@Drift91 said in Notepad++ v8.9.1 Release:

the user had outdated themes, which didn’t have the KEY style for either Langage:INI or Language:Properties.

Were the preinstalled themes out-of-date,

Yes. Only stylers.model.xml and themes\DarkModeDefault.xml were guaranteed to have all updates; all other themes were up to the original theme author and/or other volunteers to keep up to date, and volunteer ever took real ownership of them. That’s why I implemented the new feature, to make sure that themes would never get hopelessly out of date again.

I didn’t see a changelog entry about it.

The changes involved in this new feature were announced as:

FYI, v8.9.2 RC has been updated to RC2:
https://github.com/donho/notepad-plus-plus/releases/tag/RC2
See original announcement for more information.

@PeterJones
Fixed.
Thank you for reminding me!

@donho I updated from 8.8.8 and after the first launch of Notepad++ the error “Load lang.xml failed!” occured once (exe-installer on latest Windows 11).

FYI
For the security reason, the https://download.notepad-plus-plus.org/ will be shutdown for some days.
It might be back online next year.

@Andrea-Gaviraghi More results from allowing updates on MSI package. The 8.8.8 MSI pulls the update from Notepad++ and it then installs the 8.8.9 executable. So again, the computer shows 2 installs, when only the newest is really installed. This process should be a lot cleaner…

@donho
Sometimes there are users (like me) that do some silly thing, that are not expected.

In version 8.6 a new style had been introduced: “Multi selected text colour”. The effect for me was, that in column-select mode the selection was shown only partially (last line only). It took me some time to find out what was my fault. I use a personalised style, where the default background colour happens to have the value “C0C0C0”, the same value as the background for this new style. Therefore I could not see the selection because it had the same bg-colour as the rest of my text. For “Selected text colour” I use the value “A0A0A0”; after applying this value to the new style, it worked again.

I know, it is really a very special case, but it may happen. A similar situation might arise with other changes in the future. For these cases it would help to have a backup for comparison.

@PeterJones
Thanks, Peter, for the detailed instructions.
Now, Notepad++ V8.8.9 launches, as expected.

Murray

FYI, v8.8.8 RC has updated to RC2 to enhance the security of auto-update.