Beyond Compare 3.3.0 Beta0out of5based on0 ratings.

* 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.
* Data 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 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 <default> 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 right justify 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.

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* Archives
- Fixed crash when loading archives containing file paths of just ' or '/'.
* Data Compare
- Fixed lines between grid rows being overdrawn by text rect.
* File Formats
- Fixed 'Perl Scripts' handling of escape before apostrophe or quote in default text
* File Views
- Fixed codepage auto-detection defaulting to UTF-8 instead of ANSI if a better match isn't available.
* Folder Compare
- Added support for setting timestamps of symbolic links/reparse points.
- Fixed crash when using 'Up One Level on Both Sides' and the current base folders are filtered out in the parent comparison.
- Fixed using 'Move to Other Side' to overwrite a file in a subfolder when flattened.
- Fixed 'Move to Folder' moving excluded items within selected folders.
* FTP
- Fixed parsing Charon VAX 5.4.2 FTP listings.
- Fixed crash when adding '//' to the end of an FTP path in a file view.
* Hex Compare
- Fixed setting 'Bytes per line' to 1.
- Fixed crash on systems using a Far East system locale. Removed buggy support for showing double byte character sets in the ANSI column.
* Linux
- Fixed crash when closing or switching away from a Text Merge when the merge output is in a separate window.
* Misc
- Fixed activating a tab from a minimized window on Vista/Windows 7.
- Fixed toolbar dropdown button width on Windows 8.
* Picture Compare
- Fixed support for DIB, MSK, and RLE bitmap file alphablending.
* Registry Compare
- Fixed key coloring after swapping sides.
* Reports
- Fixed applying changes to display filter mode in setup dialog.
* Source Control
- Comparisons launched from PVCS no longer disable editing of files with titles in order to improve compatibility with later PVCS releases.
* Text Views
- Fixed delimited grammar item handling of escape character across multiple lines.

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