v2.16.39
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WinMerge 2.16.39 Beta Release Notes
March 2024
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 2.16.39 Beta
General
- BugFix: Fixed an issue where typing only a single character in the header
bar could cause a crash.
File compare
- BugFix: Fixed possible crash
- BugFix: Creation of .bak files fails when the original filename starts with
a dot (#2217) - Update Java syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #2215)
- Replace "Match similar lines" with "Align similar lines" (PR #2230)
- Make it possible to select the behavior when copying to another pane with
"Copy to Right" etc. while text is selected. (PR #2224) - Make it possible to transform the text copied with "Copy Right/Left" using a
plugin. (PR #2238) - Update PHP syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #2265)
Webpage compare
- BugFix: Make event sync settings persistent (#2248)
Select Files or Folders dialog
- BugFix: Fixed the issue when the compare button could not be clicked when
specifying an archive file and a regular file.
Reports
- BugFix: Fixed an issue where the widths of the left and right panes in HTML
reports are not equal. - BugFix: Fixed an issue where the caption set in the header bar was not being
applied to the HTML report.
Plugins
- BugFix: Fixed crash when error occurs in Unpacker plugin
- Replace the source code written in VBScript with JScript (PR #2098)
- Add the ability to replace using patterns from Substitution Filters to the
Replace plugin. (PR #2252) - Added sanity check for regular expressions in PrediffLineFilter plugin.
Installer
- BugFix: If the /noicons option was specified in the previous installation,
a message box asking you to delete the previous start menu will be
displayed in the next installation. (#2206) - Move custom messages in a separate iss file (#2247)
Archive support
- BugFix: 7zip encrypted archives with encrypted file names (#2225)
Internals
- Update codeql-analysis.yml - Version v2 to v3 (PR #2196)
Translations
- Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2234,#2243)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2241,#2244,#2251,#2256,#2259)
- Corsican (PR #2266)
- French (PR #2237,#2264)
- Hungarian (PR #2232,#2250)
- Italian (PR #2245,#2249)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2239)
- Lithuanian (PR #2235,#2246)
- Portuguese (PR #2263)
- Russian (PR #2194,#2195,#2198,#2210,#2211,#2212)
- Slovenian (#2096)
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
- Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2194
- Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2195
- Update codeql-analysis.yml - Version v2 to v3 by @visudade in #2196
- Update Russian.islu by @Timon34 in #2198
- Update Russian.islu by @Timon34 in #2210
- Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2211
- Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2212
- Update Java syntax highlighting keyword list. by @tjmprm77 in #2215
- Replace the source code written in VBScript with JScript by @sdottaka in #2098
- Replace "Match similar lines" with "Align similar lines" by @vlakoff in #2230
- Make it possible to select the behavior when copying to another pane with "Copy to Right" etc. while text is selected. by @sdottaka in #2224
- Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2232
- Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2234
- Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2235
- Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #2237
- Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #2239
- update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2241
- Make it possible to transform the text copied with "Copy Right/Left" using a plugin. by @sdottaka in #2238
- Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2243
- update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2244
- Italian language update by @bovirus in #2245
- Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2246
- Move custom messages in a separate iss file by @bovirus in #2247
- Update PO header for Italian files by @bovirus in #2249
- Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2250
- update zh-cn translation in setup file by @yingang in #2251
- Add the ability to replace using patterns from Substitution Filters to the Replace plugin. by @sdottaka in #2252
- update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2256
- fix a shortcut for zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2259
- Update Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #2263
- Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #2264
- Update PHP syntax highlighting keyword list. by @tjmprm77 in #2265
- Update Corsican translation for 2.16.39 by @Patriccollu in #2266
New Contributors
Full Changelog: v2.16.38...v2.16.39
Contributors
sdottaka, vlakoff, and 12 other contributors