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.



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:prjclass*.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

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