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WinMerge 2.16.17 Beta Release Notes

December 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 2.16.17 Beta

General

  • New Option to ignore numbers. (PR #1025,#923)
  • Add the feature to display tooltips on the MDI tab. (PR #1038)
  • Issue with closing WinMerge with Esc keyboard key (#1052)
  • Add an "Defaults" section to the ini file (PR #1071)

File compare

  • BugFix: Release 2.16.16 crashes when comparing large files - likely a regression (#1036)
  • BugFix: Fixed C#(Java, JavaScript) keyword highlighting. (#1040)
  • BugFix: The current pane switches without me asking it to. (#1050)
  • BugFix: Fix PHP syntax highlighting. (PR #1055)
  • BugFix: Source Files Comparison doesn't seem to Work properly (#1057)
  • Add D syntax highlighting. (PR #1042)
  • Improved 'Match similar lines' option (#1013)
  • Make the 'Match similar lines' option work for 3-way comparisons (PR #1051,#510)
  • Please add a huge icon for "Filter is active" (#1056)

Image compare

  • Added support for creating multi-page image compare report (osdn.net #43374)

Folder compare

  • BugFix: Fixed a problem where Duplicate Group Numbers were not assigned to files with the same content but different file names.
  • BugFix: Fix crash when comparing 3 folders if additional properties were added
  • FolderCompare: Improve performance when tree mode is disabled (#PR #1069)

Project file

  • Add a feature to save/restore the "Ignore numbers" setting to/from a project file. (PR #1068)

Patch Generator dialog

  • Put the diff patch to the clipboard rather than to files (#923)

Plugins

  • BugFix: Fixed the problem that Plugins->Reload Plugins menu item does not work.

Archive support

  • Update 7-Zip to 21.06

Shell extension

  • ShellExtension for Windows 11: Implemented advanced menu

Translations

  • New translation:
  • Corsican (PR #1072,#1085)
  • Translation updates:
  • Chinese Traditional (PR #1079)
  • German (PR #1062,#1086,#1088)
  • Hungarian (PR #1032)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR #1078)
  • Lithuanian (PR #1043,#1061,#1082,#1087)
  • Polish (PR #1049)
  • Portuguese (PR #1034,#1039,#1060,#1065)
  • Russian (PR #1031)
  • Slovenian

Internals

  • BugFix: Fix typo in BCMenu.cpp (PR #1054)
  • BugFix: Return better HRESULTs (PR #1077)
  • Make it buildable for ARM32 architecture

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 2021-12-19