v2017.4 [Jan 19, 2018]
Enhancements:
- Merge now supports scrolling using a wider variety of touchpads. Specifically, support has been added for touchpads with driver software that sends WM_VSCROLL and/or WM_HSCROLL scrollbar messages. (Previously, Merge only supported touchpad scrolling for touchpads that send WM_MOUSEWHEEL and/or WM_MOUSEHWEEL messages.)
- The included Oracle Java Runtime Environment has been updated to version 1.8 Update 151.
- The information icon used by the Windows Installer setup package has been updated.
Defects fixed:
- It is once again possible to select sub-expressions in the Options…▸Text Comparisons▸Expressions▸Edit Expression window when the Ignore sequences of characters that match the expression option is selected.
- The width of the line-number/byte-offset columns in text and binary comparisons (both on-screen and when printed) is now appropriate, regardless of the font being used.
- Binary comparisons use the appropriate, configured font for inserted, removed and modified changes.
- The copyright date in the footer of Japanese-language HTML reports has been updated.
- A crash (arising from a recent Internet Explorer update) no longer occurs following a folder comparison that uses the FTP plugin.
v2016.4 [Aug 5, 2016]
Enhancements
- Information about automating installation (including the deployment of serial numbers) has been added to the installation documentation.
- The Boost regular expression library has been reinstated and upgraded to 1.60.0. This means that certain advanced regular expression features (e.g. look-behind capability) are now once more available.
- Up/down and left/right arrows have been added to vertical and horizontal scrollbars, respectively.
- A progress bar is now displayed while binary comparisons are being performed.
- The effect of the binary comparison Search size field has been scaled by a factor of 100 – a value of 500 now is equivalent to a value of 5 in the previous release. This means that binary comparisons complete faster by default, at the expense of result quality. The search size value may be increased to restore the previous, default accuracy.
- The colour of the scrollbar thumb has been darkened to make it more visible in comparisons with very busy overview strips.
Defects fixed
- Change-block colour highlighting is no longer incorrect after swapping panes two and three of a three-way text comparison, with syntax highlighting enabled, and with the Don’t show changes within lines option in effect.
- Folder comparison HTML reports may now be created, even when folder or file names contain characters (e.g. LF) that would be illegal in XML attributes.
- Merge no longer crashes in certain circumstances when performing a binary comparison.
- The Merge command-line utilities no longer fail with filenames containing apostrophes.
v2014.4 [Apr 22, 2015]
Enhancements:
- The Apache Tika library used by Merge to extract text from various types of files has been updated to the latest version. This should improve the ability of Merge to extract text from previously problematic files.
- The ability to search backwards in text comparisons has been added.
- If support has expired for the configured Merge serial number, the Update Available notification message will indicate if a new serial number with renewed support is required to use an available product update.
- Files and folders can be dragged from a folder comparison by holding down the Alt key when initiating the drag operation. (The Alt key is required so as not to affect the pre-existing drag-to-select behaviour.)
- Conflict, edit and bookmark markers are shown in overview strips.
- The 32-bit version of Merge includes the 64-bit Windows Explorer context menu extension for use on 64-bit versions of Windows. This improves the compatibility of the 32-bit version of Merge when installed on a 64-bit version of Windows. Araxis continues to recommend using the 64-bit version of Merge on 64-bit Windows.
- An additional Windows Registry location has been added for OEMs to specify startup preferences.
- When necessary (as determined by Araxis support), Merge can be configured to skip problematic codepages and locales during startup and when populating codepage/locale lists.
- A new Windows Registry value, HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Araxis/Merge/7.0/TabCloseOnRight, has been added. When set to 1, tab close buttons will be located on the right side of the tab. This option is unsupported.
- A limited, unsupported, as-is UI with old-style menus and toolbars has been reintroduced for users who have a strong aversion to the Ribbon. Please contact Araxis for details.
Defects fixed:
- For long lines of text in a file comparison that are wrapped on to multiple display lines, line numbers are shown on the first (rather than last) displayed line of text.
- Filters are correctly applied to files even when filenames have been entered with trailing whitespace.
- It is possible to save and re-open a comparison workspace that contains a three-way folder-comparison-with-file-comparison.
v2010.3 [Aug 29, 2011]
-features a number of significant enhancements and incorporates several bug fixes.
v2007.3 [Nov 29, 2007]
Various enhancements and fixes
