A development release for the Meld 3.14 series

Apr 21, 2015 00:30 GMT  ·  By

Meld, an open-source file/folder diff and merge application designed for the GNOME desktop environment, has reached version 3.13.1 on April 20, 2015. It is a development version geared towards Meld 3.14, the next stable release of the acclaimed software.

Meld 3.13.1 introduces several new features, such as more consistent results in file vs. folder comparisons if the files differed in line endings. Therefore, line endings are now normalized when applying filters in folder comparisons, and a new setting will allow users to control if text filters are applied or not during folder comparisons.

Furthermore, identical notifications will be displayed in folder comparisons (they are similar to the ones used in file comparisons), the "New Blank Comparison" button has been modified to support both file and folder comparisons, and the application can now remember the expansion state of the tree in folder comparisons.

Numerous issues have been fixed, and translations updated

In addition to the new features mentioned above, Meld 3.13.1 fixes numerous issues discovered since the previous version of the software, including install problems, code style errors, deprecation updates and compatibility issues, as well as a wrong comparison offset that occurred when multiple line breaks appeared on a single line.

Moreover, support for RTL (Right to Left) locales has been improved by consistently flipping panes and icons, file encoding issues that occurred when saving a file which had the wrong encoding or no encoding at all were addressed, issues with the comparison map updates were fixed, and Unicode support was improved for file change notifications.

Last but not least, Meld 3.13.1 brings more consistent dialog appearance and handling, explicitly silences warnings, disables folder actions when scanning directories, and repairs various command-line issues related to invalid URIs and obscure relative paths. Several translations have been updated as well. Download Meld 3.13.1 right now from Softpedia.

Meld 3.13.1 Changelog