Software Update: Beyond Compare 4.2.5 build 23088

By admin On Jun 16, 2018

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Scooter Software has released version 4.2.5 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. Since version 4.2.2, the following improvements have been made:

Beyond Compare 4.2.5.23088

Cloud Services

Fixed uploads to Dropbox failing silently for files larger than 150 MB.

Command Line

Linux: Fixed timing issue that could hang the launcher script.
Linux: Fixed exit code 100 when multiple users launch BC with the same temp folder.

File Formats

Improved “XML Tidy” handling of user defined entities.
Fixed “XML Sort” and “XML Tidy” to preserve original character encoding.

Folder Compare

Linux: Fixed support for ‘Align filenames with different Unicode normalization forms’.
Version information is now shown for any file types associated with the Version Compare.
Fixed file operation “Pause/Resume” button’s hint when paused.
Unix: Fixed file timestamps being off by up to 2 seconds due to a lossy UTC local conversion.

FTP

Fixed SFTP/SCP connections not closing after an error (eg, user cancel on “Unrecognized SSH host key” dialog).

misc

Added Simplified Chinese as an official language for Windows and macOS.
Linux: Added context menus for KDE5.
Windows: Fixed BcClipboard incompatibility with MS Excel, PowerShell ISE, and Visual Studio.
Updated copyright date to 2018.
macOS: Fixed displaying version and copyright info in Finder’s “Get Info” dialog.

Reports

Generated reports are now encoded with ANSI if both input files are ANSI on Windows, and UTF-8 for all other cases. The UTF-8 byte order mark is only written on Windows.
Folder Compare Reports using “Include links to file reports” now uses child session settings.

Text Edit

Find & Replace “Replace with” can now use \n and \r to add line breaks when using regular expressions.

Text Views

Fixed copying forcibly wrapped lines.

crashes

Fixed Picture Compare “Summary” report crash.

Beyond Compare 4.2.4.22795

Notable Changes

Fixed Folder Compare not including all selected items in file operations (primarily affects 64-bit Linux).
macOS: Fixed error messages when launching from the command line on macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
Various other fixes and enhancements.

Command Line

macOS: Fixed error messages when launching from the command line on macOS 10.13 High Sierra.

File Formats

Fixed RTF character encoding detection and added support for Unicode characters.
Fixed RTF table extraction to include tabs between cells and line endings between rows.

File Views

Fixed high DPI displays not showing the “Keep file read-only” checkbox when confirming overwriting a read-only file.
Fixed high DPI displays not showing the “Don’t show again” checkbox when confirming “Copy File to Left/Right and Open Next Difference”.

Folder Compare

Fixed Folder Compare not including all selected items in file operations (primarily affects 64-bit Linux).
Unix: Fixed error when trying to copy the same file to two destinations.
macOS: Fixed support for file names longer than 256 UTF-8 bytes.

misc

Windows: Fixed mouse wheel scrolling a screen at a time.
Windows: Fixed entering registration keys copied from PDF files.
Linux: Fixed hang or slow exit on systems with a large number of networked printers.
Fixed translation support in clipboard manager.

Portable Devices (MTP)

Windows: Fixed resource leak when copying data from portable media devices.

Registry Compare

Fixed high DPI displays not showing the “Don’t show again” checkbox when confirming the first edit in a session.

Subversion

Windows: Fixed hang when trying to connect to an SVN profile without any saved credentials.
Windows: Added support for canceling SVN connections that are slow/hung.
Fixed svn+file:// profiles incorrectly prompting for a username/password.

Table Compare

Fixed “Extract Microsoft Excel table” and “Extract HTML table(s)” incorrectly handling files containing a lot of Asian characters.

Text Views

Using “Copy Line(s) to Left/Right” gutter buttons clears the selection again (broken in v4.0).
Fixed filtered line counts to use the gutter font.

Text Merge

Fixed “Clear Conflict Section, Next” shortcut not working on detached merge pane.

crashes

macOS: Fixed crash on close when using the Chinese translated version.
Fixed External Format quick compare crash.

Beyond Compare 4.2.3.22587

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	4.2.5 build 23088
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 size	20.64MB
License type	Shareware