Crashes on Windows 10 - Here is the debug info. It crashes when I use XMLTools

Notepad++ v7.6.6 (64-bit) Build time : Apr 3 2019 - 23:52:32 Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe Admin mode : ON Local Conf mode : OFF OS : Windows 10 (64-bit) Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll XMLTools.dll

Message in event viewer.

Log Name: Application Source: Application Error Date: 14-05-2019 11:45:23 Event ID: 1000 Task Category: (100) Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: DESKTOP-1QJJ1JQ Description: Faulting application name: notepad++.exe, version: 7.6.6.0, time stamp: 0x5ca52bb6 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.17134.556, time stamp: 0x74bed8b0 Exception code: 0xc0000374 Fault offset: 0x00000000000f479b Faulting process id: 0x193c Faulting application start time: 0x01d50a1c536f84ab Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll Report Id: 80c46c0c-1968-45b8-acd9-27d463164968 Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID: Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="Application Error" /> <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID> <Level>2</Level> <Task>100</Task> <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-05-14T06:15:23.443741300Z" /> <EventRecordID>933</EventRecordID> <Channel>Application</Channel> <Computer>DESKTOP-1QJJ1JQ</Computer> <Security /> </System> <EventData> <Data>notepad++.exe</Data> <Data>7.6.6.0</Data> <Data>5ca52bb6</Data> <Data>ntdll.dll</Data> <Data>10.0.17134.556</Data> <Data>74bed8b0</Data> <Data>c0000374</Data> <Data>00000000000f479b</Data> <Data>193c</Data> <Data>01d50a1c536f84ab</Data> <Data>C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe</Data> <Data>C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll</Data> <Data>80c46c0c-1968-45b8-acd9-27d463164968</Data> <Data> </Data> <Data> </Data> </EventData> </Event>

@dinkumoil said:

Deleting all plugins is not critical?

Oups, my bad. I thought only the empty plugin folder is removed. In this case, it’s critical.
I’ll include this fix in RC V3 then. Thank you.

@Meta-Chuh said:

critical for default users:
if a manually installed plugin is removed with plugins admin, the whole plugins folder gets deleted.

It’s a bug, but not a critical one. Since we upgrade Scintilla from a very old version to a new one, I prefer to have minimum modification to deal with potential regression.

one thing that might be critical for corporate users:
virustotal warning, again with a jiangmin false positive for nsis installers using SetCompressor /SOLID lzma.
(like npp.7.7.Installer.exe and npp.7.7.Installer.x64.exe)

I’ve answered you by email but it seems the gmail treat my email address as spam.
Here is my answer in the email:
It’s not us who should “work around” this issue. This work around could work once or several times, but one day when it doesn’t work anymore, we have to find another work around, and then over and over again…
The best way is make these so-called “antivirus” fix it. With the amount of Notepad++ user base, I don’t worry about it.

@Meta-Chuh

I modified your post because for me the unstable binaries have been removed for stopping spreading them, therefore users should not be solicited to download unstable version.

7.6.5 release is removed due to a crash issue.

This crash issue is fixed:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/9443e2e8f221e565f46423df099f56bec14c3ed2

I’ll release v7.6.6 in few days. In the meantime the latest version is rolled back to v7.6.4

@donho

my very grateful thanks, i’m very happy.
big thanks to @Scott-Sumner for finding the old mac glitch so quickly, and for your immediate fix.

i’ll keep on testing, and to me it looks very good for now, and very good for the planned release date 😉

gpg signatures:
i definitively need more knowledge on this, as you’ve seen 🤭
i hope the security category will be used as you requested, as it might fill some knowledge gaps.

@Alan-Kilborn
There’s no special scheme plan.
If RC is good, then the same binaries will be published as official release. Otherwise the regression is fixed then the same version number with RC2, etc…
The RC is not supposed to be out of community, so I think it’s OK. In the worst case, we have the build time to compare with.

@V-S-Rawat

Please separately specify if any changes have been made in plugin arrangement in this version after recent so many changes?

no user relevant changes to the plugins arrangement have been made, so if you are on 7.6.3, and you update to 7.6.4, you will not experience any changes regarding your existing plugins.

one thing you are going to like: 7.6.4 has the built in feature to open your specific plugins folder directly in an explorer window.
so you will not have to remember any past or present plugins locations, regardless where and how notepad++ is installed.
(this feature applies to both installed and portable versions, both 32 and 64 bit)

ps: if any supportive relevant changes are made or omitted, they will be posted as additional supportive notes, shortly after a release.

Seems you have still not started beta release concept?

the “beta” testing, using e.g. the appveyor artifacts, is still available and has been available for a long time.
i have given you a basic, but maybe too extensively technical guide, on how to test any version before it’s public release, a few weeks/months ago.

as the guide was, retrospectively seen, too technical, i (we) will try to write a simpler guide, suitable for the general public, as soon as i (we) can find the time to do so.

@Meta-Chuh said:

my apologies for that.

Please don’t - it was my responsibility to make sure it works before releasing it.
I was integrating Markdown into all zip packages then I realized it doesn’t deployed correctly by Installer in v7.6.3.

Anyway, it’ll be better now:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/dcd3942362306b9c36b849405d112e885c0a1f51

I now regret making these two posts:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16848/notepad-v7-6-2-yellow-vest-gilet-jaune-edition/3
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16848/notepad-v7-6-2-yellow-vest-gilet-jaune-edition/4

The amount of suppression that the Yellow Vest protest has received has now made me think that raising awareness of it, even in this way that I typically do not advocate, is acceptable…

Please delete these posts, and this one too.

@Jan-Černosta
Any progress in choosing proper codepage ANSI?
Thanks, Jan

Does anybody know what it means to “Replace Notepad”? How is that different from setting N++ as the default text editor?

Hi, sorry for the late answer. I found the solution. Notepad++ doesn’t create the directory %APPDATA%\Roaming\Notepad++\Plugins automatically. I created the directory manually and now Notepad++ crashes any more.

The developer only pays attention to any given “new release” thread in the Community Forums for a short while – and especially once he’s moved on to a newer version, he won’t be paying attention to the thread for an older version.

If you want better tracking, follow this FAQ to the Notepad++ Issues tracker on GitHub. You will want to search the existing issues (both open and closed) to make sure you aren’t repeating someone else’s request (I’ve seen this request multiple times).

Even posting the request there, there is no guarantee that it will be implemented to your liking: he may choose to not implement any given feature request, and might not always close issues he’s privately rejected.

@donho Yes, this fixes the problem, thanks!

@Allan-Marques,

It doesn’t seem to do that for me, but maybe I’m not doing it exactly the way you are–can you provide more detail/screenshots?

@Vinod-Jacob

Any updates on the new version of plugin manager

I don’t think you are going to see any replies to that query from the N++ author. Maybe the best you can do is look in the codebase for related commits and infer status from that. Example: I see something on 2018-04-30 that seems related…