Release notes

Version 3.7

Improved

• Ensures full compatibility with Windows 10, both 32 and 64-bit versions.

Version 3.6

New

• Added support for BSD format checksum files.
• Option to toggle between lowercase and uppercase.

Improved

• In Windows classic theme hashes are also highlighted.
• Start menu rearranged. Some items removed.
• Improved installation experience.

Fixed

• Tooltips are always shown above all other windows.

Version 3.5

New

• Auto compare the computed hashes against hash files, such as .md5, .crc, .sha, .sha1 and others.
• Real-time (on the fly) highlight of computed hashes against Windows Clipboard.
• Compact and Full layout (toggle via Show more hashes or Show less hashes).

Changed

• Some hashes (MD and RIPEMD hash functions) are moved to the More menu.

Improved

• Redesigned layout to allow entire hashes to be shown for two most popular hash functions: MD5 and SHA-1.
• To avoid confusion, upon selecting another file for hashing, previous hashes are cleared.
• Some web resources (release notes, test vectors) are added to the More menu.
• The Hash .dll file is now digitally signed.
• Minor improvements.

Fixed

• Duplicate shortcut keys have been removed.

Version 3.0

Improved

• Installer is now digitally signed with Authenticode ensuring the code authenticity upon installation of the software.

Version 3.0

New

• Unicode support for folder and file names.
• Average hashing speed is now displayed.

Changed

• Installer includes both x86 and x64 versions in a single (.exe or .zip) setup file. Separate 32 and 64-bit versions still available as .msi installers.
• Hash & CRC now requires Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher.
• Whirlpool hash function now uses Whirlpool version 3.
• If no hash function is selected, Compute is replaced with a Just Read button which allows caching files into memory.
• If no values are calculated, the Copy button is disabled.
• Hash & CRC tab title text changed to Hash / CRC due alignment bug in Windows 7.
• Link color modified to match Windows 7 theme.

Improved

• Improved calculation speed for some hash functions.
• Navigating with the keyboard, a Tab key now skips fields without hash values
• Improved button focusing. Default focus on Compute button.
• New setup and uninstall icons for better appearance in Windows.
• Hash & CRC now supports High DPI in Windows 7.
• The multiple file icon updated.

Fixed

• After selecting both file and folder and selecting the Hash / CRC tab resulted in a false error message.
• Minor resource leaking bug removed.

Version 2.0

Features

• Support of popular cryptographic hash checksums—CRC32, MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160, RIPEMD-256, RIPEMD-320, WHIRLPOOL and Tiger-192.
• Fast checksum computation.
• File integrity checksum calculation for large, virtually unlimited, file sizes.
• Simultaneous different checksum type calculation.
• Single or multiple hash value copy to clipboard (uppercase support).
• A simple and an easy to use interface.

Credit

• Based on Crypto++ Library by Wei Dai.