WinMerge Changelog

What's new in WinMerge 2.16.39 Beta

Mar 24, 2024

General:
BugFix: Fixed an issue where typing only a single character in the header bar could cause a crash.
File compare:
BugFix: Fixed possible crash
BugFix: Creation of .bak files fails when the original filename starts with a dot (#2217)
Update Java syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #2215)
Replace "Match similar lines" with "Align similar lines" (PR #2230)
Make it possible to select the behavior when copying to another pane with "Copy to Right" etc. while text is selected. (PR #2224)
Make it possible to transform the text copied with "Copy Right/Left" using a plugin. (PR #2238)
Update PHP syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #2265)
Webpage compare:
BugFix: Make event sync settings persistent (#2248)
Select Files or Folders dialog:
BugFix: Fixed the issue when the compare button could not be clicked when specifying an archive file and a regular file.
Reports:
BugFix: Fixed an issue where the widths of the left and right panes in HTML reports are not equal.
BugFix: Fixed an issue where the caption set in the header bar was not being applied to the HTML report.
Plugins:
BugFix: Fixed crash when error occurs in Unpacker plugin
Replace the source code written in VBScript with JScript (PR #2098)
Add the ability to replace using patterns from Substitution Filters to the Replace plugin. (PR #2252)
Added sanity check for regular expressions in PrediffLineFilter plugin.
Installer:
BugFix: If the /noicons option was specified in the previous installation, a message box asking you to delete the previous start menu will be displayed in the next installation. (#2206)
Move custom messages in a separate iss file (#2247)
Archive support:
BugFix: 7zip encrypted archives with encrypted file names (#2225)
Internals:
Update codeql-analysis.yml - Version v2 to v3 (PR #2196)

New in WinMerge 2.16.38 (Jan 28, 2024)

New in WinMerge 2.16.37 Beta (Dec 24, 2023)

New in WinMerge 2.16.36 (Nov 28, 2023)

New in WinMerge 2.16.35 Pre-release (Nov 22, 2023)

New in WinMerge 2.16.34 (Oct 27, 2023)

New in WinMerge 2.16.34 Beta (Oct 27, 2023)

New in WinMerge 2.16.33 Beta (Sep 20, 2023)

General:
Reduce startup time and decrease the usage of Win32 user objects.
File compare:
BugFix: Cannot compare one-line file (#1972)
BugFix: "Current Difference" specified by double-clicking cannot merge
using the "Copy to Right (or Left)" menu. (#1980)
BugFix: Wimerge saves changes to the wrong file (#1985) (PR #1988)
BugFix: "Ignore comment differences" still compares inline comments (#2008)
Update Rust syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #1998)
[Feature Request] Both Shell Menu (#1986) (PR #2021)
Table compare:
When "Use First Line as Header" is enabled, make the header display the
first line regardless of the scroll position when the first line is hidden.
Generate reports in tabular format for table comparisons. (PR #1983)
Folder compare:
BugFix: Fixed an issue where Differences, Left/Right EOL columns, etc. were
displayed as undefined values when the file comparison method was
Full Contents or Quick Contents and the file size exceeded 64MB.
BugFix: Fix the problem that when comparing with the BinaryContents compare
method, the contents of the files are identical, but if one side is a
symbolic link, it is judged to be different. (#1976)
BugFix: Fixed an issue where values in the Left/Right EOL column may not
display correctly when using the Quick contents compare method.
Add Expand Different Subfolders menu item (#1382) (PR #1964)
Allow Diff algorithms (patience, histogram) other than default to be applied
to folder comparisons (PR #2015) (#2002)
Show confirmation message when closing a window that took a long time
to compare folders
Line filters:
Improve line filters and substitution filters (PR #2032) (#796) (#1620)
Substitution filters:
Avoid infinite loops in the RegularExpression::subst() function when
the length of the string matching the pattern is 0
Improve line filters and substitution filters (PR #2032) (#796) (#1620)
Options dialog:
Execute the "pause" command to prevent the error message from disappearing
if the registration of the ShellExtension for Windows 11 fails
Plugins:
BugFix: WinMerge cannot successfully disable some of its Plugins (#2012)
Update jq to version 1.7
Manual:
Manual: Use po4a for manual translation (PR #1994) (#499)
Translations:
Translation updates:
Brazilian (PR #1969,#2001,#2025)
Chinese Traditional (PR #1953,#1971,#2017,#2026)
Corsican (PR #2022)
German (PR #1952,#1977,#1989)
Hungarian (PR #1968,#1999)
Japanese
Korean (PR #1979,#2030)
Lithuanian (PR #1974,#2018,#2027)
Polish (PR #1990)
Portuguese (PR #1973,#2014)
Slovenian
Ukrainian (PR #1955)
Internals:
Optimize inserts in std containers using reserve (PR #2000)
Known issues:
Suggestion to make the result of image comparison more reliable (#1391)
Crashes when comparing large files (#325)
Very slow to compare significantly different directories (#322)
Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (#296)

New in WinMerge 2.16.32 (Jul 27, 2023)

New in WinMerge 2.16.31 Beta (Jun 20, 2023)

General:
BugFix: Some Substitution filter doesn't work (#1861)
Add tasks to Jump List (PR #1828)
Update DirCmpReport.cpp (PR #1892)
File compare:
BugFix: Fix input range check processing in "Go to" dialog. (PR #1826)
BugFix: End of line diff is a bit wanky (#1838, PR #1849)
Confirm copy all in file merge (PR #1827)
Modify the "Go to" dialog. (PR #1896)
Folder compare:
BugFix: Display problem with Item totals : (#1840)
BugFix: Bug in ignore whitespace ? (#1882)
Plugins:
PrettifyJSON: Update jq to version 1.6 (#1871)
Translate some plugin error messages (PR #1873)
ApplyPatch: Update GNU patch to 2.7.6-1 (PR #1897)(#1871)
Installer:
Silent install blocked (#1852)
Translations:
Translation updates:
Brazilian (PR #1829,#1837,#1876,#1903)
Bulgarian (PR #1822)
Chinese Simplified (PR #1835,#1846,#1885,#1906)
Dutch (PR #1831)
French (PR #1841,#1842,#1894)
Galician (PR #1833)
German (PR #1850,#1875,#1907)
Hungarian (PR #1832,#1839,#1845,#1878,#1905)
Japanese
Korean (PR #1820,#1821,#1877)
Lithuanian (PR #1847,#1889,#1904)
Polish (PR #1869,#1870,#1884)
Portuguese (PR #1843,#1895)
Spanish (PR #1834)
Russian (PR #1824,#1825,#1862)
Known issues:
Suggestion to make the result of image comparison more reliable (#1391)
Crashes when comparing large files (#325)
Very slow to compare significantly different directories (#322)
Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (#296)
What's Changed:
Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #1820
Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #1821
Update Bulgarian.po by @StoyanDimitrov in #1822
Update Russian.po by @wvxwxvw in #1824
Update Russian.po by @wvxwxvw in #1825
Fix input range check processing in "Go to" dialog. by @tjmprm77 in #1826
Confirm copy all in file merge by @wilfz in #1827
Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #1829
Update Dutch.po by @RockyTDR in #1831
Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #1832
Update Galician.po by @P0rsche-911 in #1833
Update Spanish.po by @P0rsche-911 in #1834
update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #1835
Add tasks to Jump List by @sdottaka in #1828
Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #1837
Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #1839
Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #1841
Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #1842
Update portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #1843
Update Hungarian.isl by @boglarkla in #1845
update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #1846
Update Lithuanian.po by @Tichij in #1847
Update German.po by @Mr-Update in #1850
Fix issue #1838: End of line diff is a bit wanky by @sdottaka in #1849
Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #1869
Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #1870
Translate some plugin error messages by @tjmprm77 in #1873
Update German.po by @Mr-Update in #1875
[XML] Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #1876
Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #1877
Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #1878
Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #1884
update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #1885
Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #1889
Update DirCmpReport.cpp by @mavaddat in #1892
Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #1894
Update Portuguese.po by @hugok79 in #1895
Modify the "Go to" dialog. by @tjmprm77 in #1896
Update GNU patch to 2.7.6-1 by @sdottaka in #1897
[XML] Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #1903
Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #1904
Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #1905
Update German.po by @Mr-Update in #1907
update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #1906

New in WinMerge 2.16.30 (Apr 27, 2023)

General:
BugFix: When using an ini file all differences are displayed as black sections (#1799)
Reduced file size of WinMergeU.exe for 32-bit version
File compare:
BugFix: Fixed an issue where XML format files, such as vcxproj, were not being syntax highlighted.
BugFix: Fixed an issue where the EOL character was not being displayed in the ARM64 version.
Modify the "Go to" dialog. (PR #1779)
Image compare:
BugFix: Middle Click to close image tab crash (#1785)
BugFix: Fixed an issue where the changed Color distance threshold value would revert back to 0 the next time WinMerge was started.
Image compare: Increase color distance threshold (CD Threshold) (winmerge/winimerge #29)
Filters:
Updated file filters to allow UTF-8 without BOM.
Options dialog:
BugFix: Fixed an issue where the shell integration category page in the
Options dialog was not displaying correctly in version 2.16.29.
BugFix: Fixed an issue where plugin settings were not exported when exporting from the Options dialog.
Plugins:
BugFix: Fixed an issue where the ApplyPatch plugin was not functioning correctly when the 'Plugins -> Manual Unpacking' menu item was checked.
BugFix: Fixed the problem that the plug-in setting window cannot be opened on 32-bit OS
Added a "Plugin Settings" button to the "Select Plugin" window.
Make the plugin settings dialog translatable and enable saving settings to an INI file (PR #1783)
Command line:
BugFix: Fixed the problem that the /fr option is ignored when specifying thecommand line option /new
BugFix: Fixed the problem of not moving to the conflicted line after auto-merge.
Project file:
BugFix: Opening a project fails when a path has environmental variables in it. (#1793)
Installer:
BugFix: Unsuccessful installation, Portable Win32 version (#1802)
Translations:
Translation updates:
Brazilian (PR #1806)
Chinese Simplified (PR #1808)
German (PR #1807)
Hungarian (PR #1809)
Japanese
Korean (PR #1774,#1788,#1790,#1791)
Lithuanian (PR #1817)
Polish (PR #1815)
Portuguese (PR #1787)
Slovenian (#1812)

New in WinMerge 2.16.29 Pre-release (Mar 21, 2023)

File compare:
BugFix: 3-way compare does not properly align identical lines when resolving
conflicts, and show false highlights (#1696)
BugFix: Failure to indent lines properly (#1740)
BugFix: Fixed problems with non-default Diff algorithm:
Even though the Ignore carriage return differences option was disabled,
EOL differences were ignored when the option to ignore whitespace
differences was enabled.
Differences between CR and CR+LF were not ignored even though Ignore
carriage return differences option was enabled.
BugFix: Fixed a bug with Match whole word only options of Substitution
filters
Add MATLAB syntax highlighting. (PR #1766)
Table compare:
The "View > Wrap Lines" menu item in the Table Compare window is now
"Wrap Text" and its check status is saved separately from the same menu item
in the Text Compare window. (osdn #47553)
Added an option to change the CSV file separator from comma to semicolon or
another character.
Binary compare:
BugFix: Resizing WinMerge Window looses the correct scroll position for the
memory address your cursor is at (WinMerge/frhed #13)
BugFix: Fixed an issue where an infinite loop occurred when the file size was
truncated during file loading.
Image compare:
BugFix: Fixed issue preventing saving image comparison reports to a network
share
Webpage compare:
BugFix: Fixed issue with missing file path in header bar
Folder compare:
BugFix: After I collapse a folder, the arrow next to it stays turned down
(#1747)
BugFix: Fixed an issue where the Left/Right Date and Left/Right Size columns
would not update when deleting files on one side.
Implement issue #1413: "Move" needs options "Left to Right" or
"Right to Left" like "Copy" (PR #1732,#1720)
Pressing F2 or Rename should not select file extension (#1735)
Options dialog:
Added Enable Compare As menu option in Shell integration category
Plugins:
BugFix: Plugin IgnoreLeadingLineNumbers hangs (#1715)
Command line:
BugFix: Fixed a crash that occurred when comparing alternate data streams,
such as file.zip:Zone.Identifier:$DATA, using the /self-compare command
line option.
BugFix: Fixed a crash that occurred when the /t command line option was
specified with only one path provided
Shell extension:
BugFix: Windows 11 Tabs - wrong folder selected from new menu (#1733)
BugFix: Fixed the issue where the WinMerge menu would not appear when
right-clicking on a non-item area in Windows 11 Explorer.
Added Compare As menu item
Installer:
Installer: components step unclear about "Patch GnuWin32" (#1698)
The ShellExtension*.dll file is now renamed before installation to prevent
installation failure when Explorer is loading ShellExtension*.dll.
Added IgnoreLeadingLineNumbers plugin to non-x86 installers
Translations:
BugFix: Fix an issue where some messages are not translated. (PR #1712)
Translation updates:
Brazilian (PR #1711,#1713,#1727,#1728,#1756)
Chinese Simplified (PR #1714,#1719,#1722,#1731,#1765)
Corsican (PR #1717,#1723,#1752)
Dutch (PR #1757)
German (PR #1730,#1754)
Hungarian (PR #1725,#1726,#1758)
Japanese
Korean (PR #1689,#1690,#1692,#1693,#1694,#1718)
Lithuanian (PR #1729,#1755)
Polish (PR #1763,#1764)
Portuguese (PR #1737)
Russian (PR #1710,#1751)
Swedish (#1706,PR #1707)

New in WinMerge 2.16.26 (Jan 26, 2023)

New in WinMerge 2.16.24 (Oct 26, 2022)

New in WinMerge 2.16.23 Beta (Sep 26, 2022)

New in WinMerge 2.16.22 (Jul 27, 2022)

New in WinMerge 2.16.21 Beta (Jun 20, 2022)

General:
In windows 11 i have error 78 sidebyside with the winmerge manifest (#1312)
File compare:
BugFix: Copy left/right different behavior (#1334)
BugFix: Line difference coloring in “Word-level” mode does not work
correctly for Cyrillic-based languages (#1362)
BugFix: Syntax highlighting: SQL comments (#1354)
Request for updating code: a new language(ABAP) in "syntax highlighting"
(PR #1340)
Added "none" diff algorithm
Enable mouse wheel scrolling on the location pane.
Backup files: Misleading error message when file cannot be written (#1326)
Binary compare:
Allow the "Split Vertically" menu item to be unchecked.
Image compare:
BugFix: Fix an issue where the pane was split vertically the next time the
window was displayed, even though the "Split Vertically" menu item was
unchecked.
Make patience and histogram diff algorithm selectable.
Webpage compare:
BugFix: Fix text disappearing when pressing the 'K' key in the address bar
BugFix: Fix an issue where the pane was split vertically the next time the
window was displayed, even though the "Split Vertically" menu item was
unchecked.
ResourceTree compare: Set the last-modified date and time in resource files
Added Ctrl+L keyboard shortcut
Folder compare:
BugFix: Alt/Shift key highlighting issue not resetting start point from move.
(#1335)
BugFix: Refresh Selected Marks Unscanned Folders as Identical (#1349)
BugFix: Make the file name refreshed to detect case changes when running
"Refresh Selected". (PR #1358)
BugFix: Fix an issue where paths with different case are not displayed
correctly in the folder column of the folder compare window when comparing
three directories. (PR #1372 )
Tab behaviour on comparisons of files vs folders (#1367)
Make the sort order of file names including numbers the same as Explorer.
(osdn.net #44557)
Reports:
BugFix: Fix report generation process. (PR #1324)
BugFix: Fix report generation process about replacement with HTML entity
(PR #1344)
Modify "Tools - Generate Report" (Add column width definition to html output)
(PR #1333)
BugFix: Fix an issue where WinMerge crashes depending on the filename when
generating a file compare report. (PR #1319)
Configuration log:
BugFix: [Bug Report] WinMerge does not recognize Win 11 (#1192)
Plugins:
BugFix: CompareMSExcelFiles Plugins did not compare folders when opening
.xlsx files from Plugins-> Edit with Unpacker menu item even though the
"Extract workbook data to multiple files" option is enabled in the plugin
settings (osdn.net #44522)
BugFix: Fix a problem where the "Open files in the same window type after
unpacking" checkbox was checked, but the checkbox was not checked the next
time the dialog was opened.
Sugg: Increase the dialogue for Plugins (#1308)
Command line:
BugFix: Crash on command line compare (#1363)
Shell extension:
BugFix: Fix an issue where the WinMerge menu displayed in the"Show more
options" menu of the Windows 11 Explorer context menu is not an advanced
menu, even though the advanced menu is enabled.
BugFix: Fix the problem that the WinMerge icon is not correctly displayed on
the taskbar when WinMerge is started from the Windows 11 context menu.
Translations:
Translation updates:
Chinese Simplified (PR #1330)
Corsican (PR #1331,#1347)
German (PR #1311,#1329)
Hungarian (PR #1325)
Italian (PR #1355)
Japanese (PR #1338)
Lithuanian (PR #1318,#1327)
Polish (#1323)
Portuguese (PR #1317,#1345)
Slovenian
Turkish (#1332)
Russian (PR #1310)
Internals:
Fix typo in BCMenu.cpp (PR #1313)
Fix type: GPL (PR #1342)
Use isupper+tolower instead of islower+toupper (diffutils ver2.7) (PR #1351)
Initialize variables defined at "diff.h" (PR #1360)
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)
What's Changed:
Update Russian.po by @wvxwxvw in #1310
Update German.po by @Mr-Update in #1311
Fix typo in BCMenu.cpp by @eltociear in #1313
Update Portuguese.po by @hugok79 in #1317
Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #1318
Fix an issue where WinMerge crashes depending on the filename when generating a file compare report. by @tjmprm77 in #1319
Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #1323
Fix report generation process. by @tjmprm77 in #1324
Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #1325
Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #1327
Update German.po by @Mr-Update in #1329
Update ChineseSimplified.po by @CharlesMengCA in #1330
Update Corsican translation for first 2 commits in May by @Patriccollu in #1331
Turkish translation update by @kayazeren in #1332
Modify "Tools - Generate Report" (Add column width definition to html output) by @stonee-K in #1333
Update Japanese.po (Codepage dialog) by @stonee-K in #1338
Fix typo: GPL by @stonee-K in #1342
Fix report generation process about replacement with HTML entity by @tjmprm77 in #1344
Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #1345
Update TranslationsStatus format for Corsican by @Patriccollu in #1347
Use isupper+tolower instead of islower+toupper (diffutils ver2.7) by @stonee-K in #1351
Updated Italian translation by @savissimo in #1355
Make the file name refreshed to detect case changes when running "Refresh Selected". by @tjmprm77 in #1358
Initialize variables defined at "diff.h" by @stonee-K in #1360
Fix an issue where paths with different case are not displayed correctly in the folder column of the folder compare window when comparing three directories. by @tjmprm77 in #1372
New Contributors:
@stonee-K made their first contribution in #1333
@savissimo made their first contribution in #1355

New in WinMerge 2.16.20.0 (Apr 28, 2022)

General:
BugFix: New filter (F) display (#1281 a))
File compare:
BugFix: Fixed a problem where the caret would not display in the correct
position on lines containing tab characters, depending on the font in use
(osdn.net #44417)
Webpage compare:
Webpage Compare [EXPERIMENTAL] (PR #1182)
Requires WebView2 Runtime.
Only supported on Windows 10 and above.
Currently, it is not possible to directly highlight differences between
web pages, but it is possible to display two or three web pages side by
side. You can also compare the following content of the displayed web
pages
Screenshots
HTML contents
Extracted texts
Resource trees
Folder compare:
BugFix: Fix an issue where items with different case are not displayed
correctly in the folder compare window when comparing three directories.
(PR #1299)
Options dialog:
Allow resizing Options dialog box in both directions (#1265)
Plugins:
BugFix: CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Date formats interpreted inconsistently
(#279)
Add URL handler plugins (PR #1270)
HTTP/HTTPS scheme handler plugin
This plugin retrieves a file with the specified HTTP or HTTPS URL using
the curl command.
Windows Registry scheme(reg:) handler plugin
This plugin handles URLs like
reg:HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareThingamahoochieWinMerge.
After reg:, it considers it a registry key and uses the reg.exe
command to retrieve information about that registry key.
Replace plugin: When regular expression substitution is performed with the
-e option, r and n in the second argument are now treated as
control characters CR and LF.
PrettifyHTML plugin: Added "--tidy-mark no" to default plugin arguments
Command line:
Added /t webpage command line option
Manual:
BugFix: Help file: Small issue for plugins (#1309)
Translations:
Translation updates:
Corsican (PR #1305,#1307)
Bulgarian (PR #1269)
French (PR #1294)
Galician (PR 1292)
German (PR #1276)
Hungarian (PR #1274, #1306)
Japanese
Lithuanian (PR #1263, #1275)
Polish (PR #1272, #1287, #1288)
Portuguese (PR #1273, #1277)
Slovenian (#1289)
Turkish (PR #1264)
Internals:
Code refactor with C++17 features replace optimize create smart pointers
(PR #1304)
Fixed link errors occurring in Windows 10 SDK version 10.0.19041.0 and lower

New in WinMerge 2.16.19.0 Beta (Mar 20, 2022)

General:
Update Merge.rc (PR #1219,#1227,#1231,#1232)
File compare:
BugFix: Match similar lines breaks with Ignore whitespace change (#1209)
BugFix: Copy & Advance skips differences when moved block detection is on
(#1235)
BugFix: Fix inline difference selection by F4 key not working well in
various cases
Different exit procedure required for small vs. large files (#1218)
Added View → View Top Margins menu item. (A ruler appears in the margin)
Table compare:
Pinning first row of file (#999)
Added Use First Line as Headers menu item to the column header context menu.
Folder compare:
BugFix: Fix the problem that the status bar displays "0 items selected" even
though multiple items are selected.
BugFix: Change the file naming method of the file compare report to avoid
duplication of the file compare report file name linked from the folder
compare report. (PR #1171)
BugFix: Fix an issue where comparison results are not displayed correctly
when "Refresh Selected" is performed by selecting an item that has a
directory and file with the same name. (PR #1189)
BugFix: Folder compare with jpg images crashes (#1176)
BugFix: Fix renaming process in folder compare window. (PR #1246)
Filters:
Filters enchancement (PR #1179,#1174)
File masks
Putting ! before file masks will exclude files that match that masks.
If you put after the file masks, the masks will match folders instead
of files.
File filters
Added f!: and d!: to exclude files or folders that match the pattern
specified in f: and d:.
Options dialog:
BugFix: Help text is truncated (#1210)
Improve vertical alignment string (#1200)
Some improvements (#1212)
Plugins:
BugFix: Select Plugin Dialog: Fix the problem that the plugin arguments are
deleted by clicking the "Add pipe" button after entering them.
Archive support:
Translations:
Translation updates:
Catalan (PR #1237)
Chinese Simplified (PR #1257)
Chinese Traditional (PR #1204)
Corsican (PR #1188,#1205,#1221,#1251,#1260)
Dutch (PR #1187)
French (PR #1211)
German (PR #1208,#1228,#1254,#1262)
Hungarian (PR #1203,#1220,#1252,#1259)
Japanese (PR #1165)
Korean (PR #1181)
Lithuanian (PR #1197,#1202,#1224,#1255)
Norwegian (PR #1170)
Portuguese (PR #1178,#1222)
Russian (PR #1164)
Slovak (PR #1196)
Slovenian (PR #1163,#1261)
Ukrainian (PR #1172)
Internals:
Fix typo in ShellFileOperations.cpp (PR #1256)
[Big PR - big changes] A lot of refactor and optimization commits (PR #1258)
Wrong links for ShellExtension on Translations page (#1185)
Tweak translations status (PR #1201)
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)

New in WinMerge 2.16.18.0 (Jan 27, 2022)

General:
BugFix: Crash when comparing files in Google Drive
[Feature Request] Lengthen title of File Compare window or add tip (#960)
added me to contributor list (PR #1094)
Made it so that the parent window cannot be operated while the font selection dialog displayed from View→Select Font menu item is displayed.
File compare:
BugFix: wm 2.16.16.0 crashes with file attached (#1101)
BugFix: Fix a problem that 'Encountered an improper argument' error occurs when a pane split by Window→Split menu item is unsplit by drag operation.
BugFix: Colors -> Differences -> Word Difference : Text color ignored (#1116)
BugFix: WinMerge crashes with specific regex search (#1160)
3-Way File Merge: No Keyboard / hot keys available for Merging from Left Pane to right pane and vice versa (#957)
Winmerge hangs when i try to compare files. (#1111)
Fast encoding switching. (#793)
Clipboard Compare:
New Feature: Clipboard Compare (PR #1147):
Click File → Open Clipboard menu item to compare the two most recent contents of the clipboard history.
You can also compare by pressing Ctrl+V when the child MDI window is not visible.
This feature is available on Windows 10 version 1809 or higher and WinMerge 64-bit version.
Folder compare:
BugFix: Sorting on Comparison Result being done incorectly (#483)
BugFix: Fix an issue where WinMerge sometimes crashes when executing "Refresh Selected" in the folder compare window. (PR #1120)
BugFix: Fixed a bug that the parent folder icon was not displayed in non-recursive mode.
BugFix: Fixed the problem that the sort order is different from version 2.16.16 or earlier
Plugins:
Fix for https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/discussions/1139 (#1139,PR #1140)
Make plugin descriptions translatable
Upgrade Apache Tika to 2.2.1
Command line:
Added /clipboard-compare command line option
Archive support:
Update 7-Zip to 21.07
Installer:
BugFix: Incorrect link to "Quick Start" guide at WM installation end (#1127)
BugFix: Add replacesameversion flag to 7z.dll
Re-enabled the process of installing ShellExtension for Windows 11.
Manual:
BugFix: "Quick compare limit" and "Binary compare limit" settings don't have the expected (and documented) purpose (#1100)
Translations:
Translation updates:
Chinese Simplified (PR #1109,#1112,#1134)
Corsican (PR #1103,#1119,#1137,#1142,#1154)
Dutch (PR #1123)
French (PR #1121,#1122,#1157)
German (PR #1110,#1117,#1143,#1155)
Hungarian (PR #1102,#1115,#1136,#1141,#1150)
Japanese
Lithuanian (PR #1124,#1144)
Portuguese (PR #1097,#1098,#1106,#1133,#1149)
Slovenian (PR #1148,#1153)
Turkish (PR #1099)
Internals:
Fix typo in DirScan.cpp (PR #1118)

New in WinMerge 2.16.17.0 Beta (Dec 19, 2021)

General:
New Option to ignore numbers. (PR #1025,#923)
Add the feature to display tooltips on the MDI tab. (PR #1038)
Issue with closing WinMerge with Esc keyboard key (#1052)
Add an "Defaults" section to the ini file (PR #1071)
File compare:
BugFix: Release 2.16.16 crashes when comparing large files - likely a regression (#1036)
BugFix: Fixed C#(Java, JavaScript) keyword highlighting. (#1040)
BugFix: The current pane switches without me asking it to. (#1050)
BugFix: Fix PHP syntax highlighting. (PR #1055)
BugFix: Source Files Comparison doesn't seem to Work properly (#1057)
Add D syntax highlighting. (PR #1042)
Improved 'Match similar lines' option (#1013)
Make the 'Match similar lines' option work for 3-way comparisons (PR #1051,#510)
Please add a huge icon for "Filter is active" (#1056)
Image compare:
Added support for creating multi-page image compare report (osdn.net #43374)
Folder compare:
BugFix: Fixed a problem where Duplicate Group Numbers were not assigned to files with the same content but different file names.
BugFix: Fix crash when comparing 3 folders if additional properties were added
FolderCompare: Improve performance when tree mode is disabled (#PR #1069)
Project file:
Add a feature to save/restore the "Ignore numbers" setting to/from a project file. (PR #1068)
Patch Generator dialog:
Put the diff patch to the clipboard rather than to files (#923)
Plugins:
BugFix: Fixed the problem that Plugins->Reload Plugins menu item does not work.
Archive support
Update 7-Zip to 21.06
Shell extension:
ShellExtension for Windows 11: Implemented advanced menu
Translations:
New translation:
Corsican (PR #1072,#1085)
Translation updates:
Chinese Traditional (PR #1079)
German (PR #1062,#1086,#1088)
Hungarian (PR #1032)
Japanese
Korean (PR #1078)
Lithuanian (PR #1043,#1061,#1082,#1087)
Polish (PR #1049)
Portuguese (PR #1034,#1039,#1060,#1065)
Russian (PR #1031)
Slovenian
Internals:
BugFix: Fix typo in BCMenu.cpp (PR #1054)
BugFix: Return better HRESULTs (PR #1077)
Make it buildable for ARM32 architecture

New in WinMerge 2.16.16.0 (Oct 28, 2021)

New in WinMerge 2.16.15.0 Beta (Sep 20, 2021)

General:
BugFix: WinMerge would crash when launched if the registry or INI file contained invalid values.
BugFix: Winmerge Crash when comparing 2 files from Windows Explorer context menu (#808, #908, #913)
BugFix: Incorrect text color for selected menu item on Windows 11
BugFix: 50% cpu use by winmergeu.exe after program closed (#903)
Digitally sign packages (#152)
File compare:
BugFix: The mouse cursor did not change to an hourglass when the files or plugins were taking a long time to load.
BugFix: Save Middle and Save Middle As menu items were not enabled when comparing three files.
BugFix: A two-pane window was displayed even though New (3panes) ? Table menu item was selected.
BugFix: The height of each pane in the Diff pane was calculated incorrectly when comparing three files.
BugFix: Unicode SMP chars misrendered after performing a find (#914)
BugFix: Crash when pressing Shift+F4 key
BugFix: Replace slow (#940)
BugFix: When moving in the scroll pane, the selected position is incorrect (#970)
BugFix: When the Diff pane was redisplayed, the scroll position of the Diff pane was not appropriate. (osdn.net #42862)
Make "Do not close this box" checkbox in search window On by default (#941)
Image compare:
BugFix: Duplicate menu shortcut in translations (#905)
BugFix: Image comparison (winimerge #24)
Project file:
Add a feature to save/restore compare options to/from a project file.(#498) (PR #915)
Options dialog:
Add a feature to set items saved to or restored from the project file. (PR #953)
Plugins:
New unpacker plugins:
DecompileJVM
DecompileIL
DisassembleNative
Command line:
Added /c column number command line option
Added /EnableExitCode command line option
Shell extension:
BugFix: WinMerge's extended menu items were doubly inserted into the context menu of Explorer's navigation pane. (osdn.net #42702)
BugFix: Right click - compare - is unclear (#249)
Added a new DLL (WinMergeContextMenu.dll) for the Windows 11 Explorer context menu (currently unstable and not registered by default) (PR #954)
Translations:
Translation updates:
Brazilian (PR #910)
Dutch (PR #921,#969)
German (PR #965,#977)
Hungarian (PR #937,#955)
Italian (PR #911)
Japanese
Korean (PR #932)
Portuguese (PR #956,#964,#976)
Russian (PR #901,#927,#963)
Slovenian
Swedish (PR #974)
Turkish (PR #899)
Internals:
README.md: Make it clear that requirements are to build, not use the application (PR #942)
compiler-calculated maximum value for m_SourceDefs (PR #966)

New in WinMerge 2.16.14.0 (Jul 25, 2021)

Fixed an issue where the WinMerge process might not terminate even though the WinMerge window was closed.
File compare:
Fixed an infinite loop when "find what" in the substitution filters is empty.
Folder compare:
Fix an issue where a file is deselected when returning to the folder compare window after opening the file compare window by double-clicking the file in the folder compare window. (PR #857)
Right click context menu - Compare files or folders in a new tab (#232,#277)
Binary compare:
Fixed an issue where window titles may not be updated
Image compare:
Winmerge shows (differences) rotated image (winmerge/winimerge #20)
Added following menu items to the context menu:
Rotate Right 90deg
Rotate Left 90deg
Flip Vertically
Flip Horizontally
Options dialog:
Add preference option to clear "Don't ask this question again" CompareLargeFiles choice (#772, PR #859)
Select Files or Folders dialog:
Fix the Select Files or Folders dialog. (PR #882,#892)
Plugins:
CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: "This picture only contains a bitmap" was displayed when comparing Excel files that contain shapes.
BugFix: CString rangestr = (argc > 0) ? argv[0] : GetColumnRangeString();
(#853)
Improve plugin system (editor script) (PR #871)
New unpacker plugins:
PrettifyHTML
PrettifyYAML
ValidateHTML
QueryYAML
SelectColumns
SelectLines
ReverseColumns
ReverseLines
Replace
New editor script plugins:
PrettifyHTML
PrettifyYAML
SelectColumns
SelectLines
ReverseColumns
ReverseLines
Replace
Updated Apache Tika to version 2.0.0
Updated yq to version 4.11.1
Command line:
Added /l command line option (osdn.net #41528)
Added /t, /table-delimiter, /new, /fileext and /inifile command line option
Installer:
Installer integrates with TortoiseGit and TortoiseSVN despite being told not to (#878)
Translations:
Translation updates:
Bulgarian (PR #850)
Dutch (PR #842,#893)
Galician (PR #869)
German (PR #860,#870,#883,#890)
Hungarian (PR #845,#856,#897)
Japanese
Lithuanian (PR #840,#849,#866,#875,#879,#894)
Portuguese (PR #846,#872,#898)
Slovenian (#858)
Russian (PR #847)
Turkish (PR #848)
Internals:
BugFix: WinMerge doesn't build under Visual Studio 16.10.2 (#841)
BugFix: x64: LINK : warning LNK4010: invalid subsystem version number 5.01; default subsystem version assumed (#855)
BugFix: Project: heksedit cl : command line warning D9002: ignoring unknown option '/arch:SSE' (#861)
BugFix:ALL.vs2019.sln cl : command line warning D9035: option 'Gm' has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release (#862)
Resolves: Add continuous code security and quality analysis (PR #844, #843)
Improvement: Add check and error mesage in DownloadDeps.cmd that path to 7-zip exists (#864)

New in WinMerge 2.16.13.0 Beta (Jun 22, 2021)

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)

New in WinMerge 2.16.12.0 (Apr 29, 2021)

General:
GUI textstrings: grammatical corrections (PR #722)
Added ARM64 support
File compare:
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
BugFix: Fixed a rare crash when enabling syntax highlight
BugFix: Fixed an issue where inline scripts in HTML files were not highlighted correctly
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
Folder compare:
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)
Binary compare:
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
Image compare:
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.
Open dialog:
Make archive files openable as binary files from the pull-down menu.
Archive support:
BugFix: Fixed a rare crash when decompressing an archive file
Plugins:
BugFix: ATL: QIThunk - 2 LEAK in plugins e.g. DisplayBinaryFiles and DisplayXMLFiles (#755)
Translations:
Translation updates:
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)

New in WinMerge 2.16.11.0 Beta (Mar 29, 2021)

General:
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
File compare:
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.
Folder compare:
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.
Image compare:
BugFix: The image on the right does not open if the file exists only on the right (osdn.net #41721)
Open dialog:
Added Text, Table, Binary and Image menu items to the Compare button in the "Select Files or Folders" window
Archive support:
Rar5 support (#644)
Options dialog:
BugFix: Fix an issue where custom colors are not saved. (PR #648)
Plugins:
RCLocalizationHelper: Fix memory leaks (PR #596)
Installer:
Installer issue with Polish diacritics characters (#589)
Translations:
Translation updates:
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)
Command line:
Single instance mode does not work when launched from Visual Studio 2019 (#622) (Added /sw command line option)
Internals:
BugFix: Pluginssrc_VCPPVCPPPlugins.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 Pluginssrc_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)
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)

New in WinMerge 2.16.10.0 (Jan 30, 2021)

General:
BugFix: Fixed processing that uses GetAsyncKeyState(). (GitHub PR #505)
BugFix: Fixed the problem that the language setting is not applied to the context menu of the MDI tab when the language setting is changed. (GitHub PR #523)
BugFix: command-line option /x did not work for binary and image comparison
BugFix: Substiturions vs. Substitutions (GitHub #551)
Swap Panes functionality for 3 way compares (Issue #507) (GitHub PR #533)
[feature request] Add options to command line to change "compare methods"
(GitHub #530)
Added the command line option "/s-" to ensure that another instance is always executed, ignoring the value of the 'Allow only one instance to run' option.
File compare:
BugFix: WinMerge crashes with mouse double click (GitHub #531)
BugFix: Fixed an issue where the message box "The report has been created successfully." was displayed even if the report creation failed.
BugFix: BUG: Doesn't respect "Don't ask this question again" checkbox when comparing large files (GitHub #574)
The Location pane doesn't draw a line connecting moved differences by default (GitHub #498)
Update crystallineparser.cpp - AutoIt (*.au3) support as a "Basic" (GitHub PR #543)
s_apszAutoItKeywordList[] - actualization for AutoIt (GitHub PR #584)
Added JavaScript and JSON syntax highligher (osdn.net #41083)
Added View -> Diff Context -> Invert menu item
Feature Request: Move To Next File option while comparing files #475 (GitHub PR #561)
A new feature "Ignored Substutions" (GitHub PR #544,#549,#560) ("Ignored Substitutions" was renamed to "Substitution Filters")
Folder compare:
BugFix: Winmerge crashes consistently when deleting files (GitHub #491)
BugFix: Copy Folder does not copy subfolders and I don't see any option for it (GitHub #537)
Table compare:
Added File -> New -> Table menu item
Binary compare:
Added File -> New -> Binary menu item
Image compare:
Implement copy and paste images (GitHub PR #524)
Added File -> New -> Image menu item
Added Image -> Compare Extracted Text From Image menu item
Filter dialog:
Making CPropertySheet resizable needs some re-work. (Issue #509) (GitHub PR #535)
Patch Generator dialog:
BugFix: Crash when generating patch (GitHub #521)
Translations:
Translation updates:
Dutch (GitHub #578,#579,#580)
Galician (GitHub PR #493,#538,#570)
German (GitHub PR #532,#548,#563,#585)
Japanese
Lithuanian (GitHub PR #496,#528,#536,#562,#564)
Portuguese (GitHub PR #495)
Slovenian (GitHub #553,#565)
Russian (GitHub PR #494)
Manual:
Update manual (GitHub PR #497,#513,#546)
Small tweaks for the Manual (GitHub PR #508)
Windows XP Pro SP0 vs Requirements (GitHub #515)
Internals:
Fix Various Warnings (GitHub PR #539)
Various fixes to testing (GitHub PR #545)
Some tweaks for translations status (GitHub PR #556)
Link error when building Pluginssrc_VCPPDisplayXMLFiles with Visual Studio 2019 16.7.7 (GitHub #554)
Link error when building VCPP plugin DisplayXMLFiles with Visual Studio 2019 16.7.7 (GitHub #555)
Link warnings when building VCPP plugin DisplayXMLFiles with Visual Studio 2019 16.7.7 (GitHub #558)
Some more files should be added to the .gitignore file (GitHub #559)

New in WinMerge 2.16.9.0 Beta (Nov 29, 2020)

General:
BugFix: MainFrm.cpp: Toolbar was leaking image lists (GitHub PR #432)
BugFix: The icons on a 43" 4K screen are too small (GitHub #276)
Update English.pot (GitHub #440)
Update Merge.rc (GitHub #487)
Improved startup time
File compare:
BugFix: [UI] Pane enlargement was reset after changing tab (GitHub #403)
BugFix: Non-comment differences were sometimes ignored when the comment filter was enabled, (osdn.net #40488)
BugFix: Line Filters aren't applied when using a 3rd file (GitHub #395)
BugFix: "Ignore blank lines" does not work in 3-way compare (GitHub #450)
BugFix: Fix the problem that the comparison result is displayed one line off in the file compare window if a sync point is added with the first line selected. (GitHub PR #435)
BugFix: Fix the problem accessing the text buffer out of range if a sync point is added by selecting a ghost line that is after the last block. (GitHub PR #457)
BugFix: Fix the problem that "Goto...", "Goto Line <line>" and moving by left click on the location pane do not work appropriately when the Diff pane is active in the file compare window. (GitHub PR #476)
BugFix: Reloading file does not refresh its encoding (GitHub #466)
BugFix: Editor text display is abnormal - character spacing problem (GitHub #468)
always copy "full line" instead of "selected text only" - option CopyFullLine (GitHub PR #459)
Add the feature "Go to Moved Line" requested by #278 (GitHub PR #484)
how to show white space with linebreak hidden? (GitHub #265) (Added View->View EOL menu item)
Folder compare:
BugFix: Pausing comparing doesn't pause immediately (GitHub #342)
BugFix: Sorting on Comparison Result being done incorectly (GitHub #483)
Commandline to display versions in the output report (GitHub #418)
"Don't ask again" checkbox for the Confirm Copy dialog (GitHub PR #445)
Binary compare:
BugFix: Scrolling binary files (GitHub #456)
Options dialog:
Added "Automatically scroll to first inline difference" option to Options dialog
Patch Generator dialog:
BugFix: Fixed the problem that the input to File1 or File2 comboboxes of the Patch Generator dialog is not applied when the Patch Generator dialog is opened by selecting multiple files. (GitHub PR #421)
Translations:
Translation updates:
Chinese Simplified (GitHub PR #465)
Dutch (GitHub PR #482)
Galician (GitHub PR #419,458,493)
German (GitHub PR #438,448,480,490)
Lithuanian (GitHub PR #417,439,443,449,481)
Polish (GitHub PR #447)
Portuguese (GitHub PR #429,467)
Slovak (GitHub PR #470)
Slovenian (GitHub PR #486,488)
Spanish (GitHub PR #454)
Turkish (GitHub PR #425)
Manual:
Update Shortcut_keys.xml (GitHub PR #430)
Update manual (GitHub PR #485,492)
Internals:
Tweak output from BuildInstaller.cmd and BuildArc.cmd (GitHub PR #424)
Fix typo in GhostTextBuffer.cpp (GitHub PR #472)
Fix typo in memdc.h (GitHub PR #474)

New in WinMerge 2.16.8.0 (Aug 28, 2020)

General:
BugFix: More space for some internationalized strings (GitHub #402)
BugFix: Some improvements (GitHub #405,411)
File compare:
BugFix: Ignore case option did not work when Diff algorithm was other than default
BugFix: A white vertical rectangle was sometimes drawn in the selected area
BugFix: The title of the file comparison window after changing the language was accidentally changed to "Untitled left/right"
BugFix: Wrong merging (GitHub #420) (minimal/patience/histogram diff algorithm did not work on Windows XP)
Extended F4 key movement range to the whole file
Don't treat UTF-8 and UTF-8 with BOM the same when the "Ignore codepage differences" option is disabled
Folder compare:
BugFix: Appropriate error messages were not displayed when the file to be deleted no longer existed
BugFix: 'Show Middle/Right Unique items' menu item does not work properly in 3-way folder compare (osdn.net #40672)
CTRL+Drag folders now has the opposite behavior of the current Include Subfolders option
Image compare:
BugFix: Fix scrolling glitches (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge PR #8)
Reduce flicker on resize (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge PR #9)
Options dialog:
Allow choosing image filename patterns from a multi-selection dropdown list (GitHub PR #391)
WildcardDropList: Avoid the String instance as it could throw std::bad_alloc (GitHub PR #397)
Remove duplicate filename patterns without relying on WildcardDropList (GitHub PR #400)
Made Options dialog resizable
Changed the default values for the following options:
Ignore codepage differences -> disabled
Include unique subfolders contents -> enabled
About dialog:
Rework the fix for Github issue #316: GUI glitches/bugs #2 (GitHub PR #392)
Replace outdated list of developers in AboutBox with ascii-art gnu from FSF (GitHub PR #394)
Installer:
BugFix: Installation - Internal error: Failed to expand shell folder constant "userdesktop" (GitHub #354)
BugFix: Lithuanian.po is missing (GitHub PR #415)
New installer for per-user installation (WinMerge-2.16.8-x64-PerUser-Setup.exe)
Translations:
Translation updates:
Brazilian (GitHub PR #383)
Galician (GitHub PR #393)
German (GitHub PR #388,389,398,399,401,406,412,414, WinMerge/frhed PR #2)
Lithuanian (GitHub PR #385,390,407,408,413,415)
Turkish (GitHub PR #386)
Russian (GitHub PR #387)
Manual:
Update manual for IgnoreCommentsC change (GitHub PR #384)
Update Shortcut_keys.xml (GitHub PR #410)

New in WinMerge 2.16.6.0 (Feb 23, 2020)

New in WinMerge 2.16.4.0 (Jul 29, 2019)

New in WinMerge 2.16.0.0 (Nov 23, 2018)

New in WinMerge 2.15.2.0 Alpha (Jan 30, 2018)

Appearance:
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
Tool bar:
Add "View->Toolbar->Huge" menu item
Add drop down menu to Options icon
Add icons for 3-way merge functions
Open dialog:
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
Tab bar:
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
Options dialog:
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
Folder Compare:
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)
File Compare:
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)
Binary Compare:
Install binary file editor (frhed) component again by default
Make binary file editor undoable
Image Compare:
Add image file compare/merge support
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
Archive Support:
Install 7-zip plugin by default
Drag and Drop:
Accept drag&droped files or folders from various places like:
Zip folder, FTP folder, Recycle bin, images in Web browser
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
Filters:
Update *.flt files for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017
Shell extension:
Display another WinMerge icon in Explorer's context menu when a folder is
selected
Installer:
64-bit version of WinMerge is available
Install plugins by default
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)
Command line:
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
Other changes:
Add support for jump list introduced in Windows 7
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)

WinMerge Changelog

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New in WinMerge 2.16.19.0 Beta (Mar 20, 2022)

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New in WinMerge 2.16.15.0 Beta (Sep 20, 2021)

New in WinMerge 2.16.14.0 (Jul 25, 2021)

New in WinMerge 2.16.13.0 Beta (Jun 22, 2021)

New in WinMerge 2.16.12.0 (Apr 29, 2021)

New in WinMerge 2.16.11.0 Beta (Mar 29, 2021)

New in WinMerge 2.16.10.0 (Jan 30, 2021)

New in WinMerge 2.16.9.0 Beta (Nov 29, 2020)

New in WinMerge 2.16.8.0 (Aug 28, 2020)

New in WinMerge 2.16.6.0 (Feb 23, 2020)

New in WinMerge 2.16.4.0 (Jul 29, 2019)

New in WinMerge 2.16.0.0 (Nov 23, 2018)

New in WinMerge 2.15.2.0 Alpha (Jan 30, 2018)

New in WinMerge 2.14.0.0 (Feb 4, 2013)

New in WinMerge 2.13.22 Beta (Jan 14, 2013)

New in WinMerge 2.13.14 Experimental (Sep 16, 2010)

New in WinMerge 2.13.13 Experimental (Jun 20, 2010)

New in WinMerge 2.13.12 Experimental (Jun 20, 2010)

New in WinMerge 2.13.11 Experimental (Jun 20, 2010)

New in WinMerge 2.13.10 Experimental (Jun 20, 2010)

New in WinMerge 2.13.9 Experimental (Jun 20, 2010)

New in WinMerge 2.11.1.3 Experimental (Aug 5, 2008)

New in WinMerge 2.8.4 Stable (Jun 17, 2008)

New in WinMerge 2.8 (Apr 3, 2008)

New in WinMerge 2.8 RC (Mar 5, 2008)

New in WinMerge 2.7.6 Beta / 2.6.12 St (Nov 30, 2007)

New in WinMerge 2.7.1.1 (Experimental) (Nov 20, 2006)

New in WinMerge 2.6.0 (Oct 13, 2006)