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WinMerge 2.16.15 Beta Release Notes

September 2021

About This Release

This is a WinMerge beta release which is meant for preview the current state of WinMerge development. This release is not recommended for the production.

Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.

What Is New in 2.16.15 Beta

General

  • BugFix: WinMerge would crash when launched if the registry or INI file contained invalid values.
  • BugFix: Winmerge Crash when comparing 2 files from Windows Explorer context menu (#808, #908, #913)
  • BugFix: Incorrect text color for selected menu item on Windows 11
  • BugFix: 50% cpu use by winmergeu.exe after program closed (#903)
  • Digitally sign packages (#152)

File compare

  • BugFix: The mouse cursor did not change to an hourglass when the files or plugins were taking a long time to load.
  • BugFix: Save Middle and Save Middle As menu items were not enabled when comparing three files.
  • BugFix: A two-pane window was displayed even though New (3panes) → Table menu item was selected.
  • BugFix: The height of each pane in the Diff pane was calculated incorrectly when comparing three files.
  • BugFix: Unicode SMP chars misrendered after performing a find (#914)
  • BugFix: Crash when pressing Shift+F4 key
  • BugFix: Replace slow (#940)
  • BugFix: When moving in the scroll pane, the selected position is incorrect (#970)
  • BugFix: When the Diff pane was redisplayed, the scroll position of the Diff pane was not appropriate. (osdn.net #42862)
  • Make "Do not close this box" checkbox in search window On by default (#941)

Image compare

  • BugFix: Duplicate menu shortcut in translations (#905)
  • BugFix: Image comparison (winimerge #24)

Project file

  • Add a feature to save/restore compare options to/from a project file.(#498) (PR #915)

Options dialog

  • Add a feature to set items saved to or restored from the project file. (PR #953)

Plugins

  • New unpacker plugins:
  • DecompileJVM
  • DecompileIL
  • DisassembleNative

Command line

  • Added /c column number command line option
  • Added /EnableExitCode command line option

Shell extension

  • BugFix: WinMerge's extended menu items were doubly inserted into the context menu of Explorer's navigation pane. (osdn.net #42702)
  • BugFix: Right click - compare - is unclear (#249)
  • Added a new DLL (WinMergeContextMenu.dll) for the Windows 11 Explorer context menu (currently unstable and not registered by default) (PR #954)

Translations

  • Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #910)
  • Dutch (PR #921,#969)
  • German (PR #965,#977)
  • Hungarian (PR #937,#955)
  • Italian (PR #911)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR #932)
  • Portuguese (PR #956,#964,#976)
  • Russian (PR #901,#927,#963)
  • Slovenian
  • Swedish (PR #974)
  • Turkish (PR #899)

Internals

  • README.md: Make it clear that requirements are to build, not use the application (PR #942)
  • compiler-calculated maximum value for m_SourceDefs (PR #966)

Known issues

  • Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)
  • Very slow to compare significantly different directories (GitHub #322)
  • Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (GitHub #296)
Source: readme.md, updated 2021-09-20