• Folder comparison:
  • "Open With" context sensitive menu.
  • Improved performance, particularly over slow networks.
  • Improved memory consumption.
  • Improved progress monitor accuracy during synchronization operations.
  • Files and folders copied/moved from (S)FTP locations are now assigned default permissions.
• File comparison:
  • Introduced three-way inline difference detection in conflict areas.
  • Improved three-way conflict areas detection.
• Notable fixes:
  • Crash at startup caused by specific file types being opened as part of the last session.
  • Folder comparison report generation, including Linked reports.
  • Files with no extenstion can again be opened.
  • XML files can again be compared as structures in their entirety.
  • Page Setup can now be invoked from the Print Priview window (available in 1.9.8 Refresh).
  • "When loading Office docs break lines..." preference now properly saved/restored (1.9.8 Refresh).
  • NSToolbar assertion addressed (1.9.8 Refresh).
• Miscellaneous:
  • Updated documentation.
  • Updated "Compare with DeltaWalker" Automator service installation instructions.
  • Improved integration with Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, SVN and other SCMs and third party apps.
  • Default memory increased from 256MB to 768MB.
  • Lion-specific fixes e.g. common scrollbar visibility, tree header initial rendering, etc.
  • Birds-eye-view visibility issue on Lion (1.9.8 Refresh).
  • Proper folder type detection for mounted drives (1.9.8 Refresh).
  • SCM integratin fine-tunings (1.9.8 Refresh).

• Stability enhancements release. Free for existing license holders.
• Notable fixes:
  • Restored proper synchronization operations for large number of files.
  • Dismissing the Replace confirmation dialog can no longer result in data loss.
  • Auto-suggest/auto-complete in the resource path text fields executes on a separate thread now to prevent UI lockup.
  • Subtle folder comparison tree selection and navigation issues.

• Stability and performance enhancements release. Free for existing license holders.
• Folder comparison:
  • Updates following synchronization operations are now instant.
  • All standard tree-related shortcuts restored.
  • Intermittent selection problems fixed.
  • Sort column and direction now saved between sessions.
  • Subtle sort issues involving resources with same attributes e.g. size are now fixed.
  • Paths of resources being currently compared are now shown in status bar during comparison.
• File comparison:
  • Improved character encoding auto-detection.
  • Default encoding on Mac OS X is now UTF-8.
  • Very slow typing in ancestor window in three-way file comparison now fixed.
  • Ability to visualize and compare 4x larger files, including binary files.
• Remote connectivity:
  • Synchronization operations over remote connections can be initiated at any time.
• Other notable fixes:
  • Resource URI-s containing non-ASCII characters are now properly saved across sessions.
  • Possible crash at startup due to use of non-ASCII characters as part of session data now fixed.
  • Auto-suggest/auto-complete in the resource path text fields is now snappy even over slow connections.

• One of the most significant updates to date. Free for existing license holders.
• Folder comparison:
  • Super-fast.
  • Capable of comparing hundreds of thousands of items.
  • Significantly improved memory consumption.
  • Significantly improved responsiveness throughout - selection, navigation, expansion, sorting, filtering/searching.
  • Drag-selection of items now possible.
  • Sync operations are now performed on fitered tree items.
  • Reports are now generated against filtered items.
  • Difference navigation is done on filtered items.
  • Printing is now WYSIWYG.
• One-click integration with Git, SVN, Mercurial and Bazaar.
• Finder context-menu integration (OS X 10.6/Snow Leopard only).
• Standalone launcher now available, allowing quick launches of subsequent DeltaWalker instances.
• Remote connectivity
  • FTP connections now default to PASSIVE mode.
  • Other FTP connection improvements.
• Notable bug fixes:
  • Occasional hangs at the end of folder synchronization operations.
  • Mac OS X and Linux permissions of parents folders not properly transferred during folder sync operations.
  • User's home folder and username are no longer automatically prepended to the initial path.
  • Creating linked reports now works properly.

• Detailed progress information during file synchronization operations including:
  • Time remaining.
  • Items remaining - count and size, out of total item count and size for a job.
  • Speed.
• Ability to rename files and folders directly inside folder comparison windows.
• Ability to delete and rename sessions directly inside the session drop-down windows.
• Ability to ignore timestamp differences in folder comparison due to daylight savings.
• Next/Previous Conflict actions for navigating conflicts in three-way comparison.
• Pathname auto-suggest/content assistant now runs on a separate thread keeping UI responsive at all times.
• Remote Resource dialog:
  • User's home folder and username are now automatically prepended to the initial path.
  • Improved handling of incorrectly specified connection parameters.
• Startup-time improvements when multiple sessions are present.
• Folder comparison performance improvements.
• Notable bug fixes:
  • Fixed a startup crash caused by corrupted font cache introduced by OS X 10.6.3 update.
  • Fixed infrequent crash during synchronization operations.
  • Fixed a problem with launching comparison sessions of compressed files.
  • New troubleshooting topic on fixing occasional anti-aliasing issue on OS X.

• User Interface:
  • 100% Cocoa UI, including the signature Mac toolbar, sheets, etc.
  • New artwork - icons, welcome page, splash screen. Streamlined toolbar organization - folder comparison-specific operations now located on the folder comparison local toolbar.
  • More features, yet simpler and cleaner UI.

• Session Management:
  • Support for named sessions, session favorites, session search and delete etc.; new "Organize Sessions" window.
  • Session properties are now a snapshot of the preference defaults. This guarantees that next time a session is loaded it'll execute exactly the same way as it did the last time.
  • Preference-controlled ability to load the most recent file & folder comparison sessions on startup. On by default.
  • Fine level of clearing history; new "Clear History" window.
  • Ability to Export and Import sessions.
  • Ability to launch sessions from the command line by specifying their name.
  • Cleaner separation os session properties from preference defaults.
• Folder Comparison:
  • "Compare To" functionality in folder comparison where you can pick and choose the files/folder for comparison from within a folder comparison window.
  • "Re-Compare Selected" of files and folders.
  • Sorting by name, date, size.
  • Preference-controlled ability to list folders before files.
  • Preference-controlled option for the folder comparison trees at the end of comparison. Trees are now collapsed by default.
  • The folder hierarchies now remember their subnodes' expanded/collapsed state; Cocoa version only.
• Filters:
  • Unified file and folder filters UI, design and implementation.
• Miscellaneous:
  • Page Orientation (Printing) can now be set from within the Page setup dialog.
  • More accurate vertical sizing of the Birds-eye view in both file and folder comparison.
  • Generating folder comparison reports now respects the filters applied to the folder comparison view.
• Bug fixes and enhancements:
  • Resolved a deadlock preventing launching of new sub-comparison while main folder comparison was in progress.
  • Fixed infrequent crash/hang during sync operations.
  • Resolved problems logging to remote sites using password containing certain special characters.
  • Improved performance on updates following sync operations.
  • Fixed a resource leak in file comparison that over time could make DeltaWalker's UI irresponsive.
  • Fixed inaccuracies in the time grouping of existing sessions in the session history lists.

• One-click folder synchronization operations:
  • Update First - copy newer and orphan files from Second folder to First.
  • Update Second - copy newer and orphan files from First folder to Second.
  • Update Both - copy newer and orphan files from either side to the other.
  • Mirror to First - make First folder identical to Second.
  • Mirror to Second - make Second folder identical to First.
• File copy/move performance and usability improvements:
  • New, more accurate, algorithm for estimating amount of work of individual and combined synchronization operations.
  • Single progress meter for all synchronization operations.
  • Simplified file and folder Confirm Replace dialogs.
  • Confirmation dialogs now have context specific button labels e.g. "Save"/"Don't Save", "Replace"/"Don't Replace" instead of generic "Yes"/"No".
  • Preference-controlled ability to show Confirm Replace dialog only when Shift key is down.
• Older Date Modified values in folder comparison are shown in dimmed color to indicate lower importance.
• New shorcut keys in folder comparison:
  • Command/Control+Right Arrow - copy from left to right.
  • Command/Control+Left Arrow - copy from right to left.
  • Esc - stop a comparison in progress.
• Support for "-merged=" command line parameter used by certain SCMs like Git, Mercurial and Subversion.
• Detailed instructions incl. shell scripts for integration with Git, Mercurial, and Subversion.
• New binary file extensions added to Content Type preferences.
• New preference controlled notifications when file is deleted/moved on disk.
• Linked report type selection now saved between sessions.
• Various bug fixes, including:
  • No more out of memory exceptions when creating folder comparison HTML reports of folders containing mid and large binary files.
  • Print Preview no longer gets occasionally disabled.
  • Cursor over horizontal window divider now changes accordingly.
  • Restored Merge button tooltips.
  • Remote Resource dialog no longer freezes when given invalid URI.
  • URI's with unescaped '%' now work properly.

• Support for text extraction from the following Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and Adobe PDF documents:
  • Word 97-2008 (.doc and .docx)
  • Excel 97-2008 (.xls and .xlsx)
  • PowerPoint 97-2008 (.ppt)
  • Non-encrypted PDF (.pdf)
• Preference-controlled ability to insert line breaks when loading Office documents.
• Significant file copy/move performance improvements.
• Ability to cancel single file copy/move operations.
• Preference-controlled ability to follow symbolic links or to show/edit them as files in folder and file comparison.
• Improved Remote File/Folder Dialog:
  • Ability to test connection settings inside the dialog.
  • Escaping of special URI characters e.g. @, !, &, etc.
  • Improved accuracy and display of connection errors.
  • Display of resulting URI.
• Ability to edit complex URIs i.e. URIs with username and password inside the file/folder comparison URI text entries.
• Preferences tune-up, incl. new 'Show Last Modified' and 'Show Size' preferences.
• Bug fixes.

• Support for comparison sessions. A DeltaWalker session offers a quick way of launching a recent file or folder comparison. It holds all the information required to run that comparison the same way you ran it last time - the pathnames/URIs of the compared files or folders, including username and password, as well as any preferences you might have modified during that session.
• Significantly improved memory usage for text comparisons.
• Improved error reporting when attempting to copy/move/delete files on Mac OS X that are locked or require different permissions.
• Other bug fixes and enhancements.

• Improved UI responsiveness during folder comparison. Use of throbber inside window tab, instead of progress monitor in status bar.
• Up to 30% faster folder comparison.
• New binary file algorithm detection.
• Content Types preference page showing default file type assignments and allowing manual overwrite.
• New binary file type detection improved robustness of linked folder comparison report generation.
• Ability to set root folder in folder comparison.
• Ability to ignore differences in timestamps smaller than a configurable threshold. Helps eliminate artificial timestamp differences introduced by file systems e.g. FAT32 with low accuracy of their timestamp setting API.
• Search box now in dedicated area on the right of main toolbar.
• Bug fixes.

• File and folder visualization, comparison, and synchronization over WebDAV.
• Ability to exclude (i.e. add to the list of folder comparison filters) files and/or folders via a right click, paired with easy access to those filters from within folder comparison.
• Hiding of username and password from display URIs.
• Improved visibility filters UI.
• New system tray-based software updates notification mechanism.
• More prominent indication of the editor/tree with input focus.
• HTML viewer for HTML files. Now one can view html files as Text as well as in Design mode, as rendered by the default system browser.
• Visualization and comparison of compressed files within compressed files.
• Bug fixes.

• File visualization and comparison over HTTP(S) plus saving over (S)FTP.
• Folder comparison and synchronization over (S)FTP.
• Visualization and comparison of BZ2, EAR, GZ, JAR, TAR, TBZ2, TGZ and ZIP compressed files.
• Ability to open multiple folder comparison windows within a single application window.
• Improved folder comparison performance.
• Improved handling of external file change notifications on Windows.
• Ability to Save As individual files remotely and locally.

• Ability to set last modified date and time of files and folders in folder comparison.
• Ability to move files.
• Improved folder comparison performance.
• Significantly improved folder comparison updates during synchronization.
• Significantly improved file load time in file comparison.
• Mac OS X file and folder permissions now transferred during copy/move.
• Folder comparison Size column now shows folder size.
• Copy/move operations now use a two-level progress meter. Possible errors are logged and displayed at end of operation.
• Shortcut keys for merge operations in file comparison.

Performance and stability improvements.