WinMerge 2.16.15 Beta Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.15 beta?
• Known issues

September 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 2.16.15 Beta

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)

Known issues

• Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)
• Very slow to compare significantly different directories (GitHub #322)
• Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (GitHub #296)