bleachbit BleachBit 1.12 Free System Cleaner Brings Support for Ubuntu 16.04, Fedora 24

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BleachBit 1.12 Free System Cleaner Brings Support for Ubuntu 16.04, Fedora 24

 

 

Available now for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows systems

 

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BleachBit developer Andrew Ziem has recently announced the availability of a new major release of the popular BleachBit open-source and cross-platform system cleaner utility, version 1.12.

 

BleachBit 1.12 comes as a replacement for BleachBit 1.10, which was announced at the beginning of the year, and it looks like it has been in development since April under the BleachBit 1.11.x umbrella. During its three-month development cycle, the software has received a total of three Beta builds that have brought many changes, improvements, and a handful of new features.

 

BleachBit is the tool you need if you want to keep your GNU/Linux or Windows clean and free of junk files left by various applications. The latest version, BleachBit 1.12, includes updates for the popular Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers, a few under-the-hood improvements, and many changes to both Linux and Windows ports.

 

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Fedora 24 are now supported

 

Probably the most important feature of them all is the ability to install the software on the recently released Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and Fedora 24 Linux operating systems, as the developer has provided users with both DEB and RPM binary packages, making the installation easier and painless.

 

Additionally, BleachBit's cleaning engine was greatly improved for many popular open-source applications, including EasyTAG audio tag editor, Epiphany web browser, Evolution groupware client, Rhythmbox music player, and Transmission BitTorrent client. Also, there's better support for cleaning junk files from the GNOME desktop.

 

Last but not least, the KDE cleaner for the KDE 4 desktop environment has been updated to work on openSUSE Linux, the X11 and Thumbnails cleaners have received improvements as well, iBus Pinyin has been whitelisted, and the software has switched to use the GIO VFS API instead of the deprecated GnomeVFS for accessing file systems.

 

Of course, there are many changes for improving the usability of the software on Windows systems, so we recommend taking a look at the changelog attached at the end of the article for more details. In the meantime, you can download BleachBit 1.12 for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows operating system right now from here.

BleachBit 1.12 Changelog:

 

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Fix error Favicons is version 32 with Google Chrome 51 (reported by Holger)
Fix cleaning of Thumbnails in new Chromium and Google Chrome (reported by ineuw, patrick)
Fix crash with corrupt BleachBit.ini (reported by BitBleacher)
Fix error UNIQUE constraint failed error cleaning Firefox (reported by danjackson1 and gravy45)

 

Specific to Linux

 

 Update EasyTAG cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
 Update Epiphany cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
 Update Evolution cleaner (thanks to skquinn)
 Update GNOME cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
 Update KDE cleaner for KDE 4 on openSUSE (thanks to Mailaender)
 Update Rhythmbox cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
 Update Thumbnails cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
 Update Transmission cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
 Update X11 cleaner (thanks to devmapper0)
 Switch from GnomeVFS, which is deprecated, to GIO (reported by MM)
 Do not repeat Google Chrome cache in preview (reported by Daniel Che)
 Fix retention of translations for Chinese
 Whitelist iBus Pinyin (reported by Josiah Hunter)
 Add .deb package for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
 Add .rpm package for Fedora 24.

 

Specific to Windows

 

 Fix cleaning of files with dollar sign ($) in name
 Support ExcludeKey filter in Winapp2.ini (reported by 212eta)
 Fix support for the pattern *.extension with FileKey in Winapp2.ini (reported by 212eta)
 Downgrade exception notice for getting special folders (reported by timvandermeij)
 Make regex filter in CleanerML case insensitive on Windows
 Fix error [Errno 2] No such file or directory when cleaning Windows Explorer - Thumbnails more than once in a row
 Fix the harmless error Error in execution of Command to delete C:Windowstemp_avast_AvastLock.txt with Avast antivirus
 Update SQLite.dll 3.8.0.2 to 3.11.1 (suggested by brahmastra2016).
 Update NSIS to 2.51, which hardens the installer against DLL hijacking
 Resolved false positive Packer.Generic!c with AegisLab antivirus
 Submit BleachBit for whitelisting with ESET antivirus to address slowness when running with ESET (reported by captaincackle)

 

Development

 

 Add type attribute to CleanerML
 Add new action process to CleanerML to run external commands
 Add wholeregex/nwholeregex filters to CleanerML
 Move GitHub repositories bleachbit-misc and winapp2.ini to the new BleachBit organization in GitHub. More will follow.

 

 

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