# About this Release

Cognex Designer 4.4.2 is a minor release to add the following features:

- Tested against VisionPro 9.8

- The ProjectDiff utility for comparing two projects side-by-side

  See the topic How To...Identify Changes Between Projects.

- Project settings designed to reduce the time required to load your project

  See the topic How To...Speed Up Project Loading.

- Command-line arguments providing various options for starting your deployed application or the Designer IDE.

  See the topic How To ... Properties Shortcuts.

- Various enhancements to TCP devices.

  See the topics TCP/IP Server and TCP/IP Client.

- New parameters for configuring a TwinCAT device

  See the topic Configure a TwinCAT Device.

- SoftEvents to use as a Trigger for executing a Task

  See the topic SoftEvents.

- Details on how to add entries to an Audit Trail

  See the topic How To Add Entries to an Audit Trail Database.

- Updated XAML sample code for a page plugin

  See the topic XAML Sample Code for a Page Plugin.

- Updated C# sample code for a page plugin

  See the topic C# Sample Code for a Page Plugin.

- Updated sample code to illustrate how to export data from a query to a CSV file.

  See the topic Export Query Data to a CSV File.

- Scripting functions for Tasks and SoftEvents

  See the topics $ Functions: Tasks and $ Functions: SoftEvents.

See the section Resolved Issues for a full list of bug fixes in this release.

Note: See the Release History for a complete list of all functionality introduced in the previous releases of Cognex Designer.