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WinMerge 2.16.24 Release Notes

  • About This Release
  • What Is New in 2.16.24?
  • What Is New in 2.16.23 beta?
  • Known issues

October 2022

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.24 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 2.16.24

General

  • BugFix: Fixed crash when displaying file menu if jump list contains invalid
    title (osdn.net #45916)

File compare

  • Changed operation of displaying dialogs and context menus from status
    bar from double-click to single-click.

Table compare

  • BugFix: when TSV files were displayed in table mode with word wrap enabled,
    clicking on a character would not move the caret to that character's
    position

Folder compare

  • Fixed memory leak in folder comparison when PDF files
    were targeted for image comparison.

Options dialog

  • Improved translation regarding CPU cores (PR #1513)

Select Files or Folders dialog

  • Made it possible to specify Prediffer plugin

Plugins

  • BugFix: Select Plugin dialog: Fixed that "Display all plugins"
    checkbox did not work

Project file

  • BugFix: Fixed comparison failure when left file path and right
    file path in project file are URLs.
  • Allow saving following in project file.
    • Description
    • Window type
    • Table delimiter

Patch Generator dialog

  • BugFix: The command line section in the generated patch file was garbled
    (osdn.net #45935)

Translations

  • BugFix: Fix an issue where the following message displayed when two files
    are identical in a 3-way folder comparison is not translated. (PR #1535)
  • Translation updates:

Others

  • BugFix: Fixed English verbiage (PR #1499)
  • BugFix: typo fixed in README.md (PR #1504)
  • BugFix: Fix typo in lwdisp.c (PR #1515)

What Is New in 2.16.23 Beta

General

  • BugFix: Fix an issue where filenames containing "&" are not displayed
    properly in the MDI tab bar and its tooltips. (PR #1466)

Color schemes

  • Create Midnight.ini (PR #1430)

File compare

  • BugFix: Non existing backup directory should be automatically created (#1438)
  • BugFix: Bug: Can't copy selected text, if it has non-changed lines (#1507)
  • Remember zoom level for all files (#1433)
  • The feature will allow the user to right-click the selected lines and… add
    them to Line Filter so that those lines added to the Line Filter will be
    ignored if found in any file. (PR #1481)
  • CrystalEdit/parsers/SQL: Added more keywords (PR #1493)

Table compare

  • Bugfix: Inline differences ware not displayed even if the caret is moved to
    the position of an inline difference that is hidden due to the narrow
    column width.

Webpage compare

  • [EXPERIMENTAL] Webpage Compare: Highlight differences (PR #1357)

Folder compare

  • BugFix: Disable rename operations when in read-only mode in the folder
    compare window. (PR #1434)
  • BugFix: Fix an issue where renaming to a file name or directory name
    containing "" or "/" is not done properly. (PR #1451)
  • BugFix: Fix "Left to Right" and "Right to Left" copying in 2-way folder
    comparison. (PR #1495)
  • BugFix: Folder compare with jpg images crashes (#1176)
    (Previous versions were linked with unfixed freeimage.)

Archive support

  • Update 7-Zip to 22.01 (#1425)

Translations

Known issues

  • Suggestion to make the result of image comparison more reliable (#1391)
  • Crashes when comparing large files (#325)
  • Very slow to compare significantly different directories (#322)
  • Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (#296)

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