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From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2013-02-03 15:57:51
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We have now released WinMerge 2.14.0, a new stable version.This is our first release in more than 3 years, and we are very happy to finally make it happen.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 - Bugfix: Shell extension uses unquoted program path - Bugfix: Compare by size always checked file times too - Bugfix: Crash when pasting from clipboard - Bugfix: Keeps verifing path even turned off in options - Bugfix: "+" and "-" from the number block don't work in the editor - Bugfix: Date format did not respect Regional Settings - Bugfix: WinMerge contained a vulnerability in handling project files (http://www.zeroscience.mk/mk/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2011-4997.php) - Bugfix: WinMerge was vulnerable to DLL hijacking as described in Microsoft Security Advisory (2269637) - Installer: Drop Windows 9x/ME/NT4 support and use Microsoft runtime libraries installer - Installer: Remove Uninstall shortcut from start menu folder - Installer: Don't install quick launch icon for Windows 7 The new version can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge/files/stable/2.14.0/ NOTE: 7-zip plugin installer is downloadable from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge/files/7-zip-plugin/ Regards Christian List |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2008-04-05 16:12:17
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We have now released WinMerge 2.8, a new stable version. Notable in this release: - 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 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 |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2007-10-11 00:38:16
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We have now released WinMerge 2.6.12, a new stable version with bugfixes and translation updates. 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 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 |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2007-06-25 22:16:09
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We have now released WinMerge 2.6.8, a new stable version with bugfixes and translation updates. 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 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 |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2007-03-29 16:45:12
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We have now released WinMerge 2.6.6, a new stable version with bugfixes = and translation updates. 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=3D13216&package_id=3D= 11248 NOTE: 7-zip plugin installer is downloadable from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D13216&package_id=3D= 143957 Regards Christian List |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2006-10-13 13:55:36
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We have now released WinMerge 2.6, a new stable version. New in 2.6 since 2.4.10 stable release: - New icons and splash screen - Simpler and auto-closing folder compare progress bar - Line numbers in file compare - Word-wrap in file compare - GUI for bookmarks in file compare - Better character-level difference indication in file compare - Merge difference which has cursor inside it (no need to select difference first) - Improved Project file saving and editing - User-defined folder for file filters - Renaming items in folder compare 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 |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2006-08-14 13:11:12
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We have now released WinMerge 2.4.10, a new stable version with a few bugfixes. Next stable release will be 2.6.0. Important changes after 2.4.8 stable release: - bugfix: crash when closing window with Ctrl+W - bugfix: PgUp key moved file two screens up - bugfix: last line in file filter file was not read - bugfix: sometimes changes done outside WinMerge were not detected when folder compare was refreshed - bugfix: crash when switching to empty file with F6-key - bugfix: wrong cursor position after Find caused same text to be found again 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 |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2006-06-14 02:10:33
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We have now released WinMerge 2.4.8, a new stable version with bugfixes and translation updates. Important changes since 2.4.6 stable release: - bugfix: root folders weren't handled correctly in some cases - bugfix: replace all didn't work - bugfix: crash when there was binary data in text file - bugfix: crash when updating location view (can be a reason for mysterious crashes some users experience) - bugfix: PHP/ASP Syntax Highlighting didn't work if begin of the file was not visible - bugfix: Open-dialog could hang when path editbox was empty and Browse-button was selected - bugfix: subfolder names weren't copied when Copy Pathnames was selected - new ASP/NET file filter - add '*.pm' and '*.plx' file extensions to Perl syntax highlighter - translation updates This is the last 2.4.X stable release. Next stable release will be 2.6.0. The new version can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=11248 Regards Christian List |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2006-03-01 18:59:08
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We have now released WinMerge 2.4.6, a new stable version with bugfixes and translation updates. Important changes after 2.4.4 stable release: - many diffengine fixes and improvements - Ctrl+F3 and Shift+Ctrl+F3 work now for finding selected text - ClearCase support improvement (WinMerge recognizes commandline parameters CC gives to it) - project file is opened only when one file is drag&dropped (can now compare two project files drag&dropping them to WinMerge) - support for Unicode file filter files - new plugin to compare MS Excel files - bugfix: resource leak in ShellExtension - bugfix: WinMerge kept compared folders locked - bugfix: copying unique binary file preserves binary status - bugfix: crash when merging out-of-sync difference - bugfixes for linedifference highlight - translation updates The new version can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=11248 Regards Christian List |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2005-11-12 21:28:40
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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 |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2005-09-30 00:51:20
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We have now released WinMerge 2.4, a new stable version. Some of the new features in version 2.4 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 show XML 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 |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2005-06-01 00:48:37
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We have now released WinMerge 2.2.4, a new stable version with bugfixes and translation updates. This new release is downloadable from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=11248 Important changes after 2.2.2 release: - bug fixes: -- patch generation could delete original UTF-8 files -- unicode version added garbage to files when spaces added instead of tabs -- opening file could fail in some cases -- saving UTF-8 files didn't add BOM bytes always - NSIS files syntax highlighting in editor - new Turkish translation - translation updates - removed 7-zip integration dlls from *.zip NOTE: 7-zip plugin installer is downloadable from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=143957 If you are interested in translating WinMerge into your language, we have set up a page especially for you at http://winmerge.org/developer/l10n/ Regards Christian List |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2005-03-25 03:33:28
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We have now released WinMerge 2.2.2, a new stable version. Important changes since the 2.2.0 release: - lots of bugs fixed (including a bug in path handling that caused some people to be unable to access files on network shares) - visible area indicator in location pane - removal of archive support from installer build, separate 7-zip plugin installer is downloadable from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=143957 - translation updates Some of the new features introduced in version 2.2.0: - Unicode support - Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes - Location pane shows map of files compared - Archive file support using 7-zip - Shell Integration - More customisable directory compare - Moved lines detection in file compare - Rewritten undo/redo (no more crashes!) - Merge-mode for faster merging (like in 1.7) - Plugins The new version can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=11248 If you are interested in translating WinMerge into your language, we have set up a page especially for you at http://winmerge.org/developer/l10n/ Regards Christian List |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2004-11-10 20:05:53
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We are happy to announce that we have finally released WinMerge version 2.2 Some of the new features in version 2.2: - Unicode support - Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes - Location pane shows map of files compared - Archive file support using 7-zip - Shell Integration - More customisable directory compare - Moved lines detection in file compare - Rewritten undo/redo (no more crashes!) - Merge-mode for faster merging (like in 1.7) - Plugins The new version can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=11248 We have also given our homepage a much needed update at http://winmerge.org If you are interested in translating WinMerge into your language, we have set up a page especially for you at http://winmerge.org/developer/l10n/ Regards Christian List |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2004-09-30 17:48:08
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We have frozen the GUI, so no more changes will be made to the GUI before the actual stable 2.2 release. This means that now is a good time to help translate WinMerge into your favorite language. Take a look at http://winmerge.org/developer/l10n and see how you can help. Some of the new features in 2.2: - Unicode support - Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes - Location pane shows map of files compared - Archive file support using 7-zip - Shell Integration - More customisable directory compare - Moved lines detection in file compare - Rewritten undo/redo (no more crashes!) - Merge-mode for faster merging (like in 1.7) - Plugins This is the first release candidate build before the stable 2.2 release. Note that it shows 2.1.8.0 as version number. The new version can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=29158 Regards Christian |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2003-12-12 15:35:35
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We have now released WinMerge 2.0.2 Compared to version 2.0, this release contains bugfixes, and WinMerge is translated into 4 additional languages making it 15 in total. The new languages are Brazilian, Catalan, Norwegian and Swedish. This will be our last stable release from the 2.0 branch, the next stable release will be from the 2.1 branch. Regards Christian |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2003-11-21 01:32:07
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We have now released WinMerge beta 2.1.4.0 New in this beta release is support for filter plugins, and some samples are also included. There is an extra horizontal diffpane. You can now output a diff file in various formats. Last but certainly not least, this version also includes WinMergeU.exe which has unicode support. Regards Christian |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2003-08-04 18:15:51
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We have now released WinMerge 2.0 We have been working on it for a long time, and we are very pleased to finally announce it. This is a stable release, which means we cannot find any errors which would cause you to loose any files. Regards Christian _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2003-07-01 16:56:21
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We have now released WinMerge 2.0.0.2 Release Candidate 2 and beta 2.1.0.0 As you can see, we have branched the code, so 2.0.0.2 should get more and more stable, while 2.1.0.0 has all the new stuff the developers are putting in. Please report any errors at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13216&atid=113216 And remember to include which version of WinMerge you found the error in. Regards Christian _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2003-06-05 15:51:54
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We have now released WinMerge 2.0.0.0 Release Candidate 1, this means that if no serious errors are found in this build, then it will be promoted to be release 2.0.0.0. Please report all errors at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13216&atid=113216 This version also includes an updated documentation, please read it carefully and report errors and/or missing things. Regards Christian _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2003-05-19 17:46:20
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We have now released WinMerge beta 1.9.2.2, the list of changes since beta 1.9.1.4 is long and can be found at https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=160321 This beta also includes language files *.lang for these languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish. German and Danish should be up to date now, the rest are only partly translated, please tell us if you are interested in translating the remaining parts, or if you would like to translate into some other language. Regards Christian _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2003-03-07 18:17:57
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We have now released WinMerge beta 1.9.1.3, the list of changes since beta 1.9.1.1 is long and can be found at https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=144808 This beta also includes language files *.lang for these languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Some of them are only partly translated, please tell us if you can translate the remaining parts, or if you would like to translate into some other language. Regards Christian _________________________________________________________________ Send søde postkort til søde mennesker http://www.msn.dk/postkort |
From: <cl...@gs...> - 2003-02-07 17:25:49
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A new beta release of WinMerge version 1.9.1.1 has been released for your enjoyment. This time we have included a .zip file with the source used to build version 1.9.1.1. Please report all bugs you find in the bugtracker at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=113216&group_id=13216&func=browse Regards Christian |
From: Christian L. <lis...@ho...> - 2002-12-17 16:04:18
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We have released WinMerge beta version 17th December 2002 (1.7.2.11) for testing purposes. We are making good progress toward making a new (and long awaited) release version of WinMerge, we hope that this beta build will prove to have only minor bugs, if that is the case then an actual release will come soon. Please report any bugs you find in this beta build on https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13216&atid=113216 If you find a bug which has to do with comparing files, then please also include the files in your bug report, so we may reproduce the bug. If anybody is interested in translating the user interface to your language, then this might be a good time to do it. Grab a copy of merge.rc here http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/winmerge/WinMerge/Merge.rc and when you are done upload the file as a patch here https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13216&atid=313216 Please note that partial translations already exists for Brasillian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Turkish. They are in different states of completeness, please evaluate if you want to update those, or start over from scratch. Fixed bugs and new functionality in this beta build: [ 447185 ] UNIX and DOS line-feeds aren't different [ 494865 ] Diff.txt left in startup dir [ 556407 ] binary files differ but are equal [ 640548 ] scroll to current difference 2002-11-26 Perry Implemented recursive directory delete Fix bug in EOL handling in crystaltextbuffer, and add optional EOL sensitivity. Added optional EOL insensitivity to gnu diff IO.c. Added status bar progress (file count) indicator during scanning Fixed tooltips of toolbar buttons to list correct hotkeys Split "Show Unique" option into "Show Left Unique" and "Show Right Unique" 2002-12-02 Added left files, left dirs, right files, right dirs to status bar feedback _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail |
From: Dean G. <de...@co...> - 2001-02-21 06:57:09
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FYI: A new beta version of WinMerge is available on the anonymous FTP server. This version now lists the file modification dates in the directory view. Regards, Dean |