Notepad++ v8.8.1 release - We are with Ukraine

2025-05-05

The release 8.8.1 follows the previous one and continues to show support for Ukraine.

Edit: Just after v8.8.1 was released, I received the following email in French:

“Dis connard tu soutiens l’Ukraine?
Et tu bloques les IP Russes? Petit con tu sais pas ce qu’est un VPS (I guess he meant “VPN”) ? Va donc te battre en Ukraine contre mes potes, petit batard! On va inserer un trojan dans ton logiciel de merde et le distribuer en France.”

Unlike other insulting emails, this one accused me of blocking all IPs from Russia, preventing users there from downloading Notepad++. I’m not sure if it’s true that people in Russia cannot download Notepad++. But if that’s the case, don’t blame me - ask your government.

Not only do I believe that not all Russian people are brainwashed by the Putin government or lack common sense, but more importantly, Notepad++ has contributors from all around the world, including Russia. Such IP blocking would never come from the Notepad++ side.

I hope I’ve made my point clear.

A regression in Shortcut Mapper from v8.7.5, as well as another visual glitch regression in the Find in Files progress bar from v8.8, have been fixed in this release.
3 new features - locale-based line sorting, ErrorList syntax highlighting and selection history restoration during undo/redo - have been added in this version.

There are more new enhancements and bug fixes. You can check the full list of improvements and download version 8.8.1 here:

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Regression and critical bug report here:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/26836/notepad-v8-8-1-release