BleachBit 6.0.1 Beta

When your computer is getting full, BleachBit quickly frees disk space. When your information is only your business, BleachBit guards your privacy. With BleachBit you can free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there.

Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean thousands of applications including Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, and more. Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.

BleachBit has many useful features:

• Delete your private files so completely that "even God can't read them" according to South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy.
• Simple operation: read the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete.
• Multi-platform: Linux and Windows
• Free of charge and no money trail
• Free to share, learn, and modify (open source)
• No adware, spyware, malware, browser toolbars, or "value-added software"
• Translated to 64 languages besides American English
• Shred files to hide their contents and prevent data recovery
• Shred any file (such as a spreadsheet on your desktop)
• Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files
• Portable app for Windows: run without installation
• Command line interface for scripting and automation
• CleanerML allows anyone to write a new cleaner using XML
• Automatically import and update winapp2.ini cleaner files (a separate download) giving Windows users access to 2500+ additional cleaners
• Frequent software updates with new features

Going beyond standard deletion of files, BleachBit has several advanced cleaners:

• Clear the memory and swap on Linux
• Delete broken shortcuts on Linux
• Delete the Firefox URL history without deleting the whole file—with optional shredding
• Delete Linux localizations: delete languages you don't use. More powerful than localepurge and available on more Linux distributions.
• Clean APT for Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Linux Mint
• Find widely-scattered junk such as Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files.
• Execute yum clean for CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat to remove cached package data
• Delete Windows registry keys—often where MRU (most recently used) lists are stored
• Delete the OpenOffice.org recent documents list without deleting the whole Common.xcu file
• Overwrite free disk space to hide previously files
• Vacuum Firefox, Google Chrome, Liferea, Thunderbird, and Yum databases: shrink files without removing data to save space and improve speed
• Surgically remove private information from .ini and JSON configuration files and SQLite3 databases without deleting the whole file
• Overwrite data in SQLite3 before deleting it to prevent recovery (optional)

BleachBit 6.0.1 Beta release notes:

• BleachBit 6.0.1 beta is now available for testing. This maintenance-focused release includes bug fixes, updated translations, and a range of safe enhancements. This release fixes a Windows security issue that could allow arbitrary file deletion during privileged cleaning (reported by Zeze with TeamT5). It also adds new cleaners (including a DNS cache cleaner, Claude Code, and Visual Studio Code forks), support for multiple Chrome and Edge profiles, new deep scan options for developer directories like node_modules and venv, and safer, faster file shredding.

All Platforms

• Added cleaners for Claude Code, DNS cache, and many Visual Studio Code forks.
• Added support for multiple Chrome and Edge profiles.
• Chrome can now clean downloaded AI models.
• Deep Scan can optionally remove venv, __pycache__, node_modules, and .angular directories.
• Deep Scan is faster by skipping directories on the keep list.
• File shredding is safer, faster, and leaves fewer recoverable traces.
• Improved handling of cookies, symlinks, Unicode filenames, external processes, and configuration files.
• Improved Expert Mode warnings and long warning dialogs.
• Fixed crashes related to cleaner detection, invalid Unicode, and malformed cleaner data.
• Clipboard is now cleared automatically after shredding files via paste operations.

Linux

• Added AppImage support.
• Added cleaners for Visual Studio Code, Codeium, Librewolf (.deb), Transmission (Flatpak), and Profanity.
• Improved Linux trash detection, including Snap-installed applications and mounted drives.
• Fixed Wayland root CLI issues and several Snap-related problems.
• Improved package dependencies, AppStream metadata, and desktop file handling.
• Fixed startup crashes when Python Requests is unavailable.

Windows

• Fixed a security vulnerability that could allow arbitrary file deletion when cleaning with elevated privileges.
• Added %WindowsSystem% variable support.
• Improved clipboard clearing using native Windows APIs.
• Improved installer experience on unsupported Windows versions.
• Reduced installer size and improved application robustness.
• Fixed Unicode handling, filename anonymization, Git revision reporting, and splash screen stability. [full release notes]

Download: BleachBit 6.0 | Portable | ~20.0 MB (Open Source)
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