WinMerge 2.16.33 Beta Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.33 beta?
• Known issues

September 2023

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 2.16.33 Beta

General

• Reduce startup time and decrease the usage of Win32 user objects.

File compare

• BugFix: Cannot compare one-line file (#1972)
• BugFix: "Current Difference" specified by double-clicking cannot merge using the "Copy to Right (or Left)" menu. (#1980)
• BugFix: Wimerge saves changes to the wrong file (#1985) (PR #1988)
• BugFix: "Ignore comment differences" still compares inline comments (#2008)
• Update Rust syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #1998)
• [Feature Request] Both Shell Menu (#1986) (PR #2021)

Table compare

• When "Use First Line as Header" is enabled, make the header display the first line regardless of the scroll position when the first line is hidden.
• Generate reports in tabular format for table comparisons. (PR #1983)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where Differences, Left/Right EOL columns, etc. were displayed as undefined values when the file comparison method was Full Contents or Quick Contents and the file size exceeded 64MB.
• BugFix: Fix the problem that when comparing with the BinaryContents compare method, the contents of the files are identical, but if one side is a symbolic link, it is judged to be different. (#1976)
• BugFix: Fixed an issue where values in the Left/Right EOL column may not display correctly when using the Quick contents compare method.
• Add Expand Different Subfolders menu item (#1382) (PR #1964)
• Allow Diff algorithms (patience, histogram) other than default to be applied to folder comparisons (PR #2015) (#2002)
• Show confirmation message when closing a window that took a long time to compare folders

Line filters

• Improve line filters and substitution filters (PR #2032) (#796) (#1620)

Substitution filters

• Avoid infinite loops in the RegularExpression::subst() function when the length of the string matching the pattern is 0
• Improve line filters and substitution filters (PR #2032) (#796) (#1620)

Options dialog

• Execute the "pause" command to prevent the error message from disappearing if the registration of the ShellExtension for Windows 11 fails

Plugins

• BugFix: WinMerge cannot successfully disable some of its Plugins (#2012)
• Update jq to version 1.7

Manual

• Manual: Use po4a for manual translation (PR #1994) (#499)

Translations

• Translation updates:
• Brazilian (PR #1969,#2001,#2025)
• Chinese Traditional (PR #1953,#1971,#2017,#2026)
• Corsican (PR #2022)
• German (PR #1952,#1977,#1989)
• Hungarian (PR #1968,#1999)
• Japanese
• Korean (PR #1979,#2030)
• Lithuanian (PR #1974,#2018,#2027)
• Polish (PR #1990)
• Portuguese (PR #1973,#2014)
• Slovenian
• Ukrainian (PR #1955)

Internals

• Optimize inserts in std containers using reserve (PR #2000)

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 German.po by @Mr-Update in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1952
• udpate zh-cn translation by @yingang in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1953
• Update Ukrainian.po by @sergey-astral in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1955
• Add Expand Different Subfolders menu item by @sdottaka in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1964
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1968
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1969
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1971
• Update Portuguese.po by @hugok79 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1973
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1974
• Update German.po by @Mr-Update in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1977
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1979
• Generate reports in tabular format for table comparisons. by @sdottaka in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1983
• Fix issue #1985: Wimerge saves changes to the wrong file by @sdottaka in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1988
• Update by @Justman10000 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1989
• Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1990
• Manual: Use po4a for manual translation by @sdottaka in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1994
• Update Rust syntax highlighting keyword list. by @tjmprm77 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1998
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1999
• Optimize inserts in std containers using reserve by @GermanAizek in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2000
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2001
• Update Portuguese.po by @hugok79 in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2014
• Allow Diff algorithms (patience, histogram) other than default to be … by @sdottaka in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2015
• update zh-cn translations by @yingang in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2017
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2018
• Folder compare: Add Both Shell Menu (refs #1986) by @sdottaka in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2021
• Update Corsican translation for 2.16.33 by @Patriccollu in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2022
• [XML] Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2025
• update zh-cn translations by @yingang in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2026
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2027
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2030
• Improve line filters and substitution filters by @sdottaka in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/2032

New Contributors

• @sergey-astral made their first contribution in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1955
• @Justman10000 made their first contribution in https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/pull/1989

Full Changelog: https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/compare/v2.16.32...v2.16.33