What's new in UltraCompare Professional 22.20.0.22

May 25, 2022
  • Binary compare improvements:
  • Hex offset support:
  • Set hex offsets per frame to compare or ignore different areas of binary data
  • Right-click on any byte to set beginning and ending offsets per-pane
  • New session properties for offsets
  • Configure number of bytes per line
  • Folder compare improvements:
  • Sort folder lists by file type / extension
  • Sort indicators for column headings
  • Text compare improvements:
  • New UltraEdit-style Quick Find
  • Ignore spaces and tabs separately
  • Active line window can always show paired lines
  • Table compare improvements:
  • New option to ignore whitespace
  • Git improvements:
  • Optionally show conflicts / modified files at top of branch browser
  • Optionally hide remote branches in branch browser
  • Better visual indication of background Git interactions
  • Improved aesthetics for Git reviews and compares
  • Command line and output improvements:
  • Support for multiple ignore option flags for text mode
  • New -ignt switch to "ignore timestamp differences" for folder mode
  • Added support for -ne, -m, and -a switches for folder mode
  • New switches for setting output format:
  • -ofa will use "All frames" result format
  • -ofc will use "Difference in context" format
  • -ofo will use "One frame only" format
  • -ofs will use "Side by side" format
  • Note: These switches must be ordered after file/folder paths used for comparison
  • Generate HTML result report from command line (add .html extension to output file)
  • Difference indicators for folder mode result report:
  • * = file is different between folders
  • < = file exists in the left pane's folder only
  • > = file exists in the right pane's folder only
  • Other improvements:
  • See active / total number of differences in status bar for text, binary, and table modes
  • Support for Ctrl + mouse wheel to zoom in / out
  • New print option to set printed font size
  • Several issues resolved

New in UltraCompare Professional 22.10.0.3 (Jan 21, 2022)

  • Performance and visual improvements for text mode merge
  • Improved responsiveness of merge controls
  • Optimized navigation of large files when compare is still processing
  • Improved accuracy of differences map
  • Visual improvements for table mode column and row headers
  • Automatic correction of mixed or incorrect line terminators on paste
  • Improved handling of externally modified MS Word document
  • Addressed isolated folder mode crash
  • Addressed issues copying selected text in "Diffs only" view
  • Addressed issue merging last difference in files
  • Addressed issue with "Next diff" button not working properly
  • Addressed copy/paste issues in third pain of 3-way text mode
  • Other minor issues addressed

New in UltraCompare Professional 22.00.0.8 (Nov 18, 2021)

  • Lightning fast text merge results
  • Re-engineered text merge to provide instant merge
  • Eliminated compare / pane refresh after merge
  • Various other minor merge improvements to provide better user experience
  • New merge settings in Settings » Merge
  • Separate "prompt on merge" settings for text and folder mode
  • More granular settings for folder and text modes
  • Various theme and difference color improvements
  • Scrollable map sizing improvements
  • Force refresh for folder mode (Shift + F5)
  • Theme improvements:
  • Added three new dark color themes: Studio Dark, One Dark, Predawn
  • Set Studio Dark as default theme
  • Improvements for text mode colors
  • Key mapping for Find Next / Find Previous
  • Support for ignoring files or folders with spaces in name
  • Updated FTP component
  • Improvements for selecting items in 3-way folder compare
  • Other minor improvements

New in UltraCompare Professional 21.10.0.18 (May 26, 2021)

  • Greatly improved encoding detection and UTF-8 support
  • More accurate auto-detection and display of multi-byte ANSI formats
  • Improved UTF-8 detection and display
  • New encoding drop down allows you to change detected encoding for compared file(s)
  • Configure default encoding / code page
  • New config options for default encoding settings (Settings » Compare » Text » Encoding)
  • New config options for merge (Settings » Compare » Text » Merge)
  • Special JSON and Markdown highlighting support
  • Improved handling and accuracy of large text file compares
  • Added support for updated SFTP cipher/crypto algorithms
  • Performance improvements for Find Duplicates on FTP servers
  • Other minor improvements

New in UltraCompare Professional 21.10.0.10 (Mar 5, 2021)

  • Optimized memory management to minimize system resources usage and increase performance
  • Improved display and performance of text mode merge buttons
  • Improvements for "Differences only" display mode
  • Improved handling of large compressed archive compares
  • Improved FTP / remote folder compares
  • Improved difference marking with word wrap
  • Ability to edit Git conflict resolution result file in-pane
  • Improvements for launching UltraCompare from UltraEdit / UEStudio
  • Impovements for saving merged changes
  • Improvements for merging and saving changes to FTP files
  • Miscellaneous improvements for UTF-8 data handling
  • Improved PDF compare
  • Improved display of HTML results file
  • Miscellaneous improvements to increase application stability and reliability

New in UltraCompare Professional 21.00.0.34 (Dec 8, 2020)

  • Greatly improved encoding detection and UTF-8 support
  • More accurate auto-detection and display of multi-byte ANSI formats
  • Improved UTF-8 detection and display
  • New encoding drop down allows you to change detected encoding for compared file(s)
  • Configure default encoding / code page
  • New config options for default encoding settings (Settings » Compare » Text » Encoding)
  • New config options for merge (Settings » Compare » Text » Merge)
  • Special JSON and Markdown highlighting support
  • Improved handling and accuracy of large text file compares
  • Added support for updated SFTP cipher/crypto algorithms
  • Performance improvements for Find Duplicates on FTP servers
  • Other minor improvements

New in UltraCompare Professional 20.10.0.20 (Jun 19, 2020)

  • Git conflict resolution mode:
  • Easily resolve conflicts in new mode
  • Select lines to keep – local, remote, or both
  • See result in bottom pane before saving manual merge changes
  • Optionally finish commit after all conflicts are resolved
  • Git version diff mode
  • Visually diff any two versions of a file from a Git repository
  • Diff working copy, index/staged, branch tip, or a previous commit
  • Shows Git blame info in tooltip for differences
  • New Git ribbon:
  • "Show" group to toggle Git-specific dockable windows
  • "Repository" group to add, hide, and refresh repositories
  • "Branch" group to toggle review mode
  • "File" group to blame, compare versions, and diff or resolve conflicts
  • "Repositories" window
  • Shows all repositories on system
  • Lists all local and remote branches for active repository
  • Git icon color reflects repository state
  • See active (HEAD) branch
  • Browse other (non-active) branches
  • Resolve conflicts or launch version compare
  • "Branch browser" window:
  • See and browse files within repository's active branch
  • Git icon color reflects working directory state
  • Sort files by Git status
  • Diff, blame, copy file path, more
  • Optionally show modified / conflict files only
  • Resolve conflicts or launch version compare
  • "Conflicts" window:
  • See files in conflict state from active repository
  • Launch Git merge mode to manually resolve conflicts
  • Take all from local / remote
  • Launch diff or open blame log
  • Git status overlays in "Explorer" tab of Workspace Manager, with Git context menu
  • Improved and automated Git mergetool / difftool integration with UC
  • New Git configuration options
  • Automatic scanning for Git repositories, with "ignore folder" options in configuration

New in UltraCompare Professional 20.10.0.10 (Apr 2, 2020)

  • Improved accuracy of ASCII search in binary mode
  • Double-clicking Excel files in folder mode now opens them in table mode
  • Enhancements and improvements to ribbon customizations
  • Other minor improvements and enhancements
  • Git enhancements:
  • Blame tooltips include commit message
  • Full file name shown in file tab for merge mode
  • Command line enhancements:
  • Generate HTML report (append .html to output file name)
  • Disable recursive mode for folder compare via -nonrec
  • Expanded support for text ignore options:
  • -ignb "STRING" to ignore lines starting with "STRING"
  • -ignc "STRING" to ignore lines containing "STRING"
  • -igne "STRING" to ignore lines ending with "STRING"
  • -ignbtw "STRING_FROM" "STRING_TO" to ignore all text between "STRING_FROM" and "STRING_TO"
  • -ignfb "#" to ignore # lines at the beginning of file
  • -ignte "#" to ignore # lines at the end of file
  • Text mode enhancements:
  • Enabled editing in active line window
  • Performance improvements for compares of text files with extremely long lines
  • Improved handling of mixed / different line terminators in text mode
  • Improved UTF-8 detection
  • Improved word wrap
  • Improved merge and save of FTP files
  • Improved search for special characters in text mode
  • Improved usability when editing after merging
  • Improvements to increase compare accuracy
  • Folder mode enhancements:
  • Added support for comparing USB / removable drive root
  • Improved display of RAR archive compare
  • Expanded file preview support for more image formats
  • Addressed issue with sync failing to delete orphan files on network drives

New in UltraCompare Professional 20.00.0.26 (Nov 8, 2019)

  • Git conflict resolution mode:
  • Easily resolve conflicts in new mode
  • Select lines to keep – local, remote, or both
  • See result in bottom pane before saving manual merge changes
  • Optionally finish commit after all conflicts are resolved
  • Git version diff mode:
  • Visually diff any two versions of a file from a Git repository
  • Diff working copy, index/staged, branch tip, or a previous commit
  • Shows Git blame info in tooltip for differences
  • New Git ribbon:
  • "Show" group to toggle Git-specific dockable windows
  • "Repository" group to add, hide, and refresh repositories
  • "Branch" group to toggle review mode
  • "File" group to blame, compare versions, and diff or resolve conflicts
  • "Repositories" window ?Shows all repositories on system:
  • Lists all local and remote branches for active repository
  • Git icon color reflects repository state
  • See active (HEAD) branch
  • Browse other (non-active) branches
  • Resolve conflicts or launch version compare
  • "Branch browser" window:
  • See and browse files within repository's active branch
  • Git icon color reflects working directory state
  • Sort files by Git status
  • Diff, blame, copy file path, more
  • Optionally show modified / conflict files only
  • Resolve conflicts or launch version compare
  • "Conflicts" window:
  • See files in conflict state from active repository
  • Launch Git merge mode to manually resolve conflicts
  • Take all from local / remote
  • Launch diff or open blame log
  • Git status overlays in "Explorer" tab of Workspace Manager, with Git context menu
  • Improved and automated Git mergetool / difftool integration with UC
  • New Git configuration options
  • Automatic scanning for Git repositories, with "ignore folder" options in configuration

New in UltraCompare Professional 18.10.0.38 (Oct 22, 2018)

  • User interface enhancements:
  • "Drop here" targets for all modes
  • Increase / decrease font size for all modes
  • Welcome page advertises all types of compares
  • Set font for folder mode
  • Automatic compare after both compare frames loaded (optional)
  • Updated browser view component for improved HTML / CSS rendering
  • Improvements and fixes for:
  • Comparing FTP files from UE / UES
  • Save result (text format)
  • Ignore whitespace
  • Navigating differences
  • Scrolling / scroll bar display
  • 3-way text compare
  • Inline editing
  • Active line window
  • Text compare via web URL
  • Large / long text file compare
  • Folder mode display with filters active
  • Other minor improvements and fixes

New in UltraCompare Professional 18.00.0.45 (Mar 13, 2018)

  • Full syntax highlighting support for source files ?Theme-based comment, string, and keyword coloring
  • Automatically detects and uses existing UltraEdit / UEStudio wordfiles
  • Install additional wordfiles from website (or create your own)
  • Manually set or disable highlighting type per-frame
  • Configure settings under Settings » Display » Text » Syntax highlighting
  • See syntax highlighting in active line window
  • Highlight differences per-word ?New "Highlight" group in Edit tab with options
  • New session property to set highlighting method
  • New global setting under Settings » Compare » Text
  • Increased session limit to 50
  • Algorithmic improvements for text compare matching / diffing

New in UltraCompare Professional 17.00.0.18 (Mar 31, 2017)

  • Save result report in HTML format:
  • File » Save result report » Save HTML result
  • Saves current view of compare as an HTML file
  • Available for all modes (text, binary, folder, table)
  • Header includes compare settings, file information, ignore options, etc.
  • Toggle header in Settings » Backup & Save
  • Optionally show spaces / tabs
  • Respects "View" setting (all / just differences / matching)
  • Override default styling and colors by saving custom CSS in %APPDATA%IDMCompUltraComparereport
  • Improved / expanded ignore options for text mode:
  • Ignore differences in comments, strings, etc., with new "Ignore everything between" rule
  • Use "$" to represent end-of-line for "Ignore everything between" rule
  • Set an unlimited number of "Ignore lines containing / starting / ending with" rules
  • New "Ignore options" tab in session properties
  • Set default ignore rules in Settings » Ignore Options » Text
  • Configure line matching algorithm for text compare:
  • New "Logical line matching" option in text mode session properties
  • If checked, set how many lines UltraCompare scans to "pair" similar lines and find matching blocks
  • Setting a higher value results in more accurate compare results (but may also use more memory and time)
  • Disabling can improve text compare performance
  • If unchecked, UltraCompare will match up lines 1-to-1
  • Other minor improvements and fixes

New in UltraCompare Professional 15.20.0.6 (Dec 18, 2015)

  • If you've used UltraCompare in the past, you're already familiar with its deep, powerful feature set and performance. Well, v15.20 is what the next level looks like. It's now available in truly native 64-bit, and it's a difference you can feel. You should notice substantial performance gains across the entire product.
  • This release also adds Brazilian Portuguese.

New in UltraCompare Professional 15.10.0.12 (Mar 26, 2015)

  • New in v15.1: Re-engineered shell integration:
  • UltraCompare's explorer integration now includes 2 modes: basic and advanced. Both modes are available within the context menu and are not mutually exclusive.
  • Basic explorer integration allows you to select up to 3 files or folders, right-click, and fire off a compare. It's that simple. No frills, no bells, no whistles — this option is provided to get you from point A to point B as quickly as possible.
  • Advanced explorer integration allows you to manually specify which files or folders are loaded into which compare frames. This is useful if your items to be compared are in different folders, or if you need to select one item for compare now and another later. Although we call it "Advanced", it's incredibly simple to use: just right-click the item you want to queue for compare, go to Manually select items and then choose your desired compare frame. Once all compare targets are loaded, click one of the options to Compare as Text or Binary.
  • New in v15.1: Split explorer pane:
  • UltraCompare now shares the same split explorer pane interface as UltraEdit and UEStudio. You can sort the files and folders in the lower pane by name, date, type, or size.
  • The split explorer pane is optional; use the toggle icon at the top right to enable or disable it. You can also create and load file extension groups for filtering the file listing.
  • Better in v15.1:
  • Text compare improvements
  • Enhanced logic and internal algorithms for more accurate matching of text within comparisons
  • Save icon state now reflects whether there are any changes in the file
  • Addressed display and handling of inline text editing
  • Addressed visual and positioning issues related to merge
  • Addressed issues with Active Line Window
  • Addressed issues with Ignore Column Range
  • Folder compare improvements
  • Progressive folder compare (interact with compare panes while compare is still running)
  • Subdirectories no longer scanned for faster non-recursive folder compares
  • Improved handling of timestamps from USB drives
  • Improved handling of large files in folder compare mode
  • Addressed issue with filter options not being saved with new session
  • Addressed issue with "-ne" command line switch with basic folder compare
  • Addressed issue duplicate file names when sorting file listings by date
  • Addressed issue with folder sync actions resetting after collapsing or expanding subfolders
  • Binary compare improvements
  • Improvements for searching for hex bytes
  • Improved stability

New in UltraCompare Professional 15.0.0.1006 (Jan 16, 2015)

  • Folder mode file filter added to toolbar for quicker access
  • Automatic detection and correction of mixed line terminators
  • Folder mode improvements:
  • Improvements for marking/hiding files in folder compare
  • Improvements for folder compares including PDFs and Word documents
  • Enhancements and improvements for remote/FTP folder compare
  • Added support for "Ignore timestamp differences" in full folder compare mode
  • Improved folder sync between SATA and USB drives
  • Addressed sort issue with orphan files in folder compare
  • Addressed issue where folder root can't be expanded after collapsing
  • Addressed context menu issues
  • Addressed other minor issues
  • Text mode improvements:
  • Performance boost: much faster text compares
  • Improved handling of very large files
  • Improved alignment of text in 3-way text compare
  • Support for line terminator conversion on merge/save
  • Added "On merge convert line endings to destination type" session property
  • "Ignore line terminators" is now a default text compare session property
  • Improvements to saving merged changes
  • Improvements to difference map
  • Addressed issue with saving merge changes to .docx file
  • Other minor text compare improvements
  • Other miscellaneous improvements:
  • Improved virtual memory handling for binary compares
  • Added support for CTRL and SHIFT key mappings with TAB
  • Improvements for "Save Active Session" from Session pane
  • Addressed issue where settings modified in active session are not saved with "Save Active Session"
  • Addressed issue where new session cannot be saved anymore with command "Save Active Session"
  • Addressed issue with fast binary compare invoked via shell integration not showing summary information in status bar
  • Other minor improvements and issues addressed

New in UltraCompare Professional 14.0.0 (Jan 16, 2015)

  • Full theme support:
  • Like UltraEdit, modify and manage your themes under View -> Manage Themes
  • Change colors and look and feel of entire application - from top to bottom!
  • Use one a pre-defined theme or create your own
  • Import, export, and share themes
  • New interactive dockable legend & filters dialog:
  • Interactive folder mode legend provides clear explanation of compare icons
  • Interactive text/binary mode legend provides clear explanation of colors and symbols
  • Easily hide equal, different, unique, common items
  • Folder Synchronization can now be invoked from within any folder compare
  • New "Next Bookmark" and "Previous Bookmark" commands for text mode
  • New dockable File Preview pane automatically shows file contents on click
  • Fast binary compares now support drag/drop of zipped archives
  • Hex offset displayed for binary files supports much larger value
  • New and improved default toolbar layouts
  • Numerous other minor enhancements and improvements

New in UltraCompare Professional 8.50.0.1009 (Feb 9, 2013)

  • Greatly improved performance of remote folder compare via server directory listing:
  • Comparing files via directory listing avoids download of entire remote directory contents
  • Used for basic (size and timestamp only) compare mode
  • Configurable in Options -> Configuration -> FTP
  • Basic (size and timestamp only) compare support for Folder Sync:
  • Dramatically increases speed of folder sync for large folders/files
  • Configurable in Options -> Configuration -> Compare -> Folder Sync -> Folder Sync Options
  • New quick exit option for command line:
  • Add "-esc" flag to command line to quickly dismiss application by pressing ESC key
  • Useful when quickly diffing files out of CVS or other version control system
  • Optionally load file/folder before running comparison:
  • Quickly preview files/folders before they are scanned for differences
  • Configurable in Options -> Configuration -> Application Layout
  • UltraFinder integration: launch Find Duplicates or Find Files on selected item(s)
  • UltraSentry integration: Securely store, encrypt, or delete selected item(s)
  • Darker contrast of colors in difference map for easier navigation
  • Shortcut added for switching between compare panes (Ctrl + Alt + S; configurable in key mapping)
  • Difference summary added to output/result files
  • Separate options added for "Show spaces/tabs" and "Show line endings"
  • Ability to clear file and folder path histories from address bar drop downs
  • Ability to specify default backup directory (Advanced -> Configuration -> Backup & Save)
  • Ability to lock/disable Check for Updates and FTP functionality

New in UltraCompare Professional 8.40.0.1000 (Oct 6, 2012)

  • Improved efficiency and addressed problems when comparing very large multi-GB files
  • Addressed key mapping issues
  • Addressed issue with Synchronize command
  • Addressed issue with "Ignore lines at beginning of file" session setting
  • Addressed issue with output result
  • Addressed issue when merging between FTP folders and saving back to server
  • Other minor maintenance items

New in UltraCompare Professional 8.30.0.1003 (Apr 9, 2012)

  • Session improvements:
  • Prompt to apply global configuration changes to existing sessions
  • "New session" toolbar icon
  • "New session" control in workspace when all sessions have been closed
  • Dialog cleanup in Session Properties window
  • Other minor improvements
  • PDF compare now prompts when file contains no text
  • Better detection of externally deleted files while in folder mode
  • Addressed incorrect difference indication with "ignore whitespace"
  • Addressed issue when merging from 3rd to 2nd file in 3-way text compare
  • Other minor maintenance items

New in UltraCompare Professional 8.20.0.1008 (Nov 24, 2011)

  • Integrated Online help
  • Landscape printing
  • New parsing options for DOC/RTF/PDF
  • Improved Folder sync between local and remote
  • Optimized FTP delete/merge functionality (delete/merge now occurs directly on server)
  • Support for multi-GB binary file compare
  • Maintenance installment:
  • Improved PDF compare performance and stability
  • Empty folders no longer show "+" (expand) symbol
  • Improved functionality of file/folder path auto-complete
  • Tooltips now accommodate very long file paths/names
  • Added ability to resize toolbar customization dialog
  • Miscellaneous improvements to file change detection
  • Fixed issues related to special character differences
  • Relative paths can now be used on command line
  • Command line compare now respects "Specify Extensions" setting
  • UC releases locks on compared folders after compare session is closed
  • Fixed issue where merging line(s) inserts hex nulls into file
  • Better alignment of compare when blank lines are at end of file
  • Corrected issues related to SFTP connections requiring a public key
  • Addressed Preview First / Second display issue on XP
  • Orphan folders are now properly deleted in folder sync mode
  • Improved handling of long lines when printing
  • Increased file name character limit in result report
  • Fixed Find Duplicates issues in localized versions
  • Many other miscellaneous improvements and fixes

New in UltraCompare Professional 8.10.0.1009 (Apr 12, 2011)

  • PDF file compare:
  • Load two PDF files into a text compare session and UC will parse and compare text from the PDF
  • Folder Sync Scheduler:
  • Schedule existing folder sync sessions to run at a specified time (or a repeated time)
  • Log automated sync task events
  • Other internal improvements and enhancements

New in UltraCompare Professional 8.00.0.1010 (Jan 12, 2011)

  • Folder Synchronization :
  • Quickly sync different files between two folders (including subfolders)
  • Use pre-defined, customizable sync rules for determining how to handle differences
  • Create your own sync rules
  • Sync local, networked/shared, and remote/FTP files
  • Adjust sync actions for individual files as needed
  • Review sync actions before executing synchronization
  • Organize folder syncs in new "Folder Synchronization" session mode
  • Launch folder sync session directly from UltraCompare's Windows explorer context menu integration
  • Find Duplicates :
  • Quickly locate duplicate files between two or more folders (including subfolders)
  • Specify criteria for what constitutes a duplicate file (name, size, date, and/or content)
  • Set ignore options system files, hidden files, recycle bin, etc.
  • Set include/exclude filters to optionally include and exclude files/folders
  • Search for duplicate files in local, network/shared, and remote/FTP locations
  • Browse list of found duplicates and specify which to keep and which to delete
  • Full .docx compare support (requires Word 2007 or greater although users with older versions of Word can download Microsoft's compatibility pack)
  • Complete new png-based icon set with deeper colors and better shading
  • Ability to enable large (24x24) toolbar icons
  • Improved address bar to accommodate FTP open command for all compare modes
  • New installer (InstallShield)

New in UltraCompare Professional 7.20.0.1007 (Jul 13, 2010)

  • CRC support for comparing FTP folders
  • Quickly diff files/folders on your server without downloading them
  • If CRC isn't supported on the server, UltraCompare will default to a basic (size and timestamp) compare only
  • Ability to hide individual files/folders from the results (saved between sessions)
  • Folder Mode Display Enhancements
  • Display is now divided into separate panes with draggable separator
  • Column width customizations now saved
  • Optionally synchronize column width changes
  • Optionally automatically resize column width
  • Lock column width
  • Folder Mode compare enhancements
  • Smart mode "Text ignore options" dialog now accessible in folder mode session properties dialog
  • Ignore timestamp option now available for "Full" mode folder compares
  • Improved file path handling
  • Long file or folder paths are now shortened with elipsis (...)
  • Permanently dismiss prompt for non-existent history paths
  • Text Editing Improvements
  • Double-click to select single words
  • Triple-click to select entire line

New in UltraCompare Professional 7.10.0.1010 (Apr 6, 2010)

  • New FTP functionality and dialogs :
  • Support for FTPS
  • Ability to compare root directories on FTP server
  • Updated FTP dialogs
  • Updated Account Manager Dialog
  • Ability to browse and open from FTP accounts in Explorer tab in Workspace Manager
  • New FTP Configuration Options in Options -> Configuration -> FTP :
  • Store FTP accounts and settings in separate file
  • Show or hide FTP accounts in Workspace Manager
  • Display FTP log in Output Window
  • Share FTP accounts with UE/UES*
  • Better handling of comparisons and merges of read-only files
  • Ignore option improvements
  • Improved Word Doc file dompare
  • *This feature requires FTP account sharing be enabled in UE/UES. FTP account sharing in UE/UES will be available in future versions. When enabled this feature stores the FTP account and settings data at: %APPDATA%\IDMComp\Common\FTP Accounts.

New in UltraCompare Professional 7.00.0.1013 (Jan 27, 2010)

  • New dockable/auto-hideable workspace manager
  • Explorer tab (workspace manager):
  • Drag-and-drop functionality to compare frames
  • Filter files
  • Explore all system and network drives
  • Session tab (workspace manager):
  • Save your text, folder, or binary compare sessions and manage them in the Session tab of the workspace manager
  • Launch/execute sessions from the session manager
  • Organize sessions in a visual heirarchy with session groups
  • Set compare/ignore/other options for each session in new session properties dialog
  • Delete, move, and rename sessions
  • Add new sessions to session groups
  • Recent sessions option provides quick access to sessions from your last UltraCompare session
  • Full Unicode support:
  • Improved display of Unicode/UTF-8 characters
  • Compare files and folders containing Unicode/UTF-8 characters
  • Full Windows 7 support, including Windows 7 shell integration
  • Fully enabled 64-bit shell integration
  • Other minor improvements

New in UltraCompare Professional 6.10.0.1006 (Feb 7, 2009)

  • Compare text snippets, Save As dialog, multi-line merge in Line Mode Merge, character-to-character line comparison, Customize display of timestamps, Ignore file timestamp differences in folder compare, Option to use registry/INI file for settings, Other performance improvements

New in UltraCompare Professional 4.20a (May 21, 2007)

  • Efficiency (performance) enhancements,
  • Column Data/Range Comparison,
  • Goto line/column number,
  • Output/Print enhancements,
  • Display line number and column number in status bar,
  • Allow comparison of FTP folder to local folder,
  • Ignore user specified folders and file types,
  • Compressed Java JAR support

New in UltraCompare Professional 4.20a (Mar 8, 2007)

  • Mouse selection enhancements, Improved detection of next/previous difference, Status bar progress feedback enhancements, Word wrap and relational lines in full screen mode, Folder mode compare enhancements, Accept All menu item, Vista enhancements

New in UltraCompare Professional 4.10 (Aug 22, 2006)

  • 3 Way Folder Compare/Merge