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WinMerge 2.16.42.1 Release Notes

July 2024

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.42.1 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 2.16.42.1

General

  • BugFix: Digital signature was not added to version 2.16.42. (#2395)

Translations

  • Translation updates:
    • Chinese Simplified (PR #2394)
    • Italian (PR #2393)

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:

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

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)

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v2.16.40...v2.16.42.1

Contributors

sdottaka, Thorium, and 16 other contributors
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