WinMerge v2.16.54.2

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v2.16.54.2 (2026.02)

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WinMerge 2.16.54.2 Release Notes

February 2026

About This Release

This is a WinMerge 2.16.54.2 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 2.16.54.2
General
  • Add automatic crash detection and reporting (PR #3167)
Appearance
  • BugFix: white flash after opening WinMerge with Dark Mode (#3210)
Folder compare
  • BugFix: Fixed “Expand all subfolders” not working when rename/move detection is enabled
  • BugFix: Fixed incorrect results or crashes during recompare (F5) when "Merge renamed items into a single item" is enabled
  • BugFix: Fixed an issue where the Comparison Result showed 0 items after selecting “Refresh Selected” from the folder comparison context menu when rename/move detection is enabled
  • BugFix: Fixed the folder comparison window not updating after saving renamed files in file comparison
  • BugFix: Fixed incorrect file comparison being opened for rename/move items in 3-way folder comparison
  • BugFix: Prevent sorting while directory comparison is in progress
  • BugFix: Delayed file opening on double-click to prevent leftover clicks from affecting other windows
  • BugFix: Display each file extension when merged renamed items have different extensions
  • BugFix: Optimized column reloading and fixed a ReflectGetdispinfo-related crash
Options dialog
  • BugFix: Request to resize text boxes (#3163)
Plugins
  • BugFix: Fixed handling of empty replacement arguments in the Replace plugin
  • BugFix: Fixed incorrect substitution of plugin arguments (${1}, ${2}, …) by properly parsing the argument string
Archive support
  • Update 7-zip to 26.00
Manual
  • Fixes and completion of French translation including complete Manual (PR #3182)
Translations
  • Translation updates:
    • Brazilian (#3164,PR #3171)
    • Chinese Simplified (PR #3161,#3169)
    • French (PR #3165,#3182)
    • German (PR #3175)
    • Hungarian (PR #3173)
    • Italian (PR #3170)
    • Japanese
    • Korean (PR #3157)
    • Lithuanian (PR #3177)
    • Polish (PR #3158,#3176)
    • Portuguese (PR #3179)
    • Russian (PR #3159,#3160)
    • Turkish (PR #3178)
What Is New in 2.16.54
General
  • BugFix: Cyrilic shortcuts do not work for main menukeyboard shortcuts
  • BugFix: 2 recent-entries per project (#2990)
  • Updated expat to version 2.7.3
Folder compare
  • Add logInfo, logWarn, logError functions to filter expressions (PR #3131)
  • Add new filter expression functions (if, ifEach, choose, chooseEach, andEach, orEach, notEach) (PR #3132)
  • Add BaseName/IsFolder and new string transformation functions to filters (PR #3146)
  • Add experimental customizable rename/move detection for folder comparison (PR #3126)
Options window
  • Adjusted the height of the Options dialog and the position of the Defaults button
Shell extension
  • BugFix: Add-AppxPackage fails if path ends with backslash (PR #3145)
Installer
  • Removed build-time tools (lemon.exe, re2c.exe) from the installer package.
Translations
  • New translation: Vietnamese (PR #3142)
  • Translation updates:
    • Brazilian (PR #3150)
    • Chinese Simplified (PR #3156)
    • French (PR #3137)
    • German (PR #3148)
    • Hungarian (PR #3149)
    • Italian (PR #3147)
    • Japanese
    • Korean (PR #3125,#3127)
    • Lithuanian (PR #3144,#3153)
    • Polish (PR #3154,#3155)
    • Turkish (PR #3152)
    • Ukrainian (PR #3130)
What Is New in 2.16.53 Beta
General
  • Allow comparing files by editing header path (Ctrl+L / Alt+D) (PR #3093)
File compare
  • Async binary comparison for “Selected files are identical” dialog (PR #3060)
Binary compare
  • BugFix: Fixed crash when an error occurs while opening files in the binary comparison window.
Image compare

  • [ImageCompare] Problems with unsupported formats (#3044)

  • Update freeimage to 3.19.10

Webpage compare
  • BugFix: Fixed garbled filenames displayed in Web comparison tabs and header bar
Folder compare

  • BugFix: This line cannot be displayed correctly after translation. msgid "Failed to extract archive.\nCompare as text file?" (#3073)

  • BugFix: Unexpected file closure when moving files from a comparison (#3088)

  • Add Display Filter to Folder Compare (PR #3106)

  • Add folder statistics filter attributes and helper menu (PR #3111)

  • Introduce isWithin() and inRange() for explicit inclusive/exclusive range checks (PR #3124)

Options dialog
  • Add option to select user data location (AppData or Documents) (PR #3078)
Plugins

  • CompareMSExcelFiles: Replace line breaks with space in MSExcel formulas (PR #3028)

  • Updated jq to 1.8.1

Translations

  • Translation updates:

    • Brazilian (PR #3034,#3064,#3085,#3101,#3107,#3121)
    • Chinese Simplified (PR #3035,#3077,#3086,#3097,#3123)
    • Chinese Traditional (PR #3052,#3073,WinMerge/frhed#26)
    • Corsican (PR #3119)
    • French (PR #3072,#3105,#3106)
    • German (PR #3037,#3068,#3081,#3098,#3108,#3115)
    • Hungarian (PR #3036,#3061,#3080,#3100,#3116)
    • Italian (PR #3033,#3062,#3099,#3113,#3118)
    • Japanese
    • Korean (PR #3062,#3082)
    • Lithuanian (PR #3032,#3065,#3087,#3104,#3114)
    • Polish (PR #3050,#3089,#3103,#3112,#3122)
    • Turkish (PR #3043,#3063,#3083,#3102,#3111,#3117)
Manual
  • Added FAQ about file selection order in Windows Explorer. (#3090,#3094)
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)
What's Changed
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Full Changelog: https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/compare/v2.16.54...v2.16.54.2

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