Beyond Compare 4.4.x
Released: Aug 13, 2021
4.4.x での更新項目
4.4.7 (build 28397)
Updated Oct 19, 2023
Features
- Installer
- Linux: Updated RPM repository GPG key for Fedora 38 compatibility.
- Folder Compare
- Linux: Updated smb:// support for KDE and DBUS integration.
- File Formats
- Microsoft Windows: - Updated pdftotext to v4.04.
Fixes
- Notable Changes
- macOS: Fixed blurry text on Intel CPU systems with retina displays running macOS 14 Sonoma.
- Linux: Fixed typo in RPM uninstall script in 4.4.5 and 4.4.6.
- Fixed hex compare incorrectly marking single matches as different.
- General updates and stability fixes.
- Hex Compare
- Fixed incorrectly marking single matches as different.
- Installer
- Linux: RPM installer no longer tries to import the GPG key automatically.
- Linux: Fixed typo in rpm pre-uninstall script.
- Misc
- macOS: Fixed blurry text on Intel CPU systems with retina displays running macOS 14 Sonoma.
- macOS: Fixed "Beyond Compare" top level menu item not appearing in macOS Sonoma betas.
- Windows: Fixed showing menu items as checked on Windows 11.
- Options
- Windows: Fixed Options dialog "Explorer Integration" saying it's a portable install if BC was installed and registered by an administrator and is run by a limited user.
- Crashes
- Linux: Fixed crash when simultaneously running multiple command line quick compares.
4.4.6 (build 27483)
Updated Jul 8, 2023
Features
- Added support for Microsoft Windows 11.
- Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2022.
Features
- Apple macOS: Improved scrolling speed on M series hardware running macOS 13.
4.4.5 (build 27371)
Updated Feb 3, 2023
Features
- Notable Changes
- Linux: Updated Nautilus Context Menu to support Gnome 43 / Nautilus API 4.0.
- FTP
- Unix: SFTP connections now check ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 in addition to id_rsa and id_dsa.
- Hex Compare
- Improved handling of color and font settings.
- Installer
- Linux: Updated location of GPG public signing key for .deb installer.
- Linux: Updated RPM signature to use SHA256.
- Misc
- Linux: Updated Nautilus Context Menu to support Gnome 43 / Nautilus API 4.0.
Fixes
- Notable Changes
- Fixed toggling "Include hidden items" checkbox in file operation confirmations to no longer reset the selected sides.
- Various other fixes and stability improvements.
- File Formats
- Unix: Fixed PDF conversion failing when filenames contain a parenthesis.
- Folder Compare
- Fixed toggling "Include hidden items" checkbox in file operation confirmations to no longer reset the selected sides.
- Misc
- macOS: Improved exceptionally poor performance on 4K+ displays with high bit depths (e.g., Studio Displays or built-in retina MacBook screens).
- macOS: Fixed memory leak.
- Crashes
- macOS: Fixed crash when cancelling "Install command line tools" prompt.
- Unix: Fixed crash when comparing .doc files.
- Windows: Fixed crash in 64-bit Registry Compare when comparing large data sets.
4.4.4 (build 27058)
Updated Nov 4, 2022
Fixes
- Notable Changes
- macOS: Fixed scrolling and redrawing issues in macOS 13.0 Ventura.
- Folder Compare
- macOS/Linux: Fixed alignment overrides not correctly handling DOS replacement masks that contain numbers.
- Text Views
- Fixed intermittent incorrect results with lines longer than the maximum line length.
- Crashes
- Windows: Fixed crashes in the folder browse dialog on 64-bit Windows.
4.4.3 (build 26655)
Updated Jul 20, 2022
Features
- Cloud Services
- Dropbox connections will now only try to use TLS 1.2 and 1.3.
- File Formats
- Updated URL for "PDF documents" file format converter.
- Misc
- Updated supported OS versions in Microsoft Windows and Linux README files and updated URLs to use https://.
- Table Compare
- Windows: Updated Microsoft Excel (xls/xlsx) reading library.
Fixes
- Notable Changes
- Windows: Fixed two security vulnerabilities in the .exe installer.
- Various stability fixes.
- Installer
- Windows: Fixed DLL preloading vulnerability in uninstaller. Installer will no longer run on Windows XP or Windows Vista.
- Windows: BCClipboard.exe is no longer run automatically during silent installs unless launched from Beyond Compare as part of an auto-update.
- Windows: Fixed crash when removing the shell extension in an "Install for current user" install.
- Windows: Fixed "Internal error: Failed to expand shell folder constant 'userdesktop'" error when run from a restricted user account.
- Misc
- macOS: Fixed moving a tab to a new window and then dragging in the toolbar area moving the original parent window instead.
- Picture Compare
- macOS: Fixed loading some 64bpp PNGs and improved error handling when an image fails to load.
- Crashes
- macOS: Fixed crash in the crash reporting dialog.
4.4.2 (build 26348)
Updated Mar 16, 2022
Fixes
- macOS: Fixed bcomp command line support on macOS 12.3.
4.4.1 (build 26165)
Updated Dec 20, 2021
Features
- Notable Changes
- Improved stability and various other fixes, especially in FTP/SFTP connections.
- FTP
- Added support for PuTTY v3 SSH keys, and enhanced support for other key formats.
- Added FTPS profile option to limit TLS version minimum and maximum to handle incompatibilities or increase security.
Fixes
- FTP
- macOS/Linux: Fixed hang and high CPU usage when using an empty passphrase to try to load a SSH private key file that's encrypted and stored in the new OpenSSH private key format.
- Fixed parsing z/OS FTP listings that include external links.
- Fixed "450 Transfer aborted. Link to file server lost" error when uploading to ProFTPD hosts.
- Fixed SFTP connections failing depending on the key exchange algorithms enabled on the server.
- Fixed read timeout when doing Active mode FTP transfers from vsFTPD servers.
- macOS: Fixed read timeout when doing Active mode FTP transfers from ProFTPD servers.
- Fixed "TLS session of data connection not resumed" errors when using TLS 1.3 to connect to FileZilla Server and other FTP servers that rely on GnuTLS.
- Misc
- Fixed truncated text in Japanese version.
- macOS: Fixed "Browse Using Profiles" dialog local file system treeview flickering between incorrect file type icons.
- WebDAV
- Windows: Fixed WebDAV connections using NTLM authentication (e.g., SharePoint).
- Crashes
- macOS: Fixed crashes in "Browse Using Profiles" dialog.
- macOS: Fixed crash when drawing a combobox.
4.4.0 (build 25886)
Updated Aug 13, 2021
Features
- Notable Changes
- Added support for TLS 1.3.
- Various enhancements for SFTP support.
- Updated Dropbox profiles to use new short-lived access tokens.
- Cloud Services
- Added support for TLS 1.3.
- Updated Dropbox profiles to use new short-lived access tokens.
- File Views
- Linux: Added support for https:// URLs.
- FTP
- Added support for Ed25519 SSH keys.
- Added support for OpenSSH's newer private key format.
- Added support for hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com SSH HMAC algorithm.
- Added support for TLS 1.3 for FTPS connections.
- Adjusted SSH key exchange algorithms to be more conservative.
- Installer
- Linux: Updated .deb/.rpm packages to use https for remote repositories.
- Misc
- Linux: Check for Updates now uses HTTPS connections.
Fixes
- Notable Changes
- Linux/macOS: Fixed corruption of characters outside the Unicode basic multilingual plane (e.g., emoji).
- Various fixes and enhancements.
- Cloud Services
- Linux: Fixed support for automatically trusting TLS certificates signed by a trusted certificate authority.
- File Views
- Linux: Fixed corruption of characters outside the Unicode basic multilingual plane (e.g., emoji). Displaying emoji is not supported yet, so they will show as <?> U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, but will remain the original characters when saving/editing.
- macOS: Fixed support for characters outside the Unicode basic multilingual plane (e.g., emoji).
- macOS: Fixed "Find..." autocomplete incorrectly changing capitalization when the search string matches an MRU string.
- Folder Compare
- Windows: Fixed using large buffers when loading remote network drives.
- macOS: Fixed "Copy to Side" command not appearing on the toolbar or in menus if configured to do so.
- FTP
- Fixed dropped SFTP connections when uploading files to CrushFTP.
- Fixed truncated files when uploading to a Windows 10 OpenSSH server.
- Fixed truncated files when downloading from an HP/Tandem NonStop SFTP server.
- Misc
- Linux: Fixed file sizes showing as <?> on locales that use non-ASCII characters (e.g., No-break space).
- macOS: Fixed failure to launch a file comparison if an external process attempted it while BC was shutting down.
- macOS: Fixed various issues with Finder extension.
- macOS: Fixed file view path edits showing the old path when loading a new file.
- macOS: Fixed file save dialog growing too wide and not being resizable on macOS Big Sur and later.
- macOS: Fixed ESC to close modal dialogs even if they don't have a 'Cancel' button.
- Picture Compare
- macOS: Fixed "Browse Using File System" showing all file types as unselectable.
- Text Merge
- macOS: Fixed "Align With" behavior.
- Crashes
- Fixed intermittent crash on shutdown.