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WinMerge 2.16.60 Release Notes

  • About This Release
  • What Is New in 2.16.60?
  • What Is New in 2.16.59 Beta?
  • Known issues

October 2026

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.60 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 2.16.60?

General

  • Keep an internal recent-comparison list when the Windows jump list has no
    history. (PR #3663)

  • Update darkmodelib to 0.77.1 and enable ARM64 support

File compare

  • BugFix: Did not get line filter with Moved working (#3680, PR #3681)

  • BugFix: 2 fixes for 3-way-merge (PR #3671)

  • BugFix: Fix AutoIt syntax highlighting for identifiers and nested comments
    (PR #3685)

  • BugFix: [BUG] Adjust the height of OutputPane will crash (#3733)

  • Add RTF syntax highlighting (PR #3686)

  • BugFix: Fix overlapping Tree-sitter highlight captures (PR #3718)

  • Localize merge copy messages in the Output Pane (#2927, PR #3701)

Image compare

  • BugFix: WinIMerge x86 crashes with FreeImage plugins (winimerge/#43)

  • BugFix: Fix image paste and undo handling (winimerge/#41)

  • Update FreeImage to 3.19.25

  • Extend destination canvas when copying image differences (winimerge/#42)

Status bar

  • BugFix: Fix difference count in the status bar (#3649, PR #3707)

  • Fix status bar flickering by suppressing background erasure

Select files or folders dialog

  • Open view: collapsible recent comparison list (PR #3673)

  • Add side-specific filename, folder, and extension columns to folder
    comparison views. (PR #3682)

Folder compare

  • Add side-specific filename, folder, and extension columns to folder
    comparison views. (PR #3682)

Archive support

  • Update 7-Zip to 26.05.

Plugins

  • Set MiniMax presets to M3.1 Flash by default (PR #3709)

Installer

  • BugFix: Align Inno Setup 5 translations and fix Indonesian installer paths
    (#3737)

Translations

Manual

  • Refresh untranslated ReadMe files and update support links (PR #3723,
    PR #3725)

  • Fix the ReadMe template path in the translation status script (PR #3724)

  • Show Git update dates and Inno Setup translation coverage (PR #3739)

What Is New in 2.16.59 Beta?

General

  • [BUG] MDI window controls (Minimize/Maximize/Close) are completely hidden
    unless hoveredbug (#3511)(PR #3552)

  • Add an option to remember and restore splitter positions for text, image,
    web page, and binary comparisons. (PR #3611)

Appearance

  • BugFix: Fix cramped toolbar icon spacing at high DPI

  • Migrate toolbar and margin icons from BMP to PNG (GDI+ decoding) (PR #3510)

  • Rebuild toolbar buttons based on active window (PR #3631)

File compare

  • Add a Merge Result pane for reviewing and resolving 2-way conflicts and
    3-way merges. (PR #3515)

  • BugFix: Fix Shift+Insert paste going to file instead of Filter Bar (#3585)

  • BugFix: Fix cursor movement and scrolling across gaps created by the display
    filter (#3601)(PR #3622)

  • BugFix: Fix initial status bar display for file comparisons (PR #3644)

  • BugFix: Fix issue [BUG] Keyboard shortcut to "Copy to right" does not work in
    3-way merge (#3645)

  • BugFix: Fix undo/redo after swapping panes and avoid invalid undo target
    tracking (PR #3646, PR #3647)

  • BugFix: Flush undo groups when deleting text fails

  • BugFix: Fix blank line handling in comment difference filtering (PR #3651)

  • BugFix: Fix ignored diff ranges with missing trailing EOL (#3653)(PR #3657)

  • Show the selection margin when adding a bookmark

  • Add Save command to filepath bar context menuheader bar (PR #3654)

  • tree-sitter: php and f-sharp grammars update (PR #3656)

Table compare

  • Add column range filtering and ignore columns in comparison (PR #3565)

Image compare

  • Add an option to prefer the WIC decoder when loading images for image
    comparison (PR #3537)

  • Remember the image compare splitter position (PR #3593)

Folder compare

  • Preserve the sort order for columns that can be safely sorted while folder
    comparison is running. (#3579)(PR #3581)

Filter expressions

  • Add the FilterExpression support required by the upcoming ApplyLineFilter
    plugin (PR #3530)

  • BugFix: Fix case-insensitive contains in filter expressions (#3586)

Status bar

  • Make merge mode indicator clickable and reduce its width (PR #3529)

Archive support

  • BugFix: Fix issue #3588: Cannot compare folders inside zip files

  • BugFix: [BUG] Comparing 7z-archives: file cannot be accessed by the system
    settings are restored. (#3633)

  • Update 7-Zp to 26.03 (PR #3613)

Plugins

  • BugFix: Fix off-by-one bug losing the last byte of pack/unpack plugin buffer
    output

  • BugFix: Special UTF-8 characters not compared correctly (#3071)(PR #3568)

  • Add plugin selection buttons to the status bar (PR #3518)

  • Support adding plugins to pipelines from menus (PR #3523)

  • Add filter expressions to plugin pipelines (PR #3540)

  • Add MiniMax provider support to AI plugin (PR #3499)

  • Add local LLM and custom OpenAI-compatible API support (PR #3589)

  • Validate plugin pipeline filter expressions (PR #3578)

  • SelectLines plugin: Add literal string matching with -F option.
    (#3500)(PR #3598)

Translations

Manual

  • BugFix: [BUG] Spanish help is in French (#3658)

  • Set localization parameters for French, Italian, and Spanish manuals
    (PR #3617)

Known issues

  • Pressing OK in the Options window while the INI file specified by /inifile is open for comparison in WinMerge may corrupt the file. (#2685)
  • 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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