Please update to a newest version

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This is an important security message.

We notice that many customers still use EmEditor v14.5.3 (or older). The updater in the old versions of EmEditor contained security vulnerability. For the safety of our customers, the updater in the older versions had been disabled since we removed the update configuration files in our server in response to the security incident. Although this incident was resolved, it is still potentially unsafe to continue using the old versions of EmEditor (from v10.0 through v14.5.3). The new versions of EmEditor (v14.5.4 or newer) is safe because it uses the improved updater which will not run an installer if the digital signature of the installer mismatches our signature.

If you are still using an old version of EmEditor (from v10.0 through v14.5.3), please download the newest version from our download page and install.

If you have not installed v14 before, you might need a v14 registration key. Your v14 key can be found in the Resend Keys page of Emurasoft Customer Center. Many customers already have lifetime licenses without their noticing, and so please check this page. If you don’t have a lifetime license nor a v14 key, you might need to purchase a new license.

Including this reason, if for some reasons, you can’t install the newer version, please disable the updater by selecting the Customize Update Checker on the Help menu of EmEditor.

If you have once installed a new version and want to revert to an old version, you can uninstall the new version, and then install the old version. You can find an old version in the sub folder of C:\ProgramData\Emurasoft\EmEditor\updates\update.

If you have issues with installing or uninstalling, please refer to our FAQ.

We apologize for any inconveniences. If you have any questions, please contact us using this form.

EmEditor v14.7.0 beta 1 released!

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Today, we are releasing EmEditor v14.7.0 beta 1.

Updates from v14.6.1 include:

  • The new Negative button in the Filter toolbar allows you to exclude the matched lines.
  • The new Sort Shortest to Longest and Sort Longest to Shortest buttons in the CSV/Sort toolbar allows you to sort the document by length of columns.
  • The new version allows you to specify a column to the filter in CSV documents. Also multiple levels of the filter can be specified (Advanced Filter).
  • The Treat digits as numbers check box and Treat full-width characters as 2 characters when sorting by length check box were added to the Sort tab of the Customize dialog box.
  • New Commands were added: Negative (Filter toolbar), Sort Shortest to Longest, Sort Longest to Shortest, and Advanced Filter (Filter toolbar) commands.
  • Macro new features: Filter, GetCell, and GetColumns methods were added to the Document object.
  • Plug-in API new features: EE_GET_CELL message and Editor_GetCell inline function, EE_FILTER message and Editor_Filter inline function, GET_CELL_INFO, and FILTER_INFO structures.
  • Fixed other bugs.

Please see:

https://www.emeditor.com/text-editor-features/history/new-in-version-14-7/
for more screenshots and details.

We would like to find as many bugs as possible before we release the new version. Please try it out now and let us know if you find any bugs.

To download or see changes, please go to the beta forum – EmEditor Professional v14.7.0 beta 1 released!.

Thank you for continue using EmEditor!

EmEditor v14.6.1 released!

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Today, we are releasing EmEditor v14.6.1.
Updates from v14.6.0 include:

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the bug on v14.6.0 where the Undo might not have worked under a certain condition.
  • Fixed the bug on the 32 bit edition of v14.6.0 where the Replace in Files using regular expressions did not work under a certain condition.
  • Fixed the bug where some text was not visible in the CSV mode depending on the separator positions.
  • The new version will not allow the Filter and Outline mode coexist.
  • Fixed the bug where vertical selections during the Filter mode revealed cursors in the hidden lines.
  • The new version tries to scroll to the cursor position after the Filter mode is cancelled.
  • The new version will not exit from the filter mode after the file reload.
  • Fixed the bug where the message box appears twice after select all, copy and paste in the filter mode.

Please see EmEditor v14.6 New Features for details.

The Update Checker on older versions of EmEditor will not be available anymore. If you try to check updates from older versions, you will see the prompt message: “Invalid or missing updates configuration file. …”. This is not a bug. Please download and update to the newest version of EmEditor by clicking here.

Download EmEditor v14.6 Now.

V14 is free upgrade from v13. To use v14, you will need a v14 registration key. If you have valid v13 licenses, you can view your free v14 registration keys at Emurasoft Customer Center.
80% of our customers (including old customers who have registered their products) already have lifetime licenses. Even if you haven’t installed v13, please click the above link to check if you can upgrade to v14.

Please also read: Announcing our policy change to rapid development, and introducing a maintenance plan.

Thank you for using EmEditor.

EmEditor v14.6.0 released!

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Today, we are releasing EmEditor v14.6.0.
This new version adds important features with big data analysis and database file editing in mind.

Updates from v14.5.4 include:

New General Features

  • The new version allows you to define up to 8 separate value formats, and each format now allows up to 39 character long text. You can specify each format whether to allow delimiters in double
    quotes, whether to allow new lines in double quotes, and the number of lines in the column headings.
  • The CSV/Sort toolbar was added and CSV related features were greatly enhanced.
  • The CSV/Sort toolbar allows you to change the CSV mode, CSV conversion, Fixed Width Columns, various column/separator related commands, sort commands, the
    Delete Duplicate Lines command, Line
    Number    , Ruler, and Heading commands.
  • Following commands can be executed against all documents in the current group by clicking the button while pressing the SHIFT key — Normal Mode, all CSV commands, all
    Convert to commands,
    Fixed Width Columns, all sort commands, Delete Duplicate Lines, Heading 0 – 4, Adjust Separator Positions, Automatically Add Separators, and
    Remove All Separators.
  • The Sort by Multiple Columns command was added.
  • The new Filter Bar was added. The Filter Bar allows you to view only the lines that include a specified string.
  • The Extract All button was added to the Find dialog box. Pressing the Extract All button extracts lines containing the searched string to a new document.
  • Double-clicking on the ruler now selects the column except the headings. Triple-clicking the ruler selects the entire column. After double/triple-clicking, moving the mouse right or left while
    pressing the mouse button selects multiple columns.
  • Double-clicking the ruler will not adjust columns anymore.
  • The Updater feature which was temporarily disabled on v14.5.4 was restored. The new Updater installs only digitally signed update packages signed with the same certificate as the Updater.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the bug where multiple selection positions after Replace All might have been wrong.
  • Fixed the bug where the Undo after a replace in the vertical selection might not have worked correctly.

Please see EmEditor v14.6 New Features for details.

The Update Checker on older versions of EmEditor will not be available anymore. If you try to check updates from older versions, you will see the prompt message: “Invalid or missing updates configuration file. …”. This is not a bug. Please download and update to the newest version of EmEditor by clicking here.

Download EmEditor v14.6 Now.

V14 is free upgrade from v13. To use v14, you will need a v14 registration key. If you have valid v13 licenses, you can view your free v14 registration keys at Emurasoft Customer Center.
80% of our customers (including old customers who have registered their products) already have lifetime licenses. Even if you haven’t installed v13, please click the above link to check if you can upgrade to v14.

Please also read: Announcing our policy change to rapid development, and introducing a maintenance plan.

Thank you for using EmEditor.

New Video: EmEditor v14.6 new features

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Today, we created the video for EmEditor v14.6 new features: Enhanced CSV features, Filter Bar, Sort by Multiple Columns.

We will release v14.6 soon.

Thank you for using EmEditor!

Version 14.6 feature page was added

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Today, we added the EmEditor Version 14.6 feature page. This new version adds important features with big data and database files in mind: more CSV support, Filter Bar, more Search options including the Extract button. We are planning to release EmEditor Version 14.6 very soon.

Thank you for using EmEditor!

Switching to Avangate

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We are excited to announce that we are switching our online payment partner to Avangate. Our customers will appreciate more features including telephone support in many counties, the ability to control the renewal option during check-out as well as the new fresh user interface. Optional Backup CD and Download Insurance Service are now unselected by default.

If you experience any issues during the checkout, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We always value your feedback.

Thank you.

 

EmEditor v14.6.0 beta 17 released!

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Today, we are releasing EmEditor v14.6.0 beta 17.

Updates from v14.6.0 beta 16 include:

  • The Prefer UTF-8 check box was added to the File tab of configuration properties. When this is checked and the Detect UTF-8 check box is also checked, UTF-8 takes precedence if the file can be interpreted both as UTF-8 and the selected encoding. For example, a file contains only ANSI characters (alphabets and numbers), it can be opened without any problems both as UTF-8 and Western European. In this situation, EmEditor opens the file as UTF-8. EmEditor also opens an empty file as UTF-8 if this is checked.
  • Stability improvements.

We would like to find as many bugs as possible before we release the new version. Please try it out now and let us know if you find any bugs.

To download or see changes, please go to the beta forum – EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 17 released!.

Thank you for continue using EmEditor!

Investigation report about the hacking incident

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Yesterday, we received the final investigation report from JPCERT/Coordination Center.

How unauthorized hacking was happened

From the various remained access logs, we could not identify the cause for the unauthorized hacking. We confirmed suspicious accesses (web and ftp) from 203.194.144.#, and we confirmed traces of attack attempts in early August. However, we couldn’t identify how the hacker entered our site just by these traces. There were no successful logins from these IP addresses.

About unauthorized redirects

From the remained access logs, the following 2 accesses were considered unauthorized accesses redirected by the .htaccess that was placed by a hacker.

#.#.#.# - - [18/Aug/2014:05:41:38 -0500] "GET /pub/updates/emed64_updates_ja.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 884 "-" "AdvancedInstaller"
#.#.#.# - - [18/Aug/2014:06:19:04 -0500] "GET /pub/updates/emed64_updates_ja.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 884 "-" "AdvancedInstaller"

These accesses match with the IP addresses written in the .htaccess, the time frame when the incident happened. Also, the number of bytes written in the access log (884) was different from the number of bytes written in the other accesses in the other time frame and other IP addresses.

Usually access logs look like:

#.#.#.# - - [10/Aug/2014:03:45:09 -0500] "GET /pub/updates/emed64_updates_ja.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 855 "-" "AdvancedInstaller"

the number of bytes is 855 for this file, but the above two accesses show the number of bytes as 884 bytes.

The clients who own the above IP addresses were contacted by JPCERT/CC, and found there were no malware infections. The access logs record all accesses including merely update checking without actual installation.

Future measures

In addition to routine updates of WordPress plug-ins and themes, we periodically scan our site for malware, monitor files on the server, access logs, and block suspicious IP addresses. On August 29th, we protected the entire site of emeditor.com with SSL encrypted connections. We are also planning to move our forums to another site or an electronic mailing list for improved security.

The next version of Advanced Installer that we used to make the Update Checker will be able to block update installers without the same digital signature as ours. The future EmEditor versions will restore the Update Checker with improved security.

We apologize for any inconveniences that this situation might have caused you

See also:

Possible malware attack by EmEditor Update Checker

New Filter Bar feature: (EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 11)

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Today, we are releasing EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 11.

Updates from v14.6.0 beta 8 include:

  • Added the new Filter Bar was added. The Filter Bar allows you to view only the lines that include a specified string.
  • The Toggle Filter Toolbar, Set Focus to Filter Toolbar, Close Filter Toolbar commands were added.
  • The Filter Toolbar button was added to the toolbar.
  • CTRL + SHIFT + D was assigned to the Set Focus to Filter Toolbar command by default.
  • Fixed other bugs.

We would like to find as many bugs as possible before we release the new version. Please try it out now and let us know if you find any bugs.

To download or see changes, please go to the beta forum – EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 11 released! (New Feature: Filter Bar).

Thank you for continue using EmEditor!