Notepad++ v5.6.8 new features and fixed bugs (from v5.6.7) :

1. Fix comment stream without selection bug.
2. Fix Find in files results highlighting regression bug.
3. Fix regression bug (include the correct SciLexer.dll) about insensible case search mode.

*** 5.3.1

In this release, a serious bug of inaccurate replace bug is fixed.

7z format distribution is included in both binary and source release due to its superior algorithm. Their contents are the same as zip packages. If you don't know what is 7z, just download zip packages.

Notepad++ v5.3.1 new features and fixed bugs (from v5.3) :
Fix inaccurate replace bug.

Increase "Find what" and "replace with" fields to 2047 characters in Find/Replace dialog.

Stop the indicator highlighting while the line change marker margin is hidden.

SConstruct and SConscript are recognized as python file.

*** 5.3 new features and fixed bugs (from v5.2) :

Add Line change state vertical bar.

Drop (or open in dos command line) a directory in Notepad++ to open all files in the directory recursively.

Add "Find all in current file" feature.

(Most of) Find/replace dialog settings are remembered.

Add a hidden setting (dlgAlwaysVisible in config.xml) to allow user set it manually to not hide the Find/Replace dialog if any result found.

Fix uncomment block erasing first character bug.

Enlarge some strings displayed zone for the translation.

Fix ESC key for column mode behaviour.

Fix read only file SaveAs bug.

Change behaviour : no popup dialog while closing an unsaved empty untitled document.

Changing "Search result" stylers via Styler Configurator takes visual effect on the fly now.

Fix for L_EXTERNAL in loadSession.

Variable $(CURRENT_WORD) is enlarged to 2039 charraters.

Fix the bug the Notepad++ is launched several instances but show nothing.

Fix Find in files regression : The result panel doesn't show Unicode characters correctly.

Included plugins (Unicode):
TextFX v0.26

NppExec v0.3 RC1

Spell Checker v1.3.2

MIME Tools v1.5

FTP_synchronize v0.9.6

NppExport v0.2.8

Doc Monitor v2.2

NppNetNote v0.1

Included plugins (ANSI):
TextFX v0.25

NppExec v0.3 RC1

Spell Checker v1.3.1

MIME Tools v1.5

FTP_synchronize v0.9.6

NppExport v0.2.8

Light Explorer v1.5

Doc Monitor v2.2

NppNetNote v0.1

*** 4.9 Workers' Day Edition

You will love this version. At least I do.

Notepad++ v4.9 steals a few of functionalities shamelessly from the other softwares. For example smart highlight (highlight all same tokens while a word is selected) from Eclipse, Auto-hide menu (toggle by Alt or F10) from IE7 and "Highlight all" in Incremental search from Firefox.

There're a lot of goodies in this release. Take your time to discover them.

Download Notepad++ v4.9 Official Release.

Notepad++ v4.9 fixed bugs and added features (from v4.8.5) :

Add smart highlighting feature (double click a word to highlight all the same word in the document).

Enhance visual effect of Mark all feature.

Enhance Incremental search dialog docking.

Enhance Incremental search : add Highlight all feature.

Add auto-hide menu feature (IE7 style menu - Alt or F10 to toggle).

Enhance tool bar GUI usability (display a chevron while some tool icons hidden).

Add style transparency feature, right click on color to enable.

Fix the files not opening by DnD bug.

Enhance Find Replace dialog : Add "Extended" option - search (and replace) for tabs(\t), newline(\n\r), and a characters by it's value (\o, \x, \b, \d, \t, \n, \r and \\).

Bug fixed : Find dialog always scrolls text into view now.

Add places bar in save as dialog.

Fix non-recognized relative path bug in command line mode (under Dos prompt).

Add 2 messages for doc monitor plugin.

Fix the transparency bug (in Styler Configurator).

Make search in hidden directory (for Find in files) optional.

Fix the replace bug while replacing nothing.

Fix the F3 searching direction bug.

Included plugins :

TexFX v0.24a

NppExec v0.2 RC3.2

Spell Checker v1.3.1

MIME Tools v1.4

FTP_synchronize v0.9.6

NppExport v0.2.7.3

Compare plugin v1.5.1

Light Explorer v1.4

Doc Monitor v2.1

13/04/2008

*** 4.8.5 OR is available :

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=95717&package_id=102072
In this version some crash bugs are fixed, and 2 included plugins are enhanced : Doc monitor and MIME Tools.
Doc monitor plugin allows user to keep opened documents update silently, by scrolling at the end of document automatically. It's done for visualizing the log file.
In MIME Tools plugin, the old base64 encoding/decoding functions are kept, the new quoted-printable encoding/decoding functions are added.

Notepad++ v4.8.5 fixed bugs and added features (from v4.8.2) :

Fix crash bug while a "New 2" is in session.xml.

Fix the Drag N Drop text bug between 2 views.

Fix the annoying acrobat reader dialog problem.

Fix the bug that the first new document encoding is not set as the setting in "New Document settings".

Fix crash bug while running the command "Close All But Me" in some context.

Add scroll to end line feature after document reloading from disk.

Enhance checking modification from outside feature.

Included plugins :

TexFX v0.24a

NppExec v0.2 RC3.2

Spell Checker v1.3.1

MIME Tools v1.4

FTP_synchronize v0.9.6

NppExport v0.2.7.3

Compare plugin v1.5.1

Light Explorer v1.4

Doc Monitor v2.0

The auto-update will be triggered in one week, if this version is stable (for vista, you have trigger it manually).

16/03/2008
The new release v4.8.2 includes several new features and enhancements, such enhancement of shortcut mapper, enlargement of capacity of tabbed interface, new mouse wheel Here is summary of new features/improvements for the release v4.8.2 :

A very neat enhancement for the shortcut mapper : all the commends (including plugins' ones) are able to be assigned to the shortcut you want.

Thanks to improvement of tabbed interface, the tabbar can be hidden, in multi-line mode or/and in vertical mode.

Scintilla is upgraded in v1.75 now.

Several mouse commands are added to make browsing easier.

New look and feel for docking plugins window.

In this version, user can make Notepad++ have the same behaviour as MS Notepad (ie. multi-instance and no tabbed interface) by adding a file with zero length named asNotepad.xml.

2 plugins are not compatible with this version : HexEditor and MultiClipboard plugins. If you have the any unicode input problem (Cyrillic, Hebrew, Thai, etc...) with this release, removing these 2 plugins from Notepad++\plugins\ directory will remedy this problem.

I want to mention those who did coding contributions for this release : Harry B. for his enhancement of shortcut mapper, Kyle Fleming for his updating to scintilla 1.75 and the new mouse wheel/commands feature, nethenm for his multi-line and vertical tab options, and Jens Lorenz for his new look and feel of docking manager.

Notepad++ v4.8.2 fixed bugs and added features (from v4.7.5) :

Enhance Shortcut Mapper - all the commands (including plugins commands) can be assigned to a shortcut, even for the unmapped ones.

Upgrade Scintilla from v1.73 to v1.75.

Add multi-line and vertical capacity for tab bar.

Add launch "as notepad" style feature (detection of asNotepad.xml, then launch notepad++ with -multiInst -nosession -notabbar options).

Add detection mouse wheel on the different view feature : User can scroll edit view when mouse on it, it's not necessary to set edit view as current view to scroll it.

Add clicking middle mouse button click to set current view feature : make clicked edit view be focused, but the cursor position does not change.

Add mouse wheel horizontal scroll feature (vista only).

Add mouse browsing (forward/back for switching to next/previous document) feature.

Make orange indicator on the top of tab lighter when the view loss the focus.

Add new look and feel of Docking container.

Fix word-completion crash bug while the word to complete exceeds 256 characters.

Fix full screen mode bug : can not switch applications by using Alt+TAB in full screen mode.

Fix Preference crash bug.

Add the utf8->ansi / ansi->utf8 conversion feature.

Add Go to offset feature (in Go To Line dialog).

Fix folding bugs while deleting the begin/end folding keywords.

Fix position restored bug : Wrap position is restored correctly while switching back document.

Fix locking current directory behaviour : Restore Notepad++ directory as working directory with no open files.

Fix the multi-line tab height display problem while adding/removing the document.

Enhance the auto-completion feature : user can define the number of characters to trigger auto-completion popup window.

Change the horizontal scroll behaviour from dynamic one to static one.

Fix the bug that cannot save file(s) if application closed while minimized.

Add the capacity (behaviour) of keeping line highlighting even when Notepad++ loss its focus.

Fix missing fonts problem in font list of Stylers configurator.

Included plugins :

TexFX v0.24a

NppExec v0.2 RC3.2

Spell Checker v1.3.1

Base64 encoder/decoder v1.2

FTP_synchronize v0.9.6

NppExport v0.2.7.3

Compare plugin v1.5.1

Light Explorer v1.4

03/01/2008
As you can notice, Notepad++ is suffering the regressions due to some important modifications and enhancement.

I apologize for the inconvenience, and hope there's no more regression in v4.7.2 :

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=95717&package_id=102072
However, no one is perfect (even me :D), so there could be (I hope not) still some critical bugs. Use this version (in which the native language doesn't translate menu items bug is fixed) and let me know if there're still some annoying regressions.

01/01/2008
Happy new year guys.

Here's your Christmas and new year's present - Notepad++ v.4.7:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=95717

This version is more robust thanks to the new recovery system to prevent the fail loading due to the corrupted xml files.

As well, besides the User Language Define System, the new language (Scintilla external lexer) can be added in Notepad++ under the plugin form.

For those who don't like tabbed document interface, "-notabbar" argument can be added in a shortcut or a command line to launch Notepad++ without tab.

This new release includes 2 very demanded plugins : FTP_Synchronize and NppExport plugin.

FTP_Synchronize let you edit a remoted file directly in Notepad++. It uploads modified file while you save it in Notepad++.

NppExport is a true WYSIWYG exporter. It allows you not only to save your source code as a html/rtf file, but also to copy your source code in the clipboard in RTF/HTML format, so you can paste it into your word processor (MS Word, Abiword, openoffice.org Writer) to get the same visual effect.

If you find any critical bug, please post your report in this thread : http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1902095&forum_id=331753

Here are v4.7 fixed bugs and added features (from v4.6) :

Make the "recovery system" for 3 mandatory xml files (config.xml, langs.xml and stylers.xml) to prevent the fail loading due to the corrupted files.

Extend plugin capacity - add the Scintilla external lexer capacity.

Add the ability to hide the tab bar with "-notabbar" flag in command line (ie. Notepad style).

Column selection is remembered now while switching among the files. As well this settings will be stored in the next session.

Add 2 Commends (beside Toggle Comment) Comment (Ctrl+K) and Uncomment (Ctrl+Shift+K).

Change "UTF8 without BOM" menu item behaviour.

Fix the hiding bug while launch time because of change of environment from duel monitors to mono monitor.

Remove vista UAC warning for GUP. Add "Update Notepad++" menu item.

Add NPPM_HIDETABBAR and NPPM_ISTABBARHIDE plugins messages.

Add NPPM_GETNPPVERSION message for plugin system.

Enhance the horizontal scroll feature.

Change Find in files behaviour : all the hidden directory won't be searched (for example : .svn).

Add build date-time in about box.

Fix a bug where a file with 2 or more consecutive spaces gives problems with sessions and history.

Fix the problem where opening a file when in save as dialog saves the wrong file.

Included plugins :

TexFX v0.24a

NppExec v0.2 RC2

Spell Checker v1.3.1

Quick text v0.02

Explorer plugin v1.6.1

Hex editor v0.84

Base64 encoder/decoder v1.2

FTP_synchronize v0.9.5.0

NppExport v0.2.5.0