February 2020
This is a WinMerge 2.16.6 stable release. This release replaces earlier WinMerge stable releases as a recommended release.
Please submit bug reports to our bug-tracker.
WinMerge 2.15.2 is a beta release which mainly adds support for experimental 3-way comparison and image comparison.
Old IE version can cause crashes when handling archive files.
Workaround: If WinMerge crashes when handling archives, consider updating IE to version 6.0 or later.
Supercopier application causes WinMerge to hang.
Supercopier application causes WinMerge to not exit properly and leaves WinMerge process hang. See the bug reports:
Workaround: Disable the Supercopier when using WinMerge.
Filters only applied when using full compare.
Line filtering is only applied in folder compare when using Full Contents-compare method.
If you are using any other compare method, line filters are not applied. Files marked different in folder compare can get status changed to identical when opening them to file compare.
Unset WinMerge integration from ClearCase
To remove WinMerge integration, you'll need to edit one file by hand:
C:\Program Files\Rational\ClearCase
lib\mgrs\
map
in there to editor programtext_file_delta xcompare
", containing "WinMergeU.exe
"text_file_delta xcompare
", containing "cleardiffmrg.exe
"