Notepad++ v8.8.6 Release Candidate

donho

Notepad++ 8.8.6 RC is available here:
http://download.notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/8.x/8.8.6.RC/

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

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

donho

No news, good news.
The new release will be there in a couple of hours.

Lycan Thrope

@donho,
Or, as in my case, have been busy with IRL work and projects and haven’t had the time yet to torture test the release. Trying to beat the weather for outdoor projects to get finished, so testing hasn’t been a priority lately, sorry. :-)