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ECMerge Pro Changelog

What's new in ECMerge Pro 2.5 Build 207

Aug 16, 2020
  • Fixed bug n°490: on certain special characters with Unicode encoding enabled, Xtract could fail the extraction of text in RTF files

New in ECMerge Pro 2.5 Build 204 (Dec 3, 2015)

  • General:
  • Added partial Russian translation
  • Fixed bug n°486: on huge images, ECMerge may crash while comparing
  • Fixed bug n°487: when regular expression replacement ends with anti-slash, ECMerge hangs
  • Windows:
  • Fixed bug n°488: the exclamation point key might be ignored in some situations

New in ECMerge Pro 2.5 Build 203 (Apr 7, 2015)

  • Fixed bug n°484: redirection to asynchronous pipes of ECMerge output could fail for huge files

New in ECMerge Pro 2.5 Build 201 (Apr 7, 2015)

  • Fixed bug n°482: A bug in German translation file could prevent ECMerge from saving template and status files

New in ECMerge Pro 2.5 Build 200 (Apr 7, 2015)

  • Fixed bug n°481: when a MS Office or OpenOffice file has a file name with accented characters, it might be left unconverted by Xtract

New in ECMerge Pro 2.5 Build 199 (Apr 7, 2015)

  • Fixed bug n°480: ECMerge may not run on Windows XP because of erroneous syntax in DPI awareness manifest

New in ECMerge Pro 2.5 Build 198 (Apr 7, 2015)

  • General:
  • Added support for Git over ssh (via ssh or PuTTY), on bare Windows we could get PuTTY to work and ssh to work in Linux/Mac OS X. The plug-in expects UTF-8 encoding for the accented file names in the Git repository.
  • Solaris 10 last build will be 2.5.196 for ECMerge 2.5, we don't plan to support Solaris for ECMerge 3.0, if you absolutely need ECMerge on Solaris, please contact us.
  • Windows:
  • A 64 build is now available, although not rebuilt every time, drop us an email if you need the 64 bit build
  • ECMerge is not yet fully DPI aware, so flagged it as not DPI aware at all to avoid wrong display

New in ECMerge Pro 2.5 Build 195 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • General:
  • Fixed bug 473: navigating with TAB in some options pages could crash ECMerge
  • Integration:
  • Added OEM integration feature, OEM can now use serial numbers working only with their respective version of ECMerge
  • Text Converter:
  • Fixed bug 472: Xtract might crash on invalid .doc file
  • Unixes:
  • Improvement: ECMerge can now be called on all platforms as ecmerge.exe and ecmerge-cli.exe (once the installation path is known)

New in ECMerge Pro 2.5 Build 184 (Oct 2, 2012)

  • General:
  • Fixed bugs 457 and 459, importing old binary types or creating new file types may crash ECMerge in rare condition
  • Folders:
  • Improved comparisons scheduling performance when thousands of comparison needs to be scheduled at once

New in ECMerge Pro 2.5 Build 180 (Oct 1, 2012)

  • A new fly by menu and toolbar is displayed when hovering conflicts, so that you can solve a conflict without having to first click or select it. Most common actions are proposed, the menu contains all the actions as well.
  • The Check updates menu sending to the website was replaced by a dialog box with automatic detection of newer versions, proposing in priority the free upgrades in your user account.
  • Keep orphans / Remove orphans actions are now supported (in 2 way only as it makes sense only in this case) by considering as orphans the lines present in a insertion/deletion conflict.
  • In addition to FTP/S, the Secure Shell FTP protocol (aka SFTP) is also supported. You can connect using password, private key or ssh-agent/pageant.
  • The connection box was extended and can now show the connection log in case of error.
  • ECMerge ActiveX now exists as 32 and 64 bits
  • Support was added for "Secure for scripting", this is done by disabling all scripting until a host constrained / DSA secured serial number or license package was provided.

New in ECMerge Pro 2.4 Build 158 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed bug n°424: when folders are not supported by protocol handler (simple HTTP), filtering does not work
  • Fixed bug n°428: resolving should not be blocked by a missing source
  • Fixed bug n°429: read_number function with on offset out of range might crash for a file in memory
  • Fixed bug n°432: searching inside differences might crash for text and binary views
  • Fixed bug n°433: when missing source folder is created as the result of output operations, result is OK but UI fails to show it
  • Fixed bug n°434: when a match is found, binary diff fails to resynchronize correctly other views
  • ActiveX:
  • It is now possible to gain access to a Document object created inside ECMerge scripting engine (as a FHAxMergeDocument object), as well as a SourceDescription (as a FHAxMergeSource object)
  • It is now possible to set options which expects a SourceDescription directly from the options() member. Use an FHAxMergeSource to do so.

New in ECMerge Pro 2.4 Build 156 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed bug n°415: when copying small files, progression might not be reported correctly
  • Fixed bug n°417: comparison of archives as binary might trigger decompression
  • Fixed bug n°418: Could not generate reports in text format for Polish
  • Fixed bug n°419: when opening a ZIP as a folder comparison from another folder comparison, the ZIP might be uncompressed several times
  • Fixed bug n°420: on Windows Vista and 7, shell extension might work only during the session of installation and stop working when logging again
  • Fixed bug n°422: small glitches when drawing collapsed region exactly aligned with display lines
  • Fixed bug n°423: Cursor might not show at first position in second column of binary views

New in ECMerge Pro 2.4 Build 155 (Oct 1, 2011)

  • General:
  • Toolbars icons now available in small and large size
  • Most text or combo fields with available validity tests are now automatically colored in red when they do not comply (e.g. regular expressions, patterns...)
  • Changed the name of executable on Windows to "ecmerge.exe" and "ecmerge-cli.exe", so that "ecmerge" name is used as well on Windows as on Unixes
  • Improved ECMerge icon for high resolutions on Windows and Mac OS X
  • Text Edition and Merging:
  • Improved find/replace function to avoid cycling in the document
  • Added many default file types to ignore easily comments (ADA, Bash, Batch, C/C++, COBOL, ColdFusion, Delphi, HTML, INI, InnoSetup, PO, PHP, SmallTalk, SQL...)
  • Binary Comparisons:
  • Ellié Computing Merge now displays binary documents and comparisons
  • Define specific binary file types based on file name patterns, in which you will be able to specify static or dynamic fields to ignore (timestamps, random blocks, comments initialized by production software...)
  • Generate accurate comparison statistics on Binary Comparisons
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed bug n°387: truncated icon labels
  • Fixed bug n°390: FTP failed login might query repetitively for user/pwd
  • Fixed bug n°392: ‘open’ menu item in Launcher would not always work
  • Fixed bug n°396: equality test and file copy could be slow on local network with high lag.
  • Fixed bug n°401: progression could go mad with copy larger than 4GB
  • Fixed bug n°412: crash when using empty filter inside lines AND checking "use lines filter to ignore"

New in ECMerge Pro 2.3 Build 118 (Oct 6, 2010)

  • General:
  • The menus were reorganized to be more rational and make actions easier to find
  • The Launcher now have a Site section in which you can store the settings for your FTP and SCC sites
  • A problem submitter box was added which let you submit a ticket in our support ticket interface easily
  • The status bar now displays the colours legend together with the statistics
  • Files types and converters which are hidden by the pattern of other file types and converters are displayed in red in the list, so that you immediately see that they are not activated, the hiding patterns are displayed in blue.
  • A new Open Conflict File menu item let you open conflict files generated by CVS, SVN, Perforce, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and ECMerge itself. It allows you to solve those conflicts easily, from the contextual menu of the file explorer of your system as well as from within ECMerge.
  • The Windows 95, 98, Me, Nt and 2000 platforms are not supported any more.
  • Reports:
  • A button is available in HTML and XML export dialog box to reach immediately Reports option in the session.
  • Added a button to browse for the CSS
  • Folders:
  • When "Scan sub-folders" button is depressed, collapsing folders unschedules comparison. It lets you "pause" comparison for those folders.
  • Images:
  • Two modal buttons were added in the toolbar, you can choose between "Move image on screen" and "Change images alignment"
  • The differentiation mode called "Blank similar" was renamed "Mask similarities"
  • Support for loading TGA files

New in ECMerge Pro 2.2.111 (Mar 23, 2010)

  • This version adds Darcs, Git and Bazaar to supported VCS, more options to quickly merge conflicts inside lines and fixes several bugs about Xtract, scripting, patch application, source code control browsing and more.

New in ECMerge Pro 2.2.110 (Jan 29, 2010)

  • Fixes several bugs related to patch application and source code control browsing.

New in ECMerge Pro 2.2.109 (Jan 8, 2010)

  • Adds the capability to ignore specific portions of lines of text (fixed columns or regular expressions), fixes several bugs including crashes and adds file date alteration features to folders right click menu and scripting.

New in ECMerge Pro 2.2.108 (Dec 14, 2009)

  • This version fixes several bugs, in particular on Mac OS X, it converts the non-recursive listing mode into a mask of exclusion of sub-folders.

New in ECMerge Pro 2.2.107 (Dec 3, 2009)

  • This version fixes several bugs about command line, scripting, translations, potential freeze and other parts of the application.

New in ECMerge Pro 2.2.106 (Dec 3, 2009)

  • This version fixes various bugs, adds minor features and replaces the evaluation with serial number with an automatic system limiting evaluation to 30 usage days.

New in ECMerge Pro 2.2.104 (Jun 4, 2009)

  • fixes several bugs and improves on efficiency of file copies and folder merges.

New in ECMerge Pro 2.2.103 (Apr 22, 2009)

  • Added file types (to ignore specific lines), added launcher, automatic sessions and workspaces, added Xtract converter for MS Word (6 to latest), OpenOffice Writer and RTF, ZIP comparison, scripting in contextual menus, folder view improvements

New in ECMerge Pro 2.1 build 81 (Sep 25, 2008)

  • Version 2.1 build 81
  • New in the user interface
  • Search and replace using Regular Expressions
  • Improved command line
  • Macros and configurable keyboard shortcuts (key bindings)
  • ECMAScript engine
  • Accessing configurations from many SCC and check-out

New in ECMerge Pro 2.0 build 50 (Nov 17, 2006)

  • FTP sites synchronization, images comparisons, wrap long lines, merge at inline level, optional case sensitive file name association, new user interface

New in ECMerge Pro 1.2 (May 31, 2006)

  • new major features (reports generation into Patch/XML/HTML format
  • multi-threading
  • customizable converters
  • file filters by date in folders comparisons)
  • fixed various bugs
  • improved folder comparison view and merge