Mac utility that combines directory compare and file compare

Beyond Compare for Mac

Beyond Compare 4.2.5 Build 23088

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What's new in this version:

Cloud Services:
- Fixed uploads to Dropbox failing silently for files larger than 150 MB

File Formats:
- Improved "XML Tidy" handling of user defined entities
- Fixed "XML Sort" and "XML Tidy" to preserve original character encoding

Folder Compare:
- Linux: Fixed support for 'Align filenames with different Unicode normalization forms'
- Version information is now shown for any file types associated with the Version Compare
- Fixed file operation "Pause/Resume" button's hint when paused
- Unix: Fixed file timestamps being off by up to 2 seconds due to a lossy UTC <-> local conversion

FTP:
- Fixed SFTP/SCP connections not closing after an error (e.g., user cancel on "Unrecognized SSH host key" dialog)

Misc:
- Added Simplified Chinese as an official language for Windows and macOS
- Linux: Added context menus for KDE5
- Windows: Fixed BcClipboard incompatibility with MS Excel, PowerShell ISE, and Visual Studio
- Updated copyright date to 2018

Reports:
- Generated reports are now encoded with ANSI if both input files are ANSI on Windows, and UTF-8 for all other cases. The UTF-8 byte order mark is only written on Windows
- Folder Compare Reports using "Include links to file reports" now uses child session settings

Text Edit:
- Find & Replace "Replace with" can now use n and r to add line breaks when using regular expressions

Text Views:
- Fixed copying forcibly wrapped lines

Crashes:
- Fixed Picture Compare "Summary" report crash