Download Notepad++ 7.6.3

Version 7.6.3 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 7.0 there is also a 64bit version of the program. The following improvements have been made in this release:

Notepad++ v7.6.3 new enhancement and bug fixes:

• Add Markdown language (Markdown++), in UDLincluded only in installer.
• Move plugins home from %ProgramData% to %ProgramFiles% for the sake of security.
• List plugins in alphabetical order in Plugins Admin dialog.
• Fix loading unexpected dll as plugin issue.
• Fix stack overflow issue while affecting “ext” field on stylers.xml.
• Fix stack overflow in XML Parsing.
• Fix a remote code execution vulnerability via “Open containing folder” command.
• Fix EXE Hijacking of gup.exe launched by Notepad++.
• Fix crash issue due to heap overflow in clipboard history panel.
• Remove run external exe entries for avoiding to execute any hijacked binaries.