14 DAY TRIAL // On June 19, Andrew Ziem had the great pleasure of announcing the release of the BleachBit 1.8 open-source and cross-platform system cleaner application for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
According to the release notes, which have been attached at the end of the article for reference, BleachBit 1.8 is a major release that adds numerous new features and fixes some of the most important bugs from the previous stable version of the software, BleachBit 1.6, especially for Windows users. It also enhances Winapp2.ini support.
Prominent features include a new option in the Preferences, called "Confirm before delete" and designed to help users disable the confirmation message that appeared when deleting files, centering of the main window at startup, as well as the addition of support for cleaning Opera passwords (for Linux too).
Moreover, there's fixes for the "Shred Settings and Quit" tool from the File menu, the BleachBit icon has been made smaller in size, numerous cleaners received description, and a brand-new command-line option called "--debug-log" promises to allow users to log debug message to a specific file.
For Linux users, BleachBit 1.8 now suppresses GTK+ warning in the console, the FSArchiver disk cloning utility has been whitelisted in the /tmp/fsa directory, and the hard-coded localizations cleaning system has been replaced with CleanerML entries.
Numerous new features have been added for Windows users
In addition to the new features mentioned above, BleachBit 1.8 adds numerous new features and fixes bugs for the Windows version of the app, including support for cleaning Skype uninstallers and more SeaMonkey files, better support for %DOCUMENTS%, and better decoding of exception messages.
Support for wiping free space when using a long path has been repaired as well. Download BleachBit 1.8 for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now via Softpedia or directly from the project's website, whichever suits you best. Both 32- and 64-bit architectures are supported at this time.