# WinMerge 2.16.15 Beta Release Notes

- About This Release
- What Is New in 2.16.15 beta?
- Known issues

September 2021

## About This Release

This is a WinMerge beta release which is meant for preview the current state of WinMerge development. This release is not recommended for the production.

Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.

## What Is New in 2.16.15 Beta

### General

- BugFix: WinMerge would crash when launched if the registry or INI file contained invalid values.
- BugFix: Winmerge Crash when comparing 2 files from Windows Explorer context menu (#808, #908, #913)
- BugFix: Incorrect text color for selected menu item on Windows 11
- BugFix: 50% cpu use by winmergeu.exe after program closed (#903)
- Digitally sign packages (#152)

### File compare

- BugFix: The mouse cursor did not change to an hourglass when the files or plugins were taking a long time to load.
- BugFix: Save Middle and Save Middle As menu items were not enabled when comparing three files.
- BugFix: A two-pane window was displayed even though New (3panes) → Table menu item was selected.
- BugFix: The height of each pane in the Diff pane was calculated incorrectly when comparing three files.
- BugFix: Unicode SMP chars misrendered after performing a find (#914)
- BugFix: Crash when pressing Shift+F4 key
- BugFix: Replace slow (#940)
- BugFix: When moving in the scroll pane, the selected position is incorrect (#970)
- BugFix: When the Diff pane was redisplayed, the scroll position of the Diff pane was not appropriate. (osdn.net #42862)
- Make "Do not close this box" checkbox in search window On by default (#941)

### Image compare

- BugFix: Duplicate menu shortcut in translations (#905)
- BugFix: Image comparison (winimerge #24)

### Project file

- Add a feature to save/restore compare options to/from a project file.(#498) (PR #915)

### Options dialog

- Add a feature to set items saved to or restored from the project file. (PR #953)

### Plugins

- New unpacker plugins:
  - DecompileJVM
  - DecompileIL
  - DisassembleNative

### Command line

- Added /c `column number` command line option
- Added /EnableExitCode command line option

### Shell extension

- BugFix: WinMerge's extended menu items were doubly inserted into the context menu of Explorer's navigation pane. (osdn.net #42702)
- BugFix: Right click - compare - is unclear (#249)
- Added a new DLL (WinMergeContextMenu.dll) for the Windows 11 Explorer context menu (currently unstable and not registered by default) (PR #954)

### Translations

- Translation updates:
  - Brazilian (PR #910)
  - Dutch (PR #921,#969)
  - German (PR #965,#977)
  - Hungarian (PR #937,#955)
  - Italian (PR #911)
  - Japanese
  - Korean (PR #932)
  - Portuguese (PR #956,#964,#976)
  - Russian (PR #901,#927,#963)
  - Slovenian
  - Swedish (PR #974)
  - Turkish (PR #899)

### Internals

- README.md: Make it clear that requirements are to build, not use the application (PR #942)
- compiler-calculated maximum value for `m_SourceDefs` (PR #966)

## Known issues

- Crashes when comparing large files (GitHub #325)
- Very slow to compare significantly different directories (GitHub #322)
- Vertical scrollbar breaks after pasting text (GitHub #296)