ECMerge Standard Changelog

What's new in ECMerge Standard 2.5 Build 204

Apr 12, 2016
  • 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 Standard 2.5 Build 203 (Apr 12, 2016)

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

New in ECMerge Standard 2.5 Build 201 (Apr 12, 2016)

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

New in ECMerge Standard 2.5 Build 200 (Apr 12, 2016)

  • 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 Standard 2.5 Build 199 (Apr 12, 2016)

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

New in ECMerge Standard 2.5 Build 198 (Apr 12, 2016)

  • 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 Standard 2.5 Build 195 (Apr 12, 2016)

  • 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 Standard 2.5 Build 184 (Apr 12, 2016)

  • 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 Standard 2.5 Build 180 (Apr 12, 2016)

  • 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 Standard 2.4 Build 158 (Apr 12, 2016)

  • 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.