UltraCompare latest changes
The list below contains the latest changes for UltraCompare Professional. For a more thorough look at what has been added, take the tour of the new features.
The most up-to-date version is 2023.0, released on 05/31/2023.
UltraCompare 2023.0 changes (2023-5-31)
- File merge UI enhancements
- – Merge buttons for each difference
- – Improved visibility of difference blocks
- Folder mode enhancements
- – Added hash compare options: CRC, MD5, SHA1, SHA256
- – Added timestamp compare options: Modified, Accessed, Created
- New ignore options:
- – File extensions
- – Daylight savings
- – Timestamp range
- Compare arbitrary column ranges between two files
- – Supports multiple arbitrary column sets
- Folder session display and filter option defaults can now be set in settings
Other notable enhancements and quality improvements
- Allow users to specify Git folders to include (not just exclude)
- Ignore DCIM folders from connected devices
- UltraCompare doesn’t properly extract text between square brackets from PDF documents
- UltraCompare doesn’t properly extract German open quote from PDF documents
- 3-way compare doesn’t show scrollbar for each map on Windows
- Prompt to normalize line terminators interferes with detection of UTF-16BE file format
- Crash attempting 3-way compare with certain files
- Allow difference text background color and common text background color to be independent
- EAR and WAR files should be handled the same as JAR/ZIP files
- File merge in 3-way folder mode doesn’t update modified file
- Restored command line functionality from previous versions
- Print preview shows incredibly small text
- Cannot select a large number of lines after editing in text compare
- Confirmation button added dialog prompting users to apply changes to the active session
- UltraCompare shows two files as identical when comparing local files to network files
- Wrapped lines are not completely copied to clipboard if they include “||”
- Git merge shows incorrect line count for certain merge conditions
- “New compare” dropdown should include Zip/Rar/Jar compare sessions
- Crash during folder merge with certain files
UltraCompare 2022.20 changes (2022-05-24)
- Binary compare improvements
- Hex offset support
- Set hex offsets per frame to compare or ignore different areas of binary data
- Right-click on any byte to set beginning and ending offsets per-pane
- New session properties for offsets
- Configure number of bytes per line
- Hex offset support
- Folder compare improvements
- Sort folder lists by file type / extension
- Sort indicators for column headings
- Text compare improvements
- New UltraEdit-style Quick Find
- Ignore spaces and tabs separately
- Active line window can always show paired lines
- Table compare improvements
- New option to ignore whitespace
- Git improvements
- Optionally show conflicts / modified files at top of branch browser
- Optionally hide remote branches in branch browser
- Better visual indication of background Git interactions
- Improved aesthetics for Git reviews and compares
- Command line and output improvements
- Support for multiple ignore option flags for text mode
- New
-ignt
switch to “ignore timestamp differences” for folder mode - Added support for
-ne
,-m
, and-a
switches for folder mode - New switches for setting output format:
-ofa
will use “All frames” result format-ofc
will use “Difference in context” format-ofo
will use “One frame only” format-ofs
will use “Side by side” format- Note: These switches must be ordered after file/folder paths used for comparison
- Generate HTML result report from command line (add .html extension to output file)
- Difference indicators for folder mode result report:
*
= file is different between folders<
= file exists in the left pane’s folder only>
= file exists in the right pane’s folder only
- Other improvements
- See active / total number of differences in status bar for text, binary, and table modes
- Support for Ctrl + mouse wheel to zoom in / out
- New print option to set printed font size
- Several issues resolved
UltraCompare 2022.10 changes (2022-01-21)
- Performance and visual improvements for text mode merge
- Improved responsiveness of merge controls
- Optimized navigation of large files when compare is still processing
- Improved accuracy of differences map
- Visual improvements for table mode column and row headers
- Automatic correction of mixed or incorrect line terminators on paste
- Improved handling of externally modified MS Word document
- Addressed isolated folder mode crash
- Addressed issues copying selected text in “Diffs only” view
- Addressed issue merging last difference in files
- Addressed issue with “Next diff” button not working properly
- Addressed copy/paste issues in third pain of 3-way text mode
- Other minor issues addressed
UltraCompare 2022 changes (2021-11-17)
- Lightning fast text merge results
- Re-engineered text merge to provide instant merge
- Eliminated compare / pane refresh after merge
- Various other minor merge improvements to provide better user experience
- New merge settings in Settings » Merge
- Separate “prompt on merge” settings for text and folder mode
- More granular settings for folder and text modes
- Various theme and difference color improvements
- Scrollable map sizing improvements
- Force refresh for folder mode (Shift + F5)
- Theme improvements:
- Added three new dark color themes: Studio Dark, One Dark, Predawn
- Set Studio Dark as default theme
- Improvements for text mode colors
- Key mapping for Find Next / Find Previous
- Support for ignoring files or folders with spaces in name
- Updated FTP component
- Improvements for selecting items in 3-way folder compare
- Other minor improvements