{"id":48825,"date":"2025-05-06T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48825"},"modified":"2025-05-06T09:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:39:14","slug":"bleachbit-5-0-0-released-with-cleaning-librewolf-edge-geary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/bleachbit-5-0-0-released-with-cleaning-librewolf-edge-geary\/","title":{"rendered":"BleachBit 5.0.0 Released with Cleaning Librewolf, Edge &#038; Geary"},"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>After 2 alpha and 1 beta releases, BleachBit system cleaner finally released the new major 5.0.0 version few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Compare to the last stable v4.6.2, the new release of this free open-source disk space cleaner added ability to clean caches for more applications, fixed various bugs, and improved stability significantly.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/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>According to the release notes, BleachBit 5.0.0 added support for cleaning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Chromium web browser(Snap version),<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Discord instant messaging app,<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Librewolf web browser,<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Geary email client,<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>temporary files in Bash,<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Microsoft Edge web browser (non-beta),<\/b><\/li>\n<li>and <b>rotated logs.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It also added an AppIndicator icon, and an option in <i>Preferences<\/i> to switch between all installed languages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bleachbit-language.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48826\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bleachbit-language.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bleachbit-language.webp 548w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bleachbit-language-300x235.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are as well new keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+W) to close the application window, major Python and GTK framework updates for Windows, bug-fixes, and package updates for recent Linux support, including Fedora 41\/42, and Ubuntu 24.10\/25.04.<\/p>\n<p>For more, see the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleachbit.org\/news\/bleachbit-500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Install BleachBit 5.0.0<\/h3>\n<p>The system cleaner app offers pre-build binary packages for Linux and Windows, 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:\/\/www.bleachbit.org\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download BleachBit<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For Debian\/Ubuntu, click &#8220;Linux&#8221; in the download page, then select download the <code>.deb<\/code> package for your system edition, finally 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\/05\/apt-bleachbit5.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48828\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/apt-bleachbit5-700x435.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/apt-bleachbit5-700x435.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/apt-bleachbit5-300x186.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/apt-bleachbit5-768x477.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/apt-bleachbit5.webp 982w\" 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>After 2 alpha and 1 beta releases, BleachBit system cleaner finally released the new major 5.0.0 version few days ago. Compare to the last stable v4.6.2, the new release of this free open-source disk space cleaner added ability to clean caches for more applications, fixed various bugs, and improved stability significantly.<\/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-48825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-system-cleaner"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48825","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=48825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48825\/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=48825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}