Beyond Compare 5.0.2

Beyond Compare allows you to quickly and easily compare your files and folders. By using simple, powerful commands you can focus on the differences you’re interested in and ignore the rest. You can then merge the changes, synchronize your files, and generate reports for your records. You can compare entire drives and folders at high speed, checking just sizes and modified times, or thoroughly verify every file with byte-by-byte comparisons. Once you’ve found specific files you’re interested in, Beyond Compare can intelligently pick the best way to compare and display them. Text files can be viewed and edited with syntax highlighting and comparison rules tweaked specifically for documents, source code, and HTML. The text contents of Microsoft Word .doc and Adobe .pdf files can also be compared but not edited. Data files, executables, binary data, and images all have dedicated viewers as well, so you always have a clear view of the changes.

What's New

Version 5.0.2:

Notable Changes

Added "Side" option to Folder Compare "Alignment Override" settings to match from right to left.
General fixes and stability improvements.

File Views

Fixed updating sided display filters when using "Swap Sides".

Folder Compare

Added "Side" option to "Alignment Override" settings to match from right to left in addition to existing left to right remapping.
Fixed "Swap Sides" to update Sort Side and Alignment Override settings.

FTP

Fixed "timeout (110)" errors when connecting to SFTP servers that expect the client to send the welcome packet first.
Fixed SFTP corruption when uploading to OpenSSH for Windows.

Installer

Windows: Fixed installer putting the Start Menu icon in the top-level Start Menu folder rather than the Start MenuPrograms subfolder.

Misc

Linux: Fixed missing UTF-8/UTF-16 options in file encoding dropdowns.
macOS: Fixed number/decimal separator showing as ? for some regions.
macOS: Fixed path edit autocomplete in main comparison windows.
Fixed reading text lines longer than 65536 characters in various places.

Picture Compare

Fixed changing tolerance after the initial comparison is done to update the comparison results.

Registry Compare

Fixed parse error for .reg files with lines longer than 65536 characters.

Table Compare

Fixed canceling "Go To" and "Resize Column" dialogs.
Fixed comparing region settings.
Fixed MS Excel Workbook comparisons to use system's regional settings instead of forcing English ones.
Fixed displaying negative numbers as "-x" instead of "(x)".
Fixed detection of numbers to require a digit before or after the decimal separator.
Fixed HTML reports formatting the first sheet's name differently than the rest.

Text Compare

Fixed "Next Difference" to not skip missing lines.

Crashes

Linux: Fixed crash/hang when generating a report.
Fixed crash when using "Swap Sides" in Media and Version Compare when there are hidden items.

Requirements

macOS 12 or later