WinMerge 2.16.43 Beta Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.43 beta?
• Known issues

October 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 2.16.43 Beta

General

• BugFix: WinMerge incorrectly states "The selected files are identical" (#2408)
• Implement Menu Bar as a Toolbar (PR #2400)
• Add support for placing the tab bar on the title bar (PR #2428)
• Add One-Hand mice wheel scroll diff and merge (PR #2435)
• Add Support for Custom System Color Overrides (PR #2376)
• Easy move small main window when tab on titlebar (PR #2489)

File compare

• BugFix: Wrong syntax highlighting for TeX files (#2415)
• BugFix: Text replacement result is wrong. (#2422)
• Copy Selected Difference to Clipboard (PR #2429)
• Added Ada parser and default file associations (#2452)
• Added C++20 modules default file associations cppm and ixx (PR #2464)
• Anti-aliasing has been applied to the lines that connect moved blocks in the
  location pane.

Folder compare

• BugFix: ExitCode always 2 with /enableexitcode with no apparent issues (#2450)

Webpage compare

• BugFix: Location pane may not render differences (winwebdiff#6)

Options dialog

• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Project)" dialog. (PR #2401)
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Backup Files)" dialog. (PR #2406)
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Codepage)" dialog. (PR #2448)
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (General)" dialog. (PR #2453)

Plugins

• Create CompareEscapedJavaPropertiesFiles.sct (PR #2455)

Manual

• BugFix: 2 mistakes about default values in manual (#2456)
• Update documentation for "Include unique subfolders contents" setting (PR #2396)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #2397,#2431,#2439,#2454,#2460,#2468,#2477,#2486)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #2394,#2461,#2469,#2485)
  • Dutch (PR #2474)
  • French (PR #2399,#2444)
  • Hungarian (PR #2433,#2440,#2458,#2472,#2482)
  • Italian (PR #2393,#2438,#2446,#2447,#2457,#2467,#2470,#2487)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR #2426,#2459,#2473)
  • Lithuanian (PR #2436,#2443,#2462,#2471,#2483)
  • Portuguese (PR #2410,#2441,#2480)
  • Russian (PR #2462)

Internals

• Make InsertLineNumberInPOFiles.bat and RenewPOFiles.bat work again

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 documentation for "Include unique subfolders contents" setting by @vlakoff in #2396
• [XML] Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2397
• Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #2399
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Project)" dialog. by @tjmprm77 in #2401
• Drop unused *POFiles.bat files by @gerundt in #2402
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (System)" dialog. by @tjmprm77 in #2405
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Backup Files)" dialog. by @tjmprm77 in #2406
• Implement Menu Bar as a Toolbar by @sdottaka in #2400
• Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #2410
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #2426
• Copy Selected Difference to Clipboard by @lededev in #2429
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2431
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2433
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2436
• Add One-Hand mice wheel scroll diff and merge by @lededev in #2435
• Update Italian language by @bovirus in #2438
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2439
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2440
• Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #2441
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2443
• Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #2444
• Update Italian language by @bovirus in #2446
• Italian language update by @bovirus in #2447
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Codepage)" dialog. by @tjmprm77 in #2448
• Added Ada parser and default file associations by @petacreepers23 in #2452
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (General)" dialog. by @tjmprm77 in #2453
• Add support for placing the tab bar on the title bar by @sdottaka in #2428
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2454
• Create CompareEscapedJavaPropertiesFiles.sct by @libraplanet in #2455
• Update Italian language by @bovirus in #2457
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2458
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #2459
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2460
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2461
• Update of Lithuanian translation and corrected some mistypes in Russian.po by @Tichij in #2462
• Update Italian language by @bovirus in #2463
• Added C++20 modules default file associations cppm and ixx by @Optimierungswerfer in #2464
• Update Italian language by @bovirus in #2467
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2468
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2469
• Update Italian language by @bovirus in #2470
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2471
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2472
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #2473
• Update Dutch.po by @RockyTDR in #2474
• Update Brazilian.po by @erickluz in #2477
• Update Portuguese.po file by @hugok79 in #2480
• Add Support for Custom System Color Overrides by @sdottaka in #2376
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2482
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2483
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2485
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2486
• Update Italian language by @bovirus in #2487
• Easy move small main window when tab on titlebar by @lededev in #2489

New Contributors

• @lededev made their first contribution in #2429
• @petacreepers23 made their first contribution in #2452
• @libraplanet made their first contribution in #2455
• @Optimierungswerfer made their first contribution in #2464
• @erickluz made their first contribution in #2477

Full Changelog: v2.16.42.1...v2.16.43