WinMerge 2.16.25 Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.25 beta?
• Known issues

December 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 the production.

Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.

What Is New in 2.16.25 Beta

File compare

• BugFix: Selection in "Replace" by regular expression doesn't work with \n (#1556)
• BugFix: WinMerge hangs for a certain regex search & replace action for clearing all lines not containing '%' (#1575)
• Add html5 keywords to crystaledit (PR #1565)
• Add css keywords to crystaledit (PR #1572)
• Preliminary exit (performance optimization) for Scrollbars calculation (PR #1574, #1573)
• Fix issue #1583 Syntax highlighting for SQL leaves many things out. (PR #1591, #1583)
• Starting Pane Consistency (#1598)

Binary compare

• BugFix: Crash 0xc0000409 (#1544)
• Binary compare: Allow 64bit versions to open files larger than 2GB (PR #1549)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Fix the problem that WinMerge crashes when pressing the "OK" button in the "Display Columns" dialog in the debug version. (PR #1568)
• BugFix: Crash when copying files/folders (#1558)
• BugFix: File Duplication Bug In Outputted Zips (#1588)
• BugFix: Fixed problem with scrolling to unexpected position when expanding folders (osdn.net #46061)
• BugFix: Fixed incorrect links to files with # in filename in folder comparison report (osdn.net #46082)
• Changes the display processing of the "Comparison result" column for a 3-way folder comparison. (PR #1545)
• Add "Copy All Displayed Columns" to the context menu of the folder compare window. (PR #1615)

Options dialog

• Added Auto-reload modified files option (PR #1611)

Translations

• Translation updates:
• Brazilian (PR #1617,#1630)
• Chinese Simplified (PR #1614)
• Corsican (PR #1628,#1629)
• Galician (#1581)
• German (PR #1616,#1633)
• Hungarian (PR #1618,#1631)
• Lithuanian (PR #1621,#1632)
• Japanese
• Polish (PR #1566)
• Russian (PR #1553,#1554,#1555)
• Slovenian
• Swedish (PR #1594)
• Turkish (PR #1563)

Others

• png optimization(loss less) (PR #1541)
• Fields rearranged for size optimization (PR #1576)
• refactoring Diff3.h (PR #1577)
• Fix: Mismatch between keyword list and comments (PR #1578)
• DiffFileData optimization for same-files (PR #1579)
• Fixed potentially wrong SubEditList ReadOnly attribute storage; refactoring (PR #1580)
• CheckForInvalidUtf8 performance improvement; code cleanup (PR #1582)
• Update unicoder.cpp (PR #1584)
• unicoder.cpp light performance improvements (PR #1586)
• Update markdown.cpp (PR #1590)
• Add a feature for debugging. (PR #1595)

Known issues

• Shell integration does not open winmerge when selecting two folders (#1619)
• 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

• png optimization(loss less) by @pea-sys in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1541
• Changes the display processing of the "Comparison result" column for a 3-way folder comparison. by @tjmprm77 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1545
• Update Russian.po by @Den1704 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1553
• Update Russian.po by @Den1704 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1554
• Update ReadMe-Russian.txt by @Den1704 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1555
• Binary compare: Allow 64bit versions to open files larger than 2GB. by @sdottaka in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1549
• Turkish translation update 2.16.24.0 by @kayazeren in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1563
• Add html5 keywords to crystaledit by @stonee-K in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1565
• Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1566
• Fix the problem that WinMerge crashes when pressing the "OK" button in the "Display Columns" dialog in the debug version. by @tjmprm77 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1568
• Add css keywords to crystaledit by @stonee-K in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1572
• Preliminary exit (performance optimization) for Scrollbars calculation by @hordi in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1574
• Fields rearranged for size optimization by @hordi in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1576
• refactoring Diff3.h by @hordi in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1577
• Fix: Mismatch between keyword list and comments by @stonee-K in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1578
• DiffFileData optimization for same-files by @hordi in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1579
• Fixed potentially wrong SubEditList ReadOnly attribute storage; refactoring by @hordi in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1580
• CheckForInvalidUtf8 performance improvement; code cleanup by @hordi in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1582
• Update unicoder.cpp by @hordi in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1584
• unicoder.cpp light performance improvements by @hordi in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1586
• Update markdown.cpp by @hordi in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1590
• Fix issue #1583 Syntax highlighting for SQL leaves many things out. by @stonee-K in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1591
• Update & Improvements to Swedish Translation by @pgert in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1594
• Add a feature for debugging. by @tjmprm77 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1595
• unify the translations of Filter by @yingang in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1614
• Add "Copy All Displayed Columns" to the context menu of the folder compare window. by @tjmprm77 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1615
• Update German.po by @Mr-Update in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1616
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcello-mco in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1617
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1618
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1621
• Update Corsican translation for 2.16.25 by @Patriccollu in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1628
• Add auto-reload modified files option by @sdottaka in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1611
• Update Corsican translation for 2.16.25 (2nd) by @Patriccollu in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1629
• [xml] Update brazilian.po by @Marcello-mco in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1630
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1631
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1632
• Update German.po by @Mr-Update in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1633

New Contributors

• @pea-sys made their first contribution in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1541
• @Den1704 made their first contribution in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1553
• @hordi made their first contribution in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1574
• @yingang made their first contribution in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1614

Full Changelog: https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/compare/v2.16.24...v2.16.f