FYI: Notepad++ v8.7.7 Release in about 7 days

donho

To remedy the regression in v8.7.6 for some plugins regarding some events of SCN_MODIFIED notification, v8.7.7 witch contains the implementation of following:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/26595/new-api-to-fix-eventual-regression-regarding-scn_modified-for-some-plugins?_=1738239716763

will be available in about 7 days.

A note for plugin authors:
Please update your plugins with the new API (above information), if your plugin is concerned; and update the Notepad++ Plugin List. Otherwise, you can just ignore this announcement.

Kaptain Biwouak

Hi all,
could you provide the list of impacted plugins?

PeterJones

@Kaptain-Biwouak ,

It is up to each plugin’s author/maintainer to determine whether or not their plugin is affected.

Don, as the owner of Notepad++ but not of the plugins that are written for Notepad++, doesn’t have the bandwidth to review the source code of every plugin that exists for Notepad++ to determine whether or not it would be affected, hence he made this announcement to let the plugin authors know that they each need to check their own plugins.

addendum: and if users want to find out if any of the plugins they use are affected, they can just try the plugin(s) in v8.7.6, because what happened was that it was found that efficiency-improvements in v8.7.6 unintentionally broke some plugins by disabling some events; the changes that will be in v8.7.7 will allow plugins to use the API to ask Notepad++ to re-enable the mentioned events on a per-request basis.

So, if you are successfully using a plugin in v8.7.6, you can continue using it in v8.7.7. If you find that a plugin worked in v8.7.5 but broke in v8.7.6, then you could check the homepage for that plugin and see whether or not they’ve mentioned a fix or released a new version in the last week or so, and if not, then ask them if they will have a fixed version ready in time for v8.7.7.