When Is the Next Update?

Sylvester Bullitt

The 8.9.6.4 bug that disabled loading files from HTML hyperlinks is killing my productivity.

PeterJones

@Sylvester-Bullitt said:
When is the next update

As said in this post from June 26th, it is hoped to be a week from then – that is, July 3rd (still today, my time) would have been exactly 1 week… but it said “about”, because Notepad++ is just a side-gig volunteer thing that Don has done for the past few decades, and he does have a life (and job) outside of Notepad++. Given that he’s been merging a lot of PRs in the past few days, I am guessing it’s soon – probably this weekend – but cannot guarantee that.

The 8.9.6.4 bug that disabled loading files from HTML hyperlinks is killing my productivity.

I suggested two weeks ago that, if it really important to you, you could re-install an older version to use in the interim, which would have fixed your productivity two weeks ago. I’m sorry if you didn’t notice that part of my post.

PeterJones

I re-read the Announcement: it was actually the “Release Candidate” (“RC”) that’s expected this weekend (and given that he’s closing translation PR, which are often some of the last, I’m guessing that RC will be ready very soon)… but I forgot that there would be a RC first – it will be up to you whether to manually test out the RC or whether to wait until he calls it “ready”, and does an actual release. And then, of course, there will be the “safety delay” before it’s triggered for auto-update.

So if you’re willing to try the RC, it should be available soon. If you want to wait for the official release, it’s probably a week out. If you want to wait for auto-update, then it will still be a while.

Again, if your productivity is having difficulty, you will have to decide whether to stick with poor productivity, downgrade to an earlier version, or manually install the RC, while waiting for the full relesae and/or auto-update trigger.