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  • 3.20.2
    92560fd8 · Update NEWS + appdata ·
    2020-02-16 meld 3.20.2
    ======================
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Fix crash when launched from external process on Windows (Vasily Galkin)
       * Fix single-instance behaviour on Windows (Vasily Galkin)
       * Fix display of large file sizes (Andrey Efremov)
       * Set file chooser encoding to autodetect by default (Kai Willadsen)
       * Always use UTF-8 as user's "current" encoding on Windows (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix ignoring blank lines on text-filtered files in folder comparison (Kai
         Willadsen)
       * Fix expand/collapse actions for missing folders (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix some incorrect action sensitivity settings (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix height of commit dialog (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix install support for Python 3.8 (Kai Willadsen)
       * Add support for file debug logging on Windows (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix icon display on Windows (Kai Willadsen)
    
       * Issues fixed: 267, 279, 314, 322, 337, 341, 342, 350, 351, 359
    
      Translations:
    
       * Anders Jonsson (sv)
       * Andika Triwidada (id)
       * Asier Sarasua Garmendia (eu)
       * Balázs Úr (hu)
       * Daniel Mustieles (es)
       * Marek Černocký (cs)
       * Milo Casagrande (it)
       * Piotr Drąg (pl)
       * Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)
  • 3.20.1
    9b4f890f · Update NEWS + appdata ·
    2019-03-31 meld 3.20.1
    ======================
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Fix bad comparison highlighting with VT characters (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix folder comparison display with >2G files (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix support for missing folders in folder comparison (Kai Willadsen)
       * Handle trash-related errors with NFS mounts (Kai Willadsen)
       * Add release metadata to appstream data (Kai Willadsen)
    
       * Issues fixed: 268, 295
    
      Translations:
    
       * Anders Jonsson (sv)
       * Balázs Úr (hu)
       * Daniel Mustieles (es)
       * Marek Cernocky (cs)
       * Ryuta Fujii (ja)
       * Wolfgang Stöggl (de)
  • 3.20.0
    be2dddb4 · Update NEWS ·
    2019-01-06 meld 3.20.0
    ======================
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Add Enter as a Compare accelerator in folder comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
       * Change entry and drag-n-drop file changes to confirm discarding modified
         files instead of offering to save, for simplicity (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix menu sensitivity in folder comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
       * Avoid dconf writes of no-op window size allocations (Kai Willadsen)
    
       * Issues fixed: 247, 262
    
      Translations:
    
       * Emin Tufan Çetin (tr)
       * Milo Casagrande (it)
       * Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)
  • 3.19.1
    2c4c416c · Update NEWS ·
    2018-11-21 meld 3.19.1
    ======================
    
      Features:
    
       * Support comparing remote files (Kai Willadsen; initial work by Chris Mayo)
       * Significantly improve folder comparison performance when comparing large
         trees (Hugo Sena Ribeiro)
       * Improve folder comparison IO and memory use (Hugo Sena Ribeiro)
       * Add recursive collapse/expand actions to folder comparisons (Jesus Arroyo)
       * Add OARS metadata for software management (Nick Richards)
       * Support file drag-and-drop directly on to textviews (Kai Willadsen)
       * Refresh the application icon and add a processing pipeline (Kai Willadsen)
    
       * Windows build improvements:
         * Build using msys2 on GNOME Gitlab infrastructure and update to using
           current GTK+ (Vasily Galkin)
         * Add simple zip-based Windows build output to pipeline (Vasily Galkin)
         * Improve Windows logging behaviour (Vasily Galkin)
         * Help launching now works (Vasily Galkin)
         * Shortcuts now work in non-English keyboard layouts (via GTK+)
         * Windows paths are shortened correctly (Kai Willadsen)
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Next/Previous Change actions correctly account for text filters (Heikki
         Ketoharju)
       * Fix blank line ignoring in folder comparisons (Hugo Sena Ribeiro)
       * Miscellaneous performance improvements (Hugo Sena Ribeiro)
       * Fix initial focus pane for two-pane comparison (Kai Willadsen)
       * Handle encoding failures on file load (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix surrogate problems in on-save encoding check (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix display of some encoding errors in folder comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix Git unpushed commit check for ambiguous filenames (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix committing a folder in Git (Kai Willadsen)
       * Show errors for critical unhandled application failures, such as failed
         saves (Kai Willadsen)
       * Work around GTK+ shortcut activation issues; see GNOME/gtk#140 (Kai
         Willadsen)
       * Update Up/Down/Delete shortcuts to support numpad (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix copy-paste of GtkSourceView-highlighted text into Meld (Kai Willadsen)
       * Don't open additional blank comparison tabs when using the --diff CLI
         argument (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix installation on Mint (Kai Willadsen)
    
      Internal changes:
    
       * File comparisons and CLI argument handling now use Gio.File and support
         URIs (Kai Willadsen; initial work by Chris Mayo)
       * Many Python 3 deprecation cleanups (Claude Paroz)
       * Rename icon/desktop/appdata for consistency with appid (Mathieu Bridon)
       * Flatpak build updates (Mathieu Bridon, Kai Willadsen)
       * Make XDG application ID match other application IDs (Kai Willadsen)
       * Multiple pygobject/GTK+ deprecation cleanups (Kai Willadsen)
       * Python 3.7 support (Kai Willadsen)
       * PEP8 and style compliance (Jesus Arroyo, Stefan Erichsen)
    
       * Bugs fixed: 152, 175, 177, 179, 193, 196, 197, 197, 203, 217, 225, 233,
         235, 239
    
      Translations:
    
       * Alan Mortensen (da)
       * Anders Jonsson (sv)
       * Claude Paroz (fr)
       * Daniel Mustieles (es)
       * Emin Tufan Çetin (tr)
       * Jiri Grönroos (fi)
       * Kukuh Syafaat (id)
       * Marek Černocký (cs)
       * Mario Blättermann (de)
       * Matej Urbančič (sl)
       * Mathieu Bridon ()
       * Milo Casagrande (it)
       * Piotr Drąg (pl)
       * Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)
       * Reginaldo Izidório (pt_BR)
       * Yi-Jyun Pan (zh_TW)
  • 3.18.3
    41661f20 · Update NEWS ·
    2018-11-16 meld 3.18.3
    ======================
    
      Features:
    
       * Add simple zip-based Windows build output to pipeline (Vasily Galkin)
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Improve Windows logging behaviour (Vasily Galkin)
       * Fix initial focus pane for two-pane comparison (Kai Willadsen)
       * Remove encoding fallback check that caused surrogate issues (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix display of file encoding errors in folder comparison (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix Git unpushed commit check for ambiguous filenames (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix local install on Mint (Kai Willadsen)
    
       * Bugs fixed: #205, #225, #233, #235, #239
    
      Translations:
    
       * Daniel Mustieles (es)
  • 3.18.2
    82aec425 · Update NEWS ·
    2018-06-19 meld 3.18.2
    ======================
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Fix help launching on Windows (Vasily Galkin)
       * Fix Windows compatibility issue with multiprocessing (Vasily Galkin)
       * Fix incorrect state handling during tab close (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix commit action on a folder not working in git (Kai Willadsen)
    
       * Bugs fixed: #196, #197
  • 3.18.1
    f570d65c · Update NEWS ·
    2018-04-29 meld 3.18.1
    ======================
    
      Features:
    
       * Support for automated Windows builds using Appveyor (Vasily Galkin)
       * The Find bar now hides when pressing Escape (Vladimir Panteleev)
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Several Windows fixes for cx_Freeze compatibility (Vasily Galkin)
       * Fix slow startup on Windows due to FontConfig (Vasily Galkin)
       * Translation and help fixes (Piotr Drąg)
       * Hide our progress spinner on Windows for responsiveness (Kai Willadsen)
       * Handle subprocess termination better in file comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix committing selected files only in Mercurial (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix Bazaar version control backend (Kai Willadsen)
    
       * Bugs fixed: #133, 785313, 788487, 790335
    
      Translations:
    
       * Anders Jonsson (sv)
       * Ask Hjorth Larsen (da)
       * Marek Černocký (cs)
       * Mario Blättermann (de)
       * Piotr Drąg (pl)
  • 3.19.0
    7900d9ab · Update NEWS ·
    2018-03-28 meld 3.19.0
    ======================
    
      Features:
    
       * Initial Windows build pipeline using Appveyor (Vasily Galkin)
       * Add new per-pane status bar with selectors for syntax highlighting and
         text encoding (Kai Willadsen, with extensive testing by Vasily Galkin)
       * Allow text encoding to be chosen from file selectors (Kai Willadsen)
       * Add new go-to-line action and UI (Kai Willadsen)
       * Folder comparison now explicitly indicates symlinks in the tree, and
         shows the symlink target (Kai Willadsen)
       * Inline highlighting now draws whitespace in any changes it covers (Kai
         Willadsen)
       * Improved contrast in dark theme support (Vitalii Dmitriev)
       * Navigating between changes in file comparison now briefly animates the
         outline, to make it easier to keep track of the focus in busy
         comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Find bar now hides when pressing Escape (Vladimir Panteleev)
       * Handle file deletion where we can't move to trash (e.g., network mounts)
         (Kai Willadsen)
       * Guess whether we're running a dark theme, for supporting Tweak Tool
         changes (Kai Willadsen)
       * Keybindings for notebook switching work again (Kai Willadsen)
       * Significantly speed up folder and version control comparisons by limiting
         the file metadata we request (Kai Willadsen)
       * Threading fixes for more responsive highlighting and better exit handling
         (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix memory and file handle leakage for closed comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
       * Make the --auto-compare command line flag work again (Kai Willadsen)
       * Make multiple --diff command line options work again (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix committing selected files in Mercurial (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix Bazaar support for our Python 3 port (Kai Willadsen)
       * Avoid a race conditon that made the "Resolve conflict" prompt unreliable
         (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix invalid-iter crash when refreshing version control view (Kai
         Willadsen)
       * Make non-existent files writable by default (Kai Willadsen)
       * Several fixes for translations, unicode typography, and typos (Piotr Drąg)
       * Windows compatibility updates (Vasily Galkin, Kai Willadsen)
       * Windows build fixes (Vasily Galkin)
       * Add Gitlab CI for Python styling and lint, and update a lot of old code
         to match (Kai Willadsen)
       * Packaging fixes for AppStream (Balint Reczey)
    
      Internal changes:
    
       * Update GTK+ and GtkSourceView requirements to 3.20
       * Migrate recently-used handling, comparison launching, and file
         comparisons to use Gio for URI support (Chris Mayo, Kai Willadsen)
       * Migrated to GNOME Gitlab for hosting and issue tracking
    
       * Bugs fixed (bugzilla): 589366, 783989, 785313, 785630, 786629, 786867,
         787256, 788455, 788487, 790335, 791173
       * Issues fixed (gitlab): 46, 97, 133, 146, 151, 152, 158, 159, 161, 165
    
      Translations:
    
       * Alan Mortensen (da)
       * Anders Jonsson (sv)
       * Andika Triwidada (id)
       * Andre Klapper (cs, de)
       * Ask Hjorth Larsen (da)
       * Balázs Úr (hu)
       * Daniel Mustieles (es)
       * Daniel Șerbănescu (ro)
       * Emin Tufan Çetin (tr)
       * Enrico Nicoletto (pt_BR)
       * Jiri Grönroos (fi)
       * Joe Hansen (da)
       * Jordi Mas (ca)
       * Kristjan SCHMIDT (eo)
       * Kukuh Syafaat (id)
       * Marcos Lans (gl)
       * Marek Černocký (cs)
       * Mario Blättermann (de)
       * Matej Urbančič (sl)
       * Milo Casagrande (it)
       * Piotr Drąg (pl)
       * Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)
  • 3.18.0
    012f03ce · Update NEWS ·
    2017-09-10 meld 3.18.0
    ======================
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Fix VC status not updating in some situations non-flattened mode (Kai
         Willadsen)
       * Command line errors when invoking a secondary instance will no longer
         cause the second command to hang until the primary exits (Kai Willadsen)
    
       * Bugs fixed: 786629
    
      Translations:
    
       * Emin Tufan Çetin (tr)
  • 3.17.4
    0e8ee1db · Update NEWS ·
    2017-08-16 meld 3.17.4
    ======================
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Rebuild source tarball without spurious files
  • 3.17.3
    3c9cad3a · Update NEWS ·
    2017-08-13 meld 3.17.3
    ======================
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Fix folder compare when using text filters (Alsan Wong)
       * Make activity spinner show when inline comparisons are running (Kai
         Willadsen)
       * Migrate back from threads to multiprocessing for inline diffs; unusual
         CPU contention caused this to harm interactivity (Kai Willadsen)
       * Manually refreshing a file comparison sometimes caused diff navigation
         to break (Kai Willadsen)
       * Folder comparisons that update their state no longer break navigation
         (Kai Willadsen)
       * Version-control comparison on missing files now work again (Kai
         Willadsen)
       * Fix regression in initial focus for folder comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix handling for added, partially staged files in git (Kai Willadsen)
    
       * Bugs fixed: 784436, 785603, 785859, 786043
    
      Translations:
    
       * Daniel Mustieles (es)
       * Matej Urbančič (sl)
  • 3.17.2
    f5e5d679 · Update NEWS ·
    2017-06-11 meld 3.17.2
    ======================
    
      UI changes:
    
       * Significantly improve synchronisation of scroll bars between panes; we
         now try much harder to scroll all of a chunk on screen at the top and
         bottom of comparisons, and handle last-line-in-file cases better (Kai
         Willadsen)
       * Place the cursor at the start of a replaced chunk instead of after it;
         this change should improve keyboard ergonomics when doing three-way
         merges, but does change our existing behaviour (Kai Willadsen)
       * Remove Shift-based scroll locking; this was already broken by a GTK+
         change, so this is just making it official (Kai Willadsen)
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Show correct column offset in status bar for tab indents (Simon Marchi)
       * Fix installation with a prefix for Python 3 changes (Ting-Wei Lan)
       * Fix initial scroll-to-first-difference behaviour to avoid a race
         condition if the first change was on the first line (Kai Willadsen)
       * Improve text wrapping behaviour in information bars, and avoid too-large
         allocations with long labels (Kai Willadsen)
       * Work around infinite re-allocation problems and silence GTK+ allocation
         warnings (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix bad UI state when closing a single-instance activated window (Kai
         Willadsen)
       * Fix bad function call when using internal git conflict resolution (Kai
         Willadsen)
    
      Translations:
    
       * Anders Jonsson (sv)
       * Andika Triwidada (id)
       * Balázs Úr (hu)
       * Daniel Korostil (uk)
       * Emin Tufan Çetin (tr)
       * Marek Černocký (cs)
       * Milo Casagrande (it)
  • 3.17.1
    2017-03-11 meld 3.17.1
    ======================
    
      Features:
    
       * Improve version checking, and try to show users a nice error dialog when
         Meld's requirements aren't installed (Vasily Galkin)
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Help and documentation fixes (Anders Jonsson, Kai Willadsen)
       * Re-silence GTK+ logging with glib 2.46 structured logging changes (Kai
         Willadsen)
       * Fix chunk deletion at EOF with CRLF endings (Kai Willadsen)
       * Note filter performance effects in folder preferences (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix button alignment for new chunk action buttons (Kai Willadsen)
       * Improve use of the newer emblem in folder comparison by showing it only
         when meaningful (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix crash caused by bad colour theme lookup (Kai Willadsen)
    
      Translations:
    
       * Alan Mortensen (da)
       * Anders Jonsson (sv)
       * Daniel Mustieles (es)
       * Josef Andersson (sv)
       * Marek Černocký (cs)
       * Paul Seyfert (de)
       * Piotr Drąg (pl)
       * Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)
       * Мирослав Николић (sr, sr@latin)
  • 3.17.0
    edd03c20 · Update NEWS ·
    2016-12-18 meld 3.17.0
    ======================
    
      Python 3 porting:
    
       * Python 3 support; we now require Python 3.3 as a minimum
       * Python 3 compatibility fixes; too many cases of bytes/string confusion,
         syntax changes and other miscellany to mention individually (Vasily
         Galkin, Kai Willadsen)
       * Handle new unicode-escape behaviour and unicode/bytes confusion for
         process interaction and version control plugins (Vasily Galkin, Kai
         Willadsen)
       * Add support for byte-based filters, to support directory vs. file
         comparison filters (Kai Willadsen)
    
      UI changes:
    
       * The "Tabs" menu item has been removed, to better match up with more
         modern GTK+ design. All of the actions are still available in the
         expected key bindings, and there is a new per-tab context menu.
       * The change action buttons in the central pane divider now correctly
         render as flat buttons (Kai Willadsen)
       * The curves in the central pane divider are now... smoother!
    
      Internal changes:
    
       * Handle reload notifications better in asynchronous saving (Vasily Galkin)
       * Remove multi-process diff in favour of asynchronous (threaded, but
         GIL-throttled) matching (Kai Willadsen)
       * Performance improvements in rendering of multiple widgets, as well as for
         initial text comparison (Kai Willadsen)
       * Many updates for GTK+ 3.20 and 3.22 ABI changes (Kai Willadsen)
       * NOTE: Windows support is currently untested
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Update supported version control list (Kai Willadsen)
       * Update requirements and build requirements lists (Kai Willadsen)
       * Don't create empty help/figures directories (Kai Willadsen)
       * Translation maintenance (Piotr Drąg)
    
      Fixes included in 3.16 releases:
    
       * Handle themes with scrollbar steppers better (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix a traceback when pane has no file (Claude Paroz)
       * Fix triggering "Delete Change" actions from menu (Kai Willadsen)
       * Handle style theme not existing (Patrick Griffis)
       * Fix bad scroll syncing and inability to move between comparison chunks in
         file comparisons (Vasily Galkin)
       * Improve version control view behaviour when opening missing paths (Vasily
         Galkin)
       * Fix saving of text created in blank comparison (Vasily Galkin)
       * GTK+ 3.22 compatibility fixes for saving window size (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix formatted patches missing newlines in certain cases (Kai Willadsen)
       * Silence GTK+ warning logging if not running in uninstalled (i.e.,
         development) mode (Kai Willadsen)
       * Update AppData (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix performance regression in text filtering (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix regression in respecting custom text encoding (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix regression in support for file comparisons from pipes (Kai Willadsen)
       * Add open build service directories to the version control filter
         (Dominique Leuenberger)
       * Add darcs to list of loaded plugins (pbgc)
       * Fix the dark style (Kai Willadsen)
       * Windows build fixes (Kai Willadsen)
    
      Translations:
    
       * Anders Jonsson (sv)
       * Andika Triwidada (id)
       * Balázs Meskó (hu)
       * Claude Paroz (fr)
       * Daniel Mustieles (es)
       * Jiri Grönroos (fi)
       * Marek Černocký (cs)
       * Mario Blättermann (de)
       * Matej Urbančič (sl)
       * Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)
       * Tiago Santos (pt)
       * Мирослав Николић (sr, sr@latin)
  • 3.16.4
    47f9fe64 · Update NEWS ·
    2016-12-18 meld 3.16.4
    ======================
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Make error displaying more robust with non-ASCII locales (Vasily Galkin)
       * Handle themes with scrollbar steppers better (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix a traceback when pane has no file (Claude Paroz)
       * Fix triggering "Delete Change" actions from menu (Kai Willadsen)
       * Handle style theme not existing (Patrick Griffis)
       * Fix unintentional glib requirement bump (Kai Willadsen)
    
      Translations:
    
       * Claude Paroz (fr)
  • 3.16.3
    4f4c9ab6 · Update NEWS ·
    2016-09-26 meld 3.16.3
    ======================
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Fix bad scroll syncing and inability to move between comparison chunks in
         file comparisons (Vasily Galkin)
       * Improve version control view behaviour when opening missing paths (Vasily
         Galkin)
       * Fix saving of text created in blank comparison (Vasily Galkin)
       * GTK+ 3.22 compatibility fixes for saving window size (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix formatted patches missing newlines in certain cases (Kai Willadsen)
       * Silence GTK+ warning logging if not running in uninstalled (i.e.,
         development) mode (Kai Willadsen)
       * Update AppData (Kai Willadsen)
    
      Translations:
    
       * Anders Jonsson (sv)
       * Balázs Meskó (hu)
       * Daniel Mustieles (es)
       * Marek Černocký (cs)
       * Mario Blättermann (de)
       * Piotr Drąg (pl)
       * Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)
       * Tiago Santos (pt)
       * Мирослав Николић (sr, sr@latin)
  • 3.16.2
    83f3175b · Update NEWS ·
    2016-07-30 meld 3.16.2
    ======================
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Fix performance regression in text filtering (Kai Willadsen)
       * Fix regression in respecting custom text encoding (Kai Willadsen)
    
      Translations:
    
       * Andika Triwidada (id)
  • 3.16.1
    36e5478e · Update NEWS ·
    2016-06-19 meld 3.16.1
    ======================
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Fix regression in support for file comparisons from pipes (Kai Willadsen)
       * Add open build service directories to the version control filter
         (Dominique Leuenberger)
       * Add darcs to list of loaded plugins (pbgc)
       * Fix the dark style (Kai Willadsen)
       * Windows build fixes (Kai Willadsen)
  • 3.16.0
    3d317729 · Update NEWS ·
    2016-05-01 meld 3.16.0
    ======================
    
      Translations:
    
       * Josef Andersson (sv)
  • 3.15.3
    baf770a2 · Update NEWS ·
    2016-04-20 meld 3.15.3
    ======================
    
      Fixes:
    
       * Handle unicode dates in non-UTF8 locales in folder comparison (Kai
         Willadsen)
       * Try to auto-detect when to use our dark theme highlighting (Kai Willadsen)
       * After undo/redo actions in file comparisons, place the cursor at the
         natural edit position and scroll it back onscreen (Kai Willadsen)