Changes since version 6.0.0 All Platforms New Features

• Add cleaning support for Visual Studio Code, Codium, Antigravity, Cursor, Windsurf, and Devin
• Add support for multiple browser profiles on Chrome and Edge
• Add cleaner for Claude Code
• Add DNS cache cleaner
• Clean AI models from Google Chrome
• When shredding a filename, reduce data remnants and speed up shredding files
• Convert Apache OpenOffice (formerly called OpenOffice.org) cleaner from Python to CleanerML
• Add options to deep scan for developers: venv, pycache, node_modules, and .angular
• Clear clipboard after shredding files from paste operation User interface and performance
• Limit the line width of long warning text
• Improve the logic that triggers the notice during startup about Expert Mode
• During deep scan, skip directories listed in the keep list to improve the speed of scanning
• Stop trying to rename files when an error is not retryable
• Respond to keyboard interrupt (Ctrl+C) when shredding filenames
• Warn when the configuration file is not writable
• Disable the chaff controls while generating chaff Bug Fixes
• If there are errors reading the cookie keep list, then it will abort the cookie cleaning process to avoid removing important cookies
• Fix: crash in recognition of local cleaners
• Fix: GUI stops loading if recognition fails
• Fix: cleaner loading with invalid data types
• Fix crash with certain Unicode on the CLI
• Fix: escape invalid Unicode in system information output
• Fix: allow Unicode in keep/custom lists
• Fix: avoid losing custom theme icons in Vivaldi by not deleting files in the VivaldiThumbnails folder
• Fix DuplicateOptionError when restoring warning preferences
• Improve handling of symlinks in keep list (whitelist)
• Improve reliability when running external processes without waiting

Windows New Features

• Add %WindowsSystem% variable for c:\windows\system32 and c:\windows\sysnative
• Use native APIs to clear clipboard on Windows
• Shrink the installer and installed size. Re-enable UPX file compression and remove unneeded files. These changes reduced the installer by 700KB, the portable zip by 3MB, and the installed size by 22MB (47%) Bug Fixes
• Fix potential security issue where a malicious actor could delete arbitrary files when cleaning with elevated privileges (CVE-2026-55567). Issue identified by Zeze with TeamT5.
• Fix access denied errors when clearing the clipboard on Windows
• Fix crash with unpaired surrogate characters on CLI
• Fix anonymization of 8.3 short file names
• Fix handling of unpaired surrogates in keep/custom lists
• Improve robustness of splash screen Other
• Update NSIS from 3.03 to 3.12 in AppVeyor CI
• Improve installer experience for unsupported Windows

Linux New Features

• Add AppImage binary to run on most x86-64 Linux systems
• Improve detection of trash on Linux
• Clean Librewolf installed by official .deb
• Clean Transmission installed as flatpak
• Add cleaner for Profanity (chat client)
• Clean Flatpak localizations Bug Fixes
• Handle disk quota exceeded (EDQUOT) when wiping a path
• Fix: could not run CLI as root under Wayland
• Improve exception handling with snap
• Fix: keep .desktop files whose Exec path is quoted
• Require XDG .desktop files to have 'Name' field
• Fix AppStream metadata
• Fix crash on startup when requests was not installed
• Add python3-requests as dependency in RPM and Debian packaging
• Read swapfile information as text
• Fix: drag and drop did not work on Wayland
• Fix detection of snap running
• Suppress ImportWarning (seen on older distribution)
• Handle BrokenPipeError in the CLI (for example, when piping to head)

Other changes The download pages now show checksums inline at the bottom, rather than requiring the user to download a file. (All prior validation methods are still available.) For Developers

• Add install-deps.sh to install user and developer dependencies
• Code changes to prepare for improved macOS support
• Run some Windows tests also with reduced privileges
• List of commits
• List of closed issues Website & Documentation
• Major improvements to the documentation site at docs.bleachbit.org.
• The first localized pages on bleachbit.org in Spanish, Italian, and German cover the homepage, download, features, and help pages.
• Introduce server in Moscow localized in the Russian language.