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Meld 3.17.2 — 11 Jun 2017

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)

Improve version checking, and try to show users a nice error dialog when Meld’s requirements aren’t installed (Vasily Galkin)

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)

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)

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!

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

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)

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)