Beyond Compare Releases
Released: Aug 13, 2021
Updates in 4.4.x
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...
Released: Oct 9, 2019
Updates in 4.3.x
4.3.7 (build 25118)
Updated Oct 2, 2020
Fixes
- macOS: Fixed slow scrolling on macOS 11 Big Sur.
- macOS: Fixed regressions in 4.3.6 that caused blurry text on retina displays and slow scrolling performance in macOS 10.15 and earlier.
- macOS: Fixed SVN profile support on macOS 11 Big Sur.
4.3.6 (build 25063)
Updated Sep 10, 2020
Fixes
- MacOS: Fixed graphical issues when running on MacOS 11 Big Sur.
- MacOS: Fixed buttons & checkboxes incorrectly using small control sizes/fonts.
- Changed "OS X" to...
Released: May 28, 2019
Updates in 4.2.10 (build 23938)
Features
- Notable Changes
- Windows: Added support for Windows 10 case sensitive folders.
- Cloud Services
- Windows: OneDrive authentication now uses the default system web browser instead of an embedded one.
- Folder Compare
- Windows: Added support for Windows 10 case sensitive folders.
- Misc
- Windows: Embedded web browser used for "View as Webpage" and "Check For Updates" will now use newer Internet Explorer engines, up to IE11, if they're available.
- Added Beyond Compare's CPU architecture to Check for...
Released: Jan 15, 2019
Updates in 4.2.9 (build 23626)
Features
- Upgraded OneDrive support to use the Microsoft Graph API.
- Added support for institutional ("Work or school") accounts.
Fixes
- Fixed support for OneDrive, which was using a discontinued service.
- Fixed setting last modified times for folders.
Released: Aug 30, 2017
Updates in 4.2.3 Build 22587
Features
- 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).
Fixes
- 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...
Released: Sep 30, 2016
Updates in 4.1.9.21719
Fixes
- OS X: Fixed SSL/TLS-based profiles (FTPS, WebDAV, Dropbox, Amazon S3) crashes on macOS Sierra.
- OS X/Linux: Fixed Hex Compare Find never completing.
Released: Dec 17, 2015
Updates in this release
Updates in 4.1.3.20814
Notable Changes
- Fixed Hex Compare truncated comparison results for large files with a difference at the very end.
- Fixed support for creating multiple OneDrive profiles so it will prompt for login information every time.
- OS X/Linux: Fixed support for FTP file transfers larger than 2GB.
- Fixed "Unsupported cipher" error when opening an SFTP connection to mod_ftpd servers (e.g.,wpengine.com).
- OS X: Fixed support for using Asian input methods.
- Stability improvements.
Archives...
Released: Nov 9, 2015
Updates in this release
Updates in 4.1.2.20720
Notable Changes
- Improved performance and stability, especially under OS X.
- Fixed connection issues introduced by IPv6 support.
- Numerous bug fixes and tweaks.
Archives
- Added support for creating new .tar.bz2 archives.
- Newly created archive files are now initialized with default data instead of being created as zero byte files.
- Fixed creating a new 7-zip .7z archive.
- Fixed load error when loading a snapshot of an empty Folder Compare.
File Formats
- Removed no longer supported...
Released: Sep 25, 2015
Updates in this release
Updates in 4.1.1.20615
Notable Changes
- Added "Use IPv6 when available" tweak.
- Fixed crash when opening "File Formats" dialog from an empty MP3, Registry, or Version Compare session.
- Fixed exporting file formats either exporting the wrong formats or crashing.
Released: Sep 22, 2015
Updates in this release
Updates in 4.1.0.20575
Notable Changes
- Windows/Linux: Added 64-bit version that handles significantly larger comparisons.
- Linux: Updated user interface to use Qt 4.8 instead of Qt 3.3.
- Windows: Comparing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (.xls, .xlsx) is now significantly faster and no longer requires Excel.
- OS X/Linux: Added support for Microsoft Word documents and Excel spreadsheets (.doc, .docx, .xls,.xlsx).
- Windows: Added support for Microsoft OneDrive.
- OS X/Linux: Added read/write support...