BleachBit

⬇️ Download BleachBit 6.0.2

What's new

BleachBit 6.0.2 is a maintenance release

• Fixes a Windows security issue (CVE-2026-55567) where malicious actors could delete arbitrary files during elevated-privilege cleaning
• Adds cleaners for VS Code, Codium, Cursor, Windsurf, Devin, Claude Code, Antigravity, Profanity, and DNS cache
• Adds multi-profile support for Chrome/Edge + AppImage binary for Linux
• Shrinks the Windows installer by 700KB and installed size by 22MB (47%)
• Many bug fixes & performance improvements across Windows and Linux

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⬇️ Download BleachBit 6.0.2 for Windows ⬇️ Download BleachBit 6.0.2 for Linux

We invite you to test BleachBit 6.0.1 beta. The focus is maintenance with bug fixes, translation updates, and 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.

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🎉 BleachBit 4.7.0 released!

This is a special release for Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8. Highlights:

• Cleaners on par with BleachBit 6.0.1
• New cleaner for the Supermium web browser
• Critical fix: no longer follows symlinks/junctions in the recycle bin
• 24 languages with complete translations
• Dual-signed installers (SHA-1 for XP, SHA-256 for newer)

Windows 10/11 and Linux users, BleachBit 6.0 is your version.

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⬇️ Download BleachBit 4.7.0 installer .exe ⬇️ Download BleachBit 4.7.0 portable .zip

Demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/96977a7d-4287-447c-ac60-46ce8b80bc42

The video shows BleachBit 4.7.0 running on Windows XP SP3, and BleachBit cleans Supermium

⬇️ Download BleachBit 6.0.0

What's new

BleachBit 6.0.0 is our biggest release in years, featuring significant new features, deeper browser cleaning, and many usability improvements. Key highlights include a new cookie manager, improved browser cleaning for Chromium and Firefox, new Vivaldi and Zen browser cleaners, and numerous interface enhancements. This release represents months of development work with over 100 improvements and fixes.

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⬇️ Download BleachBit 6.0.0 for Windows ⬇️ Download BleachBit 6.0.0 for Linux

Demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/85ebb380-ebe7-4eb6-885c-9b08a450d144

The video shows a brief demo of the new cookie manager feature.

BleachBit 5.1.2 Beta Release Notes

• Enhanced cleaning for Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera) including caches, databases, site data, and session files
• Improved Firefox, LibreWolf, and Waterfox cleaning with better handling of storage, permissions, favicons, and snap/Flatpak installations
• Added Vivaldi browser cleaner
• Fixed GUI issues including deadlock with malformed XML cleaners, font check dialog on Windows, and Unicode errors with invalid filename characters
• Improved expert mode tree view and added tooltips for locked preferences
• Added Windows clipboard shredding for file paths and Winapp2.ini registry key exclusion support
• Fixed application launch for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language users on Windows

See BleachBit 5.1.2 release notes

📋 Paste paths via CTRL+V: Accept newline-separated file/folder paths from clipboard in the main window ⚡ Chaff overhaul: Faster generation, flexible stop conditions (file count, size, free space %), stop button, and completion notification 🔒 Anonymize system info: New button strips username, home dir, and Linux env vars (LOGNAME, USER) before sharing 🎨 UI polish: Improved preferences dialog, dark theme error log contrast, and Windows font legibility check on first run 🌐 i18n: Adjust strings for better internationalization, allowing translators to adjust order of placeholders

👉 For more details, visit the release notes

• Added: Cookie manager
• Safety, usability improvements
• Clean more Chromium, Opera, Zen browser
• Sleeker UI
• CLI features
• Major Windows and Linux fixes

See BleachBit 5.1.0 release notes

This release adds font size adjustment, full screen mode, new Linux cleaners, and reliability improvements.

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BleachBit 5.0.1 beta ready for testing! 🚀 ✨ New:

• Zoomable fonts
• F11 full-screen mode
• Clean snap, pacman 🐧

✅ Fixes:

• Firefox vacuum
• Windows Update cleaning
• --debug--log
• Error messages

For more information or to download binaries, see BleachBit 5.0.1 release notes

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