The official repository, download.notepad-plus-plus.org, is down!
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Now, the official repository, http://download.notepad-plus-plus.org, is now down. May this repository be fixed soon?
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This was announced some weeks back.
It was shut down for security reasons, and indications are it’s not coming back.
As I indicated in this GitHub issue, that location was not the primary storage for downloads: the official https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/ page has linked to the installer/zip file binaries stored in the GitHub Releases page https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/ for years.
The only thing the developer really used that https://download.notepad-plus-plus.org/repository for was temporarily holding the “RC” Release Candidate versions (which he now does in an RC tag in his GitHub fork, when he’s got an active RC Announcement), and as a backup of historical releases.
It appears that backup wasn’t sufficient to overcome the security issues involved.
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@PeterJones This means historical releases of NPP will also be lost forever? Is there any plan to put them back online somewhere?
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There has been no announcement either way
However, at least for now, many sites have been web archived. That’s no guarantee for the future, but there are no guarantees.
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@ว-รภ-ทร-ทว-ทร-พย said in The official repository, download.notepad-plus-plus.org, is down!:
@PeterJones This means historical releases of NPP will also be lost forever? Is there any plan to put them back online somewhere?
GitHub releases for Notepad++ goes back as far as version 6.7.9, released on Jun 11, 2015. If you’re prepared to build from source, the tags on GitHub go back as far as v4.2.1, committed on August 13th, 2007.
I tried to find older versions from the SourceForge days on web.archive.org, but it looks like they didn’t archive the actual binaries, just the index page.
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@PeterJones I wish they could be available for download again.
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@Coises The older releases may be available somewhere. I think they may be then uploaded and shared by someone who has.
