WinMerge 2.16.11 Beta Release Notes
March 2021
About This Release
This is a WinMerge beta release which is meant for preview the current state of
WinMerge development. This release is not recommended for the production.
Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.
What Is New in 2.16.11 Beta
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:
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)