Released: Nov 9, 2015

Updates in this release

Updates in 4.1.2.20720

Notable Changes

• Improved performance and stability, especially under OS X.
• Fixed connection issues introduced by IPv6 support.
• Numerous bug fixes and tweaks.

Archives

• Added support for creating new .tar.bz2 archives.
• Newly created archive files are now initialized with default data instead of being created as zero byte files.
• Fixed creating a new 7-zip .7z archive.
• Fixed load error when loading a snapshot of an empty Folder Compare.

File Formats

• Removed no longer supported .dbf mask from built-in MS Excel file format.

File Views

• Fixed "Keep file read-only" option when saving a file.

Folder Compare

• Linux 32-bit: Fixed "Value too large for defined data type" error when interacting with files larger than 2GB.
• "Align filenames with different extensions" no longer affects folders, except to align them with archives.
• "Open With" and "Copy Filename" now use URL paths instead of profile: based ones.
• Sort by extension is now case insensitive.
• Added warning panel if "Suppress Filters" is used with "Ignore Folder Structure" when folder filters may be excluding files.
• Fixed "Ignore Folder Structure" not applying name filters for folders added externally and detected as part of a fast refresh.
• Fixed "Exclude protected operating system files" filter not being respected if "Ignore Folder Structure" is active.
• OS X/Linux: Fixed "Hide Log" not being remembered.
• OS X/Linux: Fixed "Attributes" dialog not showing the octal representation.
• OS X/Linux: Improved rules-based comparison performance regression relative to v3.

FTP

• Fixed issues with IPv6 support.
• Fixed connecting to an FTP site using a URL that includes the password.
• Fixed SFTP errors connecting to certain versions of OpenSSH with AES GCM enabled.

Home View

• Windows: Fixed black fringes around various graphics at > 100% DPI scaling.

Installer

• Linux: Fixed warning message when installing from RPM if symbolic link to libbz2.so.1.0 already exists.

Misc

• OS X: "Browse File System", "Browse Using Profile", "Open File", and "Save File" dialogs now include hidden items based on Finder's "Show All Files" setting.
• OS X: Hidden files/folders are now shown ghosted in "Browse Using Profile" dialog.
• Windows: Fixed archive files not appearing in the "Browse Using Profile" dialog if Explorer's "Hide known file extensions" option is active.
• OS X/Linux: Improved text comparison performance.
• Fixed context sensitive help on tabbed dialogs.
• Windows: Fixed size of menu checkmarks on high DPI displays.
• Windows: Fixed taskbar jumplist subcategories on Windows 8+.

Options

• OS X: Fixed broken font and color panels on OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

Picture Compare

• Windows: Fixed loading .bmp files with extra padding after the file header.

Reports

• OS X: Fixed Picture Compare Reports not showing correctly in Safari.

Scripting

• Windows: Fixed garbage characters being logged for FTP URLs that include passwords.

Table Compare

• Windows: Fixed loading .xlsx files in translated releases.
• Windows: Fixed conversion error loading MS Excel .xlsx files that worked in 4.0.

Crashes

• OS X: Fixed various crashes.
• Fixed Folder Compare crash when the active "Align With" item is removed externally.
• Fixed Folder Compare crash when changing folder filters while a flattened comparison is loading.
• OS X: Fixed crash when "Home" button is hidden from the toolbar.
• Windows: Fixed crash while saving HTML Picture Compare Report if bitmap does not have 32-bit color depth.
• Fixed crash when loading workspace with undefined Z-orders.
• Fixed crash on startup when loading workspaces before sessions.
• Fixed crash when importing unsupported auto-saved sessions.
• Linux: Fixed crash when closing the Refresh tip dialog.