Changes$$$These are the changes since version 4.6.2:$$$$$$Add a display-language option in preferences (demo video)$$$Enable closing the application via CTRL+Q or CTRL+W$$$Make updates notifications less intrusive$$$Fix the --debug command line switch$$$Clean variants of Discord such as beta and snap$$$Fix loading of personal cleaners in portable mode$$$Improve experience on multi-user systems by ignoring other users running processes$$$Prevent invalid entries in the custom and whitelist tabs$$$Improve stability significantly$$$$$$WindowsMicrosoft $$$Patch DLL-related vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-47113; CVE-2025-32780)$$$Protect MMC snap-ins (e.g.; Device Manager; Computer Management)$$$Upgrade to Python 3.11.10 and GTK 3.24.43$$$Update NSIS installer to 3.11$$$Add metadata such as company name to bleachbit$$$Drop support for starting on Windows XP and 7$$$Update the Windows 10 theme by Christian Medel$$$Fix SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error on update checks

BleachBit 4.6.2$$$We are pleased to announce the release of BleachBit 4.6.2; which includes more cleaning of Google Chrome and many fixes; including a missing DLL error on Windows.$$$Changes$$$These are the changes since version 4.6.0:$$$Clean more cookies; cache; and sessions in Google Chrome.$$$Fix ValueError: Unexpected UTF-8 BOM (decode using utf-8-sig) when cleaning JSON files in Google Chrome$$$Linux$$$Add packages for Ubuntu 24.04; Fedora 39 and 40; and openSUSE Slowroll.$$$Fix detection of Wayland.$$$Fix error SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence with Python 3.12.$$$Fix missing developer name in metainfo.xml file.$$$Windows$$$There was a major update to the Winapp2.ini file on August 29; which includes many updates for various cleaners. When enabled in the preferences; it is available OTA also for older releases of BleachBit.$$$Restore the missing DLL to fix the regression causing the error Code execution cannot proceed because msvcr100.dll was not found that affected many users.$$$Renew the digital code-signing certificate and switch certificate authority. The publisher will now show as Open Source Developer; Andrew Ziem.$$$Fix the excessively long application name in Task Manager and when the application was not responding$$$Fix errors like [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: \\?\C:\WINDOWS\Sysnative\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.IE5: Command to delete$$$Hide a Linux-specific option in the preferences.

Changes$$$These are the changes since version 4.4.2:$$$$$$Clean recently-closed tabs on Firefox (reported by Luran2132).$$$Clean autofill data in Chromium-based browsers (thanks to rados).$$$Clean more of Firefox: AlternativeServices.txt.$$$Improve support for FileZilla (thanks to fbruand).$$$Support new versions of GIMP and add runtime detection (thanks to Finoway).$$$Fix AttributeError and OperationalError: no such table when cleaning Firefox (thanks to rados and az0).$$$Add workaround for DLL security vulnerability (reported by Daniel Hulliger; aka dhulliger).$$$Prevent opening other dialogs when making chaff (thanks to sanjaykaria).$$$Vacuum last after other operations in every language (reported by Tobias-B-Besemer; fixed by sanjaykaria).$$$Add title for dialogs.$$$Enable more strings to be translated (reported by bovirus).$$$Improve organization of --help in the CLI (thanks to abitrolly).$$$Show debug information in CLI only if --debug or --preset is set (thanks to abitrolly).$$$Fix crash when wiping free space with Brazilian Portuguese (reported by fnfontana).$$$Specific to Linux$$$Clean Microsoft Edge on Linux (requested by aoguang).$$$Clean Firefox and Thunderbird when installed as Flatpak (thanks to MauroGuida).$$$Clean Google Chrome as Flatpak (thanks to fbruand).$$$Clean recent documents list on KDE 5 (thanks to Martii).$$$Clean Firefox installed as a snap (thanks to rodin-ia).$$$Add shred context menu for KDE (thanks to kenrap).$$$Keep bookmark icons in Firefox (thanks to rados).$$$Keep xauth files in /tmp (reported by iromeister).$$$Fix Permission denied: /proc/ (reported by igorog).$$$Use branded icon in application launcher (thanks to baraeerriyachy).$$$Fix detection of invalid .desktop files (thanks to kenrap).$$$Fix the error The child memory-wiping process returned code 9. (thanks to jonas-w).$$$Notify user when running as root with Wayland (thanks to rados).$$$Fix ModuleNotFoundError (reported by hbednar).$$$Remove Windows-specific files from Linux packages; again (reported by robots4life).$$$Remove unneeded SafeConfigParser causing startup error on Python 3.12 (thanks to mhmdanas).$$$Do not show error Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_text_view_scroll_mark_onscreen (reported by idiowar; fixed by mkhon).$$$Add python3-psutil dependency.$$$Specific to Windows$$$Clean more Windows updates (reported by liar666).$$$Fix Windows redirection in Internet Explorer (reported by elgatov).$$$Fix fullscreen bug (thanks to sanjaykaria).$$$Internationalize Windows installer and translate to Italian (thanks to bovirus).$$$Add descriptions for components in installer (thanks to bovirus).$$$Do not report error when wiping path that does not exist (reported by i0629).$$$Allow Winapp to have drive letter followed by filename (thanks to rados).$$$Update bundled SQLite from 3.37.2 to 3.43.2.$$$Update UPX executable compressor to 4.1.0.$$$Developers$$$See the list of commits or list of closed issues.$$$Translation has moved from Launchpad to Weblate; which automatically commits changes via Git; which in turn triggers CI builds. This means you can download a Windows build shortly after making translation changes. Weblate also has usability improvements and features to enhance quality.$$$Install dependency chardet on Travis (thanks to abitrolly).$$$Refactor (thanks to kenrap).$$$Clean more files with make clean.