3 ## WinMerge 2.16.18 - 2022-01-27
7 - [Feature Request] Lengthen title of File Compare window or add tip (#960)
8 - added me to contributor list (PR #1094)
12 - BugFix: wm 2.16.16.0 crashes with file attached (#1101)
13 - BugFix: Fix a problem that 'Encountered an improper argument' error occurs
14 when a pane split by Window→Split menu item is unsplit by drag operation.
15 - BugFix: Colors -> Differences -> Word Difference : Text color ignored (#1116)
16 - 3-Way File Merge: No Keyboard / hot keys available for Merging from Left Pane
17 to right pane and vice versa (#957)
18 - Winmerge hangs when i try to compare files. (#1111)
19 - Fast encoding switching. (#793)
23 - New Feature: Clipboard Compare (PR #1147)
24 - Click File → Open Clipboard menu item to compare the two most recent
25 contents of the clipboard history.
26 - You can also compare by pressing Ctrl+V when the child MDI window is not
28 - This feature is available on Windows 10 version 1809 or higher and
29 WinMerge 64-bit version.
33 - BugFix: Sorting on Comparison Result being done incorectly (#483)
34 - BugFix: Fix an issue where WinMerge sometimes crashes when executing
35 "Refresh Selected" in the folder compare window. (PR #1120)
36 - BugFix: Fixed a bug that the parent folder icon was not displayed in non-recursive mode.
37 - BugFix: Fixed the problem that the sort order is different from version 2.16.16 or earlier
41 - Fix for https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/discussions/1139 (#1139,PR #1140)
42 - Make plugin descriptions translatable
43 - Upgrade Apache Tika to 2.2.1
47 - Added `/clipboard-compare` command line option
51 - Update 7-Zip to 21.07
55 - BugFix: Incorrect link to "Quick Start" guide at WM installation end (#1127)
56 - BugFix: Add replacesameversion flag to 7z.dll
57 - Re-enabled the process of installing ShellExtension for Windows 11.
61 - BugFix: "Quick compare limit" and "Binary compare limit" settings don't have
62 the expected (and documented) purpose (#1100)
66 - Translation updates:
67 - Chinese Simplified (PR #1109,#1112,#1134)
68 - Corsican (PR #1103,#1119,#1137,#1142,#1154)
70 - French (PR #1121,#1122,#1157)
71 - German (PR #1110,#1117,#1143,#1155)
72 - Hungarian (PR #1102,#1115,#1136,#1141,#1150)
74 - Lithuanian (PR #1124,#1144)
75 - Portuguese (PR #1097,#1098,#1106,#1133,#1149)
76 - Slovenian (PR #1148,#1153)
81 - Fix typo in DirScan.cpp (#1118)
83 ## WinMerge 2.16.17 - 2021-12-19
87 - New Option to ignore numbers. (PR #1025,#923)
88 - Add the feature to display tooltips on the MDI tab. (PR #1038)
89 - Issue with closing WinMerge with Esc keyboard key (#1052)
90 - Add an "Defaults" section to the ini file (PR #1071)
94 - BugFix: Release 2.16.16 crashes when comparing large files - likely a
96 - BugFix: Fixed C#(Java, JavaScript) keyword highlighting. (#1040)
97 - BugFix: The current pane switches without me asking it to. (#1050)
98 - BugFix: Fix PHP syntax highlighting. (PR #1055)
99 - BugFix: Source Files Comparison doesn't seem to Work properly (#1057)
100 - Add D syntax highlighting. (PR #1042)
101 - Improved 'Match similar lines' option (#1013)
102 - Make the 'Match similar lines' option work for 3-way comparisons
104 - Please add a huge icon for "Filter is active" (#1056)
108 - Added support for creating multi-page image compare report
113 - BugFix: Fixed a problem where Duplicate Group Numbers were not assigned to
114 files with the same content but different file names.
115 - BugFix: Fix crash when comparing 3 folders if additional properties were added
116 - FolderCompare: Improve performance when tree mode is disabled (#PR #1069)
120 - Add a feature to save/restore the "Ignore numbers" setting to/from a project
123 ### Patch Generator dialog
125 - Put the diff patch to the clipboard rather than to files (#923)
129 - BugFix: Fixed the problem that Plugins->Reload Plugins menu item does not
134 - Update 7-Zip to 21.06
138 - ShellExtension for Windows 11: Implemented advanced menu
143 - Corsican (PR #1072,#1085)
144 - Translation updates:
145 - Chinese Traditional (PR #1079)
146 - Galician (PR #1089)
147 - German (PR #1062,#1086,#1088)
148 - Hungarian (PR #1032)
151 - Lithuanian (PR #1043,#1061,#1082,#1087)
153 - Portuguese (PR #1034,#1039,#1060,#1065)
159 - BugFix: Fix typo in BCMenu.cpp (PR #1054)
160 - BugFix: Return better HRESULTs (PR #1077)
161 - Make it buildable for ARM32 architecture
163 ## WinMerge 2.16.16 - 2021-10-28
167 - Fix a problem where the string in the Windows common dialog would not
168 change to the language when switching languages.
172 - BugFix: Fix not getting the proper error message when saving failed
176 - BugFix: Cannot resize last column with UI (#998)
177 - Reloading a file that was changed by another application does not preserve
182 - BugFix: Fix an issue where drag-and-drop of file would only work once.
186 - BugFix: Sync (Super Slow) (#771)
187 - BugFix: Fix an issue where filters are not applied correctly when opening
188 a project file containing multiple items with different filters. (PR #995)
189 - [Feature Request] New Display Columns: Dimensions + Size Difference (#131)
190 - FolderCompare: Additional Properties (Windows Property System+Hash
191 (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256)) (PR #996)
195 - BugFix: Fix the problem that the "Register Shell Extension for Windows 11 or
196 later" button is not enabled when another user has registered
197 ShellExtension for Windows 11.
201 - BugFix: Plugin unpacked file extension problem
202 (get_PluginUnpackedFileExtension) (#983)
203 - BugFix: Comparing broken lnk-files (windows shortcuts) freezes WinMerge
205 - Apache Tika plugin: Update Apache tika to 2.1.0 and change the
207 - CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Make the number before the sheet name zero-padded
211 - BugFix: ShellExtension for Windows 11 did not work on machines that did not
212 have MSVCP140.dll VCRUNTIME140*.dll installed.
213 - BugFix: Loop counter should be the same type as the count type. (PR #987)
214 - ShellExtension for Windows11: Disable Registry Write Virtualization
218 - Where to report documentation/help errors? (#1004)
222 - Translation updates:
223 - Galician (PR #1005)
224 - German (PR #986,#1027)
225 - Hungarian (PR #991,#1023)
227 - Lithuanian (PR #979)
228 - Portuguese (PR #1017)
234 - BugFix: Missing packages.config (also outdated) and wrong NuGet packages
235 path in the WinMergeContextMenu.vcxproj and .filters file (#985)
236 - Fix typo in OpenView.cpp (PR #1000)
238 ## WinMerge 2.16.15 - 2021-09-20
242 - BugFix: WinMerge would crash when launched if the registry or INI file
243 contained invalid values.
244 - BugFix: Winmerge Crash when comparing 2 files from Windows Explorer context
245 menu (#808, #908, #913)
246 - BugFix: Incorrect text color for selected menu item on Windows 11
247 - BugFix: 50% cpu use by winmergeu.exe after program closed (#903)
248 - Digitally sign packages (#152)
252 - BugFix: The mouse cursor did not change to an hourglass when the files or
253 plugins were taking a long time to load.
254 - BugFix: Save Middle and Save Middle As menu items were not enabled when
255 comparing three files.
256 - BugFix: A two-pane window was displayed even though
257 New (3panes) → Table menu item was selected.
258 - BugFix: The height of each pane in the Diff pane was calculated incorrectly
259 when comparing three files.
260 - BugFix: Unicode SMP chars misrendered after performing a find (#914)
261 - BugFix: Crash when pressing Shift+F4 key
262 - BugFix: Replace slow (#940)
263 - BugFix: When moving in the scroll pane, the selected position is incorrect
265 - BugFix: When the Diff pane was redisplayed, the scroll position of the Diff
266 pane was not appropriate. (osdn.net #42862)
267 - Make "Do not close this box" checkbox in search window On by default (#941)
271 - BugFix: Duplicate menu shortcut in translations (#905)
272 - BugFix: Image comparison (winimerge #24)
276 - Add a feature to save/restore compare options to/from a project file.(#498)
281 - Add a feature to set items saved to or restored from the project file.
286 - New unpacker plugins:
293 - Added /c `column number` command line option
294 - Added /EnableExitCode command line option
298 - BugFix: WinMerge's extended menu items were doubly inserted into the context
299 menu of Explorer's navigation pane. (osdn.net #42702)
300 - BugFix: Right click - compare - is unclear (#249)
301 - Added a new DLL (WinMergeContextMenu.dll) for the Windows 11 Explorer context
302 menu (currently unstable and not registered by default) (PR #954)
306 - Translation updates:
307 - Brazilian (PR #910)
308 - Dutch (PR #921,#969)
309 - German (PR #965,#977)
310 - Hungarian (PR #937,#955)
314 - Portuguese (PR #956,#964,#976)
315 - Russian (PR #901,#927,#963)
322 - README.md: Make it clear that requirements are to build, not use the
323 application (PR #942)
324 - compiler-calculated maximum value for `m_SourceDefs` (PR #966)
326 ## WinMerge 2.16.14 - 2021-07-25
330 - Fixed an issue where the WinMerge process might not terminate even though the
331 WinMerge window was closed.
335 - BugFix: Fixed an infinite loop when "find what" in the substitution filters
340 - BugFix: Fix an issue where a file is deselected when returning to the folder
341 compare window after opening the file compare window by double-clicking
342 the file in the folder compare window. (PR #857)
343 - Right click context menu - Compare files or folders in a new tab (#232,#277)
347 - BugFix: Fixed an issue where window titles may not be updated
351 - winmerge shows (differences) rotated image (winmerge/winimerge #20)
352 - Added following menu items to the context menu
360 - Add preference option to clear "Don't ask this question again"
361 CompareLargeFiles choice (#772, PR #859)
363 ### Select Files or Folders dialog
365 - BugFix: Fix the Select Files or Folders dialog. (PR #882,#892)
369 - BugFix: CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: "This picture only contains a bitmap" was
370 displayed when comparing Excel files that contain shapes.
371 - BugFix: CString rangestr = (argc > 0) ? argv[0] : GetColumnRangeString();
373 - Improve plugin system (editor script) (PR #871)
374 - New unpacker plugins:
384 - New editor script plugins:
392 - Updated Apache Tika to version 2.0.0
393 - Updated yq to version 4.11.1
397 - Added /l command line option (osdn.net #41528)
398 - Added /t, /table-delimiter, /new, /fileext and /inifile command line option
402 - Installer integrates with TortoiseGit and TortoiseSVN despite being told not
407 - Translation updates:
408 - Bulgarian (PR #850)
409 - Dutch (PR #842,#893)
411 - German (PR #860,#870,#883,#890)
412 - Hungarian (PR #845,#856,#897)
414 - Lithuanian (PR #840,#849,#866,#875,#879,#894)
415 - Portuguese (PR #846,#872,#898)
422 - BugFix: WinMerge doesn't build under Visual Studio 16.10.2 (#841)
423 - BugFix: x64: LINK : warning LNK4010: invalid subsystem version number 5.01;
424 default subsystem version assumed (#855)
425 - BugFix: Project: heksedit cl : command line warning D9002: ignoring unknown
426 option '/arch:SSE' (#861)
427 - BugFix:ALL.vs2019.sln cl : command line warning D9035: option 'Gm' has been
428 deprecated and will be removed in a future release (#862)
429 - Resolves: Add continuous code security and quality analysis (PR #844, #843)
430 - Improvement: Add check and error mesage in DownloadDeps.cmd that path to
433 ## WinMerge 2.16.13 - 2021-06-22
437 - BugFix: Register.bat did not work properly on the Chinese version of
439 - Possibility to store settings in INI file (#248) (PR #750)
440 - FeatureRequest - Ignoring options - lack in "button menu" (#804)
444 - BugFix: Fix PHP syntax highlighting. (PR #782, PR #802)
445 - BugFix: BS key did not work at the beginning of the line after splitting
446 the pane or clicking the OK button in the Options dialog.
447 - BugFix: The edited contents were discarded when the "Recompare As" menu item
448 was selected after editing the file
449 - BugFix: Incorrect comparison (#834)
450 (This bug occured when enabling both the 'Ignore blank lines' option and
451 the 'Completely unhighlight the ignored differences' option.)
452 - Add Smarty syntax highlighting. (PR #821)
453 - Thicken the caret in overwrite mode (osdn.net #42179)
457 - BugFix: Different Files are Identical? (#768)
458 (When comparing files with only BOM and no contents, the comparison result
459 became unstable because it referred to the uninitialized memory.)
460 - BugFix: Fix a crash when re-comparing folders (osdn.net #42219)
464 - BugFix: The file could not be saved after creating a new one
465 - Made Unpacker plugins available for image compare and binary compare
469 - BugFix: Error on try to show differences between two different gif (#784)
470 - Made Unpacker plugins available for image compare and binary compare
474 - Improve plugin system (PR #797)
475 - Added categorized Unpacker plugin menu items to various menus
476 - Made it possible to specify multiple Unpacker/Prediffer plugins by
477 concatenating them with | and to specify arguments.
478 - Allowed Unpacker/Prediffer plugins to be specified for multiple files at
479 once in Folder Compare window. The specified plugin will be visible in
480 the Unpacker and Prediffer columns
481 - Add "(U)" or "(P)" to the tab title of the window opened by the
482 Unpacker/Prediffer plugin.
483 - Allowed the plugin settings dialog to specify default arguments that will
484 be used when no plugin arguments are specified
485 - Allowed plugins used by Automatic Unpacking/Prediffing to be excluded in
486 the plugin settings dialog
487 - New unpacker plugins:
504 - New editor script plugins:
515 - BugFix: Fix an issue where a message is not translated.(PR #763)
516 - Translation updates:
525 - Update CWindowsManagerDialog (PR #811)
526 - Update CWindowsManagerDialog - check some pointers for null and made safe
529 ## WinMerge 2.16.12 - 2021-04-29
533 - GUI textstrings: grammatical corrections (PR #722)
534 - Added ARM64 support
538 - BugFix: Fix PHP syntax highlighting. (PR #751)
539 - BugFix: Strings in a multi-line diff block were not be replaced correctly
540 when the substitution filters' regular expression contained ^
541 - BugFix: Font size restoration with Ctrl+0 key did not work properly in
543 - BugFix: Fixed a rare crash when enabling syntax highlight
544 - BugFix: Fixed an issue where inline scripts in HTML files were not
545 highlighted correctly
546 - Make the width of the 'Find what' label in Find dialog a little wider
548 - Fix conflicting accelerators (osdn.net #42064)
549 - [Feature Request] Selection Count on Status Bar (#135)
550 - Add C# 6.0 reserved words to style list (PR #719)
551 - FR: Add a shortcut key go to next file (#721)
552 - Update PHP syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #724)
553 - autoit.cpp - Macros >> User 1 ..... Variable >> User 2 (PR #749)
554 - autoit.cpp - #CS #CE support (PR #753)
555 - Interrupt a inline diff process when it takes too long
556 - Make the color of characters that represent spaces and tabs lighter than
557 other characters when the "View Whitespace" menu item is enabled
558 - Added "Open Parent Folder" menu item to the context menu
562 - BugFix: Copy confirmation dialog has overlapped Yes/No Button (#739)
563 - BugFix: Comparison result was not updated by Swap operation in 3-way folder
564 comparison (osdn.net #41901)
568 - BugFix: Next File or Previous File button on the toolbar did not work if the
569 active window was a binary compare window or an image compare window.
570 - BugFix: Only one pane was zoomed in/out in Ctrl+Mouse Wheel
574 - BugFix: Next File or Previous File button on the toolbar did not work if the
575 active window was a binary compare window or an image compare window.
576 - BugFix: The header bar widths were not calculated properly when the
577 'Split Vertically' menu item is unchecked.
581 - Make archive files openable as binary files from the pull-down menu.
585 - BugFix: Fixed a rare crash when decompressing an archive file
589 - BugFix: ATL: QIThunk - 2 LEAK in plugins e.g. DisplayBinaryFiles and
590 DisplayXMLFiles (#755)
594 - Translation updates:
595 - Brazilian (PR #711,#728,#729)
598 - German (PR #718,#752)
599 - Hungarian (PR #712)
602 - Lithuanian (PR #708,#713,#738,#754)
603 - Portuguese (PR #725)
605 - Swedish (PR #720,#723)
608 ## WinMerge 2.16.11 - 2021-03-28
612 - Make all OK strings same case (PR #593)
613 - Tab bar: Added shadows to help distinguish between active and inactive tabs
614 - Added drop-down menu to Open and Save icon on toolbar
618 - BugFix: Basic syntax highlighter is broken (osdn.net #41440)
619 - BugFix: File is corrupted while saving differences in changed file (Ctrl+S)
621 - BugFix: Fix an issue where the syntax highlighting scheme is not applied to
622 the split second File pane and the Diff pane when changing it.
624 - BugFix: The position selected by clicking while holding down the shift key is
625 incorrect. (sf.net #2237)
626 - BugFix: Fix an issue where the comment filter might not work properly if the
627 file is non-UTF-8 and the comment contains non-ascii characters.
628 - Add a feature to set up default highlighting by a file extension
630 - Add "Copy Selected Line(s) to/from Left/Right" feature (#463)
632 - If -b or -w is also specified, -B now considers lines to be empty if they
633 contain only white space (osdn.net #41355)
634 - Added BOM checkbox to the Codepage dialog.
638 - BugFix: Program crash if you close a tab with the folder from where you
639 opened current file (#645)
640 - BugFix: The title bar path was not updated when swapping files in a Zip file.
641 - BugFix: The codepage specified in the Codepage dialog did not affect the
646 - BugFix: The image on the right does not open if the file exists only on the
647 right (osdn.net #41721)
651 - Added Text, Table, Binary and Image menu items to the Compare button in the
652 "Select Files or Folders" window
656 - Rar5 support (#644)
660 - BugFix: Fix an issue where custom colors are not saved.
665 - RCLocalizationHelper: Fix memory leaks (PR #596)
669 - Installer issue with Polish diacritics characters (#589)
673 - Translation updates:
674 - Bulgarian (PR #599,#625)
675 - Brazilian (PR #633)
676 - French (PR #637,#649,#658,#659)
677 - Galician (PR #587,#650,#677)
678 - German (PR #632,#651)
679 - Hungarian (PR #682,#683,#685)
681 - Lithuanian (PR #634,#653)
682 - Polish (PR #597,#673)
683 - Portuguese (PR #674)
689 - Single instance mode does not work when launched from Visual Studio 2019
691 (Added /sw command line option)
695 - BugFix: Plugins\src_VCPP\VCPPPlugins.vs2017.sln can't open projects any
696 more because in revision 69455da the projects were renamed. (#598)
697 - BugFix: OutputFile of plugin project DisplayXMLFiles is different that the
698 other projects (#600)
699 - BugFix: WinMergeScript.rgs files in Plugins\src_VCPP projects are not found.
701 - BugFix: typeinfoex.h(189): warning C4701: potentially uninitialized local
702 variable 'pTypeLib' used (#605)
703 - BugFix: Plugins project DisplayXMLFiles.vcxproj contains
704 "Unicode Release MinSize" configuration but was removed (#611)
705 - Expression is always true (#612,PR #613)
706 - Plugins.cpp function SearchScriptForMethodName can be improved (#690)
708 ## WinMerge 2.16.10 - 2021-01-30
712 - BugFix: Fixed processing that uses GetAsyncKeyState(). (GitHub PR #505)
713 - BugFix: Fixed the problem that the language setting is not applied to the
714 context menu of the MDI tab when the language setting is changed.
716 - BugFix: command-line option /x did not work for binary and image comparison
717 - BugFix: Substiturions vs. Substitutions (GitHub #551)
718 - Swap Panes functionality for 3 way compares (Issue #507) (GitHub PR #533)
719 - [feature request] Add options to command line to change "compare methods"
721 - Added the command line option "/s-" to ensure that another instance is
722 always executed, ignoring the value of the 'Allow only one instance to
727 - BugFix: WinMerge crashes with mouse double click (GitHub #531)
728 - BugFix: Fixed an issue where the message box "The report has been created
729 successfully." was displayed even if the report creation failed.
730 - BugFix: BUG: Doesn't respect "Don't ask this question again" checkbox when
731 comparing large files (GitHub #574)
732 - The Location pane doesn't draw a line connecting moved differences by
733 default (GitHub #498)
734 - Update crystallineparser.cpp - AutoIt (\*.au3) support as a "Basic"
736 - s\_apszAutoItKeywordList[] - actualization for AutoIt (GitHub PR #584)
737 - Added JavaScript and JSON syntax highligher (osdn.net #41083)
738 - Added View -> Diff Context -> Invert menu item
739 - Feature Request: Move To Next File option while comparing files #475
741 - A new feature "Ignored Substutions" (GitHub PR #544,#549,#560)
742 ("Ignored Substitutions" was renamed to "Substitution Filters")
746 - BugFix: Winmerge crashes consistently when deleting files
748 - BugFix: Copy Folder does not copy subfolders and I don't see any option for it
753 - Added File -> New -> Table menu item
757 - Added File -> New -> Binary menu item
761 - Implement copy and paste images (GitHub PR #524)
762 - Added File -> New -> Image menu item
763 - Added Image -> Compare Extracted Text From Image menu item
767 - Fix an issue where custom colors are not saved.
772 - Making CPropertySheet resizable needs some re-work. (Issue #509)
775 ### Patch Generator dialog
777 - BugFix: Crash when generating patch (GitHub #521)
781 - Translation updates:
782 - Dutch (GitHub #578,#579,#580)
783 - Galician (GitHub PR #493,#538,#570)
784 - German (GitHub PR #532,#548,#563,#585)
786 - Lithuanian (GitHub PR #496,#528,#536,#562,#564)
787 - Portuguese (GitHub PR #495)
788 - Slovenian (GitHub #553,#565)
789 - Russian (GitHub PR #494)
793 - Update manual (GitHub PR #497,#513,#546)
794 - Small tweaks for the Manual (GitHub PR #508)
795 - Windows XP Pro SP0 vs Requirements (GitHub #515)
799 - Fix Various Warnings (GitHub PR #539)
800 - Various fixes to testing (GitHub PR #545)
801 - Some tweaks for translations status (GitHub PR #556)
802 - Link error when `building Plugins\src_VCPP\DisplayXMLFiles` with Visual
803 Studio 2019 16.7.7 (GitHub #554)
804 - Link error when building VCPP plugin DisplayXMLFiles with Visual Studio
805 2019 16.7.7 (GitHub #555)
806 - Link warnings when building VCPP plugin DisplayXMLFiles with Visual Studio
807 2019 16.7.7 (GitHub #558)
808 - Some more files should be added to the .gitignore file (GitHub #559)
810 ## WinMerge 2.16.9 - 2020-11-29
814 - BugFix: MainFrm.cpp: Toolbar was leaking image lists (GitHub PR #432)
815 - BugFix: The icons on a 43" 4K screen are too small (GitHub #276)
816 - Update English.pot (GitHub #440)
817 - Update Merge.rc (GitHub #487)
818 - Improved startup time
822 - BugFix: [UI] Pane enlargement was reset after changing tab (GitHub #403)
823 - BugFix: Non-comment differences were sometimes ignored when the comment
824 filter was enabled, (osdn.net #40488)
825 - BugFix: Line Filters aren't applied when using a 3rd file (GitHub #395)
826 - BugFix: "Ignore blank lines" does not work in 3-way compare (GitHub #450)
827 - BugFix: Fix the problem that the comparison result is displayed one line
828 off in the file compare window if a sync point is added with the first
829 line selected. (GitHub PR #435)
830 - BugFix: Fix the problem accessing the text buffer out of range if a sync
831 point is added by selecting a ghost line that is after the last block.
833 - BugFix: Fix the problem that "Goto...", "Goto Line <line>" and moving by
834 left click on the location pane do not work appropriately when the Diff
835 pane is active in the file compare window. (GitHub PR #476)
836 - BugFix: Reloading file does not refresh its encoding (GitHub #466)
837 - BugFix: Editor text display is abnormal - character spacing problem
839 - always copy "full line" instead of "selected text only" - option
840 CopyFullLine (GitHub PR #459)
841 - Add the feature "Go to Moved Line" requested by #278 (GitHub PR #484)
842 - how to show white space with linebreak hidden? (GitHub #265)
843 (Added View->View EOL menu item)
847 - BugFix: Pausing comparing doesn't pause immediately (GitHub #342)
848 - BugFix: Sorting on Comparison Result being done incorectly (GitHub #483)
849 - Commandline to display versions in the output report (GitHub #418)
850 - "Don't ask again" checkbox for the Confirm Copy dialog (GitHub PR #445)
854 - BugFix: Scrolling binary files (GitHub #456)
858 - Added "Automatically scroll to first inline difference" option to Options
861 ### Patch Generator dialog
863 - BugFix: Fixed the problem that the input to File1 or File2 comboboxes of
864 the Patch Generator dialog is not applied when the Patch Generator dialog
865 is opened by selecting multiple files. (GitHub PR #421)
869 - Translation updates:
870 - Chinese Simplified (GitHub PR #465)
871 - Dutch (GitHub PR #482)
872 - Galician (GitHub PR #419,#458,#493)
873 - German (GitHub PR #438,#448,#480,#490)
874 - Lithuanian (GitHub PR #417,#439,#443,#449,#481)
875 - Polish (GitHub PR #447)
876 - Portuguese (GitHub PR #429,#467)
877 - Slovak (GitHub PR #470)
878 - Slovenian (GitHub PR #486,#488)
879 - Spanish (GitHub PR #454)
880 - Turkish (GitHub PR #425)
884 - Update Shortcut_keys.xml (GitHub PR #430)
885 - Update manual (GitHub PR #485,#492)
889 - Tweak output from BuildInstaller.cmd and BuildArc.cmd (GitHub PR #424)
890 - Fix typo in GhostTextBuffer.cpp (GitHub PR #472)
891 - Fix typo in memdc.h (GitHub PR #474)
893 ## WinMerge 2.16.8 - 2020-08-28
896 - BugFix: More space for some internationalized strings (GitHub #402)
897 - BugFix: Some improvements (GitHub #405,#411)
900 - BugFix: Ignore case option did not work when Diff algorithm was
902 - BugFix: A white vertical rectangle was sometimes drawn in the selected area
903 - BugFix: The title of the file comparison window after changing the language
904 was accidentally changed to "Untitled left/right"
905 - BugFix: Wrong merging (GitHub #420)
906 (minimal/patience/histogram diff algorithm did not work on Windows XP)
907 - Extended F4 key movement range to the whole file
908 - Don't treat UTF-8 and UTF-8 with BOM the same when the
909 "Ignore codepage differences" option is disabled
912 - BugFix: Appropriate error messages were not displayed when the file to be
913 deleted no longer existed
914 - BugFix: 'Show Middle/Right Unique items' menu item does not work properly
915 in 3-way folder compare (osdn.net #40672)
916 - CTRL+Drag folders now has the opposite behavior of the current
917 Include Subfolders option
920 - BugFix: Fix scrolling glitches (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge PR #8)
921 - Reduce flicker on resize (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge PR #9)
924 - Allow choosing image filename patterns from a multi-selection dropdown list
926 - WildcardDropList: Avoid the String instance as it could throw std::bad_alloc
928 - Remove duplicate filename patterns without relying on WildcardDropList
930 - Made Options dialog resizable
931 - Changed the default values for the following options:
932 - Ignore codepage differences -> disabled
933 - Include unique subfolders contents -> enabled
936 - Rework the fix for Github issue #316: GUI glitches/bugs #2 (GitHub PR #392)
937 - Replace outdated list of developers in AboutBox with ascii-art gnu from FSF
941 - BugFix: Installation - Internal error: Failed to expand shell folder
942 constant "userdesktop" (GitHub #354)
943 - BugFix: Lithuanian.po is missing (GitHub PR #415)
944 - New installer for per-user installation
945 (WinMerge-2.16.8-x64-PerUser-Setup.exe)
948 - Translation updates:
949 - Brazilian (GitHub PR #383)
950 - Galician (GitHub PR #393)
951 - German (GitHub PR #388,#389,#398,#399,#401,#406,#412,#414, WinMerge/frhed PR #2)
952 - Lithuanian (GitHub PR #385,#390,#407,#408,#413,#415)
953 - Turkish (GitHub PR #386)
954 - Russian (GitHub PR #387)
957 - Update manual for IgnoreCommentsC change (GitHub PR #384)
958 - Update Shortcut_keys.xml (GitHub PR #410)
960 ## WinMerge 2.16.7 - 2020-07-26
962 - BugFix: The icons on a 43" 4K screen are too small (GitHub #276)
963 - BugFix: GUI glitches/bugs (GitHub #316)
964 - BugFix: Several issues regarding i18n (GitHub #314)
965 - Add Solarized Dark/Light color scheme (GitHub #287)
966 - Compile WinMerge with ASLR and CFG enabled (GitHub #315)
969 - BugFix: Diff Pane issues (GitHub #307)
970 - BugFix: Codepage not updated on refresh (GitHub #320)
971 - BugFix: Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)
972 - BugFix: WinMerge does not recognize the same files (GitHub #332)
973 - BugFix: Moved ghost lines are shown in the wrong color (GitHub #358)
974 - BugFix: opening same file (GitHub #362)
975 - BugFix: Find dialog sometimes remembers old text to start a new find
976 instead of the new text. (GitHub #368)
977 - BugFix: Fix a problem where markers that are out of the range of the
978 current difference appear in the difference pane. (osdn.net 40407)
979 - BugFix: HTML5 encoding (<meta charset="..." >) is ignored. (osdn.net #40476)
980 - '=' should be included in word separator (osdn.net #40224)
981 - Allow specifying default for EOL warning checkbox (GitHub #297)
982 - Only indent existing lines (GitHub #356)
985 - Made it possible to display the contents of CSV and TSV files like
986 spreadsheet software.
989 - BugFix: DST causes incorrect dates shown in Date column (GitHub #299)
990 - BugFix: Long filename issue (GitHub #339)
991 - BugFix: Winmerge Freeze if large number of files are listed in Window View
993 - BugFix: Change to disable some menu items that should not be executed for
994 directories, when directories are selected in the folder compare window.
996 - BugFix: Update DirViewColItems.cpp (GitHub #376)
997 - BugFix: Fix the problem that not 3 panes but 2 panes file compare window
998 displays when executing "Compare As" > "Binary" or "Compare As" > "Image"
999 in the context menu in the folder compare window with selecting 3 items.
1001 - BugFix: Fix a problem where a text file could be considered a binary file.
1003 - BugFix: crash when clicking [Merge]-> [Delete] menu item while renaming a
1005 - Add a feature generating a patch from directories (#283) (GitHub PR #331)
1006 - added bin and obj directories to C# filter (GitHub PR #365)
1009 - BugFix: Scrolling behavior when dragging images is wrong (osdn.net #40205)
1012 - BugFix: Open dialogs are sometimes left as garbage (osdn.net #40487)
1013 - Browse button in the file/dir selection show wrong path (GitHub #346)
1016 - BugFix: Pressing the [Compare/Binary] category button in the Options dialog
1017 twice will cause a crash. (osdn.net #40308)
1020 - BugFix: Fix handling of line breaks in SortAscending, SortDescending
1021 (osdn.net PR #40266)
1022 - BugFix: Error when comparing images in the CompareMSExcelFiles.sct plugin
1024 - CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Include Excel Addin files (*.xlam) (GitHub PR #269)
1025 - Add support for C# and TypeScript (GitHub PR #382)
1026 - Add a plugin for Visio (osdn.net PR #40473)
1027 - Plugin fixes for the new Table Compare
1028 (CompareMSExcelFiles.sct, IgnoreFieldsComma.dll, IgnoreFieldsTab.dll)
1031 - BugFix: Crash when comparing encrypted 7z files (GitHub #367)
1034 - Create the installer with Inno Setup 5.x since installers created with Inno
1035 Setup 6.0.x are identified as malware by multiple virus scanning engines
1038 - Translation updates:
1039 - Brazilian (GitHub #360)
1040 - Chinese Simplified (GitHub PR #303,#377)
1041 - Galician (GitHub PR #292,#293,#308,#313,#326)
1042 - German (GitHub PR #312,#357)
1043 - Lithuanian (GitHub PR #291,#298,#333)
1044 - Polish (GitHub PR #280)
1045 - Portuguese (GitHub PR #305)
1046 - Russian (GitHub PR #270,#271,#272,#302,#327,#328)
1047 - Slovak (GitHub PR #300)
1048 - Slovenian (GitHub #285)
1049 - Spanish (GitHub PR #292,#293,#304,#308)
1050 - Turkish (GitHub PR #335,#336,#337,#338)
1053 - Minor changes to translations README.md file (GitHub #289)
1054 - Update winmerge.org URL to HTTPS, many small improvements (GitHub PR #306)
1057 - BugFix: Src\Common\MyCom.h unused? (GitHub #284)
1058 - BugFix: Error on git repository cloning (GitHub #288)
1060 ## WinMerge 2.16.6 - 2020-02-23
1063 - Added CWindowsManagerDialog class for handling open tabs with Ctrl+Tab,
1064 now the application is behave just like professional editors
1065 (Visual Studio, Notepad++, etc.) to switch and activate the open tabs.
1069 - BugFix: GhostTextBuffer: Don't unexpectedly bring back empty lines user
1070 wants to delete (GitHub #244)
1071 - BugFix: Prevent silent abort with File Comparison of files whose size
1072 is an exact multiple of 2^32 bytes (GitHub #257)
1073 - BugFix: WinMerge 2.16.4.0 crashes after de-selecting Split Vertically
1075 - BugFix: "Replace All" may not replace all text
1076 - BugFix: An error message is shown when pressing Enter key in Diff pane
1078 - BugFix: Non-moved lines are treated as moved lines (osdn.net #39851)
1079 - Add support for touchpad horizontal scroll (GitHub #254)
1082 - BugFix: Support 16-bit images (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge issue #6)
1083 - Add support for SVG, PDF, WMF and EMF file types
1084 (Only available in WinMerge 64bit version on Windows 10)
1085 Demo1: https://gyazo.com/b605edb820bc52d0f4f6232eb8ad78aa
1086 Demo2: https://gyazo.com/f5f267546db27f2dc801c00df8cb4251
1089 - BugFix: Third tgz doesn't get fully extracted (first two do) (GitHub #263)
1091 ### Patch generator dialog
1092 - BugFix: Crash when generating patch for multiple files and a file only on
1093 one side (GitHub #252)
1096 - BugFix: Fix spelling of Git (GitHub #246)
1099 - New translation: Arabic (sf.net #3038)
1100 - Translation updates:
1101 - Bulgarian (GitHub #236, #268)
1102 - French (GitHub #251)
1103 - German (GitHub #239, #245, #258)
1104 - Lithuanian (GitHub #233, #267)
1105 - Portuguese (GitHub #237)
1106 - Spanish (GitHub #266)
1109 - BugFix: Fix spelling of Git (GitHub #246)
1110 - Update Configuration.xml (GitHub #262)
1113 - Consolidate FolderCmp (GitHub #240, #242)
1114 - Avoid some back and forth file path transcoding between UTF16 and UTF8
1117 ## WinMerge 2.16.5 - 2019-12-09
1120 - BugFix: Suspicious lack of Release() calls in lwdisp.c (GitHub #171)
1121 - BugFix: Performance using Unpacker (GitHub #180)
1122 - BugFix: WinMerge toolbar appears too small on UHD and should default
1123 to the conforming Windows 10 scaling/DPI accessibility setting
1125 - BugFix: "Recompare as" menu option doesn't follow current choice
1127 - BugFix: Switching between "Find Next" and "Find Prev" need to click twice
1129 - BugFix: Program is crashed! (GitHub #229)
1130 - Switch "Find" buttons in Find dialog (GitHub #201)
1131 - Improve UNICODE character support using icu.dll usable
1132 from Windows 10 Creators Update
1133 - Add support for color emoji (Only available in 64bit version)
1134 (To enable color emoji support, select DirectWrite* in Rendering
1135 mode combobox on Editor page in the Options dialog)
1136 Demo: https://gyazo.com/7cbbbd2c1de195fcd214d588b21b21d4
1139 - BugFix: Crash when clicking Next Difference button after unchecking
1140 Show Different Items menu item
1141 - Changed symbols in Newer/Older column for better visual clarity
1143 - Add "Ignore codepage differences" to quick options (GitHub #197)
1144 - Limit the window flashing count. (GitHub #206)
1147 - BugFix: Image compare breaks when zoomed too much with large pictures
1149 - BugFix: [Image compare] Zoom-in focuses on top-left corner instead of
1150 cursor position (GitHub #211)
1153 - BugFix: "Run as Administrator" incompatible with "Shell integration"
1154 (ver 2.16.4) (sf.net #2234)
1157 - BugFix: Installer russian translation (#168)
1158 - BugFix: Windows 10 shell integration not working (GitHub #176)
1159 - Installer - Proposal - Separate Inno Setup strings from WinMerge
1160 installer strings (GitHub #167)
1163 - Update Italian translation (GitHub #164, #165)
1164 - Update Russian translation (GitHub #166)
1165 - Update Bulgarian translation (GitHub #170, #175, #179, #212)
1166 - Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #185, #199)
1167 - Update French translation (GitHub #187)
1168 - Update Lithuanian translation (GitHub #189, #208, #217, #225)
1169 - Update Swedish translation (GitHub #194, #196)
1170 - Update German translation (GitHub #204, #205, #215)
1171 - Update Polish translation (GitHub #218)
1172 - Update Simplified Chinese translation (GitHub #228)
1173 - Update Finnish translation (sf.net #3037)
1174 - Update English.pot (#216)
1175 - Add Japanese manual (GitHub #183)
1178 - Small Manual tweaks (GitHub #190)
1180 ## WinMerge 2.16.4 - 2019-07-28
1183 - BugFix: coretools.cpp: linelen() should not truncate lines with embedded
1185 - BugFix: file compare : right-click doesn't select the diff under
1186 the mouse (GitHub #159)
1187 - BugFix: Avoid an exception in GuessCodepageEncoding() when filepath equals
1189 - BugFix: Auto-indent did not work if the EOL-style was not CRLF
1192 - BugFix: Generating HTML Folder Compare report including File Compare
1193 report did not complete (Bitbucket #15)
1194 - BugFix: Compare Statistics dialog: The number of diff folders was
1195 counted in the number of diff files
1198 - BugFix: PrediffLineFilter.sct: Wrong encoding for settings
1199 dialog (Bitbucket #16)
1202 - Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #51)
1203 - Update Italian translation (Bitbucket PR #52)
1206 - Favor PathContext::GetSize() over PathContext::size() (GitHub #157)
1207 - Consolidate FolderCmp (GitHub #158, #160, #161)
1208 - Avoid some InnoSetup compiler warnings (Bitbucket PR #53)
1210 ## WinMerge 2.16.3 - 2019-06-29
1213 - BugFix: Slow startup with documents folder redirected to high-latency
1214 network drive (Bitbucket #155)
1215 - Add VisualElementsManifest for Windows 10 start menu (Bitbucket PR #47)
1216 - Reduce the size of the executable file
1219 - BugFix: Location and Diff pane visibility broken in 2.16.1
1220 (GitHub #138, Bitbucket #163, sf.net #2228)
1221 - BugFix: Temporary files could not be created (GitHub #143, sf.net #2220)
1222 - BugFix: Trivial bugfix (GitHub #155)
1223 - BugFix: Regression: Incorrectly shows 'no changes' for large portions of
1224 certain binary files! (Bitbucket #162)
1225 - Small tweaks for HTML file reports (Bitbucket PR #44, #45)
1226 - Made diff algorithm selectable by using libXDiff
1227 algorithms: default(Myers), minimal, patience, histogram
1228 - triple click to select whole line (Bitbucket #144)
1229 - Add support for merging word level diffs in selection
1230 Demo: https://i.gyazo.com/af18960bd1f121213a2cd9287cae9cf4.gif
1233 - BugFix: WinMerge 3-Way Compare Bugs: Always Shows Unique Items.
1235 - BugFix: WinMerge could not compare files that are opened in other
1237 - Show progress bar while generating Folder Compare Report
1238 - Use own colors settings for folder compare (Bitbucket PR #49)
1241 - BugFix: Possible Bugs in 2.16.2 (sf.net #2221)
1242 - Supporting relative path in project file (Bitbucket #158)
1243 - Allow multiple <paths> in project file
1246 - BugFix: no message was displayed when file saving failed
1247 - Implement Insertion/Deletion Detection
1248 Demo: https://gyazo.com/17d8773354d23b5ae51262f28b0f1f80
1251 - Tweak size of combobox "codepage" in options (GitHub #144)
1252 - Sort combobox codepage and add manual codepage (GitHub #145)
1255 - Allow per-user installation (only x64 installer)
1256 - Don't install Files.txt and don't add "Uninstall WinMerge" to the
1257 start menu (Bitbuket #38)
1260 - Update French translation (GitHub #149, #150)
1261 - Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #36, #40, #43, #46, #48, #50)
1262 - Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #41, #42)
1264 ## WinMerge 2.16.2 - 2019-04-04
1267 - BugFix: Edit > Replace > All, Undo: should undo all (sf.net #2113)
1268 - BugFix: Save As: default directory should be file's original
1269 directory (sf.net #2163)
1270 - BugFix: Strings with embedded 0 bytes are handled incorrectly (sf.net
1272 - BugFix: Removed word level merge support due to unstable behavior
1273 - BugFix: Menu item "File->File Encoding" moves main window (Bitbucket #150)
1274 - BugFix: Crash when maximizing MDI child window
1275 - BugFix: Crash when failed to load file
1276 - Add syntax highlight for Lua (Bitbucket #114)
1279 - BugFix: Compare results refresh incorrectly after deletions (sf.net #2217)
1282 - Upgraded to 7-zip 19.00
1285 - Improve icon display at 120DPI
1288 - BugFix: Zoom In/Out shortcuts don't update zoom level in location
1289 pane (Bitbucket #149)
1290 - Zoom In/Out menu items for image compare (Bitbucket #148)
1293 - Allow quoted filenames in "Select Files or Folders" (sf.net #1240,
1297 - Some tweaks for the manual (Bitbucket PR #35)
1300 - BugFix: Gibberish language during installation (Bitbucket #147)
1303 - Update Catalan translation (Bitbucket PR #29)
1304 - Update Italian translation (Bitbucket PR #32)
1305 - Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #33)
1306 - Update Simplified Chinese translation (Bitbucket PR #34)
1308 ## WinMerge 2.16.1 - 2019-02-24
1311 - Updated the copyright year to 2019, actually (GitHub #110)
1312 - Prevent splitter view from claiming input focus (GitHub #127)
1313 - Contributors.txt: Changed EOL from Unix (LF) to Windows (CR LF),
1314 because not shows correctly in Windows Notepad. (Bitbucket PR #17)
1317 - Alternatively to Swap buttons, allow drag & drop between filetype
1319 - Expose cleaner moving/resizing behavior esp. in non-maximized
1321 - Avoid retaining bogus filetype icons from previous selections (GitHub #122)
1324 - BugFix: Extra blank displayed after left/right single/double
1325 quotes (Bitbucket #134)
1326 - BugFix: Click doesn't trigger document to scroll in Location pane under
1327 circumstance (Bitbucket #140)
1328 - BugFix: Frustrating text selection bug (GitHub #109)
1329 - BugFix: Left and Right files swap after losing focus
1330 v2.16.0.0 (sf.net #2213)
1331 - BugFix: WinMerge 2.16.0.0 Unicoe X64 version displaying
1332 Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Asset in DiffWraper.CPP
1333 line 984 (sf.net #2214)
1334 - BugFix: Cancelation of selection range with reverse indent (sf.net #2215)
1335 - BugFix: upward and downward search not work correctly
1336 - Bugifx: Fix menu accelerator conflict
1337 - Add File/Recompare As/Image menu item
1338 - Add support for merging word level diffs in selection
1339 Demo: https://i.gyazo.com/af18960bd1f121213a2cd9287cae9cf4.gif
1342 - BugFix: Unique files are not shown (Bitbucket #138)
1343 - BugFix: Improve Hard-IO error handling, other bug fixes, cleanup,
1344 tweaks (GitHub #120)
1347 - Upgraded to 7-zip 18.06 (Bitbucket #119)
1350 - BugFix: Widen the width of labels in Options dialog (GitHub#108)
1351 - BugFix: view settings make winmerge crash (Bitbucket #109)
1352 - BugFix: 64bit version can't browse between option pages (Bitbucket #128)
1353 - BugFix: Shell Integration "Enable Advanced Menu" disabled on new
1354 install (Bitbucket #137)
1355 - BugFix: Binary File options don't change from default (Bitbucket #135)
1358 - BugFix: CreateTranslatedRcFiles needs an update (GitHub #113)
1361 - Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (GitHub #108)
1362 - Update Swedish translation (sf.net #3035, GitHub #112, #114)
1363 - Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #7, #8, #27)
1364 - Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #9-#26, #139)
1365 - Update Bulgarian translation (Bitbucket PR #28)
1366 - Update Turkish translation (sf.net #3036)
1367 - Update Japanese translation
1368 - Remove now unneeded MergeLang.dll
1371 - BugFix: Some fixes in the manual (GitHub #116)
1372 - Bugifx: end of line documentation (sf.net #2211)
1373 - Clarification as per
1374 https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge-v2/issues/41 (GitHub #126)
1377 - Remove `nFinalNullLines` checking, disabled by an earlier
1378 commit (GitHub #111)
1379 - Various minor updates, plus preparation for VS2019 (GitHub #115)
1380 - DiffTextBuffer: Create Unicode temp files (makes EscapeControlChars()
1381 obsolete) (GitHub #123)
1382 - Don't pass `DIFFITEM *` by casting to `uintptr_t` (GitHub #124, #125)
1384 ## WinMerge 2.16.0 - 2018-11-23
1387 - BugFix: Disabled icon on toolbar not gray out when running on XP
1390 - BugFix: Copy to X and Advance" not work in 3way-compare (Bitbucket #123)
1391 - BugFix: File compare always showing different ending (GitHub #106)
1392 - BugFix: Scrolling issue (GitHub #105)
1393 - BugFix: A crash (GitHub #104)
1394 - Add separators to "Zoom" and "Diff Context" menus (Bitbucket PR #5)
1397 - BugFix: Drag&Drop in Open Dialog won't work correct (Bitbucket #125)
1400 - Drop ClearCase integration (Bitbucket PR #6)
1403 - Add Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket #124)
1404 - Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #102,#103)
1406 ## WinMerge 2.15.5 - 2018-10-28
1409 - Add support for very long path and file names (GitHub #87,#95,#99)
1410 - Enable Ctrl+C shortcut key on the file path bar
1411 - Remove support for old version control system (GitHub #96)
1412 - Improve Options > Color > Differences dialog layout (GitHub #89)
1413 - Improve information and formatting in Help > Configuration reporting (GitHub #92)
1414 - Improve visual layout of Open dialog (GitHub #97)
1415 - Add icon for "New (3 panes)" menu item (GitHub #97)
1418 - Add Window/Split menu item
1419 - Improve handling of last lines in files (GitHub #89,#90,#93)
1420 - Improve "Visual C++ Loose" filter (GitHub #95)
1421 - BugFix: Crash when saving a file if the active pane is diff detail pane
1422 - BugFix: Crash when pressing Alt+Down key while loading large files
1423 - BugFix: Crash when "mousing over" Plugin Setting context menu if Plugins are disabled
1424 - BugFix: Various problems reading of files > 2GB (GitHub #81)
1425 - BugFix: Selecting files "From MRU list" again works correctly
1428 - Update Italian translation (GitHub #86)
1429 - Update Japanese translation (Bitbucket #3)
1430 - Update Dutch translation
1431 - Update German translation
1432 - BugFix: Spanish translation error (Bitbucket Issue #108)
1435 - Various diffengine and compilation/build fixes
1436 (GitHub #89,#90,#91,#92,#94)
1438 ## WinMerge 2.15.4 - 2018-04-28
1441 - BugFix: Dot icon in a drop-down menu is not drawn correctly
1444 - BugFix: Crash when reading a file in Google Drive File Stream (sf.net#2206)
1445 - BugFix: Crash when removing ghost lines (GitHub #80)
1446 - BugFix: Lines without EOL appears even though it is not the last line
1447 - Add Ctrl++/Ctrl+-(not numpad key) shortcut key to zoom in/out (sf.net#1727)
1448 - Remove 2GB file size limit for 64-bit build (GitHub #81, #82)
1451 - Add Pause button to Folder Compare Progress dialog (sf.net#828,#1222,#1237)
1452 - Re-detect the file encoding when opening files (sf.net#2131)
1455 - Add Options button to Open dialog
1456 - Add Save Project button to Open dialog
1458 ### Patch generator dialog
1459 - BugFix: File1/File2 fields don't remember manual input (sf.net#1949)
1462 - BugFix: Garbled text was copied to the clipboard when generating a report
1463 on the clipboard (sf.net#2200)
1466 - Add PrediffLineFilter.sct plugin
1467 - Make ignored lines by Prediffer plugin colored
1470 - Update Slovak translation (sf.net#2902)
1471 - Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #84,#85)
1474 - Adapt to VS2017 version 15.6.1 (GitHub #79)
1476 ## WinMerge 2.15.3 - 2018-03-04
1479 - Fix assertion error when started on Windows XP
1480 - Fix a problem that moved blocks are sometimes shown as normal diff blocks
1481 - Fix a problem that EOL is removed unexpectedly when removing lines
1482 included ghost lines
1483 - Fix reverse search to search last line correctly
1484 - Fix infinite loop when replacing ^ (sf.net#2094)
1485 - Fix to show text that contains & on message box, correctly (sf.net#2067)
1488 - Fix a problem that unique files are invisible when comparing files using
1489 'Date' compare method
1490 - Remove trailing garbage from a dragged text (Github#75)
1492 ### Patch generator dialog
1493 - Fix a problem that typed-in Context in Generate Patch is not applied
1497 - Entitify file paths in HTML & XML directory comparison reports (sf.net#2199)
1500 - Add support for HiDPI screens (Github #54)
1503 - CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Add "Compare headers and footers" checkbox to
1504 settings dialog (sf.net#2102)
1507 - Remove extra space in installer: " Launch WinMerge" (sf.net#2144)
1508 - Add "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" section into GPL.rtf
1512 - Add Finnish translation (sf.net#3031)
1513 - Add Sinhala translation (sf.net#3032)
1514 - Update Korean translation (Github #61)
1515 - Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #56-78)
1516 - Update Polish translation (sf.net#2177)
1517 - Update Turkish translation (Bitbucket#85, #86)
1518 - Change the file encodings of all .po files of WinMerge GUI to UTF-8
1520 ## WinMerge 2.15.2 - 2018-01-28
1523 - Flatten GUI pane edges
1524 - Partial support for HiDPI (not Per-Monitor DPI Aware)
1525 - Remove splash screen. The splash screen image is now displayed in About
1529 - Add "View->Toolbar->Huge" menu item
1530 - Add drop down menu to Options icon
1531 - Add icons for 3-way merge functions
1534 - Change window type of Open dialog from modal window to MDI child window
1535 - Add Read-only checkbox to Open dialog
1536 - Add buttons to swap items
1537 - Add the third path combobox for 3-way comparison
1538 - Allow file name patterns like not only *.ext but file*.ext
1541 - Make Tabbar reorderable by using drag-and-drop
1542 - Add "Close Other Tabs", "Close Right Tabs" and "Close Left Tabs" menu items
1544 - Add "Enable Auto Max Width" menu item to Tab Bar context menu
1545 - Show close button when hovering over tabs
1546 - Add icons to each tab
1549 - Add "Close Select Files or Folders Dialog on clicking OK button" checkbox
1551 - Add "Language" combobox to "General" page and remove Language dialog
1552 - Add "Ignore codepage differences" checkbox to "Compare/General" page
1553 - Remove checkboxes in "Enable multiple compare windows for" group from
1554 "General" page (Now always enabled multi compare windows)
1555 - Add "Include Subfolders" checkbox to "Compare/Folder" page
1556 - Add "Automatically expand all subfolders" checkbox to "Compare/Folder" page
1557 - Add "Ignore Reparse Points" checkbox to "Compare/Folder" page
1558 - Add "Number of compare threads" textbox to "Compare/Folder" page
1559 - Add "Compare/Binary" page
1560 - Add "Compare/Image" page
1561 - Add checkboxes whether to use custom colors for text to
1562 "Colors/Differences" page
1563 - Add "GitHub/Bitbucket" button to "Colors/Differences" page
1564 - Add "Margin" color button to "Colors/Text" page
1565 - Add "Colors/Markers" page
1566 - Remove "Use stand-alone 7-Zip if available" and
1567 "Use local 7-Zip from WinMerge folder" radio button from
1568 "Archive Support" page
1569 (Now always use local 7-Zip from WinMerge folder)
1570 - Make $file and $linenum parameters available in External editor textbox
1572 - Make Custom codepage on "Codepage" page selectable from dropdown list
1573 - Add "Detect codepage for text files using mlang.dll" checkbox to
1575 - Remove "Include subfolders by default" checkbox from
1576 "Shell Integration" page
1577 (ShellExtension now refers to "Include subfolders" checkbox
1578 on "Compare/Folder" page or on "Select Files or Folders" dialog)
1579 - Remove "Add Shell menu to context menu" from "Shell Integration" page
1580 (WinMerge now always adds shell menu to context menu in Folder window)
1581 - Add "Register shell extension" button to "Shell Integration" page
1584 - Add Multi-thread compare support for Full Contents or Quick Contents
1586 - Color the background of items in list view
1587 - Restore collapse/expand state of folder tree after re-comparison
1588 - Make comparing window closeable
1589 - Make sub-folder re-comparable
1590 - Display folder items in list view during comparison
1591 - Display the file name currently being compared in progress window
1592 - Add "Parent Folder" menu item in 'Open Left/Middle/Right' menu
1593 - Add "Compare Non-horizontally" menu item to context menu
1594 - Add "Copy items To Clipboard" menu item to context menu
1595 - Add "Swap panes" menu item to View menu
1596 - Add "Auto/Manual Prediffer" menu item to Plugin menu
1597 - Open selected folders in new tab when clicking "Compare" menu item with
1599 - Cleanup Date column alignment (GitHub #25)
1600 - BugFix: Version column not sorted correctly
1601 - BugFix: A unique item that is a binary file was not detected
1603 - BugFix: Properly handle 3-way comparison of Binary files (Github #23)
1604 - BugFix: Use proper font for View>Use Default Font menu item (GitHub #24)
1607 - Add support for 3-way compare/merge
1608 - Add "Diff Context" menu to View menu to adjust the number of displayed
1610 - Add "Split Vertically" menu item to View menu
1611 - Add "Add Synchronization Point" to Merge menu
1612 - Add "Auto/Manual Prediffer" menu item to Plugin menu
1613 - Show the name of the applied plugin in the status bar
1614 - Add shortcut(Ctrl+Alt+E) to open with external editor
1615 - Add Go and Rust highlighter
1616 - Add VHDL syntax highlighter (Bitbucket #2)
1617 - Add C++11 keywords
1618 - Make merge editor window D&Dable
1619 - Highlight the search text and implement Marker
1620 - Highlight the EOL pane in status bar if there is a difference
1622 - Reload files when another application changes files opened by WinMerge
1623 - Improve in-line diff algorithm
1624 - BugFix: More on Issue #73 Fixed the -dl -dm and -dr description parameters
1626 (for both 2 way and 3 way conflict files).(Bitbucket #1)
1627 - BugFix: Fix Memory Leak with Drop Targets (GitHub #26)
1630 - Install binary file editor (frhed) component again by default
1631 - Make binary file editor undoable
1634 - Add image file compare/merge support
1637 - Add "Include File Compare Report" checkbox to "Folder Compare Report"
1639 - Change the encoding of HTML folder compare report from ANSI to UTF-8
1640 - Add icons to the HTML folder compare report
1641 - Change visual style of HTML report
1644 - Install 7-zip plugin by default
1647 - Accept drag&droped files or folders from various places like:
1648 Zip folder, FTP folder, Recycle bin, images in Web browser
1651 - Introduce new plugin type FILE_FOLDER_PACK_UNPACKER
1652 which allows unpacking data in a file to multiple files in a folder
1653 - Use FILE_FOLDER_PACK_UNPACKER plugin for decompressing archives
1654 - Add support for unpacker plugin written in VBScript/Javascript.
1655 - Add WinMerge32BitPluginProxy.exe to make 32-bit plugins usable in 64-bit
1657 - Rewrite some plugins in VBScript
1658 - Add CompareMSPowerPointFiles.sct plugin
1659 - Add ApplyPatch.sct plugin
1660 - Add SortAscending, SortDescending and ExecFilterCommand menu item to
1661 Plugin->Script menu
1662 - Make plugins configurable with settings dialog of each plugin
1665 - Update \*.flt files for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017
1668 - Display another WinMerge icon in Explorer's context menu when a folder is
1672 - 64-bit version of WinMerge is available
1673 - Install plugins by default
1676 - Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #2-17)
1677 - Update Korean translation (GitHub #45)
1678 - Update Traditional Chinese translation (GitHub #53)
1679 - Remove "Language" menu item from View menu
1680 (You can specify UI language at Options dialog)
1683 - Incompatible change: The third file path is now treated as a right path
1684 for 3-way comparison, not output path
1685 Use /o option for ouput path instead
1686 - Add /wm, /dm, /fl, /fm, /fr, /al, /am and /ar option for 3-way comparison
1689 - Add support for jump list introduced in Windows 7
1692 - Use POCO C++ libraries instead of pcre, expat and scew.
1693 They use pcre, expat internally
1694 - Link statically with MFC and VC runtime libraries
1695 - Various compilation/build fixes
1696 (GitHub #1,#19,#21,#29,#31-33,#36-38,#42-44,#49-52)
1698 ## WinMerge 2.14.0 - 2013-02-02 (r7596)
1699 - BugFix: Shell extension uses unquoted program path (patches#3023)
1700 - Translation updates
1701 - Dutch (patches:#3020)
1702 - Slovenian (patches:#3021)
1704 ## WinMerge 2.13.22 - 2013-01-13 (r7585)
1705 - Translation updates
1706 - Turkish (patches:#2967)
1707 - Russian (patches:#3017)
1708 - Norwegian (patches:#3018)
1709 - Danish (patches:#3019)
1711 ## WinMerge 2.13.21 - 2012-12-30 (r7575)
1712 - Update PCRE to version 8.10
1713 - Update SCEW to version 1.1.2
1714 - Improve startup time (#2788142)
1715 - Add menuitems for selecting automatic or manual prediffing (#2638608)
1716 - Add accelerator keys for Shell context menu (#2823536)
1717 - Improve editing of linefilter regular expressions (#3015416)
1718 - Allow editing context line count in patch creator (#2092180)
1719 - Improve color options organization (#2818451)
1720 - Add /xq command line switch for closing WinMerge after identical files
1721 and not showing message (#2827836)
1722 - Allow setting codepage from command line (#2725549)
1723 - Allow giving encoding name as custom codepage (#2813825, #3010934)
1724 - Add new options dialog panel for folder compare options (#2819626)
1725 - Add options GUI for quick compare limit (#2825628)
1726 - Write config log as UTF-8 file (r7057)
1727 - BugFix: Untranslated string ("Merge.rc:nnnn") was displayed
1728 in status bar (#3025855)
1729 - BugFix: Pane headers not updated after language change (#2923684)
1730 - BugFix: Quick contents compare didn't ignore EOL byte differences (#2929005)
1731 - BugFix: Compare by size always checked file times too (#2919510)
1732 - BugFix: Crash when pasting from clipboard (#3109525)
1733 - BugFix: Keeps verifing path even turned off in options (#3111581)
1734 - BugFix: Crash after deleting text (#3109521)
1735 - BugFix: Added EOL chars between copied file/path names (#2817546)
1736 - BugFix: Created new matching folder to wrong folder (#2890961)
1737 - BugFix: Strange scrolling effect in location pane (#2942869)
1738 - BugFix: Plugin error after interrupting folder compare (#2919475)
1739 - BugFix: "+" and "-" from the number block don't work in the editor (#3306182)
1740 - BugFix: Date format did not respect Regional Settings (#3175189)
1741 - BugFix: When selecting multiple files in Patch Generator dialog,
1742 "Swap" button led to an error. (#3043635, #3066200)
1743 - BugFix: WinMerge contained a vulnerability in handling project files (#3185386)
1744 (http://www.zeroscience.mk/mk/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2011-4997.php)
1745 - Installer: Remove OpenCandy from the InnoSetup installer (r7572, r7539)
1746 - New translation: Basque (#3387142)
1747 - Translation updates
1749 - Hungarian (#3164982)
1750 - Spanish (#3412937)
1752 ## WinMerge 2.13.20 - 2010-10-20 (r7319)
1753 - Add missing keywords to Pascal highlighter (#2834192)
1754 - Recognize .ascx files as ASP files (#3042393)
1755 - Fix help locations (#2988974)
1756 - Show only "Copy to other side" item in file compare
1757 context menu (#2600787)
1758 - Expand/collapse folders from keyboard (#2203904)
1759 - Improve detecting XML files in file compare (#2726531)
1760 - Initialize folder selection dialog to currently selected folder in
1761 options dialog (r6570)
1762 - New translation: Persian (#2877121, #3065119)
1763 - New translation: Serbian (#3017674, #3065119)
1764 - Installer: Drop Windows 9x/ME/NT4 support and use Microsoft runtime
1765 libraries installer (#3070254)
1766 - Installer: Remove Uninstall shortcut from start menu folder (#3076909)
1767 - Installer: Don't install quick launch icon for Windows 7 (#3079966)
1768 - Installer: Add OpenCandy to the InnoSetup installer (#3088720)
1769 - BugFix: WinMerge was vulnerable to DLL hijacking as described in
1770 Microsoft Security Advisory (2269637) (#33056008)
1771 - BugFix: Location pane focus enabled "Save" (#3022292)
1772 - BugFix: "Copy and advance" toolbar icons not automatically enabled (#3033325)
1773 - Translation updates
1774 - Bulgarian (#3082392)
1775 - Chinese (#3033324)
1777 - French (#2850842, #2968200)
1778 - Slovenian (#2917796, #2932094, #2934354, #3070136)
1779 - Spanish (#2930734)
1780 - Turkish (#2825132, #2827817)
1781 - Ukrainian (#2817835)
1783 ## WinMerge 2.12.4 - 2009-06-09 (r6833)
1784 - Add more C/C++ types to syntax highlight (#2776705)
1785 - Create config log file to My Documents-folder (#2789839)
1786 - BugFix: Reports had same left/right descriptions (#2772646)
1787 - BugFix: When conflict file saved trailing line-ending was lost (#2550412)
1788 - BugFix: File compare HTML reports use invald DOCTYPE (#2783477)
1789 - BugFix: "##" in file filter pattern caused an infinite loop (#2789345)
1790 - BugFix: Could select prediffer when plugins were disabled (#2787131)
1791 - BugFix: Opening mixed-EOL file one side forced both files to be handled as
1792 mixed-eol files (#2022312)
1793 - BugFix: Didn't show correct EOL chars if whitespace chars were turned off
1794 and again on (#2791402)
1795 - BugFix: Generated patch had wrong file time for UTF-16 files (#2791506)
1796 - BugFix: Did not export changed options values (#2799149)
1797 - BugFix: Reset the compare method to original if it was changed (#2802427)
1799 ## WinMerge 2.12.2 - 2009-04-01 (r6625)
1800 - Disable folder compare tree-view by default (#2714968)
1801 - BugFix: Filename extension column was empty for files (#2670046)
1802 - BugFix: Crash when selecting backup folder (#2686382)
1803 - BugFix: Swapping panes did not update statusbar (#2661838)
1804 - BugFix: Says files are identical after making files different in another
1805 application and re-loading them (#2672737)
1806 - BugFix: Files with missing last EOL weren't merged correctly (#2712120)
1807 - Translation updates
1808 - Polish (#2717382, #2720875)
1810 ## WinMerge 2.12.0 - 2009-03-05 (r6542)
1811 - Remember last target folder for Copy/Move to in folder compare (#2659228)
1812 - Detect Windows 7 and Windows 2008 in config log (#2599256)
1813 - BugFix: Help window opened from WinMerge was modal (#2590079)
1814 - BugFix: Crash in editor when undoing (#2590212)
1815 - BugFix: Browse button in Option dialog reverted to previous settings
1817 - BugFix: Files without extension get backed up to name..bak (#2627752)
1818 - BugFix: Must Show Different to Show L/R Unique (#2129561)
1819 - Translation updates
1820 - Chinese Traditional (#2608190)
1821 - Croatian (#2596949)
1824 - Dutch (#2586422, #2590430)
1826 - Galician (#2632173)
1830 - Swedish (#2586274)
1831 - Ukrainian (#2609242)
1833 ## WinMerge 2.11.2 - 2009-02-05 (r6428)
1834 - Update Python syntax highlight keywords for Python 2.6 (#2473375)
1835 - More accurate visible area rect in location pane (#2479804)
1836 - New options page for Shell Integration options (#2433648)
1837 - Remove Frhed hex editor from GUI (context menu) (r6376)
1838 - Register.bat should use Find with full path (#2536582)
1839 - Better Unicode file detection for full contents compare (2477657)
1840 - BugFix: Could not open project file that contains an ampersand
1841 character in folder names (#2372000)
1842 - BugFix: File compare method "Modified Date and Size" ignored file size
1844 - BugFix: Quick compare didn't ignore EOL differences (#2433677)
1845 - BugFix: Remove EOL characters from command line (#2458728)
1846 - BugFix: Merging one line diff to empty other side didn't work (#2456399)
1847 - BugFix: Location pane was empty for some files with diffs (#2459234)
1848 - BugFix: Line filter editing didn't update edit box when editing was
1849 canceled by ESC key (#2493935)
1850 - BugFix: Wrong number shown for difference when using line filters (#2493980)
1851 - BugFix: Crashed if compared file disappeared during file compare (#2493945)
1852 - BugFix: Creating new files caused message about missing files (#2515875)
1853 - BugFix: Could not hide folders in recursive compare (#2528749)
1854 - BugFix: Folder Compare:Copy Right/Left don't create folder
1855 - BugFix: Must Show Different to Show L/R Unique (#2129561)
1856 - BugFix: Could not copy files from right to left (#2556904)
1857 - BugFix: Don't show file name extension for folders (#2563314)
1858 - Translation updates
1859 - Brazilian (#2461443, #2524796)
1860 - Chinese Traditional (#2540115)
1862 - Dutch (#2481022, #2494378, #2499994)
1863 - French (#2551043, #2551066)
1865 - Swedish (#2452467, #2465385, #2511043)
1867 ## WinMerge 2.12.x (R2_12) branch created (r6202)
1869 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.8 - 2008-12-19 (r6200)
1870 - Allow reloading the file if it has been changed on the disk
1871 behind WinMerge (#2354125)
1872 - Add option to show Open-dialog on WinMerge startup (#2327424)
1873 - Add Git to Source Control filter and fix ignore file rules (#2329381)
1874 - Add build identifier for 64-bit builds to About-dialog (r6142)
1875 - Installer: Option to add WinMerge to system path (#2435175)
1876 - Add Unicode version of heksedit (#2036603)
1877 - Allow multiple file compare documents by default (#2445749)
1878 - BugFix: Move confirmation dialog sometimes had wrong paths (#2327565, #2309190)
1879 - BugFix: Use translated version of readme.txt for Chinese Simplified (#2391000)
1880 - BugFix: Installer didn't install readme.txt for all translations (#2396437)
1881 - BugFix: Could not give paths to commandline when started WinMerge
1882 from Cygwin prompt (#2427946)
1883 - BugFix: Infinite loop in heksedit's Replace-dialog (r6176)
1884 - Translation updates
1885 - Croatian (#2390558)
1889 - Swedish (#2318778, #2374278)
1891 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.7 - 2008-11-20 (r6112)
1892 - Add shell context menu to folder compare context menu (#2189315)
1893 - Update PCRE to version 7.8 (#2209911)
1894 - Show missing lines in location pane for diffs having both different
1895 and missing lines (#2119235)
1896 - Syntax highlighting for Verilog files (#2231145)
1897 - Tweak new "equal file" icon a little bit (#2312381)
1898 - Readme update (#2234689)
1899 - Translation updates
1900 - Brazilian (#2219568)
1902 - Swedish (#2215167, #2236651)
1904 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.6 - 2008-10-23 (r6033)
1905 - General compare status for files (not known if text/binary) (#2175736)
1906 - Change icons for the new general compare status (#2185302)
1907 - Use 24bit icons for "Bookmarks" and "Delete" menu items (#2141184)
1908 - Installer: create backup of ClearCase config file (#2129095)
1909 - BugFix: Translatable strings having space before colon (#1971868)
1910 - BugFix: Wrong cursor position when disabling selection margin (#2138555)
1911 - BugFix: Showed a black line when disabling selection margin (#2068790)
1912 - BugFix: Fix manual URL in Readme.txt (#2181628)
1913 - BugFix: Long unique paths were mixed up in folder compare view (#2129634)
1914 - BugFix: Some calls made to plugins when plugins were disabled (#2182788)
1915 - BugFix: If messagebox was shown during file loading location pane
1916 didn't show any differences (#2101780)
1918 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.5 - 2008-10-02 (r5995)
1919 - Use external editor to edit file filters (#2082774)
1920 - Improved command line handling (#2081779)
1921 - Change Manual url to http://winmerge.org/docs/manual/ (r5956)
1923 - Plugins: Show processing instructions in XML plugin (#1979321)
1924 - Add icon for "Compare" menu item (#2119843)
1925 - Change download URL to current URL (#2136765)
1926 - Installer: create backup of ClearCase config file (#2129095)
1927 - BugFix: ClearCase checkout/commit dialog translation error (#2051069)
1928 - BugFix: Table of Contents in manual (#2071625)
1929 - BugFix: Highlight ShowUnInstDetails keyword for NSIS files (#2084879)
1930 - BugFix: Displayed a blank time when file last modified time is 00:00:00
1932 - BugFix: Customized colors weren't used in some areas (#2110218)
1933 - BugFix: Zip files were extracted into wrong folder (#2110350)
1934 - BugFix: Case-sensitive regexp search didn't work (#1991259)
1935 - BugFix: There were some installer regressions
1936 (eg. Installer didn't create Quick Launch icon) (#1460517)
1937 - BugFix: Whitespace ignore options didn't work with quick compare (#2120174)
1938 - BugFix: Giving path to file and folder to command line
1939 did not work (#2138560)
1940 - New translation: Galician (#2120685)
1941 - Translation updates
1943 - Russian (#2067785)
1944 - Swedish (#2075513)
1945 - Ukrainian (#2131753)
1947 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.4 - 2008-08-21 (r5846)
1948 - Binary file edit/compare (#2036603)
1949 - Add wait cursor for undo and redo (#2039228)
1950 - Add icon for "Open Conflict File" menu item (#2047054)
1951 - Include unique subfolder contents in recursive folder compare (#2034259)
1952 - Installer: Use -u switch in TortoiseSVN command line (#2060782)
1953 - Add icon for "Plugins->List" menu item (#2060771)
1954 - BugFix: External editor command line switches did not work (#2037862)
1955 - BugFix: Deleting/Moving file crashed WinMerge in debugger (#2025833)
1956 - BugFix: Lost focus after folder compare operations (#2046002)
1957 - BugFix: Some files had folder icons when aborting folder compare (#2018836)
1958 - BugFix: Didn't select word-diff cyclically by pressing F4 key (#1989858)
1959 - BugFix: Could not reset EOL ignore after selecting it from query
1961 - Translation updates
1962 - Brazilian (#2059836)
1965 - Chinese Traditional (#2039929)
1967 - Swedish (#2062107)
1969 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.3 - 2008-08-04 (r5733)
1970 - Rename color scheme menu item "None" and add separator (#2027300)
1971 - Add -u commandline parameter as alternative to -ub (#2029275, #2030359)
1972 - Remove RCLocalizationHelper plugin (#2029457)
1973 - Clarify Supercopier caused hang in release notes (#2030040)
1974 - Improve tree mode in folder compare (#2018836)
1975 - Unlimited undo (#2033754)
1976 - BugFix: Could change syntax highlight mode when highlighting was
1977 disabled from options (#2027325)
1978 - BugFix: Editing line filters updated wrong filter (#2025130)
1979 - BugFix: Boldfacing did work only for Courier font (#2000996)
1980 - BugFix: Shift+Backspace didn't work in editor (#1153696)
1982 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.2 - 2008-07-24 (r5673)
1983 - Refresh compare after changing filter (#2017426)
1984 - Add dialog listing available plugins (#2021722)
1985 - Hierarchical directory comparison result view (#2018836)
1986 - Add "Open Conflict" for file/folder compare menus (#2025472)
1987 - Enable hierarchial folder compare view by default (#2025478)
1988 - Confirmation dialog for move operations (#2026508)
1989 - Manual: New build system (#2015434)
1990 - Manual: Improve Opening Files and Folders (#2017901)
1991 - Manual: Improve folder compare documentation (#2024587)
1992 - BugFix: Failed to compare UTF-8 files plugins disabled (#2018287)
1993 - BugFix: Don't warn about closing multiple windows when only one
1994 window is open (#2010463)
1995 - BugFix: Moving was allowed for protected items (#2023734)
1996 - BugFix: Could change EOL style for protected file (#2025781)
1998 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.1 - 2008-07-11 (r5609)
1999 - Manual: Introduction update (#2011365)
2000 - Manual: Reorganize structure (#2011924)
2001 - Add ShellExtension menu for drive letters (root folders) (#2011602)
2002 - Remove buildall.bat (#2013576)
2003 - New option to enable plugins (disabled by default) (#2013845)
2004 - Plugins: Show processing instructions in XML plugin (#1979321)
2005 - BugFix: Use system codepage for paths (#1979429, #2008581)
2006 - BugFix: ANSI build crash in folder compare (#2010053)
2007 - BugFix: Add insert/overtype mode indicator to statusbar (#2015174)
2008 - BugFix: Detected UTF-8 encoding shown as 65001 (#2012377)
2010 ## WinMerge 2.10.x (R2_10) branch created (r5561)
2012 ## WinMerge 2.9.1.5 - 2008-07-04 (r5560)
2013 - Manual: Copy editing (#2000322, #2005418)
2014 - Manual: Clarify 64-bit support (#2002431)
2015 - Reduce executable sizes (#2003203)
2016 - Release Notes update (#2007673, r5557)
2017 - BugFix: Possible crash when enabling line filter (#2004160)
2018 - BugFix: Location Pane flickers when scrolling (#1938177, #2005031)
2019 - BugFix: Use system codepage for paths (#1979429, #2008581)
2020 - BugFix: Random crashes in folder compare (#2005308)
2021 - Translation updates
2022 - Chinese Traditional (#2007426)
2024 ## WinMerge 2.9.1.4 - 2008-06-24 (r5518)
2025 - Use PCRE regular expressions in the editor (#1991259)
2026 - Installer: install to all users (#1460517)
2027 - Update release notes (#1990886, #1995265, #1999880)
2028 - Manual: Use PNG files (#1988845, #1989744)
2029 - BugFix: Temp paths in Reports created from archive file (#1984346)
2030 - BugFix: ISL file syntax highlighting starts comment with { (#1981326)
2031 - BugFix: Crash when starting a second instance (#1993835)
2032 - BugFix: Crash when starting WinMerge with only one path (#1994402)
2033 - BugFix: Messages missing from installer translations (r5506)
2034 - BugFix: Always right side as origin side in copy confirmation dialog
2035 when Copy To... (#2001237)
2036 - New translation: Slovenian (#1997236)
2037 - Translation updates
2038 - Brazilian (#1994578)
2039 - Swedish (#2000307)
2041 ## WinMerge 2.9.1.3 - 2008-06-05 (r5438)
2042 - Update PCRE (regular expression library) to version 7.7 (#1941779)
2043 - Add VB.net keywords to Basic highlighter (#1970912)
2044 - Open conflict files by drag & dropping to main window (#1984884)
2045 - Possible improvement for WinMerge exit bug (#1602313)
2046 - BugFix: Location Pane flickers when resizing (#1740106)
2047 - BugFix: Command line description text starting with "/" confused
2049 - BugFix: Item count in statusbar not get cleared (#1976480)
2050 - New translation: Ukrainian (#1973149, #1974021)
2051 - Translation updates
2052 - Brazilian (#1978374)
2054 - Swedish (#1980970)
2056 ## WinMerge 2.9.1.2 - 2008-05-23 (r5362)
2057 - Optimize location pane (r5341, r5342, r5346, r5351, r5355, r5356)
2058 - BugFix: Version Control filter did not match all VSS files (#1881186)
2059 - BugFix: Fix showing differences in the end of the line (#1883409, #1962816)
2060 - BugFix: Fix command line paths in quotes ending with "\" (#1963523)
2061 - New translation: Greek (#1968429)
2062 - Translation updates
2063 - Bulgarian (#1957434)
2064 - Croatian (#1958283)
2065 - Swedish (#1950188, #1970074)
2067 ## WinMerge 2.9.1.1 - 2008-04-23 (r5324)
2068 - Release Notes update (#1933950)
2069 - Installer: Use correct way to create start menu web link (#1913919)
2070 - Installer: Simplify DeletePreviousStartMenu() function (#1913949)
2071 - Installer: Updated the side art of the installer application (#1915012)
2072 - Update URLs and switch to 2.8 manual (#1919965)
2073 - New splash screen (#1914869)
2074 - Tab icons at Filter dialog (#1926531)
2075 - Add VS2003/VS2005 project files (#1926346)
2076 - Create separate document for compiling WinMerge (#1927502)
2077 - Update InnoSetup translations (#1931492)
2078 - Make 'Yes' the default button in copy confirmation dialog (#1943647)
2079 - Allow drag & drop of paths to Open dialog (#1945254)
2080 - Enlarge 'Discard All' button in Save confirmation dialog (#1947216)
2081 - BugFix: Installer could create a registry access error (#1909967)
2082 - BugFix: The filter text box in Open-dialog sometimes displayed some garbage
2084 - BugFix: Print area was not clipped correctly. (#1915536)
2085 - BugFix: Undo after pane swapping (#1915536, #1923625)
2086 - BugFix: Quick compare for same folder didn't show differences (#1918599)
2087 - BugFix: Installer didn't have ChangeLog.txt included (r5255)
2088 - BugFix: Shortcuts given in command line were not expanded (#1942217)
2089 - New translation: Romanian (#1939729)
2090 - Translation updates
2091 - Brazilian (#1913723)
2092 - Chinese Traditional (#1927605)
2094 - German (r5130, r5139, r5171, r5203, r5236, #1949068)
2095 - Italian (#1939235)
2098 - Russian (#1914466)
2099 - Spanish (#1907152, r5250)
2100 - Swedish (#1908289)
2102 ## WinMerge 2.8 RC - 2008-03-04 (r5125)
2103 - Update developers list in splash screen (#1891548)
2104 - Better error handling for Excel plugin (#1510293)
2105 - Add macros, bookmarks and document properties to Word plugin (#1510298)
2106 - Add *.dot (document template) extension to Word plugin (r5120)
2107 - BugFix: Copy&Paste from VB6 added binary chars (#1904355)
2108 - Translation updates
2109 - Chinese Traditional (#1905323)
2110 - Swedish (#1905520)
2112 ## WinMerge 2.7.7.6 - 2008-02-28 (r5099)
2113 - Remove sintance.h/sintance.cpp as not compatible with GPL (#1886580)
2114 - Automatically switch to mixed-EOL mode when loading files with
2115 two or more EOL styles (#1901547)
2116 - Indent "Explorer Context Menu" sub options (#1901763)
2117 - Replace 'DOS' in EOL style strings with 'Windows' (#1902583)
2118 - Show 'Mixed' as file compare EOL style instead of empty style (r5091)
2119 - Typo fixes and grammar improvements to several strings (#1898401)
2120 - BugFix: Ignore codepage specified on File Encoding dialog if file was
2121 detected as UTF-8 (#1900728)
2122 - BugFix: Recognize invalid UTF-8 sequence as UTF-8 (#1900733)
2123 - BugFix: Didn't highlight any difference between untitled documents (#1900257)
2124 - Translation updates
2127 - Swedish (#1901784)
2129 ## WinMerge 2.7.7.5 - 2008-02-22 (r5069)
2130 - Cleaning up Help-menu (#1875111)
2131 - Right-align tab size number in editor options (r5037)
2132 - Move Time difference ignore -option to compare options (#1892283)
2133 - Add option to select temporary folder (#1893167)
2134 - Show file encoding in file compare statusbar (#1895629)
2135 - Unify EOL style strings in folder compare and file compare (#1896462)
2136 - Remove "DisplayBinaryFiles" and "EditBinaryFiles" plugin (#1899161)
2137 - BugFix: Potential lockup in folder compare (#1865131, #1889907)
2138 - BugFix: Line filter didn't filter non-ascii lines correctly (#1880628)
2139 - BugFix: GNU General Public License name in menu (#1868989)
2140 - BugFix: Didn't switch back to content compare once switched to quick
2141 compare in folder compare (#1770373)
2142 - BugFix: Quick compare didn't ignore EOL differences (#1884717)
2143 - Translation updates
2148 - Swedish (#1891326)
2150 ## WinMerge 2.7.7.4 - 2008-02-07 (r5011)
2151 - Detect (and read/write) UTF-8 files without BOM (#1879271)
2152 - Tell user that file is not a conflict file (#1880423)
2153 - Allow opening conflict file from command line (#1880857)
2154 - Use radio symbol for current EOL menu item (#1869755)
2155 - Ask and create pair for unique folder and open them (#1881454)
2156 - Add publisher info to version resource (#1884920)
2157 - Move "Zoom In/Out" to own sub menu (#1879340)
2158 - Installer: Add more version resource info (#1885793)
2159 - Reset text zoom to default size with Ctrl + * (#1886664)
2160 - BugFix: Always return 0 to command line (#1854419)
2161 - BugFix: Merge/Delete deleted items from read-only sides (#1882019)
2162 - BugFix: Shellextension had no publisher info and wrong
2163 description (#1878828)
2164 - BugFix: Lockup when showing binary files (#1880711)
2165 - Translation updates
2168 - Swedish (#1884918)
2170 ## WinMerge 2.7.7.3 - 2008-01-23 (r4951)
2171 - Resolve conflict files (cvs, svn...) (#1875129)
2172 - Save line filter when edit box loses focus (#1875853)
2173 - Add link to translations website at help menu (#1699883)
2174 - Manual: Add instructions for conflict file resolving (#1876770)
2175 - Manual: Document third path given to command line (#1877735)
2176 - BugFix: Fix Quick Compare regression in 2.7.7.2 (#1872165)
2177 - BugFix: Clipped text in file saving error message (#1874854)
2179 ## WinMerge 2.7.7.2 - 2008-01-14 (r4915)
2180 - Syntax highlighting for PowerShell files (#1859657)
2181 - Syntax highlighting for PO(T) files (#1866221)
2182 - Change font size with Ctrl + MouseWheel (#1865795, #1869686)
2183 - Horizontal scrolling with Shift + MouseWheel (#1865795)
2184 - Installer: Add support for integration with latest version of TortoiseCVS and
2185 TortoiseSVN x64 (#1865168)
2186 - Close compare tab with middle mouse button (#1865220)
2187 - Add index.html for documentation folders (#1866183)
2188 - Manual: Clarify file filters folder name matching (#1867212)
2189 - Improve file compare margin icons location (#1718699)
2190 - Enable file compare to open binary files (#1869647)
2191 - File encoding dialog for file compare (#1871079)
2192 - BugFix: Crash when using TrackPoint middle-button scrolling (#1864040)
2193 - BugFix: WinMerge didn't show the contents of the symbolic link target (#1864978)
2194 - BugFix: Unused registry key HKCU\Thingamahoochie\WinMerge was created
2196 - BugFix: Register.bat didn't work on Windows 98 and Vista (#1869821)
2197 - BugFix: Open-dialog was not displayed on Windows 98 (#1866442, #1869858)
2198 - BugFix: Right mouse button didn't move cursor to new place (#1814184)
2199 - Translation updates
2200 - Spanish (#1867234)
2201 - Swedish (#1867765, #1867844)
2203 ## WinMerge 2.7.7.1 - 2007-12-20 (r4842)
2204 - New option to keep file's time when saving in file compare (#1851921)
2205 - Installer: Link to translated ReadMe in Start menu, if file exists (#1805818)
2206 - Add HTML-formatted release notes (#1851308, #1852534)
2207 - Installer: Install release notes file (#1852599)
2208 - Installer: Move manual to core files component and remove
2209 - User Guide component (#1853409)
2210 - BugFix: VS2008 and VS2005 compile problems (#1847265)
2211 - BugFix: More difference highlight code reverts (#1748940)
2212 - Translation updates
2213 - Spanish (#1655577)
2215 ## WinMerge 2.7.6 - 2007-11-29 (r4807)
2216 - Touchpad scrolling improvements (#1837457)
2217 - BugFix: Values with "," inside could break the CSV report (#1831512)
2218 - BugFix: Failed to create backup file in folder compare (#1835283)
2219 - BugFix: Revert difference highlight code to 2.6.12 version (#1811695)
2220 - BugFix: Backspace key didn't work when renaming items (#1738790)
2221 - Translation updates
2224 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.7 - 2007-11-19 (r4772)
2225 - Remove MFC dependency from ShellExtension (#1833521)
2226 - Update ShellExtension icon to new WinMerge icon (#1833616)
2227 - BugFix: Build script didn't update PO files correctly before copying (r4756)
2228 - BugFix: ShellExtension's icon was clipped if system font size was small
2230 - BugFix: Merge controls were not enabled for missing lines (#1833714)
2232 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.6 - 2007-11-15 (r4752)
2233 - BugFix: Many translation-system related fixes and improvements (#1804762)
2234 - BugFix: When copying files to VCS system, destination file was
2235 not checked out (#1828930)
2236 - BugFix: Visible area indicator on location pane shook when clicking
2237 above or below the vertical scroll bar to scroll one screen (#1829572)
2238 - Translation updates
2239 - Croatian (#1829301)
2242 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.5 - 2007-11-08 (r4722)
2243 - BugFix: Don't enable merge GUI for ignored differences (#1826375)
2244 - BugFix: PgUp key caused the error message "An invalid argument was
2245 encountered" when word-wrap mode was on (#1820631)
2246 - BugFix: Keep selected items visible in Folder Compare columns dialog (r4715)
2247 - BugFix: Disable Folder Compare column selection dialog's up/down buttons
2248 when first/last items are selected (r4716)
2249 - BugFix: Many translation-system related fixes and improvements (#1804762)
2250 - Add Croatian translation (#1820308)
2251 - Translation updates
2252 - Chinese Traditional (#1824691)
2254 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.4 - 2007-11-01 (r4687)
2255 - New PO files based translation system (#1804762)
2256 - New folder compare column selection dialog (#1804555)
2257 - Install WinMerge.exe (ANSI version) only for Windows 95/98/ME (#1809140)
2258 - Better multi-monitor support, with option to lock panes (#1788168)
2259 - Installer: Install PO files and MergeLang.dll (#1820689)
2260 - BugFix: Ignored differences were merged when merging multiple
2261 differences (#1811745)
2262 - BugFix: Don't clear selection when right-clicking outside it (#1814184)
2263 - BugFix: Configuration log labeled Vista as Longhorn (#1815859)
2264 - BugFix: Customized text color for ignored differences didn't shown (#1807895)
2265 - Translation updates
2266 - Chinese Traditional (#1810192, #1810541)
2267 - Italian (#1805044)
2269 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.3 - 2007-09-27 (r4572)
2270 - Use PO files for translations (generate RC-files from PO-files)
2271 - Add Portuguese translation (#1756364)
2272 - Change Up/Down button names in folder compare columns dialog(#1800064)
2273 - BugFix: Fix MakeResDll crash (#1795421)
2274 - BugFix: Full screen mode didn't work with multiple monitors (#1788168)
2275 - BugFix: Revert multiple monitor patches (#1788168)
2276 - BugFix: PgUp key didn't do anything in beginning of the file (#1795680)
2277 - BugFix: The option 'Automatically scroll to first difference' didn't work
2278 properly when word-wrap mode was on (#1795814)
2279 - Translation updates
2280 - French (#1800064, #1802363)
2283 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.2 - 2007-09-11 (r4528)
2284 - Graphical improvements to location pane (#1770175)
2285 - Remove MFC dependency from resource compiler (#1783581)
2286 - Better multi-monitor support (split file view on monitor boundary) (#1788168)
2287 - BugFix: Renaming unique item (only other side) renamed parent folder (#1787816)
2288 - BugFix: Goto didn't change the active pane when selecting another pane (#1791351)
2289 - Translation updates
2290 - Traditional Chinese (r4473)
2292 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.1 - 2007-08-16 (r4440)
2293 - HTML reports for file compare (#1739209)
2294 - Ask confirmation when exiting with multiple windows open (#1757800)
2295 - Translation updates
2297 - Simplified Chinese (r4369)
2304 ## WinMerge 2.7.4 - 2007-06-27 (r4352)
2305 - Batch-file syntax highlighting keywords cleanup (#1743504)
2306 - BugFix: Archivesupport Zip-->both didn't work correctly (#1734439)
2307 - BugFix: Linediff didn't highlight whitespace differences (#1698781)
2308 - BugFix: Copy confirmation dialog did show wrong To-path (#1740024)
2309 - Translation updates
2310 - Italian (#1737491)
2312 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.7 - 2007-06-14 (r4330)
2313 - New big toolbar (actual image instead of placeholder) (#1736520)
2314 - BugFix: Fixes to folder compare copy/rename operations (#1730534)
2315 - Translation updates
2316 - Swedish (#1735635)
2318 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.6 - 2007-06-07 (r4321)
2319 - Recent project files in File-menu (#1731551)
2320 - Automatically import existing linefilters to new dialog (#1718040)
2321 - BugFix: copy/delete of unique items failed in folder compare
2322 in 2.7.3.5 (#1730534)
2323 - BugFix: crashed when ESC was pressed while renaming item in
2324 folder compare (#1705874)
2326 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.5 - 2007-05-31 (r4304)
2327 - Relax selecting parent folder restrictions (up arrow in folder compare) (#1727829)
2328 - Show a warning if item can't be found anymore in folder compare
2329 and it is tried to access (copy/move/delete) (#1723778)
2330 - New Borland Delphi file filter (#1699783)
2331 - Gradient toolbar (#1717774)
2332 - BugFix: could not create new file filters in 2.7.3.4 (#1719892)
2334 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.4 - 2007-05-15 (r4287)
2335 - Big (32x32) toolbar (image still placeholder) (#1698641)
2336 - Improve folder compare copy confirmation dialog (#1699585, #1700241)
2337 - New file filter for Symbian developers (#1694048)
2338 - BugFix: several fixes to in-line difference highlight (#1694102, #1714088)
2339 - BugFix: word wrap lose horizontal scrollbar (#1706476)
2340 - BugFix: fixes to tabbed window control (#1718148)
2341 - Translation updates
2345 - Swedish (#1703350)
2347 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.3 - 2007-04-04 (r4234)
2348 - Tabbed interface (#1603292)
2349 - Enable shell integration for folder backgrounds (#1693113)
2350 - Allow selecting syntax highlighting (#1690346)
2351 - New C# development file filter (#1689854)
2352 - Icon updates (#1686279, #1692097)
2353 - BugFix: compare by date and by size broken in 2.7.3.2 (#1693441)
2354 - BugFix: Open-dialog file filter failed if modified (#1693275)
2355 - Translation updates
2356 - Swedish (#1689515)
2358 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.2 - 2007-03-27 (r4201)
2359 - Several fixes to line difference highlighting (#1491334, #1683061, #1639453)
2360 - Icon updates (#1684865)
2361 - Printing improvement (#1687430)
2362 - Language files size reduced (#1687661, #1687983, #1688012)
2363 - BugFix: 2.7.3.1 binary file compare crash (#1687966)
2364 - BugFix: long linefilters now restored correctly (#1680920)
2365 - Translation updates
2368 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.1 - 2007-03-20 (r4179)
2369 - New copy confirmation dialog in folder compare (#1675087, #1683842)
2370 - Improved line filter dialog (#1682475)
2371 - Installer/uninstaller icons restored to default icons
2372 - Some icon updates (#1680209)
2373 - BugFix: folder compare lost focus after confirmation dialog (#1670991)
2374 - BugFix: crash comparing empty folders (#1675211)
2375 - Translation updates
2379 - Swedish (#1673908, #1678676, #1683289)
2381 ## WinMerge 2.7.2 - 2007-02-27 (r4137)
2382 - Fix ShellExtension installation bug
2383 - Translation updates
2388 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.7 - 2007-02-20 (r4120)
2389 - Folder compare threading improvement - should be faster in many
2390 situations (#1662002)
2391 - New options for backup file location and naming (#1652696)
2392 - Syntax highlighting for CSS files (#1582537)
2393 - Allow to hide folder compare margins (View/View Margins) (#1663798)
2394 - Translation updates
2397 - Swedish (#1657664)
2399 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.6 - 2007-02-01 (r4094)
2400 - New post-compare line filters for folder compare (#1644820)
2401 - Optimization for word wrap code (#1640741)
2402 - BugFix: 2.7.1.5 forgets selected filter (#1637433)
2403 - BugFix: limiting to single file compare window now works more
2404 logically (#1636314)
2405 - BugFix: ANSI regular expressions didn't work (#1644668)
2406 - Translation updates
2407 - Bulgarian (#1639493)
2408 - Catalan (#1646638)
2409 - Swedish (#1634968)
2411 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.5 - 2007-01-10 (r4030)
2412 - New line filter implementation (please test and report bugs!) (#1593810)
2413 - Minimum height for location pane's visible area (#1489875)
2414 - Short label "Error" for error items in folder compare (#1567749)
2415 - BugFix: rename edits wrong field in folder compare (#1597939)
2416 - BugFix: too much scrolling in difference navigation
2417 - BugFix: wrong text selection after pane switch in file compare (#1630630)
2418 - BugFix: crash when editing space-char indented files (#1631613)
2421 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.4 - 2006-12-21 (r3991)
2422 - Match lines inside differences (#1447744)
2423 - Workaround-patch (locally included to the build) for
2424 shutdown problems (#1602313)
2425 - New ASP.Net filefilter (#1619689)
2426 - BugFix: folder compare speed regression in 2.7.1.3 (#1610442)
2427 - BugFix: new fix for folder compare Copy Left/Right To.. (#1603061)
2428 - BugFix: copyright info missing from about dialog when
2429 translation selected (#1604115)
2430 - BugFix: location pane problems with word-wrap (#1584068, #1611542)
2431 - BugFix: invalid path added to project file -dialog (#1602219)
2432 - Swedish translation update (#1614442)
2435 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.3 - 2006-12-05 (r3919)
2436 - Now hides skipped items by default (#1604078)
2437 - Improved INI file syntax highlighting (#1607193)
2438 - Easier folder selection in Project File -dialog (#1603196)
2439 - New "Exclude Source Control files and directories filter" filefilter (#1557295)
2440 - BugFix: project files weren't loaded correctly from command line
2441 (using shell file association) (#1602214)
2442 - BugFix: crash in syntax parser (#1556688)
2443 - BugFix: wrong difference navigation when word-wrap enabled (#1597814)
2444 - BugFix: ClearCase integration didn't install if "Program Files" -folder
2445 was named differently (non-English Windows)
2447 - Slovak translation update (#1606496)
2449 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.2 - 2006-11-24 (r3844)
2450 - close WinMerge if Open-dialog is canceled when started
2451 from command line (#1600714)
2452 - BugFix: project files didn't work (loaded right-side path
2453 for both sides) (#1600000)
2454 - BugFix: location pane misdrawn when word-wrap enabled (#1584068)
2456 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.1 - 2006-11-16 (r3810)
2457 - Use expat + scew for XML handling (partially converted) (1587574)
2458 - Uses PCRE for regular expressions (partially converted) (#1591605)
2459 - New folder compare icons (#1586705)
2460 - New bookmarks icons (#1586689)
2461 - Manifest files in resource, no need for separate files (#1588212)
2462 - BugFix: WinMerge/Filters folder was always created (#1578419)
2463 - BugFix: modality problems in file selection dialogs (#1586869)
2464 - BugFix: crash if file modification time was missing (#1589563)
2465 - BugFix: /x parameter didn't work with some other parameters (#1564283)
2466 - BugFix: asked sometimes twice about saving modified files (#1596692)
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