WinMerge 2.16.38 Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.38
• What Is New in 2.16.37 beta?
• Known issues

January 2024

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.38 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 2.16.38

File compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where changing the BOM in the right pane in the
  Codepage dialog was not reflected.
• Update C++ syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #2166)

Webpage compare

• During comparison, the status bar now displays "Comparing...".
• Add Location Pane (PR#2160)

Folder compare

• Modify the "Display Columns" dialog. (PR#2154)

Plugins

• BugFix: Fixed the issue where the following string containing double
  quotes is not interpreted correctly when specified to the /unpacker
  command line argument.

  /unpacker "Replace ""a"" ""b"""

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR#2151,#2178)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR#2153,#2183)
  • Corsican (PR#2180)
  • Hungarian (PR#2156,#2157,#2158)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR#2152)
  • Lithuanian (PR#2155,#2177)
  • Portuguese (PR#2185)

What Is New in 2.16.37 Beta

File compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the scroll position when clicking on Location
  View may not be as expected when Wrap Lines is enabled.
• BugFix: Can't click and change file line endings with the version 2.16.36.
  (#2129)
• BugFix: Unable to locate CR using \r in regular expression search
• Added new C# keywords (PR#2136)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Empty files are not copied (#2146)

Binary compare

• BugFix: Could not replace data at the end of the file

Image compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the file name was not displayed in the header
  even after saving a newly created pane with a name.

Webpage compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the message box "Another application has updated
  file ... since WinMerge scanned it last time" is displayed when comparing
  URLs that are file://.
• Improved synchronize events (WinMerge/winwebdiff#4)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Bulgarian (PR #2124)
  • French (PR #2135,#2140,#2141,#2142,WinMerge/frhed#15)
  • Italian (PR #2130)
  • Korean (PR #2126,#2127,#2143)
  • Polish (PR #2128)

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)

What's Changed

• Update Bulgarian.po by @StoyanDimitrov in #2124
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #2126
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #2127
• Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #2128
• Typo in Italian.po by @Gnafu in #2130
• Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #2135
• Added new C# keywords by @myss in #2136
• Update French.isl by @Need74 in #2140
• Update French.isl by @Need74 in #2141
• Update French.po by @Need74 in #2142
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #2143
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2151
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #2152
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2153
• Modify the "Display Columns" dialog. by @tjmprm77 in #2154
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2155
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2156
• Update Hungarian.isl by @efi99 in #2157
• Update ReadMe-Hungarian.txt by @efi99 in #2158
• Update Corsican translation for 2.16.38 by @Patriccollu in #2159
• Webpage Compare: Add Location Pane by @sdottaka in #2160
• Update C++ syntax highlighting keyword list. by @tjmprm77 in #2166
• Webpage Compare: Add Location Pane by @sdottaka in #2164
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2177
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2178
• Update Corsican translation for 2.16.38 (2nd) by @Patriccollu in #2180
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2183
• Update Portuguese.po by @hugok79 in #2185

New Contributors

• @Gnafu made their first contribution in #2130
• @myss made their first contribution in #2136

Full Changelog: v2.16.36...v2.16.38