Visual text file differencing and merging tool

WinMerge

WinMerge 2.16.6

  -  6.48 MB  -  Open Source

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of WinMerge 2.16.6.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of WinMerge or reading our review, simply click here.


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

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.

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

Image compare:
- Bugfix: Support 16-bit images (GitHub WinMerge/winimerge issue #6)
- Add support for SVG, PDF, WMF and EMF file types

Archive support:
- Bugfix: Third tgz doesn't get fully extracted (first two do)

Patch generator dialog:
- Bugfix: Crash when generating patch for multiple files and a file only on one side

Installer:
- Bugfix: Fix spelling of Git

Translations:
- New translation: Arabic

Translation updates:
- Bulgarian
- French
- German
- Lithuanian
- Portuguese
- Spanish

Manual:
- Bugfix: Fix spelling of Git
- Update Configuration.xml

Internals:
- Consolidate FolderCmp
- Avoid some back and forth file path transcoding between UTF16 and UTF8