Download Notepad++ 6.8.4

Version 6.8.4 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. The following improvements have been made in this release:

Notepad++ v6.8.4 bug fixes and enhancements:

• Improve document switching performance while folding restoring.
• Enhance Javascript syntax highlighting: 2 groups of keywords more for syntax highlighting customization.
• Improve auto-insert usability: the open symbols (“, ‘, (,[and{)triggerstheclosesymbolsaccordingtothecontext[and{)triggerstheclosesymbolsaccordingtothecontext
• Apply new added language auto-detection (for php, xml, html and bash) in the case of unknown file extension.
• Add JSON language support.
• Fix macro playback inserting/removing characters randomly.
• Fix Save All button is still enabled problem while no file to save.
• Make file save dialog modern style.
• Fix auto-insert for xml comment incorrect insertion.
• Fix user command save problem on exit.
• Fix macro save problem on exit.
• Fix the restoring from system tray problem while running in admin mode.
• Fix smart highlighting not working in some case.
• Enlarge tab height.