WinMerge 2.16.45.0 Beta
Release Notes
November 2024
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 2.16.45.1 Beta
General
- BugFix: IME switch not toggle menu when menu hide (PR #2572)
- Add "Ignore missing trailing EOL" option to Compare settings (PR
#2573,#203,#989,#2317)
File compare
- BugFix: The height of the lines connecting moving blocks in the
location pane may be incorrect (#2543)
Folder compare
- BugFix: Looks like the View Tab Bar "folder icon" is getting a green
check-mark before the folder compare has even completed. (#2562)
Plugins
- BugFix: WinMerge 2.16.44.0 : CompareMSWordFiles.sct Plugin : Forced
Enabled Confirm Conversions Pop-Up (#2566)
Archive support
Translations
- Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2585)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2588)
- Hungarian (PR #2586)
- Italian (PR #2587)
- Lithuanian (PR #2591)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2558,#2559)
Internals
- Update POCO C++ Libraries to 1.14.0
What Is New in 2.16.45.0 Beta
General
- BugFix: Second monitor - BIG title bar v 2.16.44
(#2510,#2512,#2540,#2549)
- BugFix: Window close button is not extending to the edge of the
screen when maximized (#2520)
- BugFix: When WinMerge window is maximized, it prevents auto-hidden
Windows 11 taskbar from appearing (#2518)
- Foreground and background title bars are distinguishable (PR
#2497)
- Title bar background color and text color follow windows settings
when not customized (PR #2505)
- Main Menu toggle Show/Hide (PR #2509)
- Inactive title text chosen by inactive title color (PR #2544)
- Reduce the contrast of inactive title bar text (PR #2545)
- System Icon turn gray when app inactive (PR #2547)
File compare
- BugFix: Wrong line gets copied over when selecting text (#2499)
- BugFix: Bug Report: Display Issues When Resizing WinMerge Across
Dual Monitors (#2514)
- BugFix: Diff renders incorrectly with "Cascadia Mono" variant
(#2525)
- BugFix: The height of the lines connecting moving blocks in the
location pane may be incorrect
- BugFix: Crash on opening 2 files via drag & drop (#2548)
- BugFix: A crash could occur if a single invalid file path was
specified in the "Select files or folders" window.
- BugFix: "Debug Assertion Failed!" Error When Refreshing After
Deleting All Content in Left or Right Pane (#2556)
- Adjust right-click deselect from down to up to preserve RB + scroll
anywhere (PR #2511)
- Press 1-3 to copy current diff line to clipbd while popup menu is
open (PR #2532)
- Caret (text cursor) follow windows settings (PR #2534)
- Feature Request: Fixed-Width Font in "Find what" and "Replace with"
Fields (#2539)
Folder compare
- BugFix: Crash on typing while search is in progress (#1814), (PR
#2557)
Options dialog
- Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Colors/System)" dialog. (PR
#2506)
- The "Clear all recent items" button in the Shell Integration
category of the Options dialog now clears combobox history as well as
jump lists. (#2555)
Select Files or Folders
dialog
- BugFix: Crash on opening 2 files via drag & drop (#2548)
Plugins
- Apache Tika plugin: Update Apache Tika to 3.0.0
Installer
- BugFix: When uninstalling WinMerge, the Shell Extension for Windows
11 was not uninstalled.
- Installer - Run PowerShell hidden and with -NoProfile when
installing silently (#2515)
Translations
- Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2526)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2501,#2524)
- French (PR #2536)
- Hungarian (PR #2495,#2523)
- Italian (PR #2529)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2496,#2533)
- Lithuanian (PR #2503,#2537)
- Portuguese (PR #2507)
- Russian (PR #2500,#2502,#2521,#2522,#2528,#2531,#2538,#2542)
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)