v2.16.4 [Jul 28, 2008]
WinMerge 2.14 is an important update to WinMerge. There are lots of improvements and bug fixes since 2.12.4 stable release.
2.14.0 stable release has many changes after beta release. But see also the 2.13 beta release changes below for other important changes in this release.
Improvements:
- Improve startup time.
- Improve editing of linefilter regular expressions.
- Improve color options organization.
Other changes:
- Update PCRE to version 8.10.
- Update SCEW to version 1.1.2.
- Add menuitems for selecting automatic or manual prediffing.
- Add accelerator keys for Shell context menu.
- Allow editing context line count in patch creator.
- Add /xq command line switch for closing WinMerge after identical files and not showing message.
- Allow setting codepage from command line.
- Allow giving encoding name as custom codepage.
- Add new options dialog panel for folder compare options.
- Add options GUI for quick compare limit.
- Write config log as UTF-8 file.
Bugs fixed:
- Untranslated string ("Merge.rc:nnnn") was displayed in status bar.
- Pane headers not updated after language change.
- Quick contents compare didn't ignore EOL byte differences.
- Compare by size always checked file times too.
- Crash when pasting from clipboard.
- Keeps verifing path even turned off in options.
- Crash after deleting text.
- Added EOL chars between copied file/path names.
- Created new matching folder to wrong folder.
- Strange scrolling effect in location pane.
- Plugin error after interrupting folder compare.
- "+" and "-" from the number block don't work in the editor.
- Date format did not respect Regional Settings.
New Translation:
- Basque.
Translation updates:
- Hungarian.
- Turkish.
- Russian.
- Norwegian.
- Danish.
