Beyond Compare for Mac

• Added support for comparing and filtering Unix owner/group/file type and additional Windows file attributes (e.g., symbolic link, offline).
• Expanded support for disabling features via admin policies.
• Changed how saved passwords are stored. Exported profiles are compatible with previous versions, but downgrading an install will treat the passwords as blank.
• Table Compare now ignores case and whitespace when aligning columns by name.
• Fixed "Invalid key material type" error when connecting to Dropbox.
• Linux: Updated to Qt 6.
• Linux: Updated .deb packages for Deb822.
• Various other enhancements and stability improvements.

Admin Policies

• Expanded support for disabling features via admin policies.
  • Policies are stored in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on Windows and as /etc/bcompare.conf on macOS and Linux. See help for details.
  • Added DisableSavedPasswords policy to hide "Save Password" checkboxes.
  • Added DisableRemoteProfiles policy to disable FTP and cloud profiles. Read-only Subversion access is still enabled.
  • macOS/Linux: Added support for DisableCheckForUpdates policy.
  • Windows: Added /DisableCheckForUpdates, /DisableRemoteProfiles, and /DisableSavedPasswords switches to installer to enable their respective admin policies. /DisableCheckForUpdates is an alias to the existing /DisableUpdates one.

Appearance

• Windows: Font sizes no longer change slightly when moving between monitors with different scale factors.
• Windows: Fixed file view "Align with..." mode labels for "Line # is marked" and "Select line(s) to align" drawing as black on black in dark mode.
• Windows: Fixed visibility of I-beam with hourglass mouse cursor in dark mode.
• Windows: Fixed detached merge output panel showing incorrectly sized images if it's on a monitor with different scaling than the main view.
• Linux: Mouse cursor for Picture Compare + and text editor I-beam when busy now use system-provided images to work around issues with Wayland fraction scaling.
• Linux: Fixed buttons with icons (e.g., Session > Save Session As > New Subfolder) showing black text on a black background in dark mode.
• macOS: "File Formats" dialog now shows red for file formats that won't be used because a higher format matches the same file masks.
• macOS: Fixed various buttons drawing the button shape smaller when they have focus (e.g., + and - buttons next to Home view search edit).
• macOS: Fixed file view comparison results icon in status bar drawing upside down.

Folder Compare

• Windows: Added support for displaying, comparing, and filtering additional Windows file attributes (e.g., temporary, offline).
• Added support for filtering symbolic links and other Unix special file types (e.g., FIFOs, sockets).
• Added support for comparing files' Unix owner/group/permissions.
• macOS/Linux: Keyboard shortcuts are now suppressed when in an inline rename edit.
• Fixed "Close Subfolders" to work on selection instead of just current line, matching "Open Subfolders" behavior.
• Fixed "Compare Contents" incorrectly disabling "Binary" and "Rules-based" when the base folders are network servers (\\server), and incorrectly enabling them when the selection is within an expanded snapshot file.
• Fixed archive files created on a Unix system and stored on a Windows disk sorting incorrectly when sorting by the "Attribute" column.
• Windows: Fixed log always being closed in new views on high DPI monitors.
• Windows: Fixed log height not scaling when moving between monitors with different scaling.

FTP / Cloud Services

• Changed how saved passwords are stored. Exported profiles are compatible with previous versions, but downgrading an install will treat the passwords as blank.
• Fixed "Invalid key material type" error when connecting to Dropbox.
• Fixed failure when using XCRC command with ProFTPD.
• Fixed poor behavior when entering certain malformed URLs.
• macOS: FTP Profile > Server > Time zone edit no longer allows selecting folder items like "Africa" as a timezone.

Hex Compare

• Fixed Find panel losing focus when pressing [Enter].

Installer

• Windows: Installer now supports dark mode and has an updated appearance.
• Linux: Updated .deb packages for Deb822.
• Linux: Fixed .tar.gz package including an unintentional installer.sh, separate from the intended install.sh.
• Linux: Fixed .rpm package's PROVIDES section listing unnecessary files.

Misc

• Windows: Code signing now only uses an SHA-256 signature rather than also dual signing with an SHA-1 signature.
• Linux: Fixed "Help" button not appearing on dialogs depending on the desktop environment.
• macOS: Improved behavior of dropdown treeviews (e.g., FTP Profile > Server > Time zone).
• macOS: Multi-select treeviews (e.g., Home view "Sessions" list) now toggle selection on Cmd+clicks rather than Ctrl+clicks.
• macOS: Showing a window-modal dialog when quitting now disables other open windows and keeps the one showing a sheet on top.
• macOS/Linux: Fixed slow startup in trial mode.

Reports

• Added "Revision" column option to Folder Compare reports.

Scripting

• Extended scripting FILTER command with UNIXTYPE filter to match symbolic links, FIFOs, sockets, etc.

Table Compare

• Column align by name now ignores case and whitespace.
• Fixed keeping current row at same relative position in the view when changing the display filter.

Text Views

• Windows: Fixed displaying lines longer than 65535 characters.

Crashes

• Fixed crash when loading a 7-zip archive and then trying to access a file that has been removed from the archive.
• Linux: Fixed Report "Print Preview" crashes, missing pages, and slow behavior.
• macOS: Fixed crashes when closing windows.
• macOS/Linux: Fixed crash when opening a new tab while doing an inline rename in a Folder Compare view, among other places.
• macOS: Fixed crash when using "Next Difference Files" opens a different compare view.
• macOS: Fixed Folder Compare crash when pressing [Ctrl] key while file operations are occurring.

Third Party Libraries

• Updated FlexCel to v7.25.
• Updated fpspreadsheet to Lazarus-CCR SVN trunk r9907.
• Updated Free Pascal to v3.3.1, GitLab commit bb1c527.
• Updated IndySockets to v10.6.3.12.
• Updated Inno Setup to v6.6.1.
• Updated JCL to v2.8.1.9330.
• Updated Lazarus to v4.99, GitLab commit 480bdb7.
• Updated madCollection to v5.2.0.
• Updated SecureBlackBox to v24.0.9430.
• Updated SMWord to 1.60(b44).
• Updated Xpdf PdfToText to v4.06.
• Updated ZipForge to v6.97.