https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/blob/master/NEWS changes since 3.18: 2018-03-28 meld 3.19.0 ====================== 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
This is a development cycle version, marked as such on http://meldmerge.org/ and actually released long before our in-tree 3.18.2 was. I'm inclined to WONTFIX this, at least until a more current dev release shows up (or of course stable 3.20)
(I knew about this and intentionally hadn't bumped to that, but good to have a bug record now)
Marking this as WONTFIX then for now. The development release is way too old. If someone really wants a development cycle release added, it should at least be newer than some rather old bug fix stable release (many of these bug fixes are missing from that feature devel release). Put otherwise, I might be convinced to add a 3.19.1 p.masked, should one get released, but not this old 3.19.0.
