Beyond Compare 5.2 Beta

5.2.0.31866 - February 3, 2025

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.

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.
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.

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.

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 "Africa" as a timezone.

Windows: Installer now supports dark mode and has an updated appearance.
Linux: Updated .deb packages for Deb822.
Linux: Fixed .tar.gz package including an unintentional installer.sh, separate from the intended install.sh.

Windows: Code signing now only uses an SHA-256 signature rather than also dual signing with an SHA-1 signature.
Linux: Fixed "Help" button not appearing on dialogs depending on the desktop environment.
macOS: Improved behavior of dropdown treeviews (e.g., FTP Profile > Server > Time zone).
macOS: Multi-select treeviews (e.g., Home view "Sessions" list) now toggle selection on Cmd+clicks rather than Ctrl+clicks.
macOS: Showing a window-modal dialog when quitting now disables other open windows and keeps the one showing a sheet on top.
macOS/Linux: Fixed slow startup in trial mode.

Extended scripting FILTER command with UNIXTYPE filter to match symbolic links, FIFOs, sockets, etc.

Column align by name now ignores case and whitespace.
Fixed keeping current row at same relative position in the view when changing the display filter.

Fixed crash when loading a 7-zip archive and then trying to access a file that has been removed from the archive.
Linux: Fixed Report "Print Preview" crashes, missing pages, and slow behavior.
macOS: Fixed crashes when closing windows.
macOS/Linux: Fixed crash when opening a new tab while doing an inline rename in a Folder Compare view, among other places.
macOS: Fixed crash when using "Next Difference Files" opens a different compare view.