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WinMerge 2.14.0 (stable) released

WinMerge is a Windows tool for visual difference display and merging, for both
files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring editor. Windows
Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line diff and highlights diffs
inside lines.

Notable new items in the 2.14.0 stable release:

  • Update PCRE to version 8.10
  • Update SCEW to version 1.1.2
  • Improve startup time (#2788142)
  • Add menuitems for selecting automatic or manual prediffing
  • Add accelerator keys for Shell context menu
  • Add /xq command line switch for closing WinMerge after identical files and not showing message
  • Allow setting codepage from command line
  • Allow giving encoding name as custom codepage
  • Add options GUI for quick compare limit
  • Expand/collapse folders from keyboard
  • Improve detecting XML files in file compare
  • Lots of language updates... read more
Posted by Christian List 2013-02-03

WinMerge 2.12.4 (stable) released

WinMerge is a Windows tool for visual difference display and merging, for both
files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring editor. Windows
Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line diff and highlights diffs
inside lines.

New in 2.12 stable releases:
- Tree-view for folder compare
- Include items in unique folders in compare results
- General compare result statuses
- Remember last used target folder for Copy/Move to in folder compare
- More accurate location pane
- Re-load files changed in disk behind WinMerge
- Refresh compare results after changing line filter
- Add option to show Open-dialog on WinMerge startup
- PCRE updated to version 7.8
- Installer can add WinMerge to system path
- New options page for Shell Integration options
- Better Unicode file detection for full contents compare
- Lots of bugs fixed... read more

Posted by Tim Gerundt 2009-06-09

WinMerge 2.12.2 (stable) released

WinMerge is a Windows tool for visual difference display and merging, for both
files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring editor. Windows
Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line diff and highlights diffs
inside lines.

New in 2.12 stable releases:
- Tree-view for folder compare
- Include items in unique folders in compare results
- General compare result statuses
- Remember last used target folder for Copy/Move to in folder compare
- More accurate location pane
- Re-load files changed in disk behind WinMerge
- Refresh compare results after changing line filter
- Add option to show Open-dialog on WinMerge startup
- PCRE updated to version 7.8
- Installer can add WinMerge to system path
- New options page for Shell Integration options
- Better Unicode file detection for full contents compare
- Lots of bugs fixed... read more

Posted by Tim Gerundt 2009-04-01

WinMerge 2.12.0 (stable) released

WinMerge is a Windows tool for visual difference display and merging, for both
files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring editor. Windows
Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line diff and highlights diffs
inside lines.

New in 2.12 stable releases:
- Tree-view for folder compare
- Include items in unique folders in compare results
- General compare result statuses
- Remember last used target folder for Copy/Move to in folder compare
- More accurate location pane
- Re-load files changed in disk behind WinMerge
- Refresh compare results after changing line filter
- Add option to show Open-dialog on WinMerge startup
- PCRE updated to version 7.8
- Installer can add WinMerge to system path
- New options page for Shell Integration options
- Better Unicode file detection for full contents compare
- Lots of bugs fixed... read more

Posted by Tim Gerundt 2009-03-07

WinMerge 2.10.4 (stable) released

WinMerge is a Windows tool for visual difference display and merging, for both
files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring editor. Windows
Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line diff and highlights diffs
inside lines.

New in 2.10 stable release:
- Installer installs WinMerge for all users
- Add ShellExtension menu for drive letters (root folders)
- Unlimited undo in the editor
- Big Manual update
- PCRE (regular expression library) update (to version 7.7)
- Use PCRE in editor regular expressions (Find/Replace)
- Plugins disabled by default, new option to enable them
- Location pane flickering fixed
- Focus losing after folder compare operations fixed
- Lots of bugs fixed... read more

Posted by Tim Gerundt 2009-01-13

WinMerge 2.10.2 (stable) released

WinMerge is a Windows tool for visual difference display and merging, for both
files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring editor. Windows
Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line diff and highlights diffs
inside lines.

New in 2.10 stable release:
- Installer installs WinMerge for all users
- Add ShellExtension menu for drive letters (root folders)
- Unlimited undo in the editor
- Big Manual update
- PCRE (regular expression library) update (to version 7.7)
- Use PCRE in editor regular expressions (Find/Replace)
- Plugins disabled by default, new option to enable them
- Location pane flickering fixed
- Focus losing after folder compare operations fixed
- Lots of bugs fixed... read more

Posted by Tim Gerundt 2008-11-22

WinMerge 2.8 (stable) released

WinMerge is a Windows tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring editor. Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line diff and highlights diffs inside lines.

New in version 2.8 since 2.6.x stable releases:
- Tabbed interface for compare windows
- Folder compare is now multi threaded - speed improvement
- New PO files based translation system
- New linefilter implementation (fixes e.g. line-end matching bug)
- Open binary files to file compare
- Allow hiding margin in file compare
- New backup file options
- Improved line filter dialog
- Printing improvements
- Match lines inside differences
- Create HTML reports from file compare
- New dialog for selecting folder compare columns
- New icon for Shell Integration
- Fixed bug WinMerge could not detect UTF-8 files without BOM
- Resolve conflict files (CVS, SVN, ...)
- New translations: Croatian and Portuguese... read more

Posted by Christian List 2008-04-07

WinMerge 2.6.12 (stable) released

WinMerge is a Win32 tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring editor. Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line diff and highlights diffs inside lines.

Notable in this release:
- Change active file when using Goto to other file's line number
- Bugfix: Renaming right-only file renamed parent folder
- Bugfix: Diff visibility and selection problems when word-wrap enabled
- Bugfix: Copy selected text to Replace-dialog
- Bugfix: Folder filter bug in filter test dialog
- Bugfix: ClearCase integration was not properly uninstalled
- Translation updates for Chinese Simplified and Russian... read more

Posted by Christian List 2007-10-11

WinMerge 2.6.8 (stable) released

WinMerge is a tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories.

Notable in this release:
- Do not allow hiding folder compare confirmation dialogs
- New filefilters: Delphi, C#, Symbian
- Bugfix: Pressing ESC during item rename caused exit
- Bugfix: Shell Integration downgrade caused a crash
- Bugfix: Zip/Both added files not selected to archive
- Korean translation update... read more

Posted by Christian List 2007-06-25

WinMerge 2.6.6 (stable) released

WinMerge is a tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories.

Notable in this release:
- CSS files syntax higligting
- Bugfix: ShellExtension installing created invalid registry key
- Bugfix: crash when hiding folder compare "up arrow" item
- Translation updates for Bulgarian, French and Polish languages

The new version can be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=11248... read more

Posted by Christian List 2007-03-29