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BleachBit v5.0.0

Clean Your System and Free Disk Space

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, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, 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.




Features
• Shred sensitive files, so one can ever read their contents.
• You always have the "Pro" version: BleachBit is free of charge
• Anonymous: you do not need to register an account
• Simple to operate: read the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete.
• Multi-platform: it runs on both Linux and Windows
• What's hiding in your software? BleachBit is free to share, learn, and modify because it is open source, so there are no secrets.
• No adware, spyware, telemetry, malware, bloatware, backdoors, browser toolbars, or "value-added software"
• Translated to 68 languages
• Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files
• On Windows, choose to either install or run in portable mode. like from a USB drive.
• Command line interface for scripting and automation
• Advanced users can write their own cleaners using CleanerML
• Automatically import and update winapp2.ini cleaner files giving Windows users access to thousands of additional cleaners

Uses
• Free disk space
• Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files
• Maintain privacy
• Improve system performance
• Prepare system for backups by removing junk data that wastes space and time.
• Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for "ghost" backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space


Cleaners
• Cleaners contain the rules for cleaning specific applications, and BleachBit includes a growing list of cleaners for Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox, VLC, system logs, temporary files, and many others.
• Many more cleaners for Windows and Linux are available in the CleanerML community repository.
• Add thousands of cleaners by using winapp2.ini (Windows only).

Advanced cleaners
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
v5.0.0:

Add a display-language option in preferences (demo video)
Enable closing the application via CTRL+Q or CTRL+W
Make updates notifications less intrusive
Fix the --debug command line switch
Clean variants of Discord such as beta and snap
Fix loading of personal cleaners in portable mode
Improve experience on multi-user systems by ignoring other users' running processes
Prevent invalid entries in the custom and whitelist tabs
Improve stability significantly

Linux
Clean Librewolf
Clean non-beta Microsoft Edge
Clean Bash's temporary files
Clean Geary, the email client
Improve cleaning of rotated logs
Improve cleaning of broken .desktop files
Add AppIndicator icon
Fix CleanerML external processes with spaces
Fix usage of dconf as external command
Add .rpm packages for Fedora 41 and 42, and CentOS 9 Stream
Add .deb packages for Ubuntu 24.10 and Ubuntu 25.04

Windows
Patch DLL-related vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-47113, CVE-2025-32780)
Protect MMC snap-ins (e.g., Device Manager, Computer Management)
Upgrade to Python 3.11.10 and GTK 3.24.43
Update NSIS installer to 3.11
Add metadata such as company name to bleachbit.exe
Drop support for starting on Windows XP and 7
Update the Windows 10 theme by Christian Medel
Fix SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error on update checks

Developers
Switch Linux CI from Travis CI to GitHub Actions
Clean up the codebase extensively
Overhaul RPM and DEB build scripts

Known issues
After changing the display language in the preferences, the new display language takes effect immediately except for the application menu. For the full effect, restart the application.

When BleachBit version 5.0.0 is unpacked, the Windows installer and Windows portable version are much larger than than they were in BleachBit 4.6.2. The primary reasons are: (1) there were major framework updates to Python and GTK, (2) executable decompression was temporarily disabled to minimize bugs in the first 5.x release, and (3) other size optimizations have not been attempted yet. You can try a few, quick optimizations yourself. First, download UPX executable packer and run this: upx.exe --best --nrv2e c:\program files (x86)\bleachbit\*. Compressing the DLL and PYD files shrinks them from 35 MB to 15 MB, saving 20 MB. Next, open the directory c:\program files (x86)\bleachbit\ and delete any languages you do not use. Deleting all languages recovers 3 MB. Both optimizations reduce the size on disk to 21MB. If you notice any issues, please retest without the optimizations by reinstalling.










This download is for the Windows portable version (very bottom of page).
All other download assets are below:


Windows:
BleachBit-5.0.0-setup.exe
Linux:
CentOS 9 Stream
Debian 11 (Bullseye)
Debian 12 (Bookworm)
Fedora 40
Fedora 41
Fedora 42
Linux Mint 20 - 20.3 (Ulyana - Una)
Linux Mint 21 - 21.3 (Vanessa - Virginia)
Linux Mint 22 (Wilma - Xia)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Oracular Oriole)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Plucky Puffin)
openSUSE Slowroll
openSUSE Tumbleweed



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6,350 18,187 Andrew Ziem <img src="https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/gallery/thumbs/BleachBit1_th.png"border="0"> May 07, 2025 - 11:01 5.0.0 19.49MB ZIP 5/5, out of 78 Votes.
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