Notepad++ 8.8.5

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the Microsoft Windows environment. It also gives the extra functionality to define a user’s own language for the syntax folding and syntax highlighting.

You can print your source code in color. It allows a user to edit the different document in the same time and even to edit the same document synchronizely in 2 different views. Notepad++ supports full drag and drop.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

The supported programming languages: ASP, Ada, ASCII art, Assembly, AutoIt, BAT, C, C#, C++, Caml, CSS, doxygen, FORTRAN, HTML, Haskell, Java, javascript, KiXtart, Lisp, Lua, makefile, Matlab, Objective-C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Unix Shell Script, Smalltalk, SQL, Tcl, TeX, Verilog, VHDL, VB/VBScript, XML.

Features:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• WYSIWYG
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• Multi-View
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• Full Drag ‘n’ Drop supported
• Dynamic position of Views
• File Status Auto-detection
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Bookmark
• Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
• Macro recording and playback

Changes in Version 8.8.5:

• Fix “Edit with Notepad++” context menu not being installed correctly regression.

Changes in Version 8.8.4:

• Fix -notabbar & asNotepad.xml stop hiding tabbar regression (from v8.7.9).
• Fix “Edit with Notepad++” not removed by uninstaller regression (from v8.8.3).
• Fix possible heap memory leak.
• Increase search input length from 2046 to 16383.
• Add warning tip for the max length on search input (Find/Replace).
• Fix JavaScript listed twice in Language & Indent settings of Preferences issue.
• Fix external lexers showing several time in Indent settings issue.
• Add button to insert variables in the run dialog.
• Enhance “Go to settings”: guide users to the related setting explicitly.
• Add a clear button for filter field in Shortcut Mapper.
•  Make NFO font overridable by adding font name in Lexer “nfo” of stylers.xml.

Changes in Version 8.8.3:

• Use self-signed certificate to sign new release binaries.
• Fix uninstaller security issue (CVE-2025-49144).
• Enhance security for DLL loading.

Changes in Version 8.8.2:

• Fix regression of folding state not being remembered through sessions.
• Fix “Go To Settings” links in Style Configurator regression (from v8.8).
• Fix small regression of tab background (hovered) highlighting issue after drag&drop.
• Fix an unresponsive (hang) issue due to hide lines.
• Fix installer security issue by Use the absolute path instead of an unspecified path (CVE-2025-49144).
• Installer component “WinGUp”: update cURL to 8.13.0 for fixing cURL’s security issue CVE-2025-0167.
• Update to scintilla 5.5.7 & Lexilla 5.4.5.
• Add feature to update Notepad++ on exit.
• Add `/relaunchNppAfterSilentInstall` command argument for installer.
• Add feature to set read-only attribute on file so user can toggle (set/remove) read-only attribute of a file.
• Add new plugin API: NPPM_GETTOOLBARICONSETMODE & NPPN_TOOLBARICONSETCHANGED to get toolbar icon set choice.
• Deprecate 3 APIs: Deprecate NPPM_GETOPENFILENAMES, NPPM_GETOPENFILENAMESPRIMARY & NPPM_GETOPENFILENAMESSECOND.
• Add new feature of using first line of untitled document for its tab name.
• Enhance NPPM_DARKMODESUBCLASSANDTHEME: Enable darkmode progress bar for plugins.
• Various dark mode enhancements.
• Fix right click on caption bar unhidding main menu.
• Fix rename tab error message when tab name is unchanged.
• Fix Python FunctionList absorbing next function issue if space after colon.
• Remove .log from errorlist lexer’s default extensions.
• Make raw string syntax highlighting work for Golang.
• Fix Notepad++ tray icon lost after Windows Taskbar crashing & being relaunched.
• Fix changing toolbar icon set not updating to matching panel icon set.
• Fix Windows dialog file list not react with keystroke (character match).
• Add “*” mark on modified file entries in “Windows” dropdown menu.

Homepage – https://notepad-plus-plus.org

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).

Size: 6.41 MB

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