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WinMerge 2.16.53 Release Notes
- About This Release
- What Is New in 2.16.53 beta?
- Known issues
January 2026
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 2.16.53
General
- Allow comparing files by editing header path (Ctrl+L / Alt+D) (PR #3093)
File compare
- Async binary comparison for “Selected files are identical” dialog
(PR #3060)
Binary compare
- BugFix: Fixed crash when an error occurs while opening files in the binary
comparison window.
Image compare
- [ImageCompare] Problems with unsupported formats (#3044)
- Update freeimage to 3.19.10
Webpage compare
- BugFix: Fixed garbled filenames displayed in Web comparison tabs and header
bar
Folder compare
- BugFix: This line cannot be displayed correctly after translation.
msgid "Failed to extract archive.\nCompare as text file?" (#3073)
- BugFix: Unexpected file closure when moving files from a comparison (#3088)
- Add Display Filter to Folder Compare (PR #3106)
- Add folder statistics filter attributes and helper menu (PR #3111)
- Introduce isWithin() and inRange() for explicit inclusive/exclusive range
checks (PR #3124)
Options dialog
- Add option to select user data location (AppData or Documents) (PR #3078)
Plugins
- CompareMSExcelFiles: Replace line breaks with space in MSExcel formulas
(PR #3028)
- Updated jq to 1.8.1
Translations
- Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #3034,#3064,#3085,#3101,#3107,#3121)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #3035,#3077,#3086,#3097,#3123)
- Chinese Traditional (PR #3052,#3073,WinMerge/frhed#26)
- Corsican (PR #3119)
- French (PR #3072,#3105,#3106)
- German (PR #3037,#3068,#3081,#3098,#3108,#3115)
- Hungarian (PR #3036,#3061,#3080,#3100,#3116)
- Italian (PR #3033,#3062,#3099,#3113,#3118)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #3062,#3082)
- Lithuanian (PR #3032,#3065,#3087,#3104,#3114)
- Polish (PR #3050,#3089,#3103,#3112,#3122)
- Turkish (PR #3043,#3063,#3083,#3102,#3111,#3117)
Manual
- Added FAQ about file selection order in Windows Explorer. (#3090,#3094)
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)
What's Changed
- Update Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) translation by @love80312 in #3052
- Async binary comparison for “Selected files are identical” dialog by @sdottaka in #3060
- Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #3061
- Italian language update by @bovirus in #3062
- Turkish language support by @bilimiyorum in #3063
- Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #3064
- Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #3065
- Update Korean by @VenusGirl in #3066
- Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #3067
- Update German.po by @Havoc7891 in #3068
- Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #3072
- Update ChineseTraditional translation: translate missing strings by @love80312 in #3073
- Update Brazilian translation. Submitted by RicardoPC1967 by @sdottaka in #3075
- update zh-cn translations by @yingang in #3077
- Add option to select user data location (AppData or Documents) by @sdottaka in #3078
- Italian language update by @bovirus in #3079
- Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #3080
- Update German.po by @Havoc7891 in #3081
- Update Korean by @VenusGirl in #3082
- Turkish language support by @bilimiyorum in #3083
- Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #3085
- update zh-cn translations by @yingang in #3086
- Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #3087
- Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #3089
- Allow comparing files by editing header path (Ctrl+L / Alt+D) by @sdottaka in #3093
- update zh-cn translation by @yingang in #3097
- Update German.po by @Havoc7891 in #3098
- Italian language update by @bovirus in #3099
- Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #3100
- Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #3101
- Turkish language support by @bilimiyorum in #3102
- Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #3103
- Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #3104
- Update French.po by @slolo2000 in #3105
- Add Display Filter to Folder Compare by @sdottaka in #3106
- Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #3107
- Update German.po by @Havoc7891 in #3108
- Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #3109
- Turkish language support by @bilimiyorum in #3110
- Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #3112
- Italian language update by @bovirus in #3113
- Add folder statistics filter attributes and helper menu by @sdottaka in #3111
- Update of Lithuanian translation by @Tichij in #3114
- Update German.po by @Havoc7891 in #3115
- Update Hungarian.po by @efi99 in #3116
- Turkish translation support by @bilimiyorum in #3117
- Italian language update by @bovirus in #3118
- Update Corsican translation for 2.16.53 by @Patriccollu in #3119
- Update Brazilian.po by @Marcellomco in #3121
- Update Polish.po by @miroslaw-zylewicz in #3122
- update zh-cn translations by @yingang in #3123
- Introduce isWithin() and inRange() for explicit inclusive/exclusive range checks by @sdottaka in #3124
Full Changelog: v2.16.52.2...v2.16.53
