BleachBit is een programma waarmee rommel op de computer kan worden opgeruimd. Het is daarmee vergelijkbaar met CCleaner van Piriform, maar er zijn ook enkele belangrijke verschillen. Ten eerste is BleachBit opensource en verder is er naast een Windows-uitvoering ook een versie voor Linux. Het programma kan worden gebruikt in meer dan zestig talen, waaronder het Nederlands. Door toevoeging van winapp2.ini, dat het overigens automatisch zelf ophaalt, kan het programma de sporen van ruim 1.700 programma's opruimen. Naast gewoon verwijderen is er ook de optie om de ruimte die de bestanden in gebruik namen diverse keren te overschrijven, zodat terughalen onmogelijk wordt. Andrew Ziem heeft versie 1.12 uitgebracht en de changelog voor deze uitgave ziet er als volgt uit:
These are the changes since version 1.10:
- Fix error Favicons is version 32 with Google Chrome 51 (reported by Holger)
- Fix cleaning of Thumbnails in new Chromium and Google Chrome (reported by ineuw, patrick)
- Fix crash with corrupt BleachBit.ini (reported by BitBleacher)
- Fix error UNIQUE constraint failed error cleaning Firefox (reported by danjackson1 and gravy45)
Specific to Linux
- Update EasyTAG cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
- Update Epiphany cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
- Update Evolution cleaner (thanks to skquinn)
- Update GNOME cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
- Update KDE cleaner for KDE 4 on openSUSE (thanks to Mailaender)
- Update Rhythmbox cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
- Update Thumbnails cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
- Update Transmission cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
- Update X11 cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
- Switch from GnomeVFS, which is deprecated, to GIO (reported by MM)
- Do not repeat Google Chrome cache in preview (reported by Daniel Che)
- Fix retention of translations for Chinese
- Whitelist iBus Pinyin (reported by Josiah Hunter)
- Add .deb package for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
- Add .rpm package for Fedora 24.
Specific to Windows
- Fix cleaning of files with dollar sign ($) in name
- Support ExcludeKey filter in Winapp2.ini (reported by 212eta)
- Fix support for the pattern *.extension with FileKey in Winapp2.ini (reported by 212eta)
- Downgrade exception notice for getting special folders (reported by timvandermeij)
- Make regex filter in CleanerML case insensitive on Windows
- Fix error [Errno 2] No such file or directory when cleaning Windows Explorer - Thumbnails more than once in a row
- Fix the harmless error Error in execution of Command to delete C:\Windows\temp\_avast_\AvastLock.txt with Avast antivirus
- Update SQLite.dll 3.8.0.2 to 3.11.1 (suggested by brahmastra2016).
- Update NSIS to 2.51, which hardens the installer against DLL hijacking
- Resolved false positive Packer.Generic!c with AegisLab antivirus
- Submit BleachBit for whitelisting with ESET antivirus to address slowness when running with ESET (reported by captaincackle)
Development
- Add type attribute to CleanerML
- Add new action process to CleanerML to run external commands
- Add wholeregex/nwholeregex filters to CleanerML
- Move GitHub repositories bleachbit-misc and winapp2.ini to the new BleachBit organization in GitHub. More will follow.