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2018-11-21 meld 3.19.1
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  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)