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2020-04-19 meld 3.21.0
======================
UI changes:
* Move to a modern GTK headerbar-based design, including:
* More extensive action support in the header bar
* New comparison overview map widget that provides a clearer overview for
multiple panes at once, and allows for more natural scrollbar
positioning (Kai Willadsen)
* Text, filename and version filters are now all accessible from the
toolbar (Kai Willadsen)
* Refreshed find bar that more closely matches other applications (Kai
Willadsen)
* Remove application menu in line with Initiatives#4 (Kai Willadsen)
* New recent comparison selection widget (Kai Willadsen)
* Change tab style to be full-width and hidden for single tab windows (Kai
Willadsen)
* Make file comparison change navigation more intuitive by changing how it
decides where to scroll from (Heikki Ketoharju)
* Completely refreshed Meld application icon (Alex Monday)
* File comparison now has overscroll at the bottom of file comparisons,
making it easier to see end-of-file differences and improving scroll
syncing (Kai Willadsen)
* Text wrapping, whitespace, line numbers and line highlight can now all be
toggled from the file comparison status bar (Kai Willadsen)
Features:
* Add support for CVS in version control comparisons (gitqlt)
* Copy selected file paths in folder comparison (WenGuoyao)
* Improve dark theme detection so custom Meld highlighting better matches
the user's theme (Kai Willadsen)
* Meld's built-in GtkSourceView schemes now support syntax highlighting
(Kai Willadsen)
* Moving past the first or last change using our change navigation now
alerts with the standard error bell (Kai Willadsen)
* Support nightly Flatpak builds of Meld using GNOME's CI (Kai Willadsen)
* Support development using GNOME Builder's workflow
Fixes:
* CI and build system fixes (Michael Behrisch, Frank Dana, Piotr Drąg, Vasily Galkin)
* Fix running uninstalled from non-project-base folder (Vasily Galkin)
* Fix file comparison closing after file save (Vasily Galkin)
* Fix file comparison handling of certain line breaks (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix folder comparison display of large file sizes (andre)
* Fix folder comparisons with pre-epoch timestamps (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix folder comparisons not handling ignore blank lines + text filters (Kai
Willadsen)
* Handle file deletion better on NFS mounts (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix handling of bad filter regular expressions (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix push action on missing changes in three way comparison (Kai Willadsen)
* Default file chooser encoding to autodetect (Kai Willadsen)
* Minor UI fixes:
* Statusbar now correctly sets default encoding & file type for empty
files (Kai Willadsen)
* Statusbar tries to keep a constant width for the cursor label (Kai
Willadsen)
* Folder comparisons set sensitivity correctly for empty rows (Kai
Willadsen)
* Give commit dialog message area a reasonable height (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix long file name wrapping in info bar notifications (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix long file name ellipsization in file comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
* Windows fixes:
* Fix crash when started with unexpected environment (Vasily Galkin)
* Fix dbus support for single-instance behaviour (Vasily Galkin)
* Fix internationalisation building from source (ThunderEX)
* Fix SVG icon display (Kai Willadsen)
* Support logging to a file on Windows for debugging (Kai Willadsen)
* Default file encoding to UTF-8 to avoid Windows-specific locale issues
(Kai Willadsen)
* Typo fixes (luzpaz)
* Localisation fixes (Piotr Drąg)
Internal changes:
* Add Meson build system support; setuptools is still supported for Windows
and Mac OS builds, but Linux distributions should switch to building with
Meson (Bilal Elmoussaoui, Kai Willadsen)
* Move from GtkUIManager to GAction-based actions
* Move all UI-file-constructed widgets from custom Python wrapper classes
to using real GtkWidget templates
* Move UI templates, menus, custom icons and CSS to be resource-loaded
* Move to pre-commit using flake8 and isort for CI linting
* Move to new GtkSourceView 4 API
* Modernised Python GObject API usage, including signal and property usage
* Fix some deprecated GTK API usage
* Support Python 3.8
* Updated dependencies:
* Python 3.6
* GTK+ 3.20
* GLib 2.48
* GtkSourceView 4.0
* pygobject 3.30
* pycairo 1.15
* Issues fixed: 62, 78, 119, 170, 240, 265, 265, 267, 279, 290, 313, 314,
316, 321, 322, 337, 341, 342, 344, 344, 350, 351, 359, 419, 432, 439, 442,
451
Translations:
* Alan Mortensen (da)
* Anders Jonsson (sv)
* Asier Sarasua Garmendia (eu)
* Ask Hjorth Larsen (da)
* Balázs Meskó (hu)
* Balázs Úr (hu)
* Daniel Mustieles (es)
* Daniel Șerbănescu (ro)
* Emin Tufan Çetin (tr)
* Fran Dieguez (gl)
* Guillaume Bernard (fr)
* Jiri Grönroos (fi)
* Kukuh Syafaat (id)
* Marek Černocký (cs)
* Matej Urbančič (sl)
* Milo Casagrande (it)
* Piotr Drąg (pl)
* Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)
* Ryuta Fujii (ja)
* Sabri Ünal (tr)
* sicklylife (ja)
* Wolfgang Stöggl (de)
* Yuri Chornoivan (uk)
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)
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)
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)
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)
2017-08-16 meld 3.17.4
======================
Fixes:
* Rebuild source tarball without spurious files
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)
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)
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)
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)
2016-05-01 meld 3.16.0
======================
Translations:
* Josef Andersson (sv)
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)
2016-03-28 meld 3.15.2
======================
Features:
* Port to use GtkSourceView's file loader and saver helpers, bringing
several benefits (Kai Willadsen)
* Loading and saving speed are significantly improved, and are
asychronous
* We try a wider range of locale-specific file encodings by default,
and still support user-specified default encodings (requires
GtkSourceView 3.18 or later)
* We now support saving files with inconsistent newline types
* Binary files will now be loaded on a best-effort basis
* Reinstate support for Darcs; this is currently limited to very new
(>2.10.3) versions (Guillaume Hoffmann)
* Folder comparisons now apply text filters in the same way as file
comparisons (David Rabel)
* Add support for showing new shortcuts help dialog (Kai Willadsen, Piotr
Drąg)
* Preliminary support for building Meld as an xdg-app (Kai Willadsen)
Fixes:
* Many fixes for GTK+ 3.20 theming changes and widget compatibility issues
(Kai Willadsen)
* All accelerators should now consistently use the Primary key, for better
integration on OSX systems (Youssef Adnan)
* Significantly improve text filter performance (Jason Gauci)
* Fix performance regression where scanning for missing files was extremely
slow, especially in large repositories (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix truncated line number display in short file (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix filter dropdown not appearing below button (Kai Willadsen)
* Add more documentation on setup and installation requirements (Jesse
Sheridan, Martin Thoma)
* Update the AppData to spec version 0.7+ (Richard Hughes)
Translations:
* Anders Jonsson (sv)
* Benjamin Steinwender (de)
* Bernd Homuth (de)
* Cédric Valmary (oc)
* Daniel Mustieles (es)
* Gábor Kelemen (hu)
* Jiri Grönroos (fi)
* Luisa Cerón Perea (es)
* Marek Černocký (cs)
* Mario Blättermann (de)
* Muhammet Kara (tr)
* Pedro Albuquerque (pt)
* Piotr Drąg (pl)
* Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)
* Мирослав Николић (sr, sr@latin)
2015-12-15 meld 3.15.1
======================
Features:
* Text ignored by filters is now dimmed to give some visual feedback that
it's being ignored (David Rabel)
* Text filters now apply independently, improving consistency; note that
this is a behaviour change as filter order no longer matters, and filters
will always apply to the original (not the filtered) text (David Rabel,
Kai Willadsen)
* Recent menu items now show more detail in tooltips (Alan Suran)
* Update dialog action area layout for GTK+ theme changes (Kai Willadsen)
Fixes:
* Conflict resolution prompt now resolves properly again (Andrew Sutherland)
* Silence some GTK+ assertions on window close (Zain)
* Fix default filter issues from recent rework (Erik Schilling)
* Percent-containing commit messages no longer corrupt our recent commit
messages store (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix some problems with unicode user directories on Windows (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix encoding issues when saving files with load errors (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix drawing corruption when scrolling horizontally (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix clicking on the diffmap scrolling to the wrong location (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix off-by-one drawing error for final line in file (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix introspection requires to silence startup warnings (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix clearing syncpoints (Kai Willadsen)
* Add manual appdata kudos markers (Kai Willadsen)
* PEP8 fixes (David Rabel, Kai Willadsen)
Translations:
* Daniel Mustieles (es)
* Marek Černocký (cs)
* Milo Casagrande (it)
* Pedro Albuquerque (pt)
* Piotr Drąg (pl)
* Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)
2015-10-05 meld 3.15.0
======================
Features:
* New API for version control plugins with more consistent interfaces and
data structures across different plugins, enabling many minor
improvements (Kai Willadsen)
* Support the conflict resolution prompt in file comparisons for all VCs
* Improve caching behaviour for some version control plugins
* Better sensitivity handling for version control actions
* Cache and show more metadata (e.g., file renames)
* Several version control plugins have not been ported to the new API; the
current list of support plugins is: Git, Mercurial, Subversion 1.7+,
Bazaar
* Faster rendering in file comparison view, enabled by new GtkTextView API
(Kai Willadsen)
* Move to using GtkSourceView style schemes with Meld-specific colour tags
for highlight colours; this lets themes include colours that match the
sourceview theme (Kai Willadsen)
* Offer to open binary files externally (Pratik Dayama)
* Show the common ancestor in conflicting regions (and the merged file
everywhere else) when viewing conflicts through Meld's version control
view; currently this is only supported under Git (Kai Willadsen)
* Support showing staged/partially staged status of files under Git (Kai
Willadsen)
* Update preferences dialog to new style with headerbar (Kai Willadsen)
Fixes:
* Documentation updates (Andrew Beyer)
* Fix crash with some GTK+ versions when using --output (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix merge-all action not working at all (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix creating patches with unicode path names (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix copy-to-clipboard option in patch dialog (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix diffmap alignment for new GTK+ allocation behaviour (Kai Willadsen)
* Improve float accuracy in folder comparison timestamp resolution (Kai
Willadsen)
* Fix default SVN keyword filter to escape $ characters (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix display of unicode --help from command line (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix keyboard shortcut docs (Kai Willadsen)
* Don't incorrectly show identical notification for changed folder
comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
Internal changes:
* Requirements are now GTK+ 3.14, GtkSourceView 3.14 and GLib 2.36
* Rewritten version control plugin API
* Unified colour handling between linkmap, diffmap and file comparison
* Move all textview drawing to a new GtkSourceView subclass, using the new
GTK+ draw-layer API
Translations:
* Daniel Mustieles (es)
* Gábor Kelemen (hu)
* Jiri Grönroos (fi)
* Josef Andersson (sv)
* Marek Černocký (cs)
* Piotr Drąg (pl)
2015-07-23 meld 3.14.0
======================
Fixes:
* Fix crash when starting folder comparison on Windows (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix bad chunk action behaviour for middle-to-right actions in three
pane conflicts (Kai Willadsen)
* Documentation fixes (Anders Jonsson)
Translations:
* Josef Andersson (sv)
* Marek Černocký (cs)
2015-07-12 meld 3.13.3
======================
Fixes:
* Fix syntax highlighting under Windows (Kai Willadsen)
* Update Windows build for newer pygi bundled libraries (Kai Willadsen)
* Fixes for incorrect descriptions in manual (Anders Jonsson, Kai Willadsen)
2015-07-04 meld 3.13.2
======================
Fixes:
* Several fixes for argument handling and tab creation:
* Create --diff created comparisons after args-created ones (Kai
Willadsen)
* Fix --label flag incorrectly applying to --diff created comparisons
(Kai Willadsen)
* Create --diff created comparisons after args-created ones (Kai
Willadsen)
* Fix relative path interpretation for --output when created from a
secondary instance (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix window presentation ordering when creating a secondary instance
(Kai Willadsen)
* Several fixes to unicode filename handling in git comparisons and
manually-assigned labels (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix incorrect comparison display caused by unicode (U+2028) newline (Kai
Willadsen)
* Fix not being able to activate some change bar actions by temporarily
disabling overlay scrolling support on GTK+ 3.14 (Kai Willadsen)
* Stop recreating duplicate recently-used file placeholders (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix out-of-date man page documentation (Kai Willadsen)
* Test fixes and testing improvements (Magnus Ihse Bursie)
* Documentation fixes (Anders Jonsson)
Translations:
* Gábor Kelemen (hu)
* Marek Černocký (cs)
* Pedro Albuquerque (pt)
2015-04-20 meld 3.13.1
======================
Features:
* Previously, Meld could show very different results in file vs. folder
comparisons when the files differed in line endings. These are now much
more consistent.
* In folder comparisons, applying filters now also normalises line
endings (Kai Willadsen)
* In a file comparison, if the files-are-identical notification is shown
when files differ in line endings, this now mentioned (Kai Willadsen)
* There is a new preferences controlling whether to apply text filters
during folder comparisons, defaulting to on, which also controls line
ending normalisation (Kai Willadsen)
* Help documentation has been updated with details of how text filters
are applied in folder comparison (Kai Willadsen)
* Folder comparisons will now show an identical notification similar to the
one used in file comparison (Kai Willadsen)
* The "New blank comparion" button now works for folder comparisons as well
as file ones (Kai Willadsen)
* In folder comparisons, the expansion state of the tree is now remembered
when you collapse and re-expand a row (Kai Willadsen)
Fixes:
* Install fixes (oco)
* Code style fixes (Sandro Bonazzola)
* Better support RTL locales by flipping icons and panes consistently (Kai
Willadsen)
* Fixes for file encoding when saving with bad or missing encodings (Kai
Willadsen)
* More consistent dialog handling and appearance (Kai Willadsen)
* Deprecation updates and compatibility fixes (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix bad comparison offset when multiple line breaks occurred on a single
line (don't ask) (Kai Willadsen)
* Unicode fixes for file change notifications (Kai Willadsen)
* Warnings (such as deprecation warnings) are now explicitly silenced in
stable Meld (Kai Willadsen)
* Folder actions are now disabled while Meld is still scanning folders (Kai
Willadsen)
* Fix some command line handling for ambiguous relative paths and invalid
URIs (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix updating the comparison map when a file is updated within Meld (Kai
Willadsen)
Translations:
* Anders Jonsson (sv)
* Cheng-Chia Tseng (zh_TW)
* Christian Kirbach (de)
* Daniel Mustieles (es)
* Jordi Mas (ca)
* Marek Černocký (cs)
* Matej Urbančič (sl)
* Piotr Drąg (pl)
* Samir Ribic (bs)
* Tibor Kaputa (sk)
2014-12-31 meld 3.13.0
======================
Features:
* Make syntax highlighting style configurable (Mark Pariente)
* Implemented incremental search, match highlighting and many other
find-related fixes (Robert Roth)
* Add support for GTK+ global dark theme setting (Kai Willadsen)
* Add support for pushing change deletions (Kai Willadsen)
* Remove cycle-pane action in favour of previous/next pane actions (Kai
Willadsen)
Fixes:
* Handle Unicode filenames in a git tree correctly (Hasan Arous, Kai
Willadsen)
* Many fixes for recent GTK+ deprecation warnings (Kai Willadsen)
* Fixing flickering inline highlighting on updates (Kai Willadsen)
* Multiple work arounds for change colours not displaying on GTK+ 3.14 (Kai
Willadsen)
* Fix inconsistent file chooser when cancelling file selection (Kai
Willadsen)
* UTF-8 encode patches created from the patch dialog (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix text-wrapping reset caused by the commit dialog (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix text background display on certain themes (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix for launching Meld with certain Git environment variables (Kai
Willadsen)
* Add GTK's settings.ini file for font blurriness fix on Windows (Kai
Willadsen)
* Fix display of change action buttons and line numbers when line numbers
are shown (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix positioning of the change action buttons (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix tab width setting not working correctly (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix starting comparison of Subversion checkouts from a subdirectory (Kai
Willadsen)
* Fix starting Meld from a differently-named symlink (Kai Willadsen)
* Ignore errors when copying file metadata if the destination file system
doesn't support it (Kai Willadsen)
* Automatically recompile stale in-place gschemas (Kai Willadsen)
* Handle SIGINT to support previous quit-on-Ctrl-C behaviour (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix missing cache opcodes in some circumstances (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix text view expansion when resizing patch dialog (Kai Willadsen)
* Build fix to always include C locale when LINGUAS is set (Kai Willadsen)
Translations:
* Andika Triwidada (id)
* Carles Ferrando (ca@valencia)
* Gábor Kelemen (hu)
* Jean Jordaan (cs, el, es)
* Joan Coll (ca)
* Jordi Mas (ca)
* Marek Černocký (cs)
* Maria Mavridou (el)
* Piotr Drąg (pl)
* Мирослав Николић (sr, sr@latin)
2014-09-27 meld 3.12.0
======================
Fixes:
* Ignore missing files when cleaning up our recently-used folder (Kai
Willadsen)
* Guard against dialogs missing properties they should definitely have (Kai
Willadsen)
* Remove old property from patch dialog (Kai Willadsen)
Translations:
* Andika Triwidada (id)
* Marek Černocký (cs)
* Piotr Drąg (pl)
2014-09-19 meld 3.11.4
======================
Fixes:
* Only apply the auto merge flag to the last comparison started (Kai
Willadsen)
* Fix install layout issues on Debian-based systems (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix "Open External" for files on Windows (Kai Willadsen)
* Record installation directory and executable location on Windows (Kai
Willadsen)
* Revert to using latin1 as a fallback encoding; this will be reverted in
the next unstable series (Kai Willadsen)
Translations:
* Andika Triwidada (id)
* Daniel Mustieles (es)
* fr33domlover (he)
* Jiri Grönroos (fi)
* Josef Andersson (sv)
* Marek Černocký (cs)
* Piotr Drąg (pl)
2014-08-23 meld 3.11.3
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Features:
* Manually handle app menu fallback for non-Gnome shells (Kai Willadsen)
* Save and restore window maximisation state (Kai Willadsen)
Fixes:
* Add missing/incomplete "Language" entries (Lars Wendler)
* Miscellaneous code cleanups (Christoph Brill)
* Handle broken locale settings better (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix size allocation issues in preferences UI (Kai Willadsen)
* Update shebang for environments with Python 3 as default (Kai Willadsen)
Translations:
* Daniel Mustieles (es)
* Marek Černocký (cs)
* Piotr Drąg (pl)
* Rafael Ferreira (pt_BR)
2014-7-12 meld 3.11.2
=====================
Features:
* File and folder comparison panes can now be resized (Marco Brito)
* Folder comparisons now support scrolling between chunks using the mouse
wheel in the link map, like file comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
Fixes:
* Don't draw spurious actions for equal chunks (Kai Willadsen)
* Remove default sourceview behaviour for Alt+Left/Right (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix storing translated column names in configuration (Kai Willadsen)
* Several fixes for multiple windows in single-instance handling:
* Resolve relative paths relative to the correct instance (Kai Willadsen)
* Don't create windows in the original instance when the calling instance
errors out (Kai Willadsen)
* Raise the correct window for new windows in the same instance (Kai
Willadsen)
* Exit correctly for command line errors in the calling instance (Kai
Willadsen)
* Fix display of unicode paths in repositories (Kai Willadsen)
* Fix handling of unicode paths in recent files store (Kai Willadsen)