Software update: Notepad++ 8.4.1

Version 8.4.1 of Notepad++ has been released. This comprehensive text editor has several 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Notepad++ v8.4.1 new features, enhancement and bug fixes:

• Fix HTML syntax highlighting in PHP files regression. (Fix #11585† #11602†
• Fix “Reload from disk” loosing syntax highlighting regression. (Fix #11606†
• Fix unfocused selected text background color changed regression. (Fix #11595†
• Update Scintilla from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 and Lexilla from 5.1.5 to 5.1.6. (implementation #11537†
• Fix multi-part keyword in prefix mode freezes Notepad++ in UDL. (Fix #11434†
• Add several dark mode enhancement. (Fix #11574† #11622† #10054† #11546† #11544†
• Add DarkMode usage detection support for plugins. (implementation #11546†
• Add “Framed current line” option beside of “Highlight current line background”. (implementation #11501†
• Add file monitoring command line argument [-monitor]† (implementation #10562†
• File Dialog Enhancement. (Fix #11630† #11517†
• Add a new format argument/option “ADD_ZERO_PADDING” to NPPM_GETNPPVERSION. (implementation #11535†
• Restore auto-completion & calltip default fg/bg colors when no theme is applied. (Fix #11637†
• Sort “Search result” to the bottom in language list of Style Configurator. (Fix #11337†