# WinMerge 2.16.33 Beta Release Notes

- About This Release
- What Is New in 2.16.33 beta?
- Known issues

September 2023

## 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 2.16.33 Beta

### General

- Reduce startup time and decrease the usage of Win32 user objects.

### File compare

- BugFix: Cannot compare one-line file (#1972)
- BugFix: "Current Difference" specified by double-clicking cannot merge using the "Copy to Right (or Left)" menu. (#1980)
- BugFix: Wimerge saves changes to the wrong file (#1985) (PR #1988)
- BugFix: "Ignore comment differences" still compares inline comments (#2008)
- Update Rust syntax highlighting keyword list. (PR #1998)
- [Feature Request] Both Shell Menu (#1986) (PR #2021)

### Table compare

- When "Use First Line as Header" is enabled, make the header display the first line regardless of the scroll position when the first line is hidden.
- Generate reports in tabular format for table comparisons. (PR #1983)

### Folder compare

- BugFix: Fixed an issue where Differences, Left/Right EOL columns, etc. were displayed as undefined values when the file comparison method was Full Contents or Quick Contents and the file size exceeded 64MB.
- BugFix: Fix the problem that when comparing with the BinaryContents compare method, the contents of the files are identical, but if one side is a symbolic link, it is judged to be different. (#1976)
- BugFix: Fixed an issue where values in the Left/Right EOL column may not display correctly when using the Quick contents compare method.
- Add Expand Different Subfolders menu item (#1382) (PR #1964)
- Allow Diff algorithms (patience, histogram) other than default to be applied to folder comparisons (PR #2015) (#2002)
- Show confirmation message when closing a window that took a long time to compare folders

### Line filters

- Improve line filters and substitution filters (PR #2032) (#796) (#1620)

### Substitution filters

- Avoid infinite loops in the RegularExpression::subst() function when the length of the string matching the pattern is 0
- Improve line filters and substitution filters (PR #2032) (#796) (#1620)

### Options dialog

- Execute the "pause" command to prevent the error message from disappearing if the registration of the ShellExtension for Windows 11 fails

### Plugins

- BugFix: WinMerge cannot successfully disable some of its Plugins (#2012)
- Update jq to version 1.7

### Manual

- Manual: Use po4a for manual translation (PR #1994) (#499)

### Translations

- Translation updates:
  - Brazilian (PR #1969,#2001,#2025)
  - Chinese Traditional (PR #1953,#1971,#2017,#2026)
  - Corsican (PR #2022)
  - German (PR #1952,#1977,#1989)
  - Hungarian (PR #1968,#1999)
  - Japanese
  - Korean (PR #1979,#2030)
  - Lithuanian (PR #1974,#2018,#2027)
  - Polish (PR #1990)
  - Portuguese (PR #1973,#2014)
  - Slovenian
  - Ukrainian (PR #1955)

### Internals

- Optimize inserts in std containers using reserve (PR #2000)

## Known issues

- 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)