v4.5.8.0

Changes in this release:

The objective of this release is to address the WinGet validation issue and get the new dnGrep versions released on WinGet. Once this release is published and goes through the WinGet validation, I will post an update on the dnGrep issue dnGrep#1278.

In January or early February 2025, WinGet implemented changes to the validation process for adding new application versions. As a result, the new dnGrep releases, as well as previously validated and approved versions, failed this updated validation. However, the error provided do not specify the or reason for the failure.

The WinGet team reran the validation to capture error messages not shown on the website. They report the validation changes included a new static analysis check to evaluate thumbprints used in code signing. If a certificate has been known to sign malicious content, the thumbprint is flagged. In dnGrep's case, this check failed because of the Everything SDK dlls included in the dnGrep MSI. There are no reported issues with these dlls, but they are signed with the same digital certificate used to sign the Everything application and some versions of Everything.exe have been reported to contain malicious content. See reports here and here. These are altered versions of Everything.exe since the SHA256 in these reports do not match the original SHA256 on the voidtools.org website.

If you have Everything installed, you can check the SHA256 of your version against the published SHA256 on voidtools or in virustotal to make sure your installation is clean.

In order to pass the WinGet validation, the Everything SDK dlls have been removed from the MSI kits and the portable zip packages. When you install dnGrep v4.5 or higher using the MSI kit, it will remove the existing Everything64.dll or Everything32.dll from your installation directory.

You can still use the dnGrep/Everything integration, but you will need to copy the Everything SDK dlls into the dnGrep application directory after installation. See the dnGrep Configure Everything help page for more details.

Other changes:

.NET update to 9.0.4

Translations updated

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This program uses free code signing provided by SignPath.io, and a certificate by the SignPath Foundation.

v4.4.30.0

Changes in this release:

dnGrep#1264 Hotkey Customizations With this change you can modify the keyboard shortcuts and assign keyboard shortcuts to any command (menu item, context menu, or button) in dnGrep. See the Keyboard help page for details.

dnGrep#1297 Results list scroll alignment Changed the default scrolling when expanding a file in the results tree so the expanded node moves to top of the window to show more results in the current file. This also applies when using the keyboard shortcut or navigation buttons when moving down in the list of results. When moving up in the list, the last match in the file will be aligned to the bottom of the window. See issue dnGrep#1297 for more details. 

Updated Translations Add Croatian language, currently at 9% translated. Updates to several languages, thank-you for your contributions. Many languages need help to complete them. You are welcome and encouraged to complete or improve any of the existing translations, see Translate dnGrep for more information. Do as much or as little as you like. If you do not want to use Weblate for translations, I will take input in any format and merge the changes. Send me a note in the issues or discussions page.

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This program uses free code signing provided by SignPath.io, and a certificate by the SignPath Foundation.

v4.4.2.0

Changes in this release:

Relocating dnGrep settings and log files This is partially in response to dnGrep#1146. For more information see the Directories wiki page.
The goal this change is for these use cases:
-- Allow users of the zip file installation to move the settings and log directories out of the application directories.
-- Move the settings to a location where they can be backed up, such as a git repo or cloud drive.
It could be used to share configuration on different computers, but without local overrides.
Directory changes are made in the Options dialog.

dnGrep#1234 and dnGrep#1265 Reuse window from command line With this change, the whole command line is passed to the singleton instance of dnGrep. Previously, only the path parameter was passed to the singleton. Now you can execute dnGrep with command line arguments to set most of the command line options in the running instance.

dnGrep#1260 and dnGrep#1261 Fixes for line endings A number of changes have been made around handling different line endings: CRLF, LF, or CR (\r\n or \n or \r). Note that some regular expression operators such as $ only work with the Unix \n line ending, and not with the Windows \r\n. This is the behavior of the .NET regular expression engine, and not specific to dnGrep. dnGrep tries to accommodate different line endings where possible. See the referenced issues for more details.

Also made changes to the diff highlighting in the Replace dialog, using a different 'diff' library to one that gives better results on the types of changes seen in dnGrep.

.NET 9.0 This release is the first release of dnGrep on .NET 9.0
Updated third-party libraries

Updated Translations Updates to several languages, thank-you for your contributions. Many languages need help to complete them. You are welcome and encouraged to complete or improve any of the existing translations, see Translate dnGrep for more information. Do as much or as little as you like. If you do not want to use Weblate for translations, I will take input in any format and merge the changes. Send me a note in the issues or discussions page.

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This program uses free code signing provided by SignPath.io, and a certificate by the SignPath Foundation.