We have now released WinMerge 2.4.2, a new stable version with bugfixes and
translation updates.
Important changes after 2.4.0 stable release:
- New plugin to compare MS Excel files
- translation updates
- manual updates
- bugfix: filtered files were compared
- bugfix: crash when saving filenames with different cases
- bugfix: allow opening archive files from folder compare
- bugfix: find string got cleared after rescanning files
- bugfix: canceling Visual SourceSafe checkout didn't work
- bugfix: Visual SourceSafe did hang sometimes (misdetected projectfile)
- feature: Ctrl+W closes active window
- feature: modern file selection dialog
New in 2.4.0 since 2.2.4 stable release:
- Line-diff for all differences (enable/disable from menu View/View Line
Differences)
- Compared paths shown in caption
- Highlight character difference in lines
- UI for project files (Open-dialog and File-menu)
- New (quick) compare method for directory compare (Options/compare)
- Copy lines with linenumbers from editor (Edit/Advanced)
- New options-dialog
- Own menus for directory and file compare
- Can open multiple file- and directory-compare windows
- Limit to single instance
- Allow selecting syntax highlight colors
- Show progressbar in directory compare statepane
- New plugin to compare XML files
- New plugin to compare MS Word files
- Ability to compare big binary files and overall speed improvement
for comparing big files
- Improvements to archive support
- Simple folder compare reports
- Improvement to Shell Extension for re-selecting first item
The new version can be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=11248
NOTE: 7-zip plugin installer is downloadable from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=143957
Regards
Christian List
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