WinMerge 2.16.47 Beta Release
Notes
March 2025
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 2.16.47 Beta
General
- BugFix: /inifile won't work with root directory (#2635)
- BugFix: "Another application has updated" message when window is
deactivated (#2668)
- Reduced flickering of title bar buttons and the status bar.
- Rewrite English.pot, add JXL image extension (PR #2682)
- Add Output Pane for Logs and Messages (PR #2663)
File compare
- BugFix: Fixed an issue where $ in regular expressions in
Substitution filters didn't work correctly with "Ignore carriage return
differences" enabled. (#2640)
- BugFix: Syntax highlighting of Python multiline strings failed on
lines > 1 (#2643)
- BugFix: Fixed an issue where "&" appeared as an underline in the
status bar when using both Unpacker and Prediffer plugins.
- BugFix: Sync Codepage Settings on Options and Diff Window
(#2678)
- Update C syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #2669)
Image compare
- Rewrite English.pot, add JXL image extension (PR #2682)
Options dialog
- BugFix: Fixed an issue where ShellExtensionU.dll was not properly
unregistered when clicking the Unregister shell extension button in the
Shell Integration options. (#2419)
- Modify the "Options (Compare > Image)" dialog. (PR #2655)
Color schemes
- Add Visual Studio Dark color scheme (PR #2634)
- Twilight - new dark theme (PR #2694)
Installer
- BugFix: Context menu not working if installed from non-elevated (non
admin) user on win 10 x64 (#2638) (PR #2639)
Manual
- Help pages -> Appendix A. Shortcut keys (#2659)
Translations
- Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2675,#2688,#2697)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2700)
- Corsican (PR #2632,#2676)
- Hebrew (PR #2673)
- Italian (PR #2689,#2689)
- Japanese
- Polish (PR #2671)
- Portuguese (PR #2650,#2695)
- Swedish (PR #2679)
- Turkish (PR #2636)
Internals
- BugFix: Fix build in VS2022 17.13.0 (PR #2645)
- BugFix: Use zopflipng to reduce size of splash.png (PR #2646)
- README major update, Twilight theme minor edit (PR #2696)
Known issues
- Pressing OK in the Options window while the INI file specified by
/inifile is open for comparison in WinMerge may corrupt the file.
(#2685)
- 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)