Download Beyond Compare 3.3.9 build 17611

Scooter Software has released version 3.3.9 of Beyond Compare. With this very extensive program, which is available for Windows and Linux, files can be compared with each other. In addition, it is possible to compare complete folders, ftp locations and archives. Beyond Compare is available in a standard and a pro version, for Prices that start at $30. The mutual differences can be this page are being found. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

File Views

• “Open Clipboard” now includes seconds in the time displayed in the path edit.
• Fixed File Info panel initializing non-detected File Format names.
• Fixed handling of large text values ​​in treeview- and grid-based compares.

Folder Compare

• Fixed loading large folders when comparing against an OS X 10.9 Mavericks file share.

FTP

• Fixed support for recursive folder listings on vsFTPd servers.
• Fixed support for “Fetch complete timestamps” on servers that don’t support retrieving timestamps for folders.

Hex Compare

• Fixed display when the “Background Contrast” preference is set to its lowest position.

Home View

• Fixed crash when using “Collapse All” with nothing selected.

misc

• Fixed crash on startup when session types have been disabled.
• Improved status bar, scrollbar, and grid header display on high DPI displays.
• Portable installs will now look in the %AppData% settings folder for a license key if one isn’t in the exe folder.

Picture Compare

• Fixed “Exteral Conversion” support for ANSI filenames.
• Fixed changing “Same pixels” and “Different pixels” options.
• Fixed “Swap Sides” when “Blend” is not 50 or “Tolerance” does not use solid colors.
• Fixed handling of transformations (stretch, flip, rotate) when one side is reloaded.

Registry Compare

• Fixed performance when displaying extremely long strings.
• Fixed size of hints when hovering over extremely large binary values.
• Fixed file encoding error handling.

Reports

• Text “patch” reports with the “context” style now separate the timestamp from the filename with a tab instead of space.
• Text “patch” reports using the “normal” style now use “diff -r filename1 filename2” as the header line.

scripting

• Fixed scripts to not change saved sessions, particularly if they aren’t sorted by name.
• Fixed REGISTRY-REPORT not expanding folders when loaded from a selection in a folder compare.

Text Views

• Using “Open Clipboard” will now always treat the text as Unicode instead of trying to auto-detect an encoding.
• Fixed long lines of unbroken text not being displayed correctly.
• Fixed line details not to scroll unnecessarily when editing.
• Fixed editor inserting a line ending when the first line is very long.
• Improved behavior when scrolling horizontally.

Text Compare

• Fixed comparing matching text with different grammar types so they’re treated as a difference.
• Fixed handling of edits that affect multi-line grammar items.
• Fixed the “Session Settings” dialog’s behavior when the left and right file formats are different.
• Fixed incorrect character highlighting when using replacements to unalign text.
• Fixed inserting first line ending when “Compare line endings” is enabled.
• Fixed handling of end of file in inactive editor when deleting the first line in an orphan file.

Text Merge

• Fixed crash when “Compare Line Endings” is enabled.
• Fixed input editors resizing incorrectly when the output editor is in a separate window.
• Fixed [Esc] to close the view even if the detached output window has focus.