Download WinMerge 2.14.0

About a month ago a new stable version of WinMerge was released. That is exceptional, because the previous stable release is almost four years old. 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:

Notable new items in the 2.14.0 stable release:

• Update PCRE to version 8.10
• Update SCEW to version 1.1.2
• Improve startup time (#2788142)
• Add menu items for selecting automatic or manual prediffing
• Add accelerator keys for Shell context menu
• Add /xq command line switch for closing WinMerge after identical files and not showing message
• Allow setting codepage from command line
• Allow giving encoding name as custom codepage
• Add options GUI for quick compare limit
• Expand/collapse folders from keyboard
• Improve detecting XML files in file compare
• Lots of language updates
• Bugfix: Shell extension uses unquoted program path
• Bugfix: Compare by size always checked file times too
• Bugfix: Crash when pasting from clipboard
• Bugfix: Keeps verification path even turned off in options
• Bugfix: “+” and “-” from the number block don’t work in the editor
• Bugfix: Date format did not respect Regional Settings
• Bugfix: WinMerge contained a vulnerability in handling project files (
• Bugfix: WinMerge was vulnerable to DLL hijacking as described in Microsoft Security Advisory (2269637)
• Installer: Drop Windows 9x/ME/NT4 support and use Microsoft runtime libraries installer
• Installer: Remove Uninstall shortcut from start menu folder
• Installer: Don’t install quick launch icon for Windows 7