# WinMerge 2.16.13 Beta Release Notes

- About This Release
- What Is New in 2.16.13 beta?
- Known issues

June 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 2.16.13 Beta

### General

- BugFix: Register.bat did not work properly on the Chinese version of Windows XP (#780)
- Possibility to store settings in INI file (#248) (PR #750)
- FeatureRequest - Ignoring options - lack in "button menu" (#804)

### File compare

- BugFix: Fix PHP syntax highlighting. (PR #782, PR #802)
- BugFix: BS key did not work at the beginning of the line after splitting the pane or clicking the OK button in the Options dialog.
- BugFix: The edited contents were discarded when the "Recompare As" menu item was selected after editing the file
- BugFix: Incorrect comparison (#834) (This bug occured when enabling both the 'Ignore blank lines' option and the 'Completely unhighlight the ignored differences' option.)
- Add Smarty syntax highlighting. (PR #821)
- Thicken the caret in overwrite mode (osdn.net #42179)

### Folder compare

- BugFix: Different Files are Identical? (#768) (When comparing files with only BOM and no contents, the comparison result became unstable because it referred to the uninitialized memory.)
- BugFix: Fix a crash when re-comparing folders (osdn.net #42219)

### Binary compare

- BugFix: The file could not be saved after creating a new one
- Made Unpacker plugins available for image compare and binary compare

### Image compare

- BugFix: Error on try to show differences between two different gif (#784)
- Made Unpacker plugins available for image compare and binary compare

### Plugins

- Improve plugin system (PR #797)
  - Added categorized Unpacker plugin menu items to various menus
  - Made it possible to specify multiple Unpacker/Prediffer plugins by concatenating them with | and to specify arguments.
  - Allowed Unpacker/Prediffer plugins to be specified for multiple files at once in Folder Compare window. The specified plugin will be visible in the Unpacker and Prediffer columns
  - Add "(U)" or "(P)" to the tab title of the window opened by the Unpacker/Prediffer plugin.
  - Allowed the plugin settings dialog to specify default arguments that will be used when no plugin arguments are specified
  - Allowed plugins used by Automatic Unpacking/Prediffing to be excluded in the plugin settings dialog
  - New unpacker plugins:
    - ApacheTika
    - PrettifyJSON
    - PrettifyXML
    - QueryCSV
    - QueryTSV
    - QueryJSON
    - MakeUpper
    - MakeLower
    - RemoveDuplicates
    - CountDuplicates
    - SortAscending
    - SortDescending
    - ExecFilterCommand
    - Tokenize
    - Trim
    - VisualizeGraphviz
  - New editor script plugins:
    - RemoveDuplicates
    - CountDuplicates
    - Tokenize
    - Trim
    - ApacheTika
    - PrettifyJSON
    - PrettifyXML

### Translations

- BugFix: Fix an issue where a message is not translated.(PR #763)
- Translation updates:
  - French (PR #762)
  - Japanese
  - Polish (PR #769)
  - Turkish (PR #803)
  - Russian (PR #761)

### Internals

- Update CWindowsManagerDialog (PR #811)
- Update CWindowsManagerDialog - check some pointers for null and made safe casts (PR #824)

## 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)