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Meld 1.7.3 — 04 Jun 2013

Support launching conflict comparisons from Subversion (Louis des Landes)
The external text editor setting now supports opening files at a particular line number (Konstantin Starojitski)
A host of minor improvements to the version control UI, including:
- Add a new Push action for VC modules, currently supported in Git (Kai Willadsen)
- Show a summary of unpushed commits, currently supported in Git (Kai Willadsen)
- Reworked commit dialog, including more details about files to be committed and more useful previous-log selection (Kai Willadsen)
- Console output for VC comparisons is now formatted to better distinguish commands, output and errors (Kai Willadsen)
- Support better sensitivity handling in VC comparisons, currently implemented by Git (Kai Willadsen)
Sundry minor UI improvements:
- Much HIG-ification and better wording for actions, dialogs and labels (Kai Willadsen, with diligent bug reporting from Adam Dingle)
- Make columns user-resizable in version control and folder comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
- There is now a Save All action, to save all modified files in the current comparison (Kai Willadsen)
- Rather than giving up on long inline-highlighting comparisons, Meld now prompts to continue the comparison (Kai Willadsen)
- F5 is now a additional shortcut for Refresh (Kai Willadsen)
- Reload has been renamed to Revert and its UI has been improved for file comparisons (Kai Willadsen)

Version control updates and miscellaneous fixes (Dominique Leuenberger, Louis des Landes, Timothy Babych, Kai Willadsen)
When guessing file types for syntax highlighting, we now use file contents as well as extension (Kai Willadsen)
Prev/Next Change navigation now centres changes slightly more aggressively (Kai Willadsen)

In version control view, conflicts now open in a three-way merge mode for Bazaar and Git, with other VCs to follow (Louis des Landes)
Manual synchronisation of split points for comparisons (Piotr Piastucki, Kai Willadsen)
The “Ignore blank lines” setting is now used in folder comparisons, in same manner as text filters (Kai Willadsen)

Many minor Windows compatibility fixes (Vincent Legoll, Robert Wahler, Kai Willadsen)
Version control compatibility updates and fixes (Manuel Siggen, Kai Willadsen)
Better handling of Unicode filenames (Kai Willadsen)
Better support for cross-platform newline behaviour, particularly on Windows (Kai Willadsen)
Sensitivity fixes for file and folder comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
Build and installation fixes (Kalev Lember, Kai Willadsen)

Folder comparisons can now show extra information, such as file size and modification times. Column visibility and ordering are properly configurable. (Philipp Müller, Kai Willadsen)
Shallow comparison (i.e., based on size and timestamp) are now supported for folder comparisons, including timestamp resolution preferences for cross-filesystem comparisons. (Cristian Dinu)
The UI for launching new comparisons has been reworked to have a clearer workflow, and is now shown on startup if no other comparisons have been opened (Kai Willadsen)
Recently-used comparisons are now supported, allowing you to re-open previous comparisons directly. (Kai Willadsen)
Read-only files are now not editable by default, making merge actions clearer and more consistent. Individual read-only files can easily be set as editable as desired. (Kai Willadsen)

New version control API, currently used by Git and Subversion (Kai Willadsen)
Version control compatibility updates and fixes (Cedric Le Dillau, Louis des Landes, Kai Willadsen)
Command line labelling options now apply to folder tabs (Kai Willadsen)
Regressions from parallel inline highlighting calculations have been fixed (Kai Willadsen)
Diff algorithm cleanups (Piotr Piastucki)
Compatibility fixes for Python 3; this does not mean that Meld works on Python 3 yet, just that 2to3 issues have been addressed (Kai Willadsen)

File comparisons are faster! Meld now has a smarter pre-processing step for inline highlighting of differences (Piotr Piastucki) and does its highlighting calculations asynchronously (Kai Willadsen), leading to better overall performance and interactivity.
Auto-merge mode is now available from the command-line (Piotr Piastucki)
Comparisons can be opened in new tabs (rather than in a new window) from the command line (Kacper Wysocki, Antoine, Kai Willadsen)
Custom colours can now be configured for all Meld drawing (Kai Willadsen)

Improved behaviour when opening many tabs at once (Peter Tyser)
Notification of searches wrapping around the buffer (Philipp Müller)
Better compatibility with non-standard keyboard layouts (Stephan Hilb)
Better error reporting for failed VC comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
Version control compatibility updates and fixes (Jan Danielsson, Tim Babych, Kai Willadsen)
Other miscellaneous bug fixes (Jeff Oliver, Pacho Ramos, Rainer Suhm, Kai Willadsen)

Fix traceback from invalid tree cursor paths (Kai Willadsen) (closes rhbz#832969 and rhbz#837133)
Fix traceback when popping up right-click menus in empty tree sections (Kai Willadsen) (closes rhbz#843879)
Fix Bazaar comparisons including exec bit changes (Kai Willadsen) (closes bgo#682852)
Avoid spurious listings in Bazaar with shelved items (Per Ångström)
Fix copying symlinks in directories (Rainer Suhm) (closes rhbz#836606)
Support newer Fossil VC (Jan Danielsson) (closes bgo#683969)
Fix compatibility with Python 2.5 (Gianni Trovisi)