Released: Nov 13, 2014

Updates in this release

Updates in 4.0.1.19165

Notable Changes

• Added MOVETO scripting command that accepts the same arguments as COPYTO.
• HTTP proxy information is now read from the system and will prompt for a username/password if necessary.
• Improved folder browse dialog's FTP "Quick Connect" handling of passwords.
• OS X/Linux: UNIX extended attributes are now copied when creating new folders (e.g., OS X color labels).
• Folder Compare now excludes uncompared file pairs when the display filters are set to only show orphans.
• Various other fixes.

Archives

• Fixed corruption when editing .tar archives.
• Windows: Removed .vhd as a default extension for "MS virtual hard disk" archives since it conflicts with VHDL source code.
• Windows: Added support for Unicode passwords on RAR archives.
• Windows: Improved "Archive Types" descriptions for various 7-zip provided formats.
• Fixed crash when extracting files from multiple RAR archives at once.

Cloud Services

• HTTP proxy information is now read from the system and will prompt for a username/password if necessary.
• SSL certificates now match hosts listed in the Certificate Subject Alt Name property in addition to the Common Name.
• Improved granularity of progress reporting so it's better than every 4MB.
• Fixed canceling transfers in the middle of a file.

File Formats

• External conversions now support %o variable for original filename.
• Windows: Fixed PDF and external conversions failing for filenames with certain international characters.

File Views

• Fixed Find panel clipping the path edits.
• Fixed Find panel updating of "Sides" when switching between "Show More" and "Show Less".
• "Automatically reload unless changes will be discarded" tweak now affects saving a file that is compared to itself.

Folder Compare

• OS X/Linux: UNIX extended attributes are now copied when creating new folders (e.g., OS X color labels).
• Unknown files will now be filtered out if the display filters are set to only show orphans.
• Fixed support for filename filters with path information (e.g., dir\*.txt) when "Ignore folder structure" is active.
• Fixed support for using "Align filenames with different extensions" in combination with "Archive handling: As files always".
• Windows: Increased threshold for unbuffered file copies from 128MB to 1GB to help with slowdowns.
• Fixed file operation's unresponsive "Show Hidden Items" dialog.
• Folder browse dialog path display now uses the same icons and formatting as the Home view rather than visibly using the profile: syntax.
• "Copy/Move To Folder" now hides the "Folder Structure" options when they don't apply rather than just disabling them.
• Fixed minimizing long filenames in "Confirm File Replace" dialog.
• Toggling "Ignore Unimportant" will now hide files that were visible because they were opened in a file view.

Folder Sync

• Added captions for various toolbar buttons.
• Fixed handling of Summary text for auto-saved sessions.

FTP

• Browse dialog's "Quick Connect" no longer includes passwords in the output path.
• Fixed Browse dialog's Quick Connect "Save Password" checkbox so it creates a new profile or updates the existing one.
• Browse dialog's Quick Connect "Password" edit will now fill in automatically if the username/host/port match a saved profile.
• Fixed changing the FTP filename encoding to disable UTF-8 on servers that support it.
• SSL certificates now match hosts listed in the Certificate Subject Alt Name property in addition to the Common Name.
• Improved debug logging of SFTP directory listings.

Installer

• Windows: Added Amazon S3 mime.types to .msi installers.
• Windows: Installer now prevents installation on systems that don't meet the minimum system requirements (Windows 2000, Windows XP pre-Service Pack 3).

Misc

• Windows: Closing top-level windows no longer brings background windows on top of other applications.
• Windows: Added support for drag & drop from Explorer when the source location is on an FTP site or within a zip file.
• Windows: Fixed drag & drop from applications that worked in v3 but not v4 (e.g., "FileLocator Pro" and "Code Co-op").
• Windows: Fixed drag & drop showing an accept cursor for types that it didn't support.
• Windows: Fixed inverted icons in "Explorer" submenu.
• Linux: Fixed check for updates support for HTTP proxies.
• OS X: Fixed dragging window by clicking on the empty space within toolbars and on the status bar.
• Entering invalid data in registration dialog no longer assumes that it's a v3 key if it's too short to be one.

Options

• Improved detection of keyboard shortcut conflicts.
• Fixed importing v3 file formats that replace the built-in v4 ones.
• Linux: When upgrading preferences from v3, the old settings will be moved to ~/.config/bcompare3 so reinstalling BC3 will still have them available.
• Linux: Fixed updating settings from v3 to v4.

Portable Devices (MTP)

• Windows: Fixed images copied to some portable devices (e.g., Creative Zen) not showing as images on the device.

Scripting

• Added MOVETO command that accepts the same arguments as COPYTO.

Source Control

• Windows: Fixed error message when the svn executable isn't found.

Text Views

• Fixed "Never align differences" when using the "Patience Diff alignment".
• Fixed "Find Whole Words Only" handling of non-western characters.
• Fixed "Find" MRU handling when edit is auto-filled based on cursor position.

Text Compare

• Fixed various issues with "View as Web Page".
• Fixed WordPerfect conversion.

WebDAV

• Fixed folders appearing as subfolders of themselves if the profile URL differed in unimportant ways from the one returned by the server.
• Fixed errors loading subfolders as base folders because the server was returning all of the children in aLIST response even when requesting a depth of 0.
• Fixed last modified times not appearing for certain date ranges.

Crashes

• Fixed crash when double clicking in an inactive text editor.
• Fixed crash during search after active control on find panel has been hidden.
• Windows: Fixed crash on Windows 8 when accessibility services are running.
• OS X: Fixed crash when using ~username as a base folder path.