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A plea... Deanna and I have been running this site since 2008 and lately we're seeing a big increase in users (and cost) but a decline in percentage of users who donate. Our ad-free and junkware-free download site only works if everyone chips in to offset the revenue that ads on other sites bring in. Please donate at the bottom of the page. Every little bit helps. Thank you so much. Sincerely, your Older Geeks: Randy and Deanna Always scroll to the bottom of the page for the main download link. We don't believe in fake/misleading download buttons and tricks. The link is always in the same place. BleachBit v6.0.2 👉 Free, open-source system cleaner for freeing disk space and protecting privacy. BleachBit is a powerful, open-source cleaning tool that removes junk files, browser traces, caches, logs, cookies, temporary files, and other unwanted data to help free disk space and protect privacy. It lets users preview what will be deleted before cleaning, securely shred files, wipe empty space, and automate cleanup through command-line and scripting support. BleachBit supports Windows and Linux, includes portable use on Windows, and offers advanced CleanerML support for custom cleaning rules.  Features: Frees disk space by removing temporary files, browser caches, logs, and hidden junk Protects privacy by deleting browsing history, cookies, saved passwords, and application traces Preview mode shows files before deletion Securely shreds sensitive files Wipes empty space to help hide previously deleted files Cleans many applications including Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox, VLC, system logs, temporary files, and more Supports thousands of additional Windows cleaners through winapp2.ini Includes a cookie manager for choosing which cookies to keep Command-line interface for scripting and automation CleanerML support for custom cleaners No adware, spyware, telemetry, malware, bloatware, browser toolbars, or bundled extras Windows installer and portable mode available Open source and free of charge 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 Supported operating systems: Windows 10, Windows 11 Linux .deb and .rpm packages for popular distributions Supported languages: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmεl, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, plus additional community translations. Changes: v6.0.2 07-04-26 All Platforms New Features Add cleaning support for Visual Studio Code, Codium, Antigravity, Cursor, Windsurf, and Devin Add support for multiple browser profiles on Chrome and Edge Add cleaner for Claude Code Add DNS cache cleaner Clean AI models from Google Chrome When shredding a filename, reduce data remnants and speed up shredding files Convert Apache OpenOffice (formerly called OpenOffice.org) cleaner from Python to CleanerML Add options to deep scan for developers: venv, __pycache__, node_modules, and .angular Clear clipboard after shredding files from paste operation User interface and performance Limit the line width of long warning text Improve the logic that triggers the notice during startup about Expert Mode During deep scan, skip directories listed in the keep list to improve the speed of scanning Stop trying to rename files when an error is not retryable Respond to keyboard interrupt (Ctrl+C) when shredding filenames Warn when the configuration file is not writable Disable the chaff controls while generating chaff Bug Fixes If there are errors reading the cookie keep list, then it will abort the cookie cleaning process to avoid removing important cookies Fix: crash in recognition of local cleaners Fix: GUI stops loading if recognition fails Fix: cleaner loading with invalid data types Fix crash with certain Unicode on the CLI Fix: escape invalid Unicode in system information output Fix: allow Unicode in keep/custom lists Fix: avoid losing custom theme icons in Vivaldi by not deleting files in the VivaldiThumbnails folder Fix DuplicateOptionError when restoring warning preferences Improve handling of symlinks in keep list (whitelist) Improve reliability when running external processes without waiting Windows New Features Add %WindowsSystem% variable for c:\windows\system32 and c:\windows\sysnative Use native APIs to clear clipboard on Windows Shrink the installer and installed size. Re-enable UPX file compression and remove unneeded files. These changes reduced the installer by 700KB, the portable zip by 3MB, and the installed size by 22MB (47%) Bug Fixes Fix potential security issue where a malicious actor could delete arbitrary files when cleaning with elevated privileges (CVE-2026-55567). Issue identified by Zeze with TeamT5. Fix access denied errors when clearing the clipboard on Windows Fix crash with unpaired surrogate characters on CLI Fix anonymization of 8.3 short file names Fix handling of unpaired surrogates in keep/custom lists Improve robustness of splash screen Other Update NSIS from 3.03 to 3.12 Improve installer experience for unsupported Windows: direct them to download 4.7.0 Linux New Features Add AppImage binary to run on most x86-64 Linux systems Improve detection of trash on Linux Clean Librewolf installed by official .deb Clean Transmission installed as flatpak Add cleaner for Profanity (chat client) Clean Flatpak localizations Bug Fixes Handle disk quota exceeded (EDQUOT) when wiping a path Fix: could not run CLI as root under Wayland Improve exception handling with snap Fix: keep .desktop files whose Exec path is quoted Require XDG .desktop files to have 'Name' field Fix AppStream metadata Fix crash on startup when requests was not installed Add python3-requests as dependency in RPM and Debian packaging Read swapfile information as text Fix: drag and drop did not work on Wayland Fix detection of snap running Suppress ImportWarning (seen on older distribution) Handle BrokenPipeError in the CLI (for example, when piping to head) Other changes The download pages now show checksums inline at the bottom, rather than requiring the user to download a file. (All prior validation methods are still available.)Computer Science 71 languages were updated with 2175 changes. The most active were Hrvatski (418), Australian English (163) and Nederlands (160) New language added: മലയാളം For Developers Add install-deps.sh to install user and developer dependencies Code changes to prepare for improved macOS support Run some Windows tests also with reduced privileges List of commits List of closed issues This download is for the Windows portable version (very bottom of page). All other download assets are below: Other Windows: BleachBit-6.0.2-setup.exe Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8: BleachBit-4.7.0-setup.exe Linux: Linux (AppImage) AlmaLinux 9 Debian 11 (Bullseye) Debian 12 (Bookworm) Debian 13 (Trixie) Fedora 43 Fedora 44 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) / Linux Mint 20.x Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) / Linux Mint 21.x Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) / Linux Mint 22.x Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon) openSUSE Leap 15.6 openSUSE Leap 16.0 openSUSE Slowroll openSUSE Tumbleweed Click here to visit the author's website. Continue below for the main download link. |
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| Downloads | Views | Developer | Last Update | Version | Size | Type | Rank | |
| 7,121 | 21,439 | Andrew Ziem | Jul 08, 2026 - 11:53 | 6.0.2 | 18.02MB | ZIP |  , out of 98 Votes. |
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