WinMerge 2.16.17 Beta Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.17 beta?
• Known issues

December 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 2.16.17 Beta

General

• New Option to ignore numbers. (PR #1025,#923)
• Add the feature to display tooltips on the MDI tab. (PR #1038)
• Issue with closing WinMerge with Esc keyboard key (#1052)
• Add an "Defaults" section to the ini file (PR #1071)

File compare

• BugFix: Release 2.16.16 crashes when comparing large files - likely a
  regression (#1036)
• BugFix: Fixed C#(Java, JavaScript) keyword highlighting. (#1040)
• BugFix: The current pane switches without me asking it to. (#1050)
• BugFix: Fix PHP syntax highlighting. (PR #1055)
• BugFix: Source Files Comparison doesn't seem to Work properly (#1057)
• Add D syntax highlighting. (PR #1042)
• Improved 'Match similar lines' option (#1013)
• Make the 'Match similar lines' option work for 3-way comparisons
  (PR #1051,#510)
• Please add a huge icon for "Filter is active" (#1056)

Image compare

• Added support for creating multi-page image compare report
  (osdn.net #43374)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Fixed a problem where Duplicate Group Numbers were not assigned to
  files with the same content but different file names.
• BugFix: Fix crash when comparing 3 folders if additional properties were added
• FolderCompare: Improve performance when tree mode is disabled (#PR #1069)

Project file

• Add a feature to save/restore the "Ignore numbers" setting to/from a project
  file. (PR #1068)

Patch Generator dialog

• Put the diff patch to the clipboard rather than to files (#923)

Plugins

• BugFix: Fixed the problem that Plugins->Reload Plugins menu item does not
  work.

Archive support

• Update 7-Zip to 21.06

Shell extension

• ShellExtension for Windows 11: Implemented advanced menu

Translations

• New translation:
  • Corsican (PR #1072,#1085)
• Translation updates:
  • Chinese Traditional (PR #1079)
  • German (PR #1062,#1086,#1088)
  • Hungarian (PR #1032)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR #1078)
  • Lithuanian (PR #1043,#1061,#1082,#1087)
  • Polish (PR #1049)
  • Portuguese (PR #1034,#1039,#1060,#1065)
  • Russian (PR #1031)
  • Slovenian

Internals

• BugFix: Fix typo in BCMenu.cpp (PR #1054)
• BugFix: Return better HRESULTs (PR #1077)
• Make it buildable for ARM32 architecture

Known issues

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

What's Changed

• Added option "Ignore numbers" by @evoc in #1025
• Update Russian.po by @wvxwxvw in #1031
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #1032
• Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #1034
• Add the feature to display tooltips on the MDI tab. by @tjmprm77 in #1038
• Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #1039
• Fixed C#(Java, JavaScript) keyword highlighting. by @devmynote in #1040
• Add D syntax highlighting. by @devmynote in #1042
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #1043
• Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #1049
• Fix typo in BCMenu.cpp by @eltociear in #1054
• Make the 'Match similar lines' option work for 3-way comparisons by @sdottaka in #1051
• Fix PHP syntax highlighting. by @tjmprm77 in #1055
• Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #1060
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #1061
• Update German.po by @Mr-Update in #1062
• Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #1065
• Add a feature to save/restore the ”Ignore numbers” setting to/from a project file. by @tjmprm77 in #1068
• FolderCompare: Improve performance when tree mode is disabled by @sdottaka in #1069
• Add an "Defaults" section to the ini file by @SamuelPlentz in #1071
• Adding Corsican translation to WinMerge by @Patriccollu in #1072
• Return better HRESULTs by @sredna in #1077
• Update Korean.po by @Cynilyn in #1078
• Update Traditional Chinese translation by @SiderealArt in #1079
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #1082
• Update Corsican translation for commit 353ea9c by @Patriccollu in #1085
• Update German.po by @Mr-Update in #1086
• Update of Lithuanian translations by @Tichij in #1087
• Update German.isl by @Mr-Update in #1088
• Galician translation update by @qosobrin in #1089

New Contributors

• @evoc made their first contribution in #1025
• @devmynote made their first contribution in #1040
• @Patriccollu made their first contribution in #1072
• @Cynilyn made their first contribution in #1078
• @SiderealArt made their first contribution in #1079

Full Changelog: v2.16.16...v2.16.17