WinMerge 2.16.42 Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.42
• What Is New in 2.16.41 beta?
• Known issues

July 2024

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.42 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 2.16.42

General

• Enable Rounded Corners for WinMerge Menu on Windows 11 (PR #2364)
• Introduce a flat status bar without separator lines. (PR #2377)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Folder comparison status not accurately reflected in toolbar (#2374)
• BugFix: Status of folder comparison not correctly reflected by tab icon after
  Refresh (F5) (#2383)

File compare

• Replace - more intelligent choice of replace in (whole file vs selection) (#2368)

Image compare

• BugFix: Image Comparison : In Alpha Animation, dialogs hang winmerge (#2370)
• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the right edge of the status bar appeared white.
• Added the ability to change the blink interval and overlay animation interval.

Plugins

• Make the gpt4-o-mini model selectable in the AIConvertText plugin settings
  window

Archive support

• Update 7-Zip to 24.07

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #2392)
  • Brazilian (PR #2391)
  • Hungarian (PR #2388)
  • Lithuanian (PR #2390)

What Is New in 2.16.41 Beta

General

• Made the tabs in the tab bar rounded like Firefox.

File compare

• Added support for F# (FSharp) language syntax highlight (PR #2298)
• Improved F# parsing, support for multi-line comments (PR #2301)
• Multi line comment fix (PR #2303)
• Multi line comment fix part 2 (PR #2309)
• Typescript files to use JavaScript highlighting as default (PR #2312)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Refresh selected shows wrong file names being compared (#2338)
• BugFix: Selected files changes on expanding a folder that is upper on the
  tree (#2359)

Options dialog

• BugFix: Options - Syntax color settings get reverted when
  "Customized text colors" settings is touched. (#2355)
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Editor > Compare/Merge)" dialog. (PR #2348)
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Archive Support)" dialog. (PR #2362)

Plugins

• BugFix: Fixed the plugin pipeline not being configured correctly in the Select Plugin dialog.
• Add a text conversion plugin using OpenAI API (PR #2258)
• Update jq to 1.7.1
• Update md4c to 0.5.2

Archive support

• Update 7-Zip to 24.05

Installer

• BugFix; WinMerge 2.16.40 - Installer - Missing version and archicteure info (#2300)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #2308)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #2306,#2310,#2314,#2352)
  • Corsican (PR #2361)
  • French (PR #2354)
  • German (PR #2349)
  • Hungarian (PR #2307)
  • Italian (PR #2299)
  • Lithuanian (PR #2318,#2320)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR #2333)
  • Polish (PR #2313)
  • Portuguese (PR #2321)
  • Turkish (PR #2315)

Internals

• Update GitHub Actions CI (#2304)
• Fix some typos (#2305)
• Update POCO C++ Libraries to 1.13.3
• Update boost to 1.85.0
• Update Google C++ Testing Framework to 1.14.0

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

• Added support for F# language syntax highlight by @Thorium in #2298
• Update Italian language by @bovirus in #2299
• Improved F# parsing, support for multi-line comments by @Thorium in #2301
• Add a text conversion plugin using OpenAI API by @sdottaka in #2258
• Multi line comment fix by @Thorium in #2303
• Update GitHub Actions CI by @striezel in #2304
• Fix some typos by @striezel in #2305
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2306
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2307
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2308
• Multi line comment fix part 2 by @Thorium in #2309
• re-update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2310
• Typescript files to use JavaScript highlighting as default by @Thorium in #2312
• Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #2313
• fix zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2314
• Update Turkish.po by @ilyax in #2315
• Update of Lithuanian translations by @Tichij in #2318
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2320
• Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #2321
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #2333
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Editor > Compare/Merge)" dialog. by @tjmprm77 in #2348
• Uliahn patch translations by @uliahn in #2349
• Update ChineseSimplified.po by @Cccc-owo in #2352
• Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #2354
• Update Corsican translation for 2.16.41 by @Patriccollu in #2361
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Archive Support)" dialog. by @tjmprm77 in #2362
• Enable Rounded Corners for WinMerge Menu on Windows 11 by @sdottaka in #2364
• Introduce a flat status bar without separator lines. by @sdottaka in #2377
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2388
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2390
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2391
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2392

New Contributors

• @Thorium made their first contribution in #2298
• @striezel made their first contribution in #2304
• @ilyax made their first contribution in #2315
• @uliahn made their first contribution in #2349
• @Cccc-owo made their first contribution in #2352

Full Changelog: v2.16.40...v2.16.42