Diff Anything 1.5 Adds Smart Token-Based Code Diff Alongside Classic Line Diff

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Diff Anything 1.5 introduces a Smart Diff feature that aligns language-aware tokens and applies conservative rules for whitespace, indentation, and code structure, without replacing the traditional line diff. Both views work on the same source pair and support syntax highlighting, editing, and apply controls via a shared toolbar. The Smart Diff is explicitly not an AST or compiler-level semantic diff, a design choice that allowed consistent support across all 117 non-plain-text editor languages, including 18 newly maintained definitions. The release was validated through a comprehensive fixture matrix covering code, images, PDFs, archives, and more, which helped catch a malformed-YAML footer bug and a dirty-state apply issue before shipping. Version 1.5 also improves large-comparison performance, cancellation, accessibility, and recovery.

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