What's new in HashTools 4.8
Sep 5, 2023
- Note: This is the last version of HashTools that will install and run on Windows 7/8
- Change: Added an option to show only failed hash comparisons
- Change: Added a filter box
- Change: md5 and sfv files are automatically excluded when adding a folder
- Fix: Now supports Linux style md5 files (e.g. " ")
New in HashTools 4.7.1 (Apr 25, 2023)
- Resolved minor UI issues
- Installer updates
New in HashTools 4.7 (Apr 12, 2023)
- Change: New code signing certificate
- Change: Upgraded to .NET 7 (OS support is now Win 10 1607 and higher)
- Change: Win 7, Win 8/8.1, and Win 10 versions lower than 1607 are no longer supported (HashTools will still install but use at your own risk)
- Change: Performance and UI improvements
New in HashTools 4.6 (Sep 23, 2022)
- Fix: Resolved an issue that sometimes prevented HashTools from opening multiple files from Explorer
- Fix: Resolved a few UI glitches
New in HashTools 4.5.1 (Mar 30, 2022)
- Change: Improved x86 support
New in HashTools 4.5 (Mar 22, 2022)
- Change: Upgraded to .NET 6 framework (OS support is now Win7-SP1 and higher except these versions of Windows which are not able to run .NET 6: 8.0, Win10-1507(RTM), Win10-1511)
- Change: Added a dark mode theme
- Change: Other UI updates and fixes
New in HashTools 4.4 (Dec 15, 2021)
New in HashTools 4.3 (Nov 26, 2019)
- Change: Added anonymized telemetry for crashes (you can disable this with an Advanced Setting)
- Change: General improvements and changes
- Fix: Resolved an issue with the single-instance handler
New in HashTools 4.2 (Jun 13, 2019)
- Change: You can now search for the file's hash on VirusTotal via the right-click menu
- Change: Whitespace and line breaks are now scrubbed when pasting Compare Hash from the clipboard
- Change: Added more detailed tooltips when hovering over files in the list
- Fix: When installing with /VERYSILENT, the context menu dialog box no longer shows
- Change: General improvements and changes
New in HashTools 4.1 (Oct 11, 2017)
- Notice: HashTools no longer supports Windows XP or Vista
- Change: New icons
- Change: New automatic updater
- Change: General improvements and changes
New in HashTools 4.0 (Aug 10, 2017)
- Change: Added an option to generate .hash files automatically (.md5, .sha1... etc)
- Change: Added the ability to copy filenames to the clipboard
- Change: Added retries for when a file is in use by another process
- Change: Highlighting improvements (new icons, new colours)
- Change: No longer stops checking an SFV if a file is missing
- Change: General improvements and changes
- Change: Major changes to support multi-DPI scaling in Windows 10
- Change: Improved Windows 10 compatibility (Anniversary and Creators updates)
New in HashTools 3.1 (Aug 12, 2016)
- Change: Now targeting the .NET Framework 4.0, which will automatically install during setup if needed
- Change: The "compare to hash" is now trimmed when being pasted in
- Change: Added a new context menu entry, "Set Compare Hash from Clipboard"
- Change: Columns now autosize to fit the contents automatically
- Change: General performance and stability improvements
New in HashTools 3.0.3 (Mar 13, 2016)
- Change: Updater improvements
- Change: General performance and stability improvements
- Change: Code signing now uses SHA256 for compatibility with future Windows Updates
- Change: Added an "Our Apps" tab to the settings window with details about other great Binary Fortress apps (you can disable this tab in the Advanced Settings if you don't want it)
New in HashTools 3.0.2 (Dec 18, 2015)
- Changed: General performance and stability improvements
- Fix: Resolved a few installer issues
New in HashTools 3.0.1 (Apr 16, 2015)
- Fix: Files can now be dragged/dropped onto the HashTools window
New in HashTools 3.0 (Apr 16, 2015)
- Changed: Improved update notification
- Changed: General performance and stability improvements
New in HashTools 2.2.0 (Jan 16, 2011)
- Changed: Improved update notification
- Changed: Added an icon to represent the hash comparision result (grey/green/red)
- Changed: Multiple file loading from the context menu now works as expected on slower machines
New in HashTools 2.1.0 (Dec 10, 2010)
- Changed: Added an update check notification
- Changed: Added a second progress bar to indicate total progress, not just file progress
- Changed: In Windows 7 the taskbar button now shows the total progress
- Changed: Hashes are now compared when manually setting a "compare hash", not just after hashing
- Fixed: Multiple instance detection now works much better
New in HashTools 2.0.1 (Dec 10, 2010)
- Changed: HashTools is now a single-instance application, meaning anytime you click "Hash with HashTools" it will add the file(s) to the already running instance of HashTools
- Changed: You can now manually add a hash to compare by right-clicking a file in the list and selected "Set Compare Hash"
- Changed: The default folder for an SFV file is now the common root of the files in the list
- Fixed: No more interface flicker when resizing and scrolling the file list
- Fixed: CRC32 hashes for 0 length files are now correct
New in HashTools 2.0.0 (Dec 10, 2010)
- Changed: Completely new interface
- Changed: Can generate and check hashes for multiple files and folders (with sub-folders)
- Changed: Can now read and process SFV files
- Changed: Can now create an SFV file for your selected files
- Fixed: Couldn't cancel CRC32 hash generation
- Fixed: Various interface glitches
New in HashTools 1.3.1 (Feb 5, 2010)
- Changed: Expanded the main window buttons to make the interface less cramped
- Changed: Installer can now create desktop icon and Windows context menu entries
- Fixed: “Add/Remove Context Menu Items” now works correctly in Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Fixed: Installer now removes Windows context menu entries during uninstall
New in HashTools 1.3.0 (Apr 6, 2009)
- This release adds support for CRC32 checksum generation. I also added support for AutoCRC, something Microsoft uses when generating CRC32 checksums for their ISO images. When an AutoCRC value is present in an ISO, the CRC32 checksum will always return 0xffffffff. HashTools will let you know when the AutoCRC value is present so that you know it’s a good checksum value, and not an error in the file. I would encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of the new functionality.
New in HashTools 1.2.0 (Mar 9, 2009)
- Changed: Now looks for hash in “filename.ext.hash”, not “filename.hash” (ex: MyFile.iso.sha1 for a SHA1 hash)
- Changed: Updated icons to make it consistent with other Binary Fortres Software applications
- Changed: Replaced the hash comparing message boxes by changing the textbox background colour instead (more subtle, less intrusive)
- Fixed: Properly stops hashing if the application is closed before hashing has completed