Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Beta 17887

Title:

Beyond Compare 4.0.0 Beta 17887

File Size:

8.4 MB

Requirements:

Windows (All Versions)

Language:

en-us

License:

Shareware

Date Added:

04 Apr 2014

Publisher:

Scooter Software Inc

Homepage:

http://www.scootersoftware.com

MD5 Checksum:

A028B607F52577EED0C83062306CBEC2

# Notable changes
* Windows: Added support for portable media devices (aka "MTP") including Android 4.0+ phones and cameras.
* Significant improvements to folder merge.
* Added profile management and "Quick Connect" to folder browse dialog, and improved appearance and usability on OS X.
* Added support for Amazon S3.
* Windows: Added support for loading an SMB server as a base folder (e.g., \\server) instead of requiring a specific share (\\server\share).
* Added per-profile SFTP key pairs and improved authentication handling for FTP/FTPS/SFTP.
* OS X/Linux: Added support for mounting smb:// URLs automatically and preserving the URL instead of converting to the mount point's local path.
* Ending a folder compare file filter with '.' will prevent '*' and '?' from matching periods in order to support matching files with no extension.
# Folder merge
* Replaced the left-most spacer column with icons that show the proposed merge action (Copy to Left/Right, Delete, Merge, Conflict).
* Added confirmation dialogs and icons for "Merge" and "Copy to Output".
* Added option to the "Merge" command to forcibly generate output with CVS-style conflict markers.
* Fixed generating merge output paths for profile: and URL:// based folders.
* Removed unimplemented "Merge All" command and added "Merge" to the Actions menu.
* Cleaned up visibility of commands that don't make sense for the current merge output style.
* Merging a file in the text merge now flags that comparison as reconciled in the folder merge as well.
* Reconciling a file automatically "ignores" the the comparison so it's removed from the display.
* Files in the output directory are now taken into account when automatically marking an item as reconciled.
* Fixed file operation display, summary, and error logging for "Merge" and "Copy to Output" commands.
* Fixed logging errors for automatic merge failures due to conflicts.
* "Merge" now works when folders are selected.
* Moved the "Output to" panel to the top of the window, just below the input paths.
* Re-enabled gradient coloring in the center column by default.
# FTP
* Added per-profile SSH private key and SSL client certificate support.
* Added FTP profile option "Copy Unix permissions on upload".
* Encrypted SSH private keys now prompt for the passphrase when the key is accepted by the server, rather than needing to be stored in the preferences.
* Removed <default> profile's "SSH private key passphrase" setting. If needed for automation, the key should be stored without a passphrase instead.
* When logging into an SFTP site, if the username is blank the client computer's username is used automatically.
* SFTP connections no longer prompt for an unused password if public key or pageant/ssh-agent authentication works.
* SFTP connections will now automatically try to authenticate using ~/.ssh/id_rsa and id_dsa.
* Fixed changes to a profile's login information (Username/password) not being detected when opening a new connection.
* Fixed unnecessary password prompt when a profile is has an explicitly saved blank password.
* Fixed SSH keyboard-interactive authentication retrying too many times.
* Fixed hang when performing multiple FTP operations simultaneously.
# Misc
* New sessions, profiles, and file formats are now edited and saved before adding them to their respective treeviews, to allow them to have better auto-generated names.
* Ending a file filter with '.' will prevent '*' and '?' from matching periods in order to support matching files with no extension.
* Launching BC from the command line with a single .patch or .diff file will now show it in the View Patch display instead of the text compare.
* Added FireMonkey .fmx type to "Delphi Form Files" file format
* Fixed launching external conversions in the "Helpers" directory in %AppData%.
* Improved handling of Subversion authentication errors and revisions that don't have SVN:author or SVN:date properties.
* Fixed "Move to folder" deleting the selected items if the source and destination were the same folder.
* Fixed comparison report's "View in Browser" command.
* Fixed Dropbox reporting last modified times in UTC instead of local time.
* Fixed error when saving changes to large files in the hex compare.
* Fixed using Find Text's "Select All" command when searching both sides of the compare.
* Fixed displaying selected file's relative in the folder compare's right path edit.
* Fixed support for using "XML Tidy" and "XML Sort" conversions on files with DOCTYPE definitions.
* Improved error messages when parsing XML files for "XML Tidy" and "XML Sort" conversions.
* Removed horizontal scrollbar in viewers that don't need them.
* Fixed File Views to use local open/save dialog if clipboard is loaded
* Fixed Folder Sync showing the "Sync" type as "Custom" if the default preset has been customized.
* Fixed changing "Unimportance" and "Compare line endings" settings to redo the alignment in text compares.
* Fixed enabling controls after saving changes fails in a file viewer.
* Dropbox profiles are now authenticated before being added to the profile list.
* Moved folder compare's "Filters" caption to the left of the combox to fix toolbar height.
* Fixed splitter handling in File Formats, Profiles, and Folder Browse dialogs.
* Fixed using Text "Replace All" to convert spaces to tabs.
* Fixed crash when refreshing a file comparison.
# Linux
* Added support for automatically mounting smb:// URLs using Gnome's GVFS/FUSE bridge.
* Fixed support for FTP listings with non-ASCII filenames.
* Fixed invisible dialog buttons.
* Fixed scrollbar visibility in folder compare.
* Fixed crashes when browsing FTP directories.
* Fixed errors written to stdout.
* Fixed folder compare's log display when scrolling.
* Fixed black square cursors in picture compare.
# OS X
* Mounted smb:// URLs will now show the URL in path edits instead of the mounted /Volumes/ path that backs them.
* Improved crash reporting.
* Fixed crash when the display configuration changes or any of the displays go to sleep.
* Fixed corruption when saving a file with lines containing text that expands out to more than 2 bytes per character.
* Fixed loading Unix permissions from FTP listings.
* Fixed support for detecting case sensitive filesystems.
# Windows
* Optimized the shell extension so it doesn't access the disk until a comparison is actually loaded.
* Fixed hang when trying to compare corrupt MS Word files.
* Fixed support for some NAS devices.
* Fixed deleting keys in registry compare.