It’s been just over a year since v3.1.0 was released, and during that time a number of feature requests and some minor bug reports have been submitted. Family and work life have meant that I wasn’t able to action many of them as quickly as I would have liked, and consequently they accumulated into quite an endeavour of work.

Well over the last few weeks, I managed to address many of them and am happy to report the release of v3.2.0 which, most notably, includes the Blake3 hash algorithm which was released earlier in 2020 and several people asked me to include it. Blake3 is reported to be about 10 times faster than Blake2, which is itself faster than most of the other secure hash algorithms. I’d be interested to hear below how people find Blake3 within QuickHash-GUI.

There has also been a lot of work in the “Compare Two Folders” tab which now includes its own display grid like those seen in the FileS and Copy tabs. This should allow users more freedom and flexibility with the results. There is a minimal selection of right click options which I’ll likely build upon in the future but for now, I have kept it fairly small to avoid a massive catalogue of problems which often occur when I add a significant new section. There has also been a big improvement in how it does the comparison after a user kindly highlighted how it is not always a truly two way check. Now, it will count all the files first, and then hash them all, and then compare the hashes of Folder A against Folder B and then also the hashes of Folder B against Folder A. This will probably slow performance on high volumes of files but accuracy is more important than speed.

As ever, the code is all openly available over at Github and, also as ever, Paypal donations are very welcomed to help with the running costs of this project.