{"id":48668,"date":"2025-04-14T15:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48668"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:57:58","slug":"bleachbit-released-4-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/bleachbit-released-4-9-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BleachBit Released 4.9.2 as The Last Dev Version for Next 5.0.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44602\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BleachBit, the popular free open-source system cleaner application, released new 4.9.2 development version few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>After 2 alpha releases, BleachBit 4.9.2 is marked as Beta and final release before the next major 5.0.0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bleachbit-darkmode.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48669\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bleachbit-darkmode-700x486.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bleachbit-darkmode-700x486.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bleachbit-darkmode-300x208.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bleachbit-darkmode-768x533.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bleachbit-darkmode.webp 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Compare to the last v4.9.1, the new release does not include any new features. It only updated the translations, improved the build process, and X11 vs Wayland detection on Linux. And, it added metadata such as version number and company to the Windows executable files.<\/p>\n<p>Compare to current v4.6.2 stable, the new release added ability to <b>clear more files and caches for more applications<\/b>, including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Chromium (Snap version),<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Discord,<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Librewolf,<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Geary email client,<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>temporary files in Bash,<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>non-beta Microsoft Edge,<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>rotated logs.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are as well new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Q, Ctrl+W) to close the application, an application indicator icon for Linux, major Python and GTK framework updates for Windows, and stability improvements and code cleanup. For more, see the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleachbit.org\/news\/bleachbit-492-beta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Install BleachBit 4.9.2<\/h3>\n<p>The system cleaner app provides pre-build binary packages for Windows, Debian 11\/12, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 24.04, as well as source tarball, which are available to download at the link below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/download.bleachbit.org\/beta\/4.9.2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download BleachBit 4.9.2<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For Debian\/Ubuntu, just select download the .deb package for your system edition, then open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install drag-and-drop-deb-file-into-terminal<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-bleachbit492.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-bleachbit492-700x361.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-bleachbit492-700x361.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-bleachbit492-300x155.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-bleachbit492-768x397.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-bleachbit492-1320x682.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-bleachbit492.webp 1408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides the native <code>.deb<\/code> packages, there&#8217;s also a community maintained <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/org.bleachbit.BleachBit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatpak package<\/a> that works in most Linux, though it runs in sandbox environment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BleachBit, the popular free open-source system cleaner application, released new 4.9.2 development version few days ago. After 2 alpha releases, BleachBit 4.9.2 is marked as Beta and final release before the next major 5.0.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1904],"class_list":["post-48668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-system-cleaner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}