2025-03-23 meld 3.23.0

Features:

• Add new side-by-side image file comparison (Martin van Zijl)
  
• Add CI build support for macOS (René de Hesselle)
  
• Add version control support for Git unstaging (Nikita Stelmashenko)
  
• Added option to compare folders based on size only (Alex Martian)
  
• Support starting with blank comparison panes using @blank (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Per-pane path labels now accept drag-n-drop to open files (Kai Willadsen)
  

Fixes:

• Fix file descriptor leak (Alan Suran)
  
• Ignore removed remote Git branches (ks132)
  
• Extend media file format filter with common extensions (Jean-François Fortin Tam)
  
• Improve find bar labeling (Sabri Ünal)
  
• Improve swap-files-in-panes feature (Helly Guo)
  
• Fix search bar not working after switching panes (t-gergely)
  
• Fix window sizing issues caused by message display (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix freezes caused by long-line files by cancelling file loads when
  excessively long lines are detected (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Improved display of differences:
  
  • Make file compare-to-itself check more accurate (Kai Willadsen)
    
  • Fix inline highlighting for diacritic-only changes (Kai Willadsen)
    
  • Add notification for white-space-varying file names in folder
    comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
    
  • Improve new/modified filters in three-way folder comparison (Kai
    Willadsen)
    
  • Change file icons for missing files and symlinks (Kai Willadsen)
    
• Don't reset cursor to top of tree after folder rescan (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix command-line handling of missing single file (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix custom label handling for folders and version-control (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix edge cases in quit workflow when cancelling file save (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix Git state being out-of-sync during large index update (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Handle Git repositories at the filesystem root (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Improve responsiveness during X11 forwarding (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Improve notebook display with long path names (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Improve handling of missing icons, emblems, cursors and settings (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Various improvements to UI affordances (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Various fixes for UI being out-of-sync with preference state (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Issues fixed: 260, 281, 507, 709, 713, 715, 716, 722, 724, 726, 729, 733,
  734, 736, 738, 744, 753, 761, 767, 769, 771, 774, 775, 780, 785, 787, 790,
  793, 795, 796, 797, 798, 799, 802, 807, 808, 822, 829, 838, 846, 851, 852,
  856, 867, 879, 881, 885, 887, 895, 896, 899
  

UI Changes:

• Icon updates (Hernan Martinez, Sabri Ünal)
  
• Use development styling when uninstalled (Frank Dana)
  
• Shortcut and mnemonic updates and shortcut documentation fixes (Sabri Ünal, Kai Willadsen)
  
• Help documentation updates (Sabri Ünal, Kai Willadsen)
  
• String updates and translation fixes (Anders Jonsson, Sabri Ünal, luzpaz, Muneeb, Kai Willadsen)
  

Internal changes:

• Improvements to build scripts (Frank Dana, Matt Turner, Kai Willadsen)
  
• Flatpak improvements and fixes (Hari Rana, Kai Willadsen)
  
• Appdata updates and GNOME branding removal (Sabri Ünal)
  
• Remove some deprecated Python module usage (Frank Dana)
  
• Update development documentation (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Update CI lint and tests (Kai Willadsen)
  

Translations:

• Alan Mortensen (da)
  
• Anders Jonsson (sv)
  
• Andi Chandler (en_GB)
  
• Andika Triwidada (id)
  
• Asier Sarasua Garmendia (eu)
  
• Balázs Úr (hu)
  
• Boyuan Yang (zh_CN)
  
• Charles Monzat (fr)
  
• Danial Behzadi (fa)
  
• Daniel Coelho (pt_BR)
  
• Daniel Mustieles (es)
  
• Daniel Rusek (cs)
  
• Daniel Șerbănescu (ro)
  
• Ekaterine Papava (ka)
  
• Emin Tufan Çetin (tr)
  
• Enrico Nicoletto (pt_BR)
  
• Fran Dieguez (gl)
  
• Guillaume Bernard (fr)
  
• Hugo Carvalho (pt)
  
• Jiri Grönroos (fi)
  
• Justin Nogossek (de)
  
• Jürgen Benvenuti (de)
  
• Kukuh Syafaat (id)
  
• Luming Zh (zh_CN)
  
• Martin (sl)
  
• Philipp Kiemle (de)
  
• Piotr Drąg (pl)
  
• Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)
  
• Sabri Ünal (tr)
  
• Scrambled 777 (hi)
  
• Sergej A. (ru)
  
• Yuri Chornoivan (uk)
  
• Zurab Kargareteli (ka)
  
• Álvaro Burns (pt_BR)
  
• Мирослав Николић (sr)