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UltraEdit v2026.0 (for Windows) Changes:
Features and Enhancements- 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
Other notable quality improvements- 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
- 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 v2025.0 (for macOS) Changes:
Features and enhancements
- 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
Other notable quality improvements- 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
Multi-Platform
You get the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of UltraEdit. Your personal license is good for up to 3 machines on any combination of platforms.
Purchases of UltraEdit include a key for UltraCompare Pro for free.
