Scooter Software heeft versie 4.1.7 van Beyond Compare uitgebracht. Met dit zeer uitgebreide programma, dat beschikbaar is voor Windows, Linux en nu ook voor OS X, kunnen bestanden met elkaar worden vergeleken. Daarnaast is het mogelijk om complete folders, ftp-locaties en archieven te vergelijken. Beyond Compare is beschikbaar in een standaard- en een pro-uitvoering, voor prijzen die beginnen bij 30 dollar. De onderlinge verschillen kunnen op deze pagina worden gevonden. De changelog voor deze uitgave laat de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen zien:
ArchivesCloud Services
- Upgraded 7-zip libraries to 16.02 to fix code execution vulnerability in UDF (.img, .iso) decoder (CVE-2016-2334 and CVE-2016-2335).
- Windows: Added support for PKZip v1 legacy compression algorithms (Implode, Reduce, Shrink).
Command Line
- Fixed support for Unicode paths and filenames on SharePoint WebDAV servers.
- Fixed support for connecting to Amazon S3 buckets in the eu-west-1 region that were created in 2013 and earlier.
- Fixed resource leak when uploading/downloading from Microsoft OneDrive.
- Windows: "Open With" for WebDAV profiles now passes http:// URLs to the requested application instead of BC-specific profile: ones.
- Improved error message if an S3 bucket is stored in an unrecognized AWS region.
- Fixed loading WebDAV folder listings that include empty getcontentlength entries.
File Formats
- Fixed /fileviewer= switch to use fixed English phrases instead of translated strings.
File Views
- OS X/Linux: Fixed importing file formats with external helper executables.
- Fixed loading .docx files that have been modified using MiniZip.
Installer
- "Save File Using Profile" now handles "Editing disabled" just like "Save File on File System As" does.
- Changed button caption in "Save Changes?" confirmation dialog from "Save None" to "Discard All".
Misc
- .msi packages now use SHA-256 code signing signatures instead of SHA-1 ones.
Options
- Fixed support for scrolling using laptops/tablets with precision touchpads (.e.g, Surface Pro).
- OS X: Fixed support for Beyond Compare "Services" menu extensions in apps other than Finder.
- Added Japanese as an official language.
- Time limited license keys now show a warning on the Home view when close to the expiration, and show the expiration date in the About dialog.
Reports
- Improved appearance of Options dialog and Home view for themes with dark backgrounds.
Table Compare
- Fixed Picture Compare Report to use printer DPI instead of screen DPI.
- Fixed Picture Compare Report handling of empty comparison.
- Fixed plain text output of right justified text.
- Fixed plain text output handling of gap lines.
- Fixed Table Compare plain text output of interleaved headers.
Text Views
- Fixed performance regression introduced in 4.1.4.
Text Merge
- Windows: Fixed displaying emoji characters when "Enable font linking in editors" is enabled.
- Linux: Fixed slow performance when long lines are visible.
Crashes
- Output files will now be written using file format external conversion settings.
- Windows: Fixed crash when opening a file on 64-bit Windows.
- Windows: Fixed crash when opening Options dialog to Tweaks panel while DisableCheckForUpdates registry tweak is active.