Software Update: WinMerge 2.16.8

A few days ago a new stable version of WinMerge was released. With WinMerge files or folders can be compared with each other: useful, for example to see what has changed between different pieces of source code or to sift through the contents of log files. The program includes syntax highlighting and the application can create patch files based on the differences discovered. More information about the possibilities can be found on this page are being found. The main changes in this release are listed below:

General

• BugFix: More space for some internationalized strings (GitHub #402†
• BugFix: Some improvements (GitHub #405,411)

File compare

• BugFix: Ignore case option did not work when Diff algorithm was other than default
• BugFix: A white vertical rectangle was sometimes drawn in the selected area
• BugFix: The title of the file comparison window after changing the language was accidentally changed to “Untitled left/right”
• Bug Fix: Wrong merging (GitHub #420) (minimal/patience/histogram diff algorithm did not work on Windows XP)
• Extended F4 key movement range to the whole file
• Don’t treat UTF-8 and UTF-8 with BOM the same when the “Ignore codepage differences” option is disabled

Folder compare

• BugFix: Appropriate error messages were not displayed when the file to be deleted no longer existed
• BugFix: ‘Show Middle/Right Unique items’ menu item does not work properly in 3-way folder compare (osdn.net #40672)
• CTRL+Drag folders now has the opposite behavior of the current Include Subfolders option

Image compare

• BugFix: Fix scrolling glitches (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge PR #8†
• Reduce flicker on resize (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge PR #9†

Options dialog

• Allow choosing image filename patterns from a multi-selection dropdown list (GitHub PR #391†
• WildcardDropList: Avoid the String instance as it could throw std::bad_alloc (GitHub PR #397†
• Remove duplicate filename patterns without relying on WildcardDropList (GitHub PR #400†
• Made Options dialog resizable
• Changed the default values ​​for the following options:
  • Ignore codepage differences -> disabled
  • Include unique subfolders contents -> enabled

About dialog

• Rework the fix for Github issue #316: GUI glitches/bugs #2 (GitHub PR #392†
• Replace outdated list of developers in AboutBox with ascii-art gnu from FSF (GitHub PR #394†

Installer

• BugFix: Installation – Internal error: Failed to expand shell folder constant “userdesktop” (GitHub #354†
• BugFix: Lithuanian.po is missing (GitHub PR #415†
• New installer for per-user installation (WinMerge-2.16.8-x64-PerUser-Setup.exe)

translation updates:

• Brazilian (GitHub PR #383†
• Galician (GitHub PR #393†
• German (GitHub PR #388,389,398,399,401,406,412,414, WinMerge/frhed PR #2†
• Lithuanian (GitHub PR #385390,407,408,413,415)
• Turkish (GitHub PR #386†
• Russian (GitHub PR #387†

Manual

• Update manual for IgnoreCommentsC change (GitHub PR #384†
• Update Shortcut_keys.xml (GitHub PR #410†