WinMerge 2.16.36 Release Notes

• About This Release
• What Is New in 2.16.36?
• What Is New in 2.16.35 beta?
• Known issues

November 2023

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.36 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 2.16.36

Image compare

• BugFix: Fix an issue where opening read-only and multi-page image files would cause them to be treated as only one-page images. (winmerge/winimerge#32)

Webpage compare

• Improved performance when there are many differences

File filter

• Bugfix: Modify the "File Filters" dialog. (#2118)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Corsican (PR #2123)
  • Galician (PR #2120)
  • Hungarian (PR #2122)
  • Portuguese (PR #2119)
  • Spanish (PR #2120)
  • Slovenian
  • Turkish (PR #2116)

What Is New in 2.16.35 Beta

File compare

• BugFix: Fixed an issue where "Copy to Left/Right and Advance" would sometimes skip differences when comparing 3 files. (#1234)
• BugFix: Print Preview buttons are not translatable (#2083,#2079)
• BugFix: Fixed the issue where the caption set in the header bar is restored when the window is resized.

Binary compare

• BugFix: V2.16.34 "X86" wired action (#2081)

Image compare

• BugFix: Close main window with 'Esc' if there is only one MDI child window (#2084)

Webpage compare

• BugFix: Close main window with 'Esc' if there is only one MDI child window (#2084)
• Webpage Compare: synchronize events (#2111,#2064)

Folder compare

• BugFix: Ignoring carriage return differences doesn't work anymore (#2080,#2099)

File filters

• BugFix: Fixed the issue where "[F]" could be set as the file filter if no file filter was selected in the Filters dialog.

Installer

• BugFix: fix bug of Registry path (PR #2086)
• BugFix: "Register Windows 11 Shell Extension" fails because PowerShell script doesn't escape special chars correctly (#2109)

Translations

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #2088,#2112)
  • Bulgarian (PR #2105)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #2091,#2113)
  • French (PR #2106)
  • Galician (PR #2085,#2107)
  • Hungarian (PR #2093)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR #2092)
  • Lithuanian (PR #2090,#2114)
  • Polish (PR #2087)
  • Romanian (PR #2089,#2095)
  • Slovenian (#2096)
  • Spanish (PR #2085,#2107)
  • Turkish (PR #2076)

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)