This stable release of Meld also includes new features, bugfixes, and updated translations

Jul 28, 2013 16:16 GMT  ·  By

The Meld developers were happy to announce earlier today, July 28, the immediate availability for download of Meld 1.7.4, a stable release that introduces several features and fixes various annoying bugs.

Among the novelties brought by version 1.7.4 of Meld, a visual merge and diff utility targeted at developers, we can mention support for Subversion 1.8, as well as Bazaar support for pushing changes.

Moreover, the type-ahead-find search has been modified to work in folder comparisons, improvements to the commit dialog were added to automatically wrap commit messages, support for Arch, Codeville, and RCS has been dropped from Meld 1.7.4, and the preference to swap pane order left = local has been added.

Among the bugs squashed in Meld 1.7.4, we can mention that new tabs are brought to front when opening them from the command-line, current chunk highlight is now customizable using gtkrc, syncpoints now prevent chunks from being re-merged, syncpoints move with insertions, and automatic update was disabled.

Meld 1.7.4 also gets various version control updates and fixes, sensitivity fixes, as well as translation string fixes. The following translations have been updated in Meld 1.7.4: Spanish, Greek, Galician, Czech, Slovenian, and Polish.

Download Meld 1.7.4 right now from Softpedia.