ExamDiff Pro Build History
Changes in Build 15.0.1.16
2024-11-15- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.11.0
Changes in Build 15.0.1.15
2024-11-05- Improvement: Better high DPI support
- Fix: Syntax highlighting was incorrectly used after Recompare or Swap Files even when "Options | Display | Use document type settings" option was not set
Changes in Build 15.0.1.14
2024-10-10- Fix: Sorting by relative path was not preserved when switching from flat to tree mode and back
- Fix: Exclude filters under Options | Display | View Filters did not correctly exclude by paths
Changes in Build 15.0.1.13
2024-09-27- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.10.1
- Fix: Incorrect display of line endings of changed blocks in two-way merge
- Fix: "Move Cursor To Address" command in binary comparison did not work in 64-bit builds
Changes in Build 15.0.1.12
2024-08-25- Improvement: Better scope generation for comparison of programming language files
Changes in Build 15.0.1.11
2024-08-17- Improvement: Updated 7-Zip plug-in to the latest version 24.08
Changes in Build 15.0.1.10
2024-08-07- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.9.1
Changes in Build 15.0.1.9
2024-07-31- Fix: 7-Zip plug-in for 64-bit builds was incorrectly installed with a 32-bit DLL
- Fix: Incorrect file and folder icons in directory comparison on Windows XP
Changes in Build 15.0.1.8
2024-07-19- Fix: Windows Explorer integration setup for Windows 11 could silently fail if the trusted root certificate was misconfigured on the target computer
Changes in Build 15.0.1.7
2024-06-29- Improvement: Updated 7-Zip plug-in to the latest version 24.07
Changes in Build 15.0.1.6
2024-06-28- Fix: When "Compare files byte-by-byte (fast mode)" option was used, some files could be missing from directory comparison results in rare circumstances
- Fix: When the last line of a file was missing the linebreak, the number of lines in the status bar was off by one
Changes in Build 15.0.1.5
2024-06-23- Fix: Setup error "Cannot expand 'dotnet4064' constant" on older Windows versions
Changes in Build 15.0.1.4
2024-06-21- Improvement: Setting clipboard contents in the Compare dialog now shows the number of characters to be compared
Changes in Build 15.0.1.3
2024-06-08- Improvement: Updated jQuery to the latest version 3.7.1
Changes in Build 15.0.1.2
2024-05-29- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.8.0
- Improvement: Updated 7-Zip plug-in to the latest version 24.06
Changes in Build 15.0.1.1
2024-05-23- Improvement: Updated 7-Zip plug-in to the latest version 24.05
Changes in Build 15.0.1.0
2024-05-10- First 15.0 production build
Changes in Build 15.0.0.21
2024-05-05- Fix: /statsonly command line option did not report correct results in directory comparison
- Fix: "Exclude ExamDiff Pro backup subdirectory" option did not work correctly in directory comparison
- Fix: Removed PESnoop plug-in that sometimes triggered suspicious software warnings
Changes in Build 15.0.0.20
2024-05-01- Improvement: Better startup performance
Changes in Build 15.0.0.19
2024-04-27- Improvement: Deleting items in directory comparison will now display progress dialog
Changes in Build 15.0.0.18
2024-04-23- Fix: Minor Explorer integration issues
Changes in Build 15.0.0.17
2024-04-17- Improvement: Launching a new instance now consistently passes settings from the original one
Changes in Build 15.0.0.16
2024-04-10- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.7.1
- Fix: Version 15 shortcut was not created by the installer if a previous version was present
Changes in Build 15.0.0.15
2024-04-07- Fix: Empty directories were not allowed to be copied in flat mode of directory comparison
Changes in Build 15.0.0.14
2024-04-02- Fix: Restoring directory comparison tree expand/collapse state
Changes in Build 15.0.0.13
2024-03-24- Fix: Incorrect log location in portable ExamDiff Pro
Changes in Build 15.0.0.12
2024-03-23- Fix: Logging issues
Changes in Build 15.0.0.11
2024-03-17- Fix: Language detection issues
Changes in Build 15.0.0.10
2024-03-03- Fix: In tree mode, mouse wheel did not scroll correctly if "One screen at a time" was selected in Windows settings
Changes in Build 15.0.0.9
2024-03-02- Improvement: Column widths are now stored separately for flat and tree directory comparison modes
- Improvement: Relative Path sort order is preserved when toggling between flat and tree directory comparison modes
- Fix: Plug-ins options were not saved between launches
- Fix: Word wrapping produced incorrect results for the last line if it was missing a linebreak
Changes in Build 15.0.0.8
2024-02-24- Fix: Mouse wheel did not scroll correctly in tree mode in some Windows configurations
Changes in Build 15.0.0.7
2024-02-22- Improvement: Ability to use version 15.0 plug-ins without breaking plug-ins of previously installed versions
Changes in Build 15.0.0.6
2024-02-21- Fix: Fixes for column resizing in tree mode
- Fix: Crash dumps did not match saved PDB files
- Fix: View | Scope Bars command could become disabled in some circumstances
Changes in Build 15.0.0.5
2024-02-18- Fix: "Updates available" visual indicator was incorrectly shared between major versions
- Fix: A small number of settings were not correctly read from exported options files
Changes in Build 15.0.0.4
2024-02-16- Improvement: Ability to save crash minidump without emailing it
- Fix: In tree mode, when using view filters a crash can occur in some circumstances
Changes in Build 15.0.0.3
2024-02-15- Improvement: Install plug-ins of the appropriate architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) based on the architecture chosen for the ExamDiff Pro installation
- Improvement: Better order of status updates in the output pane after file operations
- Fix: In tree mode, views were not properly updated after copying items in some circumstances
Changes in Build 15.0.0.2
2024-02-08- Improvement: Setup improvements
- Fix: Custom inline plug-ins did not work correctly
Changes in Build 15.0.0.1
2024-02-05- Improvement: Improved redrawing of small status bars
- Fix: Some of multiply-selected items were not copied in directory comparison
Changes in Build 15.0.0.0
2024-02-01- New: Tree mode in directory comparison
- New: Ability to perform fast byte-by-byte file content comparison, within full content comparison
- New: Enhanced file and directory filtering in directory comparison
- Improvement: HTML Diff Report Improvements
- Improvement: Better WSL (The Windows Subsystem for Linux) support
- Fix: Multiple bug fixes
Changes in Build 14.0.1.27
2024-04-10- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.7.1
Changes in Build 14.0.1.26
2024-03-17- Fix: Language detection issues
Changes in Build 14.0.1.25
2024-03-02- Fix: Word wrapping produced incorrect results for the last line if it was missing a linebreak
Changes in Build 14.0.1.24
2024-02-22- Fix: Crash dumps did not match saved PDB files
Changes in Build 14.0.1.23
2024-02-10- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.6.0
- Improvement: Updated Xpdf plug-in to the latest version 4.05
Changes in Build 14.0.1.22
2024-01-25- Fix: Occasional crash after clicking on a pane in a small status bar
Changes in Build 14.0.1.21
2024-01-15- New: "Updates available" visual indicator in the menu
Changes in Build 14.0.1.20
2024-01-09- Fix: Explorer integration did not work in Windows 11 in some scenarios
Changes in Build 14.0.1.19
2023-12-25- Fix: Empty directories were not handled correctly in some comparison filtering scenarios
Changes in Build 14.0.1.18
2023-12-21- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.5.0
- Improvement: Updated jq plug-in to the latest version 1.7.1
Changes in Build 14.0.1.17
2023-12-12- Fix: Incorrect default executable for ODT to Text plug-in
Changes in Build 14.0.1.16
2023-11-18- Fix: Large number of external file/directory changes could make directory comparison unresponsive
Changes in Build 14.0.1.15
2023-10-19- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.4.0
- Improvement: When lines are linked manually and they are in the same position, files are not auto-compared even when the Auto-Compare option is on
Changes in Build 14.0.1.14
2023-10-06- Fix: Manual links were set with the offset of one line when scope bars were not visible
Changes in Build 14.0.1.13
2023-09-19- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.3.0
- Improvement: Updated jq plug-in to the latest version 1.7
- Fix: Occasional freezing of the UI after comparing text files
- Fix: Sorting in directory comparison was not always correct if results included empty folders
- Fix: Comparison results balloons were dismissed too quickly
- Fix: Occasional crash after using Split Block (if the scope bar is visible)
Changes in Build 14.0.1.12
2023-08-22- Fix: Occasional crash at the end of directory comparison (introduced in the previous build)
Changes in Build 14.0.1.11
2023-08-21- Fix: Occasional invalid caret position after pasting into a file in text comparison
Changes in Build 14.0.1.10
2023-08-01- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.2.1
- Fix: Not all Browse buttons in the merge mode of the Compare dialog had icons
Changes in Build 14.0.1.9
2023-07-22- Improvement: Improved blue and dark user interface themes
Changes in Build 14.0.1.8
2023-07-05- Improvement: Better startup and comparison performance
Changes in Build 14.0.1.7
2023-07-02- Fix: Auto Detect command did not perform programming language detection correctly
Changes in Build 14.0.1.6
2023-06-29- New: Option to not show Compare dialog on startup
- Improvement: Updated 7-Zip plug-in to the latest version 23.01
Changes in Build 14.0.1.5
2023-06-22- Improvement: Added Ctrl + Numpad0 as another default keyboard shortcut to reset font size (requires Num Lock to be on)
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.1.2
- Fix: "Compare Selected Fragments" did not work for fragments containing only empty lines
- Fix: Horizontal width of text views was not updated after Replace All in text comparison/merge
Changes in Build 14.0.1.4
2023-05-31- Fix: Additional issues while comparing files with percent signs in their names
Changes in Build 14.0.1.3
2023-05-30- Fix: ExamDiff Pro could crash while comparing files with percent signs in their names
Changes in Build 14.0.1.2
2023-05-20- Improvement: Better programming language detection behavior
- Fix: Leading or trailing spaces in compared file/directory names incorrectly caused remote plug-ins to be used
Changes in Build 14.0.1.1
2023-05-15- Improvement: Updated Wget plug-in to the latest version 1.21.4
Changes in Build 14.0.1.0
2023-05-11- First 14.0 production build
Changes in Build 14.0.0.10
2023-04-24- Improvement: When "Retain file/directory pair" in Options | Global is used, files/directories are now populated for all three modes: file and directory comparison, and file merge
- Fix: Reverted to the previous behavior of the Replace command (changed in build 14.0.0.8)
Changes in Build 14.0.0.9
2023-04-24- Fix: Rare crash in scope tree generation for CSS files
Changes in Build 14.0.0.8
2023-04-17- Improvement: Better syntax tree parsing performance for large files
- Improvement: Changed default program for "JSON Format" plug-in to the more efficient jq application
- Improvement: Better behavior of the Replace command
- Fix: Undo/Redo in text comparison could cause a crash in rare circumstances
- Fix: Session switch was not preserved on Empty Files in the Compare dialog
Changes in Build 14.0.0.7
2023-03-31- Fix: Using the XLSX-To-Text plug-in could produce the following error: "1 is not a supported code page. Parameter name: codepage"
- Fix: Using the PPTX-To-Text plug-in could produce the following error: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"
Changes in Build 14.0.0.6
2023-03-28- Improvement: Better support of Unicode characters in text comparison
Changes in Build 14.0.0.5
2023-03-21- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.0.1
Changes in Build 14.0.0.4
2023-03-10- Improvement: More intuitive behavior of the "Run in new instance" option in the Compare dialog
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.88.1
Changes in Build 14.0.0.3
2023-03-06- New: Ability to switch between different code pages to display byte codes in binary comparison
- Improvement: The width of the address column in binary comparison views is based on file sizes
- Fix: Multiple fixes for print/print preview of selected content
Changes in Build 14.0.0.2
2023-02-24- Fix: Comments for custom document types were not correctly ignored
Changes in Build 14.0.0.1
2023-02-22- New: Show preview of clipboard contents on mouseover in the Compare dialog
Changes in Build 14.0.0.0
2023-02-17- New: Portable version
- New: Ability to detect programming language for files without supported extensions and clipboard contents
- New: Ability to match file structures (functions, classes, etc.) for text file comparison
- New: Language support for Typescript
- New: Language support for JSON
- Improvement: Improved text comparison/merge status bar (new pane with document type, usability improvements)
- Fix: Multiple bug fixes
Changes in Build 13.0.1.18
2023-03-31- Fix: Using the XLSX-To-Text plug-in could produce the following error: "1 is not a supported code page. Parameter name: codepage"
- Fix: Using the PPTX-To-Text plug-in could produce the following error: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"
Changes in Build 13.0.1.17
2023-03-21- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 8.0.1
Changes in Build 13.0.1.16
2023-03-10- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.88.1
Changes in Build 13.0.1.15
2023-02-24- Fix: Comments for custom document types were not correctly ignored
Changes in Build 13.0.1.14
2023-02-06- Fix: In directory comparison views, when an item was clicked, the first column was incorrectly indented if the option to show item check boxes was not set
- Fix: The "Show line modification marks" option was not imported from a saved options file
- Fix: Spin controls in multiple Options pages did not correctly handle number larger than 999
Changes in Build 13.0.1.13
2023-01-18- Fix: Additional issues with programming language syntax highlighting
Changes in Build 13.0.1.12
2023-01-17- Fix: Issues with programming language syntax highlighting, especially for HTML and XML
Changes in Build 13.0.1.11
2023-01-09- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.87.0
Changes in Build 13.0.1.10
2022-12-04- Fix: Previous build introduced a condition that could lead to incomplete directory comparison results
Changes in Build 13.0.1.9
2022-12-01- Fix: When using the replace function on a selection, the first line of the selection can be truncated at the end of the line
Changes in Build 13.0.1.8
2022-11-02- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.86.0
Changes in Build 13.0.1.7
2022-10-06- Fix: A crash can occur in text comparison of some UTF-8 files when comments are ignored
- Improvement: Better deployment and management of plug-ins
Changes in Build 13.0.1.6
2022-09-17- Fix: Performing Undo in text comparison could crash the program
Changes in Build 13.0.1.5
2022-09-12- Fix: Ignoring column ranges was broken in build 13.0.1.1
Changes in Build 13.0.1.4
2022-09-09- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.85.0
Changes in Build 13.0.1.3
2022-08-23- Fix: Save Modified Files dialog had wrong controls tab order
- Improvement: Better performance of directory comparison
Changes in Build 13.0.1.2
2022-08-13- Fix: Text Merge bug introduced in the previous build
Changes in Build 13.0.1.1
2022-08-12- Fix: Windows Explorer context menu did not work correctly on Windows XP
- Improvement: Better performance of file comparison
Changes in Build 13.0.1.0
2022-08-03- First 13.0 production build
Changes in Build 13.0.0.12
2022-07-28- Fix: Some message boxes very showing during Uninstall with /VERYSILENT and /SUPRESSMSGBOXES options
Changes in Build 13.0.0.11
2022-07-23- Fix: Incorrect coloring of table files with separators embedded in quoted strings with single and double quotes
- Fix: Icon were not showing in the Taskbar when ExamDiff Pro was launched from the Windows 11 Explorer context menu
- Fix: Directory comparison did not allow file operations for items with long paths even if Windows supported long paths
- Improvement: Better performance of table sorting and comparison
- Improvement: Updated 7-Zip plug-in to the latest version 22.01
Changes in Build 13.0.0.10
2022-07-13- Improvement: Sort directory comparison items if an empty directory has been made visible by the program as a result of deletion
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.84.0
Changes in Build 13.0.0.9
2022-06-23- New: Using mouse button tilt actions now results in horizontal scrolling of comparison views
- Fix: Crash in JavaScipt file comparison with scope bar enabled
- Improvement: Updated 7-Zip plug-in to the latest version 22.00
Changes in Build 13.0.0.8
2022-06-04- Fix: Case was not ignored in line and character level diffs
Changes in Build 13.0.0.7
2022-05-24- Fix: Incorrect coloring of table files with separators embedded in quoted strings
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.83.1
Changes in Build 13.0.0.6
2022-05-11- Fix: Occasional hanging of binary comparison of large files
Changes in Build 13.0.0.5
2022-05-02- New: Option to show selection check boxes in directory comparison views
- Fix: Next/Previous Unresolved Conflict command could be incorrectly disable in certain merge scenarios
- Improvement: Added EPUB files to the Unzip plug-in extension list
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.83.0
Changes in Build 13.0.0.4
2022-04-25- Fix: Crash during binary comparison of large files when advanced comparison algorithms were used
- Improvement: Updated Xpdf plug-in to the latest version 4.04
Changes in Build 13.0.0.3
2022-04-19- Improvement: Updated Wget plug-in to the latest version 1.21.3
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.82.0
Changes in Build 13.0.0.2
2022-04-15- Fix: Crash during Undo after changing "Skip resolved differences" option
- Fix: "Skip resolved differences" did not apply to first and last differences
Changes in Build 13.0.0.1
2022-04-14- Fix: Bookmarks didn't work after recomparison
- Improvement: Ability to skip resolved differences
Changes in Build 13.0.0.0
2022-04-04- New: Table comparison (Master edition)
- New: Scope bar (class/function detection)
- New: Windows 11 support
- New: Ability to reset pane layout to default
- New: View commands to zoom in/out views
- New: Ability to copy HEX dump of data in binary comparison
- New: Ability to use advanced diff algorithms in binary comparison
- Improvement: Suppress dark mode for diff report printing
- Fix: Multiple bug fixes
Changes in Build 12.0.1.26
2022-07-26- Fix: Some message boxes very showing during Uninstall with /VERYSILENT and /SUPRESSMSGBOXES options
Changes in Build 12.0.1.25
2022-07-23- Fix: Directory comparison did not allow file operations for items with long paths even if Windows supported long paths
- Improvement: Updated 7-Zip plug-in to the latest version 22.01
Changes in Build 12.0.1.24
2022-07-13- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.84.0
Changes in Build 12.0.1.23
2022-06-23- Improvement: Updated 7-Zip plug-in to the latest version 22.00
Changes in Build 12.0.1.22
2022-06-04- Fix: Case was not ignored in line and character level diffs
Changes in Build 12.0.1.21
2022-05-17- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.83.1
Changes in Build 12.0.1.20
2022-05-03- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.83.0
Changes in Build 12.0.1.19
2022-04-28- Improvement: Updated Xpdf plug-in to the latest version 4.04
Changes in Build 12.0.1.18
2022-04-19- Improvement: Updated Wget plug-in to the latest version 1.21.3
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.82.0
Changes in Build 12.0.1.17
2022-04-09- Fix: Bookmarks didn't work after recomparison
Changes in Build 12.0.1.16
2022-03-13- Improvement: If directory comparison started with the "--no_registry_writing" option, start file/directory comparison launched from it also with the same option
Changes in Build 12.0.1.15
2022-03-04- Improvement: If directory comparison started with the /nh ("no history") option, start file/directory comparison launched from it also with the same option
Changes in Build 12.0.1.14
2022-02-07- Fix: Shell integration was broken on Windows XP
- Improvement: Better visual indication of inability to edit files in text comparison
- Improvement: More consistent tooltips and balloon tips for different themes
Changes in Build 12.0.1.13
2022-01-21- Fix: Occasional crash in binary comparison (introduced in the previous build)
Changes in Build 12.0.1.12
2022-01-18- Fix: Error after comparing a file against clipboard and then recomparing on an external change of the file
- Fix: Moved blocks were incorrectly identified with the Histogram diff algorithm
- Improvement: Increased the number of bytes that can be searched for in binary comparison to 1024
- Improvement: Updated 7-Zip plug-in to the latest version 21.07
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.81.0
Changes in Build 12.0.1.11
2021-12-06- Fix: Ignored lines coloring bug in text comparison
- Fix: Setting a document type (syntax highlighting) to a file did not always apply it to Line Explorer views
- Fix: More precise handling of CTRL + +, CTRL + -, CTRL + 0 zoom commands
Changes in Build 12.0.1.10
2021-11-16- New: Shortcuts to zoom views:
- Zoom in: CTRL + +
- Zoom out: CTRL + -
- Reset to default font size: CTRL + 0
Changes in Build 12.0.1.9
2021-11-08- Improvement: Updated Wget plug-in to the latest version 1.21.2
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.79.1
Changes in Build 12.0.1.8
2021-09-02- Fix: Office document plug-in did not always extract all text from PowerPoint files
Changes in Build 12.0.1.7
2021-08-02- Fix: Fixed missing images in ExamDiff Pro Help
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.78.0
Changes in Build 12.0.1.6
2021-07-26- Fix: Using grouping could lead to incorrect display of results in non-recursive directory comparison
- Fix: Searching for messages in Options | Misc | Messages did not always work
- Improvement: Faster sorting of directory comparison items
Changes in Build 12.0.1.5
2021-07-20- Fix: Using the "Cache diff results for Drill Down/Go Up navigation" could cause an error during directory comparison in rare circumstances
- Fix: Saving HTML diff reports with the "Include file diffs" option turned on did not produce correct sub-directory reports in non-recursive directory comparison
- Improvement: Set the default menu and toolbar icon sizes based on the screen metrics
Changes in Build 12.0.1.4
2021-07-15- Fix: Using mouse wheel while dragging a view to set a manual synchronization link could lead to incorrect results
Changes in Build 12.0.1.3
2021-07-14- Fix: Incorrect icon for the Quick Options button in the Compare dialog
Changes in Build 12.0.1.2
2021-07-12- Fix: External file changes were not detected if a file was first deleted and then recreated
- Fix: Incorrect "Same" status in directory comparison as a result of external file changes in rare circumstances
- Fix: Save First/Second File commands sometimes behaved as Save First/Second File As...
Changes in Build 12.0.1.1
2021-06-26- Fix: Occasional misalignment of diff blocks during comparison with non-classic algorithms when manual synchronization links are used
- Fix: If both file were changed and the user selected to recompare in the Change Notification dialog, occasionally only one file was reloaded during recomparison
Changes in Build 12.0.1.0
2021-06-03- First 12.0 production build
Changes in Build 12.0.0.13
2021-06-01- Fix: Changes made to a compared file in one instance of ExamDiff Pro where occasionally missed by another instance
Changes in Build 12.0.0.12
2021-05-24- Fix: Occasional crash when canceling binary comparison
- Fix: Incorrect number of trial usage days can be shown under some circumstances
Changes in Build 12.0.0.11
2021-05-19- Fix: Incorrect status bar selection pane length in binary comparison views
- Fix: Incorrect options were used when comparison was launched from the Compare dialog in a new instance with altered quick options
- Fix: Occasional crash during comparison with non-classic algorithms
- Improvement: Ignore File Deletion change notification message in non-directory comparisons
Changes in Build 12.0.0.10
2021-05-07- Improvement: Added using of "Optimize diff block alignment" option in Merge
- Improvement: Better handling of command line options in the jump list and recently compared files/directories
Changes in Build 12.0.0.9
2021-04-22- Improvement: On the Compare dialog, replaced Exit button with Cancel
Changes in Build 12.0.0.8
2021-04-09- Fix: Reverted the flawed change that moves selection to the next item after deletion in directory comparison
Changes in Build 12.0.0.7
2021-04-07- Improvement: In directory comparison, selection moves to the next item after deletion
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.76.0
- Improvement: Updated Wget plug-in to the latest version 1.21.1
Changes in Build 12.0.0.6
2021-03-23- Fix: Case was not ignored during comparison of word-wrapped files
- Fix: Incorrect status message after comparing identical directories
- Improvement: Added ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to Merge Matched and Merge Selected directory comparison commands
- Improvement: Made the list of commands under Options | Global | Keyboard sorted alphabetically, to make finding them easier
Changes in Build 12.0.0.5
2021-03-09- Fix: Incorrect diff block positioning in directory comparison after using view filters
- Improvement: Better diff status reporting after directory comparison
Changes in Build 12.0.0.4
2021-03-01- Fix: Incorrect behavior of the Add Block commands
Changes in Build 12.0.0.3
2021-02-26- Fix: Occasional crash during comparison with Patience algorithm
- Improvement: Updated Xpdf plug-in to the latest version 4.03
Changes in Build 12.0.0.2
2021-02-17- Fix: Fixed version in the About box
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.75.0
Changes in Build 12.0.0.1
2021-02-15- Improvement: Better directory comparison results when view filter is used
- Improvement: Updated OleWoo plug-in to the latest version 1.2.6502
Changes in Build 12.0.0.0
2021-02-02- New: New and improved diff algorithms
- New: Ability to ignore columns in tab/comma-separated files (referred to by their indices)
- New: Improved Dark Theme and ability to detect theme automatically from Windows settings
- New: Recently compared files/directories in the main menu
- New: Apply button in the Options dialog
- New: Options search now includes messages under Misc | Messages
- New: New dialog for saving files if both are modified
- New: Customize command in the menu under View | Toolbar
- New: Dump TLB plug-in (by OleWoo)
- Improvements: Usability improvements to Options dialog
- Fix: Multiple bug fixes
Changes in Build 11.0.1.15
2021-03-04- Fix: Incorrect behavior of the Add Block commands
- Fix: Quick Options button in the Compare dialog
- Improvement: Updated Xpdf plug-in to the latest version 4.03
Changes in Build 11.0.1.14
2021-02-17- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.75.0
Changes in Build 11.0.1.13
2021-01-25- Fix: Collapsing the last group in directory comparison views with grouping could result in blank views
- Improvement: Added new Pascal extensions: .dpr, .pp, and .lpr
Changes in Build 11.0.1.12
2021-01-07- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.74.0
Changes in Build 11.0.1.11
2020-12-10- Fix: Deleting a compared directory outside of ExamDiff Pro could cause the program to hang in some circumstances
- Improvement: Added Activation ID to the About dialog
Changes in Build 11.0.1.10
2020-10-19- Fix: Statistics chart was not redrawn with new colors on theme change
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.73.0
Changes in Build 11.0.1.9
2020-10-08- Improvement: Multiple performance improvements for the process startup/shutdown and comparison
Changes in Build 11.0.1.8
2020-10-01- Fix: Manual synchronization links were displayed shifted by one line (introduced in build 11.0.1.7)
Changes in Build 11.0.1.7
2020-09-29- Fix: Crash during comparison of very large files (greater than 2 GB)
- Improvement: Performance improvements of comparing very large files
Changes in Build 11.0.1.6
2020-08-26- Improvement: Better handling of changes in the Options dialog
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.72.0
Changes in Build 11.0.1.5
2020-08-12- Fix: Occasional crash during comparison (introduced in build 11.0.1.4)
Changes in Build 11.0.1.4
2020-08-11- Improvement: Multiple jump lists improvements
- Improvement: Pane titles font size now matches the height of the controls
Changes in Build 11.0.1.3
2020-07-14- Improvement: Added keyboard shortcuts to compare mode selection buttons in the Compare Dialog
Changes in Build 11.0.1.2
2020-06-05- Fix: Command line: /d option was ignored when the /g option was used
- Fix: Too slow mouse wheel scrolling in binary comparison views
Changes in Build 11.0.1.1
2020-05-23- Fix: Detailed binary comparison could cause a crash in some circumstances
- Fix: Switching between comparison modes (text/binary/directory/merge) could result in toolbars not being drawn correctly
Changes in Build 11.0.1.0
2020-05-18- First 11.0 production build
Changes in Build 11.0.0.14
2020-05-11- Fix: Taskbar progress was not showing is the UI was launched from the command line
- Fix: Indenting lines incorrectly added tabs/spaces to empty lines
Changes in Build 11.0.0.12
2020-05-06- New: Support for Windows jump lists
- Improvement: Loading file/directory from the pane title bar will now recompare if the Auto-Compare option is turned on
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.70.0
Changes in Build 11.0.0.11
2020-04-28- Fix: IniSorter plug-in failed to process some .reg files
- Improvement: Better sorting in directory comparison
- Improvement: Better IniSorter plug-in performance
Changes in Build 11.0.0.10
2020-04-23- Fix: Deleted manual synchronization links could come back after recomparison under some circumstances
- Fix: Incorrect diff statistics chart for two-way merge
- Fix: Color bars were not updated after resolving diffs in text file comparison
- Improvement: Separated Line-by-line setting in Options | Test Compare | Advanced from Fuzzy comparison settings, and made the latter more user-friendly
- Improvement: Improved diff statistics chart
Changes in Build 11.0.0.9
2020-04-07- Fix: IniSorter plug-in was fixed for multiple rows with the same name but different values in the same section
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.69.1
- Improvement: Updated Xpdf plug-in to the latest version 4.02
Changes in Build 11.0.0.8
2020-03-04- Improvement: Made text comparison algorithm results more intuitive
- Improvement: Better saving/restoring of manual synchronization links
Changes in Build 11.0.0.7
2020-02-15- Fix: Ignored color was not applied in text comparison if the Word Wrap option was used but none of the lines were actually wrapped
- Fix: Status bar incorrectly reported that all conflicts were resolved after merge even though the main UI showed unresolved conflicts
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.68.0
Changes in Build 11.0.0.6
2020-01-21- Fix: File/directories with names containing extended ASCII characters of different cases (e.g. FINANÇAMENT and Finançament) were not matched in directory comparison
- Fix: Absolute paths were stored in HTML diff reports for directory comparison when "Include file diffs" option was used
- Improvement: Better mouse wheel scroll behavior in Windows 10
Changes in Build 11.0.0.5
2020-01-04- Fix: Header control in directory comparison did not restore to normal color after hovering over a column
- Fix: Directory comparison cancellation could cause incorrect behavior of full file comparison background task
- Improvement: Text file comparison performance improvements
Changes in Build 11.0.0.4
2019-12-02- Fix: Column filtering issues in directory comparison
- Fix: The output pane did not update correctly after switching between the blue and the dark themes
Changes in Build 11.0.0.3
2019-11-26- Fix: Incorrect scrolling in directory comparison after some file operations
Changes in Build 11.0.0.2
2019-11-15- Fix: Using certain directory comparison options could lead to a crash when a file comparison was launched from directory comparison
Changes in Build 11.0.0.1
2019-10-12- Fix: IniSorter plug-in was fixed for multi-line entries
- Fix: Incorrect saving of UTF-8 files under some rare circumstances
- Fix: Double-clicking on a directory in non-recursive directory comparison did not result on launching a comparison
Changes in Build 11.0.0.0
2019-10-25- New: Explorer-like column filters in directory comparison
- New: Show diff statistics in a chart
- New: New HTML template
- New: Ability to reset all settings
- New: Ability to launch multiple file comparison sessions from directory comparison, one for each selected file
- New: Skip Difference enhancements
- New: Built-in support for PowerShell documents
- New: Option to open new comparison instance from directory comparison on another monitor
- New: UI enhancements: dark theme, flattened UI
- Fix: Multiple bug fixes
- Improvement: Significantly faster directory comparison in full file comparison mode
- Improvement: Installation improvements
Changes in Build 10.0.1.21
2020-01-17- Fix: Incorrect version number in the previous build
Changes in Build 10.0.1.20
2020-01-10- Fix: Header control in directory comparison did not restore to normal color after hovering over a column
- Fix: File/directories with names containing extended ASCII characters of different cases (e.g. FINANÇAMENT and Finançament) were not matched in directory comparison
- Fix: Absolute paths were stored in HTML diff reports for directory comparison when "Include file diffs" option was used
Changes in Build 10.0.1.19
2019-11-15- Fix: Using certain directory comparison options could lead to a crash when a file comparison was launched from directory comparison
Changes in Build 10.0.1.18
2019-11-12- Fix: Incorrect saving of UTF-8 files under some rare circumstances
Changes in Build 10.0.1.17
2019-10-01- Fix: Incorrect message about plug-in-preprocessed file after toggling Use Plug-ins option and attempting to edit/save a file
Changes in Build 10.0.1.16
2019-09-05- Fix: Command line options were not passed from directory comparison to invoked file comparison
Changes in Build 10.0.1.15
2019-07-17- Fix: Support for long paths in WIndows 10
- Fix: Issues with group mode in directory comparison
- Fix: Dropping an archive file on a pane could hang the program
- Fix: Restored ability to drop a single file or directory into an empty comparison pane
- Fix: Ability to compare clipboard contents in binary mode
- Fix: Alignment problem in some skipped lines scenarios
Changes in Build 10.0.1.14
2019-06-21- Fix: Inability to read Unicode surrogates from files with UTF-8 encoding
- Fix: Incorrect formatting of HTML diff report for binary comparison in fast mode
- Fix: Taskbar error status was not reset after continuing of comparison
- Fix: Dropping of a single file onto a comparison pane could lead to a crash
- Improvement: Better high DPI support
Changes in Build 10.0.1.13
2019-04-26- Fix: Occasional crash when applying activation code
- Fix: Keyboard shortcuts in the options were not properly drawn under high DPI
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.64.1
- Improvement: Updated wget plug-in to the latest version 1.20.3 (note: this version does not support Windows XP)
Changes in Build 10.0.1.12
2019-04-19- Fix: Clicking on the border between two adjacent blocks on the diff bar could produce incorrect result
- Fix: Too tall "Delete Empty Directories" message in some circumstances
- Improvement: Changed to keep text selection in unfocused panes in order to improve Find/Replace experience
Changes in Build 10.0.1.11
2019-03-22- Fix: When command line was used with examdiff.exe (as opposed to examdiff), no console output was produced
- Improvement: Much faster and more precise XLSX to Text conversion in OOXML2Txt plug-in
- Improvement: Updated Xpdf plug-in to the latest version 4.01.01
Changes in Build 10.0.1.10
2019-03-12- Fix: manual links were not loaded from session files
- Improvement: Updated 7zip plug-in to the latest version 19.00
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.64.0
- Improvement: Updated Xpdf plug-in to the latest version 4.01 (note: this version does not support Windows XP)
Changes in Build 10.0.1.9
2019-02-22- Fix: Plug-in options were not saved (broken in build 10.0.1.7)
Changes in Build 10.0.1.8
2019-02-17- Fix: Incorrect text coloring after using Split Block command
Changes in Build 10.0.1.7
2019-02-15- Fix: Incorrect default for treating list files as directories. After the fix, such files are treated as regular files unless Compare Directories tab or /fd option are used
- Fix: Using bold/italic fonts could cause HTML reports to not show correct colors
- Fix: Copying to the clipboard from binary comparison panes could cause a crash
- Improvement: Faster start-up
- Improvement: Faster directory comparison
- Improvement: Faster fuzzy line matching in text comparison/merge
- Improvement: Made menu bar unmovable
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.63.0
- Improvement: More streamlined setup
Changes in Build 10.0.1.6
2018-12-07- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.62.0
- Improvement: Updated jq plug-in to the latest version 1.6
- Improvement: Updated wget plug-in to the latest version 1.20 (note: this version no longer supports Windows XP)
Changes in Build 10.0.1.5
2018-11-16- Fix: Restored "Select Destination Location" and "Select Start Menu Folder" pages in setup.
- Fix: Reset window layout if previously saved window is hidden in the current monitor configuration
Changes in Build 10.0.1.4
2018-10-17- Improvement: Better messages when adding/removing manual links
- Improvement: Better messages when editing read-only files
Changes in Build 10.0.1.3
2018-09-21- Fix: Files that contain file paths were incorrectly treated as directories when compared from directory comparison
Changes in Build 10.0.1.2
2018-09-09- Fix: Diff combobox could erroneously contain empty diffs at the end for binary comparison
- Fix: Reduced flickering of binary comparison panes
- Improvement: "Save files before re-comparison" option no longer applies to clipboard fragments
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.61.1
Changes in Build 10.0.1.1
2018-08-24- Fix: Synchronize Directories erroneously included identical files of certain types
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.61.0
Changes in Build 10.0.1.0
2018-07-31- First 10.0 production build
Changes in Build 10.0.0.10
2018-07-25- Fix: Minor license activation issues
Changes in Build 10.0.0.9
2018-06-22- Fix: Occasional crash when using synchronized word wrap
- Fix: Certain files caused incomplete inline comparison results
Changes in Build 10.0.0.8
2018-06-16- Improvement: Better management of license keys
Changes in Build 10.0.0.7
2018-06-08- Fix: Increasing bytes per line in binary comparison could lead to a crash
- Fix: Using "Save files before re-comparison" option combined with plug-ins and manual synchronization could result in a plug-in error
Changes in Build 10.0.0.6
2018-05-27- Fix: Strings were not imported correctly from options exported in 10.0
- Fix: Dragging columns did not work in Options | Display | Dir Columns
- Improvement: Respect "Enabled" state of system-installed plug-ins during installation
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.60.0
Changes in Build 10.0.0.5
2018-05-19- Improvement: Updated 7zip plug-in to the latest version 18.05
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.59.0
- Improvement: Updated HTML Tidy plug-in to the latest version 5.6.0
- Improvement: Updated wget plug-in to the latest version 1.19.4
Changes in Build 10.0.0.4
2018-04-27- Fix: File change notification issues
Changes in Build 10.0.0.3
2018-04-18- Fix: Could not copy empty subdirectories from one directory to the other
Changes in Build 10.0.0.2
2018-04-13- Fix: Ignore comments for system-defined document types did not work unless Use Document Type Settings was turned on
- Fix: Occasional crash in binary comparison
- Fix: Too large menu/toolbar font under Windows XP
- Fix: CRCs were not correctly calculated for files with CRC equal to 0xFFFFFFFF
- Fix: File handles were occasionally not closed if full file comparison background task was canceled during CRC calculations
- Fix: Occasional crash during saving of files with empty lines and trimming enabled
- Improvement: Better performance of CRC calculations
Changes in Build 10.0.0.1
2018-03-25- Fix: Custom toolbars were not exported using the Export Settings command
Changes in Build 10.0.0.0
2018-02-25- New: Ability to compare file/directory lists (Master edition)
- New: Ability to create directory comparison HTML diff report with links to file comparison HTML diff reports (Master edition)
- New: Quick Compare options
- New: Fuzzy string comparison support for inline text comparison
- New: Option to allow file exclusion by attribute in directory comparison (especially hidden files/folders)
- New: Added "Ignore subdirectories" to "Handling of subdirectories" options under Options | Directory Compare
- New: Option to automatically re-compare after save
- New: Ability to hide menu bar
- Fix: Changed window size sometimes did not persist after re-compare
- Improvement: Extended "Copy Line to Other File" to "Copy Line(s) to Other File"
Changes in Build 9.0.1.8
2018-01-31- Fix: Additional fix for Synchronize Directories of nested files/directories in non-recursive comparison
Changes in Build 9.0.1.7
2017-10-27- Fix: A file without the last linebreak could be saved without a linebreak before the line or the block of lines copied from the opposite file
- Fix: ExamDiff Pro could hang after saving XML files with embedded NULL characters
- Fix: Synchronize Directories did not properly identified nested files in non-recursive comparison (broken in build 9.0.1.6)
Changes in Build 9.0.1.6
2017-09-23- Fix: Could not compare a directory against a directory snapshot
- Fix: Could not create directory snapshots from the File menu
Changes in Build 9.0.1.5
2017-09-04- Fix: Occasional crash when comparing an empty directory
- Fix: Occasional crash in Windows XP during license activation
Changes in Build 9.0.1.4
2017-08-25- New: Option to not create a Start Menu folder during setup
- Fix: Occasional crash when using zero similarity
- Improvement: Updated Xpdf plug-in to the latest version 4.00
Changes in Build 9.0.1.3
2017-07-31- Fix: Build 9.0.1.2 did not work under Windows XP
Changes in Build 9.0.1.2
2017-07-30- Fix: Not all settings were exported using the Export Settings command
- Improvement: Do not report changes in child directories if "Do not compare subdirectories at all" option is used
- Improvement: Better handling of symlinks
Changes in Build 9.0.1.1
2017-06-08- New: New difference navigation mouse commands
- Shift + MouseWheel Up: navigate to the previous difference
- Shift + MouseWheel Down: navigate to the next difference
- MouseWheel Click: set focus to the diff bar (if it's visible and enabled)
- Fix: Occasional loss of synchronization after Undo/Redo in text comparison
Changes in Build 9.0.1.0
2017-05-13- Improvement: Better handling of table layouts in PDF files by Xpdf plug-in
Changes in Build 9.0.0.16
2017-04-14- Fix: Manual links were not preserved when a file was saved unchanged outside of ExamDiff Pro
- Improvement: Better highlighting of directory comparison items changed by an external program
- Improvement: Changed background color of selected block icon in Merge to blue
Changes in Build 9.0.0.15
2017-03-24- Fix: Incorrect sorting of directory comparison by the Status column (only affected the second/right pane)
Changes in Build 9.0.0.14
2017-03-10- New: Option to show and hide address column in fast binary comparison mode
- Fix: Occasional incorrect behavior of fast binary comparison
- Improvement: Updated jq plug-in to the latest version 1.5
- Improvement: Updated HTML Tidy plug-in to the latest version 5.4.0
- Improvement: Updated wget plug-in to the latest version 1.19.1
Changes in Build 9.0.0.13
2017-03-03- Fix: /html command line options was broken in the previous build
Changes in Build 9.0.0.12
2017-02-27- Fix: An invalid extra difference was added in byte-by-byte binary comparison in some circumstances
- Fix: Command bars settings were not fully imported via Import Settings command
- Fix: Text comparison views were not always refreshed after Undo/Redo commands
- Improvement: Better performance of parallel full comparison
Changes in Build 9.0.0.11
2017-02-11- Fix: Incorrect toolbars were saved in some circumstances when switching between sessions
Changes in Build 9.0.0.10
2017-02-09- Fix: Incorrect Explorer Menu behavior when files from different subdirectories were selected
- Fix: Line/character level differences were not always correctly reported in Merge
- Fix: Incorrect Use Left/Right/Center behavior after merging empty files or files with missing last linebreaks
- Improvement: Differences Bar can now be docked next to another toolbar
Changes in Build 9.0.0.9
2017-01-29- Fix: Incorrect directory comparison diff stats are reported when /f and /statsonly command line options are used together
Changes in Build 9.0.0.8
2017-01-27- New: Added "JSON Canonicalize" (jq) plug-in to the list of installed plug-ins
- Fix: Show Only First command did not work in file and directory comparison
- Fix: Dropping a text file did not actually show the dropped file in the pane
Changes in Build 9.0.0.7
2017-01-15- Fix: Removed additional duplicates from the "All Commands" category in the customization dialog
- Fix: Another instance of "Encountered an improper argument" error when directory comparison diff bar was clicked in a certain area
Changes in Build 9.0.0.6
2017-01-09- Fix: Occasional crash when saving text files with "Remove trailing whitespaces when saving files" option enabled
Changes in Build 9.0.0.5
2017-01-07- Fix: Diff Bar in directory comparison was not always updated on keyboard navigation
- Fix: Incorrect line numbering after Undo operation for Add Block, Delete Block, and Split Block commands
- Fix: Removed duplicates from the "All Commands" category in the customization dialog
Changes in Build 9.0.0.4
2017-01-04- Fix: Could not set Text Merge detail level to "Lines and Characters"
- Improvement: Added all toolbar commands to the customization dialog
- Improvement: Added "Toggle fast byte-by-byte comparison" button to the Binary Comparison toolbar
- Improvement: Added View | Use Modern Theme menu command
- Improvement: Updated 7z plug-in to the latest version 16.04
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version 7.52.1
Changes in Build 9.0.0.3
2016-12-28- Fix: "Encountered an improper argument" error when directory comparison diff bar was clicked in a certain area
- Improvement: Better detection of comments for programming languages supported by syntax highlighting
Changes in Build 9.0.0.2
2016-12-19- Fix: The auto-hidden output pane did not redraw properly when popped up
- Fix: Button icons sometimes remained hidden on the Compare dialog
- Improvement: Changed icons for Swap Files/Directories and Replace commands
Changes in Build 9.0.0.1
2016-12-19- Fix: Invalid key bindings after upgrading to 9.0
Changes in Build 9.0.0.0
2016-12-17- New: Updated user interface (modern UI theme, multiple toolbars with additional customization options, new toolbar and menu icons, high DPI support)
- New: Logging to the new output pane and/or a log file
- New: Fast (byte-by-byte) binary comparison
- New: Merge additions (Master edition; 3-way diff (without merge) and a new command line option /diffonly, ability to ignore case, ability to ignore parts of lines matching a regular expression)
- New: Option to remove trailing whitespaces from lines during saving of text files
- Fix: Stopping parallel full comparison caused files to be marked with "Error" status or to be erroneously marked as identical
- Fix: Options and sessions files were not saved with the Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM)
- Fix: Incorrect line numbering after Add Block, Delete Block, and Split Block commands
- Improvement: Better text/binary detection
- Improvement: Better performance of 3-Way Diff And Merge
- Improvement: Explorer context menu is now enabled even if selected files are in different directories (Windows Vista and higher)
Changes in Build 8.0.1.8
2016-07-27- Fix: Previous build did not properly update plug-ins
Changes in Build 8.0.1.7
2016-07-03- Fix: Handling of ^ and $ characters in regular expressions fine and replace
- Fix: Incorrect behavior of the END key when text views are not vertically synchronized
- Fix: When comparing directory snapshots, "7FFFFFFF" CRCs are shown for values larger than 2147483647
- Improvement: Updated 7z plug-in to the latest version 16.02
- Improvement: Updated cURL plug-in to the latest version v7.49.1
- Improvement: Updated tidy plug-in to the latest version 5.2.0
- Improvement: Updated wget plug-in to the latest version 1.18
- Improvement: Updated Xpdf plug-in to the latest version 3.04
Changes in Build 8.0.1.6
2016-03-26- Fix: Occasional crash on creating a new directory comparison filter when existing filter is not selected
- Fix: Multiple high DPI issues
Changes in Build 8.0.1.5
2016-03-05- Fix: Occasional crash on grouping of directory items by a hidden column
- Fix: OOXML2Txt plug-in did not always correctly handle complex Excel files
- Improvement: Better performance of scrolling of directory views with large number of items
- Improvement: RTF files are now automatically handled by the "DOC to Text" plug-in
Changes in Build 8.0.1.4
2016-01-29- Fix: Occasional crash during saving of session files
Changes in Build 8.0.1.3
2016-01-17- New: ExamDiff Pro and its installers are now signed with SHA-2 (SHA-256) certificate
- New: 256 pixel application icon for Windows Vista and higher
Changes in Build 8.0.1.2
2015-12-22- Improvement: Improved support for Wine 1.8
Changes in Build 8.0.1.1
2015-12-17- Fix: Color and Hatch drop-downs in Color Options were not properly positioned in some multi-display scenarios
- Fix: Lines with Unix style of linebreaks were not always ignored (given the correct options)
Changes in Build 8.0.1.0
2015-11-13- New: Ability to apply ignored line and column ranges only to the first or to the second file using 1: or 2: prefixes, e.g. 1:1-6 (by default ranges apply to both files)
- Improvement: Manual synchronization links are now saved per session and also saved into session files
- Improvement: Bookmarks are now preserved during re-comparison
Changes in Build 8.0.0.5
2015-10-15- New: Ability to activate and deactivate license directly from the Help menu
Changes in Build 8.0.0.4
2015-09-08- Fix: Activation did not always work properly under Windows XP in the last build
Changes in Build 8.0.0.3
2015-09-07- Improvement: Updated tidy plug-in to the latest version 5.0.0
- Improvement: Updated XMLStarlet plug-in to the latest version 1.6.1
Changes in Build 8.0.0.2
2015-08-14- Fix: Occasional crash in binary comparison for large block sizes
- Fix: Added a recomparison prompt before applying view filters to unsaved buffers in text comparison
Changes in Build 8.0.0.1
2015-08-01- Fix: File plug-ins were incorrectly used in directory comparison in some scenarios
- Fix: Unicode strings were not correctly saved in Options and Sessions files
- Fix: Line numbers for wrapped lines in HTML reports were incorrectly shown
Changes in Build 8.0.0.0
2015-07-17- New: Ability to group directory comparison items
- New: Allow to Go Up One Level/Drill Down in directory comparison without re-comparison (using cached diff results)
- New: Ability to use Left/Center/Right blocks by default if a conflict occurs during merging (Master edition)
- New: Command line option /statsonly to output only comparison statistics
- New: Automatically save/restore manual synchronization links
- New: Ability to customize file/directory captions
- New: Allow using Windows environment variables in Options paths
- New: Option to convert new tabs to spaces during text file editing
- New: Ability to customize print report heading via Page Setup (including making it blank)
- New: Option to force comparisons from Windows Explorer context menu with the older/newer file/directory as first
- New: "Merge Matched" and "Merge Selected" commands in the Advanced sub-menu of the directory comparison views context menu (Master edition)
- New: Command line options /dt1:name, /dt2:name, /dt3:name to allow replacing "Theirs", "Base", and "Yours" tags in merging (Master edition)
- New: Windows 10 Support
- Improvement: Improved performance of directory comparison
- Improvement: Ability to toggle option "Ignore Linebreak styles" via customized toolbar
- Improvement: Added more file attributes to the supported ones (RHSA) in directory comparison views
Changes in Build 7.0.1.26
2015-08-14- Fix: Occasional crash in binary comparison for large block sizes
- Fix: Added a recomparison prompt before applying view filters to unsaved buffers in text comparison
Changes in Build 7.0.1.25
2015-08-01- Fix: File plug-ins were incorrectly used in directory comparison in some scenarios
Changes in Build 7.0.1.24
2015-07-17- Fix: Moving new plug-ins up or down in the Plug-ins Options page did not preserve their properties
- Fix: Occasional failures in reading of Excel files by OOXML2Txt plug-in
- Fix: Failed to Save As merge output files if they used forward slashes in their paths instead of backslashes
Changes in Build 7.0.1.23
2015-05-22- Fix: Handling of volume directories in Shell extension
- Fix: Occasional crash in merge
Changes in Build 7.0.1.22
2015-04-24- Fix: Encoding of more extended ASCII characters in binary comparison HTML diff reports
- Fix: Incorrect number of differences in the diff combobox of binary comparison HTML diff reports
Changes in Build 7.0.1.21
2015-04-19- Fix: Better handling of extended ASCII characters in binary comparison HTML diff reports
- Fix: Save As dialog occasionally defaulted to empty path after swapping files
- Fix: Incorrect prompt to delete empty directories after deleting files under certain circumstances
Changes in Build 7.0.1.20
2015-03-27- Fix: Better handling of ASCII character 129 in binary comparison HTML diff reports
- Fix: Occasional incorrect comparison results when parallel full directory comparison is used to compare a directory with its sub-directory
- Improvement: Different timestamps for identical items are shown in bold font if the "Highlight newer/older dates for identical items" option is not enabled
Changes in Build 7.0.1.19
2015-03-13- Fix: "Full File Comparison" mode was not saved when ExamDiff Pro was launched from the command line or Windows Explorer
- Fix: "Fetch Remote Directory" plug-in did not work correctly
- Fix: Plug-in and Encoding settings in the Open File dialog were not used correctly
- Improvement: Updated curl plug-in to the latest version 7.41.0
- Improvement: Updated wget plug-in to the latest version 1.16.2
Changes in Build 7.0.1.18
2015-02-15- Fix: Loading session a from file resulted in removing recent session file paths from the Files/Directories | Session menu
- Fix: Deleting current session in the Compare dialog and canceling it resulted in the session being restored
Changes in Build 7.0.1.17
2015-01-29- Fix: The 32-bit build failed to register license keys on PCs without support for SSE2 instruction set
- Fix: Explorer sub-menu was empty in the directory comparison context menu
Changes in Build 7.0.1.16
2015-01-23- Fix: The 32-bit build did not start on PCs without support for SSE2 instruction set
- Improvement: Display non-breaking spaces when "View White Space" command is used
Changes in Build 7.0.1.15
2014-12-30- Fix: Incorrect files were questioned during directory comparison file operations under certain conditions
- Fix: Zero-size files were not picked up by the Explorer Shell extension
Changes in Build 7.0.1.14
2014-12-25- Fix: "Encountered an improper argument" error on startup under certain conditions
Changes in Build 7.0.1.13
2014-12-24- Fix: Borders between directory comparison items when view filter is used
- Fix: Color bars were not properly updated during parallel full directory comparison
- Fix: Hourglass icons were not visible for all items that were in the processing queue
- Improvement: Better handling of non-admin users during setup
- Improvement: Print Preview: support for mouse wheel, additional zoom levels
- Improvement: Better performance of parallel full directory comparison
Changes in Build 7.0.1.12
2014-11-29- Fix: "Reset this page only" did not work for Text Compare options page
- Fix: In directory comparison, pressing the Copy arrow on the last item did not always result in performing the command
- New: Added hourglass icons to the diff bar for directory comparison items that are currently compared during parallel full comparison
Changes in Build 7.0.1.11
2014-11-21- Fix: Incorrect lines were ignored in text comparison with certain combination of Ignore options
Changes in Build 7.0.1.10
2014-11-20- Fix: Improved general UI responsiveness and ability to cancel parallel full directory comparison
- Fix: Handling of dragging files into ExamDiff Pro when view filters were used
- Fix: Occasional crash in directory comparison when mouse is hovered over partially visible items
- Improvement: Performance of text file comparison
Changes in Build 7.0.1.9
2014-11-17- Fix: Occasionally incorrect files were copied when Copy button was used on the diff bar in directory comparison
- Fix: Improved view updates during search in text comparison
Changes in Build 7.0.1.8
2014-11-16- Fix: Incorrect (offset by one) icons in the Options tree
- Fix: Improved detection of very large binary files
- Fix: Occasional incorrect height of sub-menus in 64-bit build
- Fix: Odd coloring of directory comparison results when one compared directory is a sub-directory of the other
- Fix: Sorting by number of differences did not work if parallel full directory comparison was used
- Fix: Occasional "Invalid argument encountered" error during file deletion in filtered directory comparison views
- Fix: Directory snapshots were not correctly compared if comparison filters were used
- Fix: Occasional incorrect directory comparison results when the Unzip plug-in was used in conjunction with parallel full directory comparison
- Fix: Forcing treating PDF files as binary prevented them from being correctly compared in directory full file comparison mode when the PDF plug-in was used
- New: Added "ODT to Text" plug-in for OpenDocument files
Changes in Build 7.0.1.7
2014-09-13- Fix: Occasional thread collisions when plug-ins were used in parallel full directory comparison
- Fix: File plug-ins were incorrectly used when files comparison was launched from directory comparison in some scenarios
- Fix: Incorrect cursor position after deleting text in some scenarios
- Fix: Crash after incorrect treatment of manually linked lines in some scenarios
- Improvement: Better binary file detection
Changes in Build 7.0.1.6
2014-08-15- Fix: Plug-in processed archive files were not correctly re-compared
- Fix: Manual synchronization links were not allowed to be set if text comparison was invoked after a merge
- Fix: Undoing "Add Block" command in text comparison did not work correctly
- Fix: Directory comparison options for metadata comparison were not remembered if the "Full File Comparison" mode was used when ExamDiff Pro was launched from the command line or Windows Explorer
- Improvement: Improved diff navigation in HTML reports
Changes in Build 7.0.1.5
2014-08-04- Fix: Files with no extension were processed by the Unzip plug-in
Changes in Build 7.0.1.4
2014-08-02- Fix: Find was disabled in the left/theirs comparison pane for both two-way merge and three-way diff and merge
- Fix: Merge panes became blank after changing merge colors in Options
- New: Added JSON formatting plug-in
- Improvement: Added the toolbar button "Show/Hide Synchronization Buttons" to the "Text Merge Toolbar"
- Improvement: Added ISO, MSI, and CHM extensions the list of extensions for the Unzip plug-in
Changes in Build 7.0.1.3
2014-07-09- Fix: Recently compared directories were not saved when ExamDiff Pro was launched from the command line or Windows Explorer
- Fix: Improved initial layout in multi-monitor setup
- Improvement: Removed the unnecessary All Options page in the Options dialog
Changes in Build 7.0.1.2
2014-07-01- Fix: Show/Hide Line Inspector command caused problems in some scenarios
- Fix: Use View Filter setting was not saved when ExamDiff Pro was launched from the command line or Windows Explorer
- Fix: Occasional hanging at the end of ExamDiff.com execution (after the comparison was finished)
Changes in Build 7.0.1.1
2014-06-20- Fix: XLS to CSV plug-in failed to convert some decimal numbers
- Fix: The "INS" status pane in the merge output view was not updated when the Insert key was pressed
- Fix: 64-bit installer did not properly deploy ExamDiff.com
Changes in Build 7.0.1.0
2014-06-07- Version 7.0 is out of Beta
Changes in Build 7.0.0.15
2014-06-04- Fix: Some files caused two-way merge to crash
Changes in Build 7.0.0.14
2014-05-28- Fix: Performance issues during directory comparison over local network
Changes in Build 7.0.0.13
2014-05-26- Fix: Issues with enabling the OK button on the Copy To Third Directory dialog
Changes in Build 7.0.0.12
2014-04-26- Fix: /noui command line option did always produce output file during text merge
Changes in Build 7.0.0.11
2014-04-14- Fix: Coloring issue after block synchronization in text comparison
Changes in Build 7.0.0.10
2014-04-12- Fix: Coloring issue when a block with no last line ending was copied from one file to another
- Improvement: Better defaults for comparison plug-ins
Changes in Build 7.0.0.9
2014-03-22- Improvement: Performance of text comparison and merge
Changes in Build 7.0.0.8
2014-03-01- Fix: Launching a comparison from an ExamDiff Pro instance did not always use the instance's options
- Fix: Error while comparing identical files via command line
Changes in Build 7.0.0.7
2014-02-17- Fix: Some comparison plug-ins were broken by the latest build
Changes in Build 7.0.0.6
2014-02-14- Fix: Errors during Parallel Full Comparison when directory comparison plug-ins were used
Changes in Build 7.0.0.5
2014-02-08- Fix: Settings were not exported under Windows XP
Changes in Build 7.0.0.4
2014-02-01- Fix: Errors during parallel full comparison of large directories (temporary files)
- Fix: Some toolbar button images were not properly set prior to comparison
Changes in Build 7.0.0.3
2014-01-21- Fix: Failed to determine existence of files on network shares under heavy CPU load
- Fix: Directory comparison views were incorrectly updated after changing full file comparison option and rejecting re-comparison
Changes in Build 7.0.0.2
2014-01-14- Fix: Occasional crash after deleting a directory
Changes in Build 7.0.0.1
2014-01-14- Fix: Directory items were not properly updated after file deletion in full comparison mode
- Improvement: Added version to the desktop shortcut during installation
Changes in Build 7.0.0.0
2014-01-08- New: Two-way merge (Master edition)
- New: Line Inspector in merge mode (Master edition)
- New: Parallel full comparison
- New: Export/Import Settings commands
- New: Ability to search for options
- New: Ability to search in toolbar customization dialog
- New: Windows 8.1 support
- New: Ability to clear comparison history, recent sessions, and recent session files
- New: New directory comparison context menu commands: Open, Open Both, Copy as Path
- New: Ctrl-Mouse wheel adjusts font size
- New: Option to make the directory comparison backup directory hidden
- New: Text file encoding shown in status bars and highlighted if different
- Fix: Empty directory not matching comparison filters were still shown in directory comparison
- Improvement: New Tools menu for settings-related commands
- Improvement: New Options | Tools pane for options pertaining to external tools
- Improvement: Improved layout for many dialogs
- Improvement: Reorganized directory comparison context menu to make rarely used commands less prominent
- Improvement: Rearranged "Comparison precision" settings under Options | Directory Compare
- Improvement: Newer/Older file comparison status panes are now colored
Changes in Build 6.0.3.13
2013-11-02- Fix: Vertical scrolling in Merge goes out of synchronization under some circumstances
- Fix: Incorrect diff combo strings after View Filter was applied following splitting blocks in text comparison
- Fix: End-of-line characters were incorrectly shown after View Filter is applied when one or more files were missing the last linebreak
- Fix: Inconsistent directory/file comparison results when all file lines were ignored
- Fix: Inconsistent text comparison results when word wrap was on and one or more files were missing the last linebreak
- Fix: Incorrect navigation to large diff blocks in HTML reports
Changes in Build 6.0.3.12
2013-09-21- Fix: Inconsistent behavior after trying to compare files or directories that don't exist from the title bars
- Fix: Incorrect text coloring after Undo/Redo under some circumstances
- Fix: MRU sessions were sometimes not working correctly
- Fix: Stability issues
Changes in Build 6.0.3.11
2013-08-19- New: Better diff navigation for large blocks in HTML reports
- Fix: Options were not saved if the "Empty Files" button was clicked after options were changed from the Compare dialog
- Fix: Error while trying to copy a very large number of files as text in directory comparison
- Fix: Evaluation dialog was shown in console mode
- Fix: Inconsistent behavior after deleting empty directories following file deletion in recursive comparison
Changes in Build 6.0.3.10
2013-07-23- Fix: Occasional crashes during HTML diff report generation
- Fix: Manual links in text file comparison did not work under some circumstances
Changes in Build 6.0.3.9
2013-07-20- Fix: Missing Word Wrap/Ignore Options warning when the "Ignore Comments" toolbar button was used with word-wrapped files
- Fix: Inconsistent behavior after re-comparing of files that are processed by a plug-in and then modified
- Fix: Improved multi-monitor support
- Fix: Case-insensitive comparison did not work correctly for European accented characters
- Fix: Improved handling of embedded NULL characters in text files
Changes in Build 6.0.3.8
2013-06-01- Fix: Encoding for the three-way merge output file is now set based on the encoding of "yours" file
- Fix: Eliminated duplicate change notifications
- Fix: Using File Types button in file dialogs occasionally caused stability issues
Changes in Build 6.0.3.7
2013-04-13- Fix: Newline characters were not shown when a file was dragged onto a file comparison pane
- Fix: Rare crash in three-way comparison when one or more files were missing the last linebreak
Changes in Build 6.0.3.6
2013-03-15- Fix: Crash on searching in the merge mode
- Fix: Ctrl-F3 and Ctrl-Shift-F3 commands were not working in the merge mode
Changes in Build 6.0.3.5
2013-03-03- Fix: Incorrect display of empty directories after deletion in recursive comparison
- Fix: Line Inspector did not display text selection or scrolled to it after a successful search
- Fix: View filter state was not remembered between restarts
- Fix: Keyboard navigation was broken in the merge mode
- Fix: Command line option /d was ignored when used together with /g
Changes in Build 6.0.3.4
2013-02-16- Fix: Crashed during comparison of text files grater than 4 GB
- Fix: Incorrect inline diff navigation under certain conditions
- Fix: Horizontal scrollbar for long lines in HTML diff reports Line Inspector was missing
- Fix: Accelerator keys did not work properly in the Compare dialog
- Fix: Incorrect behavior of "//" and "--" command line options
- Fix: Keyboard shortcuts did not work for the Merge menu items
Changes in Build 6.0.3.3
2013-01-26- Fix: Occasional crashes during three-way comparison if word wrap was enabled
- Fix: Improved change notification monitoring
Changes in Build 6.0.3.2
2013-01-20- New: Line Inspector in HTML diff reports
- Fix: Line Inspector was erroneously shown in binary comparison mode
- Fix: Better default command line options for the PDF plug-in
Changes in Build 6.0.3.1
2013-01-11- New: Tooltips in the comparison legend within HTML diff reports
- Fix: Inability to click on the column list in Options | Display | Dir Columns
- Fix: The prompt to delete empty directories was missing a path character if root directories were compared
Changes in Build 6.0.3.0
2012-12-20- First release build
Changes in Build 6.0.2.6
2012-12-17- Fix: Replace All did not work properly if the replacement string was blank
Changes in Build 6.0.2.5
2012-12-16- Fix: Occasional crashes while undoing Replace All in text comparison
- Fix: Added warnings during file operations on paths longer than 260 characters
- Fix: Improved handling of inaccessible network shares
Changes in Build 6.0.2.4
2012-12-08- Fix: Save Snapshot menu items were disabled
- Fix: Using Shift + F10 shortcut invoked Explorer context menu
- Fix: Handling of focus switching when the top dialog bar is hidden
- Fix: Handling of nonexistent files or directories when opening sessions or session files
- Fix: Autopicks were overwritten by different instances of ExamDiff Pro
- Fix: Snapshots were not compare recursively under certain conditions
Changes in Build 6.0.2.3
2012-11-29- Fix: Handling of duplicate extensions in the Document Type Options page
- Fix: Accelerators for buttons in Don't Show Again messages did not work
Changes in Build 6.0.2.2
2012-11-19- Fix: Dialog button issues when Windows XP or above uses Windows Classic theme
- Fix: Handling of wide characters (e.g. Japanese) in file comparison views
Changes in Build 6.0.2.1
2012-11-18- Fix: Compare dialog issues in Windows 2000
Changes in Build 6.0.2.0
2012-11-01- Fix: Added smtp: prefix to the email address for minidumps to fix Outlook issues
- Fix: Directory views were not scrolled synchronously after selecting items by typing first characters
- Fix: Faster rendering of long lines in text comparison
- Fix: Some keywords were not highlighted in HTML and XML files
- Fix: Improved syntax highlighting of Ruby files
- Fix: Reduced HTML report size
Changes in Build 6.0.1.10
2012-10-13- Fix: Merging files with non-Windows linebreak styles
- Fix: Command line options /dnN were not correctly applied
- Fix: Not updating view-filtered directory comparison views on view filter options change
- Fix: Borders in HTML reports for Internet Explorer 7
Changes in Build 6.0.1.9
2012-09-15- New: Option to disable renaming files or directories by clicking the label of an item that has the focus
- Fix: Forcing files to be treated as text based on their extensions did not work
- Fix: HTML report could have titles of different heights
- Fix: Incorrect initial focus after comparing identical binary files
Changes in Build 6.0.1.8
2012-09-04- Fix: Double-clicking on a locked toolbar caused it to float
- Fix: Inability to handle very large number of Undo records during text editing
- Fix: Missing DLLs for Curl plug-in
- Fix: HTML report generation for Internet Explorer 7
- Fix: Option to auto-compare on title controls is set by default
Changes in Build 6.0.1.7
2012-08-25- Fix: "Index was out of range" exception when parsing some Excel 2007 worksheets
- Fix: Using command line parameters caused some directory comparison filters to be reset
- Fix: Crashes during full directory comparison of files with paths longer than 260 characters
Changes in Build 6.0.1.6
2012-08-22- Fix: Initial View Whitespace option was not respected by merge views
- Fix: Occasional crashes during merging
Changes in Build 6.0.1.5
2012-08-19- New: additional default exclude filters for directory comparison
- Fix: Coloring of file name controls in the merge mode was incorrect under certain conditions
- Fix: Line numbers were not properly aligned with lines in HTML reports when view filters were used
Changes in Build 6.0.1.4
2012-08-14- New: Use a different color of diamond (blue) for chosen blocks in the three-way comparison section on the merge screen
- Fix: Significantly reduced installers' sizes
- Fix: Some text comparison options were not remembered between ExamDiff Pro restarts
- Fix: Incorrect handling of cases where number of recent sessions or session files was set to zero
Changes in Build 6.0.1.3
2012-08-10- Fix: An older HTML diff report template was shipped with the previous build
Changes in Build 6.0.1.2
2012-08-09- Fix: Incorrect saving of merge output under certain conditions
- Fix: Incorrect number of differences in HTML diff reports
Changes in Build 6.0.1.1
2012-08-08- Fix: Missing diff combo box entries when the Show Only Newer/Older Items command was used
- Fix: IE 7 support for HTML diff reports
- Fix: misaligned diff bar blocks in HTML diff reports when view filter was used
Changes in Build 6.0.1.0
2012-08-06- New: Redesigned HTML diff report, with improved diff navigation and selection
- Fix: Occasional crashes for users upgrading from version 5.5, especially under Windows XP
- Fix: Single-line CSS comment handling
- Fix: Overall diff navigation did not respect the "Scroll current diff to center" option
- Fix: Line numbers were being selected along with text in HTML diff reports
Changes in Build 6.0.0.2
2012-07-26- New: JavaScript document type
- Fix: Installer improvements
Changes in Build 6.0.0.1
07-22-2012- Fix: Error message about registering plug-ins during fresh installations
Changes in Build 6.0.0.0
2012-07-21- New: Standard and Master editions
- New: Three-way diff and merge
- New: Quick view filters
- New: Overall difference navigation
- New: Windows 8 support
- New: New document types: Ruby and CSS
- New: Ability to limit number of subdirectory levels in recursive comparison
- New: Ability to lock toolbars
- New: Allow full paths in the title bar
- New: Option to limit update check frequency
- New: Command line option: /gx:file (save ExamDiff Pro options to an options file)
- New: More intuitive keyboard shortcuts for difference navigation commands
- New: Rearranged options
- Fix: Selected padding lines were indented and lost their padding status when the Tab key was pressed in text comparison
- Fix: /fi and /fx options did not automatically enable the "Use comparison filters" option along with the specified filters
- Fix: Resetting plug-ins to default did not properly recover installed plug-ins
Changes in Build 5.5.1.18
03-17-2012- New: Ability to manually link lines in files processed by plug-ins
- Fix: Find and Replace dialogs stole keyboard focus
- Fix: Loading sessions did not update the directory recursion toolbar button
Changes in Build 5.5.1.17
03-11-2012- New: Preliminary support for Windows 8
- New: Improved difference scrolling
- Fix: Error while displaying plug-in errors or warnings when $CARET or $COLUMN are used in external editor settings
- Fix: Manual synchronization links are incorrectly shifted after copying deleted blocks
- Fix: Line modification marks are not set after the "Copy Line To Other File" command
Changes in Build 5.5.1.16
03-04-2012- New: Improved update check functionality
- Fix: Incorrect navigation in HTML diff reports when some lines are ignored
- Fix: Date handling in the Excel plug-ins
- Fix: Empty cell handling in the Excel 2007 plug-in
Changes in Build 5.5.1.15
01-21-2012- Fix: Error while opening files with timestamps too far in the future
Changes in Build 5.5.1.14
09-17-2011- New: Improved performance of directory comparison
- New: Keyboard shortcut in the Explorer context menu
- Fix: Case-insensitive comparison of files with umlaut characters
Changes in Build 5.5.1.13
09-03-2011- New: Support for PDF version 1.7
- New: Improved performance of HTML diff report generation
- Fix: Navigation issues in HTML diff reports
Changes in Build 5.5.1.12
08-16-2011- Fix: Uninstall did not completely remove Shell extension
Changes in Build 5.5.1.11
08-14-2011- New: "Empty Files" instead of "Cancel" button on the initial Compare dialog
- Fix: Error for empty files when copy arrow buttons are used in the Line Inspector
Changes in Build 5.5.1.10
08-01-2011- New: Added ExamDiff Pro to AppPath
- New: Added Video Tutorials to Help menu
- New: Enable INI/Registry plug-in by default
- New: Switched from Info-ZIP to 7-Zip plug-in for archive comparison
- Fix: Office 2007 plug-in failed to extract text from large Excel files
- Fix: Adding new plug-in app cleared other fields
- Fix: Better handling of plug-in errors
- Fix: Comparison takes too long or crashes when empty comments are set up for ignoring in Options | Document Types
- Fix: Remove status bar balloons when copy operation starts
Changes in Build 5.5.1.9
07-17-2011- New: Added diff count to HTML reports
- New: Improved performance of HTML report generation
- New: HTTPS support
- Fix: Forcing text/binary comparison based on file types
- Fix: Identical effects in HTML reports
- Fix: Messages in the console mode
- Fix: IE warning when viewing HTML reports
Changes in Build 5.5.1.8
06-12-2011- (Build 5.5.1.8 and earlier builds did not have changelogs)
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