WinMerge 2.16.13 Beta Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.13 beta?
• Known issues

June 2021

About This Release

This is a WinMerge beta release which is meant for preview the current state of WinMerge development. This release is not recommended for the production.

Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.

What Is New in 2.16.13 Beta

General

• BugFix: Register.bat did not work properly on the Chinese version of Windows XP (#780)
• Possibility to store settings in INI file (#248) (PR #750)
• FeatureRequest - Ignoring options - lack in "button menu" (#804)

File compare

• BugFix: Fix PHP syntax highlighting. (PR #782, PR #802)
• BugFix: BS key did not work at the beginning of the line after splitting the pane or clicking the OK button in the Options dialog.
• BugFix: The edited contents were discarded when the "Recompare As" menu item was selected after editing the file
• BugFix: Incorrect comparison (#834) (This bug occured when enabling both the 'Ignore blank lines' option and the 'Completely unhighlight the ignored differences' option.)
• Add Smarty syntax highlighting. (PR #821)
• Thicken the caret in overwrite mode (osdn.net #42179)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Different Files are Identical? (#768) (When comparing files with only BOM and no contents, the comparison result became unstable because it referred to the uninitialized memory.)
• BugFix: Fix a crash when re-comparing folders (osdn.net #42219)

Binary compare

• BugFix: The file could not be saved after creating a new one
• Made Unpacker plugins available for image compare and binary compare

Image compare

• BugFix: Error on try to show differences between two different gif (#784)
• Made Unpacker plugins available for image compare and binary compare

Plugins

• Improve plugin system (PR #797)
  • Added categorized Unpacker plugin menu items to various menus
  • Made it possible to specify multiple Unpacker/Prediffer plugins by concatenating them with | and to specify arguments.
  • Allowed Unpacker/Prediffer plugins to be specified for multiple files at once in Folder Compare window. The specified plugin will be visible in the Unpacker and Prediffer columns
  • Add "(U)" or "(P)" to the tab title of the window opened by the Unpacker/Prediffer plugin.
  • Allowed the plugin settings dialog to specify default arguments that will be used when no plugin arguments are specified
  • Allowed plugins used by Automatic Unpacking/Prediffing to be excluded in the plugin settings dialog
  • New unpacker plugins:
    • ApacheTika
    • PrettifyJSON
    • PrettifyXML
    • QueryCSV
    • QueryTSV
    • QueryJSON
    • MakeUpper
    • MakeLower
    • RemoveDuplicates
    • CountDuplicates
    • SortAscending
    • SortDescending
    • ExecFilterCommand
    • Tokenize
    • Trim
    • VisualizeGraphviz
  • New editor script plugins:
    • RemoveDuplicates
    • CountDuplicates
    • Tokenize
    • Trim
    • ApacheTika
    • PrettifyJSON
    • PrettifyXML

Translations

• BugFix: Fix an issue where a message is not translated.(PR #763)
• Translation updates:
  • French (PR #762)
  • Japanese
  • Polish (PR #769)
  • Turkish (PR #803)
  • Russian (PR #761)

Internals

• Update CWindowsManagerDialog (PR #811)
• Update CWindowsManagerDialog - check some pointers for null and made safe casts (PR #824)

Known issues

• Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)
• Very slow to compare significantly different directories (GitHub #322)
• Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (GitHub #296)