WinMerge 2.16.23 Beta Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.23 beta?
• Known issues

September 2022

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 production environments.

Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.

What Is New in 2.16.23 Beta

General

• BugFix: Fix an issue where filenames containing "&" are not displayed properly in the MDI tab bar and its tooltips. (PR #1466)

Color schemes

• Create Midnight.ini (PR #1430)

File compare

• BugFix: Non existing backup directory should be automatically created (#1438)
• BugFix: Bug: Can't copy selected text, if it has non-changed lines (#1507)
• Remember zoom level for all files (#1433)
• The feature will allow the user to right-click the selected lines and… add them to Line Filter so that those lines added to the Line Filter will be ignored if found in any file. (PR #1481)
• CrystalEdit/parsers/SQL: Added more keywords (PR #1493)

Table compare

• Bugfix: Inline differences ware not displayed even if the caret is moved to the position of an inline difference that is hidden due to the narrow column width.

Webpage compare

• [EXPERIMENTAL] Webpage Compare: Highlight differences (PR #1357)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Disable rename operations when in read-only mode in the folder compare window. (PR #1434)
• BugFix: Fix an issue where renaming to a file name or directory name containing "\" or "/" is not done properly. (PR #1451)
• BugFix: Fix "Left to Right" and "Right to Left" copying in 2-way folder comparison. (PR #1495)
• BugFix: Folder compare with jpg images crashes (#1176) (Previous versions were linked with unfixed freeimage.)

Archive support

• Update 7-Zip to 22.01 (#1425)

Translations

• Translation updates:
• Brazilian (PR #1436,#1437,#1441,#1459,#1463)
• Corsican (PR #1443,#1480,#1486)
• Dutch (PR #1474)
• Finnish (PR #1460)
• French (PR #1491)
• German (PR #1455,#1484)
• Hungarian (PR #1431,#1454)
• Japanese
• Lithuanian (PR #1457,#1485)
• Polish (PR #1427,#1456)
• Portuguese (PR #1453,#1490)
• Russian (PR #1426)
• Slovenian (#1424,PR #1461)
• Spanish (PR #1406)

Known issues

• Suggestion to make the result of image comparison more reliable (#1391)
• Crashes when comparing large files (#325)
• Very slow to compare significantly different directories (#322)
• Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (#296)

What's Changed

• Update Russian.po by @wvxwxvw in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1426
• Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1427
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1431
• Create Midnight.ini by @HaroldPetersInskipp in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1430
• Disable rename operations when in read-only mode in the folder compare window. by @tjmprm77 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1434
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcello-mco in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1436
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcello-mco in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1437
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcello-mco in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1441
• Update Corsican translation in August by @Patriccollu in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1443
• Spanish translation update by @mauriciogracia in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1406
• Fix an issue where renaming to a file name or directory name containing "\" or "/" is not done properly. by @tjmprm77 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1451
• Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1453
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1454
• Update German.po by @Mr-Update in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1455
• Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1456
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1457
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcello-mco in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1459
• Update Slovenian.po by @JadranR in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1461
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcello-mco in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1463
• Fix an issue where filenames containing "&" are not displayed properly in the MDI tab bar and its tooltips. by @tjmprm77 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1466
• Update Dutch.po by @RockyTDR in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1474
• Update Corsican translation in September by @Patriccollu in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1480
• The feature will allow the user to right-click the selected lines and… by @srgank in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1481
• Update German.po by @Mr-Update in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1484
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1485
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcello-mco in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1486
• Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1490
• Update French.po by @slolo2000 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1491
• CrystalEdit/parsers/SQL: Added more keywords by @baka0815 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1493
• Fix "Left to Right" and "Right to Left" copying in 2-way folder comparison. by @tjmprm77 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1495
• [EXPERIMENTAL] Webpage Compare: Highlight differences by @sdottaka in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1357

New Contributors

• @HaroldPetersInskipp made their first contribution in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1430
• @Marcello-mco made their first contribution in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1436
• @srgank made their first contribution in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1481
• @baka0815 made their first contribution in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1493

Full Changelog: https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/compare/v2.16.22...v2.16.23