Beyond Compare is a utility for comparing things. Things like text files, folders, zip archives, FTP sites, etc. Use it to manage source code, keep folders in sync, compare program output, and validate CD copies.

Beyond Compare is a useful and reliable utility that will help you compare and synchronize your files and folders.

Although there is support for automatic functions, the main goal of Beyond Compare is to help you analyze differences in detail, and carefully reconcile them. It commands a wide range of file and text operations.

Beyond Compare distinguishes the information it compares as either files or folders. Beyond Compare is not limited to comparing folders and files on its host computer. It can compare folders and files over a network connection or via F T P.

Key features
· compare text files
· compare folders, zip archives, ftp sites
· update websites
· merge code changes
· compare program output.


Whats new in Beyond Compare Pro 4.2.7 Build 23425 - October 25, 2018

Windows/macOS: Improved PDF to text extraction and layout.
Linux: Added KDE5 Dolphin integration and fixed support for Ubuntu 18.04 Nautilus integration.
Bug fixes.

Archives
Windows: Upgraded 7-zip to 18.05.
Patched 7-zip vulnerability CVE-2018-10115. Beyond Compare was not affected because it uses RARLAB's official UnRAR library, but 7-zip's included decoder is now patched too.
Updated Windows UnRAR.dll to v5.61.1 and Unix libunrar to v5.6.6.

File Formats
Windows/macOS: Upgraded PdfToText to 4.00.01, switched to 64-bit builds where appropriate, and changed the output to use the new -simple layout option.
Added "*.dsql" to "SQL" file format.

Misc
Linux: Added KDE5 Dolphin integration. Thank you Benjamin Robin (benjarobin) for the new version!
Linux: Fixed installer for Nautilus integration in Ubuntu 18.04.
Windows: Fixed Japanese and Simplified Chinese installers including French CHM file.

Picture Compare
Improved error handling for malformed PPM images and added support for reading 16-bit per channel ASCII PPM files and scaling them down to 8 bits per channel.

Reports
Fixed "Too many open files" errors when generating file comparison reports of many files.

Crashes
macOS: Fixed startup crash on macOS Mojave 10.14 beta 4 (build 18A336e).
Windows: Fixed crash when trying to close a tab from the taskbar preview while the form has a modal dialog open.

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