WinMerge 2.16.39 Beta Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.39 beta?
• Known issues

March 2024

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 2.16.39 Beta

General

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where typing only a single character in the header
  bar could cause a crash.

File compare

• BugFix: Fixed possible crash
• BugFix: Creation of .bak files fails when the original filename starts with
  a dot (#2217)
• Update Java syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #2215)
• Replace "Match similar lines" with "Align similar lines" (PR #2230)
• Make it possible to select the behavior when copying to another pane with
  "Copy to Right" etc. while text is selected. (PR #2224)
• Make it possible to transform the text copied with "Copy Right/Left" using a
  plugin. (PR #2238)
• Update PHP syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #2265)

Webpage compare

• BugFix: Make event sync settings persistent (#2248)

Select Files or Folders dialog

• BugFix: Fixed the issue when the compare button could not be clicked when
  specifying an archive file and a regular file.

Reports

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the widths of the left and right panes in HTML
  reports are not equal.
• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the caption set in the header bar was not being
  applied to the HTML report.

Plugins

• BugFix: Fixed crash when error occurs in Unpacker plugin
• Replace the source code written in VBScript with JScript (PR #2098)
• Add the ability to replace using patterns from Substitution Filters to the
  Replace plugin. (PR #2252)
• Added sanity check for regular expressions in PrediffLineFilter plugin.

Installer

• BugFix: If the /noicons option was specified in the previous installation,
  a message box asking you to delete the previous start menu will be
  displayed in the next installation. (#2206)
• Move custom messages in a separate iss file (#2247)

Archive support

• BugFix: 7zip encrypted archives with encrypted file names (#2225)

Internals

• Update codeql-analysis.yml - Version v2 to v3 (PR #2196)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #2234,#2243)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #2241,#2244,#2251,#2256,#2259)
  • Corsican (PR #2266)
  • French (PR #2237,#2264)
  • Hungarian (PR #2232,#2250)
  • Italian (PR #2245,#2249)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR #2239)
  • Lithuanian (PR #2235,#2246)
  • Portuguese (PR #2263)
  • Russian (PR #2194,#2195,#2198,#2210,#2211,#2212)
  • Slovenian (#2096)

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 Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2194
• Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2195
• Update codeql-analysis.yml - Version v2 to v3 by @visudade in #2196
• Update Russian.islu by @Timon34 in #2198
• Update Russian.islu by @Timon34 in #2210
• Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2211
• Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2212
• Update Java syntax highlighting keyword list. by @tjmprm77 in #2215
• Replace the source code written in VBScript with JScript by @sdottaka in #2098
• Replace "Match similar lines" with "Align similar lines" by @vlakoff in #2230
• Make it possible to select the behavior when copying to another pane with "Copy to Right" etc. while text is selected. by @sdottaka in #2224
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2232
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2234
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2235
• Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #2237
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #2239
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2241
• Make it possible to transform the text copied with "Copy Right/Left" using a plugin. by @sdottaka in #2238
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2243
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2244
• Italian language update by @bovirus in #2245
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2246
• Move custom messages in a separate iss file by @bovirus in #2247
• Update PO header for Italian files by @bovirus in #2249
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2250
• update zh-cn translation in setup file by @yingang in #2251
• Add the ability to replace using patterns from Substitution Filters to the Replace plugin. by @sdottaka in #2252
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2256
• fix a shortcut for zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2259
• Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #2263
• Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #2264
• Update PHP syntax highlighting keyword list. by @tjmprm77 in #2265
• Update Corsican translation for 2.16.39 by @Patriccollu in #2266

New Contributors

• @Timon34 made their first contribution in #2194
• @visudade made their first contribution in #2196

Full Changelog: v2.16.38...v2.16.39