Released: Mar 24, 2026

Actualizaciones en 5.2.1 (Build: 32035)

Características

• Notable Changes
  • General polish and stability improvements.

Correcciones

• Notable Changes
  • Windows: Fixed .docx conversion failures when the system ANSI codepage is a DBCS one.
  • Windows: Fixed report Print, Print Preview, and Print to PDF scaling fonts incorrectly.
  • Windows: Fixed crash when trying to uninstall a "Current User" install.
• Appearance
  • Fixed Folder Sync's Session Settings > Sync icons showing as blank squares when editing a session from the Home View.
  • Linux: Fixed...

Released: Feb 23, 2026

Actualizaciones en 5.2.0 (Build: 31950)

Características

• Notable Changes
  • Added support for comparing and filtering Unix owner/group/file type and additional Windows file attributes (e.g., symbolic link, offline).
  • Expanded support for disabling features via admin policies.
  • Changed how saved passwords are stored. Exported profiles are compatible with previous versions, but downgrading an install will treat the passwords as blank.
  • Table Compare now ignores case and whitespace when aligning columns by name.
  • Fixed "Invalid key material type...

Released: Dec 18, 2025

Actualizaciones en 5.1.7 (Build: 31736)

Correcciones

• macOS: Fixed hangs when opening "Settings" dialog or using "Install Command Line Tools..." on macOS 26.2 Tahoe.
• Windows: Installer and executables are now only signed with an SHA-256 digital signature and no longer include an SHA-1 one.

Released: Oct 29, 2025

Actualizaciones en 5.1.6 (Build: 31527)

Características

• General stability and polish improvements.

Correcciones

• Appearance
  • Windows: Fixed dark mode list tables showing a white space at the right and bottom edges of the column headers.
  • Windows: Fixed list tables showing incorrect line heights on secondary monitors with different scaling than the primary monitor.
• Explorer Context Menu
  • Fixed GDI object resource leak in classic Explorer context menu, which fixes Explorer crashes when interacting with archive files on Windows 11.
• Hex...

Released: Sep 8, 2025

Actualizaciones en 5.1.5 (Build: 31310)

Correcciones

• Updated 7-zip library to v25.01. Fixes CVE-2025-53816 (RAR archive vulnerability) and CVE-2025-53817 (COM compound file vulnerability).
• macOS/Linux: Fixed repeatedly using Open Clipboard in file compares toggling between the clipboard contents and nothing.
• Fixed slow/jittery column resizing in Table Compare.

Released: Aug 26, 2025

Actualizaciones en 5.1.4 (Build: 31268)

Correcciones

• macOS/Linux
  • Fixed crash regressions introduced in 5.1.3.
  • Fixed 'Control' which had no parent window. Crash on startup, broken in 5.1.3.
  • Linux: Fixed "Next Difference" hang/crash, broken in 5.1.3.
• Folder Compare
  • Fixed pop-up message so it always appears above the log.
  • "Find Filename" dialog now always keeps one side or the other checked.
• Windows
  • Fixed taskbar icon temporarily disappearing when moving between monitors with different scaling.
• Text Compare
  • Fixed "Find" for off-screen...

Released: Aug 15, 2025

Actualizaciones en 5.1.3 (Build: 31238)

Características

• Notable Changes
  • Updated UnRAR to fix another directory traversal vulnerability.
• File Formats
  • Improved JavaScript grammar match for regular expression literal.
• Folder Compare
  • Improved performance when loading extremely large directories while sorting by the name column.
  • Exclude will now wrap '*' and '?' in filenames in []s so they only match that specific filename rather than being treated as a wildcard.
  • Combined "Align" and "Align With" commands.
• Table Compare
  • "Next Difference...

Released: Jul 24, 2025

Actualizaciones en 5.1.2 (Build: 31185)

Correcciones

• Fixed mouse clicks on checkboxes in list tables not toggling the correct checkbox, broken in 5.1.1.
• Fixed Text Compare crash when deleting a single line difference.

Released: Jul 22, 2025

Actualizaciones en 5.1.1 (Build: 31157)

Características

• File Formats
  • Improved Python file format number grammar to make decimal point optional.
• Installer
  • Linux: Creating an empty /etc/default/bcompare file will now prevent the .rpm package from adding the Beyond Compare repository.
• Misc
  • Linux:
    • Launcher script now sets 'QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb' to improve behavior under Wayland.
    • Updated readme with supported distros and instructions for RHEL10.
  • macOS/Linux:
    • Added "Explore settings folder" link to Help > Support dialog.
  • Improved list...

Released: Jun 4, 2025

Actualizaciones en 5.1.0 (Build: 31016)

Características

• Notable Changes
  • Re-added support for disjointed row selection to Table Compare.
  • Improved Home View to make less common comparison types more discoverable.
• Appearance
  • Windows: Crosshatching used for missing lines and after the end of the file is now scaled on high DPI displays.
• Home View
  • All comparison types are now shown by default.
  • Removed secondary page under the > button in favor of making favorited icons large and making the rest smaller and on a second row.
  • Added "Text...