WinMerge 2.16.44 Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.44
• What Is New in 2.16.43 beta?
• Known issues

October 2024

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.44 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 2.16.44

General

• Added Medium size (24px) option to Toolbar icons

Webpage compare

• BugFix: Differences panel for Webpage mode (winwebdiff#7)

Plugins

• BugFix: Floating-point precision issue in CompareMSExcelFiles.sct plugin (#2494)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #2493)
  • Corsican (PR #2490)

What Is New in 2.16.43 Beta

General

• BugFix: WinMerge incorrectly states "The selected files are identical" (#2408)
• Implement Menu Bar as a Toolbar (PR #2400)
• Add support for placing the tab bar on the title bar (PR #2428)
• Add One-Hand mice wheel scroll diff and merge (PR #2435)
• Add Support for Custom System Color Overrides (PR #2376)
• Easy move small main window when tab on titlebar (PR #2489)

File compare

• BugFix: Wrong syntax highlighting for TeX files (#2415)
• BugFix: Text replacement result is wrong. (#2422)
• Copy Selected Difference to Clipboard (PR #2429)
• Added Ada parser and default file associations (#2452)
• Added C++20 modules default file associations cppm and ixx (PR #2464)
• Anti-aliasing has been applied to the lines that connect moved blocks in the location pane.

Folder compare

• BugFix: ExitCode always 2 with /enableexitcode with no apparent issues (#2450)

Webpage compare

• BugFix: Location pane may not render differences (winwebdiff#6)

Options dialog

• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Project)" dialog. (PR #2401)
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Backup Files)" dialog. (PR #2406)
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Codepage)" dialog. (PR #2448)
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (General)" dialog. (PR #2453)

Plugins

• Create CompareEscapedJavaPropertiesFiles.sct (PR #2455)

Manual

• BugFix: 2 mistakes about default values in manual (#2456)
• Update documentation for "Include unique subfolders contents" setting (PR #2396)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #2397,#2431,#2439,#2454,#2460,#2468,#2477,#2486)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #2394,#2461,#2469,#2485)
  • Dutch (PR #2474)
  • French (PR #2399,#2444)
  • Hungarian (PR #2433,#2440,#2458,#2472,#2482)
  • Italian (PR #2393,#2438,#2446,#2447,#2457,#2467,#2470,#2487)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR #2426,#2459,#2473)
  • Lithuanian (PR #2436,#2443,#2462,#2471,#2483)
  • Portuguese (PR #2410,#2441,#2480)
  • Russian (PR #2462)

Internals

• Make InsertLineNumberInPOFiles.bat and RenewPOFiles.bat work again

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)