WinMerge 2.16.14 Release Notes
July 2021
About This Release
This is a WinMerge 2.16.14 stable release.
This release replaces earlier WinMerge stable releases as a recommended release.
Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.
What Is New in 2.16.14
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
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:
Internals
- BugFix: WinMerge doesn't build under Visual Studio 16.10.2 (#841)
- BugFix: x64: LINK : warning LNK4010: invalid subsystem version number 5.01;
default subsystem version assumed (#855) - BugFix: Project: heksedit cl : command line warning D9002: ignoring unknown
option '/arch:SSE' (#861) - BugFix:ALL.vs2019.sln cl : command line warning D9035: option 'Gm' has been
deprecated and will be removed in a future release (#862) - Resolves: Add continuous code security and quality analysis (PR #844, #843)
- Improvement: Add check and error mesage in DownloadDeps.cmd that path to
7-zip exists (#864)
What Is New in 2.16.13 Beta
General
- BugFix: Register.bat did not work properly on the Chinese version of
Windows XP (#780) - Possibility to store settings in INI file (#248) (PR #750)
- FeatureRequest - Ignoring options - lack in "button menu" (#804)
File compare
- BugFix: Fix PHP syntax highlighting. (PR #782, PR #802)
- BugFix: BS key did not work at the beginning of the line after splitting
the pane or clicking the OK button in the Options dialog. - BugFix: The edited contents were discarded when the "Recompare As" menu item
was selected after editing the file - BugFix: Incorrect comparison (#834)
(This bug occured when enabling both the 'Ignore blank lines' option and
the 'Completely unhighlight the ignored differences' option.) - Add Smarty syntax highlighting. (PR #821)
- Thicken the caret in overwrite mode (osdn.net #42179)
Folder compare
- BugFix: Different Files are Identical? (#768)
(When comparing files with only BOM and no contents, the comparison result
became unstable because it referred to the uninitialized memory.) - BugFix: Fix a crash when re-comparing folders (osdn.net #42219)
Binary compare
- BugFix: The file could not be saved after creating a new one
- Made Unpacker plugins available for image compare and binary compare
Image compare
- BugFix: Error on try to show differences between two different gif (#784)
- Made Unpacker plugins available for image compare and binary compare
Plugins
- Improve plugin system (PR #797)
- Added categorized Unpacker plugin menu items to various menus
- Made it possible to specify multiple Unpacker/Prediffer plugins by
concatenating them with | and to specify arguments. - Allowed Unpacker/Prediffer plugins to be specified for multiple files at
once in Folder Compare window. The specified plugin will be visible in
the Unpacker and Prediffer columns - Add "(U)" or "(P)" to the tab title of the window opened by the
Unpacker/Prediffer plugin. - Allowed the plugin settings dialog to specify default arguments that will
be used when no plugin arguments are specified - Allowed plugins used by Automatic Unpacking/Prediffing to be excluded in
the plugin settings dialog - New unpacker plugins:
- ApacheTika
- PrettifyJSON
- PrettifyXML
- QueryCSV
- QueryTSV
- QueryJSON
- MakeUpper
- MakeLower
- RemoveDuplicates
- CountDuplicates
- SortAscending
- SortDescending
- ExecFilterCommand
- Tokenize
- Trim
- VisualizeGraphviz
- New editor script plugins:
- RemoveDuplicates
- CountDuplicates
- Tokenize
- Trim
- ApacheTika
- PrettifyJSON
- PrettifyXML
Translations
- BugFix: Fix an issue where a message is not translated.(PR #763)
- Translation updates:
Internals
- Update CWindowsManagerDialog (PR #811)
- Update CWindowsManagerDialog - check some pointers for null and made safe
casts (PR #824)