Beyond Compare 5.1.6 (Build: 31527)

Released: Oct 29, 2025

Updates in 5.1.6 (Build: 31527)

Features

  • General stability and polish improvements.

Fixes

  • 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 Compare
    • Fixed Find panel losing focus when [Enter] is pressed.
  • Misc
    • Windows: Drag & drop is no longer allowed on disabled windows (e.g., when showing a modal dialog).
  • Text Merge
    • Fixed input and output panel scrolling not syncing when changing current line.
  • Crashes
    • macOS: Fixed crash when closing view tabs/windows.
    • Fixed crash when loading a 7-zip archive and then trying to access a file that has been removed from the archive.
    • Fixed crash when using FILTER scripting command with missing arguments.