WinMerge 2.16.60

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WinMerge 2.16.60 Release Notes

• [About This Release](#about-this-release)
• [What Is New in 2.16.60?](#what-is-new-in-21660)
• [What Is New in 2.16.59 Beta?](#what-is-new-in-21659-beta)
• [Known issues](#known-issues)

October 2026

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.60 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 2.16.60?

General

• Keep an internal recent-comparison list when the Windows jump list has no

history. (PR #3663)

• Update darkmodelib to 0.77.1 and enable ARM64 support

File compare

• BugFix: Did not get line filter with Moved working (#3680, PR #3681)

• BugFix: 2 fixes for 3-way-merge (PR #3671)

• BugFix: Fix AutoIt syntax highlighting for identifiers and nested comments

(PR #3685)

• BugFix: [BUG] Adjust the height of OutputPane will crash (#3733)

• Add RTF syntax highlighting (PR #3686)

• BugFix: Fix overlapping Tree-sitter highlight captures (PR #3718)

• Localize merge copy messages in the Output Pane (#2927, PR #3701)

Image compare

• BugFix: WinIMerge x86 crashes with FreeImage plugins (winimerge/#43)

• BugFix: Fix image paste and undo handling (winimerge/#41)

• Update FreeImage to 3.19.25

• Extend destination canvas when copying image differences (winimerge/#42)

Status bar

• BugFix: Fix difference count in the status bar (#3649, PR #3707)

• Fix status bar flickering by suppressing background erasure

Select files or folders dialog

• Open view: collapsible recent comparison list (PR #3673)

• Add side-specific filename, folder, and extension columns to folder

comparison views. (PR #3682)

Folder compare

• Add side-specific filename, folder, and extension columns to folder

comparison views. (PR #3682)

Archive support

• Update 7-Zip to 26.05.

Plugins

• Set MiniMax presets to M3.1 Flash by default (PR #3709)

Installer

• BugFix: Align Inno Setup 5 translations and fix Indonesian installer paths

(#3737)

Translations

• Translation updates:
• Brazilian (PR #3665, PR #3687, PR #3672, PR #3697, PR #3708, PR #3717)
• Chinese Simplified (PR #3660, PR #3691, PR #3694, PR #3712, PR #3721)
• Chinese Traditional (PR #3738)
• Corsican (PR #3676)
• French (PR #3670, PR #3693, PR #3705, PR #3722)
• German (PR #3659, PR #3679, PR #3689, PR #3695, PR #3713, PR #3720)
• Hungarian (PR #3669)
• Italian (PR #3666, PR #3688, PR #3698, PR #3711, PR #3728)
• Korean (PR #3703, PR #3704, PR #3734)
• Lithuanian (PR #3667, PR #3690, PR #3710, PR #3715)
• Polish (PR #3661, PR #3684, PR #3692, PR #3723, PR #3727, PR #3730, PR #3731, PR #3735)
• Spanish (PR #3699, PR #3700)
• Turkish (PR #3719)

Manual

• Refresh untranslated ReadMe files and update support links (PR #3723,

PR #3725)

• Fix the ReadMe template path in the translation status script (PR #3724)

• Show Git update dates and Inno Setup translation coverage (PR #3739)

What Is New in 2.16.59 Beta?

General

• [BUG] MDI window controls (Minimize/Maximize/Close) are completely hidden

unless hoveredbug (#3511)(PR #3552)

• Add an option to remember and restore splitter positions for text, image,

web page, and binary comparisons. (PR #3611)

Appearance

• BugFix: Fix cramped toolbar icon spacing at high DPI

• Migrate toolbar and margin icons from BMP to PNG (GDI+ decoding) (PR #3510)

• Rebuild toolbar buttons based on active window (PR #3631)

File compare

• Add a Merge Result pane for reviewing and resolving 2-way conflicts and

3-way merges. (PR #3515)

• BugFix: Fix Shift+Insert paste going to file instead of Filter Bar (#3585)

• BugFix: Fix cursor movement and scrolling across gaps created by the display

filter (#3601)(PR #3622)

• BugFix: Fix initial status bar display for file comparisons (PR #3644)

• BugFix: Fix issue [BUG] Keyboard shortcut to "Copy to right" does not work in

3-way merge (#3645)

• BugFix: Fix undo/redo after swapping panes and avoid invalid undo target

tracking (PR #3646, PR #3647)

• BugFix: Flush undo groups when deleting text fails

• BugFix: Fix blank line handling in comment difference filtering (PR #3651)

• BugFix: Fix ignored diff ranges with missing trailing EOL (#3653)(PR #3657)

• Show the selection margin when adding a bookmark

• Add Save command to filepath bar context menuheader bar (PR #3654)

• tree-sitter: php and f-sharp grammars update (PR #3656)

Table compare

• Add column range filtering and ignore columns in comparison (PR #3565)

Image compare

• Add an option to prefer the WIC decoder when loading images for image

comparison (PR #3537)

• Remember the image compare splitter position (PR #3593)

Folder compare

• Preserve the sort order for columns that can be safely sorted while folder

comparison is running. (#3579)(PR #3581)

Filter expressions

• Add the FilterExpression support required by the upcoming ApplyLineFilter

plugin (PR #3530)

• BugFix: Fix case-insensitive contains in filter expressions (#3586)

Status bar

• Make merge mode indicator clickable and reduce its width (PR #3529)

Archive support

• BugFix: Fix issue #3588: Cannot compare folders inside zip files

• BugFix: [BUG] Comparing 7z-archives: file cannot be accessed by the system

settings are restored. (#3633)

• Update 7-Zp to 26.03 (PR #3613)

Plugins

• BugFix: Fix off-by-one bug losing the last byte of pack/unpack plugin buffer

output

• BugFix: Special UTF-8 characters not compared correctly (#3071)(PR #3568)

• Add plugin selection buttons to the status bar (PR #3518)

• Support adding p