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UltraEdit for Windows latest changes

The list below contains the latest new and enhanced features for UltraEdit. For a more thorough look at what has been added, take the tour of the new version.

The current major version is 2025.2.0.24, released on 2026-04-10

UltraEdit 2025.2 Update 1 (2025.2.0.21 released on 2026-03-25) 

  • Added: Matching theme support for “Live highlighting” background color
  • Added: Registry lock to disable “Download latest version” option
  • Fixed: Decimal and hex character offset returned in Character Info dialog is wrong
  • Fixed: Find what text has poor contrast with certain themes in Hex Find/Replace dialog
  • Fixed: Text rendering truncated after column mode editing
  • Fixed: Find/replace dialog highlighting shows red background even with match
  • Fixed: Drop down in WebTools window is black block with Classic theme
  • Fixed: Live highlighting – Docmap shows highlighting after find dialog is closed
  • Fixed: Live highlighting – Find/Replace regex highlights using what appears to be a “greedy” match
  • Fixed: Selected text in hex mode not deleted as expected
  • Fixed: Registry keys for Cloud Services still created on install
  • Fixed: Incorrect URL highlighting with specific URLs
  • Fixed: Crash when trying to use command palette to find a file
  • Fixed: uedit64.com and uestudio.com tools not installed by all-in-one installers
  • Fixed: Enterprise License should be changed to “Volume License” in About dialog
  • Fixed: Content incorrectly underlined as URL
  • Fixed: Replace in selected text loses selection when search string is entered
  • Fixed: Text entry fields in Find/Find in Files dialogs have low contrast background colors
  • Fixed: Crash when reloading XML file on startup
  • Fixed: Crash when working with FTP in Explorer pane

UltraEdit 2025.2 Changes  (2026-01-29)

  • Features and enhancements
    • 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
  • Other notable quality improvements
    • Improved: Column mode with proportional and fixed-width fonts
      • Tab sizing/handling
      • Text selection
      • General editing
    • Improved: Product stability on startup with certain configurations
    • Added: Support for OpenSSH format private key for SFTP
    • 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
    • Fixed: Lines at end of file seem to disappear after using ALT+SUBTRACT
    • Fixed: File name is replaced by selected folder name when navigating Save to FTP dialog
    • Fixed: Unable to connect to legacy mainframe server
    • Fixed: Hex Copy Selected View not working
    • Fixed: “Invalid data received from remote server” error with FTP
    • Fixed: Customer cannot connect via SFTP
    • Fixed: Cannot load a macro containing JSONFormatDocument
    • Fixed: Hang/crashes when trying to open large file from Z/OS mainframe
    • Fixed: Sorting of different columns when TABs exist in document
    • Fixed: Cursor is not displayed as expected from active line/column highlighting
    • Fixed: Line/column position is indicated incorrectly in status bar in lines with tabs
    • Fixed: FTP log window not shown when working with only Cloud Storage accounts
    • Fixed: FTP Browser deleting folder from remote folder tree, succeeds, but does not remove it from the tree control
    • Fixed: FTP Browser deleting folder from remote file list does not remove folder from remote directory tree
    • Fixed: “&” is shown as \u0026 in folder name in FTP Open dialog
    • Fixed: Output window erroneously shown when connecting using FTP Open
    • Fixed: Selection shifts unexpectedly after editing & saving
    • Fixed: Column number indicated in ruler does not match line/col position shown in status bar
    • Fixed: SSH/telnet console missing tab icons
    • Fixed: SSH/Telnet console per account font setting
    • Fixed: SSH/Telnet console tab text spacing and alignment

UltraEdit 2025.1 Update 1 (2025.1.0.31 released on 2025-12-11)

  • Added FTP component selector to FTP account settings under the Advanced tab
    • Select UltraEdit.wodFtpDLXComUE.1 (current) for latest FTP features
    • Select UltraEdit.wodFtpDLXCom.1 (legacy) for older servers
  • Large file options text is clipped in German if path is too long
  • Failure to connect to older Linux servers using FTP
  • Unable to connect to certain mainframe servers
  • Sort returns “Sort error! Check sort parameters”
  • FTP Browser window hidden after invoking context menu
  • Restore previously supported SHIFT+F3 search functionality
  • Replace All in selected text (column mode) replaces text outside selection

UltraEdit 2025.1 Changes (2025-10-10)

  • Features and enhancements
    • Updated FTP/FTPS/SFTP protocol, algorithm, and key support
      • New ECDSA support:
        • ecdsa-sha2-nistp256, ecdsa-sha2-nistp384, ecdsa-sha2-nistp512
      • Improved support for:
        • rsa-sha2-256, rsa-sha2-512
        • ed25519, ecdh-sha2-nistp256, curve25519-sha256
        • aes128-ctr, aes192-ctr, aes256-ctr
        • chacha20-poly1305, rsa-2048
        • hmac-sha2-256, hmac-sha2-512
    • Added EDI wordfiles to default set
    • Enhanced Pieces plugin with optional file/folder context
      • All open files
      • Project files
      • Active file folder
  • Other notable quality improvements
    • Caret is lost with split window multi-caret editing
    • Erroneous new line after paste in Find when in Column mode
    • Customer sees "Error in Macro" when trying to run basic macro
    • Hotkeys specified for macros are not saved properly
    • UC Lite is opened for file compare rather than specified third party tool
    • Plugins not shown correctly in localized builds in traditional menus
    • Crash after entering Git credentials
    • Shell extension menu is incorrect or missing for files with very long paths
    • Impossible to enable a pre-installed plugin once it's been disabled
    • Add accelerator for "Show hints" in Contemporary menu
    • Newly created/saved macro is not added to Macro List
    • Status bar should indicate the offset at the end of the selection
    • Focus doesn't return to active file when hex find/replace is closed with ESC
    • Corrected enable/disable state in Hex Find/Replace dialog
    • "Error in Macro" reported when loading macro from mounted Google drive
    • Docked hex find/replace dialog doesn't work like other docked windows
    • Add accelerator for "Edit macros" for traditional menus
    • Sum selection ignores negative values
    • Add support for HTTP command line license activation
    • Selection is incorrect after repeated script execution with undo
    • Unable to re-enable disabled default plugins using Plugin Manager
    • External tool, xmllint.exe, doesn't execute
    • Incorrect undo results with specific operation set
    • Pieces plugin updated with new "Query context settings"
    • EDI X12 and EDIFACT wordfiles added
    • UI language selection now available (application restart required)
    • Addressed error in Portuguese translations of Configuration dialog
    • Improved translation for new language settings
    • Updated aes128-gcm/aes256-gcm support
    • JSON Manager: improved dialog and control theme contrast
    • JSON Manager: Parsing cancel and restart inconsistencies
    • JSON Manager: negative numbers are highlighted incorrectly
    • Improved selection accuracy in column mode with mouse
    • Unable to customize context menu with specific settings
    • Improved URL parsing and display
    • Recent file list display issue in Command Palette
    • Improved Hex Mode byte deletion using keyboard

UltraEdit 2025.0 Update (2025.0.0.35 released 2025-07-29)

  • Pieces for Developers plugin update for new port configuration setting
  • Stability improvements for word-wrapped files, “Sum selection”, and column mode
  • Enable “Reformat JSON” command for all file types (not just JSON)
  • Spurious warning messagebox shown in certain startup/shutdown scenarios
  • Clicking on “Reset to defaults” in advanced sort options does not restore default dialog
  • Display full file path as a tooltip when hovering over file name in dropdown list
  • Focus does not move from FTP Browser to edit window when clicking on edit window in taskbar
  • Customer requested Libxml2 2.14.3 update
  • Improved script handling of recent column mode changes
  • Renamed sort.exe to prevent conflict with other sort utilities
  • “Error in Macro” reported when loading macro from mounted Google drive on specific system
  • Column mode caret/insert position is inconsistent with certain selections

UltraEdit 2025.0 Changes (2025-06-06)

  • Features and enhancements
    • Integrated Git (added to UltraEdit)
      • Git repo detection
      • Branch manager, merge, push, pull, etc
      • Project and File explorer integration and overlays
    • Improved column mode support for Unicode
    • WebTools Plugin Preview
    • Plugin SDK Preview
      • Manager and Wizard
      • Examples and SDK documentation
    • Other notable quality improvements
      • Set HEX Selection dialog window Classic theme improvements
      • All characters shown with extra space between them in SSH console
      • Hang after trying to close a newly created file
      • Wikipedia web search function only supports single words
      • “Sh&ow hints” shown in command palette
      • Text2HTML “Use HTML Entity numbers” command output missing trailing ‘;’
      • Markdown file detection ignores file extension
      • Multi-line text cannot be pasted into SSH terminal
      • ENTER key fails to open file in FTP Open dialog
      • Certain URLs are not highlighted/underlined
      • Trailing characters erroneously included in URL highlighting/underlining
      • JSON reformat/compress options disabled
      • Shutdown hang with specific settings and files
      • Incorrectly underlines IP addresses as URLs
      • Crash during file save with specific settings and files
      • PowerShell terminal doesn’t work with custom install directory
      • CTRL+C with column mode selection causes file to be marked as modified
      • Typing character with column mode selection doesn’t replace all selected chars
      • Column overstrike options not working
      • Clicking on “Download Git for Windows” link returns 404 error
      • Text field label is truncated in Git options dialog
      • Duplicate attribute “onerror” in the HTML wordfile
      • Editing and file refreshing very slow with files with long lines
      • Column select and copy does not work with supplementary code points
      • License ID missing in body of email created with Start support request
      • Incorrect original file name in version information
      • Space selection issue with certain fonts
      • Crash during column mode editing with certain files
      • Undo doesn’t work as expected in column mode
      • Help button in Print Setup dialog window doesn’t open help
      • Button Help in Account Manager dialog window opens the default help page
      • Default help page opened on pressing key F1 for HEX Find/Replace
      • Default help page opened on pressing key F1 for Find in Files and Replace in Files
      • “Maximum number of backups” field accept more than the defined values.
      • In “Charcoal” theme, text area is difficult to see in Find and Replace dialog

    UltraEdit 2024.3 Changes (2025-02-20)

    • Improvements and quality additions
      • Improved display of “Manage themes” dialog for UHD screens and certain scaling settings
      • Addressed writeText scripting API allowing text write to Read-Only files
      • Focus shifts to wrong file during editing with tiled windows
      • Perl regex Find returns empty error dialog
      • Fixed “Allow positioning beyond line end” setting for certain cases
      • Removing a script does not free up the associated hotkey
      • Addressed versioning inconsistencies for “Start support request” content
      • Fixed hang when reformatting XML for certain XML files
      • Unexpected results with sum selection and incorrect settings for locale
      • Incorrect characters displayed during editing for specific UTF-8 files and language/region settings
      • Result field in Sum column/selection is too small
      • Shift + Enter allows to find previous in find dialog not being remembered
      • Crash after pasting very long line and pressing CTRL+SHIFT+HOME with specific data
      • Function list content changes after minor edit and save with certain files
      • CTRL+N will not create new file when no files are open if File Explorer is docked
      • Crashes or hangs on startup with some system configurations
      • Reformat paragraph doesn’t seem to reformat all selected lines when followed by non-blank lines
      • Restore Project functionality is not working as expected with some projects
      • Ceate new file fails after application minimizes to system tray due to sleep settings
      • Crash when double-clicking on divider between source HTML and live preview content
      • “Disable” options from File handling -> Large files added to command palette
      • Improved formatting and content of changes.txt

    UltraEdit 2024.2 Changes (2024-12-20)

      • Features and enhancements
          • Pieces for Developers Plugin
            • AI Copilot and assistant
            • Available both offline and online
            • Choose your favorite LLM/service:
              • OpenAI’s ChatGPT
              • Google’s Gemini
              • Anthropic’s Claude
              • More details https://pieces.app
          • Hex mode enhancements:
            • Select range command
            • Delete selected bytes
            • Insert/Delete dialog: Insert arbitrary byte value
          • Option to underline URLs in open files
      • Other notable quality improvements
        • Line number in “Find String List” window is incorrect
        • Prevent duplicate clipboard history entries
        • Add setting to use an audio cue (“beep”) when search string is not found
        • Add setting to disable Quick Find control animation
        • Function list is shown for wrong file after application restart if second file has a bookmark
        • CTRL+B followed by DELETE doesn’t select and delete XML tag/element
        • Global templates exist in UETMPLTE.TPL file but are not shown in UE after trying to add new template
        • Templates with non-ASCII characters stored with entities in template file are loaded wrong
        • Make ESC key in Find hex cancel the dialog
        • Create empty hex file with new document command
        • Impossible to position cursor correctly in long wrapped line preceded by tabs/spaces
        • Function list content changes after minor edit and save
        • Create a new file in hex editor mode
        • Default C++ templates are incorrect

    UltraEdit 2024.1 changes (2024-08-27)

    • Enhancements
      • New “Start support request” command
        • Generates new email using default system email client
        • Captures commonly needed user and system information
        • Captures current application information
      • Enhanced XML manager editing for attributes and values
      • New horizontal split view for Live Preview
      • New remote file upload/download progress bar in application status bar
      • New compare file command added to file tab menu for easy access
      • Compare tool configuration UI added to support any compare utility
      • Enabled horizontal scrolling with secondary mouse wheel, trackpad, gestures, etc.
      • New underline setting for URLs instead of highlighting
      • Improved readability and usability of compare settings dialog
      • New command to start default email application by clicking any email address in open documents
      • Automatically recover previously open files after a crash without a prompt (reduces user interaction)
      • Full cloud storage support in FTP Browser
      • PowerShell and SSH terminal enhancements for text and command colors
    • Other notable quality improvements
      • Improved code folding support for ASP code
      • Improved positioning and selection range for “active line highlighting for wrapped lines
      • Addressed selection issues with specific search ranges and EOF conditions
      • Resolved discrepancies with differing search count results from different search features
      • Addressed dialog control enable/disable state discrepancies with user tool configuration dialog
      • Corrected negative column number display for certain HTML files
      • Addressed multiple issues with display and editing with non-English text, code pages, and encodings
      • Resolved multiple issues with tab settings and tab displays
      • Resolved multiple printing issues with indentation, positioning, and wrapping

    UltraEdit 2024.0 changes (2024-04-19)

      • Features and enhancements
        • Support for cloud storage services:
          • Google Drive
          • Microsoft OneDrive
          • Amazon S3
          • Dropbox
          • Access and edit files from all your cloud storage services
        • Application scripting additions:
          • New document properties: dateCreated, dateModified, dateAccessed, fileAttributes, owner, syntaxHighlighting, characters, lines, nonEmptyLines, sLOC, averageLineLength, longestLine, changedLines
          • readText/writeText functions
          • getEnvironmentVariable function
        • Updated SSH/Telnet dockable window :
          • Latest encryption standards
          • Support for key agents
    • Other notable quality improvements
      • Honor Windows setting to hide cursor (mouse pointer) while typing
      • Allow sorting by clicking on the column headers in the Windows dialog
      • Add “Copy” button to Sum Selection dialog for total value
      • Sum selection returns incorrect negative value
      • Add link to main downloads page in Support menu
      • Add ability to run PowerShell script from context menu in Project or FileView
      • Add “New script” as default PowerShell template
      • Default language for syntax highlighting is changed if new wordfiles are added
      • Second instead of first configuration item selected on using Find in Configuration
      • Display issues with Manage Themes dialog on Windows 11 at 175% scaling and UHD resolutions
      • Clipped labels in Modify Templates/Modify Groups dialogs at 125% scaling
      • File extension based font setting is ignored
      • URL selection is incorrect in Markdown file
      • Default Template fails to appear, after closing and reopening the file
      • Renaming a file is not reflected in file lists
      • Creating a new template with the same existing template name
      • “New script” default template does not appear for all applicable template groups
      • UI elements not clearly visible after resizing Modify Templates dialog

    UltraEdit 2023.2 changes (2023-12-15)

    • Features and enhancements
      • Macro edit/create and settings UI update
      • Consolidates global macro settings into a single “Macro settings” dialog
      • Improved edit/create macro dialogs
      • Individual macro settings now exposed in edit/create dialogs
      • Proof of concept plugin framework
      • Plugin: Code surround
      • Plugin: SQL formatter
      • Plugin: JSON to XML
      • Plugin: File splitter
      • Plugin: Tabs to spaces (leading)
      • New community reviewed and approved application icons
    • Other notable quality improvements
      • Files saved without an extension erroneously have CSH extension
      • Hang when trying to access Find history
      • Alt shortcuts added to macro play dialog
      • FTP Browser now uses dockable window font for local/remote panes
      • Extension is incorrectly added when file is saved
      • Expose current tab stop value in scripting API
      • Reproducible hang when inserting comment on last line of file
      • Resolved intermittent startup instability
      • Brace matching is incorrect in PHP when strings include braces

    UltraEdit 2023.1 changes (2023-08-16)

    • Features and enhancements
      • Enhanced large file mode:
          • Brings all large file settings into a common location
          • Easily customize large file optimizations
          • Enable/disable line numbers, code folding, Intellitips, and more
        • New “Replace once” functionality added to Find/Replace dialog
        • Improved detection and highlighting of URLs in source files
        • Environment variables now supported for default backup directory
        • PowerShell terminal font can now be customized
    • Other notable quality improvements
      • Improved detection of PowerShell scripts
      • Addressed crash when loading specific project data
      • Selection after spell checking “Change” doesn’t work correctly
      • “Right-click”…”Only if Ctrl is pressed” spell check option not working
      • Focus is in wrong pane after opening file from FTP and invoking Find dialog
      • Display standard deletion confirmation message box when “Remove Script” is selected
      • Added setting to specify the number of recent projects shown in list in ribbon/submenu
      • Improved C# function detection for function list
      • Spaces at beginning of lines are dropped when inserting templates
      • Dragging a selection in column mode and dropping it doesn’t work as expected
      • Find next (F3) with unlimited columns not working as expected

    UltraEdit 2023.0 changes (2023-04-24)

    • Features and enhancements
      • Application scripting update
        • Modern JavaScript support and full browser capabilities
        • Legacy JavaScript support by default for full backwards compatibility
        • Enable latest JavaScript by adding header to script: // @Engine=WebView2
    • Dockable PowerShell terminal
      • Dockable window, place anywhere you wish as a floating window or dock in any orientation
      • Execute any valid shell commands
      • Edit and run PowerShell scripts from the ribbon
      • Run selected portions of PowerShell scripts
    • Enhanced live preview: Dev Tools & Select/Capture/Print
      • Select Inspect from the live preview context menu
      • Review DOM and loaded resources
      • Select command from live preview context menu
      • Capture as text
      • Capture as image
      • Print rendered page to printer or PDF
    • Spell check improvements
    • FTP/FTPS/SFTP improvements
    • Other notable enhancements and quality improvements
      • Caret position is incorrect with certain UTF-8 content
      • Comment/Uncomment improvements
      • URL highlighting and interaction improvements
      • Highlighting incorrect after replace all in selected text
      • Inserting multi-line HTML templates positions the closing tag incorrectly
      • Incorrect highlighting of inline PHP comments
      • Active string isn’t highlighted correctly after quick find
      • Crash on startup with specific command line parameters
      • Caret jumps to beginning of line when editing with Live Preview enabled
      • Enable updated JavaScript support for command line script execution
      • Spellcheck checks entire document instead of selection
      • Added PHP, Python, Ruby, and PowerShell commands to Coding ribbon
      • Crash in command palette with \ root path
      • Crash when inserting a template
      • Unable to scroll to leftmost tab when single line scrollable tabs are enabled
      • FTP: Parsing certain large directories is very slow
      • FTP: Issue loading PPK v3 keys
      • FTP: Files opened in wrong tab group when using tiled windows mode
      • FTP: Extra line added to files opened using ASCII transfer mode
      • FTP: Rename Folder navigates into folder instead of renaming with Show Current Directory Only enabled
      • FTP: F5 triggers Capitalize command in active file when focus is in FTP pane
      • Caret position and auto complete dialog incorrect with Ctrl + Backspace
      • Brace matching incorrectly highlights brace inside string
      • Macro quick record forces Find Up for find actions
      • Crash after sorting file with specific content
      • Quick find skips first occurrence in file after search wraps from end to beginning of UTF-16 file
      • Find (and subsequent find string selection) works in ANSI file, but not in UTF-16 files
      • Find Next skips first occurrence of search string in large file
      • Find skips valid matches for search string
      • JSON manager hangs/crashes when trying to work with very large files (30GB+)

    UltraEdit 2022.2 changes (2023-01-19)

    • Features and enhancements
      • Footnote support for markdown live preview
      • Tasklist checkbox support for markdown live preview
      • New theme: Monokai
      • Open URLs with shift+ctrl+click in currently open files
      • Updated CSS wordfile
      • Ctrl+Left/Right arrow now works for column mode
      • Option to automatically recover documents on system or application failure
      • FTP/FTPS/SFTP is updated to the latest encryption, hashing, and protocol standards including full TLS 1.3 support
      • Telnet/SSH is updated to the latest encryption, hashing and protocol standards
    • Other notable quality improvements
      • File added erroneously to project root instead of group folder
      • Wordfile changes not reflected until files saved
      • Command line flags return incorrect path error
      • Reindent selection doesn’t work with unordered list
      • Statusbar flickers while typing with wrapped lines
      • F3 doesn’t work as expected with infinite column mode
      • Perl highlighting shows all text as comment following \qq
      • Perl regex with \K not finding all matches
      • Quick find UI is hidden or partially visible

    UltraEdit 2022.1 changes (2022-08-03)

    • Interactive login for SFTP (2FA support)
      • Connect to servers that require two-factor authentication (2FA) or time-based one-time passwords (TOTP)
      • New “Interactive login” account option (Advanced tab)
      • Single persistent connection used for 2FA accounts to prevent multiple 2FA prompts
      • Connection stays alive during file editing to avoid further 2FA prompts
    • Chrome (Edgium) rendering for browser view / live preview
      • Upgrades HTML / Markdown preview to modern rendering engine
      • Requires WebView2 browser component from Microsoft (included in Win 11, available on Win 10)
      • Fallback to older browser control for legacy rendering on systems not supporting WebView2
    • Command palette expansions
      • Quick open any previously opened file
        • Type \ then begin typing part of file path or name to filter results; ex: \myFile.js
        • Select path and press Enter to open
        • Clear one or all paths from history
      • Quick open any file
        • Begin typing file path and command palette will offer auto-completing matches
        • Select a matching folder to add it to the path
        • Select a matching file to open it
        • Supports letter drives, UNC, and relative paths
        • Wildcard support for opening multiple files at once; ex: C:\prj\class*.cpp
      • Go-to shorthand
        • Type : then line number / column number to jump to location; ex: :300,25
        • Type :b2 to jump to second bookmark, or :bMyBook to jump to bookmark named “MyBook”
        • Type :p then page break number to jump to page break; ex: :p5
      • Templates now included in command palette
    • Syntax highlighting parser overhaul (Code highlighting data abstracted from editor, improving performance and resolving issues)
      • Syntax highlighting maintained when selecting
      • Support for block comments opened with same characters as line comments
      • Support for arbitrary string pairs (square brackets, backticks, etc.)
      • Added support for Perl quote-like string operators like qq(STRING)
      • Improved XML code highlighting with embedded CDATA sections
      • Addressed issues related to complex embedded code highlighting and longer wrapped lines
    • HTML Tidy overhaul
      • Updated HTML Tidy library to latest version
      • New HTML Tidy UI with dozens of additional options
      • New command and associated key mapping to run HTML Tidy
    • Output window improvements and additions
      • Add and remove any number of output windows
      • Rename output window tabs
      • Select and copy partial or whole lines in output window
    • Other notable user experience improvements
      • Ability to rename unsaved file tab
      • User tools automatically import embedded icon from external executable
      • Re-engineered user clipboards now support selections of >4 GB (exceeding Windows clipboard limitations)
      • “Add file to project” now uses regular File Open dialog
      • Reformat JSON now automatically applies code highlighting
      • Size column is now right-aligned in all FTP file lists
    • Other notable quality improvements
      • Addressed issue with child windows opening off screen when last positioned on disconnected monitor
      • Addressed issues parsing URL formats for right-click open
      • Addressed Reformat Paragraph issues with large selections of text
      • Addressed issue with “Save selection as” and GB of selected data
      • Addressed file lock issue when saving FTP file
      • Removed 160 byte limit on application title bar
      • Improved selection while in column mode
      • Addressed “Server signature does not match” issue with SFTP
      • Addressed issue with duplicated characters in SSH log
      • Added missing “To uppercase” command to key mapping
      • Added file path and name to non-DOS line terminator prompt
      • Addressed tool performance issue with “Show DOS box” enabled
      • Further theming improvements

    UltraEdit 2022.0 changes (2022-03-23)

    Note: This release transitioned to a year-based versioning system. The previous version was 28.20.

    • Improved startup speed and performance
      • Various optimizations to startup routines
      • Startup speed now up to 50% faster
    • File view / explorer window improvements
      • Existing file view tabs split out into separate dockable windows
        • File explorer
        • Project
        • File lists (favorites, recents, etc.)
        • Open files
      • New ribbon / menu toggles and key mappings for new windows
    • Command palette enhancements
      • Command palette now fully resizable
      • More responsive and cleaner user interface
    • Macro improvements
      • Greatly improved macro playback speed
      • Reduced screen updates to improve performance
      • Comment support (use # to create a comment line ignored by macro parser)
      • GetValue supports 64-bit integers
      • SaveAs now uses default save directory in all cases
      • Addressed issue with duplicated key mappings
      • Addressed focus issue with GetValue prompt
    • Column mode enhancements
      • Improved performance for column editing in large files
      • New option for “Insert/Fill Column” to ignore last line if empty
    • Find String List (List lines containing string) improvements
      • Greatly improved performance, especially in large files
      • New option to automatically refresh results
      • Double-clicking result highlights match in file
      • Added F5 keyboard shortcut to refresh results
    • Favorite files improvements
      • Redesigned interface to show columns
      • Sort favorite files by name or path
      • Addressed issue with “+All open files” button
    • User tool improvements
      • Tool output now displayed in real-time
      • Run tools on remote (FTP) files
      • Tool runtime input via %modify% now uses active clipboard
      • Addressed issue with shifting key mappings when adding or removing tools
      • Tool tooltips in ribbon now display name
      • Improved scaling for custom tool icons in toolbar
    • Perl regular expression improvements
      • Perl regexp searches now case sensitive
      • Dot (.) no longer matches new line
      • Added support for Perl regexp DEFINE feature
      • Improved memory handling to support more complex regexps
    • Live preview improvements
      • Greatly improved DOM navigation via double-click in browser window
      • Improved selection of text in browser window
    • Settings dialog and user interface improvements
      • Settings dialog is fully resizable – text and options flow and wrap as dialog is resized
      • INI path selectable with new “Open” button for fast access to its folder in Application Layout » Advanced
      • Improved usability of Settings search
      • Improved settings for default file open directory in File Handling » Load
      • Various UI tweaks and fixes throughout settings
    • Smarter F3 (Find Next): Manual selection in source now searches for selection instead of previous regexp
    • New option to disable automatic expansion of nodes in XML Manager
    • New option to create new file when all other files are closed
    • Themed main application area when all files are closed
    • Improved file change detection for network files
    • FTP improvements for stability and usability
    • Auto-complete display improvements for non-Latin characters
    • Improved caret positioning with proportional characters and fonts
    • Better error reporting for JSON manager
    • Ctrl Left Arrow now stops at beginning of file