Change log

WinMerge 2.16.48.2 - 2025-04-29

Installer

BugFix: Installing as "NT Authority/SYSTEM" does not work on some langauges. (#2752, #2758)

WinMerge 2.16.48 - 2025-04-27

General

BugFix: Setting the toolbar icons to "Extra Large" cannot save the settings. (#2748)
FR: Add Ctrl+, keyboard shortcut to open Options dialog box (#2705)
Update Merge.rc (PR #2711)

File compare

BugFix: [BUG} Phantom line added when identical blocks of text pasted (#2702)
BugFix: Fixed crash when quitting WinMerge while the search dialog is open
Syntax/Pascal: Add initialization and finalization (PR #2719)
Syntax/Pascal: Support multiline strings (PR #2720)

Folder compare

BugFix: Unable to compare files with zero mtime using "Modified Date and Size" (#2714)
BugFix: Windows7 Winmerge v2.16.46.0 crash prone (#1 WinMerge crashes after successfully deleting files.) (#2746)

Webpage compare

BugFix: Fixed an issue where comparisons could fail when tab characters were present.
BugFix: Fixed incorrect line wrapping in certain HTML elements.
BugFix: Fixed an issue where differences within <pre> elements could appear concatenated instead of on separate lines.

Plugins

BugFix: ApacheTika and PlantUML plugins: Fixed issue where no error message was displayed when execution failed (#715)
BugFix: ApacheTika plugin: Fixed failure to run when the filename contained non-alphanumeric characters (now uses the short filename instead) (#715)
AIConvertText plugin: Added models gpt-4.1, gpt-4.1-mini, and gpt-4.1-nano

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2706,#2715,#2726)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2710,#2730)
- Corsican (PR #2722)
- French (PR #2716)
- Hungarian (PR #2703,#2713,#2724)
- Italian (PR #2704,#2723,#2737)
- Japanese
- Lithuanian (PR #2708)

WinMerge 2.16.47 - 2025-03-31

General

BugFix: /inifile won't work with root directory (#2635)
BugFix: "Another application has updated" message when window is deactivated (#2668)
Reduced flickering of title bar buttons and the status bar.
Rewrite English.pot, add JXL image extension (PR #2682)
Add Output Pane for Logs and Messages (PR #2663)

File compare

BugFix: Fixed an issue where $ in regular expressions in Substitution filters didn't work correctly with "Ignore carriage return differences" enabled. (#2640)
BugFix: Syntax highlighting of Python multiline strings failed on lines > 1 (#2643)
BugFix: Fixed an issue where "&" appeared as an underline in the status bar when using both Unpacker and Prediffer plugins.
BugFix: Sync Codepage Settings on Options and Diff Window (#2678)
Update C syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #2669)

Image compare

Rewrite English.pot, add JXL image extension (PR #2682)

Options dialog

BugFix: Fixed an issue where ShellExtensionU.dll was not properly unregistered when clicking the Unregister shell extension button in the Shell Integration options. (#2419)
Modify the "Options (Compare > Image)" dialog. (PR #2655)

Color schemes

Add Visual Studio Dark color scheme (PR #2634)
Twilight - new dark theme (PR #2694)

Installer

BugFix: Context menu not working if installed from non-elevated (non admin) user on win 10 x64 (#2638) (PR #2639)

Manual

Help pages -> Appendix A. Shortcut keys (#2659)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2675,#2688,#2697)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2700)
- Corsican (PR #2632,#2676)
- Hebrew (PR #2673)
- Italian (PR #2689,#2689)
- Japanese
- Polish (PR #2671)
- Portuguese (PR #2650,#2695)
- Swedish (PR #2679)
- Turkish (PR #2636)

Internals

BugFix: Fix build in VS2022 17.13.0 (PR #2645)
BugFix: Use zopflipng to reduce size of splash.png (PR #2646)
README major update, Twilight theme minor edit (PR #2696)

WinMerge 2.16.46 - 2025-01-27

General

BugFix: ALT-F4 opens Tools menu instead of exit from WinMerge (#2592)
BugFix: Fixes an issue causing a momentary drawing shift when launching WinMerge with Windows animation effects enabled and the window maximized.

Folder compare

BugFix: Compare - Text files different and case also different
- bug when delete and copy (#2599)
Add a Prompt to Copy Only Differences in Folder Comparison (PR #2622,#198,#1168,#1350,#1995)

Plugins

BugFix: Fixes an issue where the Plugins → Prediffer menu is not displayed correctly since version 2.16.43.
BugFix: Fixed an issue in the CompareMSPowerPointFiles.sct plugin that caused error 0x80048010 when comparing PowerPoint files
Enable per-file plugin application with file number specification (PR #2598)
Some Plugins window fixes (PR #2621)

Manual

BugFix: Typos and minor errors in WinMerge manual (#2597)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2601,#2623)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2603,#2624)
- French (PR #2595,#2612)
- Hungarian (PR #2602)
- Italian (PR #2610,#2627)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2611,#2630)
- Lithuanian (PR #2604,#2628)
- Portuguese (PR #2614)
- Russian (PR #2593,#2609,#2629)

WinMerge 2.16.45.1 - 2024-12-27

General

BugFix: IME switch not toggle menu when menu hide (PR #2572)
Add "Ignore missing trailing EOL" option to Compare settings (PR #2573,#203,#989,#2317)

File compare

BugFix: The height of the lines connecting moving blocks in the location pane may be incorrect (#2543)

Folder compare

BugFix: Looks like the View Tab Bar "folder icon" is getting a green check-mark before the folder compare has even completed. (#2562)

Plugins

BugFix: WinMerge 2.16.44.0 : CompareMSWordFiles.sct Plugin : Forced Enabled Confirm Conversions Pop-Up (#2566)

Archive support

Update 7-Zip to 24.09

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2585)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2588)
- Hungarian (PR #2586)
- Italian (PR #2587)
- Lithuanian (PR #2591)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2558,#2559)

Internals

Update POCO C++ Libraries to 1.14.0

WinMerge 2.16.45.0 - 2024-11-27

General

BugFix: Second monitor - BIG title bar v 2.16.44 (#2510,#2512,#2540,#2549)
BugFix: Window close button is not extending to the edge of the screen when maximized (#2520)
BugFix: When WinMerge window is maximized, it prevents auto-hidden Windows 11 taskbar from appearing (#2518)
Foreground and background title bars are distinguishable (PR #2497)
Title bar background color and text color follow windows settings when not customized (PR #2505)
Main Menu toggle Show/Hide (PR #2509)
Inactive title text chosen by inactive title color (PR #2544)
Reduce the contrast of inactive title bar text (PR #2545)
System Icon turn gray when app inactive (PR #2547)

File compare

BugFix: Wrong line gets copied over when selecting text (#2499)
BugFix: Bug Report: Display Issues When Resizing WinMerge Across Dual Monitors (#2514)
BugFix: Diff renders incorrectly with "Cascadia Mono" variant (#2525)
BugFix: The height of the lines connecting moving blocks in the location pane may be incorrect
BugFix: Crash on opening 2 files via drag & drop (#2548)
BugFix: A crash could occur if a single invalid file path was specified in the "Select files or folders" window.
BugFix: "Debug Assertion Failed!" Error When Refreshing After Deleting All Content in Left or Right Pane (#2556)
Adjust right-click deselect from down to up to preserve RB + scroll anywhere (PR #2511)
Press 1-3 to copy current diff line to clipbd while popup menu is open (PR #2532)
Caret (text cursor) follow windows settings (PR #2534)
Feature Request: Fixed-Width Font in "Find what" and "Replace with" Fields (#2539)

Folder compare

BugFix: Crash on typing while search is in progress (#1814), (PR #2557)

Options dialog

Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Colors/System)" dialog. (PR #2506)
The "Clear all recent items" button in the Shell Integration category of the Options dialog now clears combobox history as well as jump lists. (#2555)

Select Files or Folders dialog

BugFix: Crash on opening 2 files via drag & drop (#2548)

Plugins

Apache Tika plugin: Update Apache Tika to 3.0.0

Installer

BugFix: When uninstalling WinMerge, the Shell Extension for Windows 11 was not uninstalled.
Installer - Run PowerShell hidden and with -NoProfile when installing silently (#2515)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2526)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2501,#2524)
- French (PR #2536)
- Hungarian (PR #2495,#2523)
- Italian (PR #2529)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2496,#2533)
- Lithuanian (PR #2503,#2537)
- Portuguese (PR #2507)
- Russian (PR #2500,#2502,#2521,#2522,#2528,#2531,#2538,#2542,frhed#17, frhed#18)

WinMerge 2.16.44 - 2024-10-27

General

Added Medium size (24px) option to Toolbar icons

Webpage compare

BugFix: Differences panel for Webpage mode (winwebdiff#7)

Plugins

BugFix: Floating-point precision issue in CompareMSExcelFiles.sct plugin (#2494)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2493)
- Corsican (PR #2490)

WinMerge 2.16.43 - 2024-10-23

General

BugFix: WinMerge incorrectly states "The selected files are identical" (#2408)
Implement Menu Bar as a Toolbar (PR #2400)
Add support for placing the tab bar on the title bar (PR #2428)
Add One-Hand mice wheel scroll diff and merge (PR #2435)
Add Support for Custom System Color Overrides (PR #2376)
Easy move small main window when tab on titlebar (PR #2489)

File compare

BugFix: Wrong syntax highlighting for TeX files (#2415)
BugFix: Text replacement result is wrong. (#2422)
Copy Selected Difference to Clipboard (PR #2429)
Added Ada parser and default file associations (#2452)
Added C++20 modules default file associations cppm and ixx (PR #2464)
Anti-aliasing has been applied to the lines that connect moved blocks in the location pane.

Folder compare

BugFix: ExitCode always 2 with /enableexitcode with no apparent issues (#2450)

Webpage compare

BugFix: Location pane may not render differences (winwebdiff#6)

Options dialog

Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Project)" dialog. (PR #2401)
Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Backup Files)" dialog. (PR #2406)
Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Codepage)" dialog. (PR #2448)
Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (General)" dialog. (PR #2453)

Plugins

Create CompareEscapedJavaPropertiesFiles.sct (PR #2455)

Manual

BugFix: 2 mistakes about default values in manual (#2456)
Update documentation for "Include unique subfolders contents" setting (PR #2396)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2397,#2431,#2439,#2454,#2460,#2468,#2477,#2486)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2394,#2461,#2469,#2485)
- Dutch (PR #2474)
- French (PR #2399,#2444)
- Hungarian (PR #2433,#2440,#2458,#2472,#2482)
- Italian (PR #2393,#2438,#2446,#2447,#2457,#2467,#2470,#2487)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2426,#2459,#2473)
- Lithuanian (PR #2436,#2443,#2462,#2471,#2483)
- Portuguese (PR #2410,#2441,#2480)
- Russian (PR #2462)

Internals

Make InsertLineNumberInPOFiles.bat and RenewPOFiles.bat work again

WinMerge 2.16.42.1 - 2024-07-28

General

BugFix: Digital signature was not added to version 2.16.42.

Translations

Translation updates:
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2394)
- Italian (PR #2393)

WinMerge 2.16.42 - 2024-07-27

General

Enable Rounded Corners for WinMerge Menu on Windows 11 (PR #2364)
Introduce a flat status bar without separator lines. (PR #2377)

Folder compare

BugFix: Folder comparison status not accurately reflected in toolbar (#2374)
BugFix: Status of folder comparison not correctly reflected by tab icon after Refresh (F5) (#2383)

File compare

Replace - more intelligent choice of replace in (whole file vs selection) (#2368)

Image compare

BugFix: Image Comparison : In Alpha Animation, dialogs hang winmerge (#2370)
BugFix: Fixed an issue where the right edge of the status bar appeared white.
Added the ability to change the blink interval and overlay animation interval.

Plugins

Make the gpt4-o-mini model selectable in the AIConvertText plugin settings window

Archive support

Update 7-Zip to 24.07

Translations

Translation updates:
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2392)
- Brazilian (PR #2391)
- Hungarian (PR #2388)
- Lithuanian (PR #2390)

WinMerge 2.16.41 - 2024-06-24

General

Made the tabs in the tab bar rounded like Firefox.

File compare

Added support for F# (FSharp) language syntax highlight (PR #2298)
Improved F# parsing, support for multi-line comments (PR #2301)
Multi line comment fix (PR #2303)
Multi line comment fix part 2 (PR #2309)
Typescript files to use JavaScript highlighting as default (PR #2312)

Folder compare

BugFix: Refresh selected shows wrong file names being compared (#2338)
BugFix: Selected files changes on expanding a folder that is upper on the tree (#2359)

Options dialog

BugFix: Options - Syntax color settings get reverted when "Customized text colors" settings is touched. (#2355)
Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Editor > Compare/Merge)" dialog. (PR #2348)
Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Archive Support)" dialog. (PR #2362)

Plugins

BugFix: Fixed the plugin pipeline not being configured correctly in the Select Plugin dialog.
Add a text conversion plugin using OpenAI API (PR #2258)
Update jq to 1.7.1
Update md4c to 0.5.2

Archive support

Update 7-Zip to 24.05

Installer

BugFix; WinMerge 2.16.40 - Installer - Missing version and archicteure info (#2300)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2308)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2306,#2310,#2314,#2352)
- Corsican (PR #2361)
- French (PR #2354)
- German (PR #2349)
- Hungarian (PR #2307)
- Italian (PR #2299)
- Lithuanian (PR #2318,#2320)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2333)
- Polish (PR #2313)
- Portuguese (PR #2321)
- Turkish (PR #2315)

Internals

Update GitHub Actions CI (#2304)
Fix some typos (#2305)
Update POCO C++ Libraries to 1.13.3
Update boost to 1.85.0
Update Google C++ Testing Framework to 1.14.0

WinMerge 2.16.40 - 2024-04-27

General

BugFix: Fixed several Wine-related issues

File compare

BugFix: Replace text issue (#2279)

Options dialog

Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Editor > General)" dialog. (PR #2283)
Adjust position of "Defaults" button in "Options > Compare > Table" (PR #2295)

Plugins

BugFix: CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Fixed the issue where, when the 'Extract workbook data to multiple files' option was enabled, all sheets of .xlsx files containing more than 10 sheets were not compared. (This bug was introduced in version 2.16.39 beta.)
BugFix: insert datetime.sct: Fixed an issue where it didn't work properly depending on the locale. (This bug was introduced in version 2.16.39 beta.)
BugFix: Fixed an issue where a "Catastrophic failure" message box might have appeared when reloading a plugin while the Select Files or Folders window was displayed.
Allow plugin pipeline aliases or simple plugins to be registered in the GUI (PR #2257)

Installer

BugFix: French encoding problem on the end of installation (last dialog box) (#2272)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2289)
- Catalan (PR #2270,#2274)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2290)
- Corsican (PR #2288)
- French (PR #2271,#2275,#2297)
- Hungarian (PR #2291)
- Japanese
- Polish (PR#2277)

WinMerge 2.16.39 - 2024-03-24

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)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2234,#2243)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2241,#2244,#2251,#2256,#2259)
- Corsican (PR #2266)
- French (PR #2237,#2264)
- Hungarian (PR #2232,#2250)
- Italian (PR #2245,#2249)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2239)
- Lithuanian (PR #2235,#2246)
- Portuguese (PR #2263)
- Russian (PR #2194,#2195,#2198,#2210,#2211,#2212)
- Slovenian (#2096)

WinMerge 2.16.38 - 2024-01-27

File compare

BugFix: Fixed an issue where changing the BOM in the right pane in the Codepage dialog was not reflected.
Update C++ syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #2166)

Webpage compare

During comparison, the status bar now displays "Comparing...".
Add Location Pane (PR #2160)

Folder compare

Modify the "Display Columns" dialog. (PR #2154)

Plugins

BugFix: Fixed the issue where the following string containing double quotes is not interpreted correctly when specified to the /unpacker command line argument.

/unpacker "Replace ""a"" ""b"""

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2151,#2178)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2153,#2183)
- Corsican (PR #2180)
- Hungarian (PR #2156,#2157,#2158)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2152)
- Lithuanian (PR #2155,#2177)
- Portuguese (PR #2185)

WinMerge 2.16.37 - 2023-12-24

File compare

BugFix: Fixed an issue where the scroll position when clicking on Location View may not be as expected when Wrap Lines is enabled.
BugFix: Can't click and change file line endings with the version 2.16.36. (#2129)
BugFix: Unable to locate CR using \r in regular expression search
Added new C# keywords (PR #2136)

Folder compare

BugFix: Empty files are not copied (#2146)

Binary compare

BugFix: Could not replace data at the end of the file

Image compare

BugFix: Fixed an issue where the file name was not displayed in the header even after saving a newly created pane with a name.

Webpage compare

BugFix: Fixed an issue where the message box "Another application has updated file ... since WinMerge scanned it last time" is displayed when comparing URLs that are file://.
Improved synchronize events (winmerge/winwebdiff#4)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Bulgarian (PR #2124)
- French (PR #2135,#2140,#2141,#2142,winmerge/frhed#15)
- Italian (PR #2130)
- Korean (PR #2126,#2127,#2143)
- Polish (PR #2128)

WinMerge 2.16.36 - 2023-11-27

Image compare

BugFix: Fix an issue where opening read-only and multi-page image files would cause them to be treated as only one-page images. (winmerge/winimerge#32)

Webpage compare

Improved performance when there are many differences

File filter

Bugfix: Modify the "File Filters" dialog. (#2118)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Corsican (PR #2123)
- Galician (PR #2120)
- Hungarian (PR #2122)
- Portuguese (PR #2119)
- Spanish (PR #2120)
- Slovenian
- Turkish (PR #2116)

WinMerge 2.16.35 - 2023-11-20

File compare

BugFix: Fixed an issue where "Copy to Left/Right and Advance" would sometimes skip differences when comparing 3 files. (#1234)
BugFix: Print Preview buttons are not translatable (#2083,#2079)
BugFix: Fixed the issue where the caption set in the header bar is restored when the window is resized.

Binary compare

BugFix: V2.16.34 "X86" wired action (#2081)

Image compare

BugFix: Close main window with 'Esc' if there is only one MDI child window (#2084)

Webpage compare

BugFix: Close main window with 'Esc' if there is only one MDI child window (#2084)
Webpage Compare: synchronize events (#2111,#2064)

Folder compare

BugFix: Ignoring carriage return differences doesn't work anymore (#2080,#2099)

File filters

BugFix: Fixed the issue where "[F]" could be set as the file filter if no file filter was selected in the Filters dialog.

Installer

BugFix: fix bug of Registry path (PR #2086)
BugFix: "Register Windows 11 Shell Extension" fails because PowerShell script doesn't escape special chars correctly (#2109)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2088,#2112)
- Bulgarian (PR #2105)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2091,#2113)
- French (PR #2106)
- Galician (PR #2085,#2107)
- Hungarian (PR #2093)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2092)
- Lithuanian (PR #2090,#2114)
- Polish (PR #2087)
- Romanian (PR #2089,#2095)
- Slovenian (#2096)
- Spanish (PR #2085,#2107)
- Turkish (PR #2076)

WinMerge 2.16.34 - 2023-10-27

File compare

Allow NUL and \.\NUL in paths specified as command line arguments (PR #2056)
Added "(F4)" to the description of the toolbar icon "Difference in the Current Line". (#2050)
Fix a crash problem when the Diff algorithm is set to something other than default and one file does not have an EOL of the last line and the other file has an EOL of the last line.

Image compare

BugFix: Fixed the issue where .png is added when saving even if the file format does not use a converter such as jpg or png file.

Folder compare

BugFix: Folder compare omits unique folders from results if they contain any files and/or subfolders folder compare/merge (#2046)

Line filters

Modify the "Line Filters" dialog. (PR #2047)

Substitution filters

Modify the "Substitution Filters" dialog. (PR #2068)

Translations

Translation updates:
- French (PR #2055,#2058)
- Korean (PR #2057,#2059,#2060)

Internals

Small code changes for CMDIChildWnd handling (#2043)

WinMerge 2.16.33 - 2023-09-20

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 Simplified (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)

WinMerge 2.16.32 - 2023-07-27

General

BugFix: Export/Import settings bug with Substitution Filters (#1925)

File compare

BugFix: Save function doesn't work if the path length exceeds 248 characters (#1923)
BugFix: Redundant confirmation "The selected files are identical" (#1902)
Update Python syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #1938)

Folder compare

BugFix: Treeview scrolls to the wrong position. (#1915)
Allow changing the number of CPU cores to use while doing folder comparison (PR #1945)

Webpage compare

Add support for generating report files (PR #1941)

Command line

Compare folders recursively if "Include subfolders" is checked in the Options dialog even if the /r command line option is not specified. (PR #1914)

Archive support

Update 7-Zip to 23.01 (PR #1913)

Translations

New translation: Tamil (PR #1946)
Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #1948)
- Chinese Traditional (PR #1940)
- Corsican (PR #1933)
- French (PR #1927,#1928,#1951)
- Korean (PR #1908)
- Lithuanian (PR #1949)
- Portuguese (PR #1930)
- Slovenian
- Turkish (#1931)

WinMerge 2.16.31 - 2023-06-20

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)

WinMerge 2.16.30 - 2023-04-27

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 the command 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)

WinMerge 2.16.29 - 2023-03-21

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)

WinMerge 2.16.28 - 2023-02-15

Folder compare

BugFix: Fixed an issue where files with no extension were not compared if they were in a folder with a '.' in the folder name.

WinMerge 2.16.26 - 2023-01-27

General

Fixed issue where the program would crash when certain path names were set in the file path bar.

File compare

Feature request: Allow pasting when editing caption of pages (PR #1651)

Folder compare

BugFix: Filters aren't saved anywhere (#1638)
BugFix: Fixed issue where the Open menu item in file path bar of folder comparison window was disabled.
Add processing to indicate that two directories are identical in the "Comparison result" column when they are identical in a 3-way folder comparison. (PR #1649)
Request: highlight the file after opening its parent folder (#1662)
Show/hide directories in 3-way comparison (PR #1683)

Binary compare

BugFix: Fixed issue where the Open menu item in file path bar of binary comparison window was disabled.

Webpage compare

BugFix: Deleted color of Word Difference in Options dialog was not used.
Implemented Ignore numbers comparison option.

Options dialog

Modify the "Options (Compare > Folder)" dialog. (PR #1645)

Plugins

Add PreviewMarkdown plugin (PR #1641)
Add PreviewPlantUML plugin (PR #1666)
CompareMSExcelFiles: Added "Compare worksheets as HTML" in CompareMSExcelFiles plugin options window
ApacheTika: Updated Apache Tika to version 2.6.0
ApacheTika: If Java is not installed, OpenJDK 19.0.2 will now be downloaded and used.

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #1656,#1670)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #1635,#1665,#1667,#1677,#1681)
- Corsican (PR #1674)
- French (PR #1640,#1679)
- German (PR #1660,#1671)
- Hungarian (PR #1664)
- Japanese
- Lithuanian (PR #1657,#1673)
- Polish (PR #1648)
- Portuguese (PR #1669)
- Russian (PR #1676)
- Slovenian
- Swedish (PR #1655,#1663,#1682)

WinMerge 2.16.25 - 2022-12-27

File compare

BugFix: Selection in "Replace" by regular expression doesn't work with \n (#1556)
BugFix: WinMerge hangs for a certain regex search & replace action for clearing all lines not containing '%' (#1575)
Add html5 keywords to crystaledit (PR #1565)
Add css keywords to crystaledit (PR #1572)
Preliminary exit (performance optimization) for Scrollbars calculation (PR #1574, #1573)
Fix issue #1583 Syntax highlighting for SQL leaves many things out. (PR #1591, #1583)
Starting Pane Consistency (#1598)

Binary compare

BugFix: Crash 0xc0000409 (#1544)
Binary compare: Allow 64bit versions to open files larger than 2GB (PR #1549)

Folder compare

BugFix: Fix the problem that WinMerge crashes when pressing the "OK" button in the "Display Columns" dialog in the debug version. (PR #1568)
BugFix: Crash when copying files/folders (#1558)
BugFix: File Duplication Bug In Outputted Zips (#1588)
BugFix: Fixed problem with scrolling to unexpected position when expanding folders (osdn.net #46061)
BugFix: Fixed incorrect links to files with # in filename in folder comparison report (osdn.net #46082)
Changes the display processing of the "Comparison result" column for a 3-way folder comparison. (PR #1545)
Add "Copy All Displayed Columns" to the context menu of the folder compare window. (PR #1615)

Options dialog

Added Auto-reload modified files option (PR #1611)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #1617,#1630)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #1614)
- Corsican (PR #1628,#1629)
- Galician (#1581)
- German (PR #1616,#1633)
- Hungarian (PR #1618,#1631)
- Lithuanian (PR #1621,#1632)
- Japanese
- Polish (PR #1566)
- Russian (PR #1553,#1554,#1555)
- Slovenian
- Swedish (PR #1594)
- Turkish (PR #1563)

Others

png optimization(loss less) (PR #1541)
Fields rearranged for size optimization (PR #1576)
refactoring Diff3.h (PR #1577)
Fix: Mismatch between keyword list and comments (PR #1578)
DiffFileData optimization for same-files (PR #1579)
Fixed potentially wrong SubEditList ReadOnly attribute storage; refactoring (PR #1580)
CheckForInvalidUtf8 performance improvement; code cleanup (PR #1582)
Update unicoder.cpp (PR #1584)
unicoder.cpp light performance improvements (PR #1586)
Update markdown.cpp (PR #1590)
Add a feature for debugging. (PR #1595)

WinMerge 2.16.24 - 2022-10-27

General

BugFix: Fixed crash when displaying file menu if jump list contains invalid title (osdn.net #45916)

File compare

Changed operation of displaying dialogs and context menus from status bar from double-click to single-click.

Table compare

BugFix: when TSV files were displayed in table mode with word wrap enabled, clicking on a character would not move the caret to that character's position

Folder compare

Fixed memory leak in folder comparison when PDF files were targeted for image comparison.

Options dialog

Improved translation regarding CPU cores (PR #1513)

Select Files or Folders dialog

Made it possible to specify Prediffer plugin

Plugins

BugFix: Select Plugin dialog: Fixed that "Display all plugins" checkbox did not work

Project file

BugFix: Fixed comparison failure when left file path and right file path in project file are URLs.
Allow saving following in project file.
- Description
- Window type
- Table delimiter

Patch Generator dialog

BugFix: The command line section in the generated patch file was garbled (osdn.net #45935)

Translations

BugFix: Fix an issue where the following message displayed when two files are identical in a 3-way folder comparison is not translated. (PR #1535)
Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #1511,#1523)
- Corsican (PR #1510,#1527)
- French (PR #1538)
- German (PR #1498,#1509,#1528)
- Hungarian (PR #1508,#1524)
- Japanese
- Lithuanian (PR #1514,#1526)
- Polish (PR #1525)
- Portuguese (PR #1529)
- Slovenian

Others

BugFix: Fixed English verbiage (PR #1499)
BugFix: typo fixed in README.md (PR #1504)
BugFix: Fix typo in lwdisp.c (PR #1515)

WinMerge 2.16.23 - 2022-09-26

General

BugFix: Fix an issue where filenames containing "&" are not displayed properly in the MDI tab bar and its tooltips. (PR #1466)

Color schemes

Create Midnight.ini (PR #1430)

File compare

BugFix: Non existing backup directory should be automatically created (#1438)
BugFix: Bug: Can't copy selected text, if it has non-changed lines (#1507)
Remember zoom level for all files (#1433)
The feature will allow the user to right-click the selected lines and… add them to Line Filter so that those lines added to the Line Filter will be ignored if found in any file. (PR #1481)
CrystalEdit/parsers/SQL: Added more keywords (PR #1493)

Table compare

Bugfix: Inline differences ware not displayed even if the caret is moved to the position of an inline difference that is hidden due to the narrow column width.

Webpage compare

[EXPERIMENTAL] Webpage Compare: Highlight differences (PR #1357)

Folder compare

BugFix: Disable rename operations when in read-only mode in the folder compare window. (PR #1434)
BugFix: Fix an issue where renaming to a file name or directory name containing "" or "/" is not done properly. (PR #1451)
BugFix: Fix "Left to Right" and "Right to Left" copying in 2-way folder comparison. (PR #1495)
BugFix: Folder compare with jpg images crashes (#1176) (Previous versions were linked with unfixed freeimage.)

Archive support

Update 7-Zip to 22.01 (#1425)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #1436,#1437,#1441,#1459,#1463)
- Corsican (PR #1443,#1480,#1486)
- Dutch (PR #1474)
- Finnish (PR #1460)
- French (PR #1491)
- German (PR #1455,#1484)
- Hungarian (PR #1431,#1454)
- Japanese
- Lithuanian (PR #1457,#1485)
- Polish (PR #1427,#1456)
- Portuguese (PR #1453,#1490)
- Russian (PR #1426)
- Slovenian (#1424,PR #1461)
- Spanish (PR #1406)

WinMerge 2.16.22 - 2022-07-27

General

Allow renaming of untitled pages (#1395)

File compare

BugFix: "Replace All" doesn't work when Replace in "Selection" and the new string contains the old string. (#1376)
BugFix: “Match case” in Search always enabled (#1380)
BugFix: vertical editing for .h file is quite slow (#1386)
BugFix: replace text using regular expressions behaves incorrectly if multiple matches on the same line (#1387, PR #1388)
Optimize snake function (PR #1411)

Folder compare

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)
BugFix: Fix renaming process in folder compare window. (PR #1392)
BugFix: Elapsed time was no longer displayed in the status bar after folder comparison.
BugFix: Fix an issue where the folder column is not updated for child items after renaming a directory in the folder compare window. (PR #1408)

Plugins

Modify textbox behavior (CompareMSExcelFiles options dialog) (PR #1374)
Make wsc files available as plug-in (PR #1390)

Archive support

Update 7-Zip to 22.00

Project file

Add a feature to save/restore hidden items to/from a project file.(PR #1377)

Options dialog

New setting to decide when to save/restore hidden items when project is saved/loaded (PR #1377)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Bulgarian (PR #1375)
- French (PR #1418)
- Galician (PR #1400)
- German (PR #1396,#1399)
- Hungarian (PR #1393,#1398)
- Japanese
- Lithuanian (PR #1394)
- Portuguese (PR #1416)

Internals

Fix typo in SuperComboBox.cpp (PR #1379)

WinMerge 2.16.21 - 2022-06-20

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)

WinMerge 2.16.20 - 2022-04-27

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_USER\Software\Thingamahoochie\WinMerge. 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

WinMerge 2.16.19 - 2022-03-20

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 enhancement (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.

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)

WinMerge 2.16.18 - 2022-01-27

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 incorrectly (#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)

WinMerge 2.16.17 - 2021-12-19

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)
- Galician (PR #1089)
- 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

WinMerge 2.16.16 - 2021-10-28

General

Fix a problem where the string in the Windows common dialog would not change to the language when switching languages.

File compare

BugFix: Fix not getting the proper error message when saving failed

Table compare

BugFix: Cannot resize last column with UI (#998)
Reloading a file that was changed by another application does not preserve column widths (#951)

Image compare

BugFix: Fix an issue where drag-and-drop of file would only work once.

Folder compare

BugFix: Sync (Super Slow) (#771)
BugFix: Fix an issue where filters are not applied correctly when opening a project file containing multiple items with different filters. (PR #995)
[Feature Request] New Display Columns: Dimensions + Size Difference (#131)
FolderCompare: Additional Properties (Windows Property System+Hash (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256)) (PR #996)

Options dialog

BugFix: Fix the problem that the "Register Shell Extension for Windows 11 or later" button is not enabled when another user has registered ShellExtension for Windows 11.

Plugins

BugFix: Plugin unpacked file extension problem (get_PluginUnpackedFileExtension) (#983)
BugFix: Comparing broken lnk-files (windows shortcuts) freezes WinMerge (#1007)
Apache Tika plugin: Update Apache tika to 2.1.0 and change the download URL
CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Make the number before the sheet name zero-padded

Shell extension

BugFix: ShellExtension for Windows 11 did not work on machines that did not have MSVCP140.dll VCRUNTIME140*.dll installed.
BugFix: Loop counter should be the same type as the count type. (PR #987)
ShellExtension for Windows11: Disable Registry Write Virtualization

Manual

Where to report documentation/help errors? (#1004)

Translations

Translation updates:
- Galician (PR #1005)
- German (PR #986,#1027)
- Hungarian (PR #991,#1023)
- Japanese
- Lithuanian (PR #979)
- Portuguese (PR #1017)
- Slovenian (#1026)
- Turkish (PR #980)

Internals

BugFix: Missing packages.config (also outdated) and wrong NuGet packages path in the WinMergeContextMenu.vcxproj and .filters file (#985)
Fix typo in OpenView.cpp (PR #1000)

WinMerge 2.16.15 - 2021-09-20

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)

WinMerge 2.16.14 - 2021-07-25

General

Fixed an issue where the WinMerge process might not terminate even though the WinMerge window was closed.

File compare

BugFix: Fixed an infinite loop when "find what" in the substitution filters is empty.

Folder compare

BugFix: 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

BugFix: 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

BugFix: Fix the Select Files or Folders dialog. (PR #882,#892)

Plugins

BugFix: 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 message in DownloadDeps.cmd that path to 7-zip exists (#864)

WinMerge 2.16.13 - 2021-06-22

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 occurred 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)

WinMerge 2.16.12 - 2021-04-29

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)

WinMerge 2.16.11 - 2021-03-28

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: 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)

WinMerge 2.16.10 - 2021-01-30

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

Options dialog

Fix an issue where custom colors are not saved. (GitHub PR #648)

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 Plugins\src_VCPP\DisplayXMLFiles 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)

WinMerge 2.16.9 - 2020-11-29

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 incorrectly (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)

WinMerge 2.16.8 - 2020-08-28

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)

WinMerge 2.16.7 - 2020-07-26

General

BugFix: The icons on a 43" 4K screen are too small (GitHub #276)
BugFix: GUI glitches/bugs (GitHub #316)
BugFix: Several issues regarding i18n (GitHub #314)
Add Solarized Dark/Light color scheme (GitHub #287)
Compile WinMerge with ASLR and CFG enabled (GitHub #315)

File compare

BugFix: Diff Pane issues (GitHub #307)
BugFix: Codepage not updated on refresh (GitHub #320)
BugFix: Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)
BugFix: WinMerge does not recognize the same files (GitHub #332)
BugFix: Moved ghost lines are shown in the wrong color (GitHub #358)
BugFix: opening same file (GitHub #362)
BugFix: Find dialog sometimes remembers old text to start a new find instead of the new text. (GitHub #368)
BugFix: Fix a problem where markers that are out of the range of the current difference appear in the difference pane. (osdn.net 40407)
BugFix: HTML5 encoding (<meta charset="..." >) is ignored. (osdn.net #40476)
'=' should be included in word separator (osdn.net #40224)
Allow specifying default for EOL warning checkbox (GitHub #297)
Only indent existing lines (GitHub #356)

Table compare

Made it possible to display the contents of CSV and TSV files like spreadsheet software.

Folder compare

BugFix: DST causes incorrect dates shown in Date column (GitHub #299)
BugFix: Long filename issue (GitHub #339)
BugFix: Winmerge Freeze if large number of files are listed in Window View (GitHub #348)
BugFix: Change to disable some menu items that should not be executed for directories, when directories are selected in the folder compare window. (GitHub PR #366)
BugFix: Update DirViewColItems.cpp (GitHub #376)
BugFix: Fix the problem that not 3 panes but 2 panes file compare window displays when executing "Compare As" > "Binary" or "Compare As" > "Image" in the context menu in the folder compare window with selecting 3 items. (GitHub PR #381)
BugFix: Fix a problem where a text file could be considered a binary file. (osdn.net #40296)
BugFix: crash when clicking [Merge]-> [Delete] menu item while renaming a file
Add a feature generating a patch from directories (#283) (GitHub PR #331)
added bin and obj directories to C# filter (GitHub PR #365)

Image compare

BugFix: Scrolling behavior when dragging images is wrong (osdn.net #40205)

Open dialog

BugFix: Open dialogs are sometimes left as garbage (osdn.net #40487)
Browse button in the file/dir selection show wrong path (GitHub #346)

Options dialog

BugFix: Pressing the [Compare/Binary] category button in the Options dialog twice will cause a crash. (osdn.net #40308)

Plugins

BugFix: Fix handling of line breaks in SortAscending, SortDescending (osdn.net PR #40266)
BugFix: Error when comparing images in the CompareMSExcelFiles.sct plugin (osdn.net #40472)
CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Include Excel Addin files (*.xlam) (GitHub PR #269)
Add support for C# and TypeScript (GitHub PR #382)
Add a plugin for Visio (osdn.net PR #40473)
Plugin fixes for the new Table Compare (CompareMSExcelFiles.sct, IgnoreFieldsComma.dll, IgnoreFieldsTab.dll)

Archive support

BugFix: Crash when comparing encrypted 7z files (GitHub #367)

Installer

Create the installer with Inno Setup 5.x since installers created with Inno Setup 6.0.x are identified as malware by multiple virus scanning engines

Translations

Translation updates:
- Brazilian (GitHub #360)
- Chinese Simplified (GitHub PR #303,#377)
- Galician (GitHub PR #292,#293,#308,#313,#326)
- German (GitHub PR #312,#357)
- Lithuanian (GitHub PR #291,#298,#333)
- Polish (GitHub PR #280)
- Portuguese (GitHub PR #305)
- Russian (GitHub PR #270,#271,#272,#302,#327,#328)
- Slovak (GitHub PR #300)
- Slovenian (GitHub #285)
- Spanish (GitHub PR #292,#293,#304,#308)
- Turkish (GitHub PR #335,#336,#337,#338)

Manual

Minor changes to translations README.md file (GitHub #289)
Update winmerge.org URL to HTTPS, many small improvements (GitHub PR #306)

Internals

BugFix: Src\Common\MyCom.h unused? (GitHub #284)
BugFix: Error on git repository cloning (GitHub #288)

WinMerge 2.16.6 - 2020-02-23

General

Added CWindowsManagerDialog class for handling open tabs with Ctrl+Tab, now the application is behave just like professional editors (Visual Studio, Notepad++, etc.) to switch and activate the open tabs. (GitHub #247)

File compare

BugFix: GhostTextBuffer: Don't unexpectedly bring back empty lines user wants to delete (GitHub #244)
BugFix: Prevent silent abort with File Comparison of files whose size is an exact multiple of 2^32 bytes (GitHub #257)
BugFix: WinMerge 2.16.4.0 crashes after de-selecting Split Vertically (GitHub #259)
BugFix: "Replace All" may not replace all text
BugFix: An error message is shown when pressing Enter key in Diff pane (osdn.net #39924)
BugFix: Non-moved lines are treated as moved lines (osdn.net #39851)
Add support for touchpad horizontal scroll (GitHub #254)

Image compare

BugFix: Support 16-bit images (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge issue #6)
Add support for SVG, PDF, WMF and EMF file types (Only available in WinMerge 64bit version on Windows 10)
Demo1: https://gyazo.com/b605edb820bc52d0f4f6232eb8ad78aa
Demo2: https://gyazo.com/f5f267546db27f2dc801c00df8cb4251

Archive support

BugFix: Third tgz doesn't get fully extracted (first two do) (GitHub #263)

Patch generator dialog

BugFix: Crash when generating patch for multiple files and a file only on one side (GitHub #252)

Installer

BugFix: Fix spelling of Git (GitHub #246)

Translations

New translation: Arabic (sf.net #3038)
Translation updates:
- Bulgarian (GitHub #236, #268)
- French (GitHub #251)
- German (GitHub #239, #245, #258)
- Lithuanian (GitHub #233, #267)
- Portuguese (GitHub #237)
- Spanish (GitHub #266)

Manual

BugFix: Fix spelling of Git (GitHub #246)
Update Configuration.xml (GitHub #262)

Internals

Consolidate FolderCmp (GitHub #240, #242)
Avoid some back and forth file path transcoding between UTF16 and UTF8 (GitHub #243)

WinMerge 2.16.5 - 2019-12-09

File compare

BugFix: Suspicious lack of Release() calls in lwdisp.c (GitHub #171)
BugFix: Performance using Unpacker (GitHub #180)
BugFix: WinMerge toolbar appears too small on UHD and should default to the conforming Windows 10 scaling/DPI accessibility setting (GitHub #182)
BugFix: "Recompare as" menu option doesn't follow current choice (GitHub #191)
BugFix: Switching between "Find Next" and "Find Prev" need to click twice (GitHub #202)
BugFix: Program is crashed! (GitHub #229)
Switch "Find" buttons in Find dialog (GitHub #201)
Improve UNICODE character support using icu.dll usable from Windows 10 Creators Update
Add support for color emoji (Only available in 64bit version) (To enable color emoji support, select DirectWrite* in Rendering mode combobox on Editor page in the Options dialog)
Demo: https://gyazo.com/7cbbbd2c1de195fcd214d588b21b21d4

Folder compare

BugFix: Crash when clicking Next Difference button after unchecking Show Different Items menu item
Changed symbols in Newer/Older column for better visual clarity (GitHub #169)
Add "Ignore codepage differences" to quick options (GitHub #197)
Limit the window flashing count. (GitHub #206)

Image compare

BugFix: Image compare breaks when zoomed too much with large pictures (GitHub #188)
BugFix: [Image compare] Zoom-in focuses on top-left corner instead of cursor position (GitHub #211)

Shell extension

BugFix: "Run as Administrator" incompatible with "Shell integration" (ver 2.16.4) (sf.net #2234)

Installer

BugFix: Installer russian translation (#168)
BugFix: Windows 10 shell integration not working (GitHub #176)
Installer - Proposal - Separate Inno Setup strings from WinMerge installer strings (GitHub #167)

Translations

Update Italian translation (GitHub #164, #165)
Update Russian translation (GitHub #166)
Update Bulgarian translation (GitHub #170, #175, #179, #212)
Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #185, #199)
Update French translation (GitHub #187)
Update Lithuanian translation (GitHub #189, #208, #217, #225)
Update Swedish translation (GitHub #194, #196)
Update German translation (GitHub #204, #205, #215)
Update Polish translation (GitHub #218)
Update Simplified Chinese translation (GitHub #228)
Update Finnish translation (sf.net #3037)
Update English.pot (#216)
Add Japanese manual (GitHub #183)

Manual

Small Manual tweaks (GitHub #190)

WinMerge 2.16.4 - 2019-07-28

File compare

BugFix: coretools.cpp: linelen() should not truncate lines with embedded NULs (GitHub #156)
BugFix: file compare : right-click doesn't select the diff under the mouse (GitHub #159)
BugFix: Avoid an exception in GuessCodepageEncoding() when filepath equals "NUL" (GitHub #162)
BugFix: Auto-indent did not work if the EOL-style was not CRLF

Folder compare

BugFix: Generating HTML Folder Compare report including File Compare report did not complete (Bitbucket #15)
BugFix: Compare Statistics dialog: The number of diff folders was counted in the number of diff files

Plugins

BugFix: PrediffLineFilter.sct: Wrong encoding for settings dialog (Bitbucket #16)

Translations

Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #51)
Update Italian translation (Bitbucket PR #52)

Internals

Favor PathContext::GetSize() over PathContext::size() (GitHub #157)
Consolidate FolderCmp (GitHub #158, #160, #161)
Avoid some InnoSetup compiler warnings (Bitbucket PR #53)

WinMerge 2.16.3 - 2019-06-29

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

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), minimal, patience, histogram
triple click to select whole line (Bitbucket #144)
Add support for merging word level diffs in selection
Demo: https://i.gyazo.com/af18960bd1f121213a2cd9287cae9cf4.gif

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
Use own colors settings for folder compare (Bitbucket PR #49)

Project file

BugFix: Possible Bugs in 2.16.2 (sf.net #2221)
Supporting relative path in project file (Bitbucket #158)
Allow multiple <paths> in project file

Image compare

BugFix: no message was displayed when file saving failed
Implement Insertion/Deletion Detection
Demo: https://gyazo.com/17d8773354d23b5ae51262f28b0f1f80

Options dialog

Tweak size of combobox "codepage" in options (GitHub #144)
Sort combobox codepage and add manual codepage (GitHub #145)

Installer

Allow per-user installation (only x64 installer)
Don't install Files.txt and don't add "Uninstall WinMerge" to the start menu (Bitbuket #38)

Translations

Update French translation (GitHub #149, #150)
Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #36, #40, #43, #46, #48, #50)
Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #41, #42)

WinMerge 2.16.2 - 2019-04-04

File compare

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)

Folder compare

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

Archive Support

Upgraded to 7-zip 19.00

Tab bar

Improve icon display at 120DPI

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)

Open dialog

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

Manual

Some tweaks for the manual (Bitbucket PR #35)

Installer

BugFix: Gibberish language during installation (Bitbucket #147)

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)

WinMerge 2.16.1 - 2019-02-24

General

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)

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)

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: https://i.gyazo.com/af18960bd1f121213a2cd9287cae9cf4.gif

Folder compare

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

Archive Support

Upgraded to 7-zip 18.06 (Bitbucket #119)

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)

Shell extension

BugFix: CreateTranslatedRcFiles needs an update (GitHub #113)

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

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)

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)

WinMerge 2.16.0 - 2018-11-23

General

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

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)

Open dialog

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

Installer

Drop ClearCase integration (Bitbucket PR #6)

Translations

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

WinMerge 2.15.5 - 2018-10-28

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)

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

Translations

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

Internals

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

WinMerge 2.15.4 - 2018-04-28

Appearance

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

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)

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)

Open dialog

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

Patch generator dialog

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

Reports

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

Plugins

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

Translations

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

Internals

Adapt to VS2017 version 15.6.1 (GitHub #79)

WinMerge 2.15.3 - 2018-03-04

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)

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)

Patch generator dialog

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

Reports

Entitify file paths in HTML & XML directory comparison reports (sf.net#2199)

Location pane

Add support for HiDPI screens (Github #54)

Plugins

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

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)

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

WinMerge 2.15.2 - 2018-01-28

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&dropped 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 output 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 2.14.0 - 2013-02-02 (r7596)

BugFix: Shell extension uses unquoted program path (patches#3023)
Translation updates
- Dutch (patches:#3020)
- Slovenian (patches:#3021)

WinMerge 2.13.22 - 2013-01-13 (r7585)

Translation updates
- Turkish (patches:#2967)
- Russian (patches:#3017)
- Norwegian (patches:#3018)
- Danish (patches:#3019)

WinMerge 2.13.21 - 2012-12-30 (r7575)

Update PCRE to version 8.10
Update SCEW to version 1.1.2
Improve startup time (#2788142)
Add menuitems for selecting automatic or manual prediffing (#2638608)
Add accelerator keys for Shell context menu (#2823536)
Improve editing of linefilter regular expressions (#3015416)
Allow editing context line count in patch creator (#2092180)
Improve color options organization (#2818451)
Add /xq command line switch for closing WinMerge after identical files and not showing message (#2827836)
Allow setting codepage from command line (#2725549)
Allow giving encoding name as custom codepage (#2813825, #3010934)
Add new options dialog panel for folder compare options (#2819626)
Add options GUI for quick compare limit (#2825628)
Write config log as UTF-8 file (r7057)
BugFix: Untranslated string ("Merge.rc:nnnn") was displayed in status bar (#3025855)
BugFix: Pane headers not updated after language change (#2923684)
BugFix: Quick contents compare didn't ignore EOL byte differences (#2929005)
BugFix: Compare by size always checked file times too (#2919510)
BugFix: Crash when pasting from clipboard (#3109525)
BugFix: Keeps verifying path even turned off in options (#3111581)
BugFix: Crash after deleting text (#3109521)
BugFix: Added EOL chars between copied file/path names (#2817546)
BugFix: Created new matching folder to wrong folder (#2890961)
BugFix: Strange scrolling effect in location pane (#2942869)
BugFix: Plugin error after interrupting folder compare (#2919475)
BugFix: "+" and "-" from the number block don't work in the editor (#3306182)
BugFix: Date format did not respect Regional Settings (#3175189)
BugFix: When selecting multiple files in Patch Generator dialog, "Swap" button led to an error. (#3043635, #3066200)
BugFix: WinMerge contained a vulnerability in handling project files (#3185386) (http://www.zeroscience.mk/mk/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2011-4997.php)
Installer: Remove OpenCandy from the InnoSetup installer (r7572, r7539)
New translation: Basque (#3387142)
Translation updates
- French (#3412030)
- Hungarian (#3164982)
- Spanish (#3412937)

WinMerge 2.13.20 - 2010-10-20 (r7319)

Add missing keywords to Pascal highlighter (#2834192)
Recognize .ascx files as ASP files (#3042393)
Fix help locations (#2988974)
Show only "Copy to other side" item in file compare context menu (#2600787)
Expand/collapse folders from keyboard (#2203904)
Improve detecting XML files in file compare (#2726531)
Initialize folder selection dialog to currently selected folder in options dialog (r6570)
New translation: Persian (#2877121, #3065119)
New translation: Serbian (#3017674, #3065119)
Installer: Drop Windows 9x/ME/NT4 support and use Microsoft runtime libraries installer (#3070254)
Installer: Remove Uninstall shortcut from start menu folder (#3076909)
Installer: Don't install quick launch icon for Windows 7 (#3079966)
Installer: Add OpenCandy to the InnoSetup installer (#3088720)
BugFix: WinMerge was vulnerable to DLL hijacking as described in Microsoft Security Advisory (2269637) (#33056008)
BugFix: Location pane focus enabled "Save" (#3022292)
BugFix: "Copy and advance" toolbar icons not automatically enabled (#3033325)
Translation updates
- Bulgarian (#3082392)
- Chinese (#3033324)
- Dutch (#2804979)
- French (#2850842, #2968200)
- Slovenian (#2917796, #2932094, #2934354, #3070136)
- Spanish (#2930734)
- Turkish (#2825132, #2827817)
- Ukrainian (#2817835)

WinMerge 2.12.4 - 2009-06-09 (r6833)

Add more C/C++ types to syntax highlight (#2776705)
Create config log file to My Documents-folder (#2789839)
BugFix: Reports had same left/right descriptions (#2772646)
BugFix: When conflict file saved trailing line-ending was lost (#2550412)
BugFix: File compare HTML reports use invalid DOCTYPE (#2783477)
BugFix: "##" in file filter pattern caused an infinite loop (#2789345)
BugFix: Could select prediffer when plugins were disabled (#2787131)
BugFix: Opening mixed-EOL file one side forced both files to be handled as mixed-eol files (#2022312)
BugFix: Didn't show correct EOL chars if whitespace chars were turned off and again on (#2791402)
BugFix: Generated patch had wrong file time for UTF-16 files (#2791506)
BugFix: Did not export changed options values (#2799149)
BugFix: Reset the compare method to original if it was changed (#2802427)

WinMerge 2.12.2 - 2009-04-01 (r6625)

Disable folder compare tree-view by default (#2714968)
BugFix: Filename extension column was empty for files (#2670046)
BugFix: Crash when selecting backup folder (#2686382)
BugFix: Swapping panes did not update statusbar (#2661838)
BugFix: Says files are identical after making files different in another application and re-loading them (#2672737)
BugFix: Files with missing last EOL weren't merged correctly (#2712120)
Translation updates
- Polish (#2717382, #2720875)

WinMerge 2.12.0 - 2009-03-05 (r6542)

Remember last target folder for Copy/Move to in folder compare (#2659228)
Detect Windows 7 and Windows 2008 in config log (#2599256)
BugFix: Help window opened from WinMerge was modal (#2590079)
BugFix: Crash in editor when undoing (#2590212)
BugFix: Browse button in Option dialog reverted to previous settings (#2606153)
BugFix: Files without extension get backed up to name..bak (#2627752)
BugFix: Must Show Different to Show L/R Unique (#2129561)
Translation updates
- Chinese Traditional (#2608190)
- Croatian (#2596949)
- Czech (r6538)
- Danish (#2648183)
- Dutch (#2586422, #2590430)
- French (#2603591)
- Galician (#2632173)
- German (#2586497)
- Greek (#2615285)
- Japanese (r6456)
- Swedish (#2586274)
- Ukrainian (#2609242)

WinMerge 2.11.2 - 2009-02-05 (r6428)

Update Python syntax highlight keywords for Python 2.6 (#2473375)
More accurate visible area rect in location pane (#2479804)
New options page for Shell Integration options (#2433648)
Remove Frhed hex editor from GUI (context menu) (r6376)
Register.bat should use Find with full path (#2536582)
Better Unicode file detection for full contents compare (2477657)
BugFix: Could not open project file that contains an ampersand character in folder names (#2372000)
BugFix: File compare method "Modified Date and Size" ignored file size (#2455595)
BugFix: Quick compare didn't ignore EOL differences (#2433677)
BugFix: Remove EOL characters from command line (#2458728)
BugFix: Merging one line diff to empty other side didn't work (#2456399)
BugFix: Location pane was empty for some files with diffs (#2459234)
BugFix: Line filter editing didn't update edit box when editing was canceled by ESC key (#2493935)
BugFix: Wrong number shown for difference when using line filters (#2493980)
BugFix: Crashed if compared file disappeared during file compare (#2493945)
BugFix: Creating new files caused message about missing files (#2515875)
BugFix: Could not hide folders in recursive compare (#2528749)
BugFix: Folder Compare:Copy Right/Left don't create folder
BugFix: Must Show Different to Show L/R Unique (#2129561)
BugFix: Could not copy files from right to left (#2556904)
BugFix: Don't show file name extension for folders (#2563314)
Translation updates
- Brazilian (#2461443, #2524796)
- Chinese Traditional (#2540115)
- Czech (r6201)
- Dutch (#2481022, #2494378, #2499994)
- French (#2551043, #2551066)
- Greek (#2550911)
- Swedish (#2452467, #2465385, #2511043)

WinMerge 2.12.x (R2_12) branch created (r6202)

WinMerge 2.11.1.8 - 2008-12-19 (r6200)

Allow reloading the file if it has been changed on the disk behind WinMerge (#2354125)
Add option to show Open-dialog on WinMerge startup (#2327424)
Add Git to Source Control filter and fix ignore file rules (#2329381)
Add build identifier for 64-bit builds to About-dialog (r6142)
Installer: Option to add WinMerge to system path (#2435175)
Add Unicode version of heksedit (#2036603)
Allow multiple file compare documents by default (#2445749)
BugFix: Move confirmation dialog sometimes had wrong paths (#2327565, #2309190)
BugFix: Use translated version of readme.txt for Chinese Simplified (#2391000)
BugFix: Installer didn't install readme.txt for all translations (#2396437)
BugFix: Could not give paths to commandline when started WinMerge from Cygwin prompt (#2427946)
BugFix: Infinite loop in heksedit's Replace-dialog (r6176)
Translation updates
- Croatian (#2390558)
- German (r6130)
- Greek (#2379356)
- Japanese (r6154)
- Swedish (#2318778, #2374278)

WinMerge 2.11.1.7 - 2008-11-20 (r6112)

Add shell context menu to folder compare context menu (#2189315)
Update PCRE to version 7.8 (#2209911)
Show missing lines in location pane for diffs having both different and missing lines (#2119235)
Syntax highlighting for Verilog files (#2231145)
Tweak new "equal file" icon a little bit (#2312381)
Readme update (#2234689)
Translation updates
- Brazilian (#2219568)
- Czech (r6034)
- Swedish (#2215167, #2236651)

WinMerge 2.11.1.6 - 2008-10-23 (r6033)

General compare status for files (not known if text/binary) (#2175736)
Change icons for the new general compare status (#2185302)
Use 24bit icons for "Bookmarks" and "Delete" menu items (#2141184)
Installer: create backup of ClearCase config file (#2129095)
BugFix: Translatable strings having space before colon (#1971868)
BugFix: Wrong cursor position when disabling selection margin (#2138555)
BugFix: Showed a black line when disabling selection margin (#2068790)
BugFix: Fix manual URL in Readme.txt (#2181628)
BugFix: Long unique paths were mixed up in folder compare view (#2129634)
BugFix: Some calls made to plugins when plugins were disabled (#2182788)
BugFix: If messagebox was shown during file loading location pane didn't show any differences (#2101780)

WinMerge 2.11.1.5 - 2008-10-02 (r5995)

Use external editor to edit file filters (#2082774)
Improved command line handling (#2081779)
Change Manual url to http://winmerge.org/docs/manual/ (r5956)
Manual updates
Plugins: Show processing instructions in XML plugin (#1979321)
Add icon for "Compare" menu item (#2119843)
Change download URL to current URL (#2136765)
Installer: create backup of ClearCase config file (#2129095)
BugFix: ClearCase checkout/commit dialog translation error (#2051069)
BugFix: Table of Contents in manual (#2071625)
BugFix: Highlight ShowUnInstDetails keyword for NSIS files (#2084879)
BugFix: Displayed a blank time when file last modified time is 00:00:00 (#2098626)
BugFix: Customized colors weren't used in some areas (#2110218)
BugFix: Zip files were extracted into wrong folder (#2110350)
BugFix: Case-sensitive regexp search didn't work (#1991259)
BugFix: There were some installer regressions (eg. Installer didn't create Quick Launch icon) (#1460517)
BugFix: Whitespace ignore options didn't work with quick compare (#2120174)
BugFix: Giving path to file and folder to command line did not work (#2138560)
New translation: Galician (#2120685)
Translation updates
- German (r5934)
- Russian (#2067785)
- Swedish (#2075513)
- Ukrainian (#2131753)

WinMerge 2.11.1.4 - 2008-08-21 (r5846)

Binary file edit/compare (#2036603)
Add wait cursor for undo and redo (#2039228)
Add icon for "Open Conflict File" menu item (#2047054)
Include unique subfolder contents in recursive folder compare (#2034259)
Installer: Use -u switch in TortoiseSVN command line (#2060782)
Add icon for "Plugins->List" menu item (#2060771)
BugFix: External editor command line switches did not work (#2037862)
BugFix: Deleting/Moving file crashed WinMerge in debugger (#2025833)
BugFix: Lost focus after folder compare operations (#2046002)
BugFix: Some files had folder icons when aborting folder compare (#2018836)
BugFix: Didn't select word-diff cyclically by pressing F4 key (#1989858)
BugFix: Could not reset EOL ignore after selecting it from query dialog (#2056741)
Translation updates
- Brazilian (#2059836)
- German (#2045666)
- Greek (#2062442)
- Chinese Traditional (#2039929)
- Japanese (r5805)
- Swedish (#2062107)

WinMerge 2.11.1.3 - 2008-08-04 (r5733)

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)

WinMerge 2.11.1.2 - 2008-07-24 (r5673)

Refresh compare after changing filter (#2017426)
Add dialog listing available plugins (#2021722)
Hierarchical directory comparison result view (#2018836)
Add "Open Conflict" for file/folder compare menus (#2025472)
Enable hierarchial folder compare view by default (#2025478)
Confirmation dialog for move operations (#2026508)
Manual: New build system (#2015434)
Manual: Improve Opening Files and Folders (#2017901)
Manual: Improve folder compare documentation (#2024587)
BugFix: Failed to compare UTF-8 files plugins disabled (#2018287)
BugFix: Don't warn about closing multiple windows when only one window is open (#2010463)
BugFix: Moving was allowed for protected items (#2023734)
BugFix: Could change EOL style for protected file (#2025781)

WinMerge 2.11.1.1 - 2008-07-11 (r5609)

Manual: Introduction update (#2011365)
Manual: Reorganize structure (#2011924)
Add ShellExtension menu for drive letters (root folders) (#2011602)
Remove buildall.bat (#2013576)
New option to enable plugins (disabled by default) (#2013845)
Plugins: Show processing instructions in XML plugin (#1979321)
BugFix: Use system codepage for paths (#1979429, #2008581)
BugFix: ANSI build crash in folder compare (#2010053)
BugFix: Add insert/overtype mode indicator to statusbar (#2015174)
BugFix: Detected UTF-8 encoding shown as 65001 (#2012377)

WinMerge 2.10.x (R2_10) branch created (r5561)

WinMerge 2.9.1.5 - 2008-07-04 (r5560)

Manual: Copy editing (#2000322, #2005418)
Manual: Clarify 64-bit support (#2002431)
Reduce executable sizes (#2003203)
Release Notes update (#2007673, r5557)
BugFix: Possible crash when enabling line filter (#2004160)
BugFix: Location Pane flickers when scrolling (#1938177, #2005031)
BugFix: Use system codepage for paths (#1979429, #2008581)
BugFix: Random crashes in folder compare (#2005308)
Translation updates
- Chinese Traditional (#2007426)

WinMerge 2.9.1.4 - 2008-06-24 (r5518)

Use PCRE regular expressions in the editor (#1991259)
Installer: install to all users (#1460517)
Update release notes (#1990886, #1995265, #1999880)
Manual: Use PNG files (#1988845, #1989744)
BugFix: Temp paths in Reports created from archive file (#1984346)
BugFix: ISL file syntax highlighting starts comment with { (#1981326)
BugFix: Crash when starting a second instance (#1993835)
BugFix: Crash when starting WinMerge with only one path (#1994402)
BugFix: Messages missing from installer translations (r5506)
BugFix: Always right side as origin side in copy confirmation dialog when Copy To... (#2001237)
New translation: Slovenian (#1997236)
Translation updates
- Brazilian (#1994578)
- Swedish (#2000307)

WinMerge 2.9.1.3 - 2008-06-05 (r5438)

Update PCRE (regular expression library) to version 7.7 (#1941779)
Add VB.net keywords to Basic highlighter (#1970912)
Open conflict files by drag & dropping to main window (#1984884)
Possible improvement for WinMerge exit bug (#1602313)
BugFix: Location Pane flickers when resizing (#1740106)
BugFix: Command line description text starting with "/" confused WinMerge (#1973225)
BugFix: Item count in statusbar not get cleared (#1976480)
New translation: Ukrainian (#1973149, #1974021)
Translation updates
- Brazilian (#1978374)
- Korean (#1978362)
- Swedish (#1980970)

WinMerge 2.9.1.2 - 2008-05-23 (r5362)

Optimize location pane (r5341, r5342, r5346, r5351, r5355, r5356)
BugFix: Version Control filter did not match all VSS files (#1881186)
BugFix: Fix showing differences in the end of the line (#1883409, #1962816)
BugFix: Fix command line paths in quotes ending with "" (#1963523)
New translation: Greek (#1968429)
Translation updates
- Bulgarian (#1957434)
- Croatian (#1958283)
- Swedish (#1950188, #1970074)

WinMerge 2.9.1.1 - 2008-04-23 (r5324)

Release Notes update (#1933950)
Installer: Use correct way to create start menu web link (#1913919)
Installer: Simplify DeletePreviousStartMenu() function (#1913949)
Installer: Updated the side art of the installer application (#1915012)
Update URLs and switch to 2.8 manual (#1919965)
New splash screen (#1914869)
Tab icons at Filter dialog (#1926531)
Add VS2003/VS2005 project files (#1926346)
Create separate document for compiling WinMerge (#1927502)
Update InnoSetup translations (#1931492)
Make 'Yes' the default button in copy confirmation dialog (#1943647)
Allow drag & drop of paths to Open dialog (#1945254)
Enlarge 'Discard All' button in Save confirmation dialog (#1947216)
BugFix: Installer could create a registry access error (#1909967)
BugFix: The filter text box in Open-dialog sometimes displayed some garbage data (#1915424)
BugFix: Print area was not clipped correctly. (#1915536)
BugFix: Undo after pane swapping (#1915536, #1923625)
BugFix: Quick compare for same folder didn't show differences (#1918599)
BugFix: Installer didn't have ChangeLog.txt included (r5255)
BugFix: Shortcuts given in command line were not expanded (#1942217)
New translation: Romanian (#1939729)
Translation updates
- Brazilian (#1913723)
- Chinese Traditional (#1927605)
- French (#1920380)
- German (r5130, r5139, r5171, r5203, r5236, #1949068)
- Italian (#1939235)
- Japanese (r5152)
- Polish (#1934655)
- Russian (#1914466)
- Spanish (#1907152, r5250)
- Swedish (#1908289)

WinMerge 2.8 RC - 2008-03-04 (r5125)

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)
BugFix: Copy&Paste from VB6 added binary chars (#1904355)
Translation updates
- Chinese Traditional (#1905323)
- Swedish (#1905520)

WinMerge 2.7.7.6 - 2008-02-28 (r5099)

Remove sintance.h/sintance.cpp as not compatible with GPL (#1886580)
Automatically switch to mixed-EOL mode when loading files with two or more EOL styles (#1901547)
Indent "Explorer Context Menu" sub options (#1901763)
Replace 'DOS' in EOL style strings with 'Windows' (#1902583)
Show 'Mixed' as file compare EOL style instead of empty style (r5091)
Typo fixes and grammar improvements to several strings (#1898401)
BugFix: Ignore codepage specified on File Encoding dialog if file was detected as UTF-8 (#1900728)
BugFix: Recognize invalid UTF-8 sequence as UTF-8 (#1900733)
BugFix: Didn't highlight any difference between untitled documents (#1900257)
Translation updates
- Czech (r5073)
- Japanese (r5076)
- Swedish (#1901784)

WinMerge 2.7.7.5 - 2008-02-22 (r5069)

Cleaning up Help-menu (#1875111)
Right-align tab size number in editor options (r5037)
Move Time difference ignore -option to compare options (#1892283)
Add option to select temporary folder (#1893167)
Show file encoding in file compare statusbar (#1895629)
Unify EOL style strings in folder compare and file compare (#1896462)
Remove "DisplayBinaryFiles" and "EditBinaryFiles" plugin (#1899161)
BugFix: Potential lockup in folder compare (#1865131, #1889907)
BugFix: Line filter didn't filter non-ascii lines correctly (#1880628)
BugFix: GNU General Public License name in menu (#1868989)
BugFix: Didn't switch back to content compare once switched to quick compare in folder compare (#1770373)
BugFix: Quick compare didn't ignore EOL differences (#1884717)
Translation updates
- Croatian (r5032)
- Czech (r5017)
- German (r5038)
- Slovak (#1895583)
- Swedish (#1891326)

WinMerge 2.7.7.4 - 2008-02-07 (r5011)

Detect (and read/write) UTF-8 files without BOM (#1879271)
Tell user that file is not a conflict file (#1880423)
Allow opening conflict file from command line (#1880857)
Use radio symbol for current EOL menu item (#1869755)
Ask and create pair for unique folder and open them (#1881454)
Add publisher info to version resource (#1884920)
Move "Zoom In/Out" to own sub menu (#1879340)
Installer: Add more version resource info (#1885793)
Reset text zoom to default size with Ctrl + * (#1886664)
BugFix: Always return 0 to command line (#1854419)
BugFix: Merge/Delete deleted items from read-only sides (#1882019)
BugFix: Shellextension had no publisher info and wrong description (#1878828)
BugFix: Lockup when showing binary files (#1880711)
Translation updates
- Croatian (r4952)
- Japanese (r4962)
- Swedish (#1884918)

WinMerge 2.7.7.3 - 2008-01-23 (r4951)

Resolve conflict files (cvs, svn...) (#1875129)
Save line filter when edit box loses focus (#1875853)
Add link to translations website at help menu (#1699883)
Manual: Add instructions for conflict file resolving (#1876770)
Manual: Document third path given to command line (#1877735)
BugFix: Fix Quick Compare regression in 2.7.7.2 (#1872165)
BugFix: Clipped text in file saving error message (#1874854)

WinMerge 2.7.7.2 - 2008-01-14 (r4915)

Syntax highlighting for PowerShell files (#1859657)
Syntax highlighting for PO(T) files (#1866221)
Change font size with Ctrl + MouseWheel (#1865795, #1869686)
Horizontal scrolling with Shift + MouseWheel (#1865795)
Installer: Add support for integration with latest version of TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN x64 (#1865168)
Close compare tab with middle mouse button (#1865220)
Add index.html for documentation folders (#1866183)
Manual: Clarify file filters folder name matching (#1867212)
Improve file compare margin icons location (#1718699)
Enable file compare to open binary files (#1869647)
File encoding dialog for file compare (#1871079)
BugFix: Crash when using TrackPoint middle-button scrolling (#1864040)
BugFix: WinMerge didn't show the contents of the symbolic link target (#1864978)
BugFix: Unused registry key HKCU\Thingamahoochie\WinMerge was created (#1865202)
BugFix: Register.bat didn't work on Windows 98 and Vista (#1869821)
BugFix: Open-dialog was not displayed on Windows 98 (#1866442, #1869858)
BugFix: Right mouse button didn't move cursor to new place (#1814184)
Translation updates
- Spanish (#1867234)
- Swedish (#1867765, #1867844)

WinMerge 2.7.7.1 - 2007-12-20 (r4842)

New option to keep file's time when saving in file compare (#1851921)
Installer: Link to translated ReadMe in Start menu, if file exists (#1805818)
Add HTML-formatted release notes (#1851308, #1852534)
Installer: Install release notes file (#1852599)
Installer: Move manual to core files component and remove
User Guide component (#1853409)
BugFix: VS2008 and VS2005 compile problems (#1847265)
BugFix: More difference highlight code reverts (#1748940)
Translation updates
- Spanish (#1655577)

WinMerge 2.7.6 - 2007-11-29 (r4807)

Touchpad scrolling improvements (#1837457)
BugFix: Values with "," inside could break the CSV report (#1831512)
BugFix: Failed to create backup file in folder compare (#1835283)
BugFix: Revert difference highlight code to 2.6.12 version (#1811695)
BugFix: Backspace key didn't work when renaming items (#1738790)
Translation updates
- Croatian (r4786)

WinMerge 2.7.5.7 - 2007-11-19 (r4772)

Remove MFC dependency from ShellExtension (#1833521)
Update ShellExtension icon to new WinMerge icon (#1833616)
BugFix: Build script didn't update PO files correctly before copying (r4756)
BugFix: ShellExtension's icon was clipped if system font size was small (#1833616)
BugFix: Merge controls were not enabled for missing lines (#1833714)

WinMerge 2.7.5.6 - 2007-11-15 (r4752)

BugFix: Many translation-system related fixes and improvements (#1804762)
BugFix: When copying files to VCS system, destination file was not checked out (#1828930)
BugFix: Visible area indicator on location pane shook when clicking above or below the vertical scroll bar to scroll one screen (#1829572)
Translation updates
- Croatian (#1829301)
- Japanese (r4730)

WinMerge 2.7.5.5 - 2007-11-08 (r4722)

BugFix: Don't enable merge GUI for ignored differences (#1826375)
BugFix: PgUp key caused the error message "An invalid argument was encountered" when word-wrap mode was on (#1820631)
BugFix: Keep selected items visible in Folder Compare columns dialog (r4715)
BugFix: Disable Folder Compare column selection dialog's up/down buttons when first/last items are selected (r4716)
BugFix: Many translation-system related fixes and improvements (#1804762)
Add Croatian translation (#1820308)
Translation updates
- Chinese Traditional (#1824691)

WinMerge 2.7.5.4 - 2007-11-01 (r4687)

New PO files based translation system (#1804762)
New folder compare column selection dialog (#1804555)
Install WinMerge.exe (ANSI version) only for Windows 95/98/ME (#1809140)
Better multi-monitor support, with option to lock panes (#1788168)
Installer: Install PO files and MergeLang.dll (#1820689)
BugFix: Ignored differences were merged when merging multiple differences (#1811745)
BugFix: Don't clear selection when right-clicking outside it (#1814184)
BugFix: Configuration log labeled Vista as Longhorn (#1815859)
BugFix: Customized text color for ignored differences didn't shown (#1807895)
Translation updates
- Chinese Traditional (#1810192, #1810541)
- Italian (#1805044)

WinMerge 2.7.5.3 - 2007-09-27 (r4572)

Use PO files for translations (generate RC-files from PO-files)
Add Portuguese translation (#1756364)
Change Up/Down button names in folder compare columns dialog(#1800064)
BugFix: Fix MakeResDll crash (#1795421)
BugFix: Full screen mode didn't work with multiple monitors (#1788168)
BugFix: Revert multiple monitor patches (#1788168)
BugFix: PgUp key didn't do anything in beginning of the file (#1795680)
BugFix: The option 'Automatically scroll to first difference' didn't work properly when word-wrap mode was on (#1795814)
Translation updates
- French (#1800064, #1802363)
- Japanese (r4546)

WinMerge 2.7.5.2 - 2007-09-11 (r4528)

Graphical improvements to location pane (#1770175)
Remove MFC dependency from resource compiler (#1783581)
Better multi-monitor support (split file view on monitor boundary) (#1788168)
BugFix: Renaming unique item (only other side) renamed parent folder (#1787816)
BugFix: Goto didn't change the active pane when selecting another pane (#1791351)
Translation updates
Traditional Chinese (r4473)

WinMerge 2.7.5.1 - 2007-08-16 (r4440)

HTML reports for file compare (#1739209)
Ask confirmation when exiting with multiple windows open (#1757800)
Translation updates
- Catalan (r4370)
- Simplified Chinese (r4369)
- Danish (r4360)
- French (r4383)
- Russian (r4421)
- Slovak (r4413)
- Swedish (r4412)

WinMerge 2.7.4 - 2007-06-27 (r4352)

Batch-file syntax highlighting keywords cleanup (#1743504)
BugFix: Archivesupport Zip-->both didn't work correctly (#1734439)
BugFix: Linediff didn't highlight whitespace differences (#1698781)
BugFix: Copy confirmation dialog did show wrong To-path (#1740024)
Translation updates
- Italian (#1737491)

WinMerge 2.7.3.7 - 2007-06-14 (r4330)

New big toolbar (actual image instead of placeholder) (#1736520)
BugFix: Fixes to folder compare copy/rename operations (#1730534)
Translation updates
- Swedish (#1735635)

WinMerge 2.7.3.6 - 2007-06-07 (r4321)

Recent project files in File-menu (#1731551)
Automatically import existing linefilters to new dialog (#1718040)
BugFix: copy/delete of unique items failed in folder compare in 2.7.3.5 (#1730534)
BugFix: crashed when ESC was pressed while renaming item in folder compare (#1705874)

WinMerge 2.7.3.5 - 2007-05-31 (r4304)

Relax selecting parent folder restrictions (up arrow in folder compare) (#1727829)
Show a warning if item can't be found anymore in folder compare and it is tried to access (copy/move/delete) (#1723778)
New Borland Delphi file filter (#1699783)
Gradient toolbar (#1717774)
BugFix: could not create new file filters in 2.7.3.4 (#1719892)

WinMerge 2.7.3.4 - 2007-05-15 (r4287)

Big (32x32) toolbar (image still placeholder) (#1698641)
Improve folder compare copy confirmation dialog (#1699585, #1700241)
New file filter for Symbian developers (#1694048)
BugFix: several fixes to in-line difference highlight (#1694102, #1714088)
BugFix: word wrap lose horizontal scrollbar (#1706476)
BugFix: fixes to tabbed window control (#1718148)
Translation updates
- German (#1701151)
- Japanese
- Korean (#1704904)
- Swedish (#1703350)

WinMerge 2.7.3.3 - 2007-04-04 (r4234)

Tabbed interface (#1603292)
Enable shell integration for folder backgrounds (#1693113)
Allow selecting syntax highlighting (#1690346)
New C# development file filter (#1689854)
Icon updates (#1686279, #1692097)
BugFix: compare by date and by size broken in 2.7.3.2 (#1693441)
BugFix: Open-dialog file filter failed if modified (#1693275)
Translation updates
- Swedish (#1689515)

WinMerge 2.7.3.2 - 2007-03-27 (r4201)

Several fixes to line difference highlighting (#1491334, #1683061, #1639453)
Icon updates (#1684865)
Printing improvement (#1687430)
Language files size reduced (#1687661, #1687983, #1688012)
BugFix: 2.7.3.1 binary file compare crash (#1687966)
BugFix: long linefilters now restored correctly (#1680920)
Translation updates
- Japanese

WinMerge 2.7.3.1 - 2007-03-20 (r4179)

New copy confirmation dialog in folder compare (#1675087, #1683842)
Improved line filter dialog (#1682475)
Installer/uninstaller icons restored to default icons
Some icon updates (#1680209)
BugFix: folder compare lost focus after confirmation dialog (#1670991)
BugFix: crash comparing empty folders (#1675211)
Translation updates
- Czech
- French (#1664689)
- Polish (#1673082)
- Swedish (#1673908, #1678676, #1683289)

WinMerge 2.7.2 - 2007-02-27 (r4137)

Fix ShellExtension installation bug
Translation updates
- Czech
- German (#1667564)
- French (#1664689)

WinMerge 2.7.1.7 - 2007-02-20 (r4120)

Folder compare threading improvement - should be faster in many situations (#1662002)
New options for backup file location and naming (#1652696)
Syntax highlighting for CSS files (#1582537)
Allow to hide folder compare margins (View/View Margins) (#1663798)
Translation updates
- Czech
- Polish (#1650831)
- Swedish (#1657664)

WinMerge 2.7.1.6 - 2007-02-01 (r4094)

New post-compare line filters for folder compare (#1644820)
Optimization for word wrap code (#1640741)
BugFix: 2.7.1.5 forgets selected filter (#1637433)
BugFix: limiting to single file compare window now works more logically (#1636314)
BugFix: ANSI regular expressions didn't work (#1644668)
Translation updates
- Bulgarian (#1639493)
- Catalan (#1646638)
- Swedish (#1634968)

WinMerge 2.7.1.5 - 2007-01-10 (r4030)

New line filter implementation (please test and report bugs!) (#1593810)
Minimum height for location pane's visible area (#1489875)
Short label "Error" for error items in folder compare (#1567749)
BugFix: rename edits wrong field in folder compare (#1597939)
BugFix: too much scrolling in difference navigation
BugFix: wrong text selection after pane switch in file compare (#1630630)
BugFix: crash when editing space-char indented files (#1631613)
Manual updates

WinMerge 2.7.1.4 - 2006-12-21 (r3991)

Match lines inside differences (#1447744)
Workaround-patch (locally included to the build) for shutdown problems (#1602313)
New ASP.Net filefilter (#1619689)
BugFix: folder compare speed regression in 2.7.1.3 (#1610442)
BugFix: new fix for folder compare Copy Left/Right To.. (#1603061)
BugFix: copyright info missing from about dialog when translation selected (#1604115)
BugFix: location pane problems with word-wrap (#1584068, #1611542)
BugFix: invalid path added to project file -dialog (#1602219)
Swedish translation update (#1614442)
Manual updates

WinMerge 2.7.1.3 - 2006-12-05 (r3919)

Now hides skipped items by default (#1604078)
Improved INI file syntax highlighting (#1607193)
Easier folder selection in Project File -dialog (#1603196)
New "Exclude Source Control files and directories filter" filefilter (#1557295)
BugFix: project files weren't loaded correctly from command line (using shell file association) (#1602214)
BugFix: crash in syntax parser (#1556688)
BugFix: wrong difference navigation when word-wrap enabled (#1597814)
BugFix: ClearCase integration didn't install if "Program Files" -folder was named differently (non-English Windows)
Manual updates
- Slovak translation update (#1606496)

WinMerge 2.7.1.2 - 2006-11-24 (r3844)

close WinMerge if Open-dialog is canceled when started from command line (#1600714)
BugFix: project files didn't work (loaded right-side path for both sides) (#1600000)
BugFix: location pane misdrawn when word-wrap enabled (#1584068)

WinMerge 2.7.1.1 - 2006-11-16 (r3810)

Use expat + scew for XML handling (partially converted) (1587574)
Uses PCRE for regular expressions (partially converted) (#1591605)
New folder compare icons (#1586705)
New bookmarks icons (#1586689)
Manifest files in resource, no need for separate files (#1588212)
BugFix: WinMerge/Filters folder was always created (#1578419)
BugFix: modality problems in file selection dialogs (#1586869)
BugFix: crash if file modification time was missing (#1589563)
BugFix: /x parameter didn't work with some other parameters (#1564283)
BugFix: asked sometimes twice about saving modified files (#1596692)

For older changes look at the VCS (Version Control System).