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253 <h1 id="winmerge-2168-release-notes">WinMerge 2.16.8 Release Notes</h1>
255 <li><a href="#about-this-release">About This Release</a></li>
256 <li><a href="#what-is-new-in-2168">What Is New in 2.16.8?</a></li>
257 <li><a href="#what-is-new-in-2167-beta">What Is New in 2.16.7 Beta?</a></li>
258 <li><a href="#known-issues">Known issues</a></li>
261 <h2 id="about-this-release">About This Release</h2>
262 <p>This is a WinMerge 2.16.8 stable release. This release replaces earlier WinMerge stable releases as a recommended release.</p>
263 <p>Please submit bug reports to our <a href="http://github.com/winmerge/winmerge/issues">bug-tracker</a>.</p>
264 <h2 id="what-is-new-in-2168">What Is New in 2.16.8?</h2>
265 <h3 id="general">General</h3>
267 <li>BugFix: More space for some internationalized strings (GitHub #402)</li>
268 <li>BugFix: Some improvements (GitHub #405,411)</li>
270 <h3 id="file-compare">File compare</h3>
272 <li>BugFix: Ignore case option did not work when Diff algorithm was other than default</li>
273 <li>BugFix: A white vertical rectangle was sometimes drawn in the selected area</li>
274 <li>BugFix: The title of the file comparison window after changing the language was accidentally changed to "Untitled left/right"</li>
275 <li>Extended F4 key movement range to the whole file</li>
276 <li>Don't treat UTF-8 and UTF-8 with BOM the same when the "Ignore codepage differences" option is disabled</li>
278 <h3 id="folder-compare">Folder compare</h3>
280 <li>BugFix: Appropriate error messages were not displayed when the file to be deleted no longer existed</li>
281 <li>CTRL+Drag folders now has the opposite behavior of the current Include Subfolders option</li>
283 <h3 id="folder-compare-1">Folder compare</h3>
285 <li>BugFix: Fix scrolling glitches (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge PR #8)</li>
286 <li>Reduce flicker on resize (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge PR #9)</li>
288 <h3 id="options-dialog">Options dialog</h3>
290 <li>Allow choosing image filename patterns from a multi-selection dropdown list (GitHub PR #391)</li>
291 <li>WildcardDropList: Avoid the String instance as it could throw std::bad_alloc (GitHub PR #397)</li>
292 <li>Remove duplicate filename patterns without relying on WildcardDropList (GitHub PR #400)</li>
293 <li>Made Options dialog resizable</li>
294 <li>Changed the default values for the following options:
296 <li>Ignore codepage differences -> disabled</li>
297 <li>Include unique subfolders contents -> enabled</li>
300 <h3 id="about-dialog">About dialog</h3>
302 <li>Rework the fix for Github issue #316: GUI glitches/bugs #2 (GitHub PR #392)</li>
303 <li>Replace outdated list of developers in AboutBox with ascii-art gnu from FSF (GitHub PR #394)</li>
305 <h3 id="installer">Installer</h3>
307 <li>BugFix: Installation - Internal error: Failed to expand shell folder constant "userdesktop" (GitHub #354)</li>
308 <li>BugFix: Lithuanian.po is missing (GitHub PR #415)</li>
309 <li>New installer for per-user installation (WinMerge-2.16.8-x64-PerUser-Setup.exe)</li>
311 <h3 id="translations">Translations</h3>
313 <li>Translation updates:
315 <li>Brazilian (GitHub PR #383)</li>
316 <li>Galician (GitHub PR #393)</li>
317 <li>German (GitHub PR #388,389,398,399,401,406,412,414, WinMerge/frhed PR #2)</li>
318 <li>Lithuanian (GitHub PR #385,390,407,408,413,415)</li>
319 <li>Turkish (GitHub PR #386)</li>
320 <li>Russian (GitHub PR #387)</li>
323 <h3 id="manual">Manual</h3>
325 <li>Update manual for IgnoreCommentsC change (GitHub PR #384)</li>
326 <li>Update Shortcut_keys.xml (GitHub PR #410)</li>
328 <h2 id="what-is-new-in-2167-beta">What Is New in 2.16.7 Beta?</h2>
329 <h3 id="general-1">General</h3>
331 <li>BugFix: The icons on a 43" 4K screen are too small (GitHub #276)</li>
332 <li>BugFix: GUI glitches/bugs (GitHub #316)</li>
333 <li>BugFix: Several issues regarding i18n (GitHub #314)</li>
334 <li>Add Solarized Dark/Light color scheme (GitHub #287)</li>
335 <li>Compile WinMerge with ASLR and CFG enabled (GitHub #315)</li>
337 <h3 id="file-compare-1">File compare</h3>
339 <li>BugFix: Diff Pane issues (GitHub #307)</li>
340 <li>BugFix: Codepage not updated on refresh (GitHub #320)</li>
341 <li>BugFix: Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)</li>
342 <li>BugFix: WinMerge does not recognize the same files (GitHub #332)</li>
343 <li>BugFix: Moved ghost lines are shown in the wrong color (GitHub #358)</li>
344 <li>BugFix: opening same file (GitHub #362)</li>
345 <li>BugFix: Find dialog sometimes remembers old text to start a new find instead of the new text. (GitHub #368)</li>
346 <li>BugFix: Fix a problem where markers that are out of the range of the current difference appear in the difference pane. (osdn.net 40407)</li>
347 <li>BugFix: HTML5 encoding (<meta charset="...">) is ignored. (osdn.net #40476)</li>
348 <li>'=' should be included in word separator (osdn.net #40224)</li>
349 <li>Allow specifying default for EOL warning checkbox (GitHub #297)</li>
350 <li>Only indent existing lines (GitHub #356)</li>
352 <h3 id="table-compare">Table compare</h3>
354 <li>Made it possible to display the contents of CSV and TSV files like spreadsheet software.</li>
356 <h3 id="folder-compare-2">Folder compare</h3>
358 <li>BugFix: DST causes incorrect dates shown in Date column (GitHub #299)</li>
359 <li>BugFix: Long filename issue (GitHub #339)</li>
360 <li>BugFix: Winmerge Freeze if large number of files are listed in Window View (GitHub #348)</li>
361 <li>BugFix: Change to disable some menu items that should not be executed for directories, when directories are selected in the folder compare window. (GitHub PR #366)</li>
362 <li>BugFix: Update DirViewColItems.cpp (GitHub #376)</li>
363 <li>BugFix: Fix the problem that not 3 panes but 2 panes file compare window displays when executing "Compare As" > "Binary" or "Compare As" > "Image" in the context menu in the folder compare window with selecting 3 items. (GitHub PR #381)</li>
364 <li>BugFix: Fix a problem where a text file could be considered a binary file. (osdn.net #40296)</li>
365 <li>BugFix: crash when clicking [Merge]-> [Delete] menu item while renaming a file</li>
366 <li>Add a feature generating a patch from directories (#283) (GitHub PR #331)</li>
367 <li>added bin and obj directories to C# filter (GitHub PR #365)</li>
369 <h3 id="image-compare">Image compare</h3>
371 <li>BugFix: Scrolling behavior when dragging images is wrong (osdn.net #40205)</li>
373 <h3 id="open-dialog">Open dialog</h3>
375 <li>BugFix: Open dialogs are sometimes left as garbage (osdn.net #40487)</li>
376 <li>Browse button in the file/dir selection show wrong path (GitHub #346)</li>
378 <h3 id="options-dialog-1">Options dialog</h3>
380 <li>BugFix: Pressing the [Compare/Binary] category button in the Options dialog twice will cause a crash. (osdn.net #40308)</li>
382 <h3 id="plugins">Plugins</h3>
384 <li>BugFix: Fix handling of line breaks in SortAscending, SortDescending (osdn.net PR #40266)</li>
385 <li>BugFix: Error when comparing images in the CompareMSExcelFiles.sct plugin (osdn.net #40472)</li>
386 <li>CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Include Excel Addin files (*.xlam) (GitHub PR #269)</li>
387 <li>Add support for C# and TypeScript (GitHub PR #382)</li>
388 <li>Add a plugin for Visio (osdn.net PR #40473)</li>
389 <li>Plugin fixes for the new Table Compare (CompareMSExcelFiles.sct, IgnoreFieldsComma.dll, IgnoreFieldsTab.dll)</li>
391 <h3 id="archive-support">Archive support</h3>
393 <li>BugFix: Crash when comparing encrypted 7z files (GitHub #367)</li>
395 <h3 id="installer-1">Installer</h3>
397 <li>Create the installer with Inno Setup 5.x since installers created with Inno Setup 6.0.x are identified as malware by multiple virus scanning engines</li>
399 <h3 id="translations-1">Translations</h3>
401 <li>Translation updates:
403 <li>Brazilian (GitHub #360)</li>
404 <li>Chinese Simplified (GitHub PR #303,377)</li>
405 <li>Galician (GitHub PR #292,293,308,313,326)</li>
406 <li>German (GitHub PR #312,357)</li>
407 <li>Lithuanian (GitHub PR #291,298,333)</li>
408 <li>Polish (GitHub PR #280)</li>
409 <li>Portuguese (GitHub PR #305)</li>
410 <li>Russian (GitHub PR #270,271,272,302,327,328)</li>
411 <li>Slovak (GitHub PR #300)</li>
412 <li>Slovenian (GitHub #285)</li>
413 <li>Spanish (GitHub PR #292,293,304,308)</li>
414 <li>Turkish (GitHub PR #335,336,337,338)</li>
417 <h3 id="manual-1">Manual</h3>
419 <li>Minor changes to translations README.md file (GitHub #289)</li>
420 <li>Update winmerge.org URL to HTTPS, many small improvements (GitHub PR #306)</li>
422 <h3 id="internals">Internals</h3>
424 <li>BugFix: Src\Common\MyCom.h unused? (GitHub #284)</li>
425 <li>BugFix: Error on git repository cloning (GitHub #288)</li>
427 <h2 id="known-issues">Known issues</h2>
429 <li>Bug: Line Filters aren't applied when using a 3rd file (GitHub #395)</li>
430 <li>Pausing comparing doesn't pause immediately (GitHub #342)</li>
431 <li>Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)</li>
432 <li>Very slow to compare significantly different directories (GitHub #322)</li>
433 <li>Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (GitHub #296)</li>
434 <li>When the "Filter comments" option is enabled, the difference between the parts that do not comment blocks may be ignored. (osdn.net #40488)</li>