Scooter Software heeft versie 4.2.5 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. Sinds versie 4.2.2 zijn de volgende verbeteringen aangebracht:
Beyond Compare 4.2.5.23088
Cloud ServicesCommand Line
- Fixed uploads to Dropbox failing silently for files larger than 150 MB.
File Formats
- Linux: Fixed timing issue that could hang the launcher script.
- Linux: Fixed exit code 100 when multiple users launch BC with the same temp folder.
Folder Compare
- Improved "XML Tidy" handling of user defined entities.
- Fixed "XML Sort" and "XML Tidy" to preserve original character encoding.
FTP
- Linux: Fixed support for 'Align filenames with different Unicode normalization forms'.
- Version information is now shown for any file types associated with the Version Compare.
- Fixed file operation "Pause/Resume" button's hint when paused.
- Unix: Fixed file timestamps being off by up to 2 seconds due to a lossy UTC local conversion.
Misc
- Fixed SFTP/SCP connections not closing after an error (e.g., user cancel on "Unrecognized SSH host key" dialog).
Reports
- Added Simplified Chinese as an official language for Windows and macOS.
- Linux: Added context menus for KDE5.
- Windows: Fixed BcClipboard incompatibility with MS Excel, PowerShell ISE, and Visual Studio.
- Updated copyright date to 2018.
- macOS: Fixed displaying version and copyright info in Finder's "Get Info" dialog.
Text Edit
- Generated reports are now encoded with ANSI if both input files are ANSI on Windows, and UTF-8 for all other cases. The UTF-8 byte order mark is only written on Windows.
- Folder Compare Reports using "Include links to file reports" now uses child session settings.
Text Views
- Find & Replace "Replace with" can now use \n and \r to add line breaks when using regular expressions.
Crashes
- Fixed copying forcibly wrapped lines.
- Fixed Picture Compare "Summary" report crash.
Beyond Compare 4.2.4.22795
Notable ChangesCommand Line
- Fixed Folder Compare not including all selected items in file operations (primarily affects 64-bit Linux).
- macOS: Fixed error messages when launching from the command line on macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
File Formats
- macOS: Fixed error messages when launching from the command line on macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
File Views
- Fixed RTF character encoding detection and added support for Unicode characters.
- Fixed RTF table extraction to include tabs between cells and line endings between rows.
Folder Compare
- Fixed high DPI displays not showing the "Keep file read-only" checkbox when confirming overwriting a read-only file.
- Fixed high DPI displays not showing the "Don't show again" checkbox when confirming "Copy File to Left/Right and Open Next Difference".
Misc
- Fixed Folder Compare not including all selected items in file operations (primarily affects 64-bit Linux).
- Unix: Fixed error when trying to copy the same file to two destinations.
- macOS: Fixed support for file names longer than 256 UTF-8 bytes.
Portable Devices (MTP)
- Windows: Fixed mouse wheel scrolling a screen at a time.
- Windows: Fixed entering registration keys copied from PDF files.
- Linux: Fixed hang or slow exit on systems with a large number of networked printers.
- Fixed translation support in clipboard manager.
Registry Compare
- Windows: Fixed resource leak when copying data from portable media devices.
Subversion
- Fixed high DPI displays not showing the "Don't show again" checkbox when confirming the first edit in a session.
Table Compare
- Windows: Fixed hang when trying to connect to an SVN profile without any saved credentials.
- Windows: Added support for canceling SVN connections that are slow/hung.
- Fixed svn+file:// profiles incorrectly prompting for a username/password.
Text Views
- Fixed "Extract Microsoft Excel table" and "Extract HTML table(s)" incorrectly handling files containing a lot of Asian characters.
Text Merge
- Using "Copy Line(s) to Left/Right" gutter buttons clears the selection again (broken in v4.0).
- Fixed filtered line counts to use the gutter font.
Crashes
- Fixed "Clear Conflict Section, Next" shortcut not working on detached merge pane.
- macOS: Fixed crash on close when using the Chinese translated version.
- Fixed External Format quick compare crash.
Beyond Compare 4.2.3.22587
Cloud ServicesCommand Line
- Fixed WebDAV showing invalid subfolders with the same name as the parent folder.
FTP
- Linux: Fixed excessive CPU usage when launching a second comparison from the command line.
Misc
- Unix: Fixed crash when loading an FTP profile with the timezone set to Rome.
MP3 Compare
- View tab bar no longer shows "Select Tab" and "Close Other Tabs" commands if there is only one tab.
- Updated various icons.
Options
- Improved handling of AENC, GEOB, and APIC tags.
Reports
- Added "Minimum clip length" to clipboard manager to avoid saving passwords or other short text (defaults to 32).
Sessions
- Fixed display of custom display filter names (e.g. "[Differences]" instead of "Differences" when orphans not included).
- Fixed UTF-8 reports not including a byte order mark, causing problems when importing them into Excel or viewing them in some web browsers.
Text Views
- Session Settings dialog's "Swap sides" button now also affects "Disable editing" checkboxes.
Crashes
- Unix: Fixed accented characters being entered as '?' when typed.
- macOS: Fixed startup crash on macOS 10.13 High Sierra beta.
- Unix: Fixed Folder Compare crash when opening Options dialog from the Log panel.
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