WinMerge 2.16.50 Release
Notes
July 2025
About This Release
This is a WinMerge 2.16.50 stable release. This release replaces
earlier WinMerge stable releases as a recommended release.
Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.
WinMerge 2.16.50 - 2025-07-27
General
- Treat a mouse click on the very top edge of the title bar while
maximized as if it's within the tab button (PR #2828)
Translations
What Is New in 2.16.49 Beta
General
- [Enhancement] Tab Switching and Tab Bar Scrolling with Mouse Wheel
(PR #2821)
Appearance
- Use themed size grip, use toolbar's tooltips instead of controls
bar's (PR #2769)
File compare
- BugFix: Fixed crash when copying multiple selected diff hunks
- Syntax parser for Pascal should be extended to support compiler
directives (#2814)
- [Enhancement] Enable/disable automatic navigation to a line when
clicking on the Location Panel (PR #2827)
Folder compare
- BugFix: WinMerge shows the timestamp of the non-existent file
(#2764)
- BugFix: Manual Refresh of a single folder undoes the comparison for
most other folders randomly (#2792)
- Add the feature to compare multiple files in one action in the
folder compare window requested in #324. (PR #2825)
- Improve filter system: expression support and UI enhancements (PR
#2802)
Options dialog
- BugFix: [Bug Fix] Enable/disable 'Switch to ...' options in Compare
> Folder page (PR #2819)
Command line
- BugFix: Fixed failure to compare files with relative paths when /s
option is used from a different current directory than the running
WinMerge process
Archive support
Installer
- Installer - Windows "Programs and Features" name (#2798)
Translations
Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2829)
- Bulgarian (PR #2763)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2831)
- Chinese Traditional (PR #2838)
- Corsican (PR #2844)
- French (PR #2754,#2761,#2762)
- Hungarian (PR #2836)
- Italian (PR #2832)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2766,#2845)
- Lithuanian (PR #2799,#2805,#2826,#2830)
- Portuguese (PR #2768)
- Russian (PR #2760,#2840)
- Swedish
- Tamil (PR #2812,#2813)
- Turkish (PR #2782)
Internals
- Fix syntax warning in GetTranslationsStatus.py (PR #2751)
Known issues
- Pressing OK in the Options window while the INI file specified by
/inifile is open for comparison in WinMerge may corrupt the file.
(#2685)
- 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)