WinMerge 2.16.37 Beta Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.37 beta?
• Known issues

December 2023

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 2.16.37 Beta

File compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the scroll position when clicking on Location View may not be as expected when Wrap Lines is enabled.
• BugFix: Can't click and change file line endings with the version 2.16.36. (#2129)
• BugFix: Unable to locate CR using \r in regular expression search
• Added new C# keywords (PR#2136)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Empty files are not copied (#2146)

Binary compare

• BugFix: Could not replace data at the end of the file

Image compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the file name was not displayed in the header even after saving a newly created pane with a name.

Webpage compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the message box "Another application has updated file ... since WinMerge scanned it last time" is displayed when comparing URLs that are file://.
• Improved synchronize events (winmerge/winwebdiff#4)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Bulgarian (PR #2124)
  • French (PR #2135,#2140,#2141,#2142,winmerge/frhed#15)
  • Italian (PR #2130)
  • Korean (PR #2126,#2127,#2143)
  • Polish (PR #2128)

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)