BleachBit 6.0.6 is a maintenance release that speeds up the application, adds cleaners for the Helium browser and Docker, and fixes bugs that could prevent saving settings after running as administrator on Windows and Linux.
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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BleachBit 6.0.4 is a maintenance release with many security and bug fixes, performance improvements, code cleanup, and four new cleaners. Support for FreeBSD and macOS is maturing toward general use: check back soon for an Apple Disk Image (.dmg) file.
By the way, BleachBit will soon be 18 years old. Thank you to the community of developers, translators, testers, bug reporters, and users!
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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BleachBit 6.0.2 is a maintenance release that fixes a security issue on Windows, adds cleaners for Visual Studio Code, Codium, Antigravity, Cursor, Windsurf, Devin, and Claude Code, and improves performance and reliability across Windows and Linux.
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.
BleachBit 4.7.0 is now available! This release brings BleachBit's cleaners up to date with version 6.0.1, adds support for Supermium, and introduces modern CleanerML compatibility features. It includes significant bug fixes for file handling and symlink traversal, performance improvements, and comprehensive translation updates.
This is a special release of BleachBit intended only for Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8, so users on Windows 10 and 11 and Linux should continue to use BleachBit 6.0.
Introducing the BleachBit TUI (text user interface) built on the BleachBit 6.0 backend. It's geared at users who:
BleachBit 6.0.0 is our biggest release in years, featuring significant new features, deeper browser cleaning, and many usability and safety improvements. Key highlights include a new cookie manager, improved browser cleaning for Chromium and Firefox, new Vivaldi and Zen browser cleaners, and numerous interface enhancements. This release represents months of development work with over 100 improvements and fixes.
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.
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