September 16th, 2010· Update release compiler and runtimes to VS2008
· Remove ANSI binaries from distribution
· Drop support for W95, W98, WME and NT4
· Update to PCRE 8.10 (r7210)
· Update SCEW to 1.1.2 (r7212)
· In-line difference highlighting improvement (#3022014)
· Make comment filtering work for folder compare (#3046938)
· Recognize .ascx files as ASP files (#3042393)
· Comment filtering improvement (#3034083)
· Allow giving encoding name as custom codepage (#2813825, #3010934)
· Installer: Drop Windows 9x/ME/NT4 support from InnoSetup (#3025078)
· Bugfix: Untranslated string ("Merge.rc:nnnn") was displayed in status bar (#3025855)
· Bugfix: Options dialog didn't update when importing settings from .ini file. (#2794137)
· Bugfix: New fix for the bug #2210403 (#2929005)
· Bugfix: Take changed compareoptions into use in folder compare (#3046938)
· Bugfix: "Copy and advance" toolbar icons not automatically enabled (#3033325)
· Bugfix: Location pane focus enabled "Save" (#3022292)
· Bugfix: WinMerge was vulnerable to DLL hijacking as described in Microsoft Security Advisory (2269637) (#33056008)
· Bugfix: Fix crash with long paths (#3056974)
Translation updates:
· Chinese (#3033324)
· French (#3025202)
June 20th, 2010· Improve editing of linefilter regular expressions (#3015416)
· Installer: Embed MS runtime files installer for x64 (r7150)
· Installer: Set default language with MSI setup (#3014912)
· Bugfix: Compare by size always checked file times too (#2919510)
· Bugfix: Line filtering wasted huge amounts of memory (#3014162)
· Bugfix: Difference blocks not cleared after merging (#2995925)
· Bugfix: Wrong time stamp even in generated patch file (#2982964)
· Bugfix: Ignoring comments wrongly recognized // in strings (#3016907)
· New translation: Serbian (#3017674)
Translation updates:
· Czech (r7199)
· Japanese (r7153)
June 20th, 2010· Update copyright year to 2010
· Installer: Embed MS runtime files installer(r7139)
· Fix help locations (#2988974)
· Bugfix: Strange scrolling effect in location pane (#2942869)
· Bugfix: Difference panel didn't show differences when moved blocks were
· enabled (#2988656)
Translation updates:
· Chinese Traditional (#2954833)
· French (#2968200)
· Polish (#2951149)
· Slovenian (#2934354)
· Swedish (#2943964)
June 20th, 2010· Write config log as UTF-8 file (r7057)
· Update PCRE to version 8.00 (r7068)
· Update SCEW to version 1.1.1 (r7079)
· Add "Additional Tasks" dialog to MSI setup (#2925723)
· Bugfix: Plugin error after interrupting folder compare (#2919475)
· Bugfix: GUI Word Wrap missing text (#2921400, #2894033)
· Bugfix: Selected custom odepage was not used (#2921555)
· Bugfix: Created new matching folder to wrong folder (#2890961)
· Bugfix: Pane headers not updated after language change (#2923684)
· Bugfix: File panes become unaligned when last line didn't have an EOL byte (#2922517)
· Bugfix: Automatic rescanning was not disabled everywhere (r7086,r7089)
· Bugfix: Quick contents compare didn't ignore EOL byte differences (#2929005)
Translation updates:
· Slovenian (#2917796, #2932094)
· Spanish (#2930734)
June 20th, 2010· Visual Studio project files upgraded to VS2005 format (r7045)
· Bugfix: New Persian translation don't work (#2884856)
· Bugfix: German shortcut key conflict resolution (#2894257)
· Bugfix: More details to in-line difference highlighting (#2876480)
June 20th, 2010· Update PCRE to version 7.9 (r6903)
· Improve color options organization (#2818451)
· Improve character-level difference highlight accuracy (#2723613)
· Add new options dialog panel for folder compare options (#2819626)
· Allow disabling reading of unique folder contents (#2820067)
· Add options GUI for quick compare limit (#2825628)
· Add accelerator keys for Shell context menu (#2823536)
· Add /xq command line switch for closing WinMerge after identical files
· and not showing message (#2827836)
· Add missing keywords to Pascal highlighter (#2834192)
· Bugfix: Did not export changed options values (#2799149)
· Bugfix: Don't highlight identical words if whitespaces are ignored (#2798360)
· Bugfix: Did not reset folder compare method back to original (#2803152)
· Bugfix: Added EOL chars between copied file/path names (#2817546)
· Bugfix: In-line difference highlight fixes (#2824173)
· New translation: Persian (#2877121)
Translation updates:
· Dutch (#2801690, #2804979, #2828310)
· French (#2850842)
· German (r6942)
· Japanese (r6996)
· Polish (#2858673)
· Swedish (#2805726, #2845755)
· Turkish (#2825130, #2825132, #2827820)
· Ukrainian (#2817835)
August 5th, 2008· Rename color scheme menu item "None" and add separator (#2027300)
· Add -u commandline parameter as alternative to -ub (#2029275, #2030359)
· Remove RCLocalizationHelper plugin (#2029457)
· Clarify Supercopier caused hang in release notes (#2030040)
· Improve tree mode in folder compare (#2018836)
· Unlimited undo (#2033754)
· BugFix: Could change syntax highlight mode when highlighting was disabled from options (#2027325)
· BugFix: Editing line filters updated wrong filter (#2025130)
· BugFix: Boldfacing did work only for Courier font (#2000996)
· BugFix: Shift Backspace didn't work in editor (#1153696)
June 17th, 2008· BugFix: Crash when starting a second instance (#1993835)
· BugFix: Crash when starting WinMerge with only one path (#1994402)
April 3rd, 2008· Installer: Use correct way to create start menu web link (#1913919)
· Installer: Updated the side art of the installer application (#1915012)
· Update URLs and switch to 2.8 manual (#1919965)
· New splash screen (#1914869)
· Create separate document for compiling WinMerge (#1927502)
· Update InnoSetup translations (#1931492)
· Manual and documentation updates
· Bug Fix: Installer could create a registry access error (#1909967)
· Bug Fix: The filter text box in Open-dialog sometimes displayed some garbage data (#1915424)
· Bug Fix: Print area was not clipped correctly. (#1915536)
· Bug Fix: Undo after pane swapping (#1915536, #1923625)
· Bug Fix: Quick compare for same folder didn't show differences (#1918599)
· Translation updates
March 5th, 2008· Update developers list in splash screen (#1891548)
· Better error handling for Excel plugin (#1510293)
· Add macros, bookmarks and document properties to Word plugin (#1510298)
· Add *.dot (document template) extension to Word plugin (r5120)
· Bug Fix: Copy&Paste from VB6 added binary chars (#1904355)
· Translation updates: Chinese Traditional (#1905323) & Swedish (#1905520)
November 30th, 2007· Touchpad scrolling improvements (#1837457)
· Bug Fix: Values with "," inside could break the CSV report (#1831512)
· Bug Fix: Failed to create backup file in folder compare (#1835283)
· Bug Fix: Revert difference highlight code to 2.6.12 version (#1811695)
· Bug Fix: Backspace key didn't work when renaming items (#1738790)
· Translation updates: - Croatian (r4786)
November 20th, 2006· Now uses expat scew for XML handling (partially converted)
· Now uses PCRE for regular expressions (partially converted)
· New folder compare icons
· New bookmarks icons
· Manifest files in resource, no need for separate files
· Bug fix: WinMerge/Filters folder was always created
· Bug fix: modality problems in file selection dialogs
· Bug fix: crash if file modification time was missing
· Bug fix: /x parameter didn't work with some other parameters
· Bug fix: asked sometimes twice about saving modified files
· Translation updates (same than in 2.6.0)
October 13th, 2006· New icons and splash screen
· Simpler and auto-closing folder compare progress bar
· Line numbers in file compare
· Word-wrap in file compare
· GUI for bookmarks in file compare
· Better character-level difference indication in file compare
· Merge difference which has cursor inside it (no need to select difference first)
· Improved Project file saving and editing
· User-defined folder for file filters
· Renaming items in folder compare
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