What's new in Beyond Compare 3.3.3.14128:

October 29th, 2011

Data Compare:
· Fixed handling of files with fixed width columns but no line endings.

File Views:
· Control characters (0x00-0x19) are now colored based on their difference
· state and resize to match a smaller font size.

FTP:
· Fixed support for SFTP connections to ProFTPD/mod_sftp.

Registry Compare:
· Fixed loading files that have names starting with "HKEY_".

Reports:
· Fixed Data Compare report crash when generating side-by-side or
· interleaved layouts.

Text Views:
· Fixed "Compare Selection to Clipboard" losing content when an external
· conversion fails.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.3.2.14050:

September 13th, 2011

Archives:
· Fixed support for extended characters in filenames within zip archives (broken in 3.3.0).

Folder Compare:
· Fixed issues with junction points/symbolic links when loading two overlapping comparisons.

Hex Compare:
· Fixed Find crash when searching for an odd number of hex characters.

Misc:
· Fixed crash when scaled thumbnail is too small to show anything.

Registry Compare:
· Fixed parsing multi-line strings in .reg files.
· Fixed support for parsing .reg files with line endings in key/value names.

Reports:
· Fixed generating a report from a script with no files selected so it still includes a report header.
· Fixed mixed file report header (for example, when first selected files are pictures).
· Fixed crash when changing text "Patch" report styles after previewing one.

Text Views:
· Fixed "Find" and "Replace All" not matching the word the cursor is in if "Wrap Search" is checked.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.3.1.13971:

August 16th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.3.0.13755 Beta:

June 10th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.2.4.13298:

February 7th, 2011

· "Select All" and "Insert" are now available in line details but affect main display.
· Fixed copying to the clipboard including gaps as blank lines.
· "Paste" is now available even if no rows are visible.
· "Edit" is no longer enabled if no rows are visible.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.2.3.13043:

December 10th, 2010

· Notable Changes - Fixed "Update Left" and "Update Right" Folder Sync sessions from 3.1 and earlier incorrectly copying orphans to the source side. Broken in 3.2.0.
· Archives - Fixed crash when copying .tar contents with implicitly stored folders. - Timestamps in .tar archives equal to the Unix epoch are now shown as the archive's date instead of 1969 to match other archive types.
· Data Compare - Fixed "Go to next difference after copying to other side" when copy removes all visible items.
· File Views - Fixed remote drives reporting "Content Unavailable" if the first attempt to access the drive failed. - Fixed crash when rapidly repeating "Recompare Files".
· Folder Compare - Fixed crash when closing after selecting "Align With...".
· Folder Sync - Fixed "Update Left" and "Update Right" sessions from 3.1 and earlier incorrectly copying orphans to the source side.
· FTP - Fixed reading Unix owner and group names from SFTP v3 servers using non-UTF-8 encodings.
· Misc - Comboboxes with long MRU lists now show scrollbars if the list would exceed the monitor or be longer than 30 items.
· Text Compare - Fixed "Go to next difference after copying to other side" when copy removes all visible items.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.2.2.13000:

December 7th, 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

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.2.1.12831 Beta:

September 28th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.2.0.12469 Beta:

June 22nd, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.11 Build 12204:

April 29th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.11 Build 12204:

April 29th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.10 Build 11626:

February 4th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.9 Build 11282:

December 18th, 2009

· Data Compare
· Fixed resizing columns when the splitter is not in the middle.

· File Formats
· Opening the File Formats dialog from a file view now automatically focuses on the current file format.

· File Views
· Fixed files with a UCS-2 byte order mark incorrectly detecting as binary.

· FTP
· Fixed browse dialog crashing when collapsing a folder while loading another.

· Hex Compare
· Increased "bytes per line" limit to 1024.
· Fixed readability when the "Difference Enhancer" option is enabled.

· Misc
· Added workaround for conflict with Logitech's SetPoint software.
· Added "Browse" command to browse edit/combobox popup menus.
· Activating a view now forces scrolling to its tab header if necessary.
· Fixed incorrect toolbar hints in translated builds on Windows 9x.
· Fixed crash on startup if any of the settings files had an invalid date.
· Fixed Windows 7 information in support zip.
· Fixed "Import Settings" to always correctly list what will be imported.
· Fixed file sizes not to be displayed in scientific notation.

· Options
· Fixed setting Backup "in this folder" option.

· Picture Compare
· Fixed crash when comparing malformed EMF files.
· Fixed "Swap Sides" handling of image transparency.
· Fixed handling of replacements/gray scale/red scale/blue scale.

· Reports
· Renamed text report's "Left is source" option to "Strikeout left orphans".

· Scripting
· Added "strikeout-left-orphans" option for "interleaved" TEXT-REPORT.
· E.g., text-report layout:interleaved options:strikeout-left-orphans output-to:printer

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.8 Build 11096:

November 16th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.7 Build 10865:

September 23rd, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.6 Build 10721:

August 12th, 2009

· Fixed folder compare's rules-based content comparisons returning binary differences instead of similar or text differences (broken in 3.1.5).

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.5 Build 10715:

August 11th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.4 Build 10554:

June 24th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.3 Build 10374:

May 14th, 2009

· Notable Changes
· Added Windows 7 support for tab taskbar thumbnails and live preview.
· Picture Compare now displays transparent images with a checkerboard background.
· Text Compare now copies over line ending style (PC/Unix/Mac) if "Compare line endings" is enabled.
· Text Merge now follows merge rules to generate line endings if "Compare
· line endings" is enabled.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.2.10221:

April 20th, 2009

· Added support for Unix FTP listings that include ClearCase VOB errors.
· Reverted list parser change from 3.1.1 that would treat unparsable directory listings as a load error.
· Fixed support for Windows NT directory listings (broken in 3.1.1).

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.1 Build 10221:

April 18th, 2009

· Added support for Unix FTP listings that include ClearCase VOB errors.
· Reverted list parser change from 3.1.1 that would treat unparsable directory listings as a load error.
· Fixed support for Windows NT directory listings (broken in 3.1.1).

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.1 Build 10218:

April 17th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.1.0.10168:

April 10th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.15.9757:

January 27th, 2009

· File Views
· "Open Clipboard" command now includes a timestamp in the path edit.
· Folder Compare
· Fixed duplicate folders appearing when creating them as part of a copy
· operation (broken in 3.0.14).
· Fixed support for automatic refreshes (broken in 3.0.14).
· FTP
· Fixed error when moving an archive file to/from an FTP/SFTP site.
· Fixed support for transferring files to/from a VanDyke VShell SFTP server.
· Text Views
· Added "Replace All is from top of file" tweak.
· Text Compare
· Added "Zoom Left/Right" commands which incrementally move the splitter
· (Ctrl+Alt+Right/Left).

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.14.9740:

January 22nd, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.13.9597:

December 31st, 2008

· - Folder Compare
· - Fixed "Delete" deleting an entire folder even if it's contents don't
· match the display filter if "Use recycle bin" is active.
· - Fixed crash when closing a directory comparison after cancelling a file
· op confirmation dialog.
· - Fixed crash when expanding a zip archive.

· - Linux
· - Added support for http_proxy environmental variable for check-for-updates
· code. Username and password must be included in the variable if they're
· needed.

· - Options
· - Fixed crash when opening the "Compare Colors" panel on the Options dialog
· when using a standard edition license.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.12.9584:

December 25th, 2008

· Added DATA-REPORT, HEX-REPORT, TEXT-REPORT script commands
· ...many many others!!!

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.11.9509:

December 4th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.10.9357:

November 5th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.9 Build 9222:

October 16th, 2008

· MP3 Compare: No longer makes a copy of the original file in order to compare non-tag data, fixing out-of-memory error for large files.
Source Control:
· ClearCase -directory switch now reads the folder names from the DDIFF files if they aren't passed on the command line.
· Fixed support for handling ClearCase Remote Client command lines.
· Fixed ClearCase -directory comparisons failing to load if an existing instance is running.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.8 Build 9206:

October 14th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.7.9037:

September 20th, 2008

· File views now follow font style (bold, italic) for default text.
· Fixed Copy/Move To Folder crash (introduced in 3.0.5).

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.4 Build 8855:

September 7th, 2008

· Added support for /filters= and /expandall command line arguments.
· Folder Compare - Fixed enabling "Copy to Other Side", "Move to Other Side".
· Home View - Added "Sticky session selection" tweak that changes the Session treeview so it auto-selects the last item opened from it instead of the last session closed.
· Tweaked Tweaks dialog layout.
· Reports - Fixed crash when performing a Print Preview.
· Fixed "Save As" (broken in 3.0.3).
· Added Find "Select All" when not in full edit mode.
· Fixed enabling "Copy to Other Side", "Copy Line to Other Side".

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.3 Build 8845:

August 29th, 2008

· Folder Compare: Various operations are now disabled when comparing a folder to itself.
· Fixed crash during "Refreshing..." stage of a folder sync when an orphaned
· file/folder was deleted externally before the sync.
· Fixed crash when cancelling a folder sync before it started copying/deleting files.
· FTP: Added support for "HOST" command, per draft spec.
· Installer now writes ExePath and Version info to registry instead of BCompare.exe so it doesn't get written for portable installs.
· Fixed "Automatically save messages to file" log option to browse using save dialog instead of open dialog.
· Fixed FILE-REPORT command with a pair of files incorrectly flagging all text as unimportant.
· Fixed support for Team Foundation's Source Control integration.
· Fixed support for CS-RCS's Source Control integration.
· Fixed encoding auto-detection on Windows XP and earlier.
· Fixed "Replace All" when last line with replacements has multiple matches.
· Fixed "Find" when not in full edit mode.
· Fixed crash when copying text.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.2 Build 8706:

August 18th, 2008

· Notable Changes
· Added "Just Selection" checkbox to "Sync Preview" dialog to control whether a sync affects the selection or the entire comparison.
· Command Line
· Fixed behavior when rapidly opening multiple comparisons from the command line.
· File Views
· Added captions to "Next/Previous Difference Files" toolbar buttons.
· Folder Compare
· Added "Just Selection" checkbox to "Sync Preview" dialog to control whether a sync affects the selection or the entire comparison.
· Completed file operation panels with errors are now cleared when starting a new file operation.
· Added "Update Left/Right" to toolbar by default.
· Removed "Sync In New View" from menu by default.
· Improved hints for "Update/Mirror Left/Right" commands.
· Moved "Update/Mirror" commands in "Actions" menu and on toolbar.
· Removed "Synchronize" menu from right-click menu.
· Fixed crash when using "Compare To"/"Align With", and clicking on the second item and pressing space at the same time.
· Fixed crash at the end of file operations that encounter errors on WinXP with themes enabled and a font other than Tahoma 8pt.
· Fixed crash when closing a file op confirmation dialog while it's building a comparison.
· Fixed "Compare In New View" crash when a 2 folders and a blank space are selected.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.0 Build 8507 Beta:

July 31st, 2008

· Improved error handling if an external conversion fails.
· Fixed crash in "Browse for Folder" dialog when both tabs have been edited.
· Fixed crash when performing background content comparisons involve external conversions or FTP sites.
· "Copy to Folder" and "Move to Folder" now share MRU lists.
· Changing between Active & Passive FTP transfers now takes effect immediately.
· Fixed extra invalid folders appearing when using MLSD.
· Fixed crash when opening FTP Profiles dialog in non-Pro mode.
· Fixed SFTP ASCII transfers of large text files inserting #0 characters when transferring to servers that only support SFTP-3 and earlier.
· Fixed crash when copy files from FTP servers while background content comparisons are active.
· Added Readme.txt to install folder.
· .bcss files are now associated with Beyond Compare 3.
· Changed "Copy/Move To Side" handling in "Customize Commands" dialog to allow showing commands for copy in both directions at the same time.
· Fixed registered versions always being considered pro-edition.
· Fixed errors when starting on Windows 95.
· Replaced build number with Subversion revision.
· Text Views: Fixed Unicode byte-order-mark behavior so it isn't added to files when it shouldn't be.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.0 Build 464 Beta:

July 29th, 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.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.0 Build 462 Beta:

July 15th, 2008

· Fixed accessing zip/tar/gzip/cab archives with paths containing non-ASCII characters.
· Fixed downloading a file unnecessarily refreshing the target directory.
· Fixed "Touch local files when copying to an FTP site" when copying more than one file.
· Fixed performing file operations on unbuilt filtered folders with "Suppress Filters" active.
· Fixed support for ASCII transfers on SFTP-3 and earlier.
· Fixed selecting SFTP compression/encryption algorithms on badly behaved SSH servers.
· Changed "Export" save dialog's "Save as type" list ordering.
· Added "Settings files" to "Import" open dialog's "Files of type" list.
· Tweaked Export's automatically chosen filename.
· Fixed "Import" to support BC2 settings files that don't include sessions.
· Fixed importing BC2 preferences so they take effect immediately.
· Updated help.
· Added "milliseconds to wait before hiding help hint" tweak.
· Fixed PNG support for some transparent images.
· Reports now save images as PNGs instead of bitmaps to support transparency.
· "XML Dump" reports now include encoding declarations.
· Added "Lines" grammar item to support page headings.
· Fixed alignment omitting second to last line of the comparison under certain conditions.

What's new in Beyond Compare 2.5.3 Build 253:

July 15th, 2008

· Fixed using "wrap-word" script option for folder comparison reports.
· Fixed files with identical filenames occasionally misaligning.
· Fixed crash when using Search->Next Difference In Line menu item in an empty file comparison.
· Fixed color picker dropdown's position on multi-monitor systems.
· Fixed XML reports so they include encoding declarations.
· Fixed calender control not showing the column for Saturday on Vista.

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0.0 Build 453 Beta:

April 26th, 2008

· Streamlined folder synchronization
· Comparisons between differing folder structures
· Full-screen editor with dynamic re-comparisons
· Grammar-based comparison rules
· Syntax highlighting
· Unicode filename support

What's new in Beyond Compare 3.0 Beta Build 453:

April 26th, 2008

· Expanded Session concept
· 3-way text merge
· Streamlined folder synchronization
· Comparisons between differing folder structures
· Full-screen editor with dynamic re-comparisons
· Grammar-based comparison rules
· Syntax highlighting
· Unicode filename support
· Built-in support for secure FTP protocols (SFTP)

What's new in Beyond Compare 2.5.2 Build 252:

November 22nd, 2007

· Fixed one file viewer pane showing one less line of text than the other one (again).
· Fixed script with explicit ftp login storing password in log file.
· BC initialized to use default printer, rather than remembering printer selection between runs.

What's new in Beyond Compare 2.5.1.251:

August 31st, 2007

· Fixed comparing against disconnected mapped network drives to prompt for username/password and reconnect.
· Improved text viewer comparison speed when com[aring files on slow network rives.
· Fixed crash when retrieving hint text for some Explorer context menu extensions.
· Fixed file viewer not detecting external changes when a file was modified by another text compare window in the same instance of BC.
· Fixed one file viewer pane showing one less line of text than the other one.
· Fixed text compare's "Save" command and prompts to save changes being disabled after cancelling out of a save prompt.
· Fixed support for a, , e, f,
· ,
, , and v metacharacters in the replacement text for a regular expression search and replace.
· Fixed script error when performing a FILE-REPORT scripting command with no files selected.

What's new in Beyond Compare 2.5.0 build 250:

August 4th, 2007

· Fixed several Vista compatibility issues.
· Fixed tip dialogs not appearing.
· Fixed crash when performing a rules-based quick comparison of files with lines longer than 64KB that contain umimportant text.
· Fixed crash when performing a rules-based quick comparison of a 0-byte file against a file that starts with at least 50 lines of unimportant text.
· Fixed crash when the file viewer repaints while saving a large file.
· Fixed "Detect partial file locks" option.
· Added "Save Password" checkbox to FTP browse dialog.
· Improved error handling for source control operations.
· Added support for Borland Developer Studio integration.
· Enhanced support for installing as an unpriviledged user.
· Other minor bugfixes and enhancements.

What's new in Beyond Compare 2.4.3:

August 29th, 2006

· Fixed crash during binary/rules-based comparison (broken in 2.4.2).
· Fixed zip files within zip files not displaying their sizes (broken in 2.4.2).
· Fixed support for connecting to FTP sites with underscores in their names.

What's new in Beyond Compare 2.4.3:

August 29th, 2006

· maintenance upgrade

What's new in Beyond Compare 2.4.2:

August 25th, 2006

· maintenance upgrade

What's new in Beyond Compare 2.4.1:

March 24th, 2006

· maintenance upgrade