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WinMerge 2.16.3 Release Notes

WinMerge 2.16.12 Release Notes

About This Release
What Is New in 2.16.3 Beta?
Known Issues
About This Release
What Is New in 2.16.12?
What Is New in 2.16.11 beta?
Known issues

June 2019

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About This Release

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What Is New in 2.16.3 Beta?

General

April 2021

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.12 stable release. This release replaces earlier WinMerge stable releases as a recommended release.

Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.

What Is New in 2.16.12

General

Bugfix: Slow startup with documents folder redirected to high-latency network drive (Bitbucket #155)
Add VisualElementsManifest for Windows 10 start menu (Bitbucket PR #47)
Reduce the size of the executable file
GUI textstrings: grammatical corrections (PR #722)
Added ARM64 support

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File compare

Bugfix: Location and Diff pane visibility broken in 2.16.1 (GitHub #138, Bitbucket #163, sf.net #2228)
Bugfix: Temporary files could not be created (GitHub #143, sf.net #2220)
Bugfix: Trivial bugfix (GitHub #155)
Bugfix: Regression: Incorrectly shows 'no changes' for large portions of certain binary files! (Bitbucket #162)
Small tweaks for HTML file reports (Bitbucket PR #44, #45)
Made diff algorithm selectable by using libXDiff. algorithms: default(Myers), patience, histogram
triple click to select whole line (Bitbucket #144)
Add support for merging word level diffs in selection. demo
Use own colors settings for folder compare (Bitbucket PR #49)
BugFix: Fix PHP syntax highlighting. (PR #751)
BugFix: Strings in a multi-line diff block were not be replaced correctly when the substitution filters' regular expression contained ^
BugFix: Font size restoration with Ctrl+0 key did not work properly in Hi-DPI environment
Make the width of the 'Find what' label in Find dialog a little wider (osdn.net #42063)
Fix conflicting accelerators (osdn.net #42064)
[Feature Request] Selection Count on Status Bar (#135)
Add C# 6.0 reserved words to style list (PR #719)
FR: Add a shortcut key go to next file (#721)
Update PHP syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #724)
autoit.cpp - Macros >> User 1 ..... Variable >> User 2 (PR #749)
autoit.cpp - #CS #CE support (PR #753)
Interrupt a inline diff process when it takes too long
Make the color of characters that represent spaces and tabs lighter than other characters when the "View Whitespace" menu item is enabled
Added "Open Parent Folder" menu item to the context menu

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Folder compare

Bugfix: WinMerge 3-Way Compare Bugs: Always Shows Unique Items. (GitHub #154)
Bugfix: WinMerge could not compare files that are opened in other applications
Show progress bar while generating Folder Compare Report
BugFix: Copy confirmation dialog has overlapped Yes/No Button (#739)
BugFix: Comparison result was not updated by Swap operation in 3-way folder comparison (osdn.net #41901)

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Project file

Binary compare

Bugfix: Possible Bugs in 2.16.2 (sf.net #2221)
Supporting relative path in project file (Bitbucket #158)
Allow multiple in project file
BugFix: Next File or Previous File button on the toolbar did not work if the active window was a binary compare window or an image compare window.
BugFix: Only one pane was zoomed in/out in Ctrl+Mouse Wheel

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Image compare

Bugfix: no message was displayed when file saving failed
Implement Insertion/Deletion Detection. demo
BugFix: Next File or Previous File button on the toolbar did not work if the active window was a binary compare window or an image compare window.
BugFix: The header bar widths were not calculated properly when the 'Split Vertically' menu item is unchecked.

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Options dialog

Open dialog

Tweak size of combobox "codepage" in options (GitHub #144)
Sort combobox codepage and add manual codepage (GitHub #145)
Make archive files openable as binary files from the pull-down menu.

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Installer

Archive support

Allow per-user installation (only x64 installer)
Don't install Files.txt and don't add "Uninstall WinMerge" to the start menu (Bitbuket #38)
BugFix: Fixed a rare crash when decompressing an archive file

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Translations

Plugins

Update French translation (GitHub #149, #150)
Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #36, #40, #43, #46, #48)
Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #41, #42)
BugFix: ATL: QIThunk - 2 LEAK in plugins e.g. DisplayBinaryFiles and DisplayXMLFiles (#755)

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What Is New in 2.16.2?

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File compare

Translations

Bugfix: Edit > Replace > All, Undo: should undo all (sf.net #2113)
Bugfix: Save As: default directory should be file's original directory (sf.net #2163)
Bugfix: Strings with embedded 0 bytes are handled incorrectly (sf.net #2187)
Bugfix: Removed word level merge support due to unstable behavior
Bugfix: Menu item "File->File Encoding" moves main window (Bitbucket #150)
Bugfix: Crash when maximizing MDI child window
bugfix: Crash when failed to load file
Add syntax highlight for Lua (Bitbucket #114)

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Folder compare

Bugfix: Compare results refresh incorrectly after deletions (sf.net #2217)

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Archive Support

Upgraded to 7-zip 19.00

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Tab bar

Improve icon display at 120DPI

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Image compare

Bugfix: Zoom In/Out shortcuts don't update zoom level in location pane (Bitbucket #149)
Zoom In/Out menu items for image compare (Bitbucket #148)

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Open dialog

Allow quoted filenames in "Select Files or Folders" (sf.net #1240, GitHub #137)

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Manual

Some tweaks for the manual (Bitbucket PR #35)

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Installer

Bugfix: Gibberish language during installation (Bitbucket #147)

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Translations

Update Catalan translation (Bitbucket PR #29)
Update Italian translation (Bitbucket PR #32)
Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #33)
Update Simplified Chinese translation (Bitbucket PR #34)

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What Is New in 2.16.1?

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Open dialog

Alternatively to Swap buttons, allow drag & drop between filetype icons (GitHub #118)
Expose cleaner moving/resizing behavior esp. in non-maximized state (GitHub #119)
Avoid retaining bogus filetype icons from previous selections (GitHub #122)

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File compare

Bugfix: Extra blank displayed after left/right single/double quotes (Bitbucket #134)
Bugfix: Click doesn't trigger document to scroll in Location pane under circumstance (Bitbucket #140)
Bugfix: Frustrating text selection bug (GitHub #109)
Bugfix: Left and Right files swap after losing focus v2.16.0.0 (sf.net #2213)
Bugfix: WinMerge 2.16.0.0 Unicoe X64 version displaying Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Asset in DiffWraper.CPP line 984 (sf.net #2214)
Bugfix: Cancelation of selection range with reverse indent (sf.net #2215)
Bugfix: upward and downward search not work correctly
Bugifx: Fix menu accelerator conflict
Add File/Recompare As/Image menu item
Add support for merging word level diffs in selection Demo

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Folder compare

Bugfix: Unique files are not shown (Bitbucket #138)
Bugfix: Improve Hard-IO error handling, other bug fixes, cleanup, tweaks (GitHub #120)

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Archive Support

Upgraded to 7-zip 18.06 (Bitbucket #119)

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Options dialog

Bugfix: Widen the width of labels in Options dialog (GitHub#108)
Bugfix: view settings make winmerge crash (Bitbucket #109)
Bugfix: 64bit version can't browse between option pages (Bitbucket #128)
Bugfix: Shell Integration "Enable Advanced Menu" disabled on new install (Bitbucket #137)
Bugfix: Binary File options don't change from default (Bitbucket #135)

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Shell extension

Bugfix: CreateTranslatedRcFiles needs an update (GitHub #113)

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Translations

Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (GitHub #108)
Update Swedish translation (sf.net #3035, GitHub #112, #114)
Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #7, #8, #27)
Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #9-#26, #139)
Update Bulgarian translation (Bitbucket PR #28)
Update Turkish translation (sf.net #3036)
Update Japanese translation
Remove now unneeded MergeLang.dll

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Manual

Bugfix: Some fixes in the manual (GitHub #116)
Bugifx: end of line documentation (sf.net #2211)
Clarification as per https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge-v2/issues/41 (GitHub #126)

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Internals

Remove `nFinalNullLines` checking, disabled by an earlier commit (GitHub #111)
Various minor updates, plus preparation for VS2019 (GitHub #115)
DiffTextBuffer: Create Unicode temp files (makes EscapeControlChars() obsolete) (GitHub #123)
Don't pass `DIFFITEM *` by casting to `uintptr_t` (GitHub #124, #125)

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What Is New in 2.16.0?

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General

Bugfix: Disabled icon on toolbar not gray out when running on XP

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File compare

Bugfix: Copy to X and Advance" not work in 3way-compare (Bitbucket #123)
Bugfix: File compare always showing different ending (GitHub #106)
Bugfix: Scrolling issue (GitHub #105)
Bugfix: A crash (GitHub #104)
Add separators to "Zoom" and "Diff Context" menus (Bitbucket PR #5)

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Open dialog

Bugfix: Drag&Drop in Open Dialog won't work correct (Bitbucket #125)

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Installer

Drop ClearCase integration (Bitbucket PR #6)

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Translations

Add Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket #124)
Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #102,103)

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What Is New in 2.15.5 Beta?

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General

Add support for very long path and file names (GitHub #87,95,99)
Enable Ctrl+C shortcut key on the file path bar
Remove support for old version control system (GitHub #96)
Improve Options > Color > Differences dialog layout (GitHub #89)
Improve information and formatting in Help > Configuration reporting (GitHub #92)
Improve visual layout of Open dialog (GitHub #97)
Add icon for "New (3 panes)" menu item (GitHub #97)

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File compare

Add Window/Split menu item
Improve handling of last lines in files (GitHub #89,90,93)
Improve "Visual C++ Loose" filter (GitHub #95)
BugFix: Crash when saving a file if the active pane is diff detail pane
BugFix: Crash when pressing Alt+Down key while loading large files
BugFix: Crash when "mousing over" Plugin Setting context menu if Plugins are disabled
BugFix: Various problems reading of files > 2GB (GitHub #81)
BugFix: Selecting files "From MRU list" again works correctly

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Translations

Update Italian translation (GitHub #86)
Update Japanese translation (Bitbucket #3)
Update Dutch translation
Update German translation
Bugfix Spanish translation error (Bitbucket Issue #108)

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Internals

Various diffengine and compilation/build fixes (GitHub #89,90,91,92,94)

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What Is New in 2.15.4 Beta?

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Appearance

BugFix: Dot icon in a drop-down menu is not drawn correctly

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File compare

BugFix: Crash when reading a file in Google Drive File Stream (sf.net#2206)
BugFix: Crash when removing ghost lines (GitHub #80)
BugFix: Lines without EOL appears even though it is not the last line
Add Ctrl++/Ctrl+-(not numpad key) shortcut key to zoom in/out (sf.net#1727)
Remove 2GB file size limit for 64-bit build (GitHub #81, #82)

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Folder compare

Add Pause button to Folder Compare Progress dialog (sf.net#828,#1222,#1237)
Re-detect the file encoding when opening files (sf.net#2131)

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Open dialog

Add Options button to Open dialog
Add Save Project button to Open dialog

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Patch generator dialog

BugFix: File1/File2 fields don't remember manual input (sf.net#1949)

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Reports

BugFix: Garbled text was copied to the clipboard when generating a report - on the clipboard (sf.net#2200)

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Plugins

Add PrediffLineFilter.sct plugin
Make ignored lines by Prediffer plugin colored

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Translations

Update Slovak translation (sf.net#2902)
Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #84,#85)

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Internals

Adapt to VS2017 version 15.6.1 (GitHub #79)

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What Is New in 2.15.3 Beta?

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File compare

Fix assertion error when started on Windows XP
Fix a problem that moved blocks are sometimes shown as normal diff blocks
Fix a problem that EOL is removed unexpectedly when removing lines - included ghost lines
Fix reverse search to search last line correctly
Fix infinite loop when replacing ^ (sf.net#2094)
Fix to show text that contains & on message box, correctly (sf.net#2067)

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Folder compare

Fix a problem that unique files are invisible when comparing files using - 'Date' compare method
Remove trailing garbage from a dragged text (Github#75)

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Patch generator dialog

Fix a problem that typed-in Context in Generate Patch is not applied - (sf.net#2179)

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Location pane

Add support for HiDPI screens (Github #54)

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Plugins

CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Add "Compare headers and footers" checkbox to - settings dialog (sf.net#2102)

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Installer

Remove extra space in installer: " Launch WinMerge" (sf.net#2144)
Add "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" section into GPL.rtf - (sf.net#2098)

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Translations

Add Finnish translation (sf.net#3031)
Add Sinhala translation (sf.net#3032)
Update Korean translation (Github #61)
Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #56-78)
Update Polish translation (sf.net#2177)
Update Turkish translation (Bitbucket#85, #86)
Change the file encodings of all .po files of WinMerge GUI to UTF-8

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What Is New in 2.16.1 beta?

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General

Updated the copyright year to 2019, actually (GitHub #110)
Prevent splitter view from claiming input focus (GitHub #127)
Contributors.txt: Changed EOL from Unix (LF) to Windows (CR LF), because not shows correctly in Windows Notepad. (Bitbucket PR #17)

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Open dialog

Alternatively to Swap buttons, allow drag & drop between filetype icons (GitHub #118)
Expose cleaner moving/resizing behavior esp. in non-maximized state (GitHub #119)
Avoid retaining bogus filetype icons from previous selections (GitHub #122)

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File compare

Bugfix: Extra blank displayed after left/right single/double quotes (Bitbucket #134)
Bugfix: Click doesn't trigger document to scroll in Location pane under circumstance (Bitbucket #140)
Bugfix: Frustrating text selection bug (GitHub #109)
Bugfix: Left and Right files swap after losing focus v2.16.0.0 (sf.net #2213)
Bugfix: WinMerge 2.16.0.0 Unicoe X64 version displaying Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Asset in DiffWraper.CPP line 984 (sf.net #2214)
Bugfix: Cancelation of selection range with reverse indent (sf.net #2215)
Bugfix: upward and downward search not work correctly
Bugifx: Fix menu accelerator conflict
Add File/Recompare As/Image menu item
Add support for merging word level diffs in selection Demo

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Folder compare

Bugfix: Unique files are not shown (Bitbucket #138)
Bugfix: Improve Hard-IO error handling, other bug fixes, cleanup, tweaks (GitHub #120)

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Archive Support

Upgraded to 7-zip 18.06 (Bitbucket #119)

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Options dialog

Bugfix: Widen the width of labels in Options dialog (GitHub#108)
Bugfix: view settings make winmerge crash (Bitbucket #109)
Bugfix: 64bit version can't browse between option pages (Bitbucket #128)
Bugfix: Shell Integration "Enable Advanced Menu" disabled on new install (Bitbucket #137)
Bugfix: Binary File options don't change from default (Bitbucket #135)

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Shell extension

Bugfix: CreateTranslatedRcFiles needs an update (GitHub #113)

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Translations

Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (GitHub #108)
Update Swedish translation (sf.net #3035, GitHub #112, #114)
Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #7, #8, #27)
Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #9-#26, #139)
Update Bulgarian translation (Bitbucket PR #28)
Update Turkish translation (sf.net #3036)
Update Japanese translation
Remove now unneeded MergeLang.dll

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Manual

Bugfix: Some fixes in the manual (GitHub #116)
Bugifx: end of line documentation (sf.net #2211)
Clarification as per https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge-v2/issues/41 (GitHub #126)

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Internals

Remove `nFinalNullLines` checking, disabled by an earlier commit (GitHub #111)
Various minor updates, plus preparation for VS2019 (GitHub #115)
DiffTextBuffer: Create Unicode temp files (makes EscapeControlChars() obsolete) (GitHub #123)
Don't pass `DIFFITEM *` by casting to `uintptr_t` (GitHub #124, #125)

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What Is New in 2.16.0?

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General

Bugfix: Disabled icon on toolbar not gray out when running on XP

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File compare

Bugfix: Copy to X and Advance" not work in 3way-compare (Bitbucket #123)
Bugfix: File compare always showing different ending (GitHub #106)
Bugfix: Scrolling issue (GitHub #105)
Bugfix: A crash (GitHub #104)
Add separators to "Zoom" and "Diff Context" menus (Bitbucket PR #5)

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Open dialog

Bugfix: Drag&Drop in Open Dialog won't work correct (Bitbucket #125)

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Installer

Drop ClearCase integration (Bitbucket PR #6)

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Translations

Add Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket #124)
Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #102,103)

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What Is New in 2.15.5 Beta?

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General

Add support for very long path and file names (GitHub #87,95,99)
Enable Ctrl+C shortcut key on the file path bar
Remove support for old version control system (GitHub #96)
Improve Options > Color > Differences dialog layout (GitHub #89)
Improve information and formatting in Help > Configuration reporting (GitHub #92)
Improve visual layout of Open dialog (GitHub #97)
Add icon for "New (3 panes)" menu item (GitHub #97)

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File compare

Add Window/Split menu item
Improve handling of last lines in files (GitHub #89,90,93)
Improve "Visual C++ Loose" filter (GitHub #95)
BugFix: Crash when saving a file if the active pane is diff detail pane
BugFix: Crash when pressing Alt+Down key while loading large files
BugFix: Crash when "mousing over" Plugin Setting context menu if Plugins are disabled
BugFix: Various problems reading of files > 2GB (GitHub #81)
BugFix: Selecting files "From MRU list" again works correctly

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Translations

Update Italian translation (GitHub #86)
Update Japanese translation (Bitbucket #3)
Update Dutch translation
Update German translation
Bugfix Spanish translation error (Bitbucket Issue #108)

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Internals

Various diffengine and compilation/build fixes (GitHub #89,90,91,92,94)

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What Is New in 2.15.4 Beta?

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Appearance

BugFix: Dot icon in a drop-down menu is not drawn correctly

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File compare

BugFix: Crash when reading a file in Google Drive File Stream (sf.net#2206)
BugFix: Crash when removing ghost lines (GitHub #80)
BugFix: Lines without EOL appears even though it is not the last line
Add Ctrl++/Ctrl+-(not numpad key) shortcut key to zoom in/out (sf.net#1727)
Remove 2GB file size limit for 64-bit build (GitHub #81, #82)

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Folder compare

Add Pause button to Folder Compare Progress dialog (sf.net#828,#1222,#1237)
Re-detect the file encoding when opening files (sf.net#2131)

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Open dialog

Add Options button to Open dialog
Add Save Project button to Open dialog

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Patch generator dialog

BugFix: File1/File2 fields don't remember manual input (sf.net#1949)

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Reports

BugFix: Garbled text was copied to the clipboard when generating a report - on the clipboard (sf.net#2200)

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Plugins

Add PrediffLineFilter.sct plugin
Make ignored lines by Prediffer plugin colored

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Translations

Update Slovak translation (sf.net#2902)
Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #84,#85)

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Internals

Adapt to VS2017 version 15.6.1 (GitHub #79)

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What Is New in 2.15.3 Beta?

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File compare

Fix assertion error when started on Windows XP
Fix a problem that moved blocks are sometimes shown as normal diff blocks
Fix a problem that EOL is removed unexpectedly when removing lines - included ghost lines
Fix reverse search to search last line correctly
Fix infinite loop when replacing ^ (sf.net#2094)
Fix to show text that contains & on message box, correctly (sf.net#2067)

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Folder compare

Fix a problem that unique files are invisible when comparing files using - 'Date' compare method
Remove trailing garbage from a dragged text (Github#75)

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Patch generator dialog

Fix a problem that typed-in Context in Generate Patch is not applied - (sf.net#2179)

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Location pane

Translation updates:

Add support for HiDPI screens (Github #54)
Brazilian (PR #711,#728,#729)
Dutch (PR #706)
Galician (PR #737)
German (PR #718,#752)
Hungarian (PR #712)
Japanese
Korean (PR #709)
Lithuanian (PR #708,#713,#738,#754)
Portuguese (PR #725)
Slovenian
Swedish (PR #720,#723)
Russian (PR #707)

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Plugins

What Is New in 2.16.11 Beta

General

CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Add "Compare headers and footers" checkbox to - settings dialog (sf.net#2102)
Make all OK strings same case (PR #593)
Tab bar: Added shadows to help distinguish between active and inactive tabs
Added drop-down menu to Open and Save icon on toolbar

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Installer

File compare

Remove extra space in installer: " Launch WinMerge" (sf.net#2144)
Add "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" section into GPL.rtf - (sf.net#2098)
BugFix: Basic syntax highlighter is broken (osdn.net #41440)
BugFix: File is corrupted while saving differences in changed file (Ctrl+S) (#607)
BugFix: Fix an issue where the syntax highlighting scheme is not applied to the split second File pane and the Diff pane when changing it. (PR #624)
BugFix: The position selected by clicking while holding down the shift key is incorrect. (sf.net #2237)
BugFix: Fix an issue where the comment filter might not work properly if the file is non-UTF-8 and the comment contains non-ascii characters.
Add a feature to set up default highlighting by a file extension (PR #627)
Add "Copy Selected Line(s) to/from Left/Right" feature (#463) (PR #642)
If -b or -w is also specified, -B now considers lines to be empty if they contain only white space (osdn.net #41355)
Added BOM checkbox to the Codepage dialog.

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Translations

Folder compare

Add Finnish translation (sf.net#3031)
Add Sinhala translation (sf.net#3032)
Update Korean translation (Github #61)
Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #56-78)
Update Polish translation (sf.net#2177)
Update Turkish translation (Bitbucket#85, #86)
Change the file encodings of all .po files of WinMerge GUI to UTF-8
BugFix: Program crash if you close a tab with the folder from where you opened current file (#645)
BugFix: The title bar path was not updated when swapping files in a Zip file.
BugFix: The codepage specified in the Codepage dialog did not affect the files to be opened.

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What Is New in 2.15.2 Beta?

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Appearance

Image compare

Flatten GUI pane edges
Partial support for HiDPI (not Per-Monitor DPI Aware)
Remove splash screen. The splash screen image is now displayed in About dialog
BugFix: The image on the right does not open if the file exists only on the right (osdn.net #41721)

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Tool bar

Open dialog

Add "View->Toolbar->Huge" menu item
Add drop down menu to Options icon
Add icons for 3-way merge functions
Added Text, Table, Binary and Image menu items to the Compare button in the "Select Files or Folders" window

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Open dialog

Archive support

Change window type of Open dialog from modal window to MDI child window
Add Read-only checkbox to Open dialog
Add buttons to swap items
Add the third path combobox for 3-way comparison
Allow file name patterns like not only *.ext but file*.ext
Rar5 support (#644)

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Tab bar

Options dialog

Make Tabbar reorderable by using drag-and-drop
Add "Close Other Tabs", "Close Right Tabs" and "Close Left Tabs" menu items - to system menu
Add "Enable Auto Max Width" menu item to Tab Bar context menu
Show close button when hovering over tabs
Add icons to each tab
BugFix: Fix an issue where custom colors are not saved. (PR #648)

Options dialog

Plugins

Add "Close Select Files or Folders Dialog on clicking OK button" checkbox - to "General" page
Add "Language" combobox to "General" page and remove Language dialog
Add "Ignore codepage differences" checkbox to "Compare/General" page
Remove checkboxes in "Enable multiple compare windows for" group from - "General" page (Now always enabled multi compare windows)
Add "Include Subfolders" checkbox to "Compare/Folder" page
Add "Automatically expand all subfolders" checkbox to "Compare/Folder" page
Add "Ignore Reparse Points" checkbox to "Compare/Folder" page
Add "Number of compare threads" textbox to "Compare/Folder" page
Add "Compare/Binary" page
Add "Compare/Image" page
Add checkboxes whether to use custom colors for text to - "Colors/Differences" page
Add "GitHub/Bitbucket" button to "Colors/Differences" page
Add "Margin" color button to "Colors/Text" page
Add "Colors/Markers" page
Remove "Use stand-alone 7-Zip if available" and - "Use local 7-Zip from WinMerge folder" radio button from - "Archive Support" page - (Now always use local 7-Zip from WinMerge folder)
Make $file and $linenum parameters available in External editor textbox - on "System" page
Make Custom codepage on "Codepage" page selectable from dropdown list
Add "Detect codepage for text files using mlang.dll" checkbox to - "Codepage" page
Remove "Include subfolders by default" checkbox from - "Shell Integration" page - (ShellExtension now refers to "Include subfolders" checkbox - on "Compare/Folder" page or on "Select Files or Folders" dialog)
Remove "Add Shell menu to context menu" from "Shell Integration" page - (WinMerge now always adds shell menu to context menu in Folder window)
Add "Register shell extension" button to "Shell Integration" page
RCLocalizationHelper: Fix memory leaks (PR #596)

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Folder Compare

Installer

Add Multi-thread compare support for Full Contents or Quick Contents - method
Color the background of items in list view
Restore collapse/expand state of folder tree after re-comparison
Make comparing window closeable
Make sub-folder re-comparable
Display folder items in list view during comparison
Display the file name currently being compared in progress window
Add "Parent Folder" menu item in 'Open Left/Middle/Right' menu
Add "Compare Non-horizontally" menu item to context menu
Add "Copy items To Clipboard" menu item to context menu
Add "Swap panes" menu item to View menu
Add "Auto/Manual Prediffer" menu item to Plugin menu
Open selected folders in new tab when clicking "Compare" menu item with - pressing Ctrl key
Cleanup Date column alignment (GitHub #25)
Bugfix: Version column not sorted correctly
Bugfix: A unique item that is a binary file was not detected - as a binary file
Bugfix: Properly handle 3-way comparison of Binary files (Github #23)
Bugfix: Use proper font for View>Use Default Font menu item (GitHub #24)
Installer issue with Polish diacritics characters (#589)

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File Compare

Translations

Add support for 3-way compare/merge
Add "Diff Context" menu to View menu to adjust the number of displayed - diff context lines
Add "Split Vertically" menu item to View menu
Add "Add Synchronization Point" to Merge menu
Add "Auto/Manual Prediffer" menu item to Plugin menu
Show the name of the applied plugin in the status bar
Add shortcut(Ctrl+Alt+E) to open with external editor
Add Go and Rust highlighter
Add VHDL syntax highlighter (Bitbucket #2)
Add C++11 keywords
Make merge editor window D&Dable
Highlight the search text and implement Marker
Highlight the EOL pane in status bar if there is a difference - in the EOL of files
Reload files when another application changes files opened by WinMerge
Improve in-line diff algorithm
Bugfix: More on Issue #73 Fixed the -dl -dm and -dr description parameters - for conflict files - (for both 2 way and 3 way conflict files).(Bitbucket #1)
Bugfix: Fix Memory Leak with Drop Targets (GitHub #26)

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Binary Compare

Install binary file editor (frhed) component again by default
Make binary file editor undoable

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Image Compare

Add image file compare/merge support

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Reports

Add "Include File Compare Report" checkbox to "Folder Compare Report" - dialog
Change the encoding of HTML folder compare report from ANSI to UTF-8
Add icons to the HTML folder compare report
Change visual style of HTML report

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Archive Support

Install 7-zip plugin by default

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Drag and Drop

Accept drag&droped files or folders from various places like: - Zip folder, FTP folder, Recycle bin, images in Web browser

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Plugins

Introduce new plugin type FILE_FOLDER_PACK_UNPACKER - which allows unpacking data in a file to multiple files in a folder
Use FILE_FOLDER_PACK_UNPACKER plugin for decompressing archives
Add support for unpacker plugin written in VBScript/Javascript.
Add WinMerge32BitPluginProxy.exe to make 32-bit plugins usable in 64-bit - WinMerge
Rewrite some plugins in VBScript
Add CompareMSPowerPointFiles.sct plugin
Add ApplyPatch.sct plugin
Add SortAscending, SortDescending and ExecFilterCommand menu item to - Plugin->Script menu
Make plugins configurable with settings dialog of each plugin

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Filters

Update *.flt files for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017

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Shell extension

Display another WinMerge icon in Explorer's context menu - when a folder is selected

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Installer

64-bit version of WinMerge is available
Install plugins by default

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Translations

Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #2-17)
Update Korean translation (GitHub #45)
Update Traditional Chinese translation (GitHub #53)
Remove "Language" menu item from View menu - (You can specify UI language at Options dialog)

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Command line

Translation updates:

Incompatible change: The third file path is now treated as a right path - for 3-way comparison, not output path - Use /o option for ouput path instead
Add /wm, /dm, /fl, /fm, /fr, /al, /am and /ar option for 3-way comparison
Bulgarian (PR #599,#625)
Brazilian (PR #633)
French (PR #637,#649,#658,#659)
Galician (PR #587,#650,#677)
German (PR #632,#651)
Hungarian (PR #682,#683,#685)
Japanese
Lithuanian (PR #634,#653)
Polish (PR #597,#673)
Portuguese (PR #674)
Slovenian
Russian (PR #588)

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Other changes

Command line

Add support for jump list introduced in Windows 7
Single instance mode does not work when launched from Visual Studio 2019 (#622) (Added /sw command line option)

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Internals

Use POCO C++ libraries instead of pcre, expat and scew. - They use pcre, expat internally
Link statically with MFC and VC runtime libraries
Various compilation/build fixes - (GitHub #1,19,21,29,31-33,36-38,42-44,49-52)
BugFix: Plugins\src_VCPP\VCPPPlugins.vs2017.sln can't open projects any more because in revision 69455da the projects were renamed. (#598)
BugFix: OutputFile of plugin project DisplayXMLFiles is different that the other projects (#600)
BugFix: WinMergeScript.rgs files in Plugins\src_VCPP projects are not found. (#605)
BugFix: typeinfoex.h(189): warning C4701: potentially uninitialized local variable 'pTypeLib' used (#605)
BugFix: Plugins project DisplayXMLFiles.vcxproj contains "Unicode Release MinSize" configuration but was removed (#611)
Expression is always true (#612,PR #613)
Plugins.cpp function SearchScriptForMethodName can be improved (#690)

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Known Issues

Known issues

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Old IE version can cause crashes when handling archive files.
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Workaround: If WinMerge crashes when handling archives, consider - updating IE to version 6.0 or later.
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Supercopier application causes WinMerge to hang.
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Supercopier - application causes WinMerge to not exit properly and leaves WinMerge process - hang. See the bug reports: -
- #1976241 the winmerge.exe - process doesn't stop itself
- #1602313 WinMerge stays - in tasklist after closing
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Workaround: Disable the Supercopier when using WinMerge.
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Filters only applied when using full compare.
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Line filtering is only applied in folder compare when using Full Contents-compare method.
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If you are using any other compare method, line filters are not applied. Files marked different - in folder compare can get status changed to identical when opening them to file compare.
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Unset WinMerge integration from ClearCase
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To remove WinMerge integration, you'll need to edit one file by hand:
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1. Find ClearCase installation folder
  - Usually it is something like C:\Program Files\Rational\ClearCase
2. Go to subfolder lib\mgrs\
3. Open file map in there to editor program
4. Comment-out the line starting with "text_file_delta xcompare", containing "WinMergeU.exe"
5. Uncomment the line starting with "text_file_delta xcompare", containing "cleardiffmrg.exe"
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Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)
Very slow to compare significantly different directories (GitHub #322)
Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (GitHub #296)

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