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
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Lots of language updates
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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)
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Bugfix: WinMerge was vulnerable to DLL hijacking as described in Microsoft Security Advisory (2269637)
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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