# WinMerge 2.16.8 Release Notes

- About This Release
- What Is New in 2.16.8?
- What Is New in 2.16.7 Beta?
- Known issues

August 2020

## About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.8 stable release. This release replaces earlier WinMerge stable releases as a recommended release.

Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.

## What Is New in 2.16.8?

### 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"
- BugFix: 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- Replace outdated list of developers in AboutBox with ascii-art gnu from FSF (GitHub PR #394)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)

### Translations

- 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 #385,390,407,408,413,415)
  - Turkish (GitHub PR #386)
  - Russian (GitHub PR #387)

### Manual

- Update manual for IgnoreCommentsC change (GitHub PR #384)
- Update Shortcut_keys.xml (GitHub PR #410)

## What Is New in 2.16.7 Beta?

### General

- BugFix: The icons on a 43" 4K screen are too small (GitHub #276)
- BugFix: GUI glitches/bugs (GitHub #316)
- BugFix: Several issues regarding i18n (GitHub #314)
- Add Solarized Dark/Light color scheme (GitHub #287)
- Compile WinMerge with ASLR and CFG enabled (GitHub #315)

### File compare

- BugFix: Diff Pane issues (GitHub #307)
- BugFix: Codepage not updated on refresh (GitHub #320)
- BugFix: Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)
- BugFix: WinMerge does not recognize the same files (GitHub #332)
- BugFix: Moved ghost lines are shown in the wrong color (GitHub #358)
- BugFix: opening same file (GitHub #362)
- BugFix: Find dialog sometimes remembers old text to start a new find instead of the new text. (GitHub #368)
- BugFix: Fix a problem where markers that are out of the range of the current difference appear in the difference pane. (osdn.net 40407)
- BugFix: HTML5 encoding (<meta charset="..." >) is ignored. (osdn.net #40476)
- '=' should be included in word separator (osdn.net #40224)
- Allow specifying default for EOL warning checkbox (GitHub #297)
- Only indent existing lines (GitHub #356)

### Table compare

- Made it possible to display the contents of CSV and TSV files like spreadsheet software.

### Folder compare

- BugFix: DST causes incorrect dates shown in Date column (GitHub #299)
- BugFix: Long filename issue (GitHub #339)
- BugFix: Winmerge Freeze if large number of files are listed in Window View (GitHub #348)
- BugFix: Change to disable some menu items that should not be executed for directories, when directories are selected in the folder compare window. (GitHub PR #366)
- BugFix: Update DirViewColItems.cpp (GitHub #376)
- BugFix: Fix the problem that not 3 panes but 2 panes file compare window displays when executing "Compare As" > "Binary" or "Compare As" > "Image" in the context menu in the folder compare window with selecting 3 items. (GitHub PR #381)
- BugFix: Fix a problem where a text file could be considered a binary file. (osdn.net #40296)
- BugFix: crash when clicking [Merge]-> [Delete] menu item while renaming a file
- Add a feature generating a patch from directories (#283) (GitHub PR #331)
- added bin and obj directories to C# filter (GitHub PR #365)

### Image compare

- BugFix: Scrolling behavior when dragging images is wrong (osdn.net #40205)

### Open dialog

- BugFix: Open dialogs are sometimes left as garbage (osdn.net #40487)
- Browse button in the file/dir selection show wrong path (GitHub #346)

### Options dialog

- BugFix: Pressing the [Compare/Binary] category button in the Options dialog twice will cause a crash. (osdn.net #40308)

### Plugins

- BugFix: Fix handling of line breaks in SortAscending, SortDescending (osdn.net PR #40266)
- BugFix: Error when comparing images in the CompareMSExcelFiles.sct plugin (osdn.net #40472)
- CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Include Excel Addin files (*.xlam) (GitHub PR #269)
- Add support for C# and TypeScript (GitHub PR #382)
- Add a plugin for Visio (osdn.net PR #40473)
- Plugin fixes for the new Table Compare (CompareMSExcelFiles.sct, IgnoreFieldsComma.dll, IgnoreFieldsTab.dll)

### Archive support

- BugFix: Crash when comparing encrypted 7z files (GitHub #367)

### Installer

- Create the installer with Inno Setup 5.x since installers created with Inno Setup 6.0.x are identified as malware by multiple virus scanning engines

### Translations

- Translation updates:
  - Brazilian (GitHub #360)
  - Chinese Simplified (GitHub PR #303,377)
  - Galician (GitHub PR #292,293,308,313,326)
  - German (GitHub PR #312,357)
  - Lithuanian (GitHub PR #291,298,333)
  - Polish (GitHub PR #280)
  - Portuguese (GitHub PR #305)
  - Russian (GitHub PR #270,271,272,302,327,328)
  - Slovak (GitHub PR #300)
  - Slovenian (GitHub #285)
  - Spanish (GitHub PR #292,293,304,308)
  - Turkish (GitHub PR #335,336,337,338)

### Manual

- Minor changes to translations README.md file (GitHub #289)
- Update winmerge.org URL to HTTPS, many small improvements (GitHub PR #306)

### Internals

- BugFix: Src\Common\MyCom.h unused? (GitHub #284)
- BugFix: Error on git repository cloning (GitHub #288)

## Known issues

- Bug: Line Filters aren't applied when using a 3rd file (GitHub #395)
- Pausing comparing doesn't pause immediately (GitHub #342)
- Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)
- Very slow to compare significantly different directories (GitHub #322)
- Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (GitHub #296)
- When the "Filter comments" option is enabled, the difference between the parts that do not comment blocks may be ignored. (osdn.net #40488)