Beyond Compare: All versions - Software Informer

v4.3.4.24657 [Oct 10, 2019]
- NEW HOME VIEW: The new Home View adds session search and web resources. The layout is easier to manage with on-screen controls.
- 3-WAY FOLDER MERGE Pro only: Three-way merging now extends to folders. Compare independent changes against a common ancestor to quickly merge your changes with someone else's. It makes merging your customizations into a new release a snap.
- AD HOC UNIMPORTANT TEXT: It is now easier to define unimportant text in your Text Compares. Define unimportant terms directly from the Rules dialog, rather than having to edit your file formats.
- WEBDAV, AMAZON S3, SUBVERSION, DROPBOX AND ONEDRIVE SUPPORT Pro only: In addition to FTP, you can access WebDAV resources, Amazon S3 buckets, Subversion repositories, Dropbox's cloud storage, and Microsoft OneDrive directly from within Beyond Compare. Organize your remote service profiles with friendly names and folder hierarchies.
- OVERHAULED PICTURE COMPARE: Picture Compare has a new look, with automatic zoom, pixel-level details, and simplified controls. Tolerance comparison mode uses grayscale to reveal the image along with the differences. It's also faster, uses less memory, and supports additional image formats.
- OVERHAULED PREFERENCES DIALOG WITH SEARCH: The reorganized options dialog includes a search feature for finding specific settings quickly. Commands for all comparison types can be customized without first having to open a view.
- OTHER SIGNIFICANT FEATURES:
- Hex Compare supports in-line editing and wraps lines to fit the window.
- New View Patch command shows diff/patch files as a text comparison.
- HTML folder comparison reports can now embed links to file comparisons.
- Added option to align filenames with different extensions in folder compare.
- File operations can be paused in the folder compare.
- Added new text comparison algorithm choice based on Bram Cohen's Patience Diff.
- Improved appearance on high DPI (retina) displays. .
- Windows logo Windows only.
- Portable media devices such as cameras, MP3 players, and Android phones can be compared.
- 7-zip archives can be created or compared, and many other archive types have read-only support, including IMG/ISO disk images.
- Zipx archives can be compared, complete with PPMd, LZMA, and WavPack compression.
- Version Compare now compares the fixed PE header in addition to the version resource.
- Remote Windows servers can be loaded as base folders (e.g., \\server), allowing access to all of its shares.

v4.2.10.23938 [Mar 17, 2017]
Fixed WebDAV showing invalid subfolders with the same name as the parent folder.
Linux: Fixed excessive CPU usage when launching a second comparison from the command line.
Unix: Fixed crash when loading an FTP profile with the timezone set to Rome.
Misc
View tab bar no longer shows "Select Tab" and "Close Other Tabs" commands if there is only one tab.
Updated various icons.
MP3 Compare
Improved handling of AENC, GEOB, and APIC tags.
Added "Minimum clip length" to clipboard manager to avoid saving passwords or other short text (defaults to 32).
Fixed display of custom display filter names (e.g. "[Differences]" instead of "Differences" when orphans not included).
Fixed UTF-8 reports not including a byte order mark, causing problems when importing them into Excel or viewing them in some web browsers.
Session Settings dialog's "Swap sides" button now also affects "Disable editing" checkboxes.
Unix: Fixed accented characters being entered as '?' when typed.
macOS: Fixed startup crash on macOS 10.13 High Sierra beta.
Unix: Fixed Folder Compare crash when opening Options dialog from the Log panel.

v4.1.9.21719 [Sep 24, 2015]
Overhauled Home view
The new Home View adds session search and web resources. The layout is easier to manage with on-screen controls.
Three-way merging now extends to folders. Compare independent changes against a common ancestor to quickly merge your changes with someone else's. It makes merging your customizations into a new release a snap.
It is now easier to define unimportant text in your Text Compares. Define unimportant terms directly from the Session Settings dialog, rather than having to edit your file formats.
In addition to FTP, you can access WebDAV resources, subversion repositories, Dropbox's cloud storage, and Amazon S3 cloud storage directly from within Beyond Compare. Organize your remote service profiles with friendly names and folder hierarchies.
Picture Compare has a new look, with automatic zoom, pixel-level details, and simplified controls. Tolerance comparison mode uses grayscale to reveal the image along with the differences.
The reorganized Options dialog includes a search feature for finding specific settings quickly. Commands for all comparison types can be customized without first having to open a view.
Other significant features
• Data Compare is now called Table Compare.
• Hex Compare wraps lines to fit the window, and adds in-line editing.
• New View Patch command shows diff/patch files as a text comparison.
• Added new text comparison algorithm choice based on Bram Cohen's Patience Diff.
• HTML folder comparison reports can now embed links to file comparisons.
• Improved appearance on high DPI (retina) displays.
• Version Compare now compares the fixed PE header in addition to the version resource.
• Zipx archives can be compared, complete with PPMd, LZMA, WavPack, and WinZip's JPEG compression.
• Added support for portable media devices (aka "MTP") including Android 4.0+ phones and cameras.

v3.3.13.18981 [Jun 10, 2011]
- 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.
- Fixed parsing Charon VAX 5.4.2 FTP listings.
- Fixed crash when adding '//' to the end of an FTP path in a file view.
- 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.
- Fixed activating a tab from a minimized window on Vista/Windows 7.
- Fixed toolbar dropdown button width on Windows 8.
- 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.