Download WinMerge 2.16.38

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 2.16.38

File compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where changing the BOM in the right pane in the
  Codepage dialog was not reflected.
• Update C++ syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #2166)

Web page compare

• During comparison, the status bar now displays “Comparing…”.
• Add Location Pane (PR#2160)

Folder compare

• Modify the “Display Columns” dialog. (PR#2154)

Plugins

• BugFix: Fixed the issue where the following string containing double
  quotes is not interpreted correctly when specified to the /unpacker
  command line argument.

  /unpacker “Replace “”a”” “”b”””

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR#2151,#2178)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR#2153,#2183)
  • Corsican (PR#2180)
  • Hungarian (PR#2156,#2157,#2158)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR#2152)
  • Lithuanian (PR#2155,#2177)
  • Portuguese (PR#2185)

What Is New in 2.16.37 Beta

File compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the scroll position when clicking on Location
  View may not be as expected when Wrap Lines is enabled.
• BugFix: Can't click and change file line endings with the version 2.16.36.
  (#2129)
• BugFix: Unable to locate CR using \r in regular expression search
• Added new C# keywords (PR#2136)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Empty files are not copied (#2146)

Binary compare

• BugFix: Could not replace data at the end of the file

Image compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the file name was not displayed in the header
  even after saving a newly created pane with a name.

Web page compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where the message box “Another application has updated
  file … since WinMerge scanned it last time” is displayed when comparing
  URLs that are file://.
• Improved synchronize events (WinMerge/winwebdiff#4)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Bulgarian (PR #2124)
  • French (PR #2135,#2140,#2141,#2142,WinMerge/frhed#15)
  • Italian (PR #2130)
  • Korean (PR #2126,#2127,#2143)
  • Polish (PR #2128)

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)