2018-03-28 meld 3.19.0

Features:

• Initial Windows build pipeline using Appveyor (Vasily Galkin)
  
• Add new per-pane status bar with selectors for syntax highlighting and
  text encoding (Kai Willadsen, with extensive testing by Vasily Galkin)
  
• Allow text encoding to be chosen from file selectors (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Add new go-to-line action and UI (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Folder comparison now explicitly indicates symlinks in the tree, and
  shows the symlink target (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Inline highlighting now draws whitespace in any changes it covers (Kai
  Willadsen)
  
• Improved contrast in dark theme support (Vitalii Dmitriev)
  
• Navigating between changes in file comparison now briefly animates the
  outline, to make it easier to keep track of the focus in busy
  comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
  

Fixes:

• Find bar now hides when pressing Escape (Vladimir Panteleev)
  
• Handle file deletion where we can't move to trash (e.g., network mounts)
  (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Guess whether we're running a dark theme, for supporting Tweak Tool
  changes (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Keybindings for notebook switching work again (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Significantly speed up folder and version control comparisons by limiting
  the file metadata we request (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Threading fixes for more responsive highlighting and better exit handling
  (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix memory and file handle leakage for closed comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Make the --auto-compare command line flag work again (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Make multiple --diff command line options work again (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix committing selected files in Mercurial (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix Bazaar support for our Python 3 port (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Avoid a race conditon that made the "Resolve conflict" prompt unreliable
  (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix invalid-iter crash when refreshing version control view (Kai
  Willadsen)
  
• Make non-existent files writable by default (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Several fixes for translations, unicode typography, and typos (Piotr Drąg)
  
• Windows compatibility updates (Vasily Galkin, Kai Willadsen)
  
• Windows build fixes (Vasily Galkin)
  
• Add Gitlab CI for Python styling and lint, and update a lot of old code
  to match (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Packaging fixes for AppStream (Balint Reczey)
  

Internal changes:

• Update GTK+ and GtkSourceView requirements to 3.20
  

• Migrate recently-used handling, comparison launching, and file
  comparisons to use Gio for URI support (Chris Mayo, Kai Willadsen)
  

• Migrated to GNOME Gitlab for hosting and issue tracking

• Bugs fixed (bugzilla): 589366, 783989, 785313, 785630, 786629, 786867,
  787256, 788455, 788487, 790335, 791173

• Issues fixed (gitlab): 46, 97, 133, 146, 151, 152, 158, 159, 161, 165

Translations:

• Alan Mortensen (da)
  
• Anders Jonsson (sv)
  
• Andika Triwidada (id)
  
• Andre Klapper (cs, de)
  
• Ask Hjorth Larsen (da)
  
• Balázs Úr (hu)
  
• Daniel Mustieles (es)
  
• Daniel Șerbănescu (ro)
  
• Emin Tufan Çetin (tr)
  
• Enrico Nicoletto (pt_BR)
  
• Jiri Grönroos (fi)
  
• Joe Hansen (da)
  
• Jordi Mas (ca)
  
• Kristjan SCHMIDT (eo)
  
• Kukuh Syafaat (id)
  
• Marcos Lans (gl)
  
• Marek Černocký (cs)
  
• Mario Blättermann (de)
  
• Matej Urbančič (sl)
  
• Milo Casagrande (it)
  
• Piotr Drąg (pl)
  
• Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)