Beyond Compare 4.2.4 – Visually compare and merge files and folders.

February 3, 2018

Beyond Compare allows you to quickly and easily compare your files and folders. By using simple, powerful commands you can focus on the differences you’re interested in and ignore the rest. You can then merge the changes, synchronize your files, and generate reports for your records. You can compare entire drives and folders at high speed, checking just sizes and modified times, or thoroughly verify every file with byte-by-byte comparisons. Once you’ve found specific files you’re interested in, Beyond Compare can intelligently pick the best way to compare and display them. Text files can be viewed and edited with syntax highlighting and comparison rules tweaked specifically for documents, source code, and HTML. The text contents of Microsoft Word .doc and Adobe .pdf files can also be compared but not edited. Data files, executables, binary data, and images all have dedicated viewers as well, so you always have a clear view of the changes.

The Standard version of Beyond Compare is a full-featured comparison tool, and is free to use. The Pro version of Beyond Compare adds the following features: 3-way text merge, 3-way folder merge, built-in SFTP support, text replacement, Folder-Compare alignment overrides, and support for WebDAV, Dropbox, and subversion.

File Views

Fixed current side indication when switching from path edits to other controls (e.g. “Find what” edit).

Folder Compare

OS X: Fixed “Touch” dialog modifying dates off by an hour depending on if daylight saving time is in effect.
Fixed “Open With” to use URL paths instead of profile: based ones when 1 or more than 2 items are selected.

FTP

Fixed excess memory usage when loading FTP/SFTP folder listings.

Hex Compare

Removed “Floating Extended” from “Little Endian Values” and “Big Endian Values” submenus.

Installer

OS X: Fixed downloading and installing updates failing with a “File missing” error. (Broken in 4.1.4).

Misc

Linux: Fixed support for -title1 and related switches.

Reports

Fixed resource leak when generating Folder Compare reports.

Source Control

Fixed exit codes returned when using ClearCase’s -status_only switch.

Table Compare

Fixed orphan columns to not be excluded from the comparison.
Fixed Session Settings dialog’s handling of last column.
Fixed detection of cell type error.

Crashes

Fixed Table Compare crash when regional settings are Dutch but file and format overrides are English.

What’s New

Version 4.2.4.22795:

Notable Changes:

Fixed Folder Compare not including all selected items in file operations (primarily affects 64-bit Linux).
macOS: Fixed error messages when launching from the command line on macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
Various other fixes and enhancements.

Command Line:

macOS: Fixed error messages when launching from the command line on macOS 10.13 High Sierra.

File Formats:

Fixed RTF character encoding detection and added support for Unicode characters.
Fixed RTF table extraction to include tabs between cells and line endings between rows.

File Views:

Fixed high DPI displays not showing the "Keep file read-only" checkbox when confirming overwriting a read-only file.
Fixed high DPI displays not showing the "Don't show again" checkbox when confirming "Copy File to Left/Right and Open Next Difference".

Folder Compare:

Fixed Folder Compare not including all selected items in file operations (primarily affects 64-bit Linux).
Unix: Fixed error when trying to copy the same file to two destinations.
macOS: Fixed support for file names longer than 256 UTF-8 bytes.