Meld

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)