Released: Feb 23, 2026

Aggiornamenti in 5.2.0 (Build: 31950)

Funzionalità

• 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" error when connecting to Dropbox.
  • Linux: Updated to Qt 6.
  • Linux: Updated .deb packages for Deb822.
  • Various other enhancements and stability improvements.
• Admin Policies
  • Expanded support for disabling features via admin policies:
    • Policies are stored in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on Windows and as /etc/bcompare.conf on macOS and Linux. See help for details.
    • Added DisableSavedPasswords policy to hide "Save Password" checkboxes.
    • Added DisableRemoteProfiles policy to disable FTP and cloud profiles. Read-only Subversion access is still enabled.
    • macOS/Linux: Added support for DisableCheckForUpdates policy.
    • Windows: Added /DisableCheckForUpdates, /DisableRemoteProfiles, and /DisableSavedPasswords switches to installer to enable their respective admin policies. /DisableCheckForUpdates is an alias to the existing /DisableUpdates one.
• Appearance
  • macOS:
    • "File Formats" dialog now shows red for file formats that won't be used because a higher format matches the same file masks.
• Folder Compare
  • Windows:
    • Added support for displaying, comparing, and filtering additional Windows file attributes (e.g., temporary, offline).
  • Added support for filtering symbolic links and other Unix special file types (e.g., FIFOs, sockets).
  • Added support for comparing files' Unix owner/group/permissions.
• FTP / Cloud Services
  • Changed how saved passwords are stored. Exported profiles are compatible with previous versions, but downgrading an install will treat the passwords as blank.
  • macOS: FTP Profile > Server > Time zone edit no longer allows selecting folder items like "Africa" as a timezone.
• Installer
  • Windows: Installer now supports dark mode and has an updated appearance.
  • Linux: Updated .deb packages for Deb822.
• Misc
  • Windows: Code signing now only uses an SHA-256 signature rather than also dual signing with an SHA-1 signature.
  • Linux: Fixed "Help" button not appearing on dialogs depending on the desktop environment.
  • macOS: Improved behavior of dropdown treeviews (e.g., FTP Profile > Server > Time zone).
  • macOS: Multi-select treeviews (e.g., Home view "Sessions" list) now toggle selection on Cmd+clicks rather than Ctrl+clicks.
  • macOS: Showing a window-modal dialog when quitting now disables other open windows and keeps the one showing a sheet on top.
  • macOS/Linux: Fixed slow startup in trial mode.
• Reports
  • Added "Revision" column option to Folder Compare reports.
• Scripting
  • Extended scripting FILTER command with UNIXTYPE filter to match symbolic links, FIFOs, sockets, etc.
• Table Compare
  • Column align by name now ignores case and whitespace.
• Third Party Libraries
  • Updated FlexCel to v7.25.
  • Updated fpspreadsheet to Lazarus-CCR SVN trunk r9907.
  • Updated Free Pascal to v3.3.1, GitLab commit bb1c527.
  • Updated IndySockets to v10.6.3.12.
  • Updated Inno Setup to v6.6.1.
  • Updated JCL to v2.8.1.9330.
  • Updated Lazarus to v4.99, GitLab commit 480bdb7.
  • Updated madCollection to v5.2.0.
  • Updated SecureBlackBox to v24.0.9430.
  • Updated SMWord to 1.60(b44).
  • Updated Xpdf PdfToText to v4.06.
  • Updated ZipForge to v6.97.

Correzioni

• Appearance
  • Windows:
    • Font sizes no longer change slightly when moving between monitors with different scale factors.
    • Fixed file view "Align with..." mode labels for "Line # is marked" and "Select line(s) to align" drawing as black on black in dark mode.
    • Fixed visibility of I-beam with hourglass mouse cursor in dark mode.
    • Fixed detached merge output panel showing incorrectly sized images if it's on a monitor with different scaling than the main view.
  • Linux:
    • Mouse cursor for Picture Compare + and text editor I-beam when busy now use system-provided images to work around issues with Wayland fraction scaling.
    • Fixed buttons with icons (e.g., Session > Save Session As > New Subfolder) showing black text on a black background in dark mode.
  • macOS:
    • Fixed various buttons drawing the button shape smaller when they have focus (e.g., + and - buttons next to Home view search edit).
    • Fixed file view comparison results icon in status bar drawing upside down.
• Folder Compare
  • Windows:
    • Fixed log always being closed in new views on high DPI monitors.
    • Fixed log height not scaling when moving between monitors with different scaling.
  • macOS/Linux: Keyboard shortcuts are now suppressed when in an inline rename edit.
  • Fixed "Close Subfolders" to work on selection instead of just current line, matching "Open Subfolders" behavior.
  • Fixed "Compare Contents" incorrectly disabling "Binary" and "Rules-based" when the base folders are network servers (\\server), and incorrectly enabling them when the selection is within an expanded snapshot file.
  • Fixed archive files created on a Unix system and stored on a Windows disk sorting incorrectly when sorting by the "Attribute" column.
• FTP / Cloud Services
  • Fixed "Invalid key material type" error when connecting to Dropbox.
  • Fixed failure when using XCRC command with ProFTPD.
  • Fixed poor behavior when entering certain malformed URLs.
  • macOS: FTP Profile > Server > Time zone edit no longer allows selecting folder items like "Africa" as a timezone.
• Hex Compare
  • Fixed Find panel losing focus when pressing [Enter].
• Installer
  • Linux: Fixed .tar.gz package including an unintentional installer.sh, separate from the intended install.sh.
  • Linux: Fixed .rpm package's PROVIDES section listing unnecessary files.
• Misc
  • Windows: Code signing now only uses an SHA-256 signature rather than also dual signing with an SHA-1 signature.
  • Linux: Fixed "Help" button not appearing on dialogs depending on the desktop environment.
  • macOS: Showing a window-modal dialog when quitting now disables other open windows and keeps the one showing a sheet on top.
  • macOS/Linux: Fixed slow startup in trial mode.
• Table Compare
  • Column align by name now ignores case and whitespace.
  • Fixed keeping current row at same relative position in the view when changing the display filter.
• Text Views
  • Windows: Fixed displaying lines longer than 65535 characters.
• Crashes
  • Fixed crash when loading a 7-zip archive and then trying to access a file that has been removed from the archive.
  • Linux: Fixed Report "Print Preview" crashes, missing pages, and slow behavior.
  • macOS: Fixed crashes when closing windows.
  • macOS/Linux: Fixed crash when opening a new tab while doing an inline rename in a Folder Compare view, among other places.
  • macOS: Fixed crash when using "Next Difference Files" opens a different compare view.
  • macOS: Fixed Folder Compare crash when pressing [Ctrl] key while file operations are occurring.