# Change log

## WinMerge 2.16.8 - 2020-08-28

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- Replace outdated list of developers in AboutBox with ascii-art gnu from FSF (GitHub PR #394)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

## WinMerge 2.16.7 - 2020-07-26

### 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)

## WinMerge 2.16.6 - 2020-02-23

### General

- Added CWindowsManagerDialog class for handling open tabs with Ctrl+Tab, now the application is behave just like professional editors (Visual Studio, Notepad++, etc.) to switch and activate the open tabs. (GitHub #247)

### File compare

- BugFix: GhostTextBuffer: Don't unexpectedly bring back empty lines user wants to delete (GitHub #244)
- BugFix: Prevent silent abort with File Comparison of files whose size is an exact multiple of 2^32 bytes (GitHub #257)
- BugFix: WinMerge 2.16.4.0 crashes after de-selecting Split Vertically (GitHub #259)
- BugFix: "Replace All" may not replace all text
- BugFix: An error message is shown when pressing Enter key in Diff pane (osdn.net #39924)
- BugFix: Non-moved lines are treated as moved lines (osdn.net #39851)
- Add support for touchpad horizontal scroll (GitHub #254)

### Image compare

- BugFix: Support 16-bit images (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge issue #6)
- Add support for SVG, PDF, WMF and EMF file types (Only available in WinMerge 64bit version on Windows 10)
  Demo1: https://gyazo.com/b605edb820bc52d0f4f6232eb8ad78aa
  Demo2: https://gyazo.com/f5f267546db27f2dc801c00df8cb4251

### Archive support

- BugFix: Third tgz doesn't get fully extracted (first two do) (GitHub #263)

### Patch generator dialog

- BugFix: Crash when generating patch for multiple files and a file only on one side (GitHub #252)

### Installer

- BugFix: Fix spelling of Git (GitHub #246)

### Translations

- New translation: Arabic (sf.net #3038)
- Translation updates:
  - Bulgarian (GitHub #236, #268)
  - French (GitHub #251)
  - German (GitHub #239, #245, #258)
  - Lithuanian (GitHub #233, #267)
  - Portuguese (GitHub #237)
  - Spanish (GitHub #266)

### Manual

- BugFix: Fix spelling of Git (GitHub #246)
- Update Configuration.xml (GitHub #262)

### Internals

- Consolidate FolderCmp (GitHub #240, #242)
- Avoid some back and forth file path transcoding between UTF16 and UTF8 (GitHub #243)

## WinMerge 2.16.5 - 2019-12-09

### File compare

- BugFix: Suspicious lack of Release() calls in lwdisp.c (GitHub #171)
- BugFix: Performance using Unpacker (GitHub #180)
- BugFix: WinMerge toolbar appears too small on UHD and should default to the conforming Windows 10 scaling/DPI accessibility setting (GitHub #182)
- BugFix: "Recompare as" menu option doesn't follow current choice (GitHub #191)
- BugFix: Switching between "Find Next" and "Find Prev" need to click twice (GitHub #202)
- BugFix: Program is crashed! (GitHub #229)
- Switch "Find" buttons in Find dialog (GitHub #201)
- Improve UNICODE character support using icu.dll usable from Windows 10 Creators Update
- Add support for color emoji (Only available in 64bit version) (To enable color emoji support, select DirectWrite* in Rendering mode combobox on Editor page in the Options dialog)
  Demo: https://gyazo.com/7cbbbd2c1de195fcd214d588b21b21d4

### Folder compare

- BugFix: Crash when clicking Next Difference button after unchecking Show Different Items menu item
- Changed symbols in Newer/Older column for better visual clarity (GitHub #169)
- Add "Ignore codepage differences" to quick options (GitHub #197)
- Limit the window flashing count. (GitHub #206)

### Image compare

- BugFix: Image compare breaks when zoomed too much with large pictures (GitHub #188)
- BugFix: [Image compare] Zoom-in focuses on top-left corner instead of cursor position (GitHub #211)

### Shell extension

- BugFix: "Run as Administrator" incompatible with "Shell integration" (ver 2.16.4) (sf.net #2234)

### Installer

- BugFix: Installer russian translation (#168)
- BugFix: Windows 10 shell integration not working (GitHub #176)
- Installer - Proposal - Separate Inno Setup strings from WinMerge installer strings (GitHub #167)

### Translations

- Update Italian translation (GitHub #164, #165)
- Update Russian translation (GitHub #166)
- Update Bulgarian translation (GitHub #170, #175, #179, #212)
- Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #185, #199)
- Update French translation (GitHub #187)
- Update Lithuanian translation (GitHub #189, #208, #217, #225)
- Update Swedish translation (GitHub #194, #196)
- Update German translation (GitHub #204, #205, #215)
- Update Polish translation (GitHub #218)
- Update Simplified Chinese translation (GitHub #228)
- Update Finnish translation (sf.net #3037)
- Update English.pot (#216)
- Add Japanese manual (GitHub #183)

### Manual

- Small Manual tweaks (GitHub #190)

## WinMerge 2.16.4 - 2019-07-28

### File compare

- BugFix: coretools.cpp: linelen() should not truncate lines with embedded NULs (GitHub #156)
- BugFix: file compare : right-click doesn't select the diff under the mouse (GitHub #159)
- BugFix: Avoid an exception in GuessCodepageEncoding() when filepath equals "NUL" (GitHub #162)
- BugFix: Auto-indent did not work if the EOL-style was not CRLF

### Folder compare

- BugFix: Generating HTML Folder Compare report including File Compare report did not complete (Bitbucket #15)
- BugFix: Compare Statistics dialog: The number of diff folders was counted in the number of diff files

### Plugins

- BugFix: PrediffLineFilter.sct: Wrong encoding for settings dialog (Bitbucket #16)

### Translations

- Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #51)
- Update Italian translation (Bitbucket PR #52)

### Internals

- Favor PathContext::GetSize() over PathContext::size() (GitHub #157)
- Consolidate FolderCmp (GitHub #158, #160, #161)
- Avoid some InnoSetup compiler warnings (Bitbucket PR #53)

## WinMerge 2.16.3 - 2019-06-29

### General

- BugFix: Slow startup with documents folder redirected to high-latency network drive (Bitbucket #155)
- Add VisualElementsManifest for Windows 10 start menu (Bitbucket PR #47)
- Reduce the size of the executable file

### File compare

- BugFix: Location and Diff pane visibility broken in 2.16.1 (GitHub #138, Bitbucket #163, sf.net #2228)
- BugFix: Temporary files could not be created (GitHub #143, sf.net #2220)
- BugFix: Trivial bugfix (GitHub #155)
- BugFix: Regression: Incorrectly shows 'no changes' for large portions of certain binary files! (Bitbucket #162)
- Small tweaks for HTML file reports (Bitbucket PR #44, #45)
- Made diff algorithm selectable by using libXDiff algorithms: default(Myers), minimal, patience, histogram
- triple click to select whole line (Bitbucket #144)
- Add support for merging word level diffs in selection
  Demo: https://i.gyazo.com/af18960bd1f121213a2cd9287cae9cf4.gif

### Folder compare

- BugFix: WinMerge 3-Way Compare Bugs: Always Shows Unique Items. (GitHub #154)
- BugFix: WinMerge could not compare files that are opened in other applications
- Show progress bar while generating Folder Compare Report
- Use own colors settings for folder compare (Bitbucket PR #49)

### Project file

- BugFix: Possible Bugs in 2.16.2 (sf.net #2221)
- Supporting relative path in project file (Bitbucket #158)
- Allow multiple <paths> in project file

### Image compare

- BugFix: no message was displayed when file saving failed
- Implement Insertion/Deletion Detection
  Demo: https://gyazo.com/17d8773354d23b5ae51262f28b0f1f80

### Options dialog

- Tweak size of combobox "codepage" in options (GitHub #144)
- Sort combobox codepage and add manual codepage (GitHub #145)

### Installer

- Allow per-user installation (only x64 installer)
- Don't install Files.txt and don't add "Uninstall WinMerge" to the start menu (Bitbuket #38)

### Translations

- Update French translation (GitHub #149, #150)
- Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #36, #40, #43, #46, #48, #50)
- Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #41, #42)

## WinMerge 2.16.2 - 2019-04-04

### File compare

- BugFix: Edit > Replace > All, Undo: should undo all (sf.net #2113)
- BugFix: Save As: default directory should be file's original directory (sf.net #2163)
- BugFix: Strings with embedded 0 bytes are handled incorrectly (sf.net #2187)
- BugFix: Removed word level merge support due to unstable behavior
- BugFix: Menu item "File->File Encoding" moves main window (Bitbucket #150)
- BugFix: Crash when maximizing MDI child window
- BugFix: Crash when failed to load file
- Add syntax highlight for Lua (Bitbucket #114)

### Folder compare

- BugFix: Compare results refresh incorrectly after deletions (sf.net #2217)

### Archive Support

- Upgraded to 7-zip 19.00

### Tab bar

- Improve icon display at 120DPI

### Image compare

- BugFix: Zoom In/Out shortcuts don't update zoom level in location pane (Bitbucket #149)
- Zoom In/Out menu items for image compare (Bitbucket #148)

### Open dialog

- Allow quoted filenames in "Select Files or Folders" (sf.net #1240, GitHub #137)

### Manual

- Some tweaks for the manual (Bitbucket PR #35)

### Installer

- BugFix: Gibberish language during installation (Bitbucket #147)

### Translations

- Update Catalan translation (Bitbucket PR #29)
- Update Italian translation (Bitbucket PR #32)
- Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #33)
- Update Simplified Chinese translation (Bitbucket PR #34)

## WinMerge 2.16.1 - 2019-02-24

### General

- Updated the copyright year to 2019, actually (GitHub #110)
- Prevent splitter view from claiming input focus (GitHub #127)
- Contributors.txt: Changed EOL from Unix (LF) to Windows (CR LF), because not shows correctly in Windows Notepad. (Bitbucket PR #17)

### Open dialog

- Alternatively to Swap buttons, allow drag & drop between filetype icons (GitHub #118)
- Expose cleaner moving/resizing behavior esp. in non-maximized state (GitHub #119)
- Avoid retaining bogus filetype icons from previous selections (GitHub #122)

### File compare

- BugFix: Extra blank displayed after left/right single/double quotes (Bitbucket #134)
- BugFix: Click doesn't trigger document to scroll in Location pane under circumstance (Bitbucket #140)
- BugFix: Frustrating text selection bug (GitHub #109)
- BugFix: Left and Right files swap after losing focus v2.16.0.0 (sf.net #2213)
- BugFix: WinMerge 2.16.0.0 Unicoe X64 version displaying Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Asset in DiffWraper.CPP line 984 (sf.net #2214)
- BugFix: Cancelation of selection range with reverse indent (sf.net #2215)
- BugFix: upward and downward search not work correctly
- Bugifx: Fix menu accelerator conflict
- Add File/Recompare As/Image menu item
- Add support for merging word level diffs in selection
  Demo: https://i.gyazo.com/af18960bd1f121213a2cd9287cae9cf4.gif

### Folder compare

- BugFix: Unique files are not shown (Bitbucket #138)
- BugFix: Improve Hard-IO error handling, other bug fixes, cleanup, tweaks (GitHub #120)

### Archive Support

- Upgraded to 7-zip 18.06 (Bitbucket #119)

### Options dialog

- BugFix: Widen the width of labels in Options dialog (GitHub#108)
- BugFix: view settings make winmerge crash (Bitbucket #109)
- BugFix: 64bit version can't browse between option pages (Bitbucket #128)
- BugFix: Shell Integration "Enable Advanced Menu" disabled on new install (Bitbucket #137)
- BugFix: Binary File options don't change from default (Bitbucket #135)

### Shell extension

- BugFix: CreateTranslatedRcFiles needs an update (GitHub #113)

### Translations

- Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (GitHub #108)
- Update Swedish translation (sf.net #3035, GitHub #112, #114)
- Update Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket PR #7, #8, #27)
- Update Russian translation (Bitbucket PR #9-#26, #139)
- Update Bulgarian translation (Bitbucket PR #28)
- Update Turkish translation (sf.net #3036)
- Update Japanese translation
- Remove now unneeded MergeLang.dll

### Manual

- BugFix: Some fixes in the manual (GitHub #116)
- Bugifx: end of line documentation (sf.net #2211)
- Clarification as per https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge-v2/issues/41 (GitHub #126)

### Internals

- Remove `nFinalNullLines` checking, disabled by an earlier commit (GitHub #111)
- Various minor updates, plus preparation for VS2019 (GitHub #115)
- DiffTextBuffer: Create Unicode temp files (makes EscapeControlChars() obsolete) (GitHub #123)
- Don't pass `DIFFITEM *` by casting to `uintptr_t` (GitHub #124, #125)

## WinMerge 2.16.0 - 2018-11-23

### General

- BugFix: Disabled icon on toolbar not gray out when running on XP

### File compare

- BugFix: Copy to X and Advance" not work in 3way-compare (Bitbucket #123)
- BugFix: File compare always showing different ending (GitHub #106)
- BugFix: Scrolling issue (GitHub #105)
- BugFix: A crash (GitHub #104)
- Add separators to "Zoom" and "Diff Context" menus (Bitbucket PR #5)

### Open dialog

- BugFix: Drag&Drop in Open Dialog won't work correct (Bitbucket #125)

### Installer

- Drop ClearCase integration (Bitbucket PR #6)

### Translations

- Add Lithuanian translation (Bitbucket #124)
- Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #102,103)

## WinMerge 2.15.5 - 2018-10-28

### General

- Add support for very long path and file names (GitHub #87,95,99)
- Enable Ctrl+C shortcut key on the file path bar
- Remove support for old version control system (GitHub #96)
- Improve Options > Color > Differences dialog layout (GitHub #89)
- Improve information and formatting in Help > Configuration reporting (GitHub #92)
- Improve visual layout of Open dialog (GitHub #97)
- Add icon for "New (3 panes)" menu item (GitHub #97)

### File compare

- Add Window/Split menu item
- Improve handling of last lines in files (GitHub #89,90,93)
- Improve "Visual C++ Loose" filter (GitHub #95)
- BugFix: Crash when saving a file if the active pane is diff detail pane
- BugFix: Crash when pressing Alt+Down key while loading large files
- BugFix: Crash when "mousing over" Plugin Setting context menu if Plugins are disabled
- BugFix: Various problems reading of files > 2GB (GitHub #81)
- BugFix: Selecting files "From MRU list" again works correctly

### Translations

- Update Italian translation (GitHub #86)
- Update Japanese translation (Bitbucket #3)
- Update Dutch translation
- Update German translation
- BugFix: Spanish translation error (Bitbucket Issue #108)

### Internals

- Various diffengine and compilation/build fixes (GitHub #89,90,91,92,94)

## WinMerge 2.15.4 - 2018-04-28

### Appearance

- BugFix: Dot icon in a drop-down menu is not drawn correctly

### File compare

- BugFix: Crash when reading a file in Google Drive File Stream (sf.net#2206)
- BugFix: Crash when removing ghost lines (GitHub #80)
- BugFix: Lines without EOL appears even though it is not the last line
- Add Ctrl++/Ctrl+-(not numpad key) shortcut key to zoom in/out (sf.net#1727)
- Remove 2GB file size limit for 64-bit build (GitHub #81, #82)

### Folder compare

- Add Pause button to Folder Compare Progress dialog (sf.net#828,#1222,#1237)
- Re-detect the file encoding when opening files (sf.net#2131)

### Open dialog

- Add Options button to Open dialog
- Add Save Project button to Open dialog

### Patch generator dialog

- BugFix: File1/File2 fields don't remember manual input (sf.net#1949)

### Reports

- BugFix: Garbled text was copied to the clipboard when generating a report on the clipboard (sf.net#2200)

### Plugins

- Add PrediffLineFilter.sct plugin
- Make ignored lines by Prediffer plugin colored

### Translations

- Update Slovak translation (sf.net#2902)
- Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #84,#85)

### Internals

- Adapt to VS2017 version 15.6.1 (GitHub #79)

## WinMerge 2.15.3 - 2018-03-04

### File compare

- Fix assertion error when started on Windows XP
- Fix a problem that moved blocks are sometimes shown as normal diff blocks
- Fix a problem that EOL is removed unexpectedly when removing lines included ghost lines
- Fix reverse search to search last line correctly
- Fix infinite loop when replacing ^ (sf.net#2094)
- Fix to show text that contains & on message box, correctly (sf.net#2067)

### Folder compare

- Fix a problem that unique files are invisible when comparing files using 'Date' compare method
- Remove trailing garbage from a dragged text (Github#75)

### Patch generator dialog

- Fix a problem that typed-in Context in Generate Patch is not applied (sf.net#2179)

### Reports

- Entitify file paths in HTML & XML directory comparison reports (sf.net#2199)

### Location pane

- Add support for HiDPI screens (Github #54)

### Plugins

- CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: Add "Compare headers and footers" checkbox to settings dialog (sf.net#2102)

### Installer

- Remove extra space in installer: " Launch WinMerge" (sf.net#2144)
- Add "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" section into GPL.rtf (sf.net#2098)

### Translations

- Add Finnish translation (sf.net#3031)
- Add Sinhala translation (sf.net#3032)
- Update Korean translation (Github #61)
- Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #56-78)
- Update Polish translation (sf.net#2177)
- Update Turkish translation (Bitbucket#85, #86)
- Change the file encodings of all .po files of WinMerge GUI to UTF-8

## WinMerge 2.15.2 - 2018-01-28

### Appearance

- Flatten GUI pane edges
- Partial support for HiDPI (not Per-Monitor DPI Aware)
- Remove splash screen. The splash screen image is now displayed in About dialog

### Tool bar

- Add "View->Toolbar->Huge" menu item
- Add drop down menu to Options icon
- Add icons for 3-way merge functions

### Open dialog

- Change window type of Open dialog from modal window to MDI child window
- Add Read-only checkbox to Open dialog
- Add buttons to swap items
- Add the third path combobox for 3-way comparison
- Allow file name patterns like not only .ext but file.ext

### Tab bar

- Make Tabbar reorderable by using drag-and-drop
- Add "Close Other Tabs", "Close Right Tabs" and "Close Left Tabs" menu items to system menu
- Add "Enable Auto Max Width" menu item to Tab Bar context menu
- Show close button when hovering over tabs
- Add icons to each tab

### Options dialog

- Add "Close Select Files or Folders Dialog on clicking OK button" checkbox to "General" page
- Add "Language" combobox to "General" page and remove Language dialog
- Add "Ignore codepage differences" checkbox to "Compare/General" page
- Remove checkboxes in "Enable multiple compare windows for" group from "General" page (Now always enabled multi compare windows)
- Add "Include Subfolders" checkbox to "Compare/Folder" page
- Add "Automatically expand all subfolders" checkbox to "Compare/Folder" page
- Add "Ignore Reparse Points" checkbox to "Compare/Folder" page
- Add "Number of compare threads" textbox to "Compare/Folder" page
- Add "Compare/Binary" page
- Add "Compare/Image" page
- Add checkboxes whether to use custom colors for text to "Colors/Differences" page
- Add "GitHub/Bitbucket" button to "Colors/Differences" page
- Add "Margin" color button to "Colors/Text" page
- Add "Colors/Markers" page
- Remove "Use stand-alone 7-Zip if available" and "Use local 7-Zip from WinMerge folder" radio button from "Archive Support" page (Now always use local 7-Zip from WinMerge folder)
- Make $file and $linenum parameters available in External editor textbox on "System" page
- Make Custom codepage on "Codepage" page selectable from dropdown list
- Add "Detect codepage for text files using mlang.dll" checkbox to "Codepage" page
- Remove "Include subfolders by default" checkbox from "Shell Integration" page (ShellExtension now refers to "Include subfolders" checkbox on "Compare/Folder" page or on "Select Files or Folders" dialog)
- Remove "Add Shell menu to context menu" from "Shell Integration" page (WinMerge now always adds shell menu to context menu in Folder window)
- Add "Register shell extension" button to "Shell Integration" page

### Folder Compare

- Add Multi-thread compare support for Full Contents or Quick Contents method
- Color the background of items in list view
- Restore collapse/expand state of folder tree after re-comparison
- Make comparing window closeable
- Make sub-folder re-comparable
- Display folder items in list view during comparison
- Display the file name currently being compared in progress window
- Add "Parent Folder" menu item in 'Open Left/Middle/Right' menu
- Add "Compare Non-horizontally" menu item to context menu
- Add "Copy items To Clipboard" menu item to context menu
- Add "Swap panes" menu item to View menu
- Add "Auto/Manual Prediffer" menu item to Plugin menu
- Open selected folders in new tab when clicking "Compare" menu item with pressing Ctrl key
- Cleanup Date column alignment (GitHub #25)
- BugFix: Version column not sorted correctly
- BugFix: A unique item that is a binary file was not detected as a binary file
- BugFix: Properly handle 3-way comparison of Binary files (Github #23)
- BugFix: Use proper font for View>Use Default Font menu item (GitHub #24)

### File Compare

- Add support for 3-way compare/merge
- Add "Diff Context" menu to View menu to adjust the number of displayed diff context lines
- Add "Split Vertically" menu item to View menu
- Add "Add Synchronization Point" to Merge menu
- Add "Auto/Manual Prediffer" menu item to Plugin menu
- Show the name of the applied plugin in the status bar
- Add shortcut(Ctrl+Alt+E) to open with external editor
- Add Go and Rust highlighter
- Add VHDL syntax highlighter (Bitbucket #2)
- Add C++11 keywords
- Make merge editor window D&Dable
- Highlight the search text and implement Marker
- Highlight the EOL pane in status bar if there is a difference in the EOL of files
- Reload files when another application changes files opened by WinMerge
- Improve in-line diff algorithm
- BugFix: More on Issue #73 Fixed the -dl -dm and -dr description parameters for conflict files (for both 2 way and 3 way conflict files).(Bitbucket #1)
- BugFix: Fix Memory Leak with Drop Targets (GitHub #26)

### Binary Compare

- Install binary file editor (frhed) component again by default
- Make binary file editor undoable

### Image Compare

- Add image file compare/merge support

### Reports

- Add "Include File Compare Report" checkbox to "Folder Compare Report" dialog
- Change the encoding of HTML folder compare report from ANSI to UTF-8
- Add icons to the HTML folder compare report
- Change visual style of HTML report

### Archive Support

- Install 7-zip plugin by default

### Drag and Drop

- Accept drag&droped files or folders from various places like: Zip folder, FTP folder, Recycle bin, images in Web browser

### Plugins

- Introduce new plugin type FILE_FOLDER_PACK_UNPACKER which allows unpacking data in a file to multiple files in a folder
- Use FILE_FOLDER_PACK_UNPACKER plugin for decompressing archives
- Add support for unpacker plugin written in VBScript/Javascript.
- Add WinMerge32BitPluginProxy.exe to make 32-bit plugins usable in 64-bit WinMerge
- Rewrite some plugins in VBScript
- Add CompareMSPowerPointFiles.sct plugin
- Add ApplyPatch.sct plugin
- Add SortAscending, SortDescending and ExecFilterCommand menu item to Plugin->Script menu
- Make plugins configurable with settings dialog of each plugin

### Filters

- Update *.flt files for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017

### Shell extension

- Display another WinMerge icon in Explorer's context menu when a folder is selected

### Installer

- 64-bit version of WinMerge is available
- Install plugins by default

### Translations

- Update Portuguese translation (GitHub #2-17)
- Update Korean translation (GitHub #45)
- Update Traditional Chinese translation (GitHub #53)
- Remove "Language" menu item from View menu (You can specify UI language at Options dialog)

### Command line

- Incompatible change: The third file path is now treated as a right path for 3-way comparison, not output path Use /o option for ouput path instead
- Add /wm, /dm, /fl, /fm, /fr, /al, /am and /ar option for 3-way comparison

### Other changes

- Add support for jump list introduced in Windows 7

### Internals

- Use POCO C++ libraries instead of pcre, expat and scew. They use pcre, expat internally
- Link statically with MFC and VC runtime libraries
- Various compilation/build fixes (GitHub #1,19,21,29,31-33,36-38,42-44,49-52)

## WinMerge 2.14.0 - 2013-02-02 (r7596)

- BugFix: Shell extension uses unquoted program path (patches#3023)
- Translation updates
  - Dutch (patches:#3020)
  - Slovenian (patches:#3021)

## WinMerge 2.13.22 - 2013-01-13 (r7585)

- Translation updates
  - Turkish (patches:#2967)
  - Russian (patches:#3017)
  - Norwegian (patches:#3018)
  - Danish (patches:#3019)

## WinMerge 2.13.21 - 2012-12-30 (r7575)

- Update PCRE to version 8.10
- Update SCEW to version 1.1.2
- Improve startup time (#2788142)
- Add menuitems for selecting automatic or manual prediffing (#2638608)
- Add accelerator keys for Shell context menu (#2823536)
- Improve editing of linefilter regular expressions (#3015416)
- Allow editing context line count in patch creator (#2092180)
- Improve color options organization (#2818451)
- Add /xq command line switch for closing WinMerge after identical files and not showing message (#2827836)
- Allow setting codepage from command line (#2725549)
- Allow giving encoding name as custom codepage (#2813825, #3010934)
- Add new options dialog panel for folder compare options (#2819626)
- Add options GUI for quick compare limit (#2825628)
- Write config log as UTF-8 file (r7057)
- BugFix: Untranslated string ("Merge.rc:nnnn") was displayed in status bar (#3025855)
- BugFix: Pane headers not updated after language change (#2923684)
- BugFix: Quick contents compare didn't ignore EOL byte differences (#2929005)
- BugFix: Compare by size always checked file times too (#2919510)
- BugFix: Crash when pasting from clipboard (#3109525)
- BugFix: Keeps verifing path even turned off in options (#3111581)
- BugFix: Crash after deleting text (#3109521)
- BugFix: Added EOL chars between copied file/path names (#2817546)
- BugFix: Created new matching folder to wrong folder (#2890961)
- BugFix: Strange scrolling effect in location pane (#2942869)
- BugFix: Plugin error after interrupting folder compare (#2919475)
- BugFix: "+" and "-" from the number block don't work in the editor (#3306182)
- BugFix: Date format did not respect Regional Settings (#3175189)
- BugFix: When selecting multiple files in Patch Generator dialog, "Swap" button led to an error. (#3043635, #3066200)
- BugFix: WinMerge contained a vulnerability in handling project files (#3185386) (http://www.zeroscience.mk/mk/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2011-4997.php)
- Installer: Remove OpenCandy from the InnoSetup installer (r7572, r7539)
- New translation: Basque (#3387142)
- Translation updates
  - French (#3412030)
  - Hungarian (#3164982)
  - Spanish (#3412937)

## WinMerge 2.13.20 - 2010-10-20 (r7319)

- Add missing keywords to Pascal highlighter (#2834192)
- Recognize .ascx files as ASP files (#3042393)
- Fix help locations (#2988974)
- Show only "Copy to other side" item in file compare context menu (#2600787)
- Expand/collapse folders from keyboard (#2203904)
- Improve detecting XML files in file compare (#2726531)
- Initialize folder selection dialog to currently selected folder in options dialog (r6570)
- New translation: Persian (#2877121, #3065119)
- New translation: Serbian (#3017674, #3065119)
- Installer: Drop Windows 9x/ME/NT4 support and use Microsoft runtime libraries installer (#3070254)
- Installer: Remove Uninstall shortcut from start menu folder (#3076909)
- Installer: Don't install quick launch icon for Windows 7 (#3079966)
- Installer: Add OpenCandy to the InnoSetup installer (#3088720)
- BugFix: WinMerge was vulnerable to DLL hijacking as described in Microsoft Security Advisory (2269637) (#33056008)
- BugFix: Location pane focus enabled "Save" (#3022292)
- BugFix: "Copy and advance" toolbar icons not automatically enabled (#3033325)
- Translation updates
  - Bulgarian (#3082392)
  - Chinese (#3033324)
  - Dutch (#2804979)
  - French (#2850842, #2968200)
  - Slovenian (#2917796, #2932094, #2934354, #3070136)
  - Spanish (#2930734)
  - Turkish (#2825132, #2827817)
  - Ukrainian (#2817835)

## WinMerge 2.12.4 - 2009-06-09 (r6833)

- Add more C/C++ types to syntax highlight (#2776705)
- Create config log file to My Documents-folder (#2789839)
- BugFix: Reports had same left/right descriptions (#2772646)
- BugFix: When conflict file saved trailing line-ending was lost (#2550412)
- BugFix: File compare HTML reports use invald DOCTYPE (#2783477)
- BugFix: "##" in file filter pattern caused an infinite loop (#2789345)
- BugFix: Could select prediffer when plugins were disabled (#2787131)
- BugFix: Opening mixed-EOL file one side forced both files to be handled as mixed-eol files (#2022312)
- BugFix: Didn't show correct EOL chars if whitespace chars were turned off and again on (#2791402)
- BugFix: Generated patch had wrong file time for UTF-16 files (#2791506)
- BugFix: Did not export changed options values (#2799149)
- BugFix: Reset the compare method to original if it was changed (#2802427)

## WinMerge 2.12.2 - 2009-04-01 (r6625)

- Disable folder compare tree-view by default (#2714968)
- BugFix: Filename extension column was empty for files (#2670046)
- BugFix: Crash when selecting backup folder (#2686382)
- BugFix: Swapping panes did not update statusbar (#2661838)
- BugFix: Says files are identical after making files different in another application and re-loading them (#2672737)
- BugFix: Files with missing last EOL weren't merged correctly (#2712120)
- Translation updates
  - Polish (#2717382, #2720875)

## WinMerge 2.12.0 - 2009-03-05 (r6542)

- Remember last target folder for Copy/Move to in folder compare (#2659228)
- Detect Windows 7 and Windows 2008 in config log (#2599256)
- BugFix: Help window opened from WinMerge was modal (#2590079)
- BugFix: Crash in editor when undoing (#2590212)
- BugFix: Browse button in Option dialog reverted to previous settings (#2606153)
- BugFix: Files without extension get backed up to name..bak (#2627752)
- BugFix: Must Show Different to Show L/R Unique (#2129561)
- Translation updates
  - Chinese Traditional (#2608190)
  - Croatian (#2596949)
  - Czech (r6538)
  - Danish (#2648183)
  - Dutch (#2586422, #2590430)
  - French (#2603591)
  - Galician (#2632173)
  - German (#2586497)
  - Greek (#2615285)
  - Japanese (r6456)
  - Swedish (#2586274)
  - Ukrainian (#2609242)

## WinMerge 2.11.2 - 2009-02-05 (r6428)

- Update Python syntax highlight keywords for Python 2.6 (#2473375)
- More accurate visible area rect in location pane (#2479804)
- New options page for Shell Integration options (#2433648)
- Remove Frhed hex editor from GUI (context menu) (r6376)
- Register.bat should use Find with full path (#2536582)
- Better Unicode file detection for full contents compare (2477657)
- BugFix: Could not open project file that contains an ampersand character in folder names (#2372000)
- BugFix: File compare method "Modified Date and Size" ignored file size (#2455595)
- BugFix: Quick compare didn't ignore EOL differences (#2433677)
- BugFix: Remove EOL characters from command line (#2458728)
- BugFix: Merging one line diff to empty other side didn't work (#2456399)
- BugFix: Location pane was empty for some files with diffs (#2459234)
- BugFix: Line filter editing didn't update edit box when editing was canceled by ESC key (#2493935)
- BugFix: Wrong number shown for difference when using line filters (#2493980)
- BugFix: Crashed if compared file disappeared during file compare (#2493945)
- BugFix: Creating new files caused message about missing files (#2515875)
- BugFix: Could not hide folders in recursive compare (#2528749)
- BugFix: Folder Compare:Copy Right/Left don't create folder
- BugFix: Must Show Different to Show L/R Unique (#2129561)
- BugFix: Could not copy files from right to left (#2556904)
- BugFix: Don't show file name extension for folders (#2563314)
- Translation updates
  - Brazilian (#2461443, #2524796)
  - Chinese Traditional (#2540115)
  - Czech (r6201)
  - Dutch (#2481022, #2494378, #2499994)
  - French (#2551043, #2551066)
  - Greek (#2550911)
  - Swedish (#2452467, #2465385, #2511043)

## WinMerge 2.12.x (R2_12) branch created (r6202)

## WinMerge 2.11.1.8 - 2008-12-19 (r6200)

- Allow reloading the file if it has been changed on the disk behind WinMerge (#2354125)
- Add option to show Open-dialog on WinMerge startup (#2327424)
- Add Git to Source Control filter and fix ignore file rules (#2329381)
- Add build identifier for 64-bit builds to About-dialog (r6142)
- Installer: Option to add WinMerge to system path (#2435175)
- Add Unicode version of heksedit (#2036603)
- Allow multiple file compare documents by default (#2445749)
- BugFix: Move confirmation dialog sometimes had wrong paths (#2327565, #2309190)
- BugFix: Use translated version of readme.txt for Chinese Simplified (#2391000)
- BugFix: Installer didn't install readme.txt for all translations (#2396437)
- BugFix: Could not give paths to commandline when started WinMerge from Cygwin prompt (#2427946)
- BugFix: Infinite loop in heksedit's Replace-dialog (r6176)
- Translation updates
  - Croatian (#2390558)
  - German (r6130)
  - Greek (#2379356)
  - Japanese (r6154)
  - Swedish (#2318778, #2374278)

## WinMerge 2.11.1.7 - 2008-11-20 (r6112)

- Add shell context menu to folder compare context menu (#2189315)
- Update PCRE to version 7.8 (#2209911)
- Show missing lines in location pane for diffs having both different and missing lines (#2119235)
- Syntax highlighting for Verilog files (#2231145)
- Tweak new "equal file" icon a little bit (#2312381)
- Readme update (#2234689)
- Translation updates
  - Brazilian (#2219568)
  - Czech (r6034)
  - Swedish (#2215167, #2236651)

## WinMerge 2.11.1.6 - 2008-10-23 (r6033)

- General compare status for files (not known if text/binary) (#2175736)
- Change icons for the new general compare status (#2185302)
- Use 24bit icons for "Bookmarks" and "Delete" menu items (#2141184)
- Installer: create backup of ClearCase config file (#2129095)
- BugFix: Translatable strings having space before colon (#1971868)
- BugFix: Wrong cursor position when disabling selection margin (#2138555)
- BugFix: Showed a black line when disabling selection margin (#2068790)
- BugFix: Fix manual URL in Readme.txt (#2181628)
- BugFix: Long unique paths were mixed up in folder compare view (#2129634)
- BugFix: Some calls made to plugins when plugins were disabled (#2182788)
- BugFix: If messagebox was shown during file loading location pane didn't show any differences (#2101780)

## WinMerge 2.11.1.5 - 2008-10-02 (r5995)

- Use external editor to edit file filters (#2082774)
- Improved command line handling (#2081779)
- Change Manual url to http://winmerge.org/docs/manual/ (r5956)
- Manual updates
- Plugins: Show processing instructions in XML plugin (#1979321)
- Add icon for "Compare" menu item (#2119843)
- Change download URL to current URL (#2136765)
- Installer: create backup of ClearCase config file (#2129095)
- BugFix: ClearCase checkout/commit dialog translation error (#2051069)
- BugFix: Table of Contents in manual (#2071625)
- BugFix: Highlight ShowUnInstDetails keyword for NSIS files (#2084879)
- BugFix: Displayed a blank time when file last modified time is 00:00:00 (#2098626)
- BugFix: Customized colors weren't used in some areas (#2110218)
- BugFix: Zip files were extracted into wrong folder (#2110350)
- BugFix: Case-sensitive regexp search didn't work (#1991259)
- BugFix: There were some installer regressions (eg. Installer didn't create Quick Launch icon) (#1460517)
- BugFix: Whitespace ignore options didn't work with quick compare (#2120174)
- BugFix: Giving path to file and folder to command line did not work (#2138560)
- New translation: Galician (#2120685)
- Translation updates
  - German (r5934)
  - Russian (#2067785)
  - Swedish (#2075513)
  - Ukrainian (#2131753)

## WinMerge 2.11.1.4 - 2008-08-21 (r5846)

- Binary file edit/compare (#2036603)
- Add wait cursor for undo and redo (#2039228)
- Add icon for "Open Conflict File" menu item (#2047054)
- Include unique subfolder contents in recursive folder compare (#2034259)
- Installer: Use -u switch in TortoiseSVN command line (#2060782)
- Add icon for "Plugins->List" menu item (#2060771)
- BugFix: External editor command line switches did not work (#2037862)
- BugFix: Deleting/Moving file crashed WinMerge in debugger (#2025833)
- BugFix: Lost focus after folder compare operations (#2046002)
- BugFix: Some files had folder icons when aborting folder compare (#2018836)
- BugFix: Didn't select word-diff cyclically by pressing F4 key (#1989858)
- BugFix: Could not reset EOL ignore after selecting it from query dialog (#2056741)
- Translation updates
  - Brazilian (#2059836)
  - German (#2045666)
  - Greek (#2062442)
  - Chinese Traditional (#2039929)
  - Japanese (r5805)
  - Swedish (#2062107)

## WinMerge 2.11.1.3 - 2008-08-04 (r5733)

- Rename color scheme menu item "None" and add separator (#2027300)
- Add -u commandline parameter as alternative to -ub (#2029275, #2030359)
- Remove RCLocalizationHelper plugin (#2029457)
- Clarify Supercopier caused hang in release notes (#2030040)
- Improve tree mode in folder compare (#2018836)
- Unlimited undo (#2033754)
- BugFix: Could change syntax highlight mode when highlighting was disabled from options (#2027325)
- BugFix: Editing line filters updated wrong filter (#2025130)
- BugFix: Boldfacing did work only for Courier font (#2000996)
- BugFix: Shift+Backspace didn't work in editor (#1153696)

## WinMerge 2.11.1.2 - 2008-07-24 (r5673)

- Refresh compare after changing filter (#2017426)
- Add dialog listing available plugins (#2021722)
- Hierarchical directory comparison result view (#2018836)
- Add "Open Conflict" for file/folder compare menus (#2025472)
- Enable hierarchial folder compare view by default (#2025478)
- Confirmation dialog for move operations (#2026508)
- Manual: New build system (#2015434)
- Manual: Improve Opening Files and Folders (#2017901)
- Manual: Improve folder compare documentation (#2024587)
- BugFix: Failed to compare UTF-8 files plugins disabled (#2018287)
- BugFix: Don't warn about closing multiple windows when only one window is open (#2010463)
- BugFix: Moving was allowed for protected items (#2023734)
- BugFix: Could change EOL style for protected file (#2025781)

## WinMerge 2.11.1.1 - 2008-07-11 (r5609)

- Manual: Introduction update (#2011365)
- Manual: Reorganize structure (#2011924)
- Add ShellExtension menu for drive letters (root folders) (#2011602)
- Remove buildall.bat (#2013576)
- New option to enable plugins (disabled by default) (#2013845)
- Plugins: Show processing instructions in XML plugin (#1979321)
- BugFix: Use system codepage for paths (#1979429, #2008581)
- BugFix: ANSI build crash in folder compare (#2010053)
- BugFix: Add insert/overtype mode indicator to statusbar (#2015174)
- BugFix: Detected UTF-8 encoding shown as 65001 (#2012377)

## WinMerge 2.10.x (R2_10) branch created (r5561)

## WinMerge 2.9.1.5 - 2008-07-04 (r5560)

- Manual: Copy editing (#2000322, #2005418)
- Manual: Clarify 64-bit support (#2002431)
- Reduce executable sizes (#2003203)
- Release Notes update (#2007673, r5557)
- BugFix: Possible crash when enabling line filter (#2004160)
- BugFix: Location Pane flickers when scrolling (#1938177, #2005031)
- BugFix: Use system codepage for paths (#1979429, #2008581)
- BugFix: Random crashes in folder compare (#2005308)
- Translation updates
  - Chinese Traditional (#2007426)

## WinMerge 2.9.1.4 - 2008-06-24 (r5518)

- Use PCRE regular expressions in the editor (#1991259)
- Installer: install to all users (#1460517)
- Update release notes (#1990886, #1995265, #1999880)
- Manual: Use PNG files (#1988845, #1989744)
- BugFix: Temp paths in Reports created from archive file (#1984346)
- BugFix: ISL file syntax highlighting starts comment with { (#1981326)
- BugFix: Crash when starting a second instance (#1993835)
- BugFix: Crash when starting WinMerge with only one path (#1994402)
- BugFix: Messages missing from installer translations (r5506)
- BugFix: Always right side as origin side in copy confirmation dialog when Copy To... (#2001237)
- New translation: Slovenian (#1997236)
- Translation updates
  - Brazilian (#1994578)
  - Swedish (#2000307)

## WinMerge 2.9.1.3 - 2008-06-05 (r5438)

- Update PCRE (regular expression library) to version 7.7 (#1941779)
- Add VB.net keywords to Basic highlighter (#1970912)
- Open conflict files by drag & dropping to main window (#1984884)
- Possible improvement for WinMerge exit bug (#1602313)
- BugFix: Location Pane flickers when resizing (#1740106)
- BugFix: Command line description text starting with "/" confused WinMerge (#1973225)
- BugFix: Item count in statusbar not get cleared (#1976480)
- New translation: Ukrainian (#1973149, #1974021)
- Translation updates
  - Brazilian (#1978374)
  - Korean (#1978362)
  - Swedish (#1980970)

## WinMerge 2.9.1.2 - 2008-05-23 (r5362)

- Optimize location pane (r5341, r5342, r5346, r5351, r5355, r5356)
- BugFix: Version Control filter did not match all VSS files (#1881186)
- BugFix: Fix showing differences in the end of the line (#1883409, #1962816)
- BugFix: Fix command line paths in quotes ending with "" (#1963523)
- New translation: Greek (#1968429)
- Translation updates
  - Bulgarian (#1957434)
  - Croatian (#1958283)
  - Swedish (#1950188, #1970074)

## WinMerge 2.9.1.1 - 2008-04-23 (r5324)

- Release Notes update (#1933950)
- Installer: Use correct way to create start menu web link (#1913919)
- Installer: Simplify DeletePreviousStartMenu() function (#1913949)
- Installer: Updated the side art of the installer application (#1915012)
- Update URLs and switch to 2.8 manual (#1919965)
- New splash screen (#1914869)
- Tab icons at Filter dialog (#1926531)
- Add VS2003/VS2005 project files (#1926346)
- Create separate document for compiling WinMerge (#1927502)
- Update InnoSetup translations (#1931492)
- Make 'Yes' the default button in copy confirmation dialog (#1943647)
- Allow drag & drop of paths to Open dialog (#1945254)
- Enlarge 'Discard All' button in Save confirmation dialog (#1947216)
- BugFix: Installer could create a registry access error (#1909967)
- BugFix: The filter text box in Open-dialog sometimes displayed some garbage data (#1915424)
- BugFix: Print area was not clipped correctly. (#1915536)
- BugFix: Undo after pane swapping (#1915536, #1923625)
- BugFix: Quick compare for same folder didn't show differences (#1918599)
- BugFix: Installer didn't have ChangeLog.txt included (r5255)
- BugFix: Shortcuts given in command line were not expanded (#1942217)
- New translation: Romanian (#1939729)
- Translation updates
  - Brazilian (#1913723)
  - Chinese Traditional (#1927605)
  - French (#1920380)
  - German (r5130, r5139, r5171, r5203, r5236, #1949068)
  - Italian (#1939235)
  - Japanese (r5152)
  - Polish (#1934655)
  - Russian (#1914466)
  - Spanish (#1907152, r5250)
  - Swedish (#1908289)

## WinMerge 2.8 RC - 2008-03-04 (r5125)

- Update developers list in splash screen (#1891548)
- Better error handling for Excel plugin (#1510293)
- Add macros, bookmarks and document properties to Word plugin (#1510298)
- Add *.dot (document template) extension to Word plugin (r5120)
- BugFix: Copy&Paste from VB6 added binary chars (#1904355)
- Translation updates
  - Chinese Traditional (#1905323)
  - Swedish (#1905520)

## WinMerge 2.7.7.6 - 2008-02-28 (r5099)

- Remove sintance.h/sintance.cpp as not compatible with GPL (#1886580)
- Automatically switch to mixed-EOL mode when loading files with two or more EOL styles (#1901547)
- Indent "Explorer Context Menu" sub options (#1901763)
- Replace 'DOS' in EOL style strings with 'Windows' (#1902583)
- Show 'Mixed' as file compare EOL style instead of empty style (r5091)
- Typo fixes and grammar improvements to several strings (#1898401)
- BugFix: Ignore codepage specified on File Encoding dialog if file was detected as UTF-8 (#1900728)
- BugFix: Recognize invalid UTF-8 sequence as UTF-8 (#1900733)
- BugFix: Didn't highlight any difference between untitled documents (#1900257)
- Translation updates
  - Czech (r5073)
  - Japanese (r5076)
  - Swedish (#1901784)

## WinMerge 2.7.7.5 - 2008-02-22 (r5069)

- Cleaning up Help-menu (#1875111)
- Right-align tab size number in editor options (r5037)
- Move Time difference ignore -option to compare options (#1892283)
- Add option to select temporary folder (#1893167)
- Show file encoding in file compare statusbar (#1895629)
- Unify EOL style strings in folder compare and file compare (#1896462)
- Remove "DisplayBinaryFiles" and "EditBinaryFiles" plugin (#1899161)
- BugFix: Potential lockup in folder compare (#1865131, #1889907)
- BugFix: Line filter didn't filter non-ascii lines correctly (#1880628)
- BugFix: GNU General Public License name in menu (#1868989)
- BugFix: Didn't switch back to content compare once switched to quick compare in folder compare (#1770373)
- BugFix: Quick compare didn't ignore EOL differences (#1884717)
- Translation updates
  - Croatian (r5032)
  - Czech (r5017)
  - German (r5038)
  - Slovak (#1895583)
  - Swedish (#1891326)

## WinMerge 2.7.7.4 - 2008-02-07 (r5011)

- Detect (and read/write) UTF-8 files without BOM (#1879271)
- Tell user that file is not a conflict file (#1880423)
- Allow opening conflict file from command line (#1880857)
- Use radio symbol for current EOL menu item (#1869755)
- Ask and create pair for unique folder and open them (#1881454)
- Add publisher info to version resource (#1884920)
- Move "Zoom In/Out" to own sub menu (#1879340)
- Installer: Add more version resource info (#1885793)
- Reset text zoom to default size with Ctrl + * (#1886664)
- BugFix: Always return 0 to command line (#1854419)
- BugFix: Merge/Delete deleted items from read-only sides (#1882019)
- BugFix: Shellextension had no publisher info and wrong description (#1878828)
- BugFix: Lockup when showing binary files (#1880711)
- Translation updates
  - Croatian (r4952)
  - Japanese (r4962)
  - Swedish (#1884918)

## WinMerge 2.7.7.3 - 2008-01-23 (r4951)

- Resolve conflict files (cvs, svn...) (#1875129)
- Save line filter when edit box loses focus (#1875853)
- Add link to translations website at help menu (#1699883)
- Manual: Add instructions for conflict file resolving (#1876770)
- Manual: Document third path given to command line (#1877735)
- BugFix: Fix Quick Compare regression in 2.7.7.2 (#1872165)
- BugFix: Clipped text in file saving error message (#1874854)

## WinMerge 2.7.7.2 - 2008-01-14 (r4915)

- Syntax highlighting for PowerShell files (#1859657)
- Syntax highlighting for PO(T) files (#1866221)
- Change font size with Ctrl + MouseWheel (#1865795, #1869686)
- Horizontal scrolling with Shift + MouseWheel (#1865795)
- Installer: Add support for integration with latest version of TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN x64 (#1865168)
- Close compare tab with middle mouse button (#1865220)
- Add index.html for documentation folders (#1866183)
- Manual: Clarify file filters folder name matching (#1867212)
- Improve file compare margin icons location (#1718699)
- Enable file compare to open binary files (#1869647)
- File encoding dialog for file compare (#1871079)
- BugFix: Crash when using TrackPoint middle-button scrolling (#1864040)
- BugFix: WinMerge didn't show the contents of the symbolic link target (#1864978)
- BugFix: Unused registry key HKCU\Thingamahoochie\WinMerge was created (#1865202)
- BugFix: Register.bat didn't work on Windows 98 and Vista (#1869821)
- BugFix: Open-dialog was not displayed on Windows 98 (#1866442, #1869858)
- BugFix: Right mouse button didn't move cursor to new place (#1814184)
- Translation updates
  - Spanish (#1867234)
  - Swedish (#1867765, #1867844)

## WinMerge 2.7.7.1 - 2007-12-20 (r4842)

- New option to keep file's time when saving in file compare (#1851921)
- Installer: Link to translated ReadMe in Start menu, if file exists (#1805818)
- Add HTML-formatted release notes (#1851308, #1852534)
- Installer: Install release notes file (#1852599)
- Installer: Move manual to core files component and remove
- User Guide component (#1853409)
- BugFix: VS2008 and VS2005 compile problems (#1847265)
- BugFix: More difference highlight code reverts (#1748940)
- Translation updates
  - Spanish (#1655577)

## WinMerge 2.7.6 - 2007-11-29 (r4807)

- Touchpad scrolling improvements (#1837457)
- BugFix: Values with "," inside could break the CSV report (#1831512)
- BugFix: Failed to create backup file in folder compare (#1835283)
- BugFix: Revert difference highlight code to 2.6.12 version (#1811695)
- BugFix: Backspace key didn't work when renaming items (#1738790)
- Translation updates
  - Croatian (r4786)

## WinMerge 2.7.5.7 - 2007-11-19 (r4772)

- Remove MFC dependency from ShellExtension (#1833521)
- Update ShellExtension icon to new WinMerge icon (#1833616)
- BugFix: Build script didn't update PO files correctly before copying (r4756)
- BugFix: ShellExtension's icon was clipped if system font size was small (#1833616)
- BugFix: Merge controls were not enabled for missing lines (#1833714)

## WinMerge 2.7.5.6 - 2007-11-15 (r4752)

- BugFix: Many translation-system related fixes and improvements (#1804762)
- BugFix: When copying files to VCS system, destination file was not checked out (#1828930)
- BugFix: Visible area indicator on location pane shook when clicking above or below the vertical scroll bar to scroll one screen (#1829572)
- Translation updates
  - Croatian (#1829301)
  - Japanese (r4730)

## WinMerge 2.7.5.5 - 2007-11-08 (r4722)

- BugFix: Don't enable merge GUI for ignored differences (#1826375)
- BugFix: PgUp key caused the error message "An invalid argument was encountered" when word-wrap mode was on (#1820631)
- BugFix: Keep selected items visible in Folder Compare columns dialog (r4715)
- BugFix: Disable Folder Compare column selection dialog's up/down buttons when first/last items are selected (r4716)
- BugFix: Many translation-system related fixes and improvements (#1804762)
- Add Croatian translation (#1820308)
- Translation updates
  - Chinese Traditional (#1824691)

## WinMerge 2.7.5.4 - 2007-11-01 (r4687)

- New PO files based translation system (#1804762)
- New folder compare column selection dialog (#1804555)
- Install WinMerge.exe (ANSI version) only for Windows 95/98/ME (#1809140)
- Better multi-monitor support, with option to lock panes (#1788168)
- Installer: Install PO files and MergeLang.dll (#1820689)
- BugFix: Ignored differences were merged when merging multiple differences (#1811745)
- BugFix: Don't clear selection when right-clicking outside it (#1814184)
- BugFix: Configuration log labeled Vista as Longhorn (#1815859)
- BugFix: Customized text color for ignored differences didn't shown (#1807895)
- Translation updates
  - Chinese Traditional (#1810192, #1810541)
  - Italian (#1805044)

## WinMerge 2.7.5.3 - 2007-09-27 (r4572)

- Use PO files for translations (generate RC-files from PO-files)
- Add Portuguese translation (#1756364)
- Change Up/Down button names in folder compare columns dialog(#1800064)
- BugFix: Fix MakeResDll crash (#1795421)
- BugFix: Full screen mode didn't work with multiple monitors (#1788168)
- BugFix: Revert multiple monitor patches (#1788168)
- BugFix: PgUp key didn't do anything in beginning of the file (#1795680)
- BugFix: The option 'Automatically scroll to first difference' didn't work properly when word-wrap mode was on (#1795814)
- Translation updates
  - French (#1800064, #1802363)
  - Japanese (r4546)

## WinMerge 2.7.5.2 - 2007-09-11 (r4528)

- Graphical improvements to location pane (#1770175)
- Remove MFC dependency from resource compiler (#1783581)
- Better multi-monitor support (split file view on monitor boundary) (#1788168)
- BugFix: Renaming unique item (only other side) renamed parent folder (#1787816)
- BugFix: Goto didn't change the active pane when selecting another pane (#1791351)
- Translation updates
- Traditional Chinese (r4473)

## WinMerge 2.7.5.1 - 2007-08-16 (r4440)

- HTML reports for file compare (#1739209)
- Ask confirmation when exiting with multiple windows open (#1757800)
- Translation updates
  - Catalan (r4370)
  - Simplified Chinese (r4369)
  - Danish (r4360)
  - French (r4383)
  - Russian (r4421)
  - Slovak (r4413)
  - Swedish (r4412)

## WinMerge 2.7.4 - 2007-06-27 (r4352)

- Batch-file syntax highlighting keywords cleanup (#1743504)
- BugFix: Archivesupport Zip-->both didn't work correctly (#1734439)
- BugFix: Linediff didn't highlight whitespace differences (#1698781)
- BugFix: Copy confirmation dialog did show wrong To-path (#1740024)
- Translation updates
  - Italian (#1737491)

## WinMerge 2.7.3.7 - 2007-06-14 (r4330)

- New big toolbar (actual image instead of placeholder) (#1736520)
- BugFix: Fixes to folder compare copy/rename operations (#1730534)
- Translation updates
  - Swedish (#1735635)

## WinMerge 2.7.3.6 - 2007-06-07 (r4321)

- Recent project files in File-menu (#1731551)
- Automatically import existing linefilters to new dialog (#1718040)
- BugFix: copy/delete of unique items failed in folder compare in 2.7.3.5 (#1730534)
- BugFix: crashed when ESC was pressed while renaming item in folder compare (#1705874)

## WinMerge 2.7.3.5 - 2007-05-31 (r4304)

- Relax selecting parent folder restrictions (up arrow in folder compare) (#1727829)
- Show a warning if item can't be found anymore in folder compare and it is tried to access (copy/move/delete) (#1723778)
- New Borland Delphi file filter (#1699783)
- Gradient toolbar (#1717774)
- BugFix: could not create new file filters in 2.7.3.4 (#1719892)

## WinMerge 2.7.3.4 - 2007-05-15 (r4287)

- Big (32x32) toolbar (image still placeholder) (#1698641)
- Improve folder compare copy confirmation dialog (#1699585, #1700241)
- New file filter for Symbian developers (#1694048)
- BugFix: several fixes to in-line difference highlight (#1694102, #1714088)
- BugFix: word wrap lose horizontal scrollbar (#1706476)
- BugFix: fixes to tabbed window control (#1718148)
- Translation updates
  - German (#1701151)
  - Japanese
  - Korean (#1704904)
  - Swedish (#1703350)

## WinMerge 2.7.3.3 - 2007-04-04 (r4234)

- Tabbed interface (#1603292)
- Enable shell integration for folder backgrounds (#1693113)
- Allow selecting syntax highlighting (#1690346)
- New C# development file filter (#1689854)
- Icon updates (#1686279, #1692097)
- BugFix: compare by date and by size broken in 2.7.3.2 (#1693441)
- BugFix: Open-dialog file filter failed if modified (#1693275)
- Translation updates
  - Swedish (#1689515)

## WinMerge 2.7.3.2 - 2007-03-27 (r4201)

- Several fixes to line difference highlighting (#1491334, #1683061, #1639453)
- Icon updates (#1684865)
- Printing improvement (#1687430)
- Language files size reduced (#1687661, #1687983, #1688012)
- BugFix: 2.7.3.1 binary file compare crash (#1687966)
- BugFix: long linefilters now restored correctly (#1680920)
- Translation updates
  - Japanese

## WinMerge 2.7.3.1 - 2007-03-20 (r4179)

- New copy confirmation dialog in folder compare (#1675087, #1683842)
- Improved line filter dialog (#1682475)
- Installer/uninstaller icons restored to default icons
- Some icon updates (#1680209)
- BugFix: folder compare lost focus after confirmation dialog (#1670991)
- BugFix: crash comparing empty folders (#1675211)
- Translation updates
  - Czech
  - French (#1664689)
  - Polish (#1673082)
  - Swedish (#1673908, #1678676, #1683289)

## WinMerge 2.7.2 - 2007-02-27 (r4137)

- Fix ShellExtension installation bug
- Translation updates
  - Czech
  - German (#1667564)
  - French (#1664689)

## WinMerge 2.7.1.7 - 2007-02-20 (r4120)

- Folder compare threading improvement - should be faster in many situations (#1662002)
- New options for backup file location and naming (#1652696)
- Syntax highlighting for CSS files (#1582537)
- Allow to hide folder compare margins (View/View Margins) (#1663798)
- Translation updates
  - Czech
  - Polish (#1650831)
  - Swedish (#1657664)

## WinMerge 2.7.1.6 - 2007-02-01 (r4094)

- New post-compare line filters for folder compare (#1644820)
- Optimization for word wrap code (#1640741)
- BugFix: 2.7.1.5 forgets selected filter (#1637433)
- BugFix: limiting to single file compare window now works more logically (#1636314)
- BugFix: ANSI regular expressions didn't work (#1644668)
- Translation updates
  - Bulgarian (#1639493)
  - Catalan (#1646638)
  - Swedish (#1634968)

## WinMerge 2.7.1.5 - 2007-01-10 (r4030)

- New line filter implementation (please test and report bugs!) (#1593810)
- Minimum height for location pane's visible area (#1489875)
- Short label "Error" for error items in folder compare (#1567749)
- BugFix: rename edits wrong field in folder compare (#1597939)
- BugFix: too much scrolling in difference navigation
- BugFix: wrong text selection after pane switch in file compare (#1630630)
- BugFix: crash when editing space-char indented files (#1631613)
- Manual updates

## WinMerge 2.7.1.4 - 2006-12-21 (r3991)

- Match lines inside differences (#1447744)
- Workaround-patch (locally included to the build) for shutdown problems (#1602313)
- New ASP.Net filefilter (#1619689)
- BugFix: folder compare speed regression in 2.7.1.3 (#1610442)
- BugFix: new fix for folder compare Copy Left/Right To.. (#1603061)
- BugFix: copyright info missing from about dialog when translation selected (#1604115)
- BugFix: location pane problems with word-wrap (#1584068, #1611542)
- BugFix: invalid path added to project file -dialog (#1602219)
- Swedish translation update (#1614442)
- Manual updates

## WinMerge 2.7.1.3 - 2006-12-05 (r3919)

- Now hides skipped items by default (#1604078)
- Improved INI file syntax highlighting (#1607193)
- Easier folder selection in Project File -dialog (#1603196)
- New "Exclude Source Control files and directories filter" filefilter (#1557295)
- BugFix: project files weren't loaded correctly from command line (using shell file association) (#1602214)
- BugFix: crash in syntax parser (#1556688)
- BugFix: wrong difference navigation when word-wrap enabled (#1597814)
- BugFix: ClearCase integration didn't install if "Program Files" -folder was named differently (non-English Windows)
- Manual updates
  - Slovak translation update (#1606496)

## WinMerge 2.7.1.2 - 2006-11-24 (r3844)

- close WinMerge if Open-dialog is canceled when started from command line (#1600714)
- BugFix: project files didn't work (loaded right-side path for both sides) (#1600000)
- BugFix: location pane misdrawn when word-wrap enabled (#1584068)

## WinMerge 2.7.1.1 - 2006-11-16 (r3810)

- Use expat + scew for XML handling (partially converted) (1587574)

- Uses PCRE for regular expressions (partially converted) (#1591605)

- New folder compare icons (#1586705)

- New bookmarks icons (#1586689)

- Manifest files in resource, no need for separate files (#1588212)

- BugFix: WinMerge/Filters folder was always created (#1578419)

- BugFix: modality problems in file selection dialogs (#1586869)

- BugFix: crash if file modification time was missing (#1589563)

- BugFix: /x parameter didn't work with some other parameters (#1564283)

- BugFix: asked sometimes twice about saving modified files (#1596692)

For older changes look at the VCS (Version Control System).