WinMerge 2.16.16 Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.16?
• What Is New in 2.16.15 beta?
• Known issues

October 2021

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.16 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 2.16.16

General

• Fix a problem where the string in the Windows common dialog would not change to the language when switching languages.

File compare

• BugFix: Fix not getting the proper error message when saving failed

Table compare

• BugFix: Cannot resize last column with UI (#998)
• Reloading a file that was changed by another application does not preserve column widths (#951)

Image compare

• BugFix: Fix an issue where drag-and-drop of file would only work once.

Folder compare

• BugFix: Sync (Super Slow) (#771)
• BugFix: Fix an issue where filters are not applied correctly when opening a project file containing multiple items with different filters. (PR #995)
• [Feature Request] New Display Columns: Dimensions + Size Difference (#131)
• FolderCompare: Additional Properties (Windows Property System+Hash (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256)) (PR #996)

Options dialog

• BugFix: Fix the problem that the "Register Shell Extension for Windows 11 or later" button is not enabled when another user has registered ShellExtension for Windows 11.

Plugins

• BugFix: Plugin unpacked file extension problem (get_PluginUnpackedFileExtension) (#983)
• BugFix: Comparing broken lnk-files (windows shortcuts) freezes WinMerge (#1007)
• Apache Tika plugin: Update Apache tika to 2.1.0 and change the download URL
• CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Make the number before the sheet name zero-padded

Shell extension

• BugFix: ShellExtension for Windows 11 did not work on machines that did not have MSVCP140.dll VCRUNTIME140*.dll installed.
• BugFix: Loop counter should be the same type as the count type. (PR #987)
• ShellExtension for Windows11: Disable Registry Write Virtualization

Manual

• Where to report documentation/help errors? (#1004)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Galician (PR #1005)
  • German (PR #986,#1027)
  • Hungarian (PR #991,#1023)
  • Japanese
  • Lithuanian (PR #979)
  • Portuguese (PR #1017)
  • Slovenian (#1026)
  • Turkish (PR #980)

Internals

• BugFix: Missing packages.config (also outdated) and wrong NuGet packages path in the WinMergeContextMenu.vcxproj and .filters file (#985)
• Fix typo in OpenView.cpp (PR #1000)

What Is New in 2.16.15 Beta

General

• BugFix: WinMerge would crash when launched if the registry or INI file contained invalid values.
• BugFix: Winmerge Crash when comparing 2 files from Windows Explorer context menu (#808, #908, #913)
• BugFix: Incorrect text color for selected menu item on Windows 11
• BugFix: 50% cpu use by winmergeu.exe after program closed (#903)
• Digitally sign packages (#152)

File compare

• BugFix: The mouse cursor did not change to an hourglass when the files or plugins were taking a long time to load.
• BugFix: Save Middle and Save Middle As menu items were not enabled when comparing three files.
• BugFix: A two-pane window was displayed even though New (3panes) → Table menu item was selected.
• BugFix: The height of each pane in the Diff pane was calculated incorrectly when comparing three files.
• BugFix: Unicode SMP chars misrendered after performing a find (#914)
• BugFix: Crash when pressing Shift+F4 key
• BugFix: Replace slow (#940)
• BugFix: When moving in the scroll pane, the selected position is incorrect (#970)
• BugFix: When the Diff pane was redisplayed, the scroll position of the Diff pane was not appropriate. (osdn.net #42862)
• Make "Do not close this box" checkbox in search window On by default (#941)

Image compare

• BugFix: Duplicate menu shortcut in translations (#905)
• BugFix: Image comparison (winimerge #24)

Project file

• Add a feature to save/restore compare options to/from a project file.(#498) (PR #915)

Options dialog

• Add a feature to set items saved to or restored from the project file. (PR #953)

Plugins

• New unpacker plugins:
  • DecompileJVM
  • DecompileIL
  • DisassembleNative

Command line

• Added /c column number command line option
• Added /EnableExitCode command line option

Shell extension

• BugFix: WinMerge's extended menu items were doubly inserted into the context menu of Explorer's navigation pane. (osdn.net #42702)
• BugFix: Right click - compare - is unclear (#249)
• Added a new DLL (WinMergeContextMenu.dll) for the Windows 11 Explorer context menu (currently unstable and not registered by default) (PR #954)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #910)
  • Dutch (PR #921,#969)
  • German (PR #965,#977)
  • Hungarian (PR #937,#955)
  • Italian (PR #911)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR #932)
  • Portuguese (PR #956,#964,#976)
  • Russian (PR #901,#927,#963)
  • Slovenian
  • Swedish (PR #974)
  • Turkish (PR #899)

Internals

• README.md: Make it clear that requirements are to build, not use the application (PR #942)
• compiler-calculated maximum value for m_SourceDefs (PR #966)

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)