3 ## WinMerge 2.16.16 - 2021-10-28
7 - Fix a problem where the string in the Windows common dialog would not
8 change to the language when switching languages.
12 - BugFix: Fix not getting the proper error message when saving failed
16 - BugFix: Cannot resize last column with UI (#998)
17 - Reloading a file that was changed by another application does not preserve
22 - BugFix: Fix an issue where drag-and-drop of file would only work once.
26 - BugFix: Sync (Super Slow) (#771)
27 - BugFix: Fix an issue where filters are not applied correctly when opening
28 a project file containing multiple items with different filters. (PR #995)
29 - [Feature Request] New Display Columns: Dimensions + Size Difference (#131)
30 - FolderCompare: Additional Properties (Windows Property System+Hash
31 (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256)) (PR #996)
35 - BugFix: Fix the problem that the "Register Shell Extension for Windows 11 or
36 later" button is not enabled when another user has registered
37 ShellExtension for Windows 11.
41 - BugFix: Plugin unpacked file extension problem
42 (get_PluginUnpackedFileExtension) (#983)
43 - BugFix: Comparing broken lnk-files (windows shortcuts) freezes WinMerge
45 - Apache Tika plugin: Update Apache tika to 2.1.0 and change the
47 - CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Make the number before the sheet name zero-padded
51 - BugFix: ShellExtension for Windows 11 did not work on machines that did not
52 have MSVCP140.dll VCRUNTIME140*.dll installed.
53 - BugFix: Loop counter should be the same type as the count type. (PR #987)
54 - ShellExtension for Windows11: Disable Registry Write Virtualization
58 - Where to report documentation/help errors? (#1004)
62 - Translation updates:
64 - German (PR #986,#1027)
65 - Hungarian (PR #991,#1023)
67 - Lithuanian (PR #979)
68 - Portuguese (PR #1017)
74 - BugFix: Missing packages.config (also outdated) and wrong NuGet packages
75 path in the WinMergeContextMenu.vcxproj and .filters file (#985)
76 - Fix typo in OpenView.cpp (PR #1000)
78 ## WinMerge 2.16.15 - 2021-09-20
82 - BugFix: WinMerge would crash when launched if the registry or INI file
83 contained invalid values.
84 - BugFix: Winmerge Crash when comparing 2 files from Windows Explorer context
85 menu (#808, #908, #913)
86 - BugFix: Incorrect text color for selected menu item on Windows 11
87 - BugFix: 50% cpu use by winmergeu.exe after program closed (#903)
88 - Digitally sign packages (#152)
92 - BugFix: The mouse cursor did not change to an hourglass when the files or
93 plugins were taking a long time to load.
94 - BugFix: Save Middle and Save Middle As menu items were not enabled when
95 comparing three files.
96 - BugFix: A two-pane window was displayed even though
97 New (3panes) → Table menu item was selected.
98 - BugFix: The height of each pane in the Diff pane was calculated incorrectly
99 when comparing three files.
100 - BugFix: Unicode SMP chars misrendered after performing a find (#914)
101 - BugFix: Crash when pressing Shift+F4 key
102 - BugFix: Replace slow (#940)
103 - BugFix: When moving in the scroll pane, the selected position is incorrect
105 - BugFix: When the Diff pane was redisplayed, the scroll position of the Diff
106 pane was not appropriate. (osdn.net #42862)
107 - Make "Do not close this box" checkbox in search window On by default (#941)
111 - BugFix: Duplicate menu shortcut in translations (#905)
112 - BugFix: Image comparison (winimerge #24)
116 - Add a feature to save/restore compare options to/from a project file.(#498)
121 - Add a feature to set items saved to or restored from the project file.
126 - New unpacker plugins:
133 - Added /c `column number` command line option
134 - Added /EnableExitCode command line option
138 - BugFix: WinMerge's extended menu items were doubly inserted into the context
139 menu of Explorer's navigation pane. (osdn.net #42702)
140 - BugFix: Right click - compare - is unclear (#249)
141 - Added a new DLL (WinMergeContextMenu.dll) for the Windows 11 Explorer context
142 menu (currently unstable and not registered by default) (PR #954)
146 - Translation updates:
147 - Brazilian (PR #910)
148 - Dutch (PR #921,#969)
149 - German (PR #965,#977)
150 - Hungarian (PR #937,#955)
154 - Portuguese (PR #956,#964,#976)
155 - Russian (PR #901,#927,#963)
162 - README.md: Make it clear that requirements are to build, not use the
163 application (PR #942)
164 - compiler-calculated maximum value for `m_SourceDefs` (PR #966)
166 ## WinMerge 2.16.14 - 2021-07-25
170 - Fixed an issue where the WinMerge process might not terminate even though the
171 WinMerge window was closed.
175 - BugFix: Fixed an infinite loop when "find what" in the substitution filters
180 - BugFix: Fix an issue where a file is deselected when returning to the folder
181 compare window after opening the file compare window by double-clicking
182 the file in the folder compare window. (PR #857)
183 - Right click context menu - Compare files or folders in a new tab (#232,#277)
187 - BugFix: Fixed an issue where window titles may not be updated
191 - winmerge shows (differences) rotated image (winmerge/winimerge #20)
192 - Added following menu items to the context menu
200 - Add preference option to clear "Don't ask this question again"
201 CompareLargeFiles choice (#772, PR #859)
203 ### Select Files or Folders dialog
205 - BugFix: Fix the Select Files or Folders dialog. (PR #882,#892)
209 - BugFix: CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: "This picture only contains a bitmap" was
210 displayed when comparing Excel files that contain shapes.
211 - BugFix: CString rangestr = (argc > 0) ? argv[0] : GetColumnRangeString();
213 - Improve plugin system (editor script) (PR #871)
214 - New unpacker plugins:
224 - New editor script plugins:
232 - Updated Apache Tika to version 2.0.0
233 - Updated yq to version 4.11.1
237 - Added /l command line option (osdn.net #41528)
238 - Added /t, /table-delimiter, /new, /fileext and /inifile command line option
242 - Installer integrates with TortoiseGit and TortoiseSVN despite being told not
247 - Translation updates:
248 - Bulgarian (PR #850)
249 - Dutch (PR #842,#893)
251 - German (PR #860,#870,#883,#890)
252 - Hungarian (PR #845,#856,#897)
254 - Lithuanian (PR #840,#849,#866,#875,#879,#894)
255 - Portuguese (PR #846,#872,#898)
262 - BugFix: WinMerge doesn't build under Visual Studio 16.10.2 (#841)
263 - BugFix: x64: LINK : warning LNK4010: invalid subsystem version number 5.01;
264 default subsystem version assumed (#855)
265 - BugFix: Project: heksedit cl : command line warning D9002: ignoring unknown
266 option '/arch:SSE' (#861)
267 - BugFix:ALL.vs2019.sln cl : command line warning D9035: option 'Gm' has been
268 deprecated and will be removed in a future release (#862)
269 - Resolves: Add continuous code security and quality analysis (PR #844, #843)
270 - Improvement: Add check and error mesage in DownloadDeps.cmd that path to
273 ## WinMerge 2.16.13 - 2021-06-22
277 - BugFix: Register.bat did not work properly on the Chinese version of
279 - Possibility to store settings in INI file (#248) (PR #750)
280 - FeatureRequest - Ignoring options - lack in "button menu" (#804)
284 - BugFix: Fix PHP syntax highlighting. (PR #782, PR #802)
285 - BugFix: BS key did not work at the beginning of the line after splitting
286 the pane or clicking the OK button in the Options dialog.
287 - BugFix: The edited contents were discarded when the "Recompare As" menu item
288 was selected after editing the file
289 - BugFix: Incorrect comparison (#834)
290 (This bug occured when enabling both the 'Ignore blank lines' option and
291 the 'Completely unhighlight the ignored differences' option.)
292 - Add Smarty syntax highlighting. (PR #821)
293 - Thicken the caret in overwrite mode (osdn.net #42179)
297 - BugFix: Different Files are Identical? (#768)
298 (When comparing files with only BOM and no contents, the comparison result
299 became unstable because it referred to the uninitialized memory.)
300 - BugFix: Fix a crash when re-comparing folders (osdn.net #42219)
304 - BugFix: The file could not be saved after creating a new one
305 - Made Unpacker plugins available for image compare and binary compare
309 - BugFix: Error on try to show differences between two different gif (#784)
310 - Made Unpacker plugins available for image compare and binary compare
314 - Improve plugin system (PR #797)
315 - Added categorized Unpacker plugin menu items to various menus
316 - Made it possible to specify multiple Unpacker/Prediffer plugins by
317 concatenating them with | and to specify arguments.
318 - Allowed Unpacker/Prediffer plugins to be specified for multiple files at
319 once in Folder Compare window. The specified plugin will be visible in
320 the Unpacker and Prediffer columns
321 - Add "(U)" or "(P)" to the tab title of the window opened by the
322 Unpacker/Prediffer plugin.
323 - Allowed the plugin settings dialog to specify default arguments that will
324 be used when no plugin arguments are specified
325 - Allowed plugins used by Automatic Unpacking/Prediffing to be excluded in
326 the plugin settings dialog
327 - New unpacker plugins:
344 - New editor script plugins:
355 - BugFix: Fix an issue where a message is not translated.(PR #763)
356 - Translation updates:
365 - Update CWindowsManagerDialog (PR #811)
366 - Update CWindowsManagerDialog - check some pointers for null and made safe
369 ## WinMerge 2.16.12 - 2021-04-29
373 - GUI textstrings: grammatical corrections (PR #722)
374 - Added ARM64 support
378 - BugFix: Fix PHP syntax highlighting. (PR #751)
379 - BugFix: Strings in a multi-line diff block were not be replaced correctly
380 when the substitution filters' regular expression contained ^
381 - BugFix: Font size restoration with Ctrl+0 key did not work properly in
383 - BugFix: Fixed a rare crash when enabling syntax highlight
384 - BugFix: Fixed an issue where inline scripts in HTML files were not
385 highlighted correctly
386 - Make the width of the 'Find what' label in Find dialog a little wider
388 - Fix conflicting accelerators (osdn.net #42064)
389 - [Feature Request] Selection Count on Status Bar (#135)
390 - Add C# 6.0 reserved words to style list (PR #719)
391 - FR: Add a shortcut key go to next file (#721)
392 - Update PHP syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #724)
393 - autoit.cpp - Macros >> User 1 ..... Variable >> User 2 (PR #749)
394 - autoit.cpp - #CS #CE support (PR #753)
395 - Interrupt a inline diff process when it takes too long
396 - Make the color of characters that represent spaces and tabs lighter than
397 other characters when the "View Whitespace" menu item is enabled
398 - Added "Open Parent Folder" menu item to the context menu
402 - BugFix: Copy confirmation dialog has overlapped Yes/No Button (#739)
403 - BugFix: Comparison result was not updated by Swap operation in 3-way folder
404 comparison (osdn.net #41901)
408 - BugFix: Next File or Previous File button on the toolbar did not work if the
409 active window was a binary compare window or an image compare window.
410 - BugFix: Only one pane was zoomed in/out in Ctrl+Mouse Wheel
414 - BugFix: Next File or Previous File button on the toolbar did not work if the
415 active window was a binary compare window or an image compare window.
416 - BugFix: The header bar widths were not calculated properly when the
417 'Split Vertically' menu item is unchecked.
421 - Make archive files openable as binary files from the pull-down menu.
425 - BugFix: Fixed a rare crash when decompressing an archive file
429 - BugFix: ATL: QIThunk - 2 LEAK in plugins e.g. DisplayBinaryFiles and
430 DisplayXMLFiles (#755)
434 - Translation updates:
435 - Brazilian (PR #711,#728,#729)
438 - German (PR #718,#752)
439 - Hungarian (PR #712)
442 - Lithuanian (PR #708,#713,#738,#754)
443 - Portuguese (PR #725)
445 - Swedish (PR #720,#723)
448 ## WinMerge 2.16.11 - 2021-03-28
452 - Make all OK strings same case (PR #593)
453 - Tab bar: Added shadows to help distinguish between active and inactive tabs
454 - Added drop-down menu to Open and Save icon on toolbar
458 - BugFix: Basic syntax highlighter is broken (osdn.net #41440)
459 - BugFix: File is corrupted while saving differences in changed file (Ctrl+S)
461 - BugFix: Fix an issue where the syntax highlighting scheme is not applied to
462 the split second File pane and the Diff pane when changing it.
464 - BugFix: The position selected by clicking while holding down the shift key is
465 incorrect. (sf.net #2237)
466 - BugFix: Fix an issue where the comment filter might not work properly if the
467 file is non-UTF-8 and the comment contains non-ascii characters.
468 - Add a feature to set up default highlighting by a file extension
470 - Add "Copy Selected Line(s) to/from Left/Right" feature (#463)
472 - If -b or -w is also specified, -B now considers lines to be empty if they
473 contain only white space (osdn.net #41355)
474 - Added BOM checkbox to the Codepage dialog.
478 - BugFix: Program crash if you close a tab with the folder from where you
479 opened current file (#645)
480 - BugFix: The title bar path was not updated when swapping files in a Zip file.
481 - BugFix: The codepage specified in the Codepage dialog did not affect the
486 - BugFix: The image on the right does not open if the file exists only on the
487 right (osdn.net #41721)
491 - Added Text, Table, Binary and Image menu items to the Compare button in the
492 "Select Files or Folders" window
496 - Rar5 support (#644)
500 - BugFix: Fix an issue where custom colors are not saved.
505 - RCLocalizationHelper: Fix memory leaks (PR #596)
509 - Installer issue with Polish diacritics characters (#589)
513 - Translation updates:
514 - Bulgarian (PR #599,#625)
515 - Brazilian (PR #633)
516 - French (PR #637,#649,#658,#659)
517 - Galician (PR #587,#650,#677)
518 - German (PR #632,#651)
519 - Hungarian (PR #682,#683,#685)
521 - Lithuanian (PR #634,#653)
522 - Polish (PR #597,#673)
523 - Portuguese (PR #674)
529 - Single instance mode does not work when launched from Visual Studio 2019
531 (Added /sw command line option)
535 - BugFix: Plugins\src_VCPP\VCPPPlugins.vs2017.sln can't open projects any
536 more because in revision 69455da the projects were renamed. (#598)
537 - BugFix: OutputFile of plugin project DisplayXMLFiles is different that the
538 other projects (#600)
539 - BugFix: WinMergeScript.rgs files in Plugins\src_VCPP projects are not found.
541 - BugFix: typeinfoex.h(189): warning C4701: potentially uninitialized local
542 variable 'pTypeLib' used (#605)
543 - BugFix: Plugins project DisplayXMLFiles.vcxproj contains
544 "Unicode Release MinSize" configuration but was removed (#611)
545 - Expression is always true (#612,PR #613)
546 - Plugins.cpp function SearchScriptForMethodName can be improved (#690)
548 ## WinMerge 2.16.10 - 2021-01-30
552 - BugFix: Fixed processing that uses GetAsyncKeyState(). (GitHub PR #505)
553 - BugFix: Fixed the problem that the language setting is not applied to the
554 context menu of the MDI tab when the language setting is changed.
556 - BugFix: command-line option /x did not work for binary and image comparison
557 - BugFix: Substiturions vs. Substitutions (GitHub #551)
558 - Swap Panes functionality for 3 way compares (Issue #507) (GitHub PR #533)
559 - [feature request] Add options to command line to change "compare methods"
561 - Added the command line option "/s-" to ensure that another instance is
562 always executed, ignoring the value of the 'Allow only one instance to
567 - BugFix: WinMerge crashes with mouse double click (GitHub #531)
568 - BugFix: Fixed an issue where the message box "The report has been created
569 successfully." was displayed even if the report creation failed.
570 - BugFix: BUG: Doesn't respect "Don't ask this question again" checkbox when
571 comparing large files (GitHub #574)
572 - The Location pane doesn't draw a line connecting moved differences by
573 default (GitHub #498)
574 - Update crystallineparser.cpp - AutoIt (\*.au3) support as a "Basic"
576 - s\_apszAutoItKeywordList[] - actualization for AutoIt (GitHub PR #584)
577 - Added JavaScript and JSON syntax highligher (osdn.net #41083)
578 - Added View -> Diff Context -> Invert menu item
579 - Feature Request: Move To Next File option while comparing files #475
581 - A new feature "Ignored Substutions" (GitHub PR #544,#549,#560)
582 ("Ignored Substitutions" was renamed to "Substitution Filters")
586 - BugFix: Winmerge crashes consistently when deleting files
588 - BugFix: Copy Folder does not copy subfolders and I don't see any option for it
593 - Added File -> New -> Table menu item
597 - Added File -> New -> Binary menu item
601 - Implement copy and paste images (GitHub PR #524)
602 - Added File -> New -> Image menu item
603 - Added Image -> Compare Extracted Text From Image menu item
607 - Fix an issue where custom colors are not saved.
612 - Making CPropertySheet resizable needs some re-work. (Issue #509)
615 ### Patch Generator dialog
617 - BugFix: Crash when generating patch (GitHub #521)
621 - Translation updates:
622 - Dutch (GitHub #578,#579,#580)
623 - Galician (GitHub PR #493,#538,#570)
624 - German (GitHub PR #532,#548,#563,#585)
626 - Lithuanian (GitHub PR #496,#528,#536,#562,#564)
627 - Portuguese (GitHub PR #495)
628 - Slovenian (GitHub #553,#565)
629 - Russian (GitHub PR #494)
633 - Update manual (GitHub PR #497,#513,#546)
634 - Small tweaks for the Manual (GitHub PR #508)
635 - Windows XP Pro SP0 vs Requirements (GitHub #515)
639 - Fix Various Warnings (GitHub PR #539)
640 - Various fixes to testing (GitHub PR #545)
641 - Some tweaks for translations status (GitHub PR #556)
642 - Link error when `building Plugins\src_VCPP\DisplayXMLFiles` with Visual
643 Studio 2019 16.7.7 (GitHub #554)
644 - Link error when building VCPP plugin DisplayXMLFiles with Visual Studio
645 2019 16.7.7 (GitHub #555)
646 - Link warnings when building VCPP plugin DisplayXMLFiles with Visual Studio
647 2019 16.7.7 (GitHub #558)
648 - Some more files should be added to the .gitignore file (GitHub #559)
650 ## WinMerge 2.16.9 - 2020-11-29
654 - BugFix: MainFrm.cpp: Toolbar was leaking image lists (GitHub PR #432)
655 - BugFix: The icons on a 43" 4K screen are too small (GitHub #276)
656 - Update English.pot (GitHub #440)
657 - Update Merge.rc (GitHub #487)
658 - Improved startup time
662 - BugFix: [UI] Pane enlargement was reset after changing tab (GitHub #403)
663 - BugFix: Non-comment differences were sometimes ignored when the comment
664 filter was enabled, (osdn.net #40488)
665 - BugFix: Line Filters aren't applied when using a 3rd file (GitHub #395)
666 - BugFix: "Ignore blank lines" does not work in 3-way compare (GitHub #450)
667 - BugFix: Fix the problem that the comparison result is displayed one line
668 off in the file compare window if a sync point is added with the first
669 line selected. (GitHub PR #435)
670 - BugFix: Fix the problem accessing the text buffer out of range if a sync
671 point is added by selecting a ghost line that is after the last block.
673 - BugFix: Fix the problem that "Goto...", "Goto Line <line>" and moving by
674 left click on the location pane do not work appropriately when the Diff
675 pane is active in the file compare window. (GitHub PR #476)
676 - BugFix: Reloading file does not refresh its encoding (GitHub #466)
677 - BugFix: Editor text display is abnormal - character spacing problem
679 - always copy "full line" instead of "selected text only" - option
680 CopyFullLine (GitHub PR #459)
681 - Add the feature "Go to Moved Line" requested by #278 (GitHub PR #484)
682 - how to show white space with linebreak hidden? (GitHub #265)
683 (Added View->View EOL menu item)
687 - BugFix: Pausing comparing doesn't pause immediately (GitHub #342)
688 - BugFix: Sorting on Comparison Result being done incorectly (GitHub #483)
689 - Commandline to display versions in the output report (GitHub #418)
690 - "Don't ask again" checkbox for the Confirm Copy dialog (GitHub PR #445)
694 - BugFix: Scrolling binary files (GitHub #456)
698 - Added "Automatically scroll to first inline difference" option to Options
701 ### Patch Generator dialog
703 - BugFix: Fixed the problem that the input to File1 or File2 comboboxes of
704 the Patch Generator dialog is not applied when the Patch Generator dialog
705 is opened by selecting multiple files. (GitHub PR #421)
709 - Translation updates:
710 - Chinese Simplified (GitHub PR #465)
711 - Dutch (GitHub PR #482)
712 - Galician (GitHub PR #419,#458,#493)
713 - German (GitHub PR #438,#448,#480,#490)
714 - Lithuanian (GitHub PR #417,#439,#443,#449,#481)
715 - Polish (GitHub PR #447)
716 - Portuguese (GitHub PR #429,#467)
717 - Slovak (GitHub PR #470)
718 - Slovenian (GitHub PR #486,#488)
719 - Spanish (GitHub PR #454)
720 - Turkish (GitHub PR #425)
724 - Update Shortcut_keys.xml (GitHub PR #430)
725 - Update manual (GitHub PR #485,#492)
729 - Tweak output from BuildInstaller.cmd and BuildArc.cmd (GitHub PR #424)
730 - Fix typo in GhostTextBuffer.cpp (GitHub PR #472)
731 - Fix typo in memdc.h (GitHub PR #474)
733 ## WinMerge 2.16.8 - 2020-08-28
736 - BugFix: More space for some internationalized strings (GitHub #402)
737 - BugFix: Some improvements (GitHub #405,#411)
740 - BugFix: Ignore case option did not work when Diff algorithm was
742 - BugFix: A white vertical rectangle was sometimes drawn in the selected area
743 - BugFix: The title of the file comparison window after changing the language
744 was accidentally changed to "Untitled left/right"
745 - BugFix: Wrong merging (GitHub #420)
746 (minimal/patience/histogram diff algorithm did not work on Windows XP)
747 - Extended F4 key movement range to the whole file
748 - Don't treat UTF-8 and UTF-8 with BOM the same when the
749 "Ignore codepage differences" option is disabled
752 - BugFix: Appropriate error messages were not displayed when the file to be
753 deleted no longer existed
754 - BugFix: 'Show Middle/Right Unique items' menu item does not work properly
755 in 3-way folder compare (osdn.net #40672)
756 - CTRL+Drag folders now has the opposite behavior of the current
757 Include Subfolders option
760 - BugFix: Fix scrolling glitches (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge PR #8)
761 - Reduce flicker on resize (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge PR #9)
764 - Allow choosing image filename patterns from a multi-selection dropdown list
766 - WildcardDropList: Avoid the String instance as it could throw std::bad_alloc
768 - Remove duplicate filename patterns without relying on WildcardDropList
770 - Made Options dialog resizable
771 - Changed the default values for the following options:
772 - Ignore codepage differences -> disabled
773 - Include unique subfolders contents -> enabled
776 - Rework the fix for Github issue #316: GUI glitches/bugs #2 (GitHub PR #392)
777 - Replace outdated list of developers in AboutBox with ascii-art gnu from FSF
781 - BugFix: Installation - Internal error: Failed to expand shell folder
782 constant "userdesktop" (GitHub #354)
783 - BugFix: Lithuanian.po is missing (GitHub PR #415)
784 - New installer for per-user installation
785 (WinMerge-2.16.8-x64-PerUser-Setup.exe)
788 - Translation updates:
789 - Brazilian (GitHub PR #383)
790 - Galician (GitHub PR #393)
791 - German (GitHub PR #388,#389,#398,#399,#401,#406,#412,#414, WinMerge/frhed PR #2)
792 - Lithuanian (GitHub PR #385,#390,#407,#408,#413,#415)
793 - Turkish (GitHub PR #386)
794 - Russian (GitHub PR #387)
797 - Update manual for IgnoreCommentsC change (GitHub PR #384)
798 - Update Shortcut_keys.xml (GitHub PR #410)
800 ## WinMerge 2.16.7 - 2020-07-26
802 - BugFix: The icons on a 43" 4K screen are too small (GitHub #276)
803 - BugFix: GUI glitches/bugs (GitHub #316)
804 - BugFix: Several issues regarding i18n (GitHub #314)
805 - Add Solarized Dark/Light color scheme (GitHub #287)
806 - Compile WinMerge with ASLR and CFG enabled (GitHub #315)
809 - BugFix: Diff Pane issues (GitHub #307)
810 - BugFix: Codepage not updated on refresh (GitHub #320)
811 - BugFix: Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)
812 - BugFix: WinMerge does not recognize the same files (GitHub #332)
813 - BugFix: Moved ghost lines are shown in the wrong color (GitHub #358)
814 - BugFix: opening same file (GitHub #362)
815 - BugFix: Find dialog sometimes remembers old text to start a new find
816 instead of the new text. (GitHub #368)
817 - BugFix: Fix a problem where markers that are out of the range of the
818 current difference appear in the difference pane. (osdn.net 40407)
819 - BugFix: HTML5 encoding (<meta charset="..." >) is ignored. (osdn.net #40476)
820 - '=' should be included in word separator (osdn.net #40224)
821 - Allow specifying default for EOL warning checkbox (GitHub #297)
822 - Only indent existing lines (GitHub #356)
825 - Made it possible to display the contents of CSV and TSV files like
826 spreadsheet software.
829 - BugFix: DST causes incorrect dates shown in Date column (GitHub #299)
830 - BugFix: Long filename issue (GitHub #339)
831 - BugFix: Winmerge Freeze if large number of files are listed in Window View
833 - BugFix: Change to disable some menu items that should not be executed for
834 directories, when directories are selected in the folder compare window.
836 - BugFix: Update DirViewColItems.cpp (GitHub #376)
837 - BugFix: Fix the problem that not 3 panes but 2 panes file compare window
838 displays when executing "Compare As" > "Binary" or "Compare As" > "Image"
839 in the context menu in the folder compare window with selecting 3 items.
841 - BugFix: Fix a problem where a text file could be considered a binary file.
843 - BugFix: crash when clicking [Merge]-> [Delete] menu item while renaming a
845 - Add a feature generating a patch from directories (#283) (GitHub PR #331)
846 - added bin and obj directories to C# filter (GitHub PR #365)
849 - BugFix: Scrolling behavior when dragging images is wrong (osdn.net #40205)
852 - BugFix: Open dialogs are sometimes left as garbage (osdn.net #40487)
853 - Browse button in the file/dir selection show wrong path (GitHub #346)
856 - BugFix: Pressing the [Compare/Binary] category button in the Options dialog
857 twice will cause a crash. (osdn.net #40308)
860 - BugFix: Fix handling of line breaks in SortAscending, SortDescending
862 - BugFix: Error when comparing images in the CompareMSExcelFiles.sct plugin
864 - CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Include Excel Addin files (*.xlam) (GitHub PR #269)
865 - Add support for C# and TypeScript (GitHub PR #382)
866 - Add a plugin for Visio (osdn.net PR #40473)
867 - Plugin fixes for the new Table Compare
868 (CompareMSExcelFiles.sct, IgnoreFieldsComma.dll, IgnoreFieldsTab.dll)
871 - BugFix: Crash when comparing encrypted 7z files (GitHub #367)
874 - Create the installer with Inno Setup 5.x since installers created with Inno
875 Setup 6.0.x are identified as malware by multiple virus scanning engines
878 - Translation updates:
879 - Brazilian (GitHub #360)
880 - Chinese Simplified (GitHub PR #303,#377)
881 - Galician (GitHub PR #292,#293,#308,#313,#326)
882 - German (GitHub PR #312,#357)
883 - Lithuanian (GitHub PR #291,#298,#333)
884 - Polish (GitHub PR #280)
885 - Portuguese (GitHub PR #305)
886 - Russian (GitHub PR #270,#271,#272,#302,#327,#328)
887 - Slovak (GitHub PR #300)
888 - Slovenian (GitHub #285)
889 - Spanish (GitHub PR #292,#293,#304,#308)
890 - Turkish (GitHub PR #335,#336,#337,#338)
893 - Minor changes to translations README.md file (GitHub #289)
894 - Update winmerge.org URL to HTTPS, many small improvements (GitHub PR #306)
897 - BugFix: Src\Common\MyCom.h unused? (GitHub #284)
898 - BugFix: Error on git repository cloning (GitHub #288)
900 ## WinMerge 2.16.6 - 2020-02-23
903 - Added CWindowsManagerDialog class for handling open tabs with Ctrl+Tab,
904 now the application is behave just like professional editors
905 (Visual Studio, Notepad++, etc.) to switch and activate the open tabs.
909 - BugFix: GhostTextBuffer: Don't unexpectedly bring back empty lines user
910 wants to delete (GitHub #244)
911 - BugFix: Prevent silent abort with File Comparison of files whose size
912 is an exact multiple of 2^32 bytes (GitHub #257)
913 - BugFix: WinMerge 2.16.4.0 crashes after de-selecting Split Vertically
915 - BugFix: "Replace All" may not replace all text
916 - BugFix: An error message is shown when pressing Enter key in Diff pane
918 - BugFix: Non-moved lines are treated as moved lines (osdn.net #39851)
919 - Add support for touchpad horizontal scroll (GitHub #254)
922 - BugFix: Support 16-bit images (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge issue #6)
923 - Add support for SVG, PDF, WMF and EMF file types
924 (Only available in WinMerge 64bit version on Windows 10)
925 Demo1: https://gyazo.com/b605edb820bc52d0f4f6232eb8ad78aa
926 Demo2: https://gyazo.com/f5f267546db27f2dc801c00df8cb4251
929 - BugFix: Third tgz doesn't get fully extracted (first two do) (GitHub #263)
931 ### Patch generator dialog
932 - BugFix: Crash when generating patch for multiple files and a file only on
933 one side (GitHub #252)
936 - BugFix: Fix spelling of Git (GitHub #246)
939 - New translation: Arabic (sf.net #3038)
940 - Translation updates:
941 - Bulgarian (GitHub #236, #268)
942 - French (GitHub #251)
943 - German (GitHub #239, #245, #258)
944 - Lithuanian (GitHub #233, #267)
945 - Portuguese (GitHub #237)
946 - Spanish (GitHub #266)
949 - BugFix: Fix spelling of Git (GitHub #246)
950 - Update Configuration.xml (GitHub #262)
953 - Consolidate FolderCmp (GitHub #240, #242)
954 - Avoid some back and forth file path transcoding between UTF16 and UTF8
957 ## WinMerge 2.16.5 - 2019-12-09
960 - BugFix: Suspicious lack of Release() calls in lwdisp.c (GitHub #171)
961 - BugFix: Performance using Unpacker (GitHub #180)
962 - BugFix: WinMerge toolbar appears too small on UHD and should default
963 to the conforming Windows 10 scaling/DPI accessibility setting
965 - BugFix: "Recompare as" menu option doesn't follow current choice
967 - BugFix: Switching between "Find Next" and "Find Prev" need to click twice
969 - BugFix: Program is crashed! (GitHub #229)
970 - Switch "Find" buttons in Find dialog (GitHub #201)
971 - Improve UNICODE character support using icu.dll usable
972 from Windows 10 Creators Update
973 - Add support for color emoji (Only available in 64bit version)
974 (To enable color emoji support, select DirectWrite* in Rendering
975 mode combobox on Editor page in the Options dialog)
976 Demo: https://gyazo.com/7cbbbd2c1de195fcd214d588b21b21d4
979 - BugFix: Crash when clicking Next Difference button after unchecking
980 Show Different Items menu item
981 - Changed symbols in Newer/Older column for better visual clarity
983 - Add "Ignore codepage differences" to quick options (GitHub #197)
984 - Limit the window flashing count. (GitHub #206)
987 - BugFix: Image compare breaks when zoomed too much with large pictures
989 - BugFix: [Image compare] Zoom-in focuses on top-left corner instead of
990 cursor position (GitHub #211)
993 - BugFix: "Run as Administrator" incompatible with "Shell integration"
994 (ver 2.16.4) (sf.net #2234)
997 - BugFix: Installer russian translation (#168)
998 - BugFix: Windows 10 shell integration not working (GitHub #176)
999 - Installer - Proposal - Separate Inno Setup strings from WinMerge
1000 installer strings (GitHub #167)
1003 - Update Italian translation (GitHub #164, #165)
1004 - Update Russian translation (GitHub #166)
1005 - Update Bulgarian translation (GitHub #170, #175, #179, #212)
1006 - Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #185, #199)
1007 - Update French translation (GitHub #187)
1008 - Update Lithuanian translation (GitHub #189, #208, #217, #225)
1009 - Update Swedish translation (GitHub #194, #196)
1010 - Update German translation (GitHub #204, #205, #215)
1011 - Update Polish translation (GitHub #218)
1012 - Update Simplified Chinese translation (GitHub #228)
1013 - Update Finnish translation (sf.net #3037)
1014 - Update English.pot (#216)
1015 - Add Japanese manual (GitHub #183)
1018 - Small Manual tweaks (GitHub #190)
1020 ## WinMerge 2.16.4 - 2019-07-28
1023 - BugFix: coretools.cpp: linelen() should not truncate lines with embedded
1025 - BugFix: file compare : right-click doesn't select the diff under
1026 the mouse (GitHub #159)
1027 - BugFix: Avoid an exception in GuessCodepageEncoding() when filepath equals
1029 - BugFix: Auto-indent did not work if the EOL-style was not CRLF
1032 - BugFix: Generating HTML Folder Compare report including File Compare
1033 report did not complete (Bitbucket #15)
1034 - BugFix: Compare Statistics dialog: The number of diff folders was
1035 counted in the number of diff files
1038 - BugFix: PrediffLineFilter.sct: Wrong encoding for settings
1039 dialog (Bitbucket #16)
1042 - Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #51)
1043 - Update Italian translation (Bitbucket PR #52)
1046 - Favor PathContext::GetSize() over PathContext::size() (GitHub #157)
1047 - Consolidate FolderCmp (GitHub #158, #160, #161)
1048 - Avoid some InnoSetup compiler warnings (Bitbucket PR #53)
1050 ## WinMerge 2.16.3 - 2019-06-29
1053 - BugFix: Slow startup with documents folder redirected to high-latency
1054 network drive (Bitbucket #155)
1055 - Add VisualElementsManifest for Windows 10 start menu (Bitbucket PR #47)
1056 - Reduce the size of the executable file
1059 - BugFix: Location and Diff pane visibility broken in 2.16.1
1060 (GitHub #138, Bitbucket #163, sf.net #2228)
1061 - BugFix: Temporary files could not be created (GitHub #143, sf.net #2220)
1062 - BugFix: Trivial bugfix (GitHub #155)
1063 - BugFix: Regression: Incorrectly shows 'no changes' for large portions of
1064 certain binary files! (Bitbucket #162)
1065 - Small tweaks for HTML file reports (Bitbucket PR #44, #45)
1066 - Made diff algorithm selectable by using libXDiff
1067 algorithms: default(Myers), minimal, patience, histogram
1068 - triple click to select whole line (Bitbucket #144)
1069 - Add support for merging word level diffs in selection
1070 Demo: https://i.gyazo.com/af18960bd1f121213a2cd9287cae9cf4.gif
1073 - BugFix: WinMerge 3-Way Compare Bugs: Always Shows Unique Items.
1075 - BugFix: WinMerge could not compare files that are opened in other
1077 - Show progress bar while generating Folder Compare Report
1078 - Use own colors settings for folder compare (Bitbucket PR #49)
1081 - BugFix: Possible Bugs in 2.16.2 (sf.net #2221)
1082 - Supporting relative path in project file (Bitbucket #158)
1083 - Allow multiple <paths> in project file
1086 - BugFix: no message was displayed when file saving failed
1087 - Implement Insertion/Deletion Detection
1088 Demo: https://gyazo.com/17d8773354d23b5ae51262f28b0f1f80
1091 - Tweak size of combobox "codepage" in options (GitHub #144)
1092 - Sort combobox codepage and add manual codepage (GitHub #145)
1095 - Allow per-user installation (only x64 installer)
1096 - Don't install Files.txt and don't add "Uninstall WinMerge" to the
1097 start menu (Bitbuket #38)
1100 - Update French translation (GitHub #149, #150)
1101 - Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #36, #40, #43, #46, #48, #50)
1102 - Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #41, #42)
1104 ## WinMerge 2.16.2 - 2019-04-04
1107 - BugFix: Edit > Replace > All, Undo: should undo all (sf.net #2113)
1108 - BugFix: Save As: default directory should be file's original
1109 directory (sf.net #2163)
1110 - BugFix: Strings with embedded 0 bytes are handled incorrectly (sf.net
1112 - BugFix: Removed word level merge support due to unstable behavior
1113 - BugFix: Menu item "File->File Encoding" moves main window (Bitbucket #150)
1114 - BugFix: Crash when maximizing MDI child window
1115 - BugFix: Crash when failed to load file
1116 - Add syntax highlight for Lua (Bitbucket #114)
1119 - BugFix: Compare results refresh incorrectly after deletions (sf.net #2217)
1122 - Upgraded to 7-zip 19.00
1125 - Improve icon display at 120DPI
1128 - BugFix: Zoom In/Out shortcuts don't update zoom level in location
1129 pane (Bitbucket #149)
1130 - Zoom In/Out menu items for image compare (Bitbucket #148)
1133 - Allow quoted filenames in "Select Files or Folders" (sf.net #1240,
1137 - Some tweaks for the manual (Bitbucket PR #35)
1140 - BugFix: Gibberish language during installation (Bitbucket #147)
1143 - Update Catalan translation (Bitbucket PR #29)
1144 - Update Italian translation (Bitbucket PR #32)
1145 - Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #33)
1146 - Update Simplified Chinese translation (Bitbucket PR #34)
1148 ## WinMerge 2.16.1 - 2019-02-24
1151 - Updated the copyright year to 2019, actually (GitHub #110)
1152 - Prevent splitter view from claiming input focus (GitHub #127)
1153 - Contributors.txt: Changed EOL from Unix (LF) to Windows (CR LF),
1154 because not shows correctly in Windows Notepad. (Bitbucket PR #17)
1157 - Alternatively to Swap buttons, allow drag & drop between filetype
1159 - Expose cleaner moving/resizing behavior esp. in non-maximized
1161 - Avoid retaining bogus filetype icons from previous selections (GitHub #122)
1164 - BugFix: Extra blank displayed after left/right single/double
1165 quotes (Bitbucket #134)
1166 - BugFix: Click doesn't trigger document to scroll in Location pane under
1167 circumstance (Bitbucket #140)
1168 - BugFix: Frustrating text selection bug (GitHub #109)
1169 - BugFix: Left and Right files swap after losing focus
1170 v2.16.0.0 (sf.net #2213)
1171 - BugFix: WinMerge 2.16.0.0 Unicoe X64 version displaying
1172 Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Asset in DiffWraper.CPP
1173 line 984 (sf.net #2214)
1174 - BugFix: Cancelation of selection range with reverse indent (sf.net #2215)
1175 - BugFix: upward and downward search not work correctly
1176 - Bugifx: Fix menu accelerator conflict
1177 - Add File/Recompare As/Image menu item
1178 - Add support for merging word level diffs in selection
1179 Demo: https://i.gyazo.com/af18960bd1f121213a2cd9287cae9cf4.gif
1182 - BugFix: Unique files are not shown (Bitbucket #138)
1183 - BugFix: Improve Hard-IO error handling, other bug fixes, cleanup,
1184 tweaks (GitHub #120)
1187 - Upgraded to 7-zip 18.06 (Bitbucket #119)
1190 - BugFix: Widen the width of labels in Options dialog (GitHub#108)
1191 - BugFix: view settings make winmerge crash (Bitbucket #109)
1192 - BugFix: 64bit version can't browse between option pages (Bitbucket #128)
1193 - BugFix: Shell Integration "Enable Advanced Menu" disabled on new
1194 install (Bitbucket #137)
1195 - BugFix: Binary File options don't change from default (Bitbucket #135)
1198 - BugFix: CreateTranslatedRcFiles needs an update (GitHub #113)
1201 - Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (GitHub #108)
1202 - Update Swedish translation (sf.net #3035, GitHub #112, #114)
1203 - Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #7, #8, #27)
1204 - Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #9-#26, #139)
1205 - Update Bulgarian translation (Bitbucket PR #28)
1206 - Update Turkish translation (sf.net #3036)
1207 - Update Japanese translation
1208 - Remove now unneeded MergeLang.dll
1211 - BugFix: Some fixes in the manual (GitHub #116)
1212 - Bugifx: end of line documentation (sf.net #2211)
1213 - Clarification as per
1214 https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge-v2/issues/41 (GitHub #126)
1217 - Remove `nFinalNullLines` checking, disabled by an earlier
1218 commit (GitHub #111)
1219 - Various minor updates, plus preparation for VS2019 (GitHub #115)
1220 - DiffTextBuffer: Create Unicode temp files (makes EscapeControlChars()
1221 obsolete) (GitHub #123)
1222 - Don't pass `DIFFITEM *` by casting to `uintptr_t` (GitHub #124, #125)
1224 ## WinMerge 2.16.0 - 2018-11-23
1227 - BugFix: Disabled icon on toolbar not gray out when running on XP
1230 - BugFix: Copy to X and Advance" not work in 3way-compare (Bitbucket #123)
1231 - BugFix: File compare always showing different ending (GitHub #106)
1232 - BugFix: Scrolling issue (GitHub #105)
1233 - BugFix: A crash (GitHub #104)
1234 - Add separators to "Zoom" and "Diff Context" menus (Bitbucket PR #5)
1237 - BugFix: Drag&Drop in Open Dialog won't work correct (Bitbucket #125)
1240 - Drop ClearCase integration (Bitbucket PR #6)
1243 - Add Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket #124)
1244 - Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #102,#103)
1246 ## WinMerge 2.15.5 - 2018-10-28
1249 - Add support for very long path and file names (GitHub #87,#95,#99)
1250 - Enable Ctrl+C shortcut key on the file path bar
1251 - Remove support for old version control system (GitHub #96)
1252 - Improve Options > Color > Differences dialog layout (GitHub #89)
1253 - Improve information and formatting in Help > Configuration reporting (GitHub #92)
1254 - Improve visual layout of Open dialog (GitHub #97)
1255 - Add icon for "New (3 panes)" menu item (GitHub #97)
1258 - Add Window/Split menu item
1259 - Improve handling of last lines in files (GitHub #89,#90,#93)
1260 - Improve "Visual C++ Loose" filter (GitHub #95)
1261 - BugFix: Crash when saving a file if the active pane is diff detail pane
1262 - BugFix: Crash when pressing Alt+Down key while loading large files
1263 - BugFix: Crash when "mousing over" Plugin Setting context menu if Plugins are disabled
1264 - BugFix: Various problems reading of files > 2GB (GitHub #81)
1265 - BugFix: Selecting files "From MRU list" again works correctly
1268 - Update Italian translation (GitHub #86)
1269 - Update Japanese translation (Bitbucket #3)
1270 - Update Dutch translation
1271 - Update German translation
1272 - BugFix: Spanish translation error (Bitbucket Issue #108)
1275 - Various diffengine and compilation/build fixes
1276 (GitHub #89,#90,#91,#92,#94)
1278 ## WinMerge 2.15.4 - 2018-04-28
1281 - BugFix: Dot icon in a drop-down menu is not drawn correctly
1284 - BugFix: Crash when reading a file in Google Drive File Stream (sf.net#2206)
1285 - BugFix: Crash when removing ghost lines (GitHub #80)
1286 - BugFix: Lines without EOL appears even though it is not the last line
1287 - Add Ctrl++/Ctrl+-(not numpad key) shortcut key to zoom in/out (sf.net#1727)
1288 - Remove 2GB file size limit for 64-bit build (GitHub #81, #82)
1291 - Add Pause button to Folder Compare Progress dialog (sf.net#828,#1222,#1237)
1292 - Re-detect the file encoding when opening files (sf.net#2131)
1295 - Add Options button to Open dialog
1296 - Add Save Project button to Open dialog
1298 ### Patch generator dialog
1299 - BugFix: File1/File2 fields don't remember manual input (sf.net#1949)
1302 - BugFix: Garbled text was copied to the clipboard when generating a report
1303 on the clipboard (sf.net#2200)
1306 - Add PrediffLineFilter.sct plugin
1307 - Make ignored lines by Prediffer plugin colored
1310 - Update Slovak translation (sf.net#2902)
1311 - Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #84,#85)
1314 - Adapt to VS2017 version 15.6.1 (GitHub #79)
1316 ## WinMerge 2.15.3 - 2018-03-04
1319 - Fix assertion error when started on Windows XP
1320 - Fix a problem that moved blocks are sometimes shown as normal diff blocks
1321 - Fix a problem that EOL is removed unexpectedly when removing lines
1322 included ghost lines
1323 - Fix reverse search to search last line correctly
1324 - Fix infinite loop when replacing ^ (sf.net#2094)
1325 - Fix to show text that contains & on message box, correctly (sf.net#2067)
1328 - Fix a problem that unique files are invisible when comparing files using
1329 'Date' compare method
1330 - Remove trailing garbage from a dragged text (Github#75)
1332 ### Patch generator dialog
1333 - Fix a problem that typed-in Context in Generate Patch is not applied
1337 - Entitify file paths in HTML & XML directory comparison reports (sf.net#2199)
1340 - Add support for HiDPI screens (Github #54)
1343 - CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Add "Compare headers and footers" checkbox to
1344 settings dialog (sf.net#2102)
1347 - Remove extra space in installer: " Launch WinMerge" (sf.net#2144)
1348 - Add "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" section into GPL.rtf
1352 - Add Finnish translation (sf.net#3031)
1353 - Add Sinhala translation (sf.net#3032)
1354 - Update Korean translation (Github #61)
1355 - Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #56-78)
1356 - Update Polish translation (sf.net#2177)
1357 - Update Turkish translation (Bitbucket#85, #86)
1358 - Change the file encodings of all .po files of WinMerge GUI to UTF-8
1360 ## WinMerge 2.15.2 - 2018-01-28
1363 - Flatten GUI pane edges
1364 - Partial support for HiDPI (not Per-Monitor DPI Aware)
1365 - Remove splash screen. The splash screen image is now displayed in About
1369 - Add "View->Toolbar->Huge" menu item
1370 - Add drop down menu to Options icon
1371 - Add icons for 3-way merge functions
1374 - Change window type of Open dialog from modal window to MDI child window
1375 - Add Read-only checkbox to Open dialog
1376 - Add buttons to swap items
1377 - Add the third path combobox for 3-way comparison
1378 - Allow file name patterns like not only *.ext but file*.ext
1381 - Make Tabbar reorderable by using drag-and-drop
1382 - Add "Close Other Tabs", "Close Right Tabs" and "Close Left Tabs" menu items
1384 - Add "Enable Auto Max Width" menu item to Tab Bar context menu
1385 - Show close button when hovering over tabs
1386 - Add icons to each tab
1389 - Add "Close Select Files or Folders Dialog on clicking OK button" checkbox
1391 - Add "Language" combobox to "General" page and remove Language dialog
1392 - Add "Ignore codepage differences" checkbox to "Compare/General" page
1393 - Remove checkboxes in "Enable multiple compare windows for" group from
1394 "General" page (Now always enabled multi compare windows)
1395 - Add "Include Subfolders" checkbox to "Compare/Folder" page
1396 - Add "Automatically expand all subfolders" checkbox to "Compare/Folder" page
1397 - Add "Ignore Reparse Points" checkbox to "Compare/Folder" page
1398 - Add "Number of compare threads" textbox to "Compare/Folder" page
1399 - Add "Compare/Binary" page
1400 - Add "Compare/Image" page
1401 - Add checkboxes whether to use custom colors for text to
1402 "Colors/Differences" page
1403 - Add "GitHub/Bitbucket" button to "Colors/Differences" page
1404 - Add "Margin" color button to "Colors/Text" page
1405 - Add "Colors/Markers" page
1406 - Remove "Use stand-alone 7-Zip if available" and
1407 "Use local 7-Zip from WinMerge folder" radio button from
1408 "Archive Support" page
1409 (Now always use local 7-Zip from WinMerge folder)
1410 - Make $file and $linenum parameters available in External editor textbox
1412 - Make Custom codepage on "Codepage" page selectable from dropdown list
1413 - Add "Detect codepage for text files using mlang.dll" checkbox to
1415 - Remove "Include subfolders by default" checkbox from
1416 "Shell Integration" page
1417 (ShellExtension now refers to "Include subfolders" checkbox
1418 on "Compare/Folder" page or on "Select Files or Folders" dialog)
1419 - Remove "Add Shell menu to context menu" from "Shell Integration" page
1420 (WinMerge now always adds shell menu to context menu in Folder window)
1421 - Add "Register shell extension" button to "Shell Integration" page
1424 - Add Multi-thread compare support for Full Contents or Quick Contents
1426 - Color the background of items in list view
1427 - Restore collapse/expand state of folder tree after re-comparison
1428 - Make comparing window closeable
1429 - Make sub-folder re-comparable
1430 - Display folder items in list view during comparison
1431 - Display the file name currently being compared in progress window
1432 - Add "Parent Folder" menu item in 'Open Left/Middle/Right' menu
1433 - Add "Compare Non-horizontally" menu item to context menu
1434 - Add "Copy items To Clipboard" menu item to context menu
1435 - Add "Swap panes" menu item to View menu
1436 - Add "Auto/Manual Prediffer" menu item to Plugin menu
1437 - Open selected folders in new tab when clicking "Compare" menu item with
1439 - Cleanup Date column alignment (GitHub #25)
1440 - BugFix: Version column not sorted correctly
1441 - BugFix: A unique item that is a binary file was not detected
1443 - BugFix: Properly handle 3-way comparison of Binary files (Github #23)
1444 - BugFix: Use proper font for View>Use Default Font menu item (GitHub #24)
1447 - Add support for 3-way compare/merge
1448 - Add "Diff Context" menu to View menu to adjust the number of displayed
1450 - Add "Split Vertically" menu item to View menu
1451 - Add "Add Synchronization Point" to Merge menu
1452 - Add "Auto/Manual Prediffer" menu item to Plugin menu
1453 - Show the name of the applied plugin in the status bar
1454 - Add shortcut(Ctrl+Alt+E) to open with external editor
1455 - Add Go and Rust highlighter
1456 - Add VHDL syntax highlighter (Bitbucket #2)
1457 - Add C++11 keywords
1458 - Make merge editor window D&Dable
1459 - Highlight the search text and implement Marker
1460 - Highlight the EOL pane in status bar if there is a difference
1462 - Reload files when another application changes files opened by WinMerge
1463 - Improve in-line diff algorithm
1464 - BugFix: More on Issue #73 Fixed the -dl -dm and -dr description parameters
1466 (for both 2 way and 3 way conflict files).(Bitbucket #1)
1467 - BugFix: Fix Memory Leak with Drop Targets (GitHub #26)
1470 - Install binary file editor (frhed) component again by default
1471 - Make binary file editor undoable
1474 - Add image file compare/merge support
1477 - Add "Include File Compare Report" checkbox to "Folder Compare Report"
1479 - Change the encoding of HTML folder compare report from ANSI to UTF-8
1480 - Add icons to the HTML folder compare report
1481 - Change visual style of HTML report
1484 - Install 7-zip plugin by default
1487 - Accept drag&droped files or folders from various places like:
1488 Zip folder, FTP folder, Recycle bin, images in Web browser
1491 - Introduce new plugin type FILE_FOLDER_PACK_UNPACKER
1492 which allows unpacking data in a file to multiple files in a folder
1493 - Use FILE_FOLDER_PACK_UNPACKER plugin for decompressing archives
1494 - Add support for unpacker plugin written in VBScript/Javascript.
1495 - Add WinMerge32BitPluginProxy.exe to make 32-bit plugins usable in 64-bit
1497 - Rewrite some plugins in VBScript
1498 - Add CompareMSPowerPointFiles.sct plugin
1499 - Add ApplyPatch.sct plugin
1500 - Add SortAscending, SortDescending and ExecFilterCommand menu item to
1501 Plugin->Script menu
1502 - Make plugins configurable with settings dialog of each plugin
1505 - Update \*.flt files for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017
1508 - Display another WinMerge icon in Explorer's context menu when a folder is
1512 - 64-bit version of WinMerge is available
1513 - Install plugins by default
1516 - Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #2-17)
1517 - Update Korean translation (GitHub #45)
1518 - Update Traditional Chinese translation (GitHub #53)
1519 - Remove "Language" menu item from View menu
1520 (You can specify UI language at Options dialog)
1523 - Incompatible change: The third file path is now treated as a right path
1524 for 3-way comparison, not output path
1525 Use /o option for ouput path instead
1526 - Add /wm, /dm, /fl, /fm, /fr, /al, /am and /ar option for 3-way comparison
1529 - Add support for jump list introduced in Windows 7
1532 - Use POCO C++ libraries instead of pcre, expat and scew.
1533 They use pcre, expat internally
1534 - Link statically with MFC and VC runtime libraries
1535 - Various compilation/build fixes
1536 (GitHub #1,#19,#21,#29,#31-33,#36-38,#42-44,#49-52)
1538 ## WinMerge 2.14.0 - 2013-02-02 (r7596)
1539 - BugFix: Shell extension uses unquoted program path (patches#3023)
1540 - Translation updates
1541 - Dutch (patches:#3020)
1542 - Slovenian (patches:#3021)
1544 ## WinMerge 2.13.22 - 2013-01-13 (r7585)
1545 - Translation updates
1546 - Turkish (patches:#2967)
1547 - Russian (patches:#3017)
1548 - Norwegian (patches:#3018)
1549 - Danish (patches:#3019)
1551 ## WinMerge 2.13.21 - 2012-12-30 (r7575)
1552 - Update PCRE to version 8.10
1553 - Update SCEW to version 1.1.2
1554 - Improve startup time (#2788142)
1555 - Add menuitems for selecting automatic or manual prediffing (#2638608)
1556 - Add accelerator keys for Shell context menu (#2823536)
1557 - Improve editing of linefilter regular expressions (#3015416)
1558 - Allow editing context line count in patch creator (#2092180)
1559 - Improve color options organization (#2818451)
1560 - Add /xq command line switch for closing WinMerge after identical files
1561 and not showing message (#2827836)
1562 - Allow setting codepage from command line (#2725549)
1563 - Allow giving encoding name as custom codepage (#2813825, #3010934)
1564 - Add new options dialog panel for folder compare options (#2819626)
1565 - Add options GUI for quick compare limit (#2825628)
1566 - Write config log as UTF-8 file (r7057)
1567 - BugFix: Untranslated string ("Merge.rc:nnnn") was displayed
1568 in status bar (#3025855)
1569 - BugFix: Pane headers not updated after language change (#2923684)
1570 - BugFix: Quick contents compare didn't ignore EOL byte differences (#2929005)
1571 - BugFix: Compare by size always checked file times too (#2919510)
1572 - BugFix: Crash when pasting from clipboard (#3109525)
1573 - BugFix: Keeps verifing path even turned off in options (#3111581)
1574 - BugFix: Crash after deleting text (#3109521)
1575 - BugFix: Added EOL chars between copied file/path names (#2817546)
1576 - BugFix: Created new matching folder to wrong folder (#2890961)
1577 - BugFix: Strange scrolling effect in location pane (#2942869)
1578 - BugFix: Plugin error after interrupting folder compare (#2919475)
1579 - BugFix: "+" and "-" from the number block don't work in the editor (#3306182)
1580 - BugFix: Date format did not respect Regional Settings (#3175189)
1581 - BugFix: When selecting multiple files in Patch Generator dialog,
1582 "Swap" button led to an error. (#3043635, #3066200)
1583 - BugFix: WinMerge contained a vulnerability in handling project files (#3185386)
1584 (http://www.zeroscience.mk/mk/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2011-4997.php)
1585 - Installer: Remove OpenCandy from the InnoSetup installer (r7572, r7539)
1586 - New translation: Basque (#3387142)
1587 - Translation updates
1589 - Hungarian (#3164982)
1590 - Spanish (#3412937)
1592 ## WinMerge 2.13.20 - 2010-10-20 (r7319)
1593 - Add missing keywords to Pascal highlighter (#2834192)
1594 - Recognize .ascx files as ASP files (#3042393)
1595 - Fix help locations (#2988974)
1596 - Show only "Copy to other side" item in file compare
1597 context menu (#2600787)
1598 - Expand/collapse folders from keyboard (#2203904)
1599 - Improve detecting XML files in file compare (#2726531)
1600 - Initialize folder selection dialog to currently selected folder in
1601 options dialog (r6570)
1602 - New translation: Persian (#2877121, #3065119)
1603 - New translation: Serbian (#3017674, #3065119)
1604 - Installer: Drop Windows 9x/ME/NT4 support and use Microsoft runtime
1605 libraries installer (#3070254)
1606 - Installer: Remove Uninstall shortcut from start menu folder (#3076909)
1607 - Installer: Don't install quick launch icon for Windows 7 (#3079966)
1608 - Installer: Add OpenCandy to the InnoSetup installer (#3088720)
1609 - BugFix: WinMerge was vulnerable to DLL hijacking as described in
1610 Microsoft Security Advisory (2269637) (#33056008)
1611 - BugFix: Location pane focus enabled "Save" (#3022292)
1612 - BugFix: "Copy and advance" toolbar icons not automatically enabled (#3033325)
1613 - Translation updates
1614 - Bulgarian (#3082392)
1615 - Chinese (#3033324)
1617 - French (#2850842, #2968200)
1618 - Slovenian (#2917796, #2932094, #2934354, #3070136)
1619 - Spanish (#2930734)
1620 - Turkish (#2825132, #2827817)
1621 - Ukrainian (#2817835)
1623 ## WinMerge 2.12.4 - 2009-06-09 (r6833)
1624 - Add more C/C++ types to syntax highlight (#2776705)
1625 - Create config log file to My Documents-folder (#2789839)
1626 - BugFix: Reports had same left/right descriptions (#2772646)
1627 - BugFix: When conflict file saved trailing line-ending was lost (#2550412)
1628 - BugFix: File compare HTML reports use invald DOCTYPE (#2783477)
1629 - BugFix: "##" in file filter pattern caused an infinite loop (#2789345)
1630 - BugFix: Could select prediffer when plugins were disabled (#2787131)
1631 - BugFix: Opening mixed-EOL file one side forced both files to be handled as
1632 mixed-eol files (#2022312)
1633 - BugFix: Didn't show correct EOL chars if whitespace chars were turned off
1634 and again on (#2791402)
1635 - BugFix: Generated patch had wrong file time for UTF-16 files (#2791506)
1636 - BugFix: Did not export changed options values (#2799149)
1637 - BugFix: Reset the compare method to original if it was changed (#2802427)
1639 ## WinMerge 2.12.2 - 2009-04-01 (r6625)
1640 - Disable folder compare tree-view by default (#2714968)
1641 - BugFix: Filename extension column was empty for files (#2670046)
1642 - BugFix: Crash when selecting backup folder (#2686382)
1643 - BugFix: Swapping panes did not update statusbar (#2661838)
1644 - BugFix: Says files are identical after making files different in another
1645 application and re-loading them (#2672737)
1646 - BugFix: Files with missing last EOL weren't merged correctly (#2712120)
1647 - Translation updates
1648 - Polish (#2717382, #2720875)
1650 ## WinMerge 2.12.0 - 2009-03-05 (r6542)
1651 - Remember last target folder for Copy/Move to in folder compare (#2659228)
1652 - Detect Windows 7 and Windows 2008 in config log (#2599256)
1653 - BugFix: Help window opened from WinMerge was modal (#2590079)
1654 - BugFix: Crash in editor when undoing (#2590212)
1655 - BugFix: Browse button in Option dialog reverted to previous settings
1657 - BugFix: Files without extension get backed up to name..bak (#2627752)
1658 - BugFix: Must Show Different to Show L/R Unique (#2129561)
1659 - Translation updates
1660 - Chinese Traditional (#2608190)
1661 - Croatian (#2596949)
1664 - Dutch (#2586422, #2590430)
1666 - Galician (#2632173)
1670 - Swedish (#2586274)
1671 - Ukrainian (#2609242)
1673 ## WinMerge 2.11.2 - 2009-02-05 (r6428)
1674 - Update Python syntax highlight keywords for Python 2.6 (#2473375)
1675 - More accurate visible area rect in location pane (#2479804)
1676 - New options page for Shell Integration options (#2433648)
1677 - Remove Frhed hex editor from GUI (context menu) (r6376)
1678 - Register.bat should use Find with full path (#2536582)
1679 - Better Unicode file detection for full contents compare (2477657)
1680 - BugFix: Could not open project file that contains an ampersand
1681 character in folder names (#2372000)
1682 - BugFix: File compare method "Modified Date and Size" ignored file size
1684 - BugFix: Quick compare didn't ignore EOL differences (#2433677)
1685 - BugFix: Remove EOL characters from command line (#2458728)
1686 - BugFix: Merging one line diff to empty other side didn't work (#2456399)
1687 - BugFix: Location pane was empty for some files with diffs (#2459234)
1688 - BugFix: Line filter editing didn't update edit box when editing was
1689 canceled by ESC key (#2493935)
1690 - BugFix: Wrong number shown for difference when using line filters (#2493980)
1691 - BugFix: Crashed if compared file disappeared during file compare (#2493945)
1692 - BugFix: Creating new files caused message about missing files (#2515875)
1693 - BugFix: Could not hide folders in recursive compare (#2528749)
1694 - BugFix: Folder Compare:Copy Right/Left don't create folder
1695 - BugFix: Must Show Different to Show L/R Unique (#2129561)
1696 - BugFix: Could not copy files from right to left (#2556904)
1697 - BugFix: Don't show file name extension for folders (#2563314)
1698 - Translation updates
1699 - Brazilian (#2461443, #2524796)
1700 - Chinese Traditional (#2540115)
1702 - Dutch (#2481022, #2494378, #2499994)
1703 - French (#2551043, #2551066)
1705 - Swedish (#2452467, #2465385, #2511043)
1707 ## WinMerge 2.12.x (R2_12) branch created (r6202)
1709 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.8 - 2008-12-19 (r6200)
1710 - Allow reloading the file if it has been changed on the disk
1711 behind WinMerge (#2354125)
1712 - Add option to show Open-dialog on WinMerge startup (#2327424)
1713 - Add Git to Source Control filter and fix ignore file rules (#2329381)
1714 - Add build identifier for 64-bit builds to About-dialog (r6142)
1715 - Installer: Option to add WinMerge to system path (#2435175)
1716 - Add Unicode version of heksedit (#2036603)
1717 - Allow multiple file compare documents by default (#2445749)
1718 - BugFix: Move confirmation dialog sometimes had wrong paths (#2327565, #2309190)
1719 - BugFix: Use translated version of readme.txt for Chinese Simplified (#2391000)
1720 - BugFix: Installer didn't install readme.txt for all translations (#2396437)
1721 - BugFix: Could not give paths to commandline when started WinMerge
1722 from Cygwin prompt (#2427946)
1723 - BugFix: Infinite loop in heksedit's Replace-dialog (r6176)
1724 - Translation updates
1725 - Croatian (#2390558)
1729 - Swedish (#2318778, #2374278)
1731 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.7 - 2008-11-20 (r6112)
1732 - Add shell context menu to folder compare context menu (#2189315)
1733 - Update PCRE to version 7.8 (#2209911)
1734 - Show missing lines in location pane for diffs having both different
1735 and missing lines (#2119235)
1736 - Syntax highlighting for Verilog files (#2231145)
1737 - Tweak new "equal file" icon a little bit (#2312381)
1738 - Readme update (#2234689)
1739 - Translation updates
1740 - Brazilian (#2219568)
1742 - Swedish (#2215167, #2236651)
1744 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.6 - 2008-10-23 (r6033)
1745 - General compare status for files (not known if text/binary) (#2175736)
1746 - Change icons for the new general compare status (#2185302)
1747 - Use 24bit icons for "Bookmarks" and "Delete" menu items (#2141184)
1748 - Installer: create backup of ClearCase config file (#2129095)
1749 - BugFix: Translatable strings having space before colon (#1971868)
1750 - BugFix: Wrong cursor position when disabling selection margin (#2138555)
1751 - BugFix: Showed a black line when disabling selection margin (#2068790)
1752 - BugFix: Fix manual URL in Readme.txt (#2181628)
1753 - BugFix: Long unique paths were mixed up in folder compare view (#2129634)
1754 - BugFix: Some calls made to plugins when plugins were disabled (#2182788)
1755 - BugFix: If messagebox was shown during file loading location pane
1756 didn't show any differences (#2101780)
1758 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.5 - 2008-10-02 (r5995)
1759 - Use external editor to edit file filters (#2082774)
1760 - Improved command line handling (#2081779)
1761 - Change Manual url to http://winmerge.org/docs/manual/ (r5956)
1763 - Plugins: Show processing instructions in XML plugin (#1979321)
1764 - Add icon for "Compare" menu item (#2119843)
1765 - Change download URL to current URL (#2136765)
1766 - Installer: create backup of ClearCase config file (#2129095)
1767 - BugFix: ClearCase checkout/commit dialog translation error (#2051069)
1768 - BugFix: Table of Contents in manual (#2071625)
1769 - BugFix: Highlight ShowUnInstDetails keyword for NSIS files (#2084879)
1770 - BugFix: Displayed a blank time when file last modified time is 00:00:00
1772 - BugFix: Customized colors weren't used in some areas (#2110218)
1773 - BugFix: Zip files were extracted into wrong folder (#2110350)
1774 - BugFix: Case-sensitive regexp search didn't work (#1991259)
1775 - BugFix: There were some installer regressions
1776 (eg. Installer didn't create Quick Launch icon) (#1460517)
1777 - BugFix: Whitespace ignore options didn't work with quick compare (#2120174)
1778 - BugFix: Giving path to file and folder to command line
1779 did not work (#2138560)
1780 - New translation: Galician (#2120685)
1781 - Translation updates
1783 - Russian (#2067785)
1784 - Swedish (#2075513)
1785 - Ukrainian (#2131753)
1787 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.4 - 2008-08-21 (r5846)
1788 - Binary file edit/compare (#2036603)
1789 - Add wait cursor for undo and redo (#2039228)
1790 - Add icon for "Open Conflict File" menu item (#2047054)
1791 - Include unique subfolder contents in recursive folder compare (#2034259)
1792 - Installer: Use -u switch in TortoiseSVN command line (#2060782)
1793 - Add icon for "Plugins->List" menu item (#2060771)
1794 - BugFix: External editor command line switches did not work (#2037862)
1795 - BugFix: Deleting/Moving file crashed WinMerge in debugger (#2025833)
1796 - BugFix: Lost focus after folder compare operations (#2046002)
1797 - BugFix: Some files had folder icons when aborting folder compare (#2018836)
1798 - BugFix: Didn't select word-diff cyclically by pressing F4 key (#1989858)
1799 - BugFix: Could not reset EOL ignore after selecting it from query
1801 - Translation updates
1802 - Brazilian (#2059836)
1805 - Chinese Traditional (#2039929)
1807 - Swedish (#2062107)
1809 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.3 - 2008-08-04 (r5733)
1810 - Rename color scheme menu item "None" and add separator (#2027300)
1811 - Add -u commandline parameter as alternative to -ub (#2029275, #2030359)
1812 - Remove RCLocalizationHelper plugin (#2029457)
1813 - Clarify Supercopier caused hang in release notes (#2030040)
1814 - Improve tree mode in folder compare (#2018836)
1815 - Unlimited undo (#2033754)
1816 - BugFix: Could change syntax highlight mode when highlighting was
1817 disabled from options (#2027325)
1818 - BugFix: Editing line filters updated wrong filter (#2025130)
1819 - BugFix: Boldfacing did work only for Courier font (#2000996)
1820 - BugFix: Shift+Backspace didn't work in editor (#1153696)
1822 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.2 - 2008-07-24 (r5673)
1823 - Refresh compare after changing filter (#2017426)
1824 - Add dialog listing available plugins (#2021722)
1825 - Hierarchical directory comparison result view (#2018836)
1826 - Add "Open Conflict" for file/folder compare menus (#2025472)
1827 - Enable hierarchial folder compare view by default (#2025478)
1828 - Confirmation dialog for move operations (#2026508)
1829 - Manual: New build system (#2015434)
1830 - Manual: Improve Opening Files and Folders (#2017901)
1831 - Manual: Improve folder compare documentation (#2024587)
1832 - BugFix: Failed to compare UTF-8 files plugins disabled (#2018287)
1833 - BugFix: Don't warn about closing multiple windows when only one
1834 window is open (#2010463)
1835 - BugFix: Moving was allowed for protected items (#2023734)
1836 - BugFix: Could change EOL style for protected file (#2025781)
1838 ## WinMerge 2.11.1.1 - 2008-07-11 (r5609)
1839 - Manual: Introduction update (#2011365)
1840 - Manual: Reorganize structure (#2011924)
1841 - Add ShellExtension menu for drive letters (root folders) (#2011602)
1842 - Remove buildall.bat (#2013576)
1843 - New option to enable plugins (disabled by default) (#2013845)
1844 - Plugins: Show processing instructions in XML plugin (#1979321)
1845 - BugFix: Use system codepage for paths (#1979429, #2008581)
1846 - BugFix: ANSI build crash in folder compare (#2010053)
1847 - BugFix: Add insert/overtype mode indicator to statusbar (#2015174)
1848 - BugFix: Detected UTF-8 encoding shown as 65001 (#2012377)
1850 ## WinMerge 2.10.x (R2_10) branch created (r5561)
1852 ## WinMerge 2.9.1.5 - 2008-07-04 (r5560)
1853 - Manual: Copy editing (#2000322, #2005418)
1854 - Manual: Clarify 64-bit support (#2002431)
1855 - Reduce executable sizes (#2003203)
1856 - Release Notes update (#2007673, r5557)
1857 - BugFix: Possible crash when enabling line filter (#2004160)
1858 - BugFix: Location Pane flickers when scrolling (#1938177, #2005031)
1859 - BugFix: Use system codepage for paths (#1979429, #2008581)
1860 - BugFix: Random crashes in folder compare (#2005308)
1861 - Translation updates
1862 - Chinese Traditional (#2007426)
1864 ## WinMerge 2.9.1.4 - 2008-06-24 (r5518)
1865 - Use PCRE regular expressions in the editor (#1991259)
1866 - Installer: install to all users (#1460517)
1867 - Update release notes (#1990886, #1995265, #1999880)
1868 - Manual: Use PNG files (#1988845, #1989744)
1869 - BugFix: Temp paths in Reports created from archive file (#1984346)
1870 - BugFix: ISL file syntax highlighting starts comment with { (#1981326)
1871 - BugFix: Crash when starting a second instance (#1993835)
1872 - BugFix: Crash when starting WinMerge with only one path (#1994402)
1873 - BugFix: Messages missing from installer translations (r5506)
1874 - BugFix: Always right side as origin side in copy confirmation dialog
1875 when Copy To... (#2001237)
1876 - New translation: Slovenian (#1997236)
1877 - Translation updates
1878 - Brazilian (#1994578)
1879 - Swedish (#2000307)
1881 ## WinMerge 2.9.1.3 - 2008-06-05 (r5438)
1882 - Update PCRE (regular expression library) to version 7.7 (#1941779)
1883 - Add VB.net keywords to Basic highlighter (#1970912)
1884 - Open conflict files by drag & dropping to main window (#1984884)
1885 - Possible improvement for WinMerge exit bug (#1602313)
1886 - BugFix: Location Pane flickers when resizing (#1740106)
1887 - BugFix: Command line description text starting with "/" confused
1889 - BugFix: Item count in statusbar not get cleared (#1976480)
1890 - New translation: Ukrainian (#1973149, #1974021)
1891 - Translation updates
1892 - Brazilian (#1978374)
1894 - Swedish (#1980970)
1896 ## WinMerge 2.9.1.2 - 2008-05-23 (r5362)
1897 - Optimize location pane (r5341, r5342, r5346, r5351, r5355, r5356)
1898 - BugFix: Version Control filter did not match all VSS files (#1881186)
1899 - BugFix: Fix showing differences in the end of the line (#1883409, #1962816)
1900 - BugFix: Fix command line paths in quotes ending with "\" (#1963523)
1901 - New translation: Greek (#1968429)
1902 - Translation updates
1903 - Bulgarian (#1957434)
1904 - Croatian (#1958283)
1905 - Swedish (#1950188, #1970074)
1907 ## WinMerge 2.9.1.1 - 2008-04-23 (r5324)
1908 - Release Notes update (#1933950)
1909 - Installer: Use correct way to create start menu web link (#1913919)
1910 - Installer: Simplify DeletePreviousStartMenu() function (#1913949)
1911 - Installer: Updated the side art of the installer application (#1915012)
1912 - Update URLs and switch to 2.8 manual (#1919965)
1913 - New splash screen (#1914869)
1914 - Tab icons at Filter dialog (#1926531)
1915 - Add VS2003/VS2005 project files (#1926346)
1916 - Create separate document for compiling WinMerge (#1927502)
1917 - Update InnoSetup translations (#1931492)
1918 - Make 'Yes' the default button in copy confirmation dialog (#1943647)
1919 - Allow drag & drop of paths to Open dialog (#1945254)
1920 - Enlarge 'Discard All' button in Save confirmation dialog (#1947216)
1921 - BugFix: Installer could create a registry access error (#1909967)
1922 - BugFix: The filter text box in Open-dialog sometimes displayed some garbage
1924 - BugFix: Print area was not clipped correctly. (#1915536)
1925 - BugFix: Undo after pane swapping (#1915536, #1923625)
1926 - BugFix: Quick compare for same folder didn't show differences (#1918599)
1927 - BugFix: Installer didn't have ChangeLog.txt included (r5255)
1928 - BugFix: Shortcuts given in command line were not expanded (#1942217)
1929 - New translation: Romanian (#1939729)
1930 - Translation updates
1931 - Brazilian (#1913723)
1932 - Chinese Traditional (#1927605)
1934 - German (r5130, r5139, r5171, r5203, r5236, #1949068)
1935 - Italian (#1939235)
1938 - Russian (#1914466)
1939 - Spanish (#1907152, r5250)
1940 - Swedish (#1908289)
1942 ## WinMerge 2.8 RC - 2008-03-04 (r5125)
1943 - Update developers list in splash screen (#1891548)
1944 - Better error handling for Excel plugin (#1510293)
1945 - Add macros, bookmarks and document properties to Word plugin (#1510298)
1946 - Add *.dot (document template) extension to Word plugin (r5120)
1947 - BugFix: Copy&Paste from VB6 added binary chars (#1904355)
1948 - Translation updates
1949 - Chinese Traditional (#1905323)
1950 - Swedish (#1905520)
1952 ## WinMerge 2.7.7.6 - 2008-02-28 (r5099)
1953 - Remove sintance.h/sintance.cpp as not compatible with GPL (#1886580)
1954 - Automatically switch to mixed-EOL mode when loading files with
1955 two or more EOL styles (#1901547)
1956 - Indent "Explorer Context Menu" sub options (#1901763)
1957 - Replace 'DOS' in EOL style strings with 'Windows' (#1902583)
1958 - Show 'Mixed' as file compare EOL style instead of empty style (r5091)
1959 - Typo fixes and grammar improvements to several strings (#1898401)
1960 - BugFix: Ignore codepage specified on File Encoding dialog if file was
1961 detected as UTF-8 (#1900728)
1962 - BugFix: Recognize invalid UTF-8 sequence as UTF-8 (#1900733)
1963 - BugFix: Didn't highlight any difference between untitled documents (#1900257)
1964 - Translation updates
1967 - Swedish (#1901784)
1969 ## WinMerge 2.7.7.5 - 2008-02-22 (r5069)
1970 - Cleaning up Help-menu (#1875111)
1971 - Right-align tab size number in editor options (r5037)
1972 - Move Time difference ignore -option to compare options (#1892283)
1973 - Add option to select temporary folder (#1893167)
1974 - Show file encoding in file compare statusbar (#1895629)
1975 - Unify EOL style strings in folder compare and file compare (#1896462)
1976 - Remove "DisplayBinaryFiles" and "EditBinaryFiles" plugin (#1899161)
1977 - BugFix: Potential lockup in folder compare (#1865131, #1889907)
1978 - BugFix: Line filter didn't filter non-ascii lines correctly (#1880628)
1979 - BugFix: GNU General Public License name in menu (#1868989)
1980 - BugFix: Didn't switch back to content compare once switched to quick
1981 compare in folder compare (#1770373)
1982 - BugFix: Quick compare didn't ignore EOL differences (#1884717)
1983 - Translation updates
1988 - Swedish (#1891326)
1990 ## WinMerge 2.7.7.4 - 2008-02-07 (r5011)
1991 - Detect (and read/write) UTF-8 files without BOM (#1879271)
1992 - Tell user that file is not a conflict file (#1880423)
1993 - Allow opening conflict file from command line (#1880857)
1994 - Use radio symbol for current EOL menu item (#1869755)
1995 - Ask and create pair for unique folder and open them (#1881454)
1996 - Add publisher info to version resource (#1884920)
1997 - Move "Zoom In/Out" to own sub menu (#1879340)
1998 - Installer: Add more version resource info (#1885793)
1999 - Reset text zoom to default size with Ctrl + * (#1886664)
2000 - BugFix: Always return 0 to command line (#1854419)
2001 - BugFix: Merge/Delete deleted items from read-only sides (#1882019)
2002 - BugFix: Shellextension had no publisher info and wrong
2003 description (#1878828)
2004 - BugFix: Lockup when showing binary files (#1880711)
2005 - Translation updates
2008 - Swedish (#1884918)
2010 ## WinMerge 2.7.7.3 - 2008-01-23 (r4951)
2011 - Resolve conflict files (cvs, svn...) (#1875129)
2012 - Save line filter when edit box loses focus (#1875853)
2013 - Add link to translations website at help menu (#1699883)
2014 - Manual: Add instructions for conflict file resolving (#1876770)
2015 - Manual: Document third path given to command line (#1877735)
2016 - BugFix: Fix Quick Compare regression in 2.7.7.2 (#1872165)
2017 - BugFix: Clipped text in file saving error message (#1874854)
2019 ## WinMerge 2.7.7.2 - 2008-01-14 (r4915)
2020 - Syntax highlighting for PowerShell files (#1859657)
2021 - Syntax highlighting for PO(T) files (#1866221)
2022 - Change font size with Ctrl + MouseWheel (#1865795, #1869686)
2023 - Horizontal scrolling with Shift + MouseWheel (#1865795)
2024 - Installer: Add support for integration with latest version of TortoiseCVS and
2025 TortoiseSVN x64 (#1865168)
2026 - Close compare tab with middle mouse button (#1865220)
2027 - Add index.html for documentation folders (#1866183)
2028 - Manual: Clarify file filters folder name matching (#1867212)
2029 - Improve file compare margin icons location (#1718699)
2030 - Enable file compare to open binary files (#1869647)
2031 - File encoding dialog for file compare (#1871079)
2032 - BugFix: Crash when using TrackPoint middle-button scrolling (#1864040)
2033 - BugFix: WinMerge didn't show the contents of the symbolic link target (#1864978)
2034 - BugFix: Unused registry key HKCU\Thingamahoochie\WinMerge was created
2036 - BugFix: Register.bat didn't work on Windows 98 and Vista (#1869821)
2037 - BugFix: Open-dialog was not displayed on Windows 98 (#1866442, #1869858)
2038 - BugFix: Right mouse button didn't move cursor to new place (#1814184)
2039 - Translation updates
2040 - Spanish (#1867234)
2041 - Swedish (#1867765, #1867844)
2043 ## WinMerge 2.7.7.1 - 2007-12-20 (r4842)
2044 - New option to keep file's time when saving in file compare (#1851921)
2045 - Installer: Link to translated ReadMe in Start menu, if file exists (#1805818)
2046 - Add HTML-formatted release notes (#1851308, #1852534)
2047 - Installer: Install release notes file (#1852599)
2048 - Installer: Move manual to core files component and remove
2049 - User Guide component (#1853409)
2050 - BugFix: VS2008 and VS2005 compile problems (#1847265)
2051 - BugFix: More difference highlight code reverts (#1748940)
2052 - Translation updates
2053 - Spanish (#1655577)
2055 ## WinMerge 2.7.6 - 2007-11-29 (r4807)
2056 - Touchpad scrolling improvements (#1837457)
2057 - BugFix: Values with "," inside could break the CSV report (#1831512)
2058 - BugFix: Failed to create backup file in folder compare (#1835283)
2059 - BugFix: Revert difference highlight code to 2.6.12 version (#1811695)
2060 - BugFix: Backspace key didn't work when renaming items (#1738790)
2061 - Translation updates
2064 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.7 - 2007-11-19 (r4772)
2065 - Remove MFC dependency from ShellExtension (#1833521)
2066 - Update ShellExtension icon to new WinMerge icon (#1833616)
2067 - BugFix: Build script didn't update PO files correctly before copying (r4756)
2068 - BugFix: ShellExtension's icon was clipped if system font size was small
2070 - BugFix: Merge controls were not enabled for missing lines (#1833714)
2072 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.6 - 2007-11-15 (r4752)
2073 - BugFix: Many translation-system related fixes and improvements (#1804762)
2074 - BugFix: When copying files to VCS system, destination file was
2075 not checked out (#1828930)
2076 - BugFix: Visible area indicator on location pane shook when clicking
2077 above or below the vertical scroll bar to scroll one screen (#1829572)
2078 - Translation updates
2079 - Croatian (#1829301)
2082 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.5 - 2007-11-08 (r4722)
2083 - BugFix: Don't enable merge GUI for ignored differences (#1826375)
2084 - BugFix: PgUp key caused the error message "An invalid argument was
2085 encountered" when word-wrap mode was on (#1820631)
2086 - BugFix: Keep selected items visible in Folder Compare columns dialog (r4715)
2087 - BugFix: Disable Folder Compare column selection dialog's up/down buttons
2088 when first/last items are selected (r4716)
2089 - BugFix: Many translation-system related fixes and improvements (#1804762)
2090 - Add Croatian translation (#1820308)
2091 - Translation updates
2092 - Chinese Traditional (#1824691)
2094 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.4 - 2007-11-01 (r4687)
2095 - New PO files based translation system (#1804762)
2096 - New folder compare column selection dialog (#1804555)
2097 - Install WinMerge.exe (ANSI version) only for Windows 95/98/ME (#1809140)
2098 - Better multi-monitor support, with option to lock panes (#1788168)
2099 - Installer: Install PO files and MergeLang.dll (#1820689)
2100 - BugFix: Ignored differences were merged when merging multiple
2101 differences (#1811745)
2102 - BugFix: Don't clear selection when right-clicking outside it (#1814184)
2103 - BugFix: Configuration log labeled Vista as Longhorn (#1815859)
2104 - BugFix: Customized text color for ignored differences didn't shown (#1807895)
2105 - Translation updates
2106 - Chinese Traditional (#1810192, #1810541)
2107 - Italian (#1805044)
2109 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.3 - 2007-09-27 (r4572)
2110 - Use PO files for translations (generate RC-files from PO-files)
2111 - Add Portuguese translation (#1756364)
2112 - Change Up/Down button names in folder compare columns dialog(#1800064)
2113 - BugFix: Fix MakeResDll crash (#1795421)
2114 - BugFix: Full screen mode didn't work with multiple monitors (#1788168)
2115 - BugFix: Revert multiple monitor patches (#1788168)
2116 - BugFix: PgUp key didn't do anything in beginning of the file (#1795680)
2117 - BugFix: The option 'Automatically scroll to first difference' didn't work
2118 properly when word-wrap mode was on (#1795814)
2119 - Translation updates
2120 - French (#1800064, #1802363)
2123 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.2 - 2007-09-11 (r4528)
2124 - Graphical improvements to location pane (#1770175)
2125 - Remove MFC dependency from resource compiler (#1783581)
2126 - Better multi-monitor support (split file view on monitor boundary) (#1788168)
2127 - BugFix: Renaming unique item (only other side) renamed parent folder (#1787816)
2128 - BugFix: Goto didn't change the active pane when selecting another pane (#1791351)
2129 - Translation updates
2130 - Traditional Chinese (r4473)
2132 ## WinMerge 2.7.5.1 - 2007-08-16 (r4440)
2133 - HTML reports for file compare (#1739209)
2134 - Ask confirmation when exiting with multiple windows open (#1757800)
2135 - Translation updates
2137 - Simplified Chinese (r4369)
2144 ## WinMerge 2.7.4 - 2007-06-27 (r4352)
2145 - Batch-file syntax highlighting keywords cleanup (#1743504)
2146 - BugFix: Archivesupport Zip-->both didn't work correctly (#1734439)
2147 - BugFix: Linediff didn't highlight whitespace differences (#1698781)
2148 - BugFix: Copy confirmation dialog did show wrong To-path (#1740024)
2149 - Translation updates
2150 - Italian (#1737491)
2152 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.7 - 2007-06-14 (r4330)
2153 - New big toolbar (actual image instead of placeholder) (#1736520)
2154 - BugFix: Fixes to folder compare copy/rename operations (#1730534)
2155 - Translation updates
2156 - Swedish (#1735635)
2158 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.6 - 2007-06-07 (r4321)
2159 - Recent project files in File-menu (#1731551)
2160 - Automatically import existing linefilters to new dialog (#1718040)
2161 - BugFix: copy/delete of unique items failed in folder compare
2162 in 2.7.3.5 (#1730534)
2163 - BugFix: crashed when ESC was pressed while renaming item in
2164 folder compare (#1705874)
2166 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.5 - 2007-05-31 (r4304)
2167 - Relax selecting parent folder restrictions (up arrow in folder compare) (#1727829)
2168 - Show a warning if item can't be found anymore in folder compare
2169 and it is tried to access (copy/move/delete) (#1723778)
2170 - New Borland Delphi file filter (#1699783)
2171 - Gradient toolbar (#1717774)
2172 - BugFix: could not create new file filters in 2.7.3.4 (#1719892)
2174 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.4 - 2007-05-15 (r4287)
2175 - Big (32x32) toolbar (image still placeholder) (#1698641)
2176 - Improve folder compare copy confirmation dialog (#1699585, #1700241)
2177 - New file filter for Symbian developers (#1694048)
2178 - BugFix: several fixes to in-line difference highlight (#1694102, #1714088)
2179 - BugFix: word wrap lose horizontal scrollbar (#1706476)
2180 - BugFix: fixes to tabbed window control (#1718148)
2181 - Translation updates
2185 - Swedish (#1703350)
2187 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.3 - 2007-04-04 (r4234)
2188 - Tabbed interface (#1603292)
2189 - Enable shell integration for folder backgrounds (#1693113)
2190 - Allow selecting syntax highlighting (#1690346)
2191 - New C# development file filter (#1689854)
2192 - Icon updates (#1686279, #1692097)
2193 - BugFix: compare by date and by size broken in 2.7.3.2 (#1693441)
2194 - BugFix: Open-dialog file filter failed if modified (#1693275)
2195 - Translation updates
2196 - Swedish (#1689515)
2198 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.2 - 2007-03-27 (r4201)
2199 - Several fixes to line difference highlighting (#1491334, #1683061, #1639453)
2200 - Icon updates (#1684865)
2201 - Printing improvement (#1687430)
2202 - Language files size reduced (#1687661, #1687983, #1688012)
2203 - BugFix: 2.7.3.1 binary file compare crash (#1687966)
2204 - BugFix: long linefilters now restored correctly (#1680920)
2205 - Translation updates
2208 ## WinMerge 2.7.3.1 - 2007-03-20 (r4179)
2209 - New copy confirmation dialog in folder compare (#1675087, #1683842)
2210 - Improved line filter dialog (#1682475)
2211 - Installer/uninstaller icons restored to default icons
2212 - Some icon updates (#1680209)
2213 - BugFix: folder compare lost focus after confirmation dialog (#1670991)
2214 - BugFix: crash comparing empty folders (#1675211)
2215 - Translation updates
2219 - Swedish (#1673908, #1678676, #1683289)
2221 ## WinMerge 2.7.2 - 2007-02-27 (r4137)
2222 - Fix ShellExtension installation bug
2223 - Translation updates
2228 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.7 - 2007-02-20 (r4120)
2229 - Folder compare threading improvement - should be faster in many
2230 situations (#1662002)
2231 - New options for backup file location and naming (#1652696)
2232 - Syntax highlighting for CSS files (#1582537)
2233 - Allow to hide folder compare margins (View/View Margins) (#1663798)
2234 - Translation updates
2237 - Swedish (#1657664)
2239 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.6 - 2007-02-01 (r4094)
2240 - New post-compare line filters for folder compare (#1644820)
2241 - Optimization for word wrap code (#1640741)
2242 - BugFix: 2.7.1.5 forgets selected filter (#1637433)
2243 - BugFix: limiting to single file compare window now works more
2244 logically (#1636314)
2245 - BugFix: ANSI regular expressions didn't work (#1644668)
2246 - Translation updates
2247 - Bulgarian (#1639493)
2248 - Catalan (#1646638)
2249 - Swedish (#1634968)
2251 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.5 - 2007-01-10 (r4030)
2252 - New line filter implementation (please test and report bugs!) (#1593810)
2253 - Minimum height for location pane's visible area (#1489875)
2254 - Short label "Error" for error items in folder compare (#1567749)
2255 - BugFix: rename edits wrong field in folder compare (#1597939)
2256 - BugFix: too much scrolling in difference navigation
2257 - BugFix: wrong text selection after pane switch in file compare (#1630630)
2258 - BugFix: crash when editing space-char indented files (#1631613)
2261 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.4 - 2006-12-21 (r3991)
2262 - Match lines inside differences (#1447744)
2263 - Workaround-patch (locally included to the build) for
2264 shutdown problems (#1602313)
2265 - New ASP.Net filefilter (#1619689)
2266 - BugFix: folder compare speed regression in 2.7.1.3 (#1610442)
2267 - BugFix: new fix for folder compare Copy Left/Right To.. (#1603061)
2268 - BugFix: copyright info missing from about dialog when
2269 translation selected (#1604115)
2270 - BugFix: location pane problems with word-wrap (#1584068, #1611542)
2271 - BugFix: invalid path added to project file -dialog (#1602219)
2272 - Swedish translation update (#1614442)
2275 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.3 - 2006-12-05 (r3919)
2276 - Now hides skipped items by default (#1604078)
2277 - Improved INI file syntax highlighting (#1607193)
2278 - Easier folder selection in Project File -dialog (#1603196)
2279 - New "Exclude Source Control files and directories filter" filefilter (#1557295)
2280 - BugFix: project files weren't loaded correctly from command line
2281 (using shell file association) (#1602214)
2282 - BugFix: crash in syntax parser (#1556688)
2283 - BugFix: wrong difference navigation when word-wrap enabled (#1597814)
2284 - BugFix: ClearCase integration didn't install if "Program Files" -folder
2285 was named differently (non-English Windows)
2287 - Slovak translation update (#1606496)
2289 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.2 - 2006-11-24 (r3844)
2290 - close WinMerge if Open-dialog is canceled when started
2291 from command line (#1600714)
2292 - BugFix: project files didn't work (loaded right-side path
2293 for both sides) (#1600000)
2294 - BugFix: location pane misdrawn when word-wrap enabled (#1584068)
2296 ## WinMerge 2.7.1.1 - 2006-11-16 (r3810)
2297 - Use expat + scew for XML handling (partially converted) (1587574)
2298 - Uses PCRE for regular expressions (partially converted) (#1591605)
2299 - New folder compare icons (#1586705)
2300 - New bookmarks icons (#1586689)
2301 - Manifest files in resource, no need for separate files (#1588212)
2302 - BugFix: WinMerge/Filters folder was always created (#1578419)
2303 - BugFix: modality problems in file selection dialogs (#1586869)
2304 - BugFix: crash if file modification time was missing (#1589563)
2305 - BugFix: /x parameter didn't work with some other parameters (#1564283)
2306 - BugFix: asked sometimes twice about saving modified files (#1596692)
2309 For older changes look at the VCS (Version Control System).