Beyond Compare 5.0 Beta

Known Issues

Appearance

• macOS: "Enter Registration Key" dialog shows black text on a dark background in dark mode.
• macOS/Linux: Some minor colors may be wrong after changing between Light and Dark mode until BC is restarted.
• Linux: High DPI menus don't use consistent icon sizes.
• Windows: Font sizes may not scale correctly when moving between monitors with different scale factors.
• Windows: Changing between light and dark mode doesn't save/restore treeview selections and can crash.
• Windows 10: Using Win+Shift+Arrow to move between monitors resizes some dialogs incorrectly.
• Windows: Opening a new session while the taskbar thumbnails are visible draws it incorrectly.
• macOS: Home treeview vertical scrollbar can be positioned incorrectly if only a single item doesn't fit.
• Windows: Some text labels can be clipped at the bottom depending on the display scale factor.
• Linux: Some comboboxes and spin edits are too narrow, clipping their contents.
• Windows: Editor fonts can scale incorrectly when moving between monitors with different scaling factors.
• Linux: Options dialog's File Manager Integration table uses dark text on a dark background.
• Linux: Checkboxes in dark mode tables (e.g., Options > Commands) are impossible to see when unchecked.
• Linux: Folder Compare "Folder Not Available" dialog clips dropdown button.

Archives

• macOS: 7-zip supported archives can't be opened on M-series CPUs.

File Views

• macOS/Linux: Switching to/from tabs with very large comparisons is slow.

File Manager Integration (Windows Explorer, macOS Finder, etc)

• Windows 11: "All Users" install may require a restart before the extension is enabled.
• Windows 11: Menu item icons may be too small or have a black background.
• Windows 10: Shell extension isn't enabled in non-Explorer apps.
• Linux: Context menu doesn't compare archive files as folders.
• Linux: Context menu shows all items (Merge, Edit) even if disabled.
• macOS: Context menu and Services menu items are inconsistently visible.

Folder Compare

• macOS: When setting Other Filters > File Size filters, the bytes/KB/MB/GB dropdown is ignored and bytes is always used.
• macOS: File operation error dialog doesn't close correctly.
• macOS: File operations may hang for a bit before starting.

Folder Merge

• Creating a new "Output To" folder from the "Load Error" dialog may crash when the merge is started.

FTP

• Editing files may not do a post edit refresh and can show the previously cached content.
• macOS/Linux: Timestamps in SFTP connections may be off by an hour.
• macOS: SFTP can fail on M-series CPUs.

Hex Compare

• macOS/Linux: Find panel uses black on black text in dark mode.

Home View

• macOS: Auto saved sessions always display with locked icon.

Installer

• Linux: RPM and DEB repositories aren't set up.
• Linux: .tar.gz readme needs to mention that QT5 needs to be installed.
• Linux: Uninstalling RPM should remove .repo file.
• macOS: Installing a new update from "Check for Updates" fails if app bundle isn't named "Beyond Compare.app".

Misc

• Translations are not available yet.
• Documentation has not been updated for new features.
• Startup is slow in trial mode.
• macOS: Buttons can't be clicked using [Spacebar] when "Keyboard Navigation" is enabled.
• macOS: Resizing window useing top edge or corners jumps unpleasantly.
• macOS: Path autocomplete doesn't work in main window.
• macOS: Hints aren't updated/dismissed when moving from line to line within a control.
• macOS: Parented non-modal dialogs don't stay on top or hide when a tab is inactive.
• macOS: File Save As dialog file doesn't enable files in the list correctly based on the filtered types.
• Windows: Mouse wheel doesn't work when over scrollbars.
• Linux: Trial mode nag dialog isn't scaled correctly on high DPI displays.

Options

• Linux: When configuring "Open With" commands, the popup button for variables can clear existing text in the edit.
• macOS/Linux: Options > File Manager Integration list draws incorrectly in dark mode.
• Windows: Loading a UNC path that exists but doesn't show up in the browse dialog crashes.
• Windows 11: Enabling Explorer shell extension needs a progress indicator.

Picture Compare

• macOS: ProRAW and DNG images crash on M-series CPUs.
• macOS/Linux: Offset/Zoom/Blend/Tolerance controls and text are hard to see in light mode.

Settings

• Importing settings from v4 is incomplete and the initial import prompt refers to v3.

Table Compare

• macOS: Inline cell editing with dark mode active shows black text on a dark background.
• Linux: Session Settings > Importance dialog shows overlapping "Help" and "Cancel" buttons.
• macOS: Case insensitive alignment based on key columns may fail if one side's data is all lower case.

Text Edit

• Editing scrolls so the typed character/line is the first one visible. Fixed for next release. Does not affect Compare/Merge views.

Text Views

• Word wrap should scroll by wrapped rows instead of original lines.
• Toggling word wrap on doesn't wrap both sides to the same height until the files are reloaded.
• macOS: Gutter can get out of sync with editing panel.
• macOS: Pasting large amounts of text performs poorly.
• macOS: Find Next/Prev may not show match highlight if the match needed to be scrolled into view.
• macOS: Lines showing filtered line counts aren't updated correctly when changing the font size.

Text Compare

• macOS/Linux: Switching between Side-by-Side and Over-Under layouts hides one of the input panels until the view is resized.
• Backspace at start of a line below an orphan gap doesn't delete the preceeding line terminator.
• User interface can hang while a large comparison is loading.

Text Merge

• Linux: Closing view with detached output panel can hang.
• Output editor doesn't scroll the current line into view when navigating in the input panels.