WinMerge 2.16.42 Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.42
• What Is New in 2.16.41 beta?
• Known issues

July 2024

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.42 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 2.16.42

General

• Enable Rounded Corners for WinMerge Menu on Windows 11 (PR #2364)
• Introduce a flat status bar without separator lines. (PR #2377)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Folder comparison status not accurately reflected in toolbar (#2374)
• BugFix: Status of folder comparison not correctly reflected by tab icon after Refresh (F5) (#2383)

File compare

• Replace - more intelligent choice of replace in (whole file vs selection) (#2368)

Image compare

• BugFix: Image Comparison : In Alpha Animation, dialogs hang winmerge (#2370)
• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the right edge of the status bar appeared white.
• Added the ability to change the blink interval and overlay animation interval.

Plugins

• Make the gpt4-o-mini model selectable in the AIConvertText plugin settings window

Archive support

• Update 7-Zip to 24.07

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #2392)
  • Brazilian (PR #2391)
  • Hungarian (PR #2388)
  • Lithuanian (PR #2390)

What Is New in 2.16.41 Beta

General

• Made the tabs in the tab bar rounded like Firefox.

File compare

• Added support for F# (FSharp) language syntax highlight (PR #2298)
• Improved F# parsing, support for multi-line comments (PR #2301)
• Multi line comment fix (PR #2303)
• Multi line comment fix part 2 (PR #2309)
• Typescript files to use JavaScript highlighting as default (PR #2312)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Refresh selected shows wrong file names being compared (#2338)
• BugFix: Selected files changes on expanding a folder that is upper on the tree (#2359)

Options dialog

• BugFix: Options - Syntax color settings get reverted when "Customized text colors" settings is touched. (#2355)
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Editor > Compare/Merge)" dialog. (PR #2348)
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Archive Support)" dialog. (PR #2362)

Plugins

• BugFix: Fixed the plugin pipeline not being configured correctly in the Select Plugin dialog.
• Add a text conversion plugin using OpenAI API (PR #2258)
• Update jq to 1.7.1
• Update md4c to 0.5.2

Archive support

• Update 7-Zip to 24.05

Installer

• BugFix; WinMerge 2.16.40 - Installer - Missing version and archicteure info (#2300)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #2308)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #2306,#2310,#2314,#2352)
  • Corsican (PR #2361)
  • French (PR #2354)
  • German (PR #2349)
  • Hungarian (PR #2307)
  • Italian (PR #2299)
  • Lithuanian (PR #2318,#2320)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR #2333)
  • Polish (PR #2313)
  • Portuguese (PR #2321)
  • Turkish (PR #2315)

Internals

• Update GitHub Actions CI (#2304)
• Fix some typos (#2305)
• Update POCO C++ Libraries to 1.13.3
• Update boost to 1.85.0
• Update Google C++ Testing Framework to 1.14.0

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)