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BleachBit, the open source system cleaner, announces the public 1.0 beta which includes enhancements, bug fixes, and translation updates. Please help test.

These particular areas are a priority for testing:

• Clean Adobe Flash
• Clean Octave
• Clean Warzone 2100
• Clean Google Chrome with the "overwrite contents" option enabled. Verify there are no errors, and the bookmark icons are preserved.
• Clean VLC with the "overwrite contents" option enabled.

• Run a command line like this to delete a specific file or folder:

BleachBit, the open source system cleaner, announces the public 1.0 beta which includes enhancements, bug fixes, and translation updates. Please help test.

These particular areas are a priority for testing:

BleachBit 0.9.6 adds support for LibreOffice and includes improvements for wiping free disk space, Google Chrome, Firefox, OpenOffice.org, winapp2.ini, and more.

BleachBit, the open source system cleaner, announces the public 0.9.6 beta which includes enhancements, bug fixes, and translation updates. Please help test.

These particular areas are a priority for testing:

During work to improve BleachBit's method of wiping free disk space, I noticed a way in which deleted files do not fully free the disk space they occupied.

Process

The process is basically to create an empty partition, fill it with 2000 files each 4096 bytes, and then delete the files. If the files are in the root of the partition, then the file system keeps 45 more blocks allocated. If the 2000 files are created in a subdirectory that is deleted after the 2000 files are deleted, then all the used blocks are freed.

Recently Piriform asked me to remove the winapp2.ini importer from BleachBit.. I replied to Pirform and eventually worked things out. The winapp2.ini importer will stay.

Here's the email from Louise at Piriform:

I received an email from Piriform, makers of CCleaner, asking me to remove a feature from BleachBit that allows individual BleachBit users to use winapp2.ini files created by the community of users. I don't see how the terms of use apply, but I am checking into it.

Update (February 6): CCleaner/Piriform resolved the issue with the winapp2.ini importer.

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:

BleachBit, the open source system cleaner, announces the public 0.9.5 beta 2 which includes enhancements, bug fixes, and translation updates. Please help test.

These particular areas are a priority for testing:

Volunteers are needed to develop and test cleaners for BleachBit.