v2.16.45.0
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WinMerge 2.16.45.0 Beta Release Notes
November 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 2.16.45.0 Beta
General
- BugFix: Second monitor - BIG title bar v 2.16.44 (#2510,#2512,#2540,#2549)
- BugFix: Window close button is not extending to the edge of the screen
when maximized (#2520) - BugFix: When WinMerge window is maximized, it prevents auto-hidden Windows
11 taskbar from appearing (#2518) - Foreground and background title bars are distinguishable (PR #2497)
- Title bar background color and text color follow windows settings when not
customized (PR #2505) - Main Menu toggle Show/Hide (PR #2509)
- Inactive title text chosen by inactive title color (PR #2544)
- Reduce the contrast of inactive title bar text (PR #2545)
- System Icon turn gray when app inactive (PR #2547)
File compare
- BugFix: Wrong line gets copied over when selecting text (#2499)
- BugFix: Bug Report: Display Issues When Resizing WinMerge Across Dual
Monitors (#2514) - BugFix: Diff renders incorrectly with "Cascadia Mono" variant (#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 (#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 (#2556) - Adjust right-click deselect from down to up to preserve RB + scroll anywhere
(PR #2511) - Press 1-3 to copy current diff line to clipbd while popup menu is open
(PR #2532) - Caret (text cursor) follow windows settings (PR #2534)
- Feature Request: Fixed-Width Font in "Find what" and "Replace with" Fields
(#2539)
Folder compare
Options dialog
- Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Colors/System)" dialog. (PR #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. (#2555)
Select Files or Folders dialog
- BugFix: Crash on opening 2 files via drag & drop (#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 (#2515)
Translations
- Translation updates:
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 Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2495
- Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #2496
- Foreground and background title bars are distinguishable by @lededev in #2497
- Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2500
- update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #2501
- Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2502
- Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2503
- Update Portuguese.po by @hugok79 in #2507
- Adjust right-click deselect from down to up to preserve RB + scroll anywhere by @lededev in #2511
- Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2521
- Main Menu toggle Show/Hide by @lededev in #2509
- Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2522
- Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #2523
- update zh-cn translation by @lededev in #2524
- Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #2526
- Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2528
- Update Italian language by @bovirus in #2529
- Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2531
- Press 1-3 to copy current diff line to clipbd while popup menu is open by @lededev in #2532
- Update Korean.po by @VenusGirl in #2533
- Caret (text cursor) follow windows settings by @lededev in #2534
- Add a "Defaults" button to the "Options (Colors/System)" dialog. by @lededev in #2506
- Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #2536
- Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #2537
- Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2538
- Update Russian.po by @Timon34 in #2542
- Title bar background color and text color follow windows settings when not customized by @lededev in #2505
- Inactive title text chosen by inactive title color by @lededev in #2544
- Reduce the contrast of inactive title bar text by @lededev in #2545
- System Icon turn gray when app inactive by @lededev in #2547
- Ignore special items when finding matching item on Open Dialog Find Item by @slambillion in #2557
New Contributors
- @slambillion made their first contribution in #2557
Full Changelog: v2.16.44...v2.16.45.0
Contributors
yingang, bovirus, and 9 other contributors