ReleaseNotes

# WinMerge 2.16.24 Release Notes

- About This Release
- What Is New in 2.16.24?
- What Is New in 2.16.23 beta?
- Known issues

October 2022

## About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.24 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 2.16.24

### General

- BugFix: Fixed crash when displaying file menu if jump list contains invalid title (osdn.net #45916)

### File compare

- Changed operation of displaying dialogs and context menus from status bar from double-click to single-click.

### Table compare

- BugFix: when TSV files were displayed in table mode with word wrap enabled, clicking on a character would not move the caret to that character's position

### Folder compare

- Fixed memory leak in folder comparison when PDF files were targeted for image comparison.

### Options dialog

- Improved translation regarding CPU cores (PR #1513)

### Select Files or Folders dialog

- Made it possible to specify Prediffer plugin

### Plugins

- BugFix: Select Plugin dialog: Fixed that "Display all plugins" checkbox did not work

### Project file

- BugFix: Fixed comparison failure when left file path and right file path in project file are URLs.
- Allow saving following in project file.
  - Description
  - Window type
  - Table delimiter

### Patch Generator dialog

- BugFix: The command line section in the generated patch file was garbled (osdn.net #45935)

### Translations

- BugFix: Fix an issue where the following message displayed when two files are identical in a 3-way folder comparison is not translated. (PR #1535)
- Translation updates:
  - Brazilian (PR #1511,#1523)
  - Corsican (PR #1510,#1527)
  - French (PR #1538)
  - German (PR #1498,#1509,#1528)
  - Hungarian (PR #1508,#1524)
  - Japanese
  - Lithuanian (PR #1514,#1526)
  - Polish (PR #1525)
  - Portuguese (PR #1529)
  - Slovenian

### Others

- BugFix: Fixed English verbiage (PR #1499)
- BugFix: typo fixed in README.md (PR #1504)
- BugFix: Fix typo in lwdisp.c (PR #1515)

## What Is New in 2.16.23 Beta

### General

- BugFix: Fix an issue where filenames containing "&" are not displayed properly in the MDI tab bar and its tooltips. (PR #1466)

### Color schemes

- Create Midnight.ini (PR #1430)

### File compare

- BugFix: Non existing backup directory should be automatically created (#1438)
- BugFix: Bug: Can't copy selected text, if it has non-changed lines (#1507)
- Remember zoom level for all files (#1433)
- The feature will allow the user to right-click the selected lines and… add them to Line Filter so that those lines added to the Line Filter will be ignored if found in any file. (PR #1481)
- CrystalEdit/parsers/SQL: Added more keywords (PR #1493)

### Table compare

- Bugfix: Inline differences ware not displayed even if the caret is moved to the position of an inline difference that is hidden due to the narrow column width.

### Webpage compare

- [EXPERIMENTAL] Webpage Compare: Highlight differences (PR #1357)

### Folder compare

- BugFix: Disable rename operations when in read-only mode in the folder compare window. (PR #1434)
- BugFix: Fix an issue where renaming to a file name or directory name containing "" or "/" is not done properly. (PR #1451)
- BugFix: Fix "Left to Right" and "Right to Left" copying in 2-way folder comparison. (PR #1495)
- BugFix: Folder compare with jpg images crashes (#1176) (Previous versions were linked with unfixed freeimage.)

### Archive support

- Update 7-Zip to 22.01 (#1425)

### Translations

- Translation updates:
  - Brazilian (PR #1436,#1437,#1441,#1459,#1463)
  - Corsican (PR #1443,#1480,#1486)
  - Dutch (PR #1474)
  - Finnish (PR #1460)
  - French (PR #1491)
  - German (PR #1455,#1484)
  - Hungarian (PR #1431,#1454)
  - Japanese
  - Lithuanian (PR #1457,#1485)
  - Polish (PR #1427,#1456)
  - Portuguese (PR #1453,#1490)
  - Russian (PR #1426)
  - Slovenian (#1424,PR #1461)
  - Spanish (PR #1406)

## 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 scrollbar breaks after pasting text (#296)