· Notable Changes
· File views now support "Open" and "Save As" dialogs on FTP sites.
· Improved Data Compare support for detecting multi-line cells.
· Changed confirmation dialog button order to match Windows
· (Yes/YesToAll/No/NoToAll/Cancel).
· Archives
· Fixed snapshot loading so they show filenames that only differ in case.
· Fixed crash when extracting from a 7-zip archive encounters an error.
· Fixed using "Copy to Folder" on files within a zip if a matching zip on
· the target doesn't already exist.
· Fixed support for reading/writing files in a zip after renaming the zip.
· Fixed loading a file view from a snapshot comparison so it doesn't
· incorrectly flag the files as different in the folder compare.
· Data Compare
· "Comma Separated Values" and "MS Excel Workbooks" formats now recognize
· non-Windows line endings.
· Replaced "Recognized line ending styles" setting with "Line endings"
· setting to improve handling of multi-line cells.
· File Formats
· Added ability to mark external converts as requiring ANSI filenames.
· Hex, MP3, and Version views no longer show the Session Settings "Format"
· tab or the format dropdown in the file info panels.
· Fixed "PDF Documents" handling of non-ANSI filenames.
· File Views
· Session Settings dialog now supports browsing to files on FTP sites.
· Fixed quick compare dialog opening the file view automatically even if
· files are identical.
· Fixed "Use System" selection coloring for Data, MP3 and Version compares.
· Fixed "Open With" toolbar menu items to only show on sides where content
· is local.
· Fixed encoding crash if a cancel or error occurs during load.
· Fixed encoding auto-detection incorrectly guessing UTF-8 for ANSI text.
· Folder Compare
· Changed confirmation dialog button order to match Windows
· (Yes/YesToAll/No/NoToAll/Cancel).
· Browse FTP site repopulates folders before expanding them.
· File operations from a folder to a snapshot are disabled.
· Fixed detecting changes in filename case during a refresh.
· Fixed status bar not updating free space after file operations.
· Fixed behavior when using multiple path delimiters between folder names.
· Fixed comparing a folder to itself and renaming with both sides selected
· so it doesn't try to rename each file twice.
· Fixed moving folders between drives not showing the target folder's size
· correctly until after a full refresh.
· Fixed using "Create New" in browse dialog so it auto-selects the newly
· created folder.
· Fixed cancelling "Copy to Folder" when it's checking whether the target
· folder exists.
· Fixed status bar so it indicates whether the file counts are for a
· selection or all visible files.
· Fixed cancelling folder load during file operation preflight.
· Fixed saving log with Unicode filename.
· Fixed display of folders after move.
· Fixed renaming an item in the browse dialog and then clicking "OK" so it
· picks up the changed path.
· FTP
· File views now support "Open" and "Save As" dialogs on FTP sites.
· Full timestamps are now retrieved when downloading files that only
· include dates in FTP folder listings.
· Fixed support for deleting files on Ultimodule's IDAL FTP server.
· Fixed incorrect behavior when saving changes if the FTP username
· includes a character.
· Fixed behavior when connecting to an FTP server that supports UTF-8 from
· a system with a DBCS system codepage.
· Hex Compare
· Added "Open Clipboard" command, with support for formats used by most
· hex editors.
· Fixed "Find" so it can find a search string that spans deleted bytes.
· Fixed "Find" dialog's enabling of "Match character case".
· Linux
· Added instructions to register for all users to README.
· Improved shutdown speed when waiting for background threads to terminate.
· Improved error message for unhandled exceptions.
· Improved auto-detection of ClearCase in Linux.
· Fixed support for [Ctrl+C] when running a script.
· Fixed landscape mode in scripts and print preview.
· Fixed timezone combobox size/position in FTP profiles.
· Fixed crash when HTTP_PROXY environmental variable includes extra
· whitespace.
· Misc
· Increased delay before showing hint for truncated data.
· Fixed status bar text overwriting itself on Vista and Windows 7.
· Fixed crash when opening views when running under Wine or Crossover.
· Fixed support for cancelling actions by using a dialog's [x] button.
· Fixed crash on startup when running on a Vista or Windows 7 system that
· doesn't have the "MS Shell Dlg" font substitutions defined.
· Fixed crash or silent failure when unable to create settings export file.
· Number edit now only detects real changes.
· Fixed persistence of time settings (ex. last modified).
· Fixed importing BC2 sessions with "&" in name or name filter.
· Fixed customizing command to use [Shift+-] as shortcut.
· Fixed check for updates proxy authentication.
· MP3 Compare
· Improved left/right arrow key handling.
· Fixed loading so it doesn't keep files locked.
· Picture Compare
· Fixed crash when comparing high resolution images.
· Reports
· Improved reconciling different codepages (Data Compare and Text Compare).
· Improved printer error handling.
· Fixed "XML Dump" text report not to include left filename twice.
· Fixed totals in "Statistics" text report of multiple files when
· outputting to plain text.
· Scripting
· Fixed handling of composite and over-under text reports.
· Sessions
· Fixed display of last modified on "Specs" settings page under Vista.
· Source Control
· Fixed slow loading of files on ClearCase dynamic views.
· Text Views
· Fixed editor positioning after deleting a selection.
· Text Merge
· Output encoding is now follows merge rules based on input encodings.
· Fixed "Take Both" crash.
· Fixed crash after opening from Folder Compare and trying to show
· "Difference not found" message.
· Version Compare
· Improved left/right arrow key handling.
· Archives
· Improved compatibilty with third-party zip software when reading/writing
· filenames with extended characters.
· Fixed creating new folders in an empty zip using the wrong character for
· the path delimiter.
· Data Compare
· Fixed error handling for large files that don't have a recognized line
· ending.
· File Formats
· Fixed importing a new file format not showing the associated masks in
· the list view.
· File Views
· Fixed updating the file info panel's "File Format" dropdown captions.
· Fixed file info panels so they show the line ending style.
· Fixed support for Vista theming of MP3 and Version compares.
· Fixed error handling after a cancel.
· Fixed detecting "binary same" so it isn't misdetected when using
· "Ignored", etc.
· Fixed crash when detecting "binary same", occurred when loading a merge,
· after save, toggling "Ignored".
· Folder Compare
· Improved responsiveness when cancelling a load of a large folder from a
· local or network disk.
· Improved loading speed for large snapshots, and minor speedup when
· loading other folders or filtering.
· Fixed copying the same .pst file to two locations simultaneously so it
· no longer gives an access denied error.
· Fixed Vista theming so it shows the hot selection in the center column
· when the mouse is over it.
· Fixed "Quick Compare" to open in new tab when appropriate.
· Fixed crash when loading folders with odd filenames.
· Inline rename accepted when [F2] is pressed.
· Fixed crash when refreshing multiple times when using Logitech SetPoint
· mouse drivers.
· Folder Sync
· Fixed resizing not to hide the sync parameter edits.
· FTP
· Fixed crash when cancelling interrupts opening of a remote connection.
· Fixed read timeout connecting to vsftpd with a passive, encrypted FTPS
· data connection.
· Fixed VMS folder listings incorrectly including a non-existent file
· named "Total of # files, #/# blocks".
· Fixed support for read timeouts when downloading files using MODE Z
· compression.
· Hex Compare
· Fixed crash when refreshing or loading a new pair of files while
· scrolled to the bottom of the display.
· Fixed "Go To" when no items are visible.
· Home View
· Added "Open as New" submenu to open a saved session in a different view
· type.
· "Save As..." dialog now supports saving as a different session type.
· Linux
· Fixed crash when clicking the "File Format" or "Encoding" dropdowns in
· the file info panels.
· Fixed support for SIGINT (Control-C).
· Fixed closing a tab closing the entire application under Ubuntu.
· Misc
· Improved error handling for number edits.
· Fixed File Format and FTP Profile "Encoding" dropdowns not including all
· available codepages on Win9x.
· Fixed out of resources error when drawing the background gradient in the
· view tab bar.
· Reports
· Spacing for plain-text side-by-side file comparison reports launched
· from a folder comparison are now calculated on a file-by-file basis
· instead of padding the left side to give all reports the same width.
· Significantly reduced memory usage for file compare reports involving
· lots of files.
· Scripting
· Attempting to load a session name that matches multiple sessions is now
· considered a fatal error.
· Text Views
· Fixed saving whitespace-only lines when both "Trim trailing whitespace"
· and "Convert leading spaces to tabs" are enabled.
· Text Compare
· Fixed View->Webpages handling of xml files.
· Fixed View->Webpages crash when loading files without write permissions.
· Text Merge
· Fixed crash after custom element definitions are removed from the
· grammar.
· Fixed folder compare's rules-based content comparisons returning binary differences instead of similar or text differences (broken in 3.1.5).
Archives:
· Fixed/enhanced support for detecting filename encoding when loading zips
· and switching between ANSI/OEM encoding when saving zips on non-US
· systems.
· Fixed zip local file header corruption which prevented file extractions
· in 7-zip (broken in 3.1.4).
· Fixed filenames in zips always being encoded as ANSI instead of switching
· to OEM encoding when possible (improves Explorer compatibility).
· Fixed crash when trying to expand invalid CAB archives (broken in 3.1.4).
· Fixed corruption when editing Java archives (.jar) and other zips that
· include a data descriptor.
· Fixed progress reporting when extracting large files in RAR archives.
· Fixed displaying file sizes over 4GB in RAR archives.
· Fixed crash when loading archives that don't store folders correctly.
· Fixed support for Unicode characters in filenames store in Java archives
· jar).
Data Compare:
· Fixed crash when loading invalid data.
· Fixed crash when saving while no items are visible.
· File Formats
· External conversions are now treated as failures if they return a non-
· zero exit code or generate an empty file.
· HTTP URLs will now use "file.htm" for file format matching if the URL
· ends in a /.
· Fixed "Python Scripts" format marking lines containing only whitespace as
· important.
· Fixed "MS Excel Workbooks" format so it doesn't show a dialog when it
· encounters an error.
· Updated PdfToText to 3.02pl3 to improve support for files generated by
· Adobe Acrobat 9.
File Views:
· File views now detect "Binary same" in addition to "Rules-based same".
· "Next Difference Files" will now close the current view and switch focus
· if the new files to compare are already open in another view.
· "Next Difference Files" now goes to the next difference relative to the
· files loaded in the requesting file comparison instead of the current
· line in the parent folder comparison.
· Reduced flicker of "File Info" panels when resizing window.
· Tweaked borders and bevels to improve appearance of views.
· Fixed appearance of path edits and file info bars when using "Large
· buttons with text labels" option. (broken in 3.1.4).
· Text and Data compares no longer throw out partial comparisons after
· errors or cancels (broken in 3.1.3).
· Improved error handling when unable to load file contents.
Folder Compare:
· Added "Always show extension in Name column" tweak.
· Improved best-fit filename mapping support introduced in 3.1.4. It now
· handles arbitrary encodings, uses OEM best-fits instead of ANSI ones for
· Win9x network shares (handles emdash to - changes), and supports best-fit
· mappings when comparing two different encodings (eg, FTP-to-FTP).
· "Open With->Associated Application" can now have a configurable shortcut.
· Fixed back/forward buttons (broken in 3.1.4).
· Fixed "Replace File" confirmation dialog overlapping text if the filename
· is long enough to wrap twice.
· Fixed behavior when a file has been replaced by a folder or vice versa
· outside of BC.
· Fixed error message when setting Unix mode fails so it doesn't mention
· setting owner/group.
FTP:
· Fixed SFTP support so it can load folders even if it encounters parse
· errors when retrieving Unix owner/group and symlink targets.
· Fixed FTP error messages showing as blank lines if they included extended
· characters.
· Home View
· Fixed "Open" when multiple auto-saved sessions are selected.
Linux:
· Storing BC3Key.txt in /etc will now register for all users.
· Fixed invalidation issues when scrolling vertically or horizontally.
· Fixed opening zips containing files with empty timestamps (broken in
· 3.1.0).
· Fixed misalignment of missing line hashes in text editors.
· Fixed paste re-pasting old data when copying text in other applications.
· Fixed crash when using file format dropdowns (broken in 3.1.4).
· Fixed crash during ASCII FTP transfers (broken in 3.1.4).
· Fixed reading/writing last modified times in zips.
· Misc
· Background operations with a cancel dialog now show "Action could not be
· completed" if they encounter an error.
· Improved error handling and recovery when saving/loading settings files.
· Fixed importing file formats and sessions disabled using "Available
· session types" option.
· Fixed dropdown toolbar button widths on Windows 7.
Options:
· "Available session types" list is now sorted.
· Fixed support for editing colors of custom text grammar elements.
· Picture Compare
· Fixed crash when generating HTML report.
· Reports
· Improved error handling when running out of memory while generating large
· reports.
· Fixed output of leading whitespace in HTML reports.
Scripting:
· Fixed *-REPORT script commands so they support "printer" and "clipboard"
· as output targets in addition to "" and "".
· Text Views
· Added "Unaligned" alignment option to compare files without aligning
· matching lines.
· "Select All", "Select Section", and toggling "Full Edit" mode are now
· supported while in "Align With" mode.
· Fixed "Show syntax highlighting on difference lines" so it's only used if
· syntax highlighting is enabled.
Text Compare:
· Fixed "View->Webpages" so it opens PHP/ASP/etc as HTML.
· Fixed "Compare Selection to Clipboard" (broken in 3.1.4).
· Fixed "View->Webpages" resizing of the browsers.
Text Merge:
· Added "Compare To Output > Left Side|Center Side|Right Side" commands.
Version Compare:
· File last modified times are no longer compared.
· Fixed support for filenames with international characters.
· Notable Changes
· Added Picture Compare reports.
· Replaced "File->View as Webpage" command for individual files with a
· "View->Webpages" command that works on all sides.
· Fixed crashes under Wine and incorrect behavior under Windows 7.
· Archives
· Zips now read/write Unicode filenames as documented in the official spec.
· Improved auto-detection of OEM/ANSI encoding for filenames in zips.
· Fixed "File not found in archive" error when trying to extract files from
· a zip that uses '' as the path delimiter.
· Fixed adding files to .tar.gz archives.
· Fixed zip header VersionNeededToExtract fields so they match those
· produced in earlier BC versions (pre-3.1).
· Data Compare
· File info panels now show delimiter, qualifer, ignore multiple delims,
· and whether column names were found.
· Fixed "Columns" session settings locking issue.
· Fixed "Columns" session settings to offer "Fill Names Using Comparison"
· if either file includes column names.
· Fixed crash when editing cell on line with no text.
· File Formats
· Added "*.xsd" to "XML" file format's mask.
· File Views
· Path edits are now attached to the file info panels and resize when
· moving horizontal splitters or switching to over-under layout.
· Improved file info panel behavior when there isn't enough space to
· display everything.
· Fixed crash when multiple file views try to load the same file at the
· same time (eg, loading a saved workspace).
· Fixed "Copy File to Left/Right and Open Next Difference" when the parent
· folder has changed in the background.
· Fixed codepage and line ending style not showing if a load error occurred.
· Fixed file views incorrectly marking a file as saved if certain types of
· failures occur when saving.
· Fixed files to try to reload if error occurred previously.
· Tweaked Data and Text "Format" session settings layout.
· Folder Compare
· Added support for lining up files on ANSI/OEM network shares (Win9x) when
· certain best-fit character conversions have been done (eg, dropping
· unsupported diacritics). Using the "Compare filename case" option will
· show these as differences, but it isn't possible to correct them unless
· the original file is renamed to match the best-fit version.
· Fixed crash when renaming a folder that is being compared with the
· "Compare Contents" operation with a results dialog.
· Transferring files with filenames containing unsupported extended
· characters to Windows 9x can now give an error instead of crashing.
· Fixed inconsistent detection of filtered folder contents during file
· operations.
· Significantly reduced memory usage when performing a large number of
· binary or CRC comparisons between two local/network disks.
· Folder Sync
· Various updates to bring in line with the folder compare.
· FTP
· Fixed slow transfers when performing ASCII SFTP uploads/downloads on SFTP
· v3 servers (eg, OpenSSH).
· Fixed logging multi-line SFTP connection banners.
· Fixed support for parsing Solaris FTP listings containing files with
· mandatory locking.
· Fixed parsing Solaris FTP listings with Korean dates.
· Hex Compare
· Fixed "Find" so it tries to scroll the entire match into view.
· Linux
· Fixed ASCII FTP transfers so they do correct line ending conversions.
· Misc
· Changed "Close Multiple Tabs" confirmation so it matches Internet
· Explorer 8.
· Added workaround for crashes when opening a file view in Wine.
· Crashes under Wine no longer terminate the application without warning.
· Portable install no longer writes "SupportsMerge" and "ArchiveMasks"
· settings to the registry.
· Added numerous menu keyboard accelerators.
· Fixed Windows 7 taskbar thumbnail and live preview for minimized windows
· and appearance after restoring a minimized window.
· Fixed keyboard shortcuts when showing tabs on the taskbar in Windows 7.
· Fixed crash on startup when checking for updates through a proxy.
· Fixed crash when closing a window while the session combobox is open.
· Fixed issues with settings persistence of floating point values on non-US
· systems.
· MP3 Compare
· Fixed support for tags with line endings that don't match the system
· default.
· Options
· "Available session types" no longer lists Folder Compare or Text Compare.
· Fixed file format support when disabling sessions using the "Available
· session types" list.
· Picture Compare
· Added side-by-side and summary reports.
· Fixed display "(stretched)" to show when appropriate.
· Reports
· Improved "Just selection" stickyness.
· Scripting
· Added VERSION-REPORT scripting command.
· Layouts supported: side-by-side, summary
· Display filters supported: display-all, display-mismatches,
· display-matches
· Options supported: ignore-unimportant
· Fixed inconsistent support for "select empty.folders".
· Text Views
· Replaced "File->View as Webpage" command for individual files with a
· "View->Webpages" command that works on all sides.
· "Find" and "Next/Previous Difference" now scroll horizontally to center
· the match.
· "View -> Webpages" now works when comparing clipboard contents or an
· empty side.
· Clicking on the current display filter after "Ignored" now refreshes
· display.
· Improved page up/down handling, particularly when focused in merge output.
· Fixed "Find Next/Previous" crash when last find was a select all.
· Fixed crash after using "Find" dialog with "Close dialog automatically"
· unchecked.
· Fixed moving splitters when webpages are visible.
· Fixed divide by zero crash.
· Fixed aligning empty range(s) (ex. after paste).
· Text Compare
· "Copy Line to Left/Right" can now be shown on the toolbar.
· Loading the same file in both sides and saving edits on one side no
· longer prompts to reload twice.
· Text Merge
· Fixed "Align With" command.
· Notable Changes
· Added Windows 7 support for tab taskbar thumbnails and live preview.
· Picture Compare now displays transparent images with a checkerboard background.
· Text Compare now copies over line ending style (PC/Unix/Mac) if "Compare line endings" is enabled.
· Text Merge now follows merge rules to generate line endings if "Compare
· line endings" is enabled.
· Added support for Unix FTP listings that include ClearCase VOB errors.
· Reverted list parser change from 3.1.1 that would treat unparsable directory listings as a load error.
· Fixed support for Windows NT directory listings (broken in 3.1.1).
· Added support for Unix FTP listings that include ClearCase VOB errors.
· Reverted list parser change from 3.1.1 that would treat unparsable directory listings as a load error.
· Fixed support for Windows NT directory listings (broken in 3.1.1).
· File Views
· "Find Next/Previous" (F3/Shift+F3) when starting a new instance now
· repeats the previous find instead of opening the Find dialog.
· After "Save As", editing is reenabled if it was disabled due to destructive
· loading conversion.
· Fixed crash when unable to create a folder as part of a save.
· Fixed thumbnail continuing to scroll if it's capturing the mouse when
· another application gains focus.
· Folder Compare
· "Comparison Results" dialog now shows binary same and binary difference.
· Renamed "Open" (3.1.0) to "Open in New View" when folders are selected
· (was "Compare in New View" prior to 3.1.0).
· Fixed "Open" so it's the default menu item if 2 disjoint files are
· selected. (Broken in 3.1.0).
· Fixed crash when attempting to copy/move/etc and the parent's path is a
· non-archive file.
· Folder Sync
· Fixed crash when trying to sync a subfolder into a folder that already
· contains a file with the same name. (Broken in 3.1.0).
· FTP
· Fixed support for MVS paths. (Broken in 3.1.0).
· Fixed timestamps being off by a minute when converting timezones.
· (Possibly broken in 3.1.0).
· Fixed support for parsing folder listings so if an appropriate list parser
· isn't found it's a load error instead of showing the folder as empty.
· Fixed support for Windows CE folder listings that don't include subfolders.
· Hex Compare
· Comparison results are now shown as binary same/difference.
· Home View
· Fixed crash when dragging sessions from different folders.
· Linux
· Fixed "Export Settings" command. (Broken in 3.1.0).
· Misc
· Added "Include debug messages in log" tweak to optionally write FTP folder
· listings to the log.
· Version information in About dialog can now be copied to the clipboard.
· Improved stability after a crash while opening a new tab/window.
· Fixed appearance of treeview selection rectangle on Vista in comparison
· results, comparison info, and sync preview dialogs.
· Reports
· Fixed Text Compare Report handling of user defined elements.
· Sessions
· Fixed crash when selecting the "Auto-saved sessions" item from the
· sessions combo when there aren't any auto-saved sessions.
· Text Compare
· Replaced "Open with Web Browser" command with "View as Webpage" command
· that opens the web browsers inline instead of as a separate window.
· Refreshing accepts any new edits made.
· Text Merge
· Trying to merge files that can't be edited (binary or destructive loading
· conversion) is now an error condition.
· Notable Changes
· Data Compare now supports modifying delimited and fixed width files.
· Added support for third-party BC v2 plugins.
· Added support for zip archives with Unicode filenames, AES encryption, and
· files larger than 2GB.
· Added support for comparing over HTTP.
· Added support for comparing RPM files (Linux only).
· Added support for creating and modifying .gz and .tar.gz files.
· Fixed excessive "Refreshing..." step before large file operations or those
· on slow connections.
· Archives
· Added support for AES zip encryption.
· Added support for 64-bit zips.
· Added support for storing Unicode filenames in zips.
· Added support for creating and modifying .gz and .tar.gz files.
· Added support for .tar files containing files with paths longer than 100
· characters.
· Added support for CRC32s and file sizes in .gz archives (not .tar.gz).
· Added support for changing Unix owner/group and mode in .tar and .tar.gz
· files.
· Gzipped files that don't include a filename now use the archive's name
· (without .gz) instead of "Unknown".
· Deleting a folder containing files in a zip no longer saves the archive
· multiple times.
· Improved error handling when trying to add files to an archive.
· Fixed crash creating a zip within a zip using the "New Folder" command.
· Fixed crash when saving a snapshot that includes CRCs or exe version
· information and excludes filtered items.
· Fixed support for opening snapshot files where the original source path
· had extended characters.
· Fixed crash after failing to modify a zip.
· Fixed cancelling a save snapshot operation when "Items excluded by file
· filters" is checked or disabled.
· Fixed .tar/.tgz support for extracting files where the target filename is
· longer than 260 characters.
· Fixed crash when using "Copy to Folder" to create a new zip.
· Command Line
· Data Compare
· Added support for modifying delimited and fixed width files.
· Added auto-detecting the pipe (|) character as a delimiter.
· Added support for showing character differences within a cell.
· Added "Decimal Separator" format setting.
· Replaced "Trim leading and trailing whitespace" setting with "Treat
· surrounding whitespace as part of delimiter".
· Improved number handling for 1000s separator, converting (###) to -###,
· and handling currency symbols.
· Fixed crash when changing columns while columns are hidden and the view is
· scrolled to the right.
· Fixed crash when editing the "Other delimiter" file format field.
· Fixed changing the "Trim leading and trailing whitespace" option to
· refresh the comparison.
· Fixed scrollbars so they're disabled if the display is empty.
· File Formats
· Added "Indentation" grammar item to "Python Scripts" format to make
· leading whitespace important.
· File Views
· Added support for third-party BC v2 plugins.
· Added support for comparing over HTTP.
· Added "New File" command to empty the contents of the current pane.
· Added "Go to next difference after copying section" option.
· Added [Ctrl+Shift+V] as the default shortcut for "Open Clipboard".
· "Recompare Files" can now be shown on the toolbar.
· Improved Find dialog's handling of search sides.
· Improved error handling when only one side of the comparison has an error.
· Fixed "Access Denied" error when trying to save in a folder that allows
· modifying a file but does not allow creating new ones.
· Fixed opening a child view in a new window so if that view is already open
· it brings it to the front instead of opening a new view.
· Fixed crash when closing file views.
· Fixed Load button so it tries to reload files that failed to load
· previously.
· Folder Compare
· Merged "Compare in New View Using" and "Open With" menus and added "Open
· With Associated Application" command.
· Fixed excessive "Refreshing..." step before large file operations or those
· on slow connections.
· Creating a folder or copying/moving a file that only has a short (8.3)
· name into a folder containing a file with a matching short name but
· different long name is now detected and the existing file's short name is
· changed to remove the conflict.
· Failed content comparisons now clear any previous comparison results for a
· particular pair of files.
· Expand All followed by a Collapse All now cancels the expansion but
· continues to build the comparison.
· Added vertical scrollbar to operation error dialog
· Fixed error messages so they include file paths.
· Fixed binary comparisons to treat read errors as an unknown comparison
· instead of a binary difference.
· Fixed support for changing folder timestamps on Vista.
· Fixed "Touch" and "Attributes" commands not respecting the "Disable
· editing" session setting.
· Fixed deleting a folder that contains filtered items so if the entire
· folder is deleted to the recycle bin, it's moved as one item instead of
· all of the contents individually.
· Fixed crash when closing the "File Operation Error" dialog after the
· progress panel has been closed automatically.
· Fixed hang when counting files/folders after building them as part of a
· large file operation.
· Fixed refreshing so it re-sorts the display if one of the sides takes
· longer than 5 seconds to finish.
· Fixed crash when closing a Folder Compare/Sync while a file view has a
· "Files changed, Reload?" prompt open.
· Fixed display of SUID, SGID, and sticky bits in Unix permissions.
· Fixed support for copying .pst files from network storage devices failing
· with "The request is not supported" errors.
· Fixed support for detecting locked .pst files when copying to an FTP site
· or archive.
· Fixed support for regular expression renames using '^' or '$' as the "Old
· Mask" to add a prefix or suffix to a file.
· Folder Sync
· FTP
· Added support for PASV replies from Microsoft FTP Service that don't
· include a trailing parenthesis "Entering Passive Mode (100,1,1,1,23,45".
· Opening a file view for a pair of files that are waiting for a background
· content comparison now downloads the files immediately.
· Improved behavior when the control channel times out during a successful
· download.
· Added support for detecting incorrectly resumed file transfers. Fixes
· issue with duplicate file contents when downloading from sbftp.
· Loading an SFTP or FTPS path in the Standard edition now shows a message
· about upgrading to the Professional edition.
· SSL session is now reused between data and control connections. Fixes
· support for vsftpd 2.1.0.
· Fixed "Touch local files when copying to an FTP site" setting incorrect
· timestamps when the destination's parent folder was created as part of the
· copy.
· Fixed SFTP support for VanDyke VShell 3.0 (broken in 3.0.15).
· Fixed crash following a dropped FTP connection when comparing file
· contents or copying between FTP sites.
· Fixed support for resume when comparing file contents or copying between
· FTP sites.
· Fixed crash when cancelling FTP transfers.
· Fixed support for editing files on VMS and MVS (z/OS, OS/390) servers.
· Fixed support for VxWorks and Windows CE FTP servers.
· Fixed crash when rapidly using Full Refresh (Ctrl+F5).
· Hex Compare
· Removed "Open Clipboard" command.
· Fixed hang when searching on an empty side.
· Home View
· Session settings page control is now resizeable.
· Improved appearance after resizing.
· Fixed crash when the session tree doesn't have a selection.
· Fixed crash when rearranging sessions using drag and drop.
· Fixed dragging a folder to preserve the lock icons on its contents.
· Linux
· Added support for comparing RPM files.
· Added a "Show Hidden Items" context menu to "Browse for Folder" dialog.
· Fixed permissions when modifying a file via a symlink.
· Fixed Nautilus context menu support for fully qualified paths.
· Fixed "Check For Updates" dialog so it uses the http_proxy environmental
· variable.
· Fixed crash when saving an HTML folder compare report.
· Misc
· Windows 7 taskbar will now show all view tabs. Live preview is not
· supported.
· Improved warning when persistent settings corruption detected on startup.
· Double clicking on a tab's close button no longer creates a new tab.
· Added icons for shell extension's "Merge" and "Sync" commands when shown
· in a submenu.
· Fixed various crashes during shutdown.
· Fixed crash when trying to load a path that doesn't exist and one of the
· parent folders is a non-archive file.
· Fixed display of dual-platform licenses in About dialog.
· Fixed crash when creating a session view window.
· Fixed crash in "Browse For Folder" dialog when expanding a folder that
· isn't available.
· Fixed session dropdown so it adjusts its size to handle larger fonts.
· Fixed position of "Additional file formats" URL in File Formats dialog.
· Fixed character encoding dropdowns so they no longer reset a saved
· codepage if it doesn't exist on the current system.
· Update About logo to say "Version 3" rather than "Version 3.0".
· Fixed shell extension's "Select Left File/Folder" text when switching
· between selecting a file and a folder.
· Registration dialog now closes after entering a reset key.
· MP3 Compare
· Added support for showing character differences within a tag.
· Tag names are no longer colored red for lines with differences in the tag
· value.
· "Simple Data (ID3v1)", "Advanced Tag (ID3v2.3)", and "Audio" lines are
· only colored red if they're collapsed and contain differences.
· Removed "Open Clipboard" command.
· Fixed playback of files longer than 3:37.
· Fixed "Swap Sides" so it updates the display filter.
· Options
· Added "Available session types" option to control which sessions types
· appear in the menus and Home view and are used for file format matching.
· Picture Compare
· Fixed crashes when loading invalid images.
· Fixed appearance of "Replacements" page.
· Reports
· Fixed persistance of "Page breaks between reports" option.
· Scripting
· Scripts now set the DOS error level if a fatal error occurs.
· Including '...' at the end of an EXPAND command will now expand all of the
· named folder's subfolders. Eg: "EXPAND Documents..."
· Fixed crash when generating file reports for files on unavailable drive
· letters.
· Fixed crash when "Close when finished" is checked and the script involves
· background content comparisons against an FTP site.
· Sessions
· Added "Clear Session" command that clears both sides of the comparison and
· switches session settings to the defaults.
· Fixed Session Settings dialog's "Last modified" text so it's visible after
· resizing.
· Source Control
· Fixed crashes when using Perforce, Seapine Surround, or Serena Change
· Manager integration.
· Fixed ClearCase crash when comparing files with paths longer than 260
· characters.
· Text Views
· Added "Compare Selection to Clipboard" command.
· Fixed overwriting a checked in, read-only, or system file in a Text Merge
· session or using the /savetarget= switch so it prompts for confirmation.
· Fixed "Ctrl+Z indicates end of file" option not to insert Ctrl+Z
· characters in the middle of the file when saving.
· Fixed crash when using "Align With" on a multi-line selection.
· Fixed "Next/Prev Difference" to scroll the difference into view if context
· lines are larger than the screen height.
· Fixed undoing a multi-line paste so it doesn't leave the last character of
· the paste.
· Fixed crash when using Select by Word.
· Fixed "Open with Web Browser" support for filenames with extended
· characters.
· Text Compare
· Pasting into a gap now aligns the pasted text with the opposite side.
· Added "Line Endings" conversion submenu.
· Using the "Disable editing" checkbox now forces a save or discard of
· existing edits.
· Pasting text into an empty side is now treated as a paste and realignment
· instead of an "Open Clipboard" request.
· Added "Pasting text in empty pane treated as Open Clipboard" tweak
· Text pasting, typing deletes any selected text, inserts at start of
· selection
· Fixed appearance of "Replacements" page.
· Fixed manual alignment preservation of top and current line positions.
· Fixed "Align Manually" for ranges to handle end of file and trailing
· orphans.
· Text Merge
· "Undo" and "Redo" now work if focused on an input pane.
· Version Compare
· Added support for showing character differences within a field.
· Version names are no longer colored red for lines with differences in the
· value.
· "Fixed Header", "Variable Header", and "File Info" lines are only colored
· red if they're collapsed and contain differences.
· Fixed "Swap Sides" so it updates the display filter.
· Removed "Open Clipboard" command.
· File Views
· "Open Clipboard" command now includes a timestamp in the path edit.
· Folder Compare
· Fixed duplicate folders appearing when creating them as part of a copy
· operation (broken in 3.0.14).
· Fixed support for automatic refreshes (broken in 3.0.14).
· FTP
· Fixed error when moving an archive file to/from an FTP/SFTP site.
· Fixed support for transferring files to/from a VanDyke VShell SFTP server.
· Text Views
· Added "Replace All is from top of file" tweak.
· Text Compare
· Added "Zoom Left/Right" commands which incrementally move the splitter
· (Ctrl+Alt+Right/Left).
Notable Changes:
· Revamped support for comparing filename case.
· Added a "Compare filename case" session setting to control both comparing case and synchronizing it when copying files.
· Comparing a case sensitive file system to a case insensitive one will now align filenames with differing case.
· Added support for automatically resuming FTP/SFTP transfers at the end of the already transferred data.
Archives:
· "Enter Password" dialog now supports copying the archive's path to the clipboard.
· Fixed rules-based comparisons only doing a CRC comparison for files with matching sizes.
· Fixed support for renaming a file in a zip to change character case.
Command Line:
· Launching multiple instances of BC now gives focus to the first window opened instead of the last.
· "Quick Compare" dialog is no longer shown for file comparisons launched as part of a batch process.
· Added support for using forward slashes in UNC paths (//server/share).
Data Compare:
· Fixed crash when changing column visibility and then scrolling horizontally.
· Fixed session's "Columns" page incorrectly enabling the "Insert" command.
· Fixed crash when deleting a column in the session settings.
· Improved painting performance for really long rows.
File Formats:
· Fixed reapplying file format changes that don't require a file save (ex. tab stop).
File Views:
· Fixed error handling when trying to modify a file without write permissions.
Folder Compare:
· Added "Compare filename case" session setting. Files with differing case will be marked as differences and copying those files will update the case of the target file to match the source.
· Comparing a case sensitive file system to a case insensitive one will now align filenames with differing case. Filenames that match exactly will be aligned before files with case differences.
· Expand all and background scans now work depth-first instead of breadth first, as much as possible.
· "*." as a file filter now matches all files that don't have an extension. Fixes ""All files without an extension" option in the "Exclude from Session" dialog.
· Renaming multiple files that have the same name now correctly pre-fills in the "New Name" edit if the previous rename used regular expressions.
· Changing file filters no longer shows a "This will cancel running file operations" dialog.
· Improved responsiveness when cancelling background folder scans and file comparisons.
· Fixed sorting by CRCs or exe versions when the values haven't been previously calculated.
· Fixed refresh so it re-sorts the display after the refresh instead of before it.
· Fixed support for expanding folders out of order when an Expand All or background scan is active.
· Fixed "Legend" dialog's height/width on Vista and Linux.
· Fixed file operation's "Beep When Finished" option.
· Fixed crash when deleting a pair of files after selecting them as part of a "Compare Contents" operation.
FTP:
· Added support for automatically resuming uploads and downloads at the end of the transferred data instead of restarting at the beginning.
· Removed "Filename conversion" FTP profile setting.
· Fixed read timeouts at the end of long file transfers caused by NATs closing the control connection.
· Fixed support for the "Read timeout" setting during passive FTP transfers.
· Fixed setting last modified time of files on Pure-FTPd and ProFTPD servers when the server timezone has been set in the FTP profile.
· Fixed support for connecting to TitanFTP when it returns an invalid SITE ZONE response.
· Fixed crash when transferring/comparing lots of files.
· Fixed cancelling SFTP transfers so they don't drop the connection as often.
Home View:
· Folder Sync sessions now display the most recent sync summary on the "Sync" tab.
· Fixed using "Open" command with multiple auto-saved sessions selected.
· Fixed deleting multiple auto-saved sessions.
· Fixed accelerators for "Open As New", "Save", and "Save As..." buttons.
· Fixed tab order and z-order when using "Open" command with multiple sessions.
Misc:
· Added support for using forward slashes in UNC paths (//server/share).
· Added maximum values for various spin edits.
· Double clicking past the last view tab now adds a new tab on the right side instead of next to the active tab.
· Fixed crash when the session combotree closes after modifying sessions.
· Fixed excess disk usage when retrieving exe version information for files in archives or on FTP sites.
MP3 Compare:
· Treeview scrollbar positions are now locked together.
· Fixed column widths when one treeview is wider than the other.
Text Views:
· "
· " and "
" in the "Replace With" edit are now treated as plain text instead of line ending characters.
· Improved performance when editing causes multiline grammar change (ex. create new comment).
· Fixed hint support on editor navigation buttons.
· Fixed crash when using the gutter copy buttons and then changing display filters.
· Fixed horizontal splitter jumping when using "Next Difference Files".
Version Compare:
· Treeview scrollbar positions are now locked together.
· Fixed column widths when one treeview is wider than the other.
· - Folder Compare
· - Fixed "Delete" deleting an entire folder even if it's contents don't
· match the display filter if "Use recycle bin" is active.
· - Fixed crash when closing a directory comparison after cancelling a file
· op confirmation dialog.
· - Fixed crash when expanding a zip archive.
· - Linux
· - Added support for http_proxy environmental variable for check-for-updates
· code. Username and password must be included in the variable if they're
· needed.
· - Options
· - Fixed crash when opening the "Compare Colors" panel on the Options dialog
· when using a standard edition license.
· Added DATA-REPORT, HEX-REPORT, TEXT-REPORT script commands
· ...many many others!!!
· Command Line
· Added support for loading a named workspace from the command line.
· Added version information to bcomp.exe and bcomp.com.
· Fixed copying bcomp.exe to a different folder and then launching it from a
· limited user account after an administrative install.
· Fixed "bcomp /?" displaying the help file when it's in a different folder
· than the BC install.
· Data Compare
· Increased maximum number of columns to 500.
· Control characters are now drawn as the Unicode replacement character.
· Added "Recognized line ending styles" setting to "Type" page which allows
· unchecked style to be treated as data.
· Changing column properties now recalculates all columns instead of just the
· first 128.
· "Comma Separated Values" and "MS Excel Workbooks" formats now only
· recognize CR/LF line endings.
· Row details grid now shows a selected column instead of selecting the
· entire row.
· "Copy" no longer includes hidden cells.
· Column Handling dialog's caption now includes the column number or
· "default".
· Fixed resizing columns so the mouse cursor shifts if the resizing causes a
· horizontal scroll.
· Fixed behavior when there are no columns defined.
· Improved missing column handling.
· File Formats
· Fixed persistence of empty descriptions.
· File Views
· Trying to load a file from a snapshot now displays "Content Unavailable"
· instead of treating it as a load error.
· "File Encoding Error" now includes the line number of first error.
· Fixed Quick Compare dialog's display of filenames with ampersands.
· Folder Compare
· Saving a snapshot of a folder containing other snapshots with the "Include
· Archive Contents" option enabled no longer includes those snapshots'
· contents.
· Regular expression renames now support an empty "New Mask".
· Disabled autocompletion on "Filters" combobox.
· Failures to copy NTFS ACLs now logs an error once per program instance.
· Fixed creating new folders during a copy so they correctly copy DOS 8.3
· filenames and NTFS ACLs.
· Fixed overwriting read-only files when extracting from archives or
· downloading from FTP sites.
· Fixed display of file sizes greater than 2GB with a 0 in the hundred
· millions position.
· Fixed support for custom presets in "Filters" combobox.
· Fixed crash when using the "Ignored" command on an archive file or on
· folders that contain archives.
· Fixed "Skip if quick tests indicate files are the same" so files are still
· compared if none of the quick tests are active.
· Fixed duplicate accelerator keys in Compare Contents dialog.
· Fixed context help for Alignment Override dialog.
· Fixed crash after using "Merge in New View".
· Fixed Legend dialog's background coloring when "Use stripes" option is
· disabled.
· Fixed crash when deleting files that were part of a "Compare Contents"
· command while the comparison was still occurring.
· Folder Sync
· Fixed "Auto Sync" button obscuring the previous sync's summary.
· FTP
· FTPS connections to port 990 now use implicit SSL.
· Fixed support for deleting files on Linksys NSLU2 NAS FTP server.
· Fixed CLNT command to send "Beyond Compare v3.x.x" instead of "Beyond
· v3.x.x".
· Hex Compare
· Fixed crash when loading the comparison.
· Linux
· Added support for "Bypass disk cache during binary comparisons".
· Converting FTP timestamps between UTC and local now uses the offset when
· the timestamp occurs instead of the current offset.
· Removed bcompare.sh's > /dev/null redirection so console messages will be
· printed.
· Fixed appearance of visible tab and space characters.
· Fixed mouse locking when clicking the view thumbnail in file op
· confirmation dialogs.
· Fixed crash when pressing a key after dragging the center splitter in the
· Text Compare.
· Misc
· Customize Commands dialog now supports showing/hiding toolbar comboboxes
· and edits (Sessions, Filename Filters, etc).
· Help->Support dialog now generates a .zip instead of a .bcpkg.
· Added additional workarounds for crashes caused by Cisco VPN software.
· Improved support for mangled registration keys.
· Toolbars now hide automatically if none of the items on them are visible.
· Fixed crash when closing application while help window is open.
· Fixed crashes when opening new views.
· Fixed crash if a window was closed while the session combobox is open.
· MP3 Compare
· "Content type (TCON)" now shows "?" for empty genres.
· Non-fatal errors no longer prevent showing comparison.
· Options
· Changing archive associations now warns that BC must be restarted to use
· them.
· Deleted syntax elements no longer appear in the display options.
· Picture Compare
· Added support for "Replacements" of one color with another.
· Scripting
· Fixed HTML report's WRAP-WORD option.
· Fixed FILE-REPORT and FOLDER-REPORT so they default to wrap-none for HTML
· reports.
· Sessions
· Session Settings dialogs are now resizable.
· Session Settings dialog captions now include session type.
· Changing an auto-saved Folder Compare session's child session settings no
· longer creates a new auto-saved session.
· Fixed persistence of Folder Compare child sessions when their settings
· match the program defaults.
· Source Control
· Fixed "Unable to run the PVCS merge tool" error when displaying comparisons
· from PVCS.
· Fixed support for AlienBrain source control integration.
· Text Views
· Editing files no longer breaks NTFS hard links.
· Fixed "Replace" with line-based selection to switch to character selection
· before replacing.
· Fixed multiline delete from first char on start line to last char on stop
· line so it recalculates coloring.
· Fixed alignment so it matches blank lines with each other instead of
· matching one with a very short line.
· Fixed importance list so it no longer displays deleted syntax elements.
· Fixed crash when editing.
· Text Compare
· Added "Replacement..." command which adds an item to the replacement list
· based on the current difference.
· Added using [Del] and [Ins] to add/remove replacements.
· Text Merge
· "Take Left Then Right"/"Take Right Then Left" now preserves the original
· caret position.
· Fixed support for using /savetarget with a relative path.
· Version Compare
· Added support for displaying version information in BCSS snapshots.
· Non-fatal errors no longer prevent showing comparison.
· - Notable Changes
· - Added "Summary" report layout that matches the "Compare Info" dialogs output,
· replacing the Text Compare's "Descriptive Statistics" report.
· - Fixed CSV statistics report so the IChanged and UChanged values match
· those produced by BC2.
· - Command Line
· - Using /savetarget for a 2-way merge now uses the same exit codes as a
· 3-way merge.
· - Standard edition no longer tries to handle 3-way merge command lines.
· - Fixed new instances not gaining focus if they're started without any
· command line arguments.
· - File Views
· - Tweaked Find dialog's captions for side selection radio buttons.
· - Fixed file info panels so they show "Unknown size" instead of -1 if a
· file's size isn't available.
· - Fixed "Swap Sides" so it switches the active editor/grid/treeview.
· - Folder Compare
· - Added "Select Newer" and "Select Orphans" menu items.
· - Added MRU list for name filter combobox.
· - "Ignored" command now clears the "don't refilter" flag on file comparisons
· that were opened in a file view.
· - Improved error message when a locked .pst file is detected.
· - "Comparison Results" dialog now remembers its size.
· - Fixed initializing the "Copy to folder" dialog's Left/Right radio buttons
· when both sides are selected.
· - Fixed crash when deleting files after closing the "Compare Contents"
· results dialog.
· - Fixed browse button icons after swapping sides.
· - Fixed rename behaving poorly if all of the selected files have the same
· name and the previous rename used regular expressions.
· - Fixed Synchronize Preview dialog's progress label's position.
· - Fixed status bars so they show "Unknown size" instead of -1 if a file's
· size isn't available.
· - Fixed crash when "Automatic Refresh" is active while closing a session.
· - Fixed crash when cancelling an operation while it's still doing a
· preliminary refresh.
· - Fixed out-of-memory error when exiting after extremely large comparisons.
· - Fixed "Swap Sides" so it swaps the focus rectangle and selection anchor's
· side.
· - Fixed folder browse dialog not to show a vertical scrollbar the first time
· it's shown on a scaled display (high-DPI or non-8pt font).
· - Folder Sync
· - Added label displaying statistics from most recent sync.
· - FTP
· - Added additional workarounds for Cisco VPN crashes.
· - Fixed crash when copying between FTP sites after a server-side disconnect
· on the target site.
· - Home View
· - Fixed "Sticky session selection" tweak handling of default session as mru.
· - Linux
· - Fixed reading UTF-8 files where a multi-byte character crossed the end of
· a buffer.
· - Fixed editing symlinks to modify the target file instead of replace the
· symlink.
· - Misc
· - Fixed session combobox so typing characters while it's dropped down will
· jump to the sessions beginning with that name.
· - Fixed "Save As" dialog's behavior when changing the "Files of type"
· combobox.
· - Fixed crash when reading environmental variables.
· - Picture Compare
· - Fixed crash when loading extremely large images.
· - Reports
· - Added "Summary" report layout to all file views other than the Picture
· Compare.
· - Fixed CSV statistics report so the IChanged and UChanged values match
· those produced by BC2. Important lines with unimportant changes are now
· included in the UChanged count instead of the IChanged count.
· - Replaced "Descriptive Statistics" text report with a "Summary" report that
· matches what's shown in the "Compare Info" dialog.
· - The side-by-side Folder Compare report now shows the content comparison
· icons in the center.
· - Monochrome Folder Compare reports now use a hollow/white folder instead of
· the colored icons.
· - Fixed word wrap in printed text reports.
· - Fixed crash when generating a patch report when one of the two files is
· missing the last line ending.
· - Scripting
· - Fixed crash when using "expand " when there are orphan folders on
· the right side.
· - Support for STATS-DESCRIPTIVE text report has been replaced by the new
· SUMMARY report style. Old scripts will log a warning message and use the
· new report.
· - Text Views
· - Fixed "Save File As..." so it updates the window/tab caption.
· - Fixed the editor's "Browse By Find" buttons so they don't ignore clicks.
· - Fixed "Next/Previous Difference" in edit mode with line-based selection.
· - Fixed crash when deleting selection with gap-only sections.
· - Fixed crash when deleting causes text after gap to be combined with text
· before gap.
· - Fixed crash when pasting text and ideal resulting cursor location isn't
· available.
· - Text Compare
· - Improved display of "Replacements" list.
· - Fixed replacements to get applied in more cases
· - Fixed crashes when using replacements.
· - Text Merge
· - "Customize Commands" dialog no longer lists the "Next/Previous Difference
· Files" commands.
· - Fixed "A merge conflict is only different change lines" session setting.
· MP3 Compare: No longer makes a copy of the original file in order to compare non-tag data, fixing out-of-memory error for large files.
Source Control:
· ClearCase -directory switch now reads the folder names from the DDIFF files if they aren't passed on the command line.
· Fixed support for handling ClearCase Remote Client command lines.
· Fixed ClearCase -directory comparisons failing to load if an existing instance is running.
Command Line:
· Fixed "Quick Compare" dialog to gain focus when launched from Explorer while a comparison is already open.
· The program's error code is now set to 104 if it can't run because of an expired trial period.
· The trial's nag dialogs are no longer shown when using /qc, /automerge, or
· scripting.
Data Compare:
· Fixed crash when scrolling horizontally while the splitter isn't in the center of the view.
· Fixed crash when comparing files with only empty lines.
Folder Compare:
· Added "Comparison Results" dialog after a "Compare Contents" operation.
· Added "Update Both" command to "Synchronize" submenu.
· Added images to "Comparison Info" dialog's treeview.
· "Next/Previous Difference" no longer follows the file view's "Limit "Next Difference Files" to current folder" option.
· Fixed height of "Legend" dialog.
· Fixed "Target file already exists" error when changing the case of a filename containing accented characters.
· Fixed "Target filename too long" error when renaming files on some USB flash drives.
· Fixed crash when rapidly cycling through file comparisons using "Next Difference Files".
Folder Sync:
· Pre-sync confirmation step no longer refreshes file information, eliminating the lengthy "Refreshing..." step on slow network connections.
FTP:
· Fixed support for FTP servers that incorrectly claim to support UTF-8 (Pure-FTPd).
· Fixed support for file sizes on VMS servers.
· Hex Compare: Fixed error handling when reading from corrupt media.
Home View:
· Changing a Text Merge session's "Output file" path no longer prompts to save the output.
· Fixed "Auto-saved sessions" incorrectly grouping all sessions under "More than 6 days ago".
Misc:
· Added workaround for a bug in the Cisco VPN driver that causes "illegal floating point operation" crashes.
· Elapsed time is now broken down into a combination of days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
· Auto-updating a portable install no longer extracts the shell extensions.
· Auto-updating a portable install no longer modifies the registry.
· About dialog no longer shows "Pro Edition" if it's opened after registering with a standard edition key and not restarting.
· Fixed non-editable comboboxes only to display hints when they are necessary.
· Fixed incompatibility with Cottonwood Software's File-Ex open/save as dialog extender.
· Fixed menu position of shortcut text when the shortcut contains '&'.
· Fixed keyboard shortcuts using international keyboards and extended characters.
· Fixed various treeviews so they use themed expand/collapse buttons.
· Options: Fixed support for font names containing international characters.
Picture Compare:
· Fixed error handling of invalid TGA images.
· Fixed crash when using "Binary Operation Mode" to view orphan files.
Reports:
· Fixed crash when rapidly changing pages in the Print Preview dialog.
· Fixed crash when generating a file compare report of files with custom grammar items.
Scripting:
· File operations no longer refresh file information during the confirmation step, eliminating the lengthy "Refreshing..." step on slow network connections.
· When unregistered, the scripting window now displays the trial period remaining in its caption.
· Source Control: Added support for ClearCase -directory command line switch.
Text Views:
· "Lines" grammar item now allows 0 trailing lines.
· Fixed crash when Ctrl + Double Clicking on the text area of the editor with a pre-existing line selection.
· Fixed crash when saving files.
· Fixed crash when showing Find dialog before any lines of the comparison are visible.
· Text Compare: Changed "Replacement Item" dialog's "Left is source" checkbox into a "Side" radio group.
· File views now follow font style (bold, italic) for default text.
· Fixed Copy/Move To Folder crash (introduced in 3.0.5).
· Added support for /filters= and /expandall command line arguments.
· Folder Compare - Fixed enabling "Copy to Other Side", "Move to Other Side".
· Home View - Added "Sticky session selection" tweak that changes the Session treeview so it auto-selects the last item opened from it instead of the last session closed.
· Tweaked Tweaks dialog layout.
· Reports - Fixed crash when performing a Print Preview.
· Fixed "Save As" (broken in 3.0.3).
· Added Find "Select All" when not in full edit mode.
· Fixed enabling "Copy to Other Side", "Copy Line to Other Side".
· Folder Compare: Various operations are now disabled when comparing a folder to itself.
· Fixed crash during "Refreshing..." stage of a folder sync when an orphaned
· file/folder was deleted externally before the sync.
· Fixed crash when cancelling a folder sync before it started copying/deleting files.
· FTP: Added support for "HOST" command, per draft spec.
· Installer now writes ExePath and Version info to registry instead of BCompare.exe so it doesn't get written for portable installs.
· Fixed "Automatically save messages to file" log option to browse using save dialog instead of open dialog.
· Fixed FILE-REPORT command with a pair of files incorrectly flagging all text as unimportant.
· Fixed support for Team Foundation's Source Control integration.
· Fixed support for CS-RCS's Source Control integration.
· Fixed encoding auto-detection on Windows XP and earlier.
· Fixed "Replace All" when last line with replacements has multiple matches.
· Fixed "Find" when not in full edit mode.
· Fixed crash when copying text.
· Notable Changes
· Added "Just Selection" checkbox to "Sync Preview" dialog to control whether a sync affects the selection or the entire comparison.
· Command Line
· Fixed behavior when rapidly opening multiple comparisons from the command line.
· File Views
· Added captions to "Next/Previous Difference Files" toolbar buttons.
· Folder Compare
· Added "Just Selection" checkbox to "Sync Preview" dialog to control whether a sync affects the selection or the entire comparison.
· Completed file operation panels with errors are now cleared when starting a new file operation.
· Added "Update Left/Right" to toolbar by default.
· Removed "Sync In New View" from menu by default.
· Improved hints for "Update/Mirror Left/Right" commands.
· Moved "Update/Mirror" commands in "Actions" menu and on toolbar.
· Removed "Synchronize" menu from right-click menu.
· Fixed crash when using "Compare To"/"Align With", and clicking on the second item and pressing space at the same time.
· Fixed crash at the end of file operations that encounter errors on WinXP with themes enabled and a font other than Tahoma 8pt.
· Fixed crash when closing a file op confirmation dialog while it's building a comparison.
· Fixed "Compare In New View" crash when a 2 folders and a blank space are selected.
· Improved error handling if an external conversion fails.
· Fixed crash in "Browse for Folder" dialog when both tabs have been edited.
· Fixed crash when performing background content comparisons involve external conversions or FTP sites.
· "Copy to Folder" and "Move to Folder" now share MRU lists.
· Changing between Active & Passive FTP transfers now takes effect immediately.
· Fixed extra invalid folders appearing when using MLSD.
· Fixed crash when opening FTP Profiles dialog in non-Pro mode.
· Fixed SFTP ASCII transfers of large text files inserting #0 characters when transferring to servers that only support SFTP-3 and earlier.
· Fixed crash when copy files from FTP servers while background content comparisons are active.
· Added Readme.txt to install folder.
· .bcss files are now associated with Beyond Compare 3.
· Changed "Copy/Move To Side" handling in "Customize Commands" dialog to allow showing commands for copy in both directions at the same time.
· Fixed registered versions always being considered pro-edition.
· Fixed errors when starting on Windows 95.
· Replaced build number with Subversion revision.
· Text Views: Fixed Unicode byte-order-mark behavior so it isn't added to files when it shouldn't be.
· Command Line
· Added support for replacing TortoiseSVN's TortoiseIDiff.exe with BComp.exefor image comparisons.
· File Views
· Removed "Dropdown" display filter mode from views that don't need it.
· Fixed responsiveness when closing a comparison of files on slow remote servers.
· Fixed loading a workspace with unsaved file session views.
· Folder Compare
· Fixed "Empty Folders" tip appearing at inappropriate times.
· Fixed error when copying files in orphan folders.
· Fixed crash when using a file filter ending with "...".
· Fixed crash when trying to load an unavailable drive.
· Fixed sluggishness when using "Expand/Collapse All" on large trees.
· Fixed sluggishness when performing content comparisons.
· Fixed freeze when using "Full Refresh" or changing between sessions.
· Fixed sluggishness when moving around in a folder comparison with 10,000 files visible.
· Fixed crash when comparing extremely large folders or using "Ignore Folder Structure".
· Fixed freezing when performing file operations on large folder structures with "Ignore Folder Structure" active.
· Fixed file operation progress panel not closing when cancelling in a confirmation dialog.
· Fixed crashes when trying to show the Explorer submenu with poorly behaved shell extensions.
· Fixed logging and error display when cancelling multiple file operations because of a connection failure.
· Fixed crash during hint processing.
· Folder Sync
· Added support for alignment overrides and file format enabled overrides.
· Sync "Actions" are now in the same order as they were in BC2.
· FTP
· Fixed crash when unable to connect to an FTP server while performing multiple operations.
· Linux
· Fixed crash when exporting a subset of the file formats, ftp profiles, or sessions.
· Fixed various issues when importing/exporting settings.
· Fixed ClearCase-compatible exit codes when an existing instance is open.
· Fixed premature deletion of temp files when starting a second instance.
· Misc
· Improved ability to customize display filter toolbar buttons.
· Double-clicking past the end of the view tab control now adds a new "Home" tab.
· Added 32-bit 16x16 Vista icons to Explorer context menu.
· Removed check for frozen main thread because of too many false positives.
· Viewers are now disabled when waiting for an "Open With" application to finish.
· Fixed progress reporting and cancellability when saving a snapshot.
· Fixed crash when rapidly clicking toolbar buttons twice.
· Fixed 256-color application icon.
· Picture Compare
· Fixed crash when trying to load invalid .png files.
· Scripting
· Fixed crash when using "folder-report" command with custom columns.
· Fixed generating snapshot filenames for drive roots.
· Text Views
· Fixed "Toggle Bookmark" not to be allowed if there aren't any lines visible.
· Text Merge
· Fixed crash when editing output panel in non-debug build.
· Fixed accessing zip/tar/gzip/cab archives with paths containing non-ASCII characters.
· Fixed downloading a file unnecessarily refreshing the target directory.
· Fixed "Touch local files when copying to an FTP site" when copying more than one file.
· Fixed performing file operations on unbuilt filtered folders with "Suppress Filters" active.
· Fixed support for ASCII transfers on SFTP-3 and earlier.
· Fixed selecting SFTP compression/encryption algorithms on badly behaved SSH servers.
· Changed "Export" save dialog's "Save as type" list ordering.
· Added "Settings files" to "Import" open dialog's "Files of type" list.
· Tweaked Export's automatically chosen filename.
· Fixed "Import" to support BC2 settings files that don't include sessions.
· Fixed importing BC2 preferences so they take effect immediately.
· Updated help.
· Added "milliseconds to wait before hiding help hint" tweak.
· Fixed PNG support for some transparent images.
· Reports now save images as PNGs instead of bitmaps to support transparency.
· "XML Dump" reports now include encoding declarations.
· Added "Lines" grammar item to support page headings.
· Fixed alignment omitting second to last line of the comparison under certain conditions.
· Fixed using "wrap-word" script option for folder comparison reports.
· Fixed files with identical filenames occasionally misaligning.
· Fixed crash when using Search->Next Difference In Line menu item in an empty file comparison.
· Fixed color picker dropdown's position on multi-monitor systems.
· Fixed XML reports so they include encoding declarations.
· Fixed calender control not showing the column for Saturday on Vista.
· Streamlined folder synchronization
· Comparisons between differing folder structures
· Full-screen editor with dynamic re-comparisons
· Grammar-based comparison rules
· Syntax highlighting
· Unicode filename support
· Expanded Session concept
· 3-way text merge
· Streamlined folder synchronization
· Comparisons between differing folder structures
· Full-screen editor with dynamic re-comparisons
· Grammar-based comparison rules
· Syntax highlighting
· Unicode filename support
· Built-in support for secure FTP protocols (SFTP)
· Fixed one file viewer pane showing one less line of text than the other one (again).
· Fixed script with explicit ftp login storing password in log file.
· BC initialized to use default printer, rather than remembering printer selection between runs.
· Fixed comparing against disconnected mapped network drives to prompt for username/password and reconnect.
· Improved text viewer comparison speed when com[aring files on slow network rives.
· Fixed crash when retrieving hint text for some Explorer context menu extensions.
· Fixed file viewer not detecting external changes when a file was modified by another text compare window in the same instance of BC.
· Fixed one file viewer pane showing one less line of text than the other one.
· Fixed text compare's "Save" command and prompts to save changes being disabled after cancelling out of a save prompt.
· Fixed support for a, , e, f,
· ,
, , and v metacharacters in the replacement text for a regular expression search and replace.
· Fixed script error when performing a FILE-REPORT scripting command with no files selected.
· Fixed several Vista compatibility issues.
· Fixed tip dialogs not appearing.
· Fixed crash when performing a rules-based quick comparison of files with lines longer than 64KB that contain umimportant text.
· Fixed crash when performing a rules-based quick comparison of a 0-byte file against a file that starts with at least 50 lines of unimportant text.
· Fixed crash when the file viewer repaints while saving a large file.
· Fixed "Detect partial file locks" option.
· Added "Save Password" checkbox to FTP browse dialog.
· Improved error handling for source control operations.
· Added support for Borland Developer Studio integration.
· Enhanced support for installing as an unpriviledged user.
· Other minor bugfixes and enhancements.
· Fixed crash during binary/rules-based comparison (broken in 2.4.2).
· Fixed zip files within zip files not displaying their sizes (broken in 2.4.2).
· Fixed support for connecting to FTP sites with underscores in their names.
· maintenance upgrade
· maintenance upgrade
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