BleachBit, the CCleaner alternative system cleaner app, released new 5.0.2 in last week with support for cleaning more app caches.

BleachBit is a free open-source application for Linux and Windows that can free up disk space by deleting cookies, cleaning internet history, discarding junks and removing logs.

It support cleaning thousands of applications, such as Firefox, Chrome/Chromium, Opera, and more, removing apt, bash, and system caches, shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space, and vacuuming Firefox to improve speed without removing any data.

The last major 5.0.0 version, which was released in May, added cleaning more apps support, including Librewolf and Microsoft Edge for Linux, beta and snap versions of Discard.

In the new 5.0.2 version, it now supports cleaning caches for pacman, the default package manager for Arch and Manjaro etc Linux Distributions.

For Ubuntu and other Linux have apps installed as snap packages, the release also added support removing snap packages that have been disabled. It will trigger native snap remove command running silently in background to remove all disabled snaps, though it was not working good in my case as it stuck at Sl sleeping status waiting for something.

Besides that, the new version also updated its UI. Like web browser, it now supports Ctrl+Scroll or Ctrl + +/- keyboard shortcuts to change text font size, and F11 to toggle full-screen mode.

Other changes are mostly bug-fixes and translation updates. They include:

• Fix Firefox vacuuming error for version 140 and later.
• Improve KDE stability by skipping KDE files when leaning system cache.
• Improve compatibility in headless and restricted environments such as crontab.
• Add description for Exaile music player, and update description for Audacious.
• Add new Gaeilge and සිංහල translations, and update 68 languages.
• Add packages for AlmaLinux, Debian 13, Linux Mint Zara, and openSUSE Leap 15.6 and 16.0.

In addition, the release uses a newly renewed digital certificate that may cause temporary security warnings from antivirus software in Windows. For more, see the official release note.

Get BleachBit 5.0.2

BleachBit provides official packages for Windows and Linux which are available to download via the link below:

For Linux, they are .rpm packages for Fedora, openSUSE, etc distributions, and .deb for Debian and Ubuntu based systems. And most desktop software app now support installing them.