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Help us test BleachBit 6.0.5 beta, a release focused on stability, reliability, speed, and conservative feature enhancements. This release makes BleachBit noticeably faster, especially at startup, during deep scans, and when wiping files. It also introduces a cleaner for the Helium browser; expands cleaning across web browsers, Docker, and Claude Code; and resolves various crashes, freezes, and preference issues.

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We invite you to test BleachBit 6.0.3 beta. This release includes important security fixes, hardening, bug fixes, performance improvements, and minor enhancements.

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We invite you to test BleachBit 6.0.1 beta. The focus is maintenance with bug fixes, translation updates, and safe enhancements. This release fixes a Windows security issue that could allow arbitrary file deletion during privileged cleaning (reported by Zeze with TeamT5). It also adds new cleaners (including a DNS cache cleaner, Claude Code, and Visual Studio Code forks), support for multiple Chrome and Edge profiles, new deep scan options for developer directories like node_modules and venv, and safer, faster file shredding.

We invite you to test BleachBit 5.1.2 beta, preparing for our biggest release in years. This release stands out for the scale and importance of recent changes. Users can selectively choose cookies to keep using the new cookie manager feature. This release fixes an important bug for Windows Recycle Bin handling, along with adding broader safety improvements and stronger guardrails. Your testing and feedback will help us confirm these changes are solid before the final release.

We invite you to test BleachBit 5.1.1 beta, preparing for our biggest release in years. This release stands out for the scale and importance of recent changes. Users can selectively choose cookies to keep using the new cookie manager feature. This released fixes an important bug for Windows Recycle Bin handling, along with adding broader safety improvements and stronger guardrails. Your testing and feedback will help us confirm these changes are solid before the final release.

We invite you to test BleachBit 5.1.0 beta, our biggest release in years. This release stands out for the scale and importance of recent changes. Users can selectively choose cookies to keep using the new cookie manager feature. This released fixes an important bug for Windows Recycle Bin handling, along with adding broader safety improvements and stronger guardrails. Your testing and feedback will help us confirm these changes are solid before the final release.

We invite you to test BleachBit 4.9.2 beta, a precursor to our 5.0.0 major release. This may be the final release before 5.0.0.

Changes

Since version 4.9.1 alpha:

We invite you to test BleachBit 4.9.0 alpha, a precursor to our 5.0.0 major release.

Please test BleachBit 4.6.1 beta, which eventually become the 4.6.2 maintenance release.

Please test BleachBit 4.5.1 beta, which is a follow-up to 4.5.0 beta, and this will become the 4.6.0 major release.

This list is of tests is incomplete. Run your own tests, and infer tests from the commit log and closed issues.