Source Code
WinMerge is Open Source software under the GNU General Public License.
This means everybody can download the source code and improve and modify it. The only thing we ask is that people submit their improvements and modifications back to us so that all WinMerge users may benefit.
GNU General Public License
WinMerge is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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Clone or download
The source code is hosted on GitHub in a Git repository:
https://github.com/winmerge/winmerge.git
You can also download the current branches as ZIP file:
| Download | Branch |
|---|---|
| master.zip | Master |
| stable-gh.zip | Stable |
Recent Commits 
- Fix issue #3468, #3469: Clear all diff-related line flags before resc… 2026-07-18 04:20
- Update Italian.po (#3467) 2026-07-17 16:58
- Update German.po (#3466) 2026-07-17 16:57
- Update ChangeLog&ReleaseNotes (2) 2026-07-16 18:25
- Update Turkish.po (#3465) (2) 2026-07-16 08:21
- Update Turkish.po (#3465) 2026-07-16 08:00
- Fix MRU handling for three-way comparisons. refs #3452 2026-07-16 07:58
- Update ChangeLog&ReleaseNotes 2026-07-15 23:27
- Bump revision to 2.16.58 2026-07-15 19:30
- Update ChangeLog&ReleaseNotes 2026-07-15 19:30
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