Scooter Software has released version 4.2.3 of Beyond Compare. This very extensive program, which is available for Windows, Linux and now also for OS X, allows files to be compared. In addition, it is possible to compare complete folders, ftp locations and archives. Beyond Compare is available in a standard and a pro version, for Prices that start at $30. The mutual differences can be this page are being found. In version 4.2.3 the following improvements have been made:
Cloud Services
- Fixed WebDAV showing invalid subfolders with the same name as the parent folder.
Command Line
- Linux: Fixed excessive CPU usage when launching a second comparison from the command line.
FTP
- Unix: Fixed crash when loading an FTP profile with the timezone set to Rome.
misc
- View tab bar no longer shows “Select Tab” and “Close Other Tabs” commands if there is only one tab.
- Updated various icons.
MP3 Compare
- Improved handling of AENC, GEOB, and APIC tags.
Options
- Added “Minimum clip length” to clipboard manager to avoid saving passwords or other short text (defaults to 32).
Reports
- Fixed display or custom display filter names (eg “[Differences]” instead of “Differences” when orphans not included).
- Fixed UTF-8 reports not including a byte order mark, causing problems when importing them into Excel or viewing them in some web browsers.
Sessions
- Session Settings dialog’s “Swap sides” button now also affects “Disable editing” checkboxes.
Text Views
- Unix: Fixed accented characters being entered as ‘?’ when typed.
crashes
- macOS: Fixed startup crash on macOS 10.13 High Sierra beta.
- Unix: Fixed Folder Compare crash when opening Options dialog from the Log panel.
| Version number | 4.2.3 build 22587 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, macOS, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows 10 |
| Website | Scooter Software |
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| File sizes |
12.27MB – 31.60MB |
| License type | Shareware |