Software update: Notepad++ 6.8.6

Version 6.8.6 of Notepad++ has been released. This comprehensive text editor has various features that are especially useful for programmers, such as syntax highlighting for C, C++, Java, html, XML and php, among others. The program also offers the possibility to edit more than one document at the same time or to maintain one document in two different places.

If you want to use the latest version, you have to download it yourself. Notepad++’s built-in updater only offers updates a week after their appearance in order to be able to fix any serious bugs. Since version 6.8.4, the following improvements have been made:

Notepad++ v6.8.6 bug fixes and enhancements:

• Fix function list not working for Javascript regression.
• Fix maintain indent not working in javascript regression.
• Improve the language detection at the beginning of file content.
• Fix possible file corruption during macro playback.
• Fix wrong EOL mode for opening/reloading big files.
• Fix loading 3 bytes file error due to bad encoding detection (UTF16 w/o BOM).
• Fix DocMap not updating issue when switching to user defined language or external lexer.
• Fix reload file issue: document marked as unsaved after reloading.
• Enhance the detection of EOL: if a document has no EOL for detecting, use EOL of new document settings.

Notepad++ v6.8.5 bug fixes:

• Fix Javascript autocompletion not working regression.