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 2022.20, released on 5/25/2022.
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
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 2022.20 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
-igntswitch to “ignore timestamp differences” for folder mode - Added support for
-ne,-m, and-aswitches for folder mode - New switches for setting output format:
-ofawill use “All frames” result format-ofcwill use “Difference in context” format-ofowill use “One frame only” format-ofswill 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