BleachBit 0.9.5

BleachBit 0.9.5 better cleans Google Chrome, Thunderbird, and 64-bit Linux systems and improves compatibility with Winapp2.ini, which offers 1,237 cleaners for Windows. We are also happy to announce a new GitHub repository for developing and sharing cleaners.

These are the changes since version 0.9.4:

• Google Chrome, Chromium: separate cleaning of passwords out of history into its own option
• Google Chrome: delete Flash cookies in Pepper Flash
• Google Chrome: delete more history
• Thunderbird: delete folder index files (.msf) thanks to BlackDex
• Clean out obsolete data (hashpath) in bleachbit.ini to reduce file size and improve privacy
• Introduce a new GitHub repository for CleanerML development
• Move BleachBit source code repository, which is in SVN, to new address
• Specific to Linux
  • Improve compatibility of memory wiping with 64-bit systems
  • Improve ability to run headless
  • Support newer Linux kernels in memory cleaner by using new out-of-memory score adjustment /proc/pid/oom_score_adj
• Specific to Windows
  • Improve compatibility with Winapp2.ini: clean more junk and more accurately detect which options are relevant (add support for semicolons, DetectFile#=, Detect#=, and more sections)
  • Add command line option --update-winapp2 to update winapp2.ini (can be combined with --clean or --preview and --list)
  • Introduce higher resolution application icon
  • Add transparency to application icon

Translations

• Update Chinese (Traditional) thanks to Pin-hsien Li
• Update Croatian thanks to freedomrun
• Update Dutch thanks to rob
• Update English (Australia) thanks to Benjamin Donald-Wilson
• Update Esperanto thanks to Anthony, Ivan Camilo Quintero Santacruz
• Update French thanks to Nicolas Delvaux, Célestin Taramarcaz, nodiscc, gisele perreault
• Update Galician thanks to Miguel Anxo Bouzada
• Update German thanks to DNS, Daniel Winzen
• Update Hebrew thanks to Yaron
• Update Indonesian thanks to Abdul Munif Hanafi
• Update Italian thanks to Carml
• Update Malay thanks to abuyop
• Update Polish thanks to Isamu715 and Paweł Szerszon
• Update Spanish thanks to Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
• Update Uyghur thanks to Gheyret T.Kenji

Known issues

In Google Chrome version 25 you may see the error No such table: keywords_backup - google-chrome/Default/Web Data (bug #1131540). This affects only a small subset of the cleaning for Google Chrome, and most of the cleaning is still effective. Fixed in BleachBit 0.9.6 beta.

Update

July 3, 2013: BleachBit 0.9.6 has been released.