I found a fix, at least for my PC. On a Win7x64 system using 32-bit N++, I had the same problem with every post-7.6 version I had installed. None of them ever had the Plugins install correctly. I got it working, finally, with 7.8.9, but it’s likely the same issue as prior versions. I’m replying to this because it seems to have the most information/discussion. The problem was that the GUP.exe file in the notepad++/updater/ folder wasn’t ever starting. I watched my Task Manager and checked windows error logs… it never started. So I had a hunch, anc ran the GUP.exe program directly, and Windows popped up its UAC nag window ('Open File - Security Warning). I unchecked “Always ask before opening this file” to clear it with the UAC, clicked ‘Run’, and it showed the standard Notepad++ Available Update message. I clicked ‘no’. I then re-opened Notepad++, used the Plugins Admin to install a plugin, and it WORKED. Hopefully this will help others with the same problem, which was (for clarity) that selecting to install a plugin through the ‘Plugins Admin’, click ‘Yes’ to restart, and NPP closes but never re-opens on its own. When opened manually, nothing was installed.

@ArkadiuszMichalski said in Notepad++ 7.8.9 RC 2: What is the practice of adding translations if the RC version already appears? Translation files are included before doing RC, since RC means “Release Candidate”, and once RC is validated by the community (ie. no regression reported), the tested binaries are kept for the release (there are some exceptions though). The updated translation files come after RC will be included in the next release.

Just found the version number is 7.8.8 instead of 7.8.9 in About Box. Find new RC 2 here: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19681/notepad-7-8-9-rc-2

Yes i am not able to do install the Tortoise SVN plugin in the available section mentioned above in your post. i am able to do it in my personal pc but not in my office pc. Later i figured it out that it was proxy settings i need to modify to make it installed/donwload in my office pc setup. Thank you. Also If you can see the info about Tortoise SVN plugin that mentions HomePage, Author, Available at etc Homepage the plugins available in that location are not working for notepad++ version higher than 7.6.3 it should be update it like this HomePage: https://github.com/incrediblejr/nppplugins/releases for 32-bit & 64-bit

@ganesan-govindarajan There is a backward direction option disappeared in Find option See #10 in the original post: Disallow backward regex searches due to sometimes surprising results (an non-UI option is available to enable it). This is also documented in the Searching > Regex section of npp-user-manual.org, If you switch to Search Mode of Normal, then the backward arrow or backward direction checkbox will work. There is also a hidden setting in config.xml, officially documented here, which allows you to use backward search even with regular expressions.

No news is good news. This RC will go on live today.

@overstop Please do not post in this thread. Clearly this thread is for discussion of 7.8.7 RC4 (especially critical issues discovered).

@guy038 @Lucienne1900 New RC with new added option to allow the backward search of regex : https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19514/7-8-7-release-candidate-4 I lock this thread so let’s talk in the thread of RC4.

@Michael-Vincent Just release RC3 here to meet what you needs (both) : https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19500/7-8-7-release-candidate-3 @PeterJones Can you change the c++ list to be *.cpp; *.cxx; *.cc; *.h; *.hh; *.hpp; *.hxx; *.ino? That way, when saving c++ files, the default extension is .cpp, which in my experience is more common than saving C++ files as .h (yes, I make header files, but I make more source-code files). Please check my reply here.

@overstop said in Notepad++ v7.8.6 released: Where is this feature located ? Add multi-column marker (multi-line edge) feature. Menu: Settings => Preferences => Editing : Vertical Edge Settings Cheers.

Hi, All, See the @peterjones’s post, here, for explanations regarding point 1 : 1. Fix new style save dialog by adding file extension automatically. Cheers, guy038

@PeterJones Nice to learn about that. Thank you for testing.

Thank you @Alan-Kilborn & @PeterJones . I’ll fix it ASAP.

Please check the 3rd RC: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19254/notepad-v7-8-6-release-candidate-3

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19246/notepad-v7-8-6-release-candidate-2

@Norbert-Kiss said in Notepad++ v7.8.5 released: BTW forcing to turn it off via the Volume Mixer settings of Windows as a workaround is not too professional way of solving it. Don’t believe there even WAS a way to turn it off before now.

@Morten-Siljuberg But, after some additional research, if you open the Sound Mixer applet you should be able to mute Notepad++ if that is your wish.

Thank you @guy038 The bug you found has been fixed in RC2: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19005/7-8-5-release-candidate-2