WinMerge 2.16.20 Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.20?
• What Is New in 2.16.19 beta?
• Known issues

April 2022

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.20 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 2.16.20

General

• BugFix: New filter (F) display (#1281 a))

File compare

• BugFix: Fixed a problem where the caret would not display in the correct
  position on lines containing tab characters, depending on the font in use
  (osdn.net #44417)

Webpage compare

• Webpage Compare [EXPERIMENTAL] (PR #1182)
  • Requires WebView2 Runtime.
  • Only supported on Windows 10 and above.
  • Currently, it is not possible to directly highlight differences between
    web pages, but it is possible to display two or three web pages side by
    side. You can also compare the following content of the displayed web
    pages
    • Screenshots
    • HTML contents
    • Extracted texts
    • Resource trees

Folder compare

• BugFix: Fix an issue where items with different case are not displayed
  correctly in the folder compare window when comparing three directories.
  (PR #1299)

Options dialog

• Allow resizing Options dialog box in both directions (#1265)

Plugins

• BugFix: CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Date formats interpreted inconsistently
  (#279)
• Add URL handler plugins (PR #1270)
  • HTTP/HTTPS scheme handler plugin
    • This plugin retrieves a file with the specified HTTP or HTTPS URL using
      the curl command.
  • Windows Registry scheme(reg:) handler plugin
    • This plugin handles URLs like
      reg:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Thingamahoochie\WinMerge.
      After reg:, it considers it a registry key and uses the reg.exe
      command to retrieve information about that registry key.
• Replace plugin: When regular expression substitution is performed with the
  -e option, \r and \n in the second argument are now treated as
  control characters CR and LF.
• PrettifyHTML plugin: Added "--tidy-mark no" to default plugin arguments

Command line

• Added /t webpage command line option

Manual

• BugFix: Help file: Small issue for plugins (#1309)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Corsican (PR #1305,#1307)
  • Bulgarian (PR #1269)
  • French (PR #1294)
  • Galician (PR 1292)
  • German (PR #1276)
  • Hungarian (PR #1274, #1306)
  • Japanese
  • Lithuanian (PR #1263, #1275)
  • Polish (PR #1272, #1287, #1288)
  • Portuguese (PR #1273, #1277)
  • Slovenian (#1289)
  • Turkish (PR #1264)

Internals

• Code refactor with C++17 features replace optimize create smart pointers
  (PR #1304)
• Fixed link errors occurring in Windows 10 SDK version 10.0.19041.0 and lower

What Is New in 2.16.19 Beta

General

• Update Merge.rc (PR #1219,#1227,#1231,#1232)

File compare

• BugFix: Match similar lines breaks with Ignore whitespace change (#1209)
• BugFix: Copy & Advance skips differences when moved block detection is on
  (#1235)
• BugFix: Fix inline difference selection by F4 key not working well in
  various cases
• Different exit procedure required for small vs. large files (#1218)
• Added View → View Top Margins menu item. (A ruler appears in the margin)

Table compare

• Pinning first row of file (#999)
  • Added Use First Line as Headers menu item to the column header context menu.

Folder compare

• BugFix: Fix the problem that the status bar displays "0 items selected" even
  though multiple items are selected.
• BugFix: Change the file naming method of the file compare report to avoid
  duplication of the file compare report file name linked from the folder
  compare report. (PR #1171)
• BugFix: Fix an issue where comparison results are not displayed correctly
  when "Refresh Selected" is performed by selecting an item that has a
  directory and file with the same name. (PR #1189)
• BugFix: Folder compare with jpg images crashes (#1176)
• BugFix: Fix renaming process in folder compare window. (PR #1246)

Filters

• Filters enchancement (PR #1179,#1174)
  • File masks
    • Putting ! before file masks will exclude files that match that masks.
    • If you put \ after the file masks, the masks will match folders instead
      of files.
  • File filters
    • Added f!: and d!: to exclude files or folders that match the pattern
      specified in f: and d:.

Options dialog

• BugFix: Help text is truncated (#1210)
• Improve vertical alignment string (#1200)
• Some improvements (#1212)

Plugins

• BugFix: Select Plugin Dialog: Fix the problem that the plugin arguments are
  deleted by clicking the "Add pipe" button after entering them.

Archive support

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Catalan (PR #1237)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #1257)
  • Chinese Traditional (PR #1204)
  • Corsican (PR #1188,#1205,#1221,#1251,#1260)
  • Dutch (PR #1187)
  • French (PR #1211)
  • German (PR #1208,#1228,#1254,#1262)
  • Hungarian (PR #1203,#1220,#1252,#1259)
  • Japanese (PR #1165)
  • Korean (PR #1181)
  • Lithuanian (PR #1197,#1202,#1224,#1255)
  • Norwegian (PR #1170)
  • Portuguese (PR #1178,#1222)
  • Russian (PR #1164)
  • Slovak (PR #1196)
  • Slovenian (PR #1163,#1261)
  • Ukrainian (PR #1172)

Internals

• Fix typo in ShellFileOperations.cpp (PR #1256)
• [Big PR - big changes] A lot of refactor and optimization commits (PR #1258)
• Wrong links for ShellExtension on Translations page (#1185)
• Tweak translations status (PR #1201)

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

• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #1263
• Turkish language update 2.16.19 Beta by @kayazeren in #1264
• Update Bulgarian translation by @StoyanDimitrov in #1269
• Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #1272
• Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #1273
• Add URL handler plugins by @sdottaka in #1270
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #1274
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #1275
• Update German.po by @Mr-Update in #1276
• Update Portuguese.po by @hugok79 in #1277
• Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #1287
• Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #1288
• Galician translation update by @qosobrin in #1292
• French translation update by @slolo2000 in #1294
• Fix an issue where items with different case are not displayed correctly in the folder compare window when comparing three directories. by @tjmprm77 in #1299
• Webpage Compare [EXPERIMENTAL] by @sdottaka in #1182
• Code refactor with C++17 features replace optimize create smart pointers by @GermanAizek in #1304
• Update Corsican translation for 2.16.20 by @Patriccollu in #1305
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #1306
• Update Corsican translation (2nd) for 2.16.20 by @Patriccollu in #1307

Full Changelog: v2.16.19...v2.16.20