WinMerge 2.16.44 Release Notes
October 2024
About This Release
This is a WinMerge 2.16.44 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 2.16.44
General
- Added Medium size (24px) option to Toolbar icons
Webpage compare
- BugFix: Differences panel for Webpage mode (winwebdiff#7)
Plugins
- BugFix: Floating-point precision issue in CompareMSExcelFiles.sct plugin (#2494)
Translations
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.batfiles 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
- Update Corsican translation for 2.16.44 by @Patriccollu in #2490
- Update Italian language by @bovirus in #2492
- Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2493
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...v2.16.44
Contributors
sdottaka, gerundt, and 17 other contributors