BleachBit 5.0.2

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)

Changes since version 5.0.0:

• Feature: to change font size, press CTRL plus -, +, or 0 or hold CTRL while scrolling mouse wheel.
• Feature: Press F11 to toggle full screen.
• Fix: --debug-log option did not show debug messages.
• Fix: OperationalError when vacuuming Firefox versions 140 and later.
• Fix: Do not show error for non-existent custom folder.
• Fix: subprocess [number] is still running error message.
• Localization: 68 languages were updated with 940 changes. The most active were Gaeilge (323), සිංහල (84) and ไทย (50). New languages added: Gaeilge and සිංහල

Linux

• Feature: Clean pacman cache.
• Feature: Clean disabled snap packages
• Fix: Skip KDE files when cleaning system cache to improve KDE stability.
• Fix: Improve compatibility in headless and restricted environments such as crontab.
• Fix: ResourceWarning for subprocess.
• Add description for Exaile.
• Make AppStream data translatable.
• Update application descriptions in .deb and .rpm packages.
• Add packages for AlmaLinux, Debian 13, Linux Mint Zara, and openSUSE Leap 15.6 and 16.0.

Windows

• Fix: error message The function wbindtextdomain() is not available.
• Fix: Do not hang when cleaning Windows updates.
• Fix: Improve exception handling for wiping files.
• The app uses a newly renewed digital certificate, which may cause temporary security warnings from Microsoft SmartScreen or antivirus software. You may report a false positive.

Still No Compromises

And just as important, here's what has not changed:

• No telemetry or tracking: your privacy stays yours.
• It works offline without contacting the mothership.
• There is no intrusive Windows service, making it easy to completely close the app.
• Every cleaning option is yours to customize.
• We still clean temporary files and log files.
• No subscription or paywalls — everything’s fully accessible. The only ads you’ll see are on the website, which help cover operating costs.

Download: BleachBit 5.0.2 | Portable | ~20.0 MB (Open Source)
View: BleachBit Home page | Screenshot

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