WinMerge 2.16.52.2 Release
Notes
November 2025
About This Release
This is a WinMerge 2.16.52.2 stable release. This release replaces
earlier WinMerge stable releases as a recommended release.
Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.
What Is New in 2.16.52.2
Appearance
- Match title bar text color to Windows using a 190 luminance
threshold.
File compare
- BugFix: [Bug] The configuration of tabulations is not working
correctly (#3015)
- BugFix: Tab size set to '1' and 'insert spaces' causes redraw
failures in 'File Compare' window. (#3047)
- Update request: List of MATLAB specific keywords (#3040)
Folder compare
- Set the default thread count for folder comparison to 4.
Filters dialog
- BugFix: Newly added or installed filters were incorrectly flagged as
missing after selection.
Options dialog
- Request to resize text boxes and button (#3017)
Manual
- Typo in Help/FAQ (#3016)
- Docs: Add comprehensive translation contribution guide (PR
#3023)
Translations
- Translation updates:
- Bulgarian (PR #3006)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #3011)
- Chinese Traditional (PR #3008)
- French (PR #3024)
- German (PR #3018)
- Hungarian (PR #3022)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #3007)
- Lithuanian (PR #3019)
- Polish (PR #3014)
- Portuguese (PR #3046)
- Turkish (PR #3020)
- Russian (PR #3045)
What Is New in 2.16.52
General
- BugFix: Fixed an issue where leftover WinMerge temporary folders
were not properly deleted on the next application exit (since version
2.16.51).
- [Feature request] Alternate hotkeys for tab navigation (#2942)
- Disabled darkmodelib in the ARM64 build due to an unresolved crash
issue.
Binary compare
- BugFix: Ctrl-W in Hex View : Close window? (#2294)
Folder compare
- BugFix: Round timestamps before comparing to ensure consistent
1-second precision (#2973)
- Add toDateStr filter function.
- Add option for specifying additional comparison conditions (PR
#2963)
- Add support for prop, leftprop, middleprop, and rightprop functions
in filter expressions (PR #2974)
- Add "Existence" folder comparison method (PR #2980)
Translations
- Translation updates:
- Brazilian (PR #2981,#2977,#2995)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2978,#2991,#2996)
- Corsican (PR #2999)
- Italian (PR #2976,#2982,#2998)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2993)
- Lithuanian (PR #2975,#2986,#2997)
- Portuguese (PR #2971)
- Polish (PR #2972,#2979,#3003,#3005)
- Turkish (PR #2992)
- Russian (PR #2983)
What Is New in 2.16.51 Beta
General
- BugFix: The document does not scroll with the mouse if the documents
are identical. Or the text input cursor jumps to unequal lines.
(#2939)
Appearance
- Initial dark mode support via darkmodelib (PR #2834,#2885)
- Improved header bar to reduce flicker
File compare
- Add option to ignore line breaks (treat as spaces) (refs #373) (PR
#2945)
Folder compare
- Fixed an issue where adding exclusions via [Add Exclude File] ->
[Editor Backup Files] incorrectly excluded most files.
Filters dialog
- Allow resizing of filters window using MFC Dynamic Layout (#509) (PR
#2907)
Options dialog
- Allow saving modified colors as new scheme (#1180) (PR #2908)
Translations
Translation updates:
- Brazilian (#2886,#2910,#2951)
- Chinese Simplified (PR #2889,#2916,#2952)
- Corsican (PR #2915)
- French (PR #2887,#2938,#2969)
- Hungarian (PR #2909,#2948)
- Italian (PR #2892,#2911,#2956)
- Japanese
- Korean (PR #2913,#2934,#2950)
- Lithuanian (PR #2912,#2936,#2953)
- Portuguese (PR #2928)
- Polish (PR #2929,#2930,#2931)
- Russian (PR #2890,#2919,#2920,#2933,#2944,#2949)
- Spanish (PR #2961)
- Swedish
- Turkish (PR #2906,#2914,#2957)
- Ukrainian (PR #2932,#2937,#2954)
Internals
- Refactor/use bindoption (PR #2955)
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)