Download Beyond Compare 3.1.8 build 11096

The developers of Scooter Software have released a new version of Beyond Compare with 3.1.8 build 11096 as the version designation. With this program you can synchronize files between different locations or compare these files in detail. To do the latter well, you can go Beyond Compare to expand with definitions of the different file formats. For more information, we refer you to this page and on this page several instructional videos are available. The list of changes for this latest version is as follows:

Version 3.1.8.11096

Notable changes:

• File views now support “Open” and “Save As” dialogs on FTP sites.
• Improved Data Compare support for detecting multi-line cells.
• Changed confirmation dialog button order to match Windows (Yes/YesToAll/No/NoToAll/Cancel).

Archives:

• Fixed snapshot loading so they show filenames that only differ in case.
• Fixed crash when extracting from a 7-zip archive encounters an error.
• Fixed using “Copy to Folder” on files within a zip if a matching zip on the target doesn’t already exist.
• Fixed support for reading/writing files in a zip after renaming the zip.
• Fixed loading a file view from a snapshot comparison so it doesn’t incorrectly flag the files as different in the folder compare.

Dates Compare:

• “Comma Separated Values” and “MS Excel Workbooks” formats now recognize non-Windows line endings.
• Replaced “Recognized line ending styles” setting with “Line endings” setting to improve handling of multi-line cells.

File Formats:

• Added ability to mark external converts as requiring ANSI filenames.
• Hex, MP3, and Version views no longer show the Session Settings “Format” tab or the format dropdown in the file info panels.
• Fixed “PDF Documents” handling or non-ANSI filenames.

FileViews:

• Session Settings dialog now supports browsing to files on FTP sites.
• Fixed quick compare dialog opening the file view automatically even if files are identical.
• Fixed “Use System” selection coloring for Data, MP3 and Version compares.
• Fixed “Open With” toolbar menu items to only show on sides where content is local.
• Fixed encoding crash if a cancel or error occurs during load.
• Fixed encoding auto-detection incorrectly guessing UTF-8 for ANSI text.

Folder Compare:

• Changed confirmation dialog button order to match Windows (Yes/YesToAll/No/NoToAll/Cancel).
• Browse FTP site repopulates folders before expanding them.
• File operations from a folder to a snapshot are disabled.
• Fixed detecting changes in filename case during a refresh.
• Fixed status bar not updating free space after file operations.
• Fixed behavior when using multiple path delimiters between folder names.
• Fixed comparing a folder to itself and renaming with both sides selected so it doesn’t try to rename each file twice.
• Fixed moving folders between drives not showing the target folder’s size correctly until after a full refresh.
• Fixed using “Create New” in browse dialog so it auto-selects the newly created folder.
• Fixed canceling “Copy to Folder” when it’s checking whether the target folder exists.
• Fixed status bar so it indicates whether the file counts are for a selection or all visible files.
• Fixed canceling folder load during file operation preflight.
• Fixed saving log with Unicode filename.
• Fixed display or folders after move.
• Fixed renaming an item in the browse dialog and then clicking “OK” so it picks up the changed path.

FTP:

• File views now support “Open” and “Save As” dialogs on FTP sites.
• Full timestamps are now retrieved when downloading files that only include dates in FTP folder listings.
• Fixed support for deleting files on Ultimodule’s IDAL FTP server.
• Fixed incorrect behavior when saving changes if the FTP username includes a \ character.
• Fixed behavior when connecting to an FTP server that supports UTF-8 from a system with a DBCS system codepage.

Hex Compare:

• Added “Open Clipboard” command, with support for formats used by most hex editors.
• Fixed “Find” so it can find a search string that spans deleted bytes.
• Fixed “Find” dialog’s enabling of “Match character case”.

Linux:

• Added instructions to register for all users to README.
• Improved shutdown speed when waiting for background threads to terminate.
• Improved error message for unhandled exceptions.
• Improved auto-detection or ClearCase in Linux.
• Fixed support for [Ctrl+C] when running a script.
• Fixed landscape mode in scripts and print preview.
• Fixed timezone combobox size/position in FTP profiles.
• Fixed crash when HTTP_PROXY environmental variable includes extra whitespace.

Misc:

• Increased delay before showing hint for truncated data.
• Fixed status bar text overwriting itself on Vista and Windows 7.
• Fixed crash when opening views when running under Wine or Crossover.
• Fixed support for canceling actions by using a dialog’s [x] button.
• Fixed crash on startup when running on a Vista or Windows 7 system that doesn’t have the “MS Shell Dlg” font substitutions defined.
• Fixed crash or silent failure when unable to create settings export file.
• Number edit now only detects real changes.
• Fixed persistence of time settings (ex. last modified).
• Fixed importing BC2 sessions with “&” in name or name filter.
• Fixed customizing command to use [Shift+-] as shortcut.
• Fixed check for updates proxy authentication.

MP3 Compare:

• Improved left/right arrow key handling.
• Fixed loading so it doesn’t keep files locked.

Picture Compare:

• Fixed crash when comparing high resolution images.

Report:

• Improved reconciling different code pages (Data Compare and Text Compare).
• Improved printer error handling.
• Fixed “XML Dump” text report not to include left filename twice.
• Fixed totals in “Statistics” text report of multiple files when outputting to plain text.

scripting:

• Fixed handling of composite and over-under text reports.

Sessions:

• Fixed display of last modified on “Specs” settings page under Vista.

Source Control:

• Fixed slow loading of files on ClearCase dynamic views.

TextViews:

• Fixed editor positioning after deleting a selection.

Text Merge:

• Output encoding is now follows merge rules based on input encodings.
• Fixed “Take Both” crash.
• Fixed crash after opening from Folder Compare and trying to show “Difference not found” message.

Version Compare:

• Improved left/right arrow key handling.