WinMerge 2.12.4 Released

[For those still using WinDiff - please please check this out - its both excellent & FREE!]
The latest version of WinMerge 2.12.4 was released late yesterday.

WinMerge is a Windows tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring editor. Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line diff and highlights diffs inside lines.

New in 2.12 stable releases:

  • Tree-view for folder compare
  • Include items in unique folders in compare results
  • General compare result statuses
  • Remember last used target folder for Copy/Move to in folder compare
  • More accurate location pane
  • Re-load files changed in disk behind WinMerge
  • Refresh compare results after changing line filter
  • Add option to show Open-dialog on WinMerge startup
  • PCRE updated to version 7.8
  • Installer can add WinMerge to system path
  • New options page for Shell Integration options
  • Better Unicode file detection for full contents compare
  • Lots of bugs fixed

Notable in this release:

  • Add more C/C++ types to syntax highlight
  • Create config log file to My Documents-folder
  • Bugfix: Reports had same left/right descriptions
  • Bugfix: When conflict file saved trailing line-ending was lost
  • Bugfix: File compare HTML reports use invald DOCTYPE
  • Bugfix: “##” in file filter pattern caused an infinite loop
  • Bugfix: Could select prediffer when plugins were disabled
  • Bugfix: Opening mixed-EOL file one side forced both files to be handled as mixed-eol files
  • Bugfix: Didn’t show correct EOL chars if whitespace chars were turned off and again on
  • Bugfix: Generated patch had wrong file time for UTF-16 files
  • Bugfix: Did not export changed options values
  • Bugfix: Reset the compare method to original if it was changed

The new version can be downloaded from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=11248

NOTE: 7-zip plugin installer is downloadable from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13216&package_id=143957

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