Download Notepad++ 8.1.8

Version 8.1.8 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 improvements have been made in this release:

Notepad++ v8.1.8 release

a critical bug (configuration XML files saving performance issue) found in v8.1.7 has been fixed in Notepad++ 8.1.8 release.

Also, a workaround is included in this release. This workaround fixes the visual glitchy in dark mode under Windows 11 – surely due to a bug of Microsoft Windows 11.

Otherwise 2 long time critical issues ZERO file corruption † losing session problem while power cuts or Windows auto-restart PC for updating have been fixed in this release.