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Changes for v2.16.6 - v2.16.7 (pre-release)

  • General:
  • Bugfix: The icons on a 43" 4K screen are too small.(GitHub #276)
  • BugFix: GUI glitches/bugs (GitHub #316)
  • BugFix: Several issues regarding i18n (GitHub #314)
  • Add Solarized Dark/Light color scheme (GitHub #287)
  • Compile WinMerge with ASLR and CFG enabled (GitHub #315)
  • File compare:
  • Bugfix: Diff Pane issues (GitHub #307)
  • Bugfix: Codepage not updated on refresh (GitHub #320)
  • Bugfix: Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)
  • Bugfix: WinMerge does not recognize the same files (GitHub #332)
  • Bugfix: Moved ghost lines are shown in the wrong color (GitHub #358)
  • Bugfix: opening same file (GitHub #362)
  • Bugfix: Find dialog sometimes remembers old text to start a new find instead of the new text. (GitHub #368)
  • Bugfix: Fix a problem where markers that are out of the range of the current difference appear in the difference pane. (osdn.net 40407)
  • Bugfix: HTML5 encoding () is ignored. (osdn.net #40476)
  • '=' should be included in word separator (osdn.net #40224)
  • Allow specifying default for EOL warning checkbox (GitHub #297)
  • Only indent existing lines (GitHub #356)
  • Table compare:
  • Made it possible to display the contents of CSV and TSV files like spreadsheet software.
  • Folder compare:
  • Bugfix: DST causes incorrect dates shown in Date column (GitHub #299)
  • Bugfix: Long filename issue (GitHub #339)
  • Bugfix: Winmerge Freeze if large number of files are listed in Window View (GitHub #348)
  • Bugfix: Change to disable some menu items that should not be executed for directories, when directories are selected in the folder window. (GitHub PR #366)
  • Bugfix: Update DirViewColItems.cpp (GitHub #376)
  • Bugfix: Fix the problem that not 3 panes but 2 panes file compare window displays when executing "Compare As" > "Binary" or "Compare As" > "Image" in the context menu in the folder compare window with selecting 3 items. (GitHub PR #381)
  • Bugfix: Fix a problem where a text file could be considered a binary file. (osdn.net #40296)
  • Bugfix: crash when clicking [Merge]-> [Delete] menu item while renaming a file
  • Add a feature generating a patch from directories (#283) (GitHub PR #331)
  • added bin and obj directories to C# filter (GitHub PR #365)
  • Image compare:
  • Bugfix: Scrolling behavior when dragging images is wrong (osdn.net #40205)
  • Open dialog:
  • Bugfix: Open dialogs are sometimes left as garbage (osdn.net #40487)
  • Browse button in the file/dir selection show wrong path (GitHub #346)
  • Options dialog:
  • Bugfix: Pressing the [Compare/Binary] category button in the Options dialog twice will cause a crash. (osdn.net #40308)
  • Plugins
  • Bugfix: Fix handling of line breaks in SortAscending, SortDescending (osdn.net PR #40266)
  • Bugfix: Error when comparing images in the CompareMSExcelFiles.sct plugin (osdn.net #40472)
  • CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Include Excel Addin files (*.xlam) (GitHub PR #269)
  • Add support for C# and TypeScript (GitHub PR #382)
  • Add a plugin for Visio (osdn.net PR #40473)
  • Plugin fixes for the new Table Compare
  • (CompareMSExcelFiles.sct, IgnoreFieldsComma.dll, IgnoreFieldsTab.dll)



Changes for v2.16.2 - v2.16.3 beta

  • General:
  • - Bugfix: Slow startup with documents folder redirected to high-latency
  • network drive (Bitbucket #155)
  • - Add VisualElementsManifest for Windows 10 start menu (Bitbucket PR #47)
  • - Reduce the size of the executable file
  • File compare:
  • - Bugfix: Location and Diff pane visibility broken in 2.16.1
  • (GitHub #138, Bitbucket #163, sf.net #2228)
  • - Bugfix: Temporary files could not be created (GitHub #143, sf.net #2220)
  • - Bugfix: Trivial bugfix (GitHub #155)
  • - Bugfix: Regression: Incorrectly shows 'no changes' for large portions of
  • certain binary files! (Bitbucket #162)
  • - Small tweaks for HTML file reports (Bitbucket PR #44, #45)
  • - Made diff algorithm selectable by using libXDiff
  • algorithms: default(Myers), minimal, patience, histogram
  • - triple click to select whole line (Bitbucket #144)
  • - Add support for merging word level diffs in selection
  • Demo: https://i.gyazo.com/af18960bd1f121213a2cd9287cae9cf4.gif
  • Folder compare:
  • - Bugfix: WinMerge 3-Way Compare Bugs: Always Shows Unique Items.
  • (GitHub #154)
  • - Bugfix: WinMerge could not compare files that are opened in other
  • applications
  • - Show progress bar while generating Folder Compare Report
  • - Use own colors settings for folder compare (Bitbucket PR #49)
  • Project file:
  • - Bugfix: Possible Bugs in 2.16.2 (sf.net #2221)
  • - Supporting relative path in project file (Bitbucket #158)
  • - Allow multiple in project file
  • Image compare:
  • - Bugfix: no message was displayed when file saving failed
  • - Implement Insertion/Deletion Detection
  • Demo: https://gyazo.com/17d8773354d23b5ae51262f28b0f1f80
  • Options dialog:
  • - Tweak size of combobox "codepage" in options (GitHub #144)
  • - Sort combobox codepage and add manual codepage (GitHub #145)
  • Installer:
  • - Allow per-user installation (only x64 installer)
  • - Don't install Files.txt and don't add "Uninstall WinMerge" to the
  • start menu (Bitbuket #38)
  • Translations:
  • - Update French translation (GitHub #149, #150)
  • - Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #36, #40, #43, #46, #48, #50)
  • - Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #41, #42)



Changes for v2.16.0 - v2.16.2

  • File compare:
  • - Bugfix: Edit > Replace > All, Undo: should undo all (sf.net #2113)
  • - Bugfix: Save As: default directory should be file's original
  • directory (sf.net #2163)
  • - Bugfix: Strings with embedded 0 bytes are handled incorrectly (sf.net
  • #2187)
  • - Bugfix: Removed word level merge support due to unstable behavior
  • - Bugfix: Menu item "File->File Encoding" moves main window (Bitbucket #150)
  • - Bugfix: Crash when maximizing MDI child window
  • - bugfix: Crash when failed to load file
  • - Add syntax highlight for Lua (Bitbucket #114)
  • Folder compare:
  • - Bugfix: Compare results refresh incorrectly after deletions (sf.net #2217)
  • Archive Support:
  • - Upgraded to 7-zip 19.00
  • Tab bar:
  • - Improve icon display at 120DPI
  • Image compare:
  • - Bugfix: Zoom In/Out shortcuts don't update zoom level in location
  • pane (Bitbucket #149)
  • - Zoom In/Out menu items for image compare (Bitbucket #148)
  • Open dialog:
  • - Allow quoted filenames in "Select Files or Folders" (sf.net #1240,
  • GitHub #137)
  • Manual:
  • - Some tweaks for the manual (Bitbucket PR #35)
  • Installer:
  • - Bugfix: Gibberish language during installation (Bitbucket #147)
  • Translations:
  • - Update Catalan translation (Bitbucket PR #29)
  • - Update Italian translation (Bitbucket PR #32)
  • - Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #33)
  • - Update Simplified Chinese translation (Bitbucket PR #34)



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