WinMerge 2.16.20 Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.20?
• What Is New in 2.16.19 beta?
• Known issues

April 2022

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.20 stable release. This release replaces earlier WinMerge stable releases as a recommended release.

Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.

What Is New in 2.16.20

General

• BugFix: New filter (F) display (#1281 a))

File compare

• BugFix: Fixed a problem where the caret would not display in the correct position on lines containing tab characters, depending on the font in use (osdn.net #44417)

Webpage compare

• Webpage Compare [EXPERIMENTAL] (PR #1182)
  • Requires WebView2 Runtime.
  • Only supported on Windows 10 and above.
  • Currently, it is not possible to directly highlight differences between web pages, but it is possible to display two or three web pages side by side. You can also compare the following content of the displayed web pages
    • Screenshots
    • HTML contents
    • Extracted texts
    • Resource trees

Folder compare

• BugFix: Fix an issue where items with different case are not displayed correctly in the folder compare window when comparing three directories. (PR #1299)

Options dialog

• Allow resizing Options dialog box in both directions (#1265)

Plugins

• BugFix: CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Date formats interpreted inconsistently (#279)
• Add URL handler plugins (PR #1270)
  • HTTP/HTTPS scheme handler plugin
    • This plugin retrieves a file with the specified HTTP or HTTPS URL using the curl command.
  • Windows Registry scheme(reg:) handler plugin
    • This plugin handles URLs like reg:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Thingamahoochie\WinMerge. After reg:, it considers it a registry key and uses the reg.exe command to retrieve information about that registry key.
• Replace plugin: When regular expression substitution is performed with the -e option, \r and \n in the second argument are now treated as control characters CR and LF.
• PrettifyHTML plugin: Added "--tidy-mark no" to default plugin arguments

Command line

• Added /t webpage command line option

Manual

• BugFix: Help file: Small issue for plugins (#1309)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Corsican (PR #1305,#1307)
  • Bulgarian (PR #1269)
  • French (PR #1294)
  • Galician (PR 1292)
  • German (PR #1276)
  • Hungarian (PR #1274, #1306)
  • Japanese
  • Lithuanian (PR #1263, #1275)
  • Polish (PR #1272, #1287, #1288)
  • Portuguese (PR #1273, #1277)
  • Slovenian (#1289)
  • Turkish (PR #1264)

Internals

• Code refactor with C++17 features replace optimize create smart pointers (PR #1304)
• Fixed link errors occurring in Windows 10 SDK version 10.0.19041.0 and lower

What Is New in 2.16.19 Beta

General

• Update Merge.rc (PR #1219,#1227,#1231,#1232)

File compare

• BugFix: Match similar lines breaks with Ignore whitespace change (#1209)
• BugFix: Copy & Advance skips differences when moved block detection is on (#1235)
• BugFix: Fix inline difference selection by F4 key not working well in various cases
• Different exit procedure required for small vs. large files (#1218)
• Added View → View Top Margins menu item. (A ruler appears in the margin)

Table compare

• Pinning first row of file (#999)
  • Added Use First Line as Headers menu item to the column header context menu.

Folder compare

• BugFix: Fix the problem that the status bar displays "0 items selected" even though multiple items are selected.
• BugFix: Change the file naming method of the file compare report to avoid duplication of the file compare report file name linked from the folder compare report. (PR #1171)
• BugFix: Fix an issue where comparison results are not displayed correctly when "Refresh Selected" is performed by selecting an item that has a directory and file with the same name. (PR #1189)
• BugFix: Folder compare with jpg images crashes (#1176)
• BugFix: Fix renaming process in folder compare window. (PR #1246)

Filters

• Filters enchancement (PR #1179,#1174)
  • File masks
    • Putting ! before file masks will exclude files that match that masks.
    • If you put \ after the file masks, the masks will match folders instead of files.
  • File filters
    • Added f!: and d!: to exclude files or folders that match the pattern specified in f: and d:.

Options dialog

• BugFix: Help text is truncated (#1210)
• Improve vertical alignment string (#1200)
• Some improvements (#1212)

Plugins

• BugFix: Select Plugin Dialog: Fix the problem that the plugin arguments are deleted by clicking the "Add pipe" button after entering them.

Archive support

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Catalan (PR #1237)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #1257)
  • Chinese Traditional (PR #1204)
  • Corsican (PR #1188,#1205,#1221,#1251,#1260)
  • Dutch (PR #1187)
  • French (PR #1211)
  • German (PR #1208,#1228,#1254,#1262)
  • Hungarian (PR #1203,#1220,#1252,#1259)
  • Japanese (PR #1165)
  • Korean (PR #1181)
  • Lithuanian (PR #1197,#1202,#1224,#1255)
  • Norwegian (PR #1170)
  • Portuguese (PR #1178,#1222)
  • Russian (PR #1164)
  • Slovak (PR #1196)
  • Slovenian (PR #1163,#1261)
  • Ukrainian (PR #1172)

Internals

• Fix typo in ShellFileOperations.cpp (PR #1256)
• [Big PR - big changes] A lot of refactor and optimization commits (PR #1258)
• Wrong links for ShellExtension on Translations page (#1185)
• Tweak translations status (PR #1201)

Known issues

• Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)
• Very slow to compare significantly different directories (GitHub #322)
• Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (GitHub #296)