Version 0.9.96 - 2011-09-02 =========================== - KDiff3FileItemActionPlugin : Context menu that also works in dolphin (for KDE>=4.6) - Parser for preprocessor commands. (Allows single apostrophs ') - On Windows if the preprocessor command is "sed" try to use a "bin\sed.exe" next to the kdiff3.exe, if available. - Warn if conversion errors appear (Invalid characters) - Fix crash on A/B-overview (infinite recursion) - Fix clearcase temp files not deleted problem on windows - KDiff3 plugin: When launching KDiff3 konqueror isn't blocked anymore - String corrections (Frederik Schwarzer) - Fixed writing to KIO. - OS2-Port (Patch by Silvan Scherrer) - Fixed problem where destination directory would be renamed or deleted during copy operation. Now if the destination directory exists only the files inside will be copied. - In merge: Separate lines where the automatic choice would be the same but for different reasons. - Fixed some problems with huge files in directory comparison mode (>2GB) (but direct comparison is still not possible) - Fixed documentation compile errors with KDE>=4.5 - Fixed white space merge default options - Fixed regexp test tool. - Exclude printing code if Qt was compiled without printing support. - For Windows: Fixed handling of unicode characters in command line parameters. - Improved "old mac" lineendstyle handling: Break lines. - Detect encoding specified in xml header or html "meta" tag. Version 0.9.95 - 2009/03/03 =========================== - Show line end style for each file. - Updated message translations. - Fixed permissions when writing executable file. (Un*x only) - Fixed IgnorableCmdLineOptions (important for SVNs '-u'-option) - Directory merge: Error when either B or C is changed and the other is deleted. (User choice required.) - Qt-only Un*x-version looks for translations in /usr/share/locale//LC_MESSAGES/kdiff3.qm (for Debian, by Eike Sauer) - New script: po/create_qm_files: To create and install translations for Qt-only version. Version 0.9.94 - 2009/01/17 =========================== - Fix for hidden text windows with --auto-flag. - Fix for pasting clipboard truncated text if it contained characters that needed more than one byte in UTF-8 encoding. - Fix for horizontal scrolling if word wrap is enabled. - Directory tree: files hidden due to options (e.g. patterns etc.) don't affect folder equality any more. - KDE: KIO-progress dialog is now hidden. (KDiff3 has its own progress dialog.) - Directory merge: Default op for change in either B or C and delete in the other is now merge (previously copy). - Directory merge: Not preserving merge operation after reload, because it might have changed. Version 0.9.93 - 2009/01/06 =========================== - Support for KDE4 (with much porting help from Valentin Rusu) - Fix for diff_ext_for_kdiff3 (by Sergey Zorin) - Win32-Installation: SendTo-integration fixed for Vista. - Optional auto detection of line end style for saving. - Option to close on ESC (default is off) - Option to align B and C for 3 input files (default is off which is usually better for merging). Version 0.9.92 - 2007/04/15 =========================== - Windows installer now allows to install KDiff3 as Clearcase Diff and Merge Tool - Windows installer "SVN Merge tool" corrected: Not creating $AppData\Subversion\config subdir anymore. - KDE-Konqueror plugin: Launch KDiff3 from Konqueror. (Similar to Diff-Ext on Windows.) - Qt4-version - Printing crash fixed - Compilation issue for Mac fixed - Dir Rescan keeps settings for Show identical files etc. - Bugfix: Empty file and not existing file were detected as binary equal. - Temp file names use the process id in file name to allow several instances. - Suppress flicker during startup. (Don't show status info window on creation.) - New File comparison mode: Trust the size and date, but use binary comparison if date doesn't match (unsafe) - After explicitely selecting files any file of the selected may be right clicked for context menu. - Open dialog also shows current directories in directory comparison mode. - Writing a file via --auto option didn't work for relative files. (Reported by Guilhem Bichot) - New option for history merge: Max number of history entries - New option "Auto save and quit on merge without conflicts" - Directory Merge with Case sensitivity disabled: Correct destination filename chosen for merge. Version 0.9.91 - 2006/10/29 =========================== - Encoding auto detection - Fix for crash after double click below last line - Saving of maximized window-state (Patch by Robert Vock) - Separated Merge-options in own tab because "Diff and Merge"-options tab got too big. - When pasting multiple lines into openfile dialog only first line is kept - Drawing in directory view fixed. - When specifying a separate output dir then for equal files a copy operation will also be offered. - Windows specific: - Windows installer problems fixed for users without admin-rights - Fix for slow startup problem on Windows (Patch by Manfred Koehler) - New: diff-ext-for-kdiff3 - Shell extension (originally by Sergey Zorin) - Qt4-version: - Saving of merge-result didn't work. - Start external processes directly without cmd.exe-window - Rewrote everything requiring Qt3-support Version 0.9.90 - 2006/05/14 =========================== - Fixed KIO-problems of type "File exists" with tempfiles (introduced in 0.9.89) - Fix for manual alignment with 3 files which caused crash (new feature in 0.9.89) - Fix for Alt-Left caused crash for leftmost window on windows (due to changed compiler) - Use of WResizeNoErase|WRepaintNoErase instead of WNoAutoErase (fix for compiler error with Qt3.1) - Removed #include which is (currently) unneeded and required extra dependencies. - Removed "Save/Load Directory Merge State ..." in directory menu. (These aren't working yet.) - Fixed crash when used as Diff-part with KDevelop. - Preserve executable bit when overwriting an existing file. Version 0.9.89 - 2006/04/09 =========================== New features: - Version control history auto merge plus sorting - Auto merge regular expression - Splitting and joining differences for merging - Manual Diff Alignment tool - Printing of differences - Colorsettings for Dir-Colors - Dir-show identical/different/A-only/B-only/C-only files with immediate effect (instead of option "List only deltas") - Filename-edit above DiffInputWindows - Windows-Context Menu in A/B/C-columns for dir-comparison (Windows only) - Edit Menu: Select All (Ctrl-A) - New commandline options: --config filename: Select an individual config file. (Now also available for Windows and Qt-only version.) --cs config: Change one specific setting via the command line. (For settings that were previously adjustable via GUI only.) --confighelp: Show available config items and their current values. - Dircomp: "Compare/Merge explicitly selected files" (Select files/dirs by clicking icons in columns A/B/C) - User definable ignored command line options. - Ability to swap pathnames in open dialog - "Ignore"-button in error dialog when option not understood (Windows only) - Quadratical scroll speedup during selection when mouse moves out of the diff input window. Bugfixes, redesign: - Preparations for Qt4-Port + some redesign - GNU-Diff algorithm improved to be independent of line endings (needed for manual diff alignment) - Avoid restoring a window where it is almost invisible (if moved almost out of the screen area) - Go to next delta honors special "A vs. B", "A vs. C" or "B vs. C" overview when active. (Patch by Vladan Bato) - DirectoryMergeWindow: File/Antifile and DirPattern changes will update immediately without rescan. - Blue toolbar icons (for better visibility of disabled state) - Bugfix: Crash when merging and selecting "Choose A/B/C for all unsolved conflicts" and one of the solved conflicts contained no lines in chosen input. - Fix: With --auto option, GUI stays invisible if not necessary - Fixed odd ProgressDialog-behaviour when continuing after an error or abort. - Directory merge: Fixed FollowFileLinks. (Didn't work when copying a file.) - Initial position now (x=0,y=22). This solves a problem on some Macs. - Better alignment of B and C in 3-file comparison - Correctly updating the selection when scrolling via keys and mouse is pressed - Horizontal scrolling in right-to-left language caused vertical lines - fixed. Version 0.9.88 - 2005/25/02 =========================== - Fixed crash that occurred in Directory Comparison mode "Full-Analysis". - Fix for Windows: Didn't save encoding correctly. - Many translations updated. Version 0.9.87 - 2005/30/01 =========================== - Unicode16 and UTF8 support (Internal data format is now QString (Unicode16). Conversion during save and load.) - Directory "Full Analysis": Equality-Coloring for files with only whitespace differences. (Michael Denio) - Support for right to left languages. - In MergeResultWindow show "" for whitespace-only conflicts - Statusbar shows the number of remaining conflicts and whitespace conflicts. - Go Next/Prev Difference/Conflict now have improved tooltips informing about "Show White Space"-disabled-behaviour. Version 0.9.86 - 2004/06/14 =========================== - Double click on any file in directory merge would close the directory merge window. (Regression in 0.9.85) Version 0.9.85 - 2004/06/14 =========================== - When solving a conflict KDiff3 reports the number of remaining unsolved conflicts in the status bar. Bugfixes: - Fix for MergeResultWindow-contextmenu: All items were disabled always. (new in 0.9.84) - Fix for problem when opening files specified relative to current directory. (new in 0.9.84, qt-only-version) - Fix for compilation with older gcc (2.9x) - Several Word-wrap problems fixed: - Find string with word wrap active didn't work if found text was not in first wrap-line. - overview-position was not updated when toggling word wrap - horizontal scrollbar was not updated when toggling word wrap - current selection was lost when toggling word wrap - selecting a conflict in the diff-text-window didn't work right with word wrap. - Qt-only: Bold attribute for fonts was not persistent - Qt-only: Toolbar position was not persistent - Qt-only: Language-choice shows also the full language name. - Cursor and windows-boundary-lines were always black instead of having the foreground color - Starting KDiff3 with two not existing files showed a dialog saying that files are binary equal. - Errors while starting a directory comparison now also reopens the open-dialog. - Speedup during directory comparison by avoiding unnecessary redraws. (These always creep in again :-() - On KDE: When resetting to default options (or first start) now the default KDE-fixed font will be used. - Mergeresultwindow: Improved behaviour after automatic merge operation. Version 0.9.84 - 2004/05/29 ============================ New Features: - Word Wrap for DiffTextWindow - Directory-Comparison: Option "Full Analysis" allows to show the number of solved vs. unsolved conflicts or deltas vs. whitespace-changes in the directory tree. - Diff-Menu for Diff-view specific entries - Docs now contain a new chapter for uses of preprocessor and line-matching-preprocessor. - Added several credits which now are also visible in the Qt-only version. - The Qt-only version now also shows all command-line options. Under windows a dialog shows them. - Command line options -u and -L for Subversion-support. - Command line options --L1/2/3 for specifying alias names. - In the Qt-only-version the user-interface-language can be set via the regional-settings (only effective after a restart). - ProgressDialog redesign for recursive use. - Overview now allows to show the delta between two other files in triplediff-mode. - Option to ignore case which treats case-changes like white space (instead of conversion to upcase). Bugfixes: - Dir-Comp: When one file exists, but the other doesn't then instead the latest used other file was displayed. - Open dialog: When previously a file C was used, but should be empty now, it reappeared unbidden. - Several bugs for 64-bit systems fixed. - Fixed crash when one file ended with a newline and the other did not. - Windows: Case insensitive filename-pattern matching. - Corrected behaviour for files with size 0. - Fix for crash due to a race-condition (Patch by Eike Sauer) - Windows: Scrolling didn't work right when another window was in front. - Mergeresultwindow didn't show correct position when starting a second or later merge. - Fix for problem where sometimes the A/B/C-buttons were in wrong state. - Pasting from selection via the middle mousebutton. Version 0.9.83 - 2004/03/06 =========================== - Reading directorys fixed for Win95/98 - Caseinsensitive filename matching for windows. - Autocopy to selection for systems that support this. (Patch by Stefan Partheymueller) - Drawing during recalc suppressed in merge result editor. - Cursor could go beyond last line in merge result editor. (Corrected NrOfLine-counting.) - Windows: Start with invalid cmd-line-options brings up a messagebox with the list of options. - Corrected encoding when copying to or pasting from clipboard. - Corrected char-by-char-diff at beginning of line. ("012345 12345 xyz" <-> "012345 xyz") - Warning when merging with preprocessor or upcase-conversion enabled. - Rewrite of preprocessing code should fix several problems. E.g.: - Ignore C/C++-comments only worked with a preprocessor active. - Preprocessor output now is input of line-matching preprocessor. - Paste to diff-window, didn't work if LMPP or Ignore C/C++-Comments was set. Version 0.9.82 - 2004/02/02 =========================== - DirectoryMerge: Running merge op for last item in a folder, performed the merge op for all following items in following folders. (Possible data loss!) - Fix: Preprocessors and "Ignore Comments" didn't work at the same time. - Fix: Preprocessors crashed with remote files. - Open-Dialog: When either input is changed, then reset the output to be empty. (To avoid accidental overwrites.) - Icon for "Highlight white space differences." - Editor-Option: Line End Style for saving: Dos/Windows "\r\n" vs. Unix "\n" - Merge output editor: Corrected wrong encoding for output-filename and user-typed characters. - Speedup for reading directories under Windows. - Enhanced progress dialog responsiveness during local file copy. - Fix for non-KDE-version: No URL-encoding when dropping files in open dialog. Version 0.9.81 - 2004/01/08 =========================== - Allow to compile with --enable-final - Bugfix for 3 file-compare (and A or B don't exist, crashed) - Bugfix for crash when second directory is merged - Some keyboard-shortcuts for selection of merge-operation didn't work correctly. - Shortcuts Ctrl-1/2/3 are possible in textmergewindow and in dirmergewindow, depending on the focus. - First steps towards internationalisation - Manpage doc/en/kdiff3.1 by Eike Sauer (for Debian) - Directory rescan shortcut SHIFT-F5 Version 0.9.80 - 2003/12/08 =========================== New Text Diff/Merge Features: - Now using GNU-diff algorithms internally. (Option "External Diff" removed.) - Option for treating C/C++ comments as whitespace during diff. - Bugfix for locale character encoding (+ new option "Use string encoding") - Option for suppressing highlighting in white-space changes. (Also suppresses highlighting in comments and numbers when the respective options are active.) - Merge-menu: Choose A/B/C for all unsolved conflicts. Choose A/B/C for all unsolved whitespace conflicts. - Options to automatically choose a certain source for whitespace conflicts. - Shorcut F5 now used to reload the current file. New Directory-Comparison/Merge Features: - Option to trust filesize. (Some directory services don't copy the date/time correctly.) - Shortcut F7 now starts complete directory merge (previously F5). - Do the selected merge operation for the selected file/dir only "Run Operation For Current Item" (F6). - Shortcuts for selecting the merge operation for the selected item. Ctrl-1/2/3/4/Del select A/B/C/Merge/Delete respectively. Other Improvements: - Several i18n-corrections (by Stephan Binner) - Bugfix for option CVS-ignore: Didn't work correctly in subdirectories. - Bugfix for remote operations: Operation can now be aborted, when KIO-slaves doesn't respond. - Cancel-Button in progress bar. - Default diff-view now again side by side instead of one above the other. Version 0.9.71 - 2003/10/17 =========================== - Windows-Installer by Sebastien Fricker. - Bugfixes for Windows. (Problems with setFont() in paintEvent().) - Default font for Windows now "Courier New" (instead of Courier) - Fix for compilation with gcc 2.95 - Support for Ctrl-Tab under Windows. - Fix for finding documentation. - Fix for problem with directory-sync-mode (new in 0.9.70). - Fix for several subsequent CR-characters in input file. Version 0.9.70 - 2003/09/28 =========================== - Transparent access to URLs via KIO (KDE only): Compare files and directories on ftp, fish, smb, tar etc. ressources. - Workaround for a Win32-bug (Crashed sometimes during selections) - When the merge flag is selected in the open dialog, the directory-tool always starts a merge by default for each file. Without the flag only a diff will be started by default. - Immediately showing progress bar in dir scan. - Showing progress bar for file comparison too. - Directory-menu: Fold/Unfold all subdirs - Bugfix for 3-way auto-merge: A line deleted from the base in B and C resulted in a empty line instead of being completely removed. - Improved locale support - KDiff3 is now a KPart - in KDevelop3 it can be used to compare the current text with the last saved version, or the current version on disk with the last cvs version. - in Konqueror it can be used to look at a unified *.patch-file if one complete version is available too. - Documentation is now in docbook-format. - "Toggle Split Orientation" for Diff-Input windows. (Good for long lines.) - When "Dir and Text Split-Screen-View" is off: Now "Focus Next/Prev Window" also toggles between dir and text-windows. Selecting a file via double click switches to text-screen. - KDiff3 displays a warning when trying to read a dir without the permission. - Directory-Diff-Option "Use CVS-Ignore" to ignore files like CVS does. - Displaying a status message at the end of the directory-comparison. - Cursor in MergeResultWindow is automatically placed at current difference when a jump occurred. (But not when something was selected.) - Fix for cursor blinking in the topline of the MergeResultWindow. Version 0.9.61 - 2003/06/07 =========================== - Compilation problem fixed. - Directory merge: Preserving file attributes and times during copy. (now also for Win32) - Crash fixed, when directory comparison from the command-line was started. Version 0.9.60 - 2003/06/01 =========================== New features: - New ways to select input for the diff window: - Pasting clipboard text into a diff window. - Drag and drop a file from a filemanager (e.g. konqueror) onto a diff window. - Drag and drop text from an editor (e.g. kate) onto a diff window. Reanalysis starts immediately if no merge is in progress. (This should help you to compare similar parts in the same file.) - New/Deleted white lines are now also considered as white deltas. - Configurable keyboard shortcuts for most actions (KDE version only). - The overview now also distinguishes whitespace deltas. New preprocessor options: - You can now define your own external Preprocessor and LineMatchingPreprocessor: - "Convert to upper case", - "Ignore numbers" Fixed bugs: - Directory merge: Preserving file attributes and times during copy. (not for Win32 yet) Source-tree-structure: - Switch to KDevelop3 (Gideon): Renamed subdir "kdiff3" to "src". - xpm-files in xpm-subdirectory. Version 0.9.51 - 2003/04/14 =========================== - Compilation fix for gcc 2.95. Version 0.9.50 - 2003/03/30 =========================== Fixed bugs: - Auto-Advance setting was lost when entering the settings-dialog. - Windows specific: Keys with AltGr-Combination didn't work. - Windows 95/98/ME: Fixed crash when KDiff3 is called used without parameters, and corrected support for external diff. New Features: - Search-function: Search for a string in all open text windows. - Special background colors for current region. - Button to toggle showing of whitespace in differences. - Buttons to go to next/prev unsolved (!) conflict. - While auto-advance waits, no more choices are allowed. - New setting: Auto-advance-delay. (Note that with delay 0 fast clicks might be detected as double clicks and the second click does nothing. My advice: Prefer the keyboard-shortcuts Ctrl-1/2/3) - Functions to Show/Hide Diff Window A, B or C. The other windows then have more space. - Merge editor: The right mouse button selects the current region and lets you choose A, B or C via a popup menu. - Commandline option --auto: No GUI if all conflicts are auto-solvable. - When equal files are compared, then a message box informs you. - Merge current file: When comparing two or three files, the merge can be started with a single click. - Option dialog: Warning for "Defaults" added, because it resets all options. - A warning is given, when the user tries to merge binary files. (i.e. files that contain '\0'-bytes) Changed behaviour: - 3 file automerge: When for a line B==C (and A!=B) then C will be selected. (In older versions this was a conflict. I was convinced that this is no problem.) - Auto-Advance now jumps to next unsolved (!) conflict. - On 256-color-displays KDiff3 uses them. (Previously KDiff3 only used 16 colors.) - On 16-color-displays the Defaults-button in the options dialog selects special colors. Version 0.941 - 2003/02/09 ========================== Fixed bugs: - Qt-only-version: Compile problem corrected. - Documentation: Formatting for tables corrected. Version 0.94 - 2003/02/09 ========================= New features: - Option to use external GNU-diff for line matching. (Sometimes GNU-diff is better, sometimes not: You may choose now.) - In diff-windows a tooltip shows the full path if you move the mouse on the filename. - Speedup of directory-merge operations without user interaction. (Not every item in the tree is made visible anymore. This took too long.) - When opening a file for comparison or merge KDiff3 immediately shows the first difference. - "Go To Top/Bottom"-action have been changed to "Go To First/Last Delta". - Font-Option "Italic For Deltas" added. - Many icons and actions will only be enabled, when the operation is possible. - Icon for merge of current file in directory merge mode added. - New action "Go to Current Delta". - Conflicts where some lines contained only-white-space-changes are now separated from other non-white-space-conflicts. - Experimental: Use as replacement for ClearCase-cleardiffmrg.exe (under Windows only). See main.cpp for details. Fixed bugs: - If files were different, but had the same dates, the "not existant"-icon was shown for one file. Now a error message will be shown if the option "Copy newer instead of merging" is used. - Documentation: Section "The Operation Column" corrected. - Qt-only-version: Fontsize wasn't correctly restored. - Keyboard accelerators didn't work for ToggleActions. Version 0.931 - 2003/01/19 ========================== Fix for compilation problems with gcc version < 3. Version 0.93 - 2003/01/16 ========================= New features: - Directory comparison and merge. (More than 3000 new lines of code only here!!!) - Open-Dialog: Filename specification: If no previous filename is there then start directory is taken from another file. - Message about number of found and automatically solved conflicts. - Support for wheelmouse based scrolling. - New option in Diff-tab: Preserve Carriage Return Characters Fixed bugs: - Save button disabled until all conflicts are solved. - Copy-operation conserves conflict messages "". - Paste operation created pseudo conflicts when the clipboard contained empty lines. - W95/98/ME specific program crash removed. Version 0.92 - 2002/11/04 ========================= Severe bug corrected: - Merge menu: Choose A/B/C Everywhere sometimes lost data. (introduced in 0.9) Version 0.91 - 2002/11/03 ========================= Speed improvements for very big/complicated files: - Faster analysis because of limited search range (can be adjusted). - Faster scrolling and editor behaviour. Fixed bugs: - Compilation problem with gcc 3.2 fixed. - When comparing two lines, matching spaces often were undetected. - Merge editor appended extra empty line when saving. - Sometimes the next diff/conflict wasn't made visible. - The Auto-Advance setting is saved now. - When doing a merge the application now has modified-state, even without further input. (The old method wasn't safe.) - File selection now always in directory of respective file. Version 0.9 - 2002/10/16 ======================== New features: - Qt-only support. Allows compilation under KDE2, Gnome, Mac, Windows, ... Note that KDE3 still gets special treatment. - For Mergers: Auto-Advance after selection, Choose A/B/C everwhere, ... - Commandline: If files with same name in different directories are compared, only the first parameter needs the filename. - Shift-Del, Ctrl-Ins, Shift-Ins supported for Cut/Copy/Paste Fixed bugs: - Make failed on some systems because of missing "minmax.h". - Files where opened for reading, but not closed afterwards. - Vertical scrollbar sometimes didn't work correctly. Version 0.81 - 2002/08/18 ========================= New features: - Now KDE3 is also supported. Previously only KDE2 was supported. - Navigation via click into the overview column now supported. Fixed bugs: - Some input files caused a crash in the diff-algorithm. - The meaning of option "Ignore trivial matches" was inverted. - When selecting a text in one window, this deselects any previously active selection in the same or another window. Version 0.8 - 2002/07/28 ======================== This is the first version to be released.