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It's been six months since we last sent out our monthly newsletter. We've been hard at work during the past six months and had plenty of releases. There have just been some issues with getting the newsletter sent out. Every other aspect of the business has been running smoothly. The monthly newsletter should be back to its regular schedule now too.
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PowerGREP 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 5.0.0, and 5.0.1 were all released since the previous issue of this newsletter. PowerGREP 5 is a major upgrade that brings many important new features and enhancements. The most obvious enhancement are the new toolbar icons, which allow PowerGREP to perfectly scale itself on all PC and laptop displays, including small laptops with 4K screens.
But our focus has been on extending PowerGREP's support for a wide range of file formats. Newly supported file formats include Outlook email folders and messages, MBOX email folders, MIME email messages, ODT files (OpenOffice Writer), XPS files, JPEG/EXIF metadata, audio file metadata (MP3, FLAC, WMA, etc.), web archives (MHT files), Windows shell links, and AceText collections. The ODT converter and a new converter for ODT files allow you to make replacements in these files as if they were plain text files, while retaining all formatting in the file. HTML and RTF files can now also be converted to plain text and you can make replacements in this mode.
PowerGREP 5's regex flavor has been upgraded with features such as recursion, balancing groups, branch reset groups, \K, and new shorthands for handling Unicode whitespace and line breaks. The replacement string flavor now supports conditionals. PowerGREP actions can now work on folders and can also directly work with the contents of the Windows clipboard and PowerGREP's built-in editor. Check out the PowerGREP 5.0.0 release notes for more details on everything that's new and improved in PowerGREP 5.
If you purchased PowerGREP 4 less than one year ago, you should already have received an email from us with your new PowerGREP user ID for your free upgrade to PowerGREP 5. If you purchased PowerGREP more than one year ago, then you can upgrade to PowerGREP 5 at half the price that new users pay. This upgrade offer is valid even if you purchased PowerGREP 1.0.0 back in 2002 and never upgraded.
PowerGREP 5.0.1 fixes various issues that were found in PowerGREP 5.0.0. A major upgrade with lots of new features tends to also bring some new bugs. Fortunately, the release of PowerGREP 5 has gone very smoothly. The issues we had to fix in 5.0.1 only occurred in specific circumstances.
While developing PowerGREP 5, we also found some older issues that were carried over from PowerGREP 4. Those were fixed in PowerGREP 4.7.1 and 4.7.2. Version 4.7.2 will likely be the final free minor update for you if you purchased PowerGREP 4.x.x more than one year ago. We only release free minor updates for previous major version lines when serious issues are found. If you did upgrade to PowerGREP 5, you can still download version 4.7.2 by specifically selecting that version on the download page.
RegexBuddy 4.6.1 is now available for download.
Version 4.6.0 brought RegexBuddy up-to-date for all the applications that it supports. Newly supported versions are Delphi and C++Builder 10.1 Berlin, PCRE 8.39, PCRE2 10.22, PHP 7.0.9, PowerGREP 5, R 3.3.1, and Ruby 2.3.
Some of these new versions bring new regex features that RegexBuddy now supports. THe most significant new feature is that PCRE2 10.21's "extended" flavor and PowerGREP 5 support replacement string conditionals in the form of ${1:+yes:no}, ${name:+yes:no}, (?1yes:no), (?{1}yes:no) and/or (?{name}yes:no). Replacement string conditionals can have an implicit backreference as the "yes" part using the syntax ${1:-no} and ${name:-no}.
Applications can now have multiple replacement string flavors. std::regex supports a "sed" replacement string flavor in addition to the default "ECMAScript" flavor. PCRE2 10.21 has a new "extended" replacement string flavor.
Unescaped dollar signs are now treated as errors rather than as literals in Perl replacement strings. In actual Perl they trigger variable interpolation which RegexBuddy cannot emulate.
Regular expressions in the help file and PDF manual now have the same syntax coloring as they would have in RegexBuddy itself using the default color preferences.
Some of the regexes in RegexBuddy's sample library have been updated. Sample regexes for MasterCard credit card numbers now include bin ranges 2221 through 2720. Sample regexes for matching email addresses now allow top-level domains up to 63 characters; new samples were added to show how to limit the maximum length on email addresses.
Starting with version 4.6.1, the PowerGREP button on the GREP panel now launches PowerGREP 5 if you have it installed. If not, it will launch PowerGREP 4 or 3 if you have one of those installed. Clipboard contents can be grepped directly by setting the folder to clipboard: and leaving the file mask blank or setting the file mask to something that matches clipboard.txt. Files larger than 2GB are now skipped with a clear error message indicating RegexBuddy is limited to 2 GB files rather than finding incorrect or no matches.
Opening HTTPS URLs on the Test panel now works if the OpenSSL library is available. If you have EditPad Pro, you can copy libaey32.dll and ssleay32.dll from EditPad Pro's installation folder to RegexBuddy's installation folder. Otherwise you can download a ZIP file with the two DLLs at http://indy.fulgan.com/SSL/. If RegexBuddy indicates "x64" next to its version number in the About box then you need the "win64.zip" file. Otherwise you need the "win32.zip" file. If the OpenSSL library is not available, then trying to open an HTTPS URL in RegexBuddy now says that HTTPS is not supported instead of saying something obscure about an IOHandler.
RegexMagic 2.5.1 is now available for download.
Version 2.5.0 brought RegexMagic up-to-date for all the applications that it supports. Newly supported versions are Delphi and C++Builder 10.1 Berlin, PCRE 8.39, PCRE2 10.22, PHP 7.0.9, PowerGREP 5, R 3.3.1, and Ruby 2.3.
Some of the RegexMagic patterns now generate improved regexes. The list of literal text pattern now generates a more optimal regex when all the items in the list start or end with the same characters. The credit card pattern now includes bin ranges 2221 through 2720 for MasterCard. The URL and email patterns now allow top-level domains up to 63 characters (the maximum length technically possible) instead of up to 6 characters (the longest domain that actually existed until recently).
Starting with version 2.5.1, the PowerGREP button on the GREP panel now launches PowerGREP 5 if you have it installed. If not, it will launch PowerGREP 4 or 3 if you have one of those installed. Clipboard contents can be grepped directly by setting the folder to clipboard: and leaving the file mask blank or setting the file mask to something that matches clipboard.txt. Files larger than 2GB are now skipped with a clear error message indicating RegexMagic is limited to 2 GB files rather than finding incorrect or no matches.
DeployMaster 5.3.0 is now available for download.
Building installers that contain thousands of small files (a few kilobytes each) is now significantly faster, particularly when selecting "Faster", "Minimal", or "None" as the compression method on the Media page.
That's it for this month. Thank you for using our software, and see you next month!
Kind regards,
Jan Goyvaerts.
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