Download Beyond Compare 3.3.0 build 13755 beta

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Scooter Software has released a beta release of Beyond Compare version 3.3. 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, with Prices that start at thirty dollars. The mutual differences can be this page are being found. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Notable Changes

• Added full context menu extensions on Linux for Konqueror (KDE), Nautilus (Gnome), and Thunar (Xfce), with configurable visibility and submenus.
• Added support for passing ‘-‘ on the command line to load a file from stdin, and added support for FIFOs on Linux.
• Copying to/from FTP/SFTP servers now copies the Unix mode (rwx).
• Removed prompt to edit read-only files.
• Fixed FTP timezone autodetection.

Archives

• Fixed zips not showing files that have paths beginning with /.
• Fixed extracting files from some .7z archives.
• Improved memory usage and speed when reading/writing large snapshots.

Command Line

• Added support for passing ‘-‘ on the command line to load a file from stdin.

Dates Compare

• Added “Select All” button to “Find” dialog.
• “Go To” dialog supports column selection in the row details.
• Fixed editing key column settings when the default column handling is unimportant.
• Fixed crash when loading files with extremely long lines.

File Formats

• Improved “Bash Scripts” handling of escaped quotes and apostrophes.
• Fixed “DisplayAlerts” error using MS Office conversion file formats with Office 2000.
• Fixed “PDF Documents” to use unicode handling.
• Fixed “MS Excel Workbooks” to use unicode handling.

File Views

• Added default shortcuts: “Recompare”=[Ctrl+F5]”Copy File to Right and Open Next Difference”=[Ctrl+Alt+R]”Copy File to Left and Open Next Difference”=[Ctrl+Alt+L]
• Using “Swap Sides” command now preserves the scrollbar position when the cursor is offscreen.
• “Compare Files Using” now maintains parent session link.
• Fixed thumbnail flashing when a comparison is loading.
• Fixed crash when painting the thumbnail.

Folder Compare

• Added default shortcuts: “Align With”=[F6]”New Folder”=[Ins]”Refresh Selection”=[Shift+F5]”Mirror Right”=[Shift+Ctrl+R]”Mirror Left”= [Shift+Ctrl+L]
• Improved Samba auto detection.
• Improved error handling of network errors when loading folder listings.
• Fixed symlinks to drive roots being incorrectly detected as recursive.
• Fixed renaming a symbolic link with “Follow Symlinks” active showing both the original and renamed entries until a refresh.
• Fixed recursive symlinks not getting logged as errors when trying to expand them.
• Fixed “Find” “Select All” button so it will select the current line if it matches.
• Fixed file counts so they use thousands of separators.
• Fixed File Filter combobox showing the wrong context menu.
• Fixed invalidation when changing filters that only affect one side of a comparison.
• Disabled using large buffers to retrieve folder listings on remote servers to help with buggy NAS devices.

Folder Sync

• Auto-generated session names now include the sync preset name and directional arrows.

FTP

• Uploading to FTP/SFTP servers now copies Unix mode (rwx) if possible.
• Added support for symbolic links in Pure-FTPD’s MLSD listing.
• Fixed timezone autodetection, and fixed logging positive local biases as off by 1 minute.
• Fixed “Generate SSH Key Pair” dialog’s “Generate” and “Cancel” buttons to respond to [Enter] and [Esc].
• Fixed FTP connections not respecting the settings for “Limit ports used for active transfers (PORT)”.
• Fixed crash if a server returns an invalid date in an MDTM request.
• Fixed crash when an FTP Profile’s “Encoding” setting is set to either “Unicode” or “Unicode (Big Endian)”.
• Fixed prompting to connect when an FTPS SSL certificate’s common name doesn’t match the host name.
• Fixed connecting to CrushFTP SSH servers.
• Fixed freeze when reloading a Text Compare after saving changes and copying them in the Folder Compare.

Hex Compare

• Fixed Hex find.
• Text display now uses the system encoding instead of Windows-1252.

Linux

• Added full context menu extensions for Konqueror (KDE), Nautilus (Gnome), and Thunar (Xfce). They support all of the options the Windows release has.
• Added support for comparing FIFOs from the command line.
• .bcss files are now associated with Beyond Compare. (Mantis 3542)
• Downloading from FTP/SFTP to a local filesystem now copies Unix mode (rwx) if possible.
• Improved crash handler dialog.
• Fixed errors installing .deb on Ubuntu 11.04.
• Fixed text merge crash when painting center editor.
• Fixed reports printing without line numbers, titles, or footers.
• Fixed load error when comparing RPMs.
• Fixed deleting a symbolic link to the recycle bin.
• Fixed launching default browser when not running KDE or Gnome.
• Fixed support for [Ctrl+A] to select all in edits.
• Fixed treeviews not responding to [*] as “Expand All Subfolders”.
• Fixed focus issues with radio button groups.
• Fixed Text “Go To” dialog’s default focus.
• Fixed current folder for external conversion file formats.
• Fixed Hex Compare’s background coloring of differences.

misc

• Added [Ctrl+Q] as the default shortcut for “Session->Exit”.
• XML encoding detection now defaults to UTF-8 instead of ANSI.
• Forms now check if active control handles key accelerator, in particular browse edits.
• Labels showing partial filenames now include the full path as a hint.
• Fixed SpinEdit focus handling, in particular in response to associated key accelerator
• Fixed session tab’s “Tear Off” command to affect the right-clicked tab instead of the active one.
• Fixed drag and drop reordering in various lists (File Formats, Grammars, etc) so items can’t be dropped onto unrelated windows.
• Fixed converting dates to text on systems with non-ASCII characters (ex. clipboard title on Greek systems).
• Fixed error message for failed Unicode conversions.
• Fixed context menu in Text Compare’s “View -> Web Pages” display and in “Check for Updates” dialog.

MP3 Compare

• Added “Play Both” to “Session” menu.

Options

• Added explanation that Explorer integration requires non-portable install.
• Added “milliseconds before incremental search resets” tweak.
• “Open With” options page now confirms clearing list.
• Tweaked layout for various pages.
• Fixed changing “Detect partial file locks on” tweak to enable “Apply” button.

Registry Compare

• Added “Open in Text Edit” for files.
• Added “Up One Level” spec bar buttons.

Reports

• Text “XML Dump” now includes display filter, show context, ignore unimportant, and just selection states.
• Folder and Picture Compare report headers now include whether unimportant differences are ignored.
• Removed unnecessary “Just Selection” option from MP3, Registry, and Version Compare reports.
• Removed unnecessary “Mode” option from “File Summary” reports.
• Fixed truncation if a Folder Compare report contains characters that don’t exist in the system’s ANSI code page.
• Fixed Text “Stats” report not to count empty on both sides as added line.
• Fixed report generation when using print preview with different report styles without closing the report dialog.
• Report layouts that don’t use colors no longer offer HTML difference highlighting.
• Data Compare report no longer tries to justify right floating point data.
• Fixed crash generating a Picture Compare report of an empty comparison.

scripting

• Added “CRITERIA FOLLOW-SYMLINKS” option to enable the “Follow Symbolic Links” session setting.
• Added “FILTER INCLUDE-PROTECTED” option to disable the “Exclude protected operating system files” filter, and “FILTER EXCLUDE-PROTECTED” to re-enable it.
• Fixed “PICTURE-REPORT” support for “OPTIONS:IGNORE-UNIMPORTANT”.

Sessions

• Added “Locked” to “Session” menu.
• Fixed extracting session name/path on CJK systems.

Source Control

• Comparisons launched from PVCS no longer treat the original file as read-only.

Text Views

• Existence of line endings is now always considered a difference.
• Added default shortcuts: “Next Replacement”=[Shift+Ctrl+Alt+N]”Previous Replacement”=[Shift+Ctrl+Alt+P]
• Improved “Grammar Item” dialog’s “Delimited” handling when “to” must be single character (not RegEx, Escape defined).
• Improved “Next/Previous Difference” handling and improved performance.
• Fixed line endings being inserted when copying wrapped lines.
• Fixed “View->Webpages” so it doesn’t trigger the file format “Trim trailing whitespace” or “Convert leading spaces to tabs” on save behavior.
• Fixed Find matching the last match repeatedly when wrap is disabled.
• Fixed character alignment gap handling when ignoring unimportant differences (affects “Next/Previous Difference”).
• Fixed “Find Next/Previous” so it doesn’t support editing in line mode.
• Fixed crash when deleting text with gaps.
• Fixed crash when changing horizontal scroll position.

Text Compare

• Removed prompt to edit read-only files.
• Declining to edit a binary files when prompted will prompt again at the next attempt instead of disabling editing.

Text Merge

• Added “Take Left Then Right” and “Take Right Then Left” to center panel’s context menu and fixed position of “Copy”.
• Fixed crash when using certain commands with a detached output window.
• Fixed “Open With” and “Open with Text Edit” in output pane.

Version Compare

• Improved error handling of malformed version information.

Version number	3.3.0 build 13755
Release status	beta
Operating systems	Windows 7, Windows 2000, Linux, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Linux AMD64, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
Website	Scooter Software
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File sizes	5.59MB – 9.61MB
License type	Shareware