Visual text file differencing and merging tool

WinMerge

WinMerge 2.16.14

  -  7.21 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 2.16.14.


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


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What's new in this version:

General
- Fixed an issue where the WinMerge process might not terminate even though the WinMerge window was closed

File compare
- BugFix: Fixed an infinite loop when "find what" in the substitution filters is empty

Folder compare
- BugFix: Fix an issue where a file is deselected when returning to the folder compare window after opening the file compare window by double-clicking the file in the folder compare window
- Right click context menu - Compare files or folders in a new tab

Binary compare
- BugFix: Fixed an issue where window titles may not be updated

Image compare
- winmerge shows (differences) rotated image (winmerge/winimerge)
- Added following menu items to the context menu
- Rotate Right 90deg
- Rotate Left 90deg
- Flip Vertically
- Flip Horizontally

Options dialog
- Add preference option to clear "Don't ask this question again" CompareLargeFiles choice
- Select Files or Folders dialog
- BugFix: Fix the Select Files or Folders dialog

Plugins
- BugFix: CompareMSExcelFiles.sct: "This picture only contains a bitmap" was displayed when comparing Excel files that contain shapes.
- BugFix: CString rangestr = (argc > 0) ? argv[0] : GetColumnRangeString();
- Improve plugin system (editor script)
- New unpacker plugins:
- PrettifyHTML
- PrettifyYAML
- ValidateHTML
- QueryYAML
- SelectColumns
- SelectLines
- ReverseColumns
- ReverseLines
- Replace
- New editor script plugins:
- PrettifyHTML
- PrettifyYAML
- SelectColumns
- SelectLines
- ReverseColumns
- ReverseLines
- Replace
- Updated Apache Tika to version 2.0.0
- Updated yq to version 4.11.1

Command line
- Added /l command line option (osdn.net)
- Added /t, /table-delimiter, /new, /fileext and /inifile command line option

Installer
- Installer integrates with TortoiseGit and TortoiseSVN despite being told not to (#878)

Translation updates:
- Bulgarian
- Dutch
- Galician
- German
- Hungarian
- Japanese
- Lithuanian
- Portuguese
- Slovenian
- Russian
- Turkish

Internals
- BugFix: WinMerge doesn't build under Visual Studio 16.10.2
- BugFix: x64: LINK : warning LNK4010: invalid subsystem version number 5.01; default subsystem version assumed
- BugFix: Project: heksedit cl : command line warning D9002: ignoring unknown option '/arch:SSE'
- BugFix:ALL.vs2019.sln cl : command line warning D9035: option 'Gm' has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release
- Resolves: Add continuous code security and quality analysis
- Improvement: Add check and error mesage in DownloadDeps.cmd that path to 7-zip exists