WinMerge 2.16.45.0 Beta Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.45.0 beta?
• Known issues

November 2024

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 2.16.45.0 Beta

General

• BugFix: Second monitor - BIG title bar v 2.16.44 (#2510,#2512,#2540,#2549)
• BugFix: Window close button is not extending to the edge of the screen when maximized (#2520)
• BugFix: When WinMerge window is maximized, it prevents auto-hidden Windows 11 taskbar from appearing (#2518)
• Foreground and background title bars are distinguishable (PR #2497)
• Title bar background color and text color follow windows settings when not customized (PR #2505)
• Main Menu toggle Show/Hide (PR #2509)
• Inactive title text chosen by inactive title color (PR #2544)
• Reduce the contrast of inactive title bar text (PR #2545)
• System Icon turn gray when app inactive (PR #2547)

File compare

• BugFix: Wrong line gets copied over when selecting text (#2499)
• BugFix: Bug Report: Display Issues When Resizing WinMerge Across Dual Monitors (#2514)
• BugFix: Diff renders incorrectly with "Cascadia Mono" variant (#2525)
• BugFix: The height of the lines connecting moving blocks in the location pane may be incorrect
• BugFix: Crash on opening 2 files via drag & drop (#2548)
• BugFix: A crash could occur if a single invalid file path was specified in the "Select files or folders" window.
• BugFix: "Debug Assertion Failed!" Error When Refreshing After Deleting All Content in Left or Right Pane (#2556)
• Adjust right-click deselect from down to up to preserve RB + scroll anywhere (PR #2511)
• Press 1-3 to copy current diff line to clipbd while popup menu is open (PR #2532)
• Caret (text cursor) follow windows settings (PR #2534)
• Feature Request: Fixed-Width Font in "Find what" and "Replace with" Fields (#2539)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Crash on typing while search is in progress (#1814), (PR #2557)

Options dialog

• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Colors/System)" dialog. (PR #2506)
• The "Clear all recent items" button in the Shell Integration category of the Options dialog now clears combobox history as well as jump lists. (#2555)

Select Files or Folders dialog

• BugFix: Crash on opening 2 files via drag & drop (#2548)

Plugins

• Apache Tika plugin: Update Apache Tika to 3.0.0

Installer

• BugFix: When uninstalling WinMerge, the Shell Extension for Windows 11 was not uninstalled.
• Installer - Run PowerShell hidden and with -NoProfile when installing silently (#2515)

Translations

• Translation updates:
• Brazilian (PR #2526)
• Chinese Simplified (PR #2501,#2524)
• French (PR #2536)
• Hungarian (PR #2495,#2523)
• Italian (PR #2529)
• Japanese
• Korean (PR #2496,#2533)
• Lithuanian (PR #2503,#2537)
• Portuguese (PR #2507)
• Russian (PR #2500,#2502,#2521,#2522,#2528,#2531,#2538,#2542)

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)