5.0.7.30840 - April 16, 2025

Notable Changes
General stability and polish improvements.

Appearance
Dark mode: Fixed contrast for border lines used for Table Compare grid and "current line" in various views.

File Views
Fixed comparison thumbnail leaving column of garbage pixels on the right side.

Folder Compare

Fixed crash when sorting large directories.
Windows: Fixed some Windows 11 network shares being detected as Samba.

Picture Compare
Windows: Fixed Full Screen (F11) positioning incorrectly.

Third Party Libraries
Windows: Updated FlexCel to v7.24.0.

Windows Explorer Context Menu Extension
Fixed shell extension menu icons being too large when shown from a DPI-unaware application running on a high DPI display.
Fixed shell extension menu icons misaligning with other shell extensions when showing a folder's context menu on Windows 7 under the Classic theme.
Fixed shell extension "Merge" menu items staying visible if they're turned on and then BC is registered using a Standard edition license.
Fixed shell extension installation when powershell.exe isn't in the system %PATH%.
Reduced file sizes for the shell extension DLLs back down to what they were in 5.0.2.

Crashes
Windows: Fixed "Tools > Options > Tweaks" crash when scrolling using the mouse wheel on Windows 7.
Windows: Fixed crashes when opening Excel files with unexpected data.

This is both major new feature and maintenance release:

Added: New AI model support - Claude Sonnet, new OpenAI models, DeepSeek (AWS version)
Added: Send whole files to AI chat
Added: Specify global or per-project AI instructions
Added: Warning against accidentally executing long AI conversations that may spend AI credits quickly
Added: AI thinking information support
Fixed: AI updates real time and is less likely to experience timeouts
Fixed: Restored xray function that was broken previously
Many other smaller fixes and additions