Software update: Notepad++ 8.5.5

Version 8.5.5 of Notepad++ has been released. This extensive text editor has various options 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 option to edit more than one document at the same time or maintain one document in two different places. If you want to use the latest version, you must download it yourself. Notepad++’s built-in updater only offers updates a week after their release, in order to resolve any serious bugs. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Notepad++ version 8.5.5 bug fixes and new features:

• Update to Scintilla 5.3.6 and Lexilla 5.2.6 (Implement #13940fix #4741, #13901, #13943, #13911)
• Add change history navigation commands: Go to next/prev change & Clear change history. (Fix #12248)
• Fix Change History incorrect display after “Reload from Disk” command. (Fix #12319, #12261, #13735)
• Remember through sessions the directory of “Remember last used directory”. (Fix #11326, #10901, #4961, #4119)
• Fix regression of double clicking on find result not going to the document. (Fix #13636)
• Fix regression of opening file rejection if file name contains dot at the end. (Fix #12849)
• Fix error message of opening file with ‘=’ as end of file name. (Fix #13344)
• Fix menu Tools contains 2 SHA-256 item while using localization. (Fix #13797)
• Fix SHA-1 hash result wrong length bug while “Treat each line as a separate string” enabled. (Fix #13812)
• Add SHA-512 hash features (Fix #13805)
• Fix normal.xml for Normal text auto-completion not working issue. (Fix #12325)
• Fix Korean IME append file extension issue in save dialog. (Fix #11582, #12225, #12366)
• Make find/replace in files result more inaccurate while used RegExpr is invalid. (Fix #13164)
• Fix Project panel’s inaccurate initialized path in save dialog. (Fix #13086)
• Fix wrong syntax highlighting of URLs with quotes in JSON. (Fix #13522)
• Fix Clipboard History panel shows corrupted data issue. (Fix #13817, #13844)
• Improve lines sorting memory consumption. (Fix #10435)
• Enhance “Add new document at startup”: add new document only when the session is remembered. (Fix #13796)
• Enhance “Convert case to Proper Case” command: fix the error conversion after quote.