I had a previous 7.8.x version, and when I choose to update notepad++, it took a little time because of my bandwidth.
I then switched applications and when back to notepad++, the download progress bar disappeard.
So I manually initiated a new update via the help menu.
Finally I found that there were 2 download at the same time, corrupting the installer exe.
I had to download it a 3rd time (after the 2 first finished) so it overwrite the exe with correct version.

Maybe it could be great to disable the menu entry to update notepad++ while another updater instance is running, also it would be great to put the progress bar always in front of notepad++.

It works to me perfectly!

@donho Sorry, my fault, put the string in the wrong section of the localization file (facepalm)

I have automation that runs upon Notepad++ startup, that absolutely depends upon this behavior! PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE IT!

As a lazy dev here, +1 :)

Hi Don,
it seems that string 6237 is not translated either if available in the language file :)

It works to me perfectly!

Don’t worry, Alan ! I hadn’t noticed this weirdness until today. So, I’ll live well with it !

However, I’m curious to know what the community thinks about it :-))

BR

guy038

I would like to report a minor bug : If the Find what: zone is EMPTY, in any tab ( Find, Replace, Find in Files, and Mark ), most of the operations, are still possible !. Luckily, it always consider that there is 0 match

To my mind, a click on any button of the Find dialog should be forbidden, except for the Close button !

I have actually been waiting for years for someone to complain about this behavior, to which I say/plead:

I have automation that runs upon Notepad++ startup, that absolutely depends upon this behavior! PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE IT!

I do “stuff” with PythonScript to enhance the Find result window functionality. Because the Find result window does not appear (or even get created) until the user runs a search that outputs to it, it works well for me to be able to run a zero-length Find what search for Find All in Current Document from my startup.py.

I end up looking at this, but to me it is no problem, at least the window is open and I can manipulate it (with script code):

I hadn’t thought about this until now, but perhaps I could change my search to be a regex one for \z. Then, after N++ starts up, I would be looking at something like this (which is no big deal, but slightly less clean):

A larger point to be made is is to be careful when asking for Notepad++ changes, as you may break someone else’s functionality!

But what do others think? Is the “bug” pointed out by @guy038 something that absolutely needs fixing? (Perhaps any further discussion on this should be taken to a new thread, to avoid pollution of this release thread.)

You’ll find, below, a table with all the changes between the 2 releases Notepad++ v7.8.7 and Notepad++ v7.8.8, contained in the .7z archives

This report is identical between the x86 and x64 versions and, probably, is identical in the .zip archives, as well !

This table, built up from a report generated with the Winmerge software, may be useful when trying to overwrite an existing N++ configuration !

   COMPARISON between '.7z' archives x86 or x64 of Notepad++ v7.8.7 and Notepad++ v7.8.8
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•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•
|                  FileName                   |      In Folder       | Comparison |
•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•
| actionscript.xml                            | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| autoit.xml                                  | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| BaanC.xml                                   | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| batch.xml                                   | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| c.xml                                       | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| cmake.xml                                   | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| cobol.xml                                   | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| coffee.xml                                  | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| cpp.xml                                     | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| cs.xml                                      | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| css.xml                                     | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| html.xml                                    | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| java.xml                                    | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| javascript.xml                              | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| lisp.xml                                    | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| lua.xml                                     | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| nsis.xml                                    | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| perl.xml                                    | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| php.xml                                     | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| python.xml                                  | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| rc.xml                                      | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| sql.xml                                     | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| tex.xml                                     | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| vb.xml                                      | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| vhdl.xml                                    | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
| xml.xml                                     | autoCompletion       | Identical  |
•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•
| bulgarian.xml                               | localization         | Different  |
| english.xml                                 | localization         | Different  |
| french.xml                                  | localization         | Different  |
| russian.xml                                 | localization         | Different  |
| slovenian.xml                               | localization         | Different  |
| spanish.xml                                 | localization         | Different  |
| taiwaneseMandarin.xml                       | localization         | Different  |
|                                             |                      |            |
| afrikaans.xml                               | localization         | Identical  |
| albanian.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| arabic.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| aragonese.xml                               | localization         | Identical  |
| aranese.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| azerbaijani.xml                             | localization         | Identical  |
| basque.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| belarusian.xml                              | localization         | Identical  |
| bengali.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| bosnian.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| brazilian_portuguese.xml                    | localization         | Identical  |
| breton.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| catalan.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| chineseSimplified.xml                       | localization         | Identical  |
| corsican.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| croatian.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| czech.xml                                   | localization         | Identical  |
| danish.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| dutch.xml                                   | localization         | Identical  |
| english_customizable.xml                    | localization         | Identical  |
| esperanto.xml                               | localization         | Identical  |
| estonian.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| extremaduran.xml                            | localization         | Identical  |
| farsi.xml                                   | localization         | Identical  |
| finnish.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| friulian.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| galician.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| georgian.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| german.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| greek.xml                                   | localization         | Identical  |
| gujarati.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| hebrew.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| hindi.xml                                   | localization         | Identical  |
| hungarian.xml                               | localization         | Identical  |
| indonesian.xml                              | localization         | Identical  |
| italian.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| japanese.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| kabyle.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| kannada.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| kazakh.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| korean.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| kurdish.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| kyrgyz.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| latvian.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| ligurian.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| lithuanian.xml                              | localization         | Identical  |
| luxembourgish.xml                           | localization         | Identical  |
| macedonian.xml                              | localization         | Identical  |
| malay.xml                                   | localization         | Identical  |
| marathi.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| mongolian.xml                               | localization         | Identical  |
| nepali.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| norwegian.xml                               | localization         | Identical  |
| nynorsk.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| occitan.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| piglatin.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| polish.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| portuguese.xml                              | localization         | Identical  |
| punjabi.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| romanian.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| samogitian.xml                              | localization         | Identical  |
| sardinian.xml                               | localization         | Identical  |
| serbian.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| serbianCyrillic.xml                         | localization         | Identical  |
| sinhala.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| slovak.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| spanish_ar.xml                              | localization         | Identical  |
| swedish.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| tagalog.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| tajikCyrillic.xml                           | localization         | Identical  |
| tamil.xml                                   | localization         | Identical  |
| tatar.xml                                   | localization         | Identical  |
| telugu.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| thai.xml                                    | localization         | Identical  |
| turkish.xml                                 | localization         | Identical  |
| ukrainian.xml                               | localization         | Identical  |
| urdu.xml                                    | localization         | Identical  |
| uyghur.xml                                  | localization         | Identical  |
| uzbek.xml                                   | localization         | Identical  |
| uzbekCyrillic.xml                           | localization         | Identical  |
| venetian.xml                                | localization         | Identical  |
| vietnamese.xml                              | localization         | Identical  |
| welsh.xml                                   | localization         | Identical  |
| zulu.xml                                    | localization         | Identical  |
•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•
| nppPluginList.dll                           | plugins\Config       | Different  |
•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•
| mimeTools.dll                               | plugins\mimeTools    | Different  |
•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•
| NppConverter.dll                            | plugins\NppConverter | Different  |
•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•
| NppExport.dll                               | plugins\NppExport    | Different  |
•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•
| Bespin.xml                                  | themes               | Different  |
| Black board.xml                             | themes               | Different  |
| Choco.xml                                   | themes               | Different  |
| DansLeRuSH-Dark.xml                         | themes               | Different  |
| Deep Black.xml                              | themes               | Different  |
| Hello Kitty.xml                             | themes               | Different  |
| HotFudgeSundae.xml                          | themes               | Different  |
| khaki.xml                                   | themes               | Different  |
| Mono Industrial.xml                         | themes               | Different  |
| Monokai.xml                                 | themes               | Different  |
| MossyLawn.xml                               | themes               | Different  |
| Navajo.xml                                  | themes               | Different  |
| Obsidian.xml                                | themes               | Different  |
| Plastic Code Wrap.xml                       | themes               | Different  |
| Ruby Blue.xml                               | themes               | Different  |
| Solarized-light.xml                         | themes               | Different  |
| Solarized.xml                               | themes               | Different  |
| Twilight.xml                                | themes               | Different  |
| Vibrant Ink.xml                             | themes               | Different  |
| vim Dark Blue.xml                           | themes               | Different  |
|                                             |                      |            |
| Zenburn.xml                                 | themes               | Identical  |
•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•
| GUP.exe                                     | updater              | Different  |
| libcurl.dll                                 | updater              | Different  |
|                                             |                      |            |
| gup.xml                                     | updater              | Identical  |
| LICENSE                                     | updater              | Identical  |
| README.md                                   | updater              | Identical  |
•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•
| userDefinedLang-markdown.default.modern.xml | userDefineLangs      | Identical  |
•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•
| change.log                                  |                      | Different  |
| notepad++.exe                               |                      | Different  |
| SciLexer.dll                                |                      | Different  |
|                                             |                      |            |
| config.xml                                  |                      | Identical  |
| contextMenu.xml                             |                      | Identical  |
| doLocalConf.xml                             |                      | Identical  |
| functionList.xml                            |                      | Identical  |
| langs.model.xml                             |                      | Identical  |
| license.txt                                 |                      | Identical  |
| readme.txt                                  |                      | Identical  |
| shortcuts.xml                               |                      | Identical  |
| stylers.model.xml                           |                      | Identical  |
•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•
|                  FileName                   |      In Folder       | Comparison |
•---------------------------------------------•----------------------•------------•

Cheers,

guy038

Sorry for my late answer. I was very busy finishing my 5 posts about the regex backtraking control verbs !

Many thanks for the new release and, especially, for points 1, 3, 7, 9, 11 and 12

I would like to report a minor bug : If the Find what: zone is EMPTY, in any tab ( Find, Replace, Find in Files, and Mark ), most of the operations, are still possible !. Luckily, it always consider that there is 0 match

To my mind, a click on any button of the Find dialog should be forbidden, except for the Close button !

I think that a new pop-up window, saying that the Find what: box is empty would not be necessary. Maybe, inhibiting all the buttons but Close, in case of an empty search box, should be enough ?

Surprisingly, up to now, I’ve never noticed this point, which exists since many versions !

Of course, no real urgency to fix this minor bug ;-))

Here are the contents of the v7.8.8 change.log file with the corresponding GitHub link, relative to each point.

This can be useful to shed some light on a particular point !

Notepad++ v7.8.8 Enhancements & bug-fixes:

1.  Fix accented characters in ANSI files not found in "find in files" and "replace in files" commands issues.
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/7668

2.  Add an option to improve rendering special Unicode characters by using Scintilla's DirectWrite technology.
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/8326

3.  Fix URL invisible issue in dark themes.
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/8409

4.  Fix the focus not on the opening new file issue.
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8426

5.  Fix Workspace (Project panel), Folder As Workspace and function list keep focus issue after double clicking an item.
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8361
	
6.  Add Ctrl+Backspace ability to delete word for comboboxes in Find/Replace dialog.
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/8383

7.  Add ability to find-all in selected text.
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/8413

8.  Fix wrong treatment of backslashes as escape sequences in autocompletion.
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8397

9.  Enhance "Remove Empty Lines" command: Allow scope to be limited by an active selection.
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8428

10. Fix loading of project & session files by drag & drop not working issue.
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/8374

11. Fix block selection cursor wrong positions after typing TAB.
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8400

12. Add confirmation prompt to "Replace all in all opened documents" command to avoid PBKAC.
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/8438


Included plugins:

1.  NppExport v0.2.9
2.  Converter 4.2.1
3.  Mime Tool 2.5


Updater (Installer only):

* WinGup (for Notepad++) v5.1.1

Best Regards,

guy038

When I go Preferences > MISC. > uncheck “No underline”
Now I get no highlight colors on clickable links… With underline enabled I get colors.

Indeed, it’s a regression from v7.8.7. It’ll be fixed in the next version. Thank you.

Now I get no highlight colors on clickable links… With underline enabled I get colors.

Thank you, you are right, sorry for the noise.

So it’s normal.