WinMerge 2.16.18 Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.18?
• What Is New in 2.16.17 beta?
• Known issues

January 2022

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.18 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 2.16.18

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 incorectly (#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 #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)

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)
  • 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

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 me to contributor list by @SamuelPlentz in #1094
• Portuguese translation update by @hugok79 in #1097
• Portuguese translation update by @hugok79 in #1098
• Turkish translation update by @kayazeren in #1099
• Patch 15 hungarian lang by @efi99 in #1102
• Update Corsican translation for 2 commits on Dec. 23rd by @Patriccollu in #1103
• Update portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #1106
• Update German.po by @Mr-Update in #1110
• Update ChineseSimplified.po for better wording and consistency by @CharlesMengCA in #1112
• Updated Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #1115
• Update German.po by @Mr-Update in #1117
• Fix typo in DirScan.cpp by @eltociear in #1118
• Update Corsican translation for plugin descriptions by @Patriccollu in #1119
• Fix an issue where WinMerge sometimes crashes when executing "Refresh Selected" in the folder compare window. by @tjmprm77 in #1120
• Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #1121
• Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #1122
• Update Dutch.po by @RockyTDR in #1123
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #1124
• Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #1133
• Update Chinese(Simplified) translation: by @CharlesMengCA in #1134
• Updated Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #1136
• Update Corsican translation for commit 0e8066d by @Patriccollu in #1137
• Fix for #1139 by @Gitoffthelawn in #1140
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #1141
• Update Corsican translation for commit d213624 by @Patriccollu in #1142
• Update German.po by @Mr-Update in #1143
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #1144
• Update Slovenian.po by @JadranR in #1148
• Update Portuguese.po by @hugok79 in #1149
• Clipboard Compare by @sdottaka in #1147
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #1150
• Updated sl.po 23.01.2022 by @JadranR in #1153
• Update Corsican translation for commit 026281c by @Patriccollu in #1154
• Update German.po by @Mr-Update in #1155
• Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #1157

New Contributors

• @CharlesMengCA made their first contribution in #1112

Full Changelog: v2.16.17...v2.16.18