What´s New in version 6.1.2:

• Fix Notepad++ hanging bug due to the opened file containing a half of UTF-8 double byte sequence at the end of the file.

What´s new in version 6.1.1

• Enhance project's license (GPL) to avoid the other malicious websites bundle Notepad++ release with their parasite software.
• Fix selectAll-copy-paste on the same document crash bug while document map has been activated.
• Fix a regression about auto-completion feature.
• Fix focus on document map problem after its launch.

What´s new in version 6.1:

• Fix search/replace bug while Doc Map is opened.
• Fix User Defined Language syntax highlighting problem while Doc Map is opened.
• Fix Chinese characters showing problem while Doc Map is opened.
• The old behaviour of comment/uncomment w/o selection is restored.
• Fix selecting all the text in doc map while clicking on doc map dialog caption.

What´s New in version 6.0:

• PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) is supported.
• Add Document Map feature (via Menu 'View->Document Map').
• Enhance the loading performance for the large file.

What´s New in version 5.9.8:

• Add drag and drop capacity in Project Manager (only inside of Project Manager).
• Add 'Move Up' (Ctrl+Up) and 'Move Down' (Ctrl+Down) commands in Project Panel.
• Edit Zone border can be customizable via 'Editing' tab of Preferences dialog.
• Fix an aesthetic problem in incremental search bar.
• Fix 'Save all' GUI bug.
• Make plugins in ''APPDATA'\Notepad++\plugins´ override les plugins in Notepad++ installation directory. (Plugins loading from 'APPDATA'\Notepad++\plugins\ is enabled only if 'NPP_INSTALLED_DIR\Notepad++\allowAppDataPlugins.xml' is present)

What´s New in version 5.9.7:

• Add drag and drop capacity in Project Manager (only inside of Project Manager).
• Add 'Move Up' (Ctrl+Up) and 'Move Down' (Ctrl+Down) commands in Project Panel.
• Edit Zone border can be customizable via 'Editing' tab of Preferences dialog.
• Fix an aesthetic problem in incremental search bar.
• Make plugins in ''APPDATA'\Notepad++\plugins´ override les plugins in Notepad++ installation directory. (Plugins loading from 'APPDATA'\Notepad++\plugins\ is enabled only if 'NPP_INSTALLED_DIR\Notepad++\allowAppDataPlugins.xml' is present)

What´s New in version 5.9.6.2:

• Fix a crash issue while right-clicking on the doc switcher's column control ('Name' and 'Ext.').
• Reduce the margin of edit zone.

What´s New in version 5.9.6.1:

• Fix the crash issue while execute 'Add Files from Directory' command (Project Manager).
• Enhance 'Add files from Directory' command in Project Manager - sorted result: first all folders, then all files, both of them alphabetically.

What´s New in version 5.9.6:

• Add a new feature 'Adding files recursively from a floder' in Project Manager.
• Fix a bug in Project Manager regarding open and reload commands.

What´s New in version 5.9.5:

• Fix Project Panel loading non-project file bug.
• Fix saving project file bug while saving it on the root.
• Fix adding/hidding Language Menue item problem in Preference dialog.
• Make Project Panel translatable.

What´s new in version 5.9.4:

• Add 3 Project Panels for the management of projects
• Doc Switcher can be sorted now.
• Fix a crash bug - crash on launch time if default User defined language was set on the previous session.
• Fix crash issue while printing for some printers.
• Fix ANSI version Clipboard history entries display bug.
• Fix wrong display of tab number setting dialog in Lang Menu/Tab settings of Preferences dialog.

What´s New in version 5.9.3:

• Update Scintilla to 2.27.
• Make Recent File List totally customizable.
• Add Vertical File Switcher feature.
• Add active folding area highlighting feature (only for box and circle mode).
• Detect the absence of Scintilla.
• Add 2 plugins messages NPPM_GETLANGUAGENAME & NPPM_GETLANGUAGEDESC.
• Fix 'Replace all' feature hangs on the Regular Expression '$'.
• Fix wrong result returned by NPPM_GETLANGUAGENAME.

What´s New in version 5.9.2:

• A crash issue (under XP) of the clipboard history feature due to no data in clipboard is fixed in this version.
• Some installer issues have been improved and fixed.

What´s New in version 5.9.1:

• Add Character Insertion Panel.
• Add Clipboard History feature.
• Add find characters in range feature.

What's New in version 5.9:

• Update Scintilla from 2.21 to 2.25
• New feature: Non-greedy regular expression (Scintilla).
• Add Copy/Cut/Paste Binary Content feature.
• Add 'paste HTML content' and 'paste RTF content' commands.
• Fix the inverse of title and message for some MessageBox.
• Add 'Remove Unmarked Lines' command.
• Add 'Column Mode Tip' to notice users the usage of column mode in Notepad++.
• Make stream comment of php/javascript foldable.

What´s new in version 5.8.7:

• Fix a regression bug: the notification message boxes were not modal. It can be ignored by user then cause wrong input characters.
• In order to reduce the confusion, new "Mark" tab for "Mark all" feature is made in Find/Replace dialog.
• Make "Fide what" and "Replace with" fields larger in Find/Replace dialog.
• Make message dialogs in Notepad++ translatable (in progress).
• Change user manual format from chm to html.
• Make minimalist installation available in installer.

What´s new in this version 5.8.6:

• Fix langs.xml 0 length problem while user ends session without closing Notepad++.
• Fix empty line count failure (RegExpr).
• Fix task list display glitch under Windows 7.
• Add trim functions (header/trailing/compact feature).
• Add white space and TAB conversion features.
• Fix folding margin to be displayed when opening Notepad++ with a new/empty file (Normal text).
• Fix auto-completion detection language bug.
• Fix the changing theme settings makes switch back to the default theme bug.
• Make english.xml customizable.

What´s new in this version 5.8.5:

• Fix Shell Extension icon absent issue.
• Fix the crash problem if config.xml is not present.
• Fix tab settings not saved under Windows 7 problem.
• Fix localization switching under Windows 7 problem.
• Fix x64 system files problems : not included in recent file history list while closing a file.
• Fix x64 system files problems : not remembered in the next session problem.
• Fix the search direction not being memorized problem.
• Modify File Association dialog UI.
• Fix the initial document encoding is not set by "New Document Settings".

What's New in version 5.8.4:

• Fix memory leak problem while switching tab.
• Fix User Defined Language dialog docking problem under Windows 7.
• Fix backwards search with Asian codepage problem.
• Add a new capacity in context menu: the menu item and folder item can be renamed (and in whichever language).
• All the supported encoding charsets can be set as default in "New Document Settings".
• Remove Calltip restriction from plugins side.
• Add "-alwaysOnTop" command line argument.
• Fix icon display glitch in shell extension context menu.

What's New in version 5.8.3:

• A new application icon.
• Add the capacity to open x64 system files.
• Add Edit context menu command.
• Add a new ability: sub-menus commands can be in the context menu.
• Fix context menu reload problem (plugin commands reload fails).
• Fix searching up fails while code page is set to Chinese/Japnese/Korean bug.
• Remove unsupported encodings by Microsoft Windows : ISO-8859-10, ISO-8859-11, ISO-8859-16.
• Fix move down current lines bug while moving down on the last line.
• Fix crash issue : crash in the next launch after setting MS-DOS-Style as default language.
• Fix zoom bug on the second view.
• Fix a heap corruption of ColourPicker.
• Due to UAC issue, doLocalConf.xml is ignored under vista and windows 7, if Notepad++ is installed in "Program files" directory.

What's New in version 5.8.2:

• Fix windows 7 crash bug while executing update.
• Fix macro recording bug for the non-ASCII characters.
• Fix C# syntax highlighting disabled problem after reloading.
• Fix find performance issue related macro recording.

What´s New in version 5.8.1:

• Fix Actionscript lexer crash problem.
• Fix saving UCS-2 text file corrupted bug.
• Add word count in Summary feature.
• Fix macro record bug from ANSI document.
• Fix hidding/showing status bar bug.

What´s New in version 5.8:

• Upgrade Scintilla to version 2.21.
• Fix a vulnerability issue: Load ScinLexer.dll with its full path to avoid hijack.
• Fix Unicode file corrupted on saving bug (the buffer alignment issue).
• Fix DBCS encodings file saving corruption bug.
• Fix file containing NULL character loading bug.
• Fix php syntax highlighting bug.
• Fix dragging undocked window performance issue while using Vista Aero UI style.
• Fix dragging undocked window performance issue while using Vista/Windows7 Aero UI style.
• Fix large file truncated after loading problem.
• Improve file loading performance.
• Fix Shortcut Mapper inconsistence issue after deleting a macro or an user command.
• Add 2 line wrap methods (default plus aligned and indent).
• Add 2 menu commands : "Modify Shortcut/Delete Macro" and "Modify Shortcut/Delete Command".
• Add "Modify" and "Delete" buttons on Shortcut mapper dialog.
• Add macro new ability to record search and replace actions.
• Fix SaveSession bug.
• Remove characters count feature from the status bar due to its performance issue with UTF8 file.
• Fix crash issue due to themes switching.
• Make folding margin hidable.
• Add NPPM_GETCURRENTNATIVELANGENCODING, NPPM_ALLOCATECMDID and NPPM_ALLOCATEMARKER message (to get the current native language enconding).
• Change editing settings saving behaviour : one set of settings are applied in 2 scintilla controls (except zoom).
• Add Statistics feature which is accessible from the menu command "Summary..." (under menu "View") and the 2nd zone of statusbar (double click).

What´s New in version 5.7:

• Upgrade Scintilla to version 2.12.
• Add "Inverse bookmark" feature.
• Add NPPM_SAVECURRENTFILEAS message.
• Fix premature deallocation bug for import UDL.
• Add import/export User Defined Language features.
• File detection : Switch to modified or deleted file while user is asked to reload or keep the file.
• Fix closing several detected non-existing files bug.
• Fix language switching to English not working bug.
• Reduce PostIt/FullScreen restore button size.
• Fix PostIt wrong restore button position after toggling off fullScreen mode.
• Fix crashes on new 11 character long UDL names bug.
• Fix "Save all" inconsistent icon state on toolbar.
• Add new keywords of HTML 5 and css.

What´s New in version 5.6.8:

• Fix comment stream without selection bug.
• Fix Find in files results highlighting regression bug.
• Fix regression bug (include the correct SciLexer.dll) about insensible case search mode.