v2.16.46

WinMerge 2.16.46 Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.46
• What Is New in 2.16.45.1 beta?
• What Is New in 2.16.45.0 beta?
• Known issues

January 2025

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.46 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 2.16.46

General

• BugFix: ALT-F4 opens Tools menu instead of exit from WinMerge (WinMerge#2592)

• BugFix: Fixes an issue causing a momentary drawing shift when launching
  WinMerge with Windows animation effects enabled and the window maximized.

Folder compare

• BugFix: Compare - Text files different and case also different - bug when delete and copy (WinMerge#2599)

• Add a Prompt to Copy Only Differences in Folder Comparison (PR WinMerge#2622,WinMerge#198,WinMerge#1168,WinMerge#1350,WinMerge#1995)

Plugins

• BugFix: Fixes an issue where the Plugins → Prediffer menu is not displayed
  correctly since version 2.16.43.

• BugFix: Fixed an issue in the CompareMSPowerPointFiles.sct plugin that
  caused error 0x80048010 when comparing PowerPoint files

• Enable per-file plugin application with file number specification (PR WinMerge#2598)

• Some Plugins window fixes (PR WinMerge#2621)

Manual

• BugFix: Typos and minor errors in WinMerge manual (WinMerge#2597)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR WinMerge#2601,WinMerge#2623)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR WinMerge#2603,WinMerge#2624)
  • French (PR WinMerge#2595,WinMerge#2612)
  • Hungarian (PR WinMerge#2602)
  • Italian (PR WinMerge#2610,WinMerge#2627)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR WinMerge#2611,WinMerge#2630)
  • Lithuanian (PR WinMerge#2604,WinMerge#2628)
  • Portuguese (PR WinMerge#2614)
  • Russian (PR WinMerge#2593,WinMerge#2609,WinMerge#2629)

What Is New in 2.16.45.1 Beta

General

• BugFix: IME switch not toggle menu when menu hide (PR WinMerge#2572)
• Add "Ignore missing trailing EOL" option to Compare settings
  (PR WinMerge#2573,WinMerge#203,WinMerge#989,WinMerge#2317)

File compare

• BugFix: The height of the lines connecting moving blocks in the location
  pane may be incorrect (WinMerge#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. (WinMerge#2562)

Plugins

• BugFix: WinMerge 2.16.44.0 : CompareMSWordFiles.sct Plugin : Forced Enabled
  Confirm Conversions Pop-Up (WinMerge#2566)

Archive support

• Update 7-Zip to 24.09

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR WinMerge#2585)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR WinMerge#2588)
  • Hungarian (PR WinMerge#2586)
  • Italian (PR WinMerge#2587)
  • Lithuanian (PR WinMerge#2591)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR WinMerge#2558,WinMerge#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 (WinMerge#2510,WinMerge#2512,WinMerge#2540,WinMerge#2549)
• BugFix: Window close button is not extending to the edge of the screen
  when maximized (WinMerge#2520)
• BugFix: When WinMerge window is maximized, it prevents auto-hidden Windows
  11 taskbar from appearing (WinMerge#2518)
• Foreground and background title bars are distinguishable (PR WinMerge#2497)
• Title bar background color and text color follow windows settings when not
  customized (PR WinMerge#2505)
• Main Menu toggle Show/Hide (PR WinMerge#2509)
• Inactive title text chosen by inactive title color (PR WinMerge#2544)
• Reduce the contrast of inactive title bar text (PR WinMerge#2545)
• System Icon turn gray when app inactive (PR WinMerge#2547)

File compare

• BugFix: Wrong line gets copied over when selecting text (WinMerge#2499)
• BugFix: Bug Report: Display Issues When Resizing WinMerge Across Dual
  Monitors (WinMerge#2514)
• BugFix: Diff renders incorrectly with "Cascadia Mono" variant (WinMerge#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 (WinMerge#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 (WinMerge#2556)
• Adjust right-click deselect from down to up to preserve RB + scroll anywhere
  (PR WinMerge#2511)
• Press 1-3 to copy current diff line to clipbd while popup menu is open
  (PR WinMerge#2532)
• Caret (text cursor) follow windows settings (PR WinMerge#2534)
• Feature Request: Fixed-Width Font in "Find what" and "Replace with" Fields
  (WinMerge#2539)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Crash on typing while search is in progress (WinMerge#1814), (PR WinMerge#2557)

Options dialog

• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Colors/System)" dialog. (PR WinMerge#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. (WinMerge#2555)

Select Files or Folders dialog

• BugFix: Crash on opening 2 files via drag & drop (WinMerge#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 (WinMerge#2515)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR WinMerge#2526)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR WinMerge#2501,WinMerge#2524)
  • French (PR WinMerge#2536)
  • Hungarian (PR WinMerge#2495,WinMerge#2523)
  • Italian (PR WinMerge#2529)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR WinMerge#2496,WinMerge#2533)
  • Lithuanian (PR WinMerge#2503,WinMerge#2537)
  • Portuguese (PR WinMerge#2507)
  • Russian (PR WinMerge#2500,WinMerge#2502,WinMerge#2521,WinMerge#2522,WinMerge#2528,WinMerge#2531,WinMerge#2538,WinMerge#2542)

Known issues

• Suggestion to make the result of image comparison more reliable (WinMerge#1391)
• Crashes when comparing large files (WinMerge#325)
• Very slow to compare significantly different directories (WinMerge#322)
• Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (WinMerge#296)

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What's Changed

• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in WinMerge#2495
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in WinMerge#2496
• Foreground and background title bars are distinguishable by @lededev in WinMerge#2497
• Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in WinMerge#2500
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in WinMerge#2501
• Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in WinMerge#2502
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in WinMerge#2503
• Update Portuguese.po by @hugok79 in WinMerge#2507
• Adjust right-click deselect from down to up to preserve RB + scroll anywhere by @lededev in WinMerge#2511
• Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in WinMerge#2521
• Main Menu toggle Show/Hide by @lededev in WinMerge#2509
• Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in WinMerge#2522
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in WinMerge#2523
• update zh-cn translation by @lededev in WinMerge#2524
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in WinMerge#2526
• Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in WinMerge#2528
• Update Italian language by @bovirus in WinMerge#2529
• Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in WinMerge#2531
• Press 1-3 to copy current diff line to clipbd while popup menu is open by @lededev in WinMerge#2532
• Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in WinMerge#2533
• Caret (text cursor) follow windows settings by @lededev in WinMerge#2534
• Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Colors/System)" dialog. by @lededev in WinMerge#2506
• Update French.po by @slolo2000 in WinMerge#2536
• Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in WinMerge#2537
• Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in WinMerge#2538
• Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in WinMerge#2542
• Title bar background color and text color follow windows settings when not customized by @lededev in WinMerge#2505
• Inactive title text chosen by inactive title color by @lededev in WinMerge#2544
• Reduce the contrast of inactive title bar text by @lededev in WinMerge#2545
• System Icon turn gray when app inactive by @lededev in WinMerge#2547
• Ignore special items when finding matching item on Open Dialog Find Item by @slambillion in WinMerge#2557
• Update Korean.isl by @VenusGirl in WinMerge#2558
• Update Korean.isl by @VenusGirl in WinMerge#2559
• IME switch not toggle menu when menu hide by @lededev in WinMerge#2572
• Add "Ignore missing trailing EOL" option to Compare settings by @sdottaka in WinMerge#2573
• Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in WinMerge#2585
• Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in WinMerge#2586
• Italian language update by @bovirus in WinMerge#2587
• update zh-cn translation by @yingang in WinMerge#2588
• Update of Lithuanian trans...