BleachBit 6.0.4 fixes secure wiping that skipped clusters on Windows
BleachBit 6.0.4 fixes Windows secure-wipe bugs that skipped fragmented-file clusters, adds HSTS tracker deletion, early macOS support, and broad hardening.
The open-source cleaner BleachBit released version 6.0.4, fixing Windows shredding bugs where fragmented files were wiped incompletely because noncontiguous clusters were skipped, leaving potentially sensitive data on disk. The release adds deletion of dynamic HSTS tracking data in six Chromium-based browsers and Zen, early macOS support including a Safari cleaner and full CLI, plus hardening such as absolute paths for ipconfig/taskkill, symlink and reparse-point handling, DTD-free XML parsing, and PATH/environment sanitization when running as root.
- Windows shredding previously missed clusters of fragmented files; wipe free space to remediate
- Now deletes dynamic HSTS data in six Chromium browsers and Zen
- Early macOS support: Safari cleaner, full command line, GUI still maturing
- Hardening: absolute binary paths, symlink guards, DTD-less XML, sanitized PATH as root
- New cleaners for Android Studio, Gradle, fish, Zsh, Python history, and Claude logs
- Vendors
- BleachBit
- Products
- BleachBit 6.0.4
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The open source cleaner BleachBit reached version 6. 0. 4 this week, erasing caches, browser traces, and files on Windows, Linux, and now macOS.
By Anamarija Pogorelec · helpnetsecurity.com
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