPAND command will now expand all of the
named folder's subfolders. Eg: "EXPAND Documents..."
Fixed crash when generating file reports for files on unavailable drive
letters.
Fixed crash when "Close when finished" is checked and the script involves
background content comparisons against an FTP site.
Sessions
Added "Clear Session" command that clears both sides of the comparison and
switches session settings to the defaults.
Fixed Session Settings dialog's "Last modified" text so it's visible after
resizing.
Source Control
Fixed crashes when using Perforce, Seapine Surround, or Serena Change
Manager integration.
Fixed ClearCase crash when comparing files with paths longer than 260
characters.
Text Views
Added "Compare Selection to Clipboard" command.
Fixed overwriting a checked in, read-only, or system file in a Text Merge
session or using the /savetarget= switch so it prompts for confirmation.
Fixed "Ctrl+Z indicates end of file" option not to insert Ctrl+Z
characters in the middle of the file when saving.
Fixed crash when using "Align With" on a multi-line selection.
Fixed "Next/Prev Difference" to scroll the difference into view if context
lines are larger than the screen height.
Fixed undoing a multi-line paste so it doesn't leave the last character of
the paste.
Fixed crash when using Select by Word.
Fixed "Open with Web Browser" support for filenames with extended
characters.
Text Compare
Pasting into a gap now aligns the pasted text with the opposite side.
Added "Line Endings" conversion submenu.
Using the "Disable editing" checkbox now forces a save or discard of
existing edits.
Pasting text into an empty side is now treated as a paste and realignment
instead of an "Open Clipboard" request.
Added "Pasting text in empty pane treated as Open Clipboard" tweak
Text pasting, typing deletes any selected text, inserts at start of
selection
Fixed appearance of "Replacements" page.
Fixed manual alignment preservation of top and current line positions.
Fixed "Align Manually" for ranges to handle end of file and trailing
orphans.
Text Merge
"Undo" and "Redo" now work if focused on an input pane.
Version Compare
Added support for showing character differences within a field.
Version names are no longer colored red for lines with differences in the
value.
"Fixed Header", "Variable Header", and "File Info" lines are only colored
red if they're collapsed and contain differences.
Fixed "Swap Sides" so it updates the display filter.
Removed "Open Clipboard" command.

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.15.9757 (Jan 27, 2009)

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.14.9740 (Jan 22, 2009)

Notable Changes:
Revamped support for comparing filename case.
Added a "Compare filename case" session setting to control both comparing case and synchronizing it when copying files.
Comparing a case sensitive file system to a case insensitive one will now align filenames with differing case.
Added support for automatically resuming FTP/SFTP transfers at the end of the already transferred data.
Archives:
"Enter Password" dialog now supports copying the archive's path to the clipboard.
Fixed rules-based comparisons only doing a CRC comparison for files with matching sizes.
Fixed support for renaming a file in a zip to change character case.
Command Line:
Launching multiple instances of BC now gives focus to the first window opened instead of the last.
"Quick Compare" dialog is no longer shown for file comparisons launched as part of a batch process.
Added support for using forward slashes in UNC paths (//server/share).
Data Compare:
Fixed crash when changing column visibility and then scrolling horizontally.
Fixed session's "Columns" page incorrectly enabling the "Insert" command.
Fixed crash when deleting a column in the session settings.
Improved painting performance for really long rows.
File Formats:
Fixed reapplying file format changes that don't require a file save (ex. tab stop).
File Views:
Fixed error handling when trying to modify a file without write permissions.
Folder Compare:
Added "Compare filename case" session setting. Files with differing case will be marked as differences and copying those files will update the case of the target file to match the source.
Comparing a case sensitive file system to a case insensitive one will now align filenames with differing case. Filenames that match exactly will be aligned before files with case differences.
Expand all and background scans now work depth-first instead of breadth first, as much as possible.
"*." as a file filter now matches all files that don't have an extension. Fixes ""All files without an extension" option in the "Exclude from Session" dialog.
Renaming multiple files that have the same name now correctly pre-fills in the "New Name" edit if the previous rename used regular expressions.
Changing file filters no longer shows a "This will cancel running file operations" dialog.
Improved responsiveness when cancelling background folder scans and file comparisons.
Fixed sorting by CRCs or exe versions when the values haven't been previously calculated.
Fixed refresh so it re-sorts the display after the refresh instead of before it.
Fixed support for expanding folders out of order when an Expand All or background scan is active.
Fixed "Legend" dialog's height/width on Vista and Linux.
Fixed file operation's "Beep When Finished" option.
Fixed crash when deleting a pair of files after selecting them as part of a "Compare Contents" operation.
FTP:
Added support for automatically resuming uploads and downloads at the end of the transferred data instead of restarting at the beginning.
Removed "Filename conversion" FTP profile setting.
Fixed read timeouts at the end of long file transfers caused by NATs closing the control connection.
Fixed support for the "Read timeout" setting during passive FTP transfers.
Fixed setting last modified time of files on Pure-FTPd and ProFTPD servers when the server timezone has been set in the FTP profile.
Fixed support for connecting to TitanFTP when it returns an invalid SITE ZONE response.
Fixed crash when transferring/comparing lots of files.
Fixed cancelling SFTP transfers so they don't drop the connection as often.
Home View:
Folder Sync sessions now display the most recent sync summary on the "Sync" tab.
Fixed using "Open" command with multiple auto-saved sessions selected.
Fixed deleting multiple auto-saved sessions.
Fixed accelerators for "Open As New", "Save", and "Save As..." buttons.
Fixed tab order and z-order when using "Open" command with multiple sessions.
Misc:
Added support for using forward slashes in UNC paths (//server/share).
Added maximum values for various spin edits.
Double clicking past the last view tab now adds a new tab on the right side instead of next to the active tab.
Fixed crash when the session combotree closes after modifying sessions.
Fixed excess disk usage when retrieving exe version information for files in archives or on FTP sites.
MP3 Compare:
Treeview scrollbar positions are now locked together.
Fixed column widths when one treeview is wider than the other.
Text Views:
"
" and " " in the "Replace With" edit are now treated as plain text instead of line ending characters.
Improved performance when editing causes multiline grammar change (ex. create new comment).
Fixed hint support on editor navigation buttons.
Fixed crash when using the gutter copy buttons and then changing display filters.
Fixed horizontal splitter jumping when using "Next Difference Files".
Version Compare:
Treeview scrollbar positions are now locked together.
Fixed column widths when one treeview is wider than the other.

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.13.9597 (Dec 31, 2008)

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.12.9584 (Dec 25, 2008)

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.11.9509 (Dec 4, 2008)

Command Line
Added support for loading a named workspace from the command line.
Added version information to bcomp.exe and bcomp.com.
Fixed copying bcomp.exe to a different folder and then launching it from a
limited user account after an administrative install.
Fixed "bcomp /?" displaying the help file when it's in a different folder
than the BC install.
Data Compare
Increased maximum number of columns to 500.
Control characters are now drawn as the Unicode replacement character.
Added "Recognized line ending styles" setting to "Type" page which allows
unchecked style to be treated as data.
Changing column properties now recalculates all columns instead of just the
first 128.
"Comma Separated Values" and "MS Excel Workbooks" formats now only
recognize CR/LF line endings.
Row details grid now shows a selected column instead of selecting the
entire row.
"Copy" no longer includes hidden cells.
Column Handling dialog's caption now includes the column number or
"default".
Fixed resizing columns so the mouse cursor shifts if the resizing causes a
horizontal scroll.
Fixed behavior when there are no columns defined.
Improved missing column handling.
File Formats
Fixed persistence of empty descriptions.
File Views
Trying to load a file from a snapshot now displays "Content Unavailable"
instead of treating it as a load error.
"File Encoding Error" now includes the line number of first error.
Fixed Quick Compare dialog's display of filenames with ampersands.
Folder Compare
Saving a snapshot of a folder containing other snapshots with the "Include
Archive Contents" option enabled no longer includes those snapshots'
contents.
Regular expression renames now support an empty "New Mask".
Disabled autocompletion on "Filters" combobox.
Failures to copy NTFS ACLs now logs an error once per program instance.
Fixed creating new folders during a copy so they correctly copy DOS 8.3
filenames and NTFS ACLs.
Fixed overwriting read-only files when extracting from archives or
downloading from FTP sites.
Fixed display of file sizes greater than 2GB with a 0 in the hundred
millions position.
Fixed support for custom presets in "Filters" combobox.
Fixed crash when using the "Ignored" command on an archive file or on
folders that contain archives.
Fixed "Skip if quick tests indicate files are the same" so files are still
compared if none of the quick tests are active.
Fixed duplicate accelerator keys in Compare Contents dialog.
Fixed context help for Alignment Override dialog.
Fixed crash after using "Merge in New View".
Fixed Legend dialog's background coloring when "Use stripes" option is
disabled.
Fixed crash when deleting files that were part of a "Compare Contents"
command while the comparison was still occurring.
Folder Sync
Fixed "Auto Sync" button obscuring the previous sync's summary.
FTP
FTPS connections to port 990 now use implicit SSL.
Fixed support for deleting files on Linksys NSLU2 NAS FTP server.
Fixed CLNT command to send "Beyond Compare v3.x.x" instead of "Beyond
v3.x.x".
Hex Compare
Fixed crash when loading the comparison.
Linux
Added support for "Bypass disk cache during binary comparisons".
Converting FTP timestamps between UTC and local now uses the offset when
the timestamp occurs instead of the current offset.
Removed bcompare.sh's > /dev/null redirection so console messages will be
printed.
Fixed appearance of visible tab and space characters.
Fixed mouse locking when clicking the view thumbnail in file op
confirmation dialogs.
Fixed crash when pressing a key after dragging the center splitter in the
Text Compare.
Misc
Customize Commands dialog now supports showing/hiding toolbar comboboxes
and edits (Sessions, Filename Filters, etc).
Help->Support dialog now generates a .zip instead of a .bcpkg.
Added additional workarounds for crashes caused by Cisco VPN software.
Improved support for mangled registration keys.
Toolbars now hide automatically if none of the items on them are visible.
Fixed crash when closing application while help window is open.
Fixed crashes when opening new views.
Fixed crash if a window was closed while the session combobox is open.
MP3 Compare
"Content type (TCON)" now shows "?" for empty genres.
Non-fatal errors no longer prevent showing comparison.
Options
Changing archive associations now warns that BC must be restarted to use
them.
Deleted syntax elements no longer appear in the display options.
Picture Compare
Added support for "Replacements" of one color with another.
Scripting
Fixed HTML report's WRAP-WORD option.
Fixed FILE-REPORT and FOLDER-REPORT so they default to wrap-none for HTML
reports.
Sessions
Session Settings dialogs are now resizable.
Session Settings dialog captions now include session type.
Changing an auto-saved Folder Compare session's child session settings no
longer creates a new auto-saved session.
Fixed persistence of Folder Compare child sessions when their settings
match the program defaults.
Source Control
Fixed "Unable to run the PVCS merge tool" error when displaying comparisons
from PVCS.
Fixed support for AlienBrain source control integration.
Text Views
Editing files no longer breaks NTFS hard links.
Fixed "Replace" with line-based selection to switch to character selection
before replacing.
Fixed multiline delete from first char on start line to last char on stop
line so it recalculates coloring.
Fixed alignment so it matches blank lines with each other instead of
matching one with a very short line.
Fixed importance list so it no longer displays deleted syntax elements.
Fixed crash when editing.
Text Compare
Added "Replacement..." command which adds an item to the replacement list
based on the current difference.
Added using [Del] and [Ins] to add/remove replacements.
Text Merge
"Take Left Then Right"/"Take Right Then Left" now preserves the original
caret position.
Fixed support for using /savetarget with a relative path.
Version Compare
Added support for displaying version information in BCSS snapshots.
Non-fatal errors no longer prevent showing comparison.

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.10.9357 (Nov 5, 2008)

- Notable Changes
- Added "Summary" report layout that matches the "Compare Info" dialogs output,
replacing the Text Compare's "Descriptive Statistics" report.
- Fixed CSV statistics report so the IChanged and UChanged values match
those produced by BC2.
- Command Line
- Using /savetarget for a 2-way merge now uses the same exit codes as a
3-way merge.
- Standard edition no longer tries to handle 3-way merge command lines.
- Fixed new instances not gaining focus if they're started without any
command line arguments.
- File Views
- Tweaked Find dialog's captions for side selection radio buttons.
- Fixed file info panels so they show "Unknown size" instead of -1 if a
file's size isn't available.
- Fixed "Swap Sides" so it switches the active editor/grid/treeview.
- Folder Compare
- Added "Select Newer" and "Select Orphans" menu items.
- Added MRU list for name filter combobox.
- "Ignored" command now clears the "don't refilter" flag on file comparisons
that were opened in a file view.
- Improved error message when a locked .pst file is detected.
- "Comparison Results" dialog now remembers its size.
- Fixed initializing the "Copy to folder" dialog's Left/Right radio buttons
when both sides are selected.
- Fixed crash when deleting files after closing the "Compare Contents"
results dialog.
- Fixed browse button icons after swapping sides.
- Fixed rename behaving poorly if all of the selected files have the same
name and the previous rename used regular expressions.
- Fixed Synchronize Preview dialog's progress label's position.
- Fixed status bars so they show "Unknown size" instead of -1 if a file's
size isn't available.
- Fixed crash when "Automatic Refresh" is active while closing a session.
- Fixed crash when cancelling an operation while it's still doing a
preliminary refresh.
- Fixed out-of-memory error when exiting after extremely large comparisons.
- Fixed "Swap Sides" so it swaps the focus rectangle and selection anchor's
side.
- Fixed folder browse dialog not to show a vertical scrollbar the first time
it's shown on a scaled display (high-DPI or non-8pt font).
- Folder Sync
- Added label displaying statistics from most recent sync.
- FTP
- Added additional workarounds for Cisco VPN crashes.
- Fixed crash when copying between FTP sites after a server-side disconnect
on the target site.
- Home View
- Fixed "Sticky session selection" tweak handling of default session as mru.
- Linux
- Fixed reading UTF-8 files where a multi-byte character crossed the end of
a buffer.
- Fixed editing symlinks to modify the target file instead of replace the
symlink.
- Misc
- Fixed session combobox so typing characters while it's dropped down will
jump to the sessions beginning with that name.
- Fixed "Save As" dialog's behavior when changing the "Files of type"
combobox.
- Fixed crash when reading environmental variables.
- Picture Compare
- Fixed crash when loading extremely large images.
- Reports
- Added "Summary" report layout to all file views other than the Picture
Compare.
- Fixed CSV statistics report so the IChanged and UChanged values match
those produced by BC2. Important lines with unimportant changes are now
included in the UChanged count instead of the IChanged count.
- Replaced "Descriptive Statistics" text report with a "Summary" report that
matches what's shown in the "Compare Info" dialog.
- The side-by-side Folder Compare report now shows the content comparison
icons in the center.
- Monochrome Folder Compare reports now use a hollow/white folder instead of
the colored icons.
- Fixed word wrap in printed text reports.
- Fixed crash when generating a patch report when one of the two files is
missing the last line ending.
- Scripting
- Fixed crash when using "expand " when there are orphan folders on
the right side.
- Support for STATS-DESCRIPTIVE text report has been replaced by the new
SUMMARY report style. Old scripts will log a warning message and use the
new report.
- Text Views
- Fixed "Save File As..." so it updates the window/tab caption.
- Fixed the editor's "Browse By Find" buttons so they don't ignore clicks.
- Fixed "Next/Previous Difference" in edit mode with line-based selection.
- Fixed crash when deleting selection with gap-only sections.
- Fixed crash when deleting causes text after gap to be combined with text
before gap.
- Fixed crash when pasting text and ideal resulting cursor location isn't
available.
- Text Compare
- Improved display of "Replacements" list.
- Fixed replacements to get applied in more cases
- Fixed crashes when using replacements.
- Text Merge
- "Customize Commands" dialog no longer lists the "Next/Previous Difference
Files" commands.
- Fixed "A merge conflict is only different change lines" session setting.

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.9 Build 9222 (Oct 16, 2008)

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.8 Build 9206 (Oct 14, 2008)

Command Line:
Fixed "Quick Compare" dialog to gain focus when launched from Explorer while a comparison is already open.
The program's error code is now set to 104 if it can't run because of an expired trial period.
The trial's nag dialogs are no longer shown when using /qc, /automerge, or
scripting.
Data Compare:
Fixed crash when scrolling horizontally while the splitter isn't in the center of the view.
Fixed crash when comparing files with only empty lines.
Folder Compare:
Added "Comparison Results" dialog after a "Compare Contents" operation.
Added "Update Both" command to "Synchronize" submenu.
Added images to "Comparison Info" dialog's treeview.
"Next/Previous Difference" no longer follows the file view's "Limit "Next Difference Files" to current folder" option.
Fixed height of "Legend" dialog.
Fixed "Target file already exists" error when changing the case of a filename containing accented characters.
Fixed "Target filename too long" error when renaming files on some USB flash drives.
Fixed crash when rapidly cycling through file comparisons using "Next Difference Files".
Folder Sync:
Pre-sync confirmation step no longer refreshes file information, eliminating the lengthy "Refreshing..." step on slow network connections.
FTP:
Fixed support for FTP servers that incorrectly claim to support UTF-8 (Pure-FTPd).
Fixed support for file sizes on VMS servers.
Hex Compare: Fixed error handling when reading from corrupt media.
Home View:
Changing a Text Merge session's "Output file" path no longer prompts to save the output.
Fixed "Auto-saved sessions" incorrectly grouping all sessions under "More than 6 days ago".
Misc:
Added workaround for a bug in the Cisco VPN driver that causes "illegal floating point operation" crashes.
Elapsed time is now broken down into a combination of days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
Auto-updating a portable install no longer extracts the shell extensions.
Auto-updating a portable install no longer modifies the registry.
About dialog no longer shows "Pro Edition" if it's opened after registering with a standard edition key and not restarting.
Fixed non-editable comboboxes only to display hints when they are necessary.
Fixed incompatibility with Cottonwood Software's File-Ex open/save as dialog extender.
Fixed menu position of shortcut text when the shortcut contains '&'.
Fixed keyboard shortcuts using international keyboards and extended characters.
Fixed various treeviews so they use themed expand/collapse buttons.
Options: Fixed support for font names containing international characters.
Picture Compare:
Fixed error handling of invalid TGA images.
Fixed crash when using "Binary Operation Mode" to view orphan files.
Reports:
Fixed crash when rapidly changing pages in the Print Preview dialog.
Fixed crash when generating a file compare report of files with custom grammar items.
Scripting:
File operations no longer refresh file information during the confirmation step, eliminating the lengthy "Refreshing..." step on slow network connections.
When unregistered, the scripting window now displays the trial period remaining in its caption.
Source Control: Added support for ClearCase -directory command line switch.
Text Views:
"Lines" grammar item now allows 0 trailing lines.
Fixed crash when Ctrl + Double Clicking on the text area of the editor with a pre-existing line selection.
Fixed crash when saving files.
Fixed crash when showing Find dialog before any lines of the comparison are visible.
Text Compare: Changed "Replacement Item" dialog's "Left is source" checkbox into a "Side" radio group.

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.7.9037 (Sep 20, 2008)

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.4 Build 8855 (Sep 7, 2008)

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.3 Build 8845 (Aug 29, 2008)

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.2 Build 8706 (Aug 18, 2008)

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.0 Build 8507 Beta (Jul 31, 2008)

New in Beyond Compare 3.0.0 Build 464 Beta (Jul 29, 2008)

Command Line
Added support for replacing TortoiseSVN's TortoiseIDiff.exe with BComp.exefor image comparisons.
File Views
Removed "Dropdown" display filter mode from views that don't need it.
Fixed responsiveness when closing a comparison of files on slow remote servers.
Fixed loading a workspace with unsaved file session views.
Folder Compare
Fixed "Empty Folders" tip appearing at inappropriate times.
Fixed error when copying files in orphan folders.
Fixed crash when using a file filter ending with "...".
Fixed crash when trying to load an unavailable drive.
Fixed sluggishness when using "Expand/Collapse All" on large trees.
Fixed sluggishness when performing content comparisons.
Fixed freeze when using "Full Refresh" or changing between sessions.
Fixed sluggishness when moving around in a folder comparison with 10,000 files visible.
Fixed crash when comparing extremely large folders or using "Ignore Folder Structure".
Fixed freezing when performing file operations on large folder structures with "Ignore Folder Structure" active.
Fixed file operation progress panel not closing when cancelling in a confirmation dialog.
Fixed crashes when trying to show the Explorer submenu with poorly behaved shell extensions.
Fixed logging and error display when cancelling multiple file operations because of a connection failure.
Fixed crash during hint processing.
Folder Sync
Added support for alignment overrides and file format enabled overrides.
Sync "Actions" are now in the same order as they were in BC2.
FTP
Fixed crash when unable to connect to an FTP server while performing multiple operations.
Linux
Fixed crash when exporting a subset of the file formats, ftp profiles, or sessions.
Fixed various issues when importing/exporting settings.
Fixed ClearCase-compatible exit codes when an existing instance is open.
Fixed premature deletion of temp files when starting a second instance.
Misc
Improved ability to customize display filter toolbar buttons.
Double-clicking past the end of the view tab control now adds a new "Home" tab.
Added 32-bit 16x16 Vista icons to Explorer context menu.
Removed check for frozen main thread because of too many false positives.
Viewers are now disabled when waiting for an "Open With" application to finish.
Fixed progress reporting and cancellability when saving a snapshot.
Fixed crash when rapidly clicking toolbar buttons twice.
Fixed 256-color application icon.
Picture Compare
Fixed crash when trying to load invalid .png files.
Scripting
Fixed crash when using "folder-report" command with custom columns.
Fixed generating snapshot filenames for drive roots.
Text Views
Fixed "Toggle Bookmark" not to be allowed if there aren't any lines visible.
Text Merge
Fixed crash when editing output panel in non-debug build.