Meld

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)

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)

Fixes

• Rebuild source tarball without spurious files

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)

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)