Download Beyond Compare 3.0 build 462 beta

The developers at Scooter Software have released a new beta version of Beyond Compare with 3.0 build 462 as the version designation. With this program you can synchronize files between different locations or compare these files in detail. To do the latter properly you can use Beyond Compare to expand with definitions of the different file formats. For more information, we refer you to this page and on this page several instructional videos are available. The list of changes for this latest beta version looks like this:

Version 3.0 Build 462 release:

Folder Compare:

• 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.

FTP:

• Fixed support for ASCII transfers on SFTP-3 and earlier.
• Fixed selecting SFTP compression/encryption algorithms on badly behaved SSH servers.

Linux:

• Temp files left over from previous instances will now be deleted automatically when starting a new instance.
• KDE/Gnome context menus are now removed when uninstalling.
• Fixed default comment in “Generate SSH Key Pair” dialog.
• Fixed default public & private key paths in “Generate SSH Key Pair” dialog.

Misc:

• 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.

Options:

• Added “milliseconds to wait before hiding help hint” tweak.

Picture Compare:

• Fixed PNG support for some transparent images.

Reports:

• Reports now save images as PNGs instead of bitmaps to support transparency.
• “XML Dump” reports now include encoding declarations.

TextViews:

• Added “Lines” grammar item to support page headings.
• Fixed alignment omitting second to last line of the comparison under certain conditions.