UltraEdit Core Releases

UltraEdit for Windows v2026.1

• New features and enhancements
  • Application styles:
    • Added Visual Studio 2026 and Visual Studio 2026 Dark looks for toolbars, tabs, panes, menus, dialogs, and the status bar.
    • Added Windows 11 and Windows 11 Dark editor themes.
  • Custom theme generator: Generate, save, and apply a full theme from selected foreground and background colors via the Welcome page or Theme Manager.
  • Hex Encoding Preview: Added a dockable pane displaying selected bytes decoded in all Windows-supported encodings.
  • Hex line width: Added an in-editor bytes-per-line control; no restart is required.
• Git, SSH, and FTP
  • Git repository scanning: Disabled automatic startup scans and added manual scanning and cancellation.
  • Git log cancellation: Git log operations can now be canceled without terminating the application.
  • SSH/SFTP algorithms: Added support for the modern hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com MAC and legacy algorithms required to connect to older servers: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1, ssh-dss, and hmac-sha1.
• Editing and productivity
  • Find in Files: The unpinned Output window no longer flashes open and closed during searches, and the editor remains responsive during large searches.
  • File Lists: Recently closed files now appear automatically in the File Lists view, and nonexistent files are removed from Recently opened files.
  • Large-file prompts: The “open without temporary file” prompt now identifies the file in question.
  • Toolbar text labels: Labels are remembered between sessions.
  • Custom templates folder: Settings are now respected.
  • JavaScript async functions: These functions now appear in the Function List.
  • User-tool icons: Icons render crisply on high-DPI displays.
  • Windows Explorer context menu: UltraEdit no longer appears in the Recycle Bin, Control Panel, and similar context menus where it cannot perform useful actions.
  • Find notifications: The “beep instead of message box” option now applies to every find operation.
• Polished menus and labels
  • Consistent keyboard mnemonics in contemporary menus.
  • Updated the naming to “Volume License” in the About dialog.
  • Refreshed the installer’s AI-consent screen.
  • Help documentation: Audited the documentation for accuracy against the product in English and all nine translated languages. The audit covered macros, scripting, the JavaScript API, cloud storage, and layout settings.

UltraCompare v2026.0

• New features and enhancements
  • Office document comparison. UltraCompare can now read .docx and .xlsx files, and OpenOffice formats, directly, with no copy of Office installed
    • Open files straight from the “Drop first file here” area.
    • See a file’s contents as soon as the first file is added.
    • Choose PDF directly from New Compare.
    • Compare plain text as well as files in Text and 3-way Text modes.
    • Tooltips on every button.Comparison setup.
  • Theme and appearance
    • On first launch, UltraCompare picks a light or dark theme to match your Windows setting.
    • The Welcome page follows your theme’s light or dark palette, and updates the moment you switch themes.
    • A sharper application icon.
  • Large-file comparison performance
    • Large comparisons are handled far more efficiently: no hangs, progress shown throughout, and Cancel stops them cleanly.
    • Fixed a crash comparing files of several gigabytes.
  • Long file paths. UltraCompare handles paths longer than 260 characters when Windows long paths are enabled.
  • Horizontal scrolling for long lines, without wrapping.
  • Encoding detection. Mainframe EBCDIC text files, and other files whose encoding was previously misdetected, are recognized and decoded correctly on load.
  • Saved compare reports. The Save result output records which ignore options were active.
  • Archive timestamps. File times inside RAR and ZIP archives no longer appear an hour off across daylight-saving changes, avoiding false differences.
  • Git configuration file access. UltraCompare no longer shows “Sharing violation” errors when another Git tool has .gitconfig open.
• Comparison accuracy
  • Text compare
    • Nearly identical pasted text now lines up correctly.
    • Text pasted from PDF and Word documents compares correctly.
    • Placeholder lines before a final line with no line ending are aligned correctly.
    • Ignore options work with languages that have more than one comment style.
    • 3-way text compare: difference highlighting is correct in larger files.
    • Binary compare highlights the right bytes at the right offsets, even in very large (100+ GB) files.
  • Folder compare
    • It now scans every folder instead of finishing too early with folders missing.
    • Merging no longer causes a long hang.

UltraEdit for Windows v2026.1

• Stability fixes
  • Fixed issues when opening multiple files over FTP, selecting an FTP account, or aborting a large FTP download.
  • Fixed a crash at startup.
  • Fixed a crash when opening a file.
  • Fixed a memory-corruption defect in hex mode when working with empty documents.
  • Large files: Resolved unresponsive behavior when using word wrap on large files opened without temporary files.
  • Keyboard focus: Starting UltraEdit now keeps keyboard focus on the editor window.
  • UltraEdit Portable: Fixed sorting.
  • Code-quality hardening: Improved reliability across common code paths.
• Editing and display fixes
  • Text alignment: Tabbed text now lines up correctly with proportional fonts, and mixed-width characters remain aligned.
  • Korean input: Characters are no longer dropped when typing quickly.
• Column mode
  • The “Do not insert/fill on empty last line” setting is now honored.
  • Find in selection now selects the correct text.
  • Go To Line/Column: Navigation is accurate in UTF-16 files, and the status-bar column is correct on wrapped, tab-indented lines.
  • Very long lines: Clicking the line number now selects the correct line.
  • Bookmark gutter: Clicking the gutter no longer highlights text accidentally.
• Syntax highlighting
  • Syntax highlighting remains correct after copy-and-paste operations.
  • Match Brace works correctly with very large files again.
  • Clipboard: Copied content can now be transferred to remote-desktop tools such as UltraVNC.
  • File paths: Paths containing forward slashes (/) are accepted on the command line and at startup.
• New language support
  • Cerner Command Language (CCL): Added support for CCL, used with Cerner Millennium, at the request of a healthcare customer.
  • Algol 60 and Algol 68: Added support for both languages.
  • Both additions include syntax highlighting, Function List support, code folding, and brace matching.
  • Spaces or tabs per language: Languages can now specify whether indentation uses spaces or tabs. Python is configured to use spaces by default. Tab, auto-indent, reindent, and templates follow the setting, while user-defined settings can override it.
• Search fixes
  • Find Previous: Now works with Perl regular expressions.
  • Copy and Cut: Now work in UTF-16 files within interactive Find in Files results.
  • Highlight All: Highlights the correct text after lines are moved or text is inserted.
  • UTF-8 characters: Display correctly in the Find String List.
• Find dialog fixes
  • Focus no longer jumps to a nested dialog.
  • Fixed clipped labels and buttons.
• Hex mode fixes
  • Clicking the ASCII pane no longer scrolls the view unexpectedly.
  • Byte counts are now accurate.
  • The caret remains aligned after changing the bytes-per-line setting.
• Terminal, FTP, and SSH fixes
  • The PowerShell terminal starts correctly from a shortcut with a custom “Start in” folder.
  • SSH now works in the Italian edition.
  • New folders can be created in empty local or FTP folders.
  • The FTP browser remains maximized.
  • DOS command output no longer appears as garbled characters.
• Macros, scripts, and tools fixes
  • Macro keyboard shortcuts: Continue working after another macro is deleted.
  • Macros: Can be edited and renamed reliably, including from the Macro List.
  • Scripts: Scripts that copy large blocks between files work as expected again.
  • User-tool output: Replaces the entire selection.
• User interface and settings fixes
  • Ribbon customization: Commands remain in custom groups.
  • Toolbar visibility: Settings are saved consistently, regardless of the menu mode.
  • File tabs: Retain their positions.

UltraCompare v2026.0

• Stability
  • Fixed a crash in Table compare when resizing columns.
  • Fixed a Windows Explorer crash in the UltraCompare context-menu extension.
• Editing and navigation
  • Smooth scrolling with word wrap. The difference map, scroll thumbs and the last block no longer jump while you scroll.
  • The caret is positioned correctly, and typing works, at the start of a line after pasting content to compare.
  • After a merge, the mouse cursor no longer gets stuck as a resize arrow.
  • Second frame works with manual selection.
• Integration and startup
  • Files opened in UltraCompare from UltraEdit open with the correct file type.
  • Enable auto select from Explorer no longer has to be reset by hand for each new comparison.
  • An instance launched from a batch file no longer opens in the wrong theme.
• FTP
  • Save As now works for files opened over FTP.
  • The FTP Open dialog remembers your recently used paths again.
• Localization, Help and installation
  • Translations display correctly.
  • The Portuguese “Settings” label displays correctly on the ribbon.
  • The German status-bar text is no longer truncated, and the compare-state text is not clipped at high display scaling.
  • The About dialog’s “Check for Updates” button fits languages with longer text.
• Help
  • F1 opens the correct topic for Session Properties and Find Duplicates.
  • The Session Properties help is corrected in all nine help languages.
• The installer no longer registers shared Cloud Services files that it does not install.

UltraEdit for Linux v2025.0

• Added native RPM package support, alongside TAR and DEB packages.
• Expanded Linux distribution support to Rocky Linux 8/9/10, Debian 13, and Ubuntu 22.04/24.04/26.04.
• Added support for fully relocatable Linux installations, allowing RPM and TAR installations to run from any location.
• Added volume-license package variants for Linux, available to volume-license customers from a separate download page.
• Improved Linux packaging with automatic runtime dependency detection and correct version/release-date embedding.
• Added multiple SSH/Telnet terminal tabs, including Add terminal and Remove terminal actions.
• Improved SSH/Telnet account persistence and moved password storage to the operating system’s native credential store.
• Improved SSH/Telnet terminal compatibility, including session handling, resizing, and re-wrapping of terminal history.
• Improved Linux dockable panes, including dock/undock by double-clicking and support for docking floating panes on Wayland.
• Improved Sort error reporting and handling of paths containing spaces or shell meta characters.
• Added Sort File Tabs to commands available for the toolbar.
• Added support for specifying line/column position from the command line.
• Added an option to disable user clipboards.
• Enabled Reformat JSON and Compress JSON for files without JSON syntax highlighting.
• Improved portability of project files between systems.
• Improved large-file responsiveness by restricting Markdown code-folding analysis to Markdown files.

UltraEdit for Linux v2025.0

• Fixed multiple SSH/Telnet terminal issues, including keyboard focus, control-character rendering, telnet command-line handling, terminal teardown crashes, and startup without a SHELL environment variable.
• Fixed crashes when quitting with an open dialog, restoring FTP/SFTP files at startup, shutting down with dockable-panel tooltips, and rendering HTML/browser preview without a document.
• Fixed an infinite error-dialog loop when deleting items from the Places tree.
• Fixed hangs when closing with active FTP/SFTP transfers.
• Fixed FTP/SFTP/FTPS transfer stability and FTP MLSD directory-listing parsing.
• Fixed Linux docking and auto-hide pane positioning issues, including Wayland docking behavior.
• Fixed save state/file recovery issues that could cause unsaved content to be lost or recovery archives from earlier versions to be discarded.
• Fixed Save Changes dialog icon rendering incorrectly on HiDPI displays.
• Fixed repeated crashes and hangs while editing.
• Fixed file-open detection and Quick Find input issues.
• Fixed Linux terminal clipboard/paste issues across various distributions.
• Fixed Favorite Files dialog resizing.
• Fixed several hex mode Find/Replace and Undo issues.
• Fixed UTF-8 Replace All matching with umlauted characters.
• Fixed regular-expression option display issues.
• Fixed multiple file-tab and split-window behaviors.
• Fixed Markdown bold highlighting and Live Preview rendering issues.

UltraEdit for Windows v2026.0

• Integrated Ask UltraEdit AI chat window
  • Natural language access to full Help documentation.
  • Get feature use case recommendations from the full Power Tip library.
• FTP enhanced server compatibility update
  • Added Key Exchange Algorithm – diffie-hellman-group18-sha512 support.
  • Added Key Exchange Algorithm – diffie-hellman-group16-sha512 support.
  • Added Key Exchange Algorithm – curve25519-sha256@libssh.org support.
  • Added Cipher Algorithm – 3des-cbc support.
  • Added MAC Algorithm – hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com support.
  • Added Cipher Algorithm – rijndael256-cbc support.
  • Added Cipher Algorithm – rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se support.

UltraEdit for Mac v2025.0

• Added support for moving custom toolbars above the edit window on macOS.
• Added "Sort File Tabs" to the list of commands that can be added to the toolbar.
• Added support for specifying line/column position from the command line.
• Added support for macOS dictation/transcription.
• Added an option to disable user clipboards.
• Enabled "Reformat JSON" and "Compress JSON" on files without JSON syntax highlighting applied.
• Improved portability of project files so they can be created on one system and moved to another.
• Improved SSH/Telnet terminal compatibility.

UltraEdit for Windows v2026.0

• Fixed: Crypto algorithm could not be negotiated error returned when connecting to server.
• Fixed: List lines containing find string omits some valid matches.
• Fixed: Indent of multiple selections doesn’t work.
• Fixed: Paste column doesn’t preserve pad spaces.
• Fixed: Content in upper pane scrolls when typing in column mode in lower pane during split window editing.
• Fixed: File in use error message on closing Account Manager dialog window.
• Fixed: FTP transfer completes successfully but FTP open dialog remains locked for up to 25 seconds after transfer is complete.
• Fixed: Saving via FTPS to Windows Server 2022 takes a very long time.
• Fixed: “Error in certificate” dialog is shown every time connection is made.
• Fixed: Content is pasted in wrong location when pasting in column mode on line with TABS.
• Fixed: Search in “All open files” doesn’t work as expected if “Filter” option has previously been selected.
• Fixed: Column mode delete key behavior changed.
• Fixed: Multiple FTPS stability issues.
• Fixed: Windows clipboard is not updated for secondary application when copying in Column mode.
• Fixed: Crash while editing wordfile with specific settings.
• Fixed: Batch file run from User tool cannot delete a file that's already open.
• Fixed: Files opened via command palette are not automatically added to Recently opened files list in File lists view.
• Fixed: UltraEdit inserts TABS on empty lines since.
• Fixed: Perl option for regular expressions is lost on application restart.
• Fixed: Crash with syntax highlighted file and switching to Contemporary menus.
• Fixed: Focus unexpectedly jumps to previously matched string when pressing CTRL+F.
• Fixed: Unexpected selection after using "Insert number".
• Fixed: JSCompressDocument and JSFormatDocument have no effect in macro.
• Fixed: Multiple issues with modifying key mappings.
• Fixed: HEX mode selection issues.
• Fixed: Column reference in status bar not as expected with multi-byte characters.
• Fixed: Focus in file shifts erratically when crossing lines with no text while creating column mode selection.
• Fixed: Crash while navigating in specific document with specific settings.
• Fixed: Alt+H in German ‘Ersetzen in Dateien’ window activates the wrong edit field.
• Fixed: Syntax highlighting of dates (substrings starting with a digit) not working anymore.
• Fixed: Selection is cleared when “search string not found” dialog is shown.
• Fixed: Top pane scrolls unexpectedly with Column mode editing in split pane view.
• Fixed: Crash after changing regex type in Find dialog with specific settings.
• Fixed: Crash while attempting find with specific settings.
• Updated: Change "Find" button to "Cancel" in Find in Files dialog during search.

UltraEdit for Mac v2025.0

• Fixed: Arrow key navigation at file boundaries while editing.
• Fixed: UE does not come to the foreground when the icon is clicked in the menu bar.
• Fixed: Detection of files that are already open.
• Fixed: Repeated crashes while editing on macOS/Linux.
• Fixed: Crash when trying to modify settings on macOS.
• Fixed: Crash when changing the Word file path.
• Fixed: Crash on application start with certain configurations.
• Fixed: Application fails to start after enabling "Show Relative File Paths".
• Fixed: Hang and 100% CPU usage while editing.
• Fixed: Hang when working with multiple open files, invoking New Window, and closing.
• Fixed: Quick Find only accepts the first typed character; all subsequent characters go to the edit window.
• Fixed: UltraEdit does not remember the desktop it is assigned to.
• Fixed: UltraEdit does not adjust size when Mission Control is invoked.
• Fixed: UltraEdit does not come to the foreground when its icon is clicked in the menu bar.
• Fixed: UltraEdit creates Edit files in the user’s home directory when it should not.
• Fixed: UltraEdit appends “.s” to newly created files saved with a .sql extension.
• Fixed: Unable to copy from a Linux terminal and paste into UEX after extended use.
• Fixed: Issues pasting from certain sources on various Linux distributions.
• Fixed: Favorite Files dialog does not remember its size after resizing, and its content area cannot be resized.
• Fixed: Replace dialog remains open when switching from hex mode back to normal edit mode.
• Fixed: Spelling error in the Hex Find/Replace dialog.
• Fixed: "En space" character cannot be replaced in either ASCII or hex mode.
• Fixed: Undo in hex mode does not work correctly.
• Fixed: Umlauted characters not matched with "Replace All" in UTF-8 files.
• Fixed: "Perl" is sometimes not shown as an option for regular expressions.
• Fixed: Double-clicking a quoted string includes the surrounding quotes in the selection.
• Fixed: Double-clicking a string includes "$" and ">" in the selection, with no way to change the behavior.
• Fixed: Multiline tabs behave unexpectedly when a new file forces a second row of tabs, including a tab that should be on the new row, not displaying.
• Fixed: Screen splits unexpectedly when clicking one of several open file tabs.
• Fixed: Clicking the right arrow in the tab bar row unexpectedly creates blank edit files after passing the last file tab.
• Fixed: Bold text highlighting does not work as expected in markdown files.
• Fixed: Live preview does not display content as it does in UltraEdit for Windows.
• Fixed: Live preview renders incorrectly when a blank line is added to the file and saved.
• Fixed: "Email our support team" link incorrectly routes to a sales quote-request form rather than support.

• Added: Support for OpenSSH format private key for SFTP.
• Improved: Product stability on startup with certain configurations.
• Updated: Default language template files with minor additions and corrections.
• Updated: Default tags list with minor additions and corrections.
• Enhanced: Make context menu work in FTP open/save dialogs when clicking below directory listing.
• Search and regular expression live mode:
  • Result selection updates as you type.
  • Find what text control provides regex syntax feedback.
    • Background color changes to indicate valid/invalid regular expression.
• EDI Wrap/Unwrap convenience functions:
  • New EDI Functions dropdown in the ribbon (Coding->Formatting).
  • Unwrap raw EDI data for easier reading, editing, and correction.
  • Wrap corrected EDI data to conform to transmission standards.
• Improved column mode with proportional and fixed-width fonts:
  • Tab sizing/handling.
  • Text selection.
  • General editing.

• Lines at end of file seem to disappear after using ALT+SUBTRACT.
• File name is replaced by selected folder name when navigating Save to FTP dialog.
• Unable to connect to legacy mainframe server.
• Hex Copy Selected View not working.
• “Invalid data received from remote server” error with FTP.
• Customer cannot connect via SFTP.
• Cannot load a macro containing JSONFormatDocument.
• Hang/crashes when trying to open large file from Z/OS mainframe.
• Fixed sorting of different columns when TABs exist in document.
• Cursor is not displayed as expected from active line/column highlighting.
• Line/column position is indicated incorrectly in status bar in lines with tabs.
• FTP log window not shown when working with only Cloud Storage accounts.
• FTP Browser deleting folder from remote folder tree, succeeds, but does not remove it from the tree control.
• FTP Browser deleting folder from remote file list does not remove folder from remote directory tree.
• “&” is shown as \u0026 in folder name in FTP Open dialog.
• Output window erroneously shown when connecting using FTP Open.
• Selection shifts unexpectedly after editing & saving.
• Column number indicated in ruler does not match line/col position shown in status bar.
• SSH/telnet console missing tab icons.
• SSH/Telnet console per account font setting.
• SSH/Telnet console tab text spacing and alignment.