Download WinMerge 2.16.36

A new stable version of WinMerge has been released. WinMerge allows files or folders to 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 discovered differences. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What Is New in 2.16.36

Image compare

• BugFix: Fix an issue where opening read-only and multi-page image files
  would cause them to be treated as only one-page images.
  (WinMerge/winimerge#32)

Web page compare

• Improved performance when there are many differences

File filter

• Bugfix: Modify the “File Filters” dialog. (#2118)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Corsican (PR #2123)
  • Galician (PR #2120)
  • Hungarian (PR #2122)
  • Portuguese (PR #2119)
  • Spanish (PR #2120)
  • Slovenian
  • Turkish (PR #2116)

What Is New in 2.16.35 Beta

File compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where “Copy to Left/Right and Advance” would
  sometimes skip differences when comparing 3 files. (#1234)
• BugFix: Print Preview buttons are not translatable (#2083,#2079)
• BugFix: Fixed the issue where the caption set in the header bar is restored
  when the window is resized.

Binary compare

• BugFix: V2.16.34 “X86” wired action (#2081)

Image compare

• BugFix: Close main window with 'Esc' if there is only one MDI child window
  (#2084)

Web page compare

• BugFix: Close main window with 'Esc' if there is only one MDI child window
  (#2084)
• Webpage Compare: synchronize events (#2111,#2064)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Ignoring carriage return differences doesn't work anymore
  (#2080,#2099)

File filters

• BugFix: Fixed the issue where “[F]”could be set as the file filter if no file
  filter was selected in the Filters dialog.

Installer

• BugFix: fix bug of Registry path (PR #2086)
• BugFix: “Register Windows 11 Shell Extension” fails because PowerShell script
  doesn't escape special chars correctly (#2109)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #2088,#2112)
  • Bulgarian (PR #2105)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #2091,#2113)
  • French (PR #2106)
  • Galician (PR #2085,#2107)
  • Hungarian (PR #2093)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR #2092)
  • Lithuanian (PR #2090,#2114)
  • Polish (PR #2087)
  • Romanian (PR #2089,#2095)
  • Slovenian (#2096)
  • Spanish (PR #2085,#2107)
  • Turkish (PR #2076)

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 scroll bar breaks after pasting text (#296)