Notepad++ release 8.8.7 (signed with a legitimate certificate)

[donho]

Notepad++ release 8.8.7 is available:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v887-released/

Notepad++ v8.8.7 new enhancement & bug-fixes:

1. Sign Notepad++ binaries with GlobalSign certificate to fix false-positive alerts. (Fix #16971, #16809, #16812, #16770, #16773, #16779, #16785, #17062)
2. Fix Monitoring in one view affects selections and position in second view. (Fix #17046)
3. Fix Shortcut Mapper memory leak issue. (Fix #17069)
4. Enhance Perl FunctionList for class. (Fix #17043)
5. Fix pressing Alt or Tab causes controls redrawing problem in UDL dialog. (Fix #17061)

Notepad++ v8.8.6 new features & bug-fixes:

1. Add capacity of pasting multiline into Find/Replace fields. (Fix #16952)
2. Improve UAC in Notepad++ for seamless elevated operations. (Fix #886, #8655, #9561, #10302, #14990, #15008, #15137, #15323)
3. Fix Pin Tab operation being too long with many opened documents. (Fix #16117)
4. Add 2 new full-readonly modes via command line argument (-fullReadOnly & -fullReadOnlySavingForbidden). (Fix #15993, #16532)
5. Add apply/remove read-only for all documents commands. (Fix #15993, #16532)
6. Column Editor enhancement: GUI input fields now support radix to match the output format. (Fix #16912)
7. Add Window dialog “File Modified Time” sorting capacity. (Fix #16953)
8. Fix NPPN_CMDLINEPLUGINMSG not working issue & define the pluginMessage usage protocol. (Fix #17024, #17022)
9. Fix pasting from column mode to multi-selection issue due to different EOL. (Fix #16889)
10. Add NPPM_GETNPPSETTINGSDIRPATH message to get Notepad++ settings directory path. (Fix #16944)
11. Enhance SQL function list parser. (Fix #16605)
12. Fix C# function list not working with comments. (Fix issue)
13. Add function list ability for CSS. (Implement #17006)
14. Allow user to customize max selected chars to auto-fill “Find what” field. (Fix #16955)
15. Restore undo/redo behaviour in Find/Replace fields after Copy/Paste or Ctrl-F. (Fix issue 1, issue 2)
16. Fix text corruption issue caused by selection within multibyte characters. (Fix #16879)
17. Fix DOCTYPE styling in xml and html. (Fix #17012)
18. Fix double clicking on edit zone’s border creates a new tab issue. (Fix issue)
19. Update cURL in WinGUp (Notepad++ updater) for fixing CVE-2025-5399. (Fix security issue)

As usual, the auto-update will be triggered for this release in 1 week, if no critical issues found.

[Mertsch]

🧡 Thank you very much for going through all the trouble. I literally know what you are talking about.