Notepad++ v7.4 released

[donho]

I have made Edge as my default browser recently (nice browser BTW, a lack of “search in Google” command though), one of awesome features in Edge is peeking page while mouse hovering on a inactive tab.

Notepad++ has stolen this feature shamelessly - in the version 7.4 Document Peeker has been added. By hovering mouse on any inactive tab, you can preview document displaying under the tab, or / and on document map. This feature can be disabled easily by unchecking “Peek on tab” of Document Peeker, in MISC. section of Preferences dialog.

There are a lot more of enhancements and bug-fixes in this version. Please check in the change log of download page for more details.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-7.4-released.html

[pnedev]

Thanks for the new version Don.

[Dino Nuhagic]

Thanks, but can one disable the online connection on startup, it takes too long to open the document when the internet connection is blocked?
Went back to 7.3.3, no delay.

[Chris Jeker]

Why do you still have an old Plugin-Manager in the installer file? I get the 1.3.5, but when I update I get the 1.4.5. Couldn’t you include the actual version if you deploy new releases?
Thanks
Chris

[donho]

@Dino-Nuhagic

can one disable the online connection on startup

I cannot reproduce it after disabling WiFi connection on my laptop.
What kind of online connection are you talking about?

Could you provide the debug info (via menu ?->Debug Info…)

[OverlordBR]

Thanks for the new version!

The item 9 (“Apply the new file custom encoding (Unicode or not) while opening an empty content file”) works great on Windows 7 x64 with the Notepad++ v7.4 x86 version.

[ImSpecial]

@donho

Not him, but yes there is a connection on each startup that slows the program down with v7.4.
http://i.imgur.com/NmyB0yh.png

Never had this happen with previous version, my settings have not changed and everything “connection related” ie. auto-update, cloud, etc. are checked off.

[Petter Österlund]

Is this the right place to file a bug for v7.4 64-bit version? I ran into a problem:

1: I create a new empty file in explorer.
2: I open the file in np++ 7.4 and add some text.
3: If I then try to save the file I get either:
“Save failed
The File cannot be saved and it may be protected.
Do you want to launch Notepad++ in Administrator mode?”
or:
“Save failed
Failed to save file.
Not enough space on disk to save tile?”

Running as admin does not make any difference.

I found the cause for the error: when encoding is set to UTF-8 in the new documents settings this error occur. If I choose ANSI or UTF-8 with BOM, saving works (I have not tried all other encodings).

This is on Windows 10 x64.

Debug info:
Notepad++ v7.4 (64-bit)
Build time : May 14 2017 - 21:02:35
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS : Windows 10 (64-bit)
Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll

Regards
Petter

[donho]

@ImSpecial

Which version of Windows do you use?
It could be the checking of certificate chain (the root + intermediate authority).
AFAIK, in a modern OS ( > Windows 7) the certificate chains are in the OS, however, they may not complete in the old OS, so WinTrust library check it online directely.

Ref: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/MISC/Common/verifySignedfile.cpp

[chcg]

@Petter-Österlund Seems to be similar to https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13820/weird-7-4-issue-unable-to-save-new-files

[donho]

@Petter-Österlund I can reproce it - it’ll be fixed in v7.4.1
Thank you for the heads up.

[ImSpecial]

@donho

Windows 10 Creators update, again though, going back to v7.3.3 does not do this, it’s only with version v7.4. So something changed with this version.

[ImSpecial]

Seems I can’t edit my old post anymore, but I just wanted to let you know that I reinstalled v7.4 after going back to v7.3.3, and this connection does not happen anymore… I’m not sure what has changed. Weird either way.

[donho]

@ImSpecial Please let me know if it happens again.

[ImSpecial]

@donho

Bah I spoke too soon, it did go away for a bit… but it seems on a PC reboot, the first launch of NP++, that connection makes my firewall pop up again, until I just give it an allow rule. kind of annoying for me since I like to keep a very tight, small amount of rules for my firewall.

I hope this can be worked around.

[donho]

@ImSpecial So can you reproduce this issue steadily?

[ImSpecial]

@donho

It seems so, it also seems to be tied to Windows Cached Certification Files, if these get cleared for whatever reason, a connection prompts.

AppData%\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\Content
AppData%\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\MetaData\

[donho]

@ImSpecial Please try this binary (x64 version, to replace the original one):
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/temp/notepad++.zip

[donho]

@Petter-Österlund

This issue has been fixed. Please try this binary (x64 version, to replace the original one):
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/temp/notepad++.zip

and confirm me the issue is gone.

[ImSpecial]

@donho
I tried this and it does seem fixed… we’ll see if this comes back later though. Thank you for fixing this BTW!