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)