Beyond Compare 5: baixar versions anteriors

Notable Changes
- General polish, stability improvements, and vulnerability fixes.
Cloud Services
- Windows: MIME types for uploaded files are determined from the system database instead of a custom mime.types file.
Command Line
- Linux: Fixed command injection vulnerability in launcher script. Found by Vulcanix using GLM from Z.AI.
Installer
- Windows: Uninstaller now only removes the "ExePath" and "Version" registry values under the version-agnostic "Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare" if they match the version that's being uninstalled.
Misc
- Linux: Fixed Help showing incorrectly or blank when the system web browser runs in a sandbox.
Text Compare
- Fixed "Align with Marked" when mouse is released over gutter.
Third Party Libraries
- Updated 7-zip to 26.03. Fixes CVE-2026-58052.
Crashes
- Fixed Text Views crash when un-indenting a block of text.
- Fixed Table Compare crash when mouse is released over column header during "Align With"
- macOS: Fixed crash when opening Check for Updates dialog.

Notable Changes
- Windows: Fixed Beyond Compare hanging on startup on Windows 7.
- Fixed Table Compare incorrectly decoding cells with date/time data.
- Fixed Hex Compare "Go To" dialog not allowing addresses past 0x7FFFFFFF.
- Fixed width of Folder Compare "Confirm File Replace" dialog in Russian localization.
- Windows: Add build number to installer window caption.

Folder Compare
- Windows: Fixed folders on FAT32 drives showing incorrect timestamps after opening them.
Third Party Libraries
- Updated 7-zip to v26.02. Fixes CVE-2026-14266.
- Updated UnRAR source to v7.2.7 and UnRAR.dll to v7.2.3.
- Windows: Updated Delphi to v13.1.
Crashes
- Windows: Fixed crash when shutting down Beyond Compare with unsaved Text Compare edits.
- Linux: Fixed crash when running on systems without SSE3 or SSE4 instructions.

Notable Changes
- Updated 7-zip to 26.01. Fixes CVE-2026-48095.
- Fixed support for SFTP server-side CRC32 calculations using the check-file extension.
- Other minor fixes.
FTP
- Fixed support for SFTP server-side CRC32 calculations using the check-file extension.
Misc
- Fixed registering using license keys that have had letters combined into ligatures.
- macOS/Linux: Fixed the "Enter Key..." dialog not auto-detecting license keys on the clipboard.
- Fixed "Check for Updates" reporting of operating system version and CPU type.
Options
- Unchecking the Options > Tweaks > Check for Updates > Check every checkbox will hide the "New version available" notification.
Text Views
- Text grammar regular expressions no longer unintentionally support 2 iterators in a row, e.g. "+*".
Third Party Libraries
- Updated 7-zip to 26.01. Fixes CVE-2026-48095.
Crashes
- Windows: Fixed crash when launching a comparison from the command line with extremely long paths while BC is already running.
- Fixed Text Compare crash with specific grammar regular expression.
- Fixed Table Compare crash when editing a cell.
- Fixed Table Compare Report crash when opening from Folder Compare.

Notable Changes
- Dropping a .patch or .diff file on any view opens a Text Patch view.
- Updated third party libraries.
- General stability and polish improvements.
Appearance
- Fixed Tools > Options > Appearance > Theme not reverting when cancelling the dialog while "Preview" is checked.
- Improved default size for Home view and comparison windows.
- Fixed dialogs sizing larger than they should the first time they're shown on a high DPI display.
- Fixed Media Compare crosshatching not aligning between rows.
- Increased default width for the "File Formats" dialog.
Folder Compare
- Fixed log panel not opening to previously set height on high DPI displays.
- Fixed log panel flickering over the top two lines in the comparison treeview when trying to resize it too large.
Hex Compare
- Added horizontal scrolling using mouse wheel.
Installer
- Windows: Automatic updates no longer show the installer's initial prompt for the install type.
Misc
- Dropping a .patch or .diff file on any view opens a Text Patch view.
Picture Compare
- Improved shutdown speed after using the Picture Compare on a system with many CPU cores.
Settings
- "Export Settings" dialog checkbox to include passwords and authentication tokens is now on the first page instead of below the profiles list.
- "Export Settings" option to export passwords and access tokens is now disabled if the DisableSavedPasswords admin policy is in effect.
Table Compare
- Fixed poor behavior when picking "Unimportant Column" from the header right-click menu followed by picking "Standard Column".
Third Party Libraries
- Windows: Updated ZipForge's zlib to 1.3.1. (SVN rr32125).
- Windows: Updated bzip2 to v1.0.8. Fixes CVE-2019-12900.
- Windows: Updated LZMA decoder to 7-zip SDK v26.0.
- Windows: Replaced PPMd decoder with one from 7-zip SDK v26.0.
- Windows: Updated WavPack to v5.9.0.
- Windows: Updated UnRAR DLLs to v7.22.100.1950.
- macOS/Linux: Updated UnRAR source to 7.2.6.
- Updated 3delite FlacTagLibrary to v2.0.30.85.
- Updated 3delite ID3v2Library to v2.1.95.215.
- Updated 3delite MP4TagLibrary to v1.0.68.140.
Crashes
- Fixed Text Compare crash when using "Increase Ident" while "Word Wrap" is enabled.
- Fixed Table Compare crash when pressing [Enter] in an empty editor pane.
- Windows: Fixed Explorer shell extension crash.
- macOS/Linux: Fixed crash in "File Formats" dialog when using an external conversion file format originally created on Windows.
- macOS: Fixed crash when toggling a checkbox in a listbox when nothing is selected (e.g., Tools > Export Settings).
- macOS: Fixed some listboxes with checkboxes incorrectly allowing a half-checked state.

Notable Changes
- Windows: Fixed .docx conversion failures when the system ANSI codepage is a DBCS one.
- Windows: Fixed report Print, Print Preview, and Print to PDF scaling fonts incorrectly.
- Windows: Fixed crash when trying to uninstall a "Current User" install.
- General polish and stability improvements.
Appearance
- Fixed Folder Sync's Session Settings > Sync icons showing as blank squares when editing a session from the Home View.
- Windows: Fixed width of indentation in treeview shown in Media Compare > Session Settings > Importance on high DPI displays.
- Linux: Fixed overly thick menu separators on high DPI displays.
Hex Compare
- Fixed hex editor key handling ([Shift+Tab] keeps selection, [Shift+Left] updates selection, [Delete] affects next byte if none selected).
Home View
- Fixed launching multiple comparisons from the Home View opening tabs in an inconsistent order.
Reports
- Windows: Fixed Print, Print Preview, and Print to PDF scaling fonts incorrectly.
- Windows: Fixed Print Preview scaling incorrectly on secondary monitors.
Text Views
- Windows: Fixed .docx conversion failures when the system ANSI codepage is a DBCS one.
Crashes
- Windows: Fixed crash when trying to uninstall a "Current User" install.
- Linux: Fixed hang when using Help > Check for Updates to install a .deb or .rpm package.
- Linux: Fixed hang when opening a comparison while the display is scaled by more than 200%.
- macOS: Fixed crash when loading SVG images.

Notable Changes
- 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 "

Notable Changes
- macOS: Fixed hangs when opening "Settings" dialog or using "Install Command Line Tools..." on macOS 26.2 Tahoe.
- Windows: Installer and executables are now only signed with an SHA-256 digital signature and no longer include an SHA-1 one.

Notable Changes
- General stability and polish improvements.
Appearance
- Windows: Fixed dark mode list tables showing a white space at the right and bottom edges of the column headers.
- Windows: Fixed list tables showing incorrect line heights on secondary monitors with different scaling than the primary monitor.
Explorer Context Menu
- Fixed GDI object resource leak in classic Explorer context menu, which fixes Explorer crashes when interacting with archive files on Windows 11.
Hex Compare
- Fixed Find panel losing focus when [Enter] is pressed.
Misc
- Windows: Drag & drop is no longer allowed on disabled windows (e.g., when showing a modal dialog).
Text Merge
- Fixed input and output panel scrolling not syncing when changing current line.
Crashes
- macOS: Fixed crash when closing view tabs/windows.
- Fixed crash when loading a 7-zip archive and then trying to access a file that has been removed from the archive.
- Fixed crash when using FILTER scripting command with missing arguments.

Changes
- Updated 7-zip library to v25.01. Fixes CVE-2025-53816 (RAR archive vulnerability) and CVE-2025-53817 (COM compound file vulnerability).
- macOS/Linux: Fixed repeatedly using Open Clipboard in file compares toggling between the clipboard contents and nothing.
- Fixed slow/jittery column resizing in Table Compare.

Notable Changes
- macOS/Linux: Fixed crash regressions introduced in 5.1.3.
Folder Compare
- Fixed pop-up message so it always appears above the log.
- "Find Filename" dialog now always keeps one side or the other checked.
Misc
- Windows: Fixed taskbar icon temporarily disappearing when moving between monitors with different scaling.
Text Compare
- Fixed "Find" for offscreen text flashing found line at bottom of display before moving to correct position, broken in 5.1.3.
Crashes
- Linux: Fixed "Next Difference" hang/crash, broken in 5.1.3.
- macOS/Linux: Fixed 'Control "" has no parent window.' crash on startup, broken in 5.1.3.

Changes
- Fixed mouse clicks on checkboxes in list tables not toggling the correct checkbox, broken in 5.1.1.
- Fixed Text Compare crash when deleting a single line difference.

Notable Changes
- Updated unrar to v7.12 (Windows DLL) and v7.1.8 (macOS/Linux source), fixing a path extraction vulnerability.
- Linux: Creating an empty /etc/default/bcompare file will prevent the .rpm package from adding the Beyond Compare repository.
- Linux: Launcher script now sets QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb to improve behavior under Wayland.
Appearance
- Windows: Fixed Folder Compare > Session Settings > Misc > Enabled file formats list view appearance when toggling checkboxes in dark mode.
- macOS: Fixed Profiles > Server > Time zone combobox drawing the focus ring at the wrong position, not clipping long text early enough, and not changing to gray when the window is inactive.
- Fixed dark mode "binary differences" icon using a different red than "differences" one, and fixed the 100% scaling "differences" one using a darker red than the rest of the sizes.
File Formats
- Improved Python file format number grammar to make decimal point optional.
Folder Compare
- Fixed "Copy to Other Side" icon not reflecting the current selection after using "Swap Sides" while an orphan was selected.
Installer
- Linux: Creating an empty /etc/default/bcompare file will prevent the .rpm package from adding the Beyond Compare repository.
Misc
- Linux: Launcher script now sets QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb to improve behavior under Wayland.
- macOS/Linux: Added "Explore settings folder" link to Help > Support dialog.
- Linux: Updated readme with supported distros and instructions for RHEL10.
- Improved list table controls fitting all columns into view.
- Added indicator of where an item will be moved to when dragging to rearrange items in some list boxes.
Table Compare
- Restored behavior of resizing a column scrolling left and repositioning the mouse cursor when necessary.
Third Party Libraries
- Updated unrar to v7.12 (Windows DLL) and v7.1.8 (macOS/Linux source), fixing path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2025-6218).
Version Compare
- Default to neutral language version info instead of current language, matching Windows behavior since Vista.
- Updated list of known "Processor" and "DLL Flags" values.
- Improved performance, error handling, and detection of the operating system.
Crashes
- Windows: Fixed crash when using the mouse wheel while BC has focus and the mouse is over another process's window.

Notable Changes
- Re-added support for disjointed row selection to Table Compare.
- Improved Home View to make less common comparison types more discoverable.
- Various other enhancements and stability improvements.
Appearance
- Windows: Crosshatching used for missing lines and after the end of the file is now scaled on high DPI displays.
- Windows: Fixed Home View buttons in dark mode incorrectly drawing as pressed after starting a drag & drop.
- Windows: Fixed Home View buttons in dark mode not showing a focus rectangle.
File Views
- Fixed using the mouse wheel over the comparison thumbnail. If the thumbnail has "Allow Scrolling" enabled, it will scroll the thumbnail view. If not it will scroll the main comparison window.
- Fixed using the mouse wheel over the main comparison editor/grid scrollbars.
Home View
- All comparison types are now shown by default.
- Removed secondary page under the > button in favor of making favorited icons large and making the rest smaller and on a second row.
- Added "Text Edit" button.
Misc
- Fixed flickering hints on Session toolbar button's dropdown window.
- macOS/Linux: Fixed popup hints for truncated items not matching the font for the underlying control.
- Fixed view tab scroll buttons continuing to draw as hot when the mouse leaves the control.
- Showing long hints no longer adds a trailing ellipsis.
Table Compare
- Added support for disjointed row selection.
- Added "Next/Previous Difference Sheet" commands.
- Added "Select Sheet" submenu to sheet tab control's context menu.
- "Unhide Column" list now includes columns hidden because of "Hide Same Columns".
- Improved "File Info" regional handling.
- macOS/Linux: Added support for configuring Unicode characters for date, time, thousands, and decimal separators.
- Removed maximum limit on column widths.
- Current cell is now drawn with a border rather than a fake selection.
- Editor status bar now includes current column as well as current row.
- Cells will now show a hint if they're clipped by the right edge of the editor.
- Fixed comparison drawing incorrectly until it's invalidated when performing a slow compare or using key columns.
- Fixed handling of really long rows.
- Fixed popup hint/tooltip for shortened header cells not showing entire text.
- Fixed moving into a cell to scroll to make the column fully visible.
- "Align With" will no longer trigger a horizontal scroll.
- Improved size/appearance of sheet tab control's scroll buttons.
- Changed sheet tab's scroll buttons to show colored arrows instead of a color spot when there are offscreen differences.
- macOS/Linux: Fixed multi-sheet scroll buttons not appearing.
- Fixed popup hints for extremely long cells displaying worse than v4.
- Fixed Session Settings "Columns" and "Sheets" pages not scaling column widths when moving between monitors with different scale factors.
Text Views
- Gutter buttons now draw as hot when the mouse is over them even if they're pressed. (e.g., Text Merge "Conflict" state)
Crashes
- macOS/Linux: Increased the maximum stack size saved when a crash occurs.
- Fixed Text Compare crash or incorrect comparison when comparing a file with a byte order mark to itself.
- Fixed Text Merge crash after pressing backspace when positioned at the beginning of a line immediately after a missing one.
- Fixed Table Compare crash when mouse dragging causes current row to change quickly.
- Fixed Table Compare crash when using "Hide Same Columns" with a row fully selected.
- macOS/Linux: Fixed "Control '' has no parent form or frame" crash.

Notable Changes
- General stability and polish improvements.
Appearance
- Dark mode: Fixed contrast for border lines used for Table Compare grid and "current line" in various views.
File Views
- Fixed comparison thumbnail leaving column of garbage pixels on the right side.
Folder Compare
- Fixed crash when sorting large directories.
- Windows: Fixed some Windows 11 network shares being detected as Samba.
Picture Compare
- Windows: Fixed Full Screen (F11) positioning incorrectly.
Third Party Libraries
- Windows: Updated FlexCel to v7.24.0.
Windows Explorer Context Menu Extension
- Fixed shell extension menu icons being too large when shown from a DPI-unaware application running on a high DPI display.
- Fixed shell extension menu icons misaligning with other shell extensions when showing a folder's context menu on Windows 7 under the Classic theme.
- Fixed shell extension "Merge" menu items staying visible if they're turned on and then BC is registered using a Standard edition license.
- Fixed shell extension installation when powershell.exe isn't in the system %PATH%.
- Reduced file sizes for the shell extension DLLs back down to what they were in 5.0.2.
Crashes
- Windows: Fixed "Tools > Options > Tweaks" crash when scrolling using the mouse wheel on Windows 7.
- Windows: Fixed crashes when opening Excel files with unexpected data.

Notable Changes
- Improved ability to modify comparison settings in Table Compare's main view.
- General improvements and stability fixes.
FTP
- Fixed midnight timestamps on SFTP servers not adjusting based on the time zone.
- Updated Indy library to v10.6.3.0.
Misc
- Windows: Fixed Explorer context menu extension's too large icons on Windows 11 "Show More Options" menu when the primary monitor has a lower scaling factor than a secondary one.
- macOS: Improved hardware and OS information included in crash reports.
- macOS: Fixed dark mode context menus showing selected items in radio groups with a black dot. (e.g., display filters type in toolbar context menu)
- macOS: Fixed Windows menu showing minimized windows with a solid diamond instead of the hollow one used by recent macOS releases.
Table Compare
- When key columns are defined, BC4's sorted alignment will be used instead of a configurable one.
- Extra columns are no longer treated as missing.
- Renamed "Alignment" session settings page to "Rows".
- Updated "Columns" session settings page context menu:
- Added "Edit...", "Move Up", and "Move Down".
- Removed "Key", "Standard", "Unimportant", "General", and "Text".
- Improved "Edit > Delete Column", and "Edit > Insert Column Before/After" commands.
- "Edit > Align With..." command is only shown if no keys are defined.
- Updated column header context menu:
- Added "Column Handling...".
- Added "Align Left/Right Column With".
- Added "Align Columns by Number/Left Name/Right Name".
- Removed "General/Text Column".
- Added context menu to sheet tabs at bottom of view:
- Added "Align Left/Right Sheet With".
- Added "Align Sheets by Number/Left Name/Right Name".
- Added "Row Alignment...", and "Sort Rows Before Alignment" which are only shown if no keys are defined.
- Fixed various issues with Edit > Sort... dialog.
- Fixed line details not scrolling to show active cell when moving in main editor.
- Fixed HTML tables getting truncated.
- Fixed crash or incorrect comparison results, broken in 5.0.5.
- Fixed changing comparison settings for non-existent columns to take effect immediately.
Crashes
- macOS: Fixed crash when using arrow keys to navigate MRU lists in path edits.

Notable Changes
- Improved Table Compare user interface for column alignment.
- SFTP profile's "Use aggressive uploads to OpenSSH servers" option is now turned off by default.
- Windows: Explorer context menu's "Hide 'Select Left' if there is already a saved selection" option now only controls the Windows 11 top-level menu.
- Updated third party libraries.
- Various other fixes and improvements.
Cloud Services
- Fixed authentication errors when uploading/downloading from a OneDrive account.
File Formats
- Fixed conversion errors when loading files saved with MS Word 2010.
FTP
- Changed default for SFTP profile's "Use aggressive uploads to OpenSSH servers" option to be disabled by default since it can cause data corruption on some servers.
Installer
- Upgrading the shell extension no longer triggers the installer to ask for a reboot. Explorer will still use the old version until it's been restarted or logged out, and uninstalling BC then reinstalling still requires a reboot between them.
Misc
- macOS: Improved overly fast scrolling speed when scrolling using a touchpad or Magic Mouse.
- macOS: Fixed file sizes displaying separators as ? depending on the regional settings.
- macOS: File sizes will display separators at native grouping frequency instead of always using 3 digit groupings (e.g., India).
- Fixed sessions incorrectly prompting to save changes when changing things like display filters that should be saved automatically.
- Session Settings dialog's Scope edit is now center aligned vertically with the [ Ok ] button.
Table Compare
- Added alignment mode combobox to Session Settings pages with choices of "Unaligned", "Align by left name", "Align by right name", and "Custom alignment". Replaces existing "Left file is source" and "Detect alignment" checkboxes.
- Empty cells compared to missing cells is now considered an unimportant difference.
- Changing alignment mode session setting updates "Left file" and "Right file" columns in grid.
- Fixed column headers incorrectly sorting with the rest of the data.
- Fixed footer tab control displaying extra "-" tabs when the session settings have sheet alignment customizations for sheets that don't exist.
- Fixed comparisons with key columns that don't exist resulting in a random row alignment.
- Fixed to show footer tab control when first sheets on each side are not aligned and files do not support sheets.
Third Party Libraries
- Updated 7-zip to 24.09.
- Updated FastMM to v4.993+.
- Windows: Updated FlexCel to v7.22.1.
- Windows: Updated madExcept to v5.1.5.
- Windows/macOS: Updated pdftotext to v4.05.
- Updated SMWord to v1.50(b34).
- macOS: Updated LetsMove to v1.25.
Windows Explorer Context Menu Extension
- "Hide 'Select Left' if there is already a saved selection" option now only controls the Windows 11 top-level menu, so the "Show More Options" menu can still be used to change it after an incorrect selection.
- When file system directories are selected, menu items will now appear higher in the Windows 10 and "Show More Options" menus, matching where they appear when files are selected.
- Fixed support for "Compare Using" submenu translations.
- Reduced cases where Windows 11 top-level menu will clip menu item captions.
- Launching a compare will now clear saved paths for both file and folder selections.
Crashes
- macOS: Fixed startup crash.

Notable Changes
- Fixed SFTP public key authentication failures when the server has SHA-1 disabled.
- Fixed Text Merge crash when taking changes on a line that is longer than the maximum line length.
- Added per-sheet alignment settings for Table Compare.
- Switched Table Compare "Copy to Left/Right" (Ctrl+L/R) back to copying rows instead of individual cells.
- Various other tweaks and improvements, primarily in Table Compare.
FTP
- Fixed SFTP public key authentication failures when the server has SHA-1 disabled.
Hex Compare
- Clicking on the "Byte address = 000000000" menu item now copies the address to the clipboard.
Home View
- Sticker now has a hint to show the URL it will visit when clicked.
Picture Compare
- Fixed "Swap Sides" failing to update left and right image controls.
Table Compare
- Switched "Copy to Left/Right" back to copying rows instead of individual cells. "Copy Cell to Left/Right" are still independently available commands.
- Added per-sheet alignment settings.
- Added ability to override region settings on a per-side basis from the File Info bar.
- Added "Never align differences" and "Skew tolerance" alignment options.
- Added "Sheet" option to "Go To" dialog.
- Removed "Resize Column to Fit" menu item in favor of a "Detect" option in the "Resize Column" dialog.
- Fixed header context menu handling when all columns are hidden.
- Improved difference handling of missing cells.
- Removed "New" and "Delete" commands from "Columns" and "Sheets" session settings pages.
- Right clicking on a sheet tab activates that tab.
- Minor UI tweaks
- Adjusted menu item order in header context menu.
- Tweaked layout of Session Settings > Columns and Sheets pages.
- Tweaked Column handling UI.
Text Views
- Tweaked "Alignment" session settings layout.
Crashes
- Fixed Text Merge crash when taking changes on a line that is longer than the maximum line length.

Notable Changes
- Windows: Significantly improved Explorer context menu extension, including re-adding main menu/submenu configuration where possible, support for processes running as Administrator, and limited ARM64 support.
- Linux: Fixed text editor width calculations for monospace fonts.
- Other minor fixes and enhancements.
Appearance
- Windows: Fixed checkbox lists' dotted level lines showing as black-on-black in dark mode.
Folder Compare
- macOS: Fixed status bar showing free disk space as 0 bytes on Intel CPUs.
- Fixed path edit incorrectly showing both the error message and path smushed together after a load error.
Installer
- Windows: Fixed hang when trying to install the Windows 11 Explorer context menu if calling PowerShell generates unexpected output.
- Windows: Install/uninstall log now includes details of the shell extension install.
- Windows: Removed "Delete all Beyond Compare 5 settings" checkbox in the uninstaller's confirmation dialog when doing an "All Users" uninstall.
- Windows: Fixed uninstaller not closing BCClipboard automatically.
- Windows: Made shell extension upgrade process for non-admin installs more robust.
- Windows: Updated Inno Setup to 6.3.3.
Misc
- Linux: Fixed "File Formats" dialog not remembering the checkbox state for enabled file formats.
Table Compare
- Fixed auto-sized widths for ignored unimportant columns.
- Fixed copy to clipboard handling of cells containing line endings or a delimiter.
Text Views
- Linux: Fixed width calculations for monospace fonts.
Windows Explorer Context Menu Extension
- Re-added ability to configure menu items to appear directly on the top level menu or in a "Beyond Compare" submenu when shown on the Windows 10, in Windows 11's "Show More Options" menu, and in third-party applications.
- Fixed extension not appearing in "Run As Administrator" processes on Windows 11 (e.g., Total Commander).
- Fixed extension not showing in Windows 11 for ARM64 "Show More Options" menu. Supporting the top-level menu is still a goal, but we're waiting on Delphi's ARM64 compiler.
- Fixed installing shell extension on Windows 11 21H1 and 21H2. Upgrades from 5.0.2 or earlier will need to turn on the extension in the Options dialog or manually uninstall/reinstall to enable it.
- Fixed "Compare to ..." caption incorrectly showing the entire path for files/folders on portable media devices (MTP).
- Fixed comparing files on portable devices (MTP) when Explorer's "Show > File name extensions" option is turned off.
- Fixed menu items not appearing in Libraries virtual folders in cases where BC4 did.
- Fixed menu items incorrectly appearing on unsupported virtual folders (e.g., "Libraries") and then trying to open BC with an invalid path.
- Fixed duplicate menu items when showing context menu for network servers/shares in Explorer's navigation treeview.
- Fixed using "Select Left" on a drive root showing the second menu as 'Compare to ""'.
- Fixed using "Select Left" on a file and then selecting a drive root that contains a matching filename showing the second menu as 'Compare to \file.ext' instead of 'Compare to C:\file.ext'.
- Fixed ability for a non-admin user to toggle off and on the Win11 context menu after installing for all users.
- Fixed icons appearing with a solid black background when running in an ARM64 process or when selecting files on portable media devices.
- Recreated Select Left/Center arrow icons to be more in line with the v4 appearance.

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 Menu\Programs 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.