v25.09r5812

Note

1. HD_i18n_AVX2, HD_i18n_AVX512, i18n_AVX2 and i18n_AVX512 assets were rebuilt on September 15th due to missing the locale folder, see issue #1082.

2. v25.07r5738 and later no longer supports Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 (see issue #974) and Windows 8/8.1 on ARM32 (Windows RT) (see issue #1023), use v25.06r5696 instead.

💡Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad4.ini, matepath.ini or any theme (INI) files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes if any.

Changes Since v25.07r5738

• Support AVX512, issue #987, contributed by @missdeer in PR #1006.
• Add menu "File -> New Window" and toolbar button to open a new empty window, issue #344. 2bf1f5f, etc.
• Optimize large file loading.
• CSS/JS/JSON code compress now removes line continuation from string, issue #1076. 1ab6573
• Lexer and API updates: Bash (6ebac57), CSS (bd90246), HTML (8ea232b).
• Fix app close after printing current document with toolbar print button, issue #1079. 608817b
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

Behavior Changes

Shortcuts Alt+N and Alt+0 were altered, see issue #344.

Old Menus	New Menus	Meaning
Tools -> Launch &New Window Alt+N	Tools -> Open &in New Window Alt+0	Open current file in a new window.
Tools -> Launch &Empty Window Alt+0	File-> New &Window Alt+N	Open a new empty window.

File List

Localization	Language	Architecture	Minimum System
de	Deutsch	ARM64	🟢Windows 10 on ARM
en	English	AVX512🧪	🟢64-bit Windows 10, Server 2019
fr	French	AVX2	🟢64-bit Windows 7, Server 2008 R2
it	Italiano	x64	🟡legacy 64-bit Windows Vista, Server 2008
ja	日本語	Win32	🟠legacy Windows Vista, Server 2008
ko	한국어
ru	Русский	HD	HiDPI, High Definition
zh-Hans	中文 (简体)
zh-Hant	中文 (繁體)	Chocolatey	choco install notepad4
i18n	all above languages	winget	winget install -e "Notepad4"
한국어	https://teus.me/Notepad4	winget	winget install zufuliu.notepad4

Latest development builds (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4/actions and https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad4.

FindInFiles (see issue #259) is a simple GUI for ripgrep, latest builds are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/FindInFiles/actions.

File	System Requirement
FindInFiles-net4.8	.NET Framework 4.8 prior Windows 10
FindInFiles-net9.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 9.0
FindInFiles-net8.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 8.0

v25.07r5738

Note

This version no longer supports Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 (see issue #974) and Windows 8/8.1 on ARM32 (Windows RT) (see issue #1023), use v25.06r5696 instead.

💡Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad4.ini, matepath.ini or any theme (INI) files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes if any.

Changes Since v25.06r5696

• Scintilla updated to 5.5.7, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for the changes.
• Restore selection after undo and redo, issue #966. 9d76fd1
• New rendering technology Direct3D, issue #974. b88ffec
• Lexer and API update: CSS (23fbf3b).
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

Breaking Changes

• Building the project now requires compiler support for C++ 20 instead of C++17.

File List

Localization	Language	Architecture	Minimum System
de	Deutsch	ARM64	🟢Windows 10 on ARM
en	English	AVX2	🟢64-bit Windows 7, Server 2008 R2
fr	French	x64	🟡legacy 64-bit Windows Vista, Server 2008
it	Italiano	Win32	🟠legacy Windows Vista, Server 2008
ja	日本語
ko	한국어
ru	Русский
zh-Hans	中文 (简体)
zh-Hant	中文 (繁體)	Chocolatey	choco install notepad4
i18n	all above languages	winget	winget install -e "Notepad4"
한국어	https://teus.me/Notepad4	winget	winget install zufuliu.notepad4

Latest development builds (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4/actions and https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad4.

FindInFiles (see issue #259) is a simple GUI for ripgrep, latest builds are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/FindInFiles/actions.

File	System Requirement
FindInFiles-net4.8	.NET Framework 4.8 prior Windows 10
FindInFiles-net9.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 9.0
FindInFiles-net8.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 8.0

v25.06r5696

Note

This is last version that supports Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (see issue #974), also last version that has native support for 32-bit ARM (see issue #1023).

💡Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad4.ini, matepath.ini or any theme (INI) files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes if any.

Changes Since v25.05r5690

• Fix editor window no longer drawing after convert line endings, issue #1040. b15ca9e
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

File List

Localization	Language	Architecture	Minimum System
de	Deutsch	ARM64	🟢Windows 10 on ARM
en	English	ARM	🔴discontinued Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM)
fr	French	AVX2	🟢64-bit Windows 7, Server 2008 R2
it	Italiano	x64	🟡legacy 64-bit Windows Vista, Server 2008
ja	日本語	Win32	🟠legacy Windows XP, Server 2003
ko	한국어
ru	Русский
zh-Hans	中文 (简体)
zh-Hant	中文 (繁體)	Chocolatey	choco install notepad4
i18n	all above languages	winget	winget install -e "Notepad4"
한국어	https://teus.me/Notepad4	winget	winget install zufuliu.notepad4

Latest development builds (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4/actions and https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad4.

FindInFiles (see issue #259) is a simple GUI for ripgrep, latest builds are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/FindInFiles/actions.

File	System Requirement
FindInFiles-net4.8	.NET Framework 4.8 prior Windows 10
FindInFiles-net6.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 6.0
FindInFiles-net8.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 8.0

v25.05r5690

💡Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad4.ini, matepath.ini or any theme (INI) files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes if any.

Changes Since v25.05r5670

• Improve word wrap for large file.
• Fix file watching bug after current file been deleted, discussion #1025. 4d5420f
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

File List

Localization	Language	Architecture	Minimum System
de	Deutsch	ARM64	🟢Windows 10 on ARM
en	English	ARM	🔴discontinued Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM)
fr	French	AVX2	🟢64-bit Windows 7, Server 2008 R2
it	Italiano	x64	🟡legacy 64-bit Windows Vista, Server 2008
ja	日本語	Win32	🟠legacy Windows XP, Server 2003
ko	한국어
ru	Русский
zh-Hans	中文 (简体)
zh-Hant	中文 (繁體)	Chocolatey	choco install notepad4
i18n	all above languages	winget	winget install -e "Notepad4"
한국어	https://teus.me/Notepad4	winget	winget install zufuliu.notepad4

Latest development builds (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4/actions and https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad4.

FindInFiles (see issue #259) is a simple GUI for ripgrep, latest builds are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/FindInFiles/actions.

File	System Requirement
FindInFiles-net4.8	.NET Framework 4.8 prior Windows 10
FindInFiles-net6.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 6.0
FindInFiles-net8.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 8.0

v25.05r5670

💡Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad4.ini, matepath.ini or any theme (INI) files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes if any.

Changes Since v25.01r5618

• Improve display and word wrap for emoji and Indic scripts. 4b8a188, etc.
• Improve CJK font display, issue #1013. f8db347
• Improve Russian translation, contributed by @Dimmitrius. 1e344eb
• Improve Traditional Chinese translation, contributed by @PeterDaveHello. 408075e
• Restore document view after auto-reload read-only file, issue #991. bec642c
• Lexer and API updates: CSS (23af151), HTML (f677856), JavaScript (5e35051), PHP (ae04a36), Python (fa7f724).
• Fix AutoSave lost undo history when overwrite current file, issue #1008. 240a2b9
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

File List

Localization	Language	Architecture	Minimum System
de	Deutsch	ARM64	🟢Windows 10 on ARM
en	English	ARM	🔴discontinued Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM)
fr	French	AVX2	🟢64-bit Windows 7, Server 2008 R2
it	Italiano	x64	🟡legacy 64-bit Windows Vista, Server 2008
ja	日本語	Win32	🟠legacy Windows XP, Server 2003
ko	한국어
ru	Русский
zh-Hans	中文 (简体)
zh-Hant	中文 (繁體)	Chocolatey	choco install notepad4
i18n	all above languages	winget	winget install -e "Notepad4"
한국어	https://teus.me/Notepad4	winget	winget install zufuliu.notepad4

Latest development builds (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4/actions and https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad4.

FindInFiles (see issue #259) is a simple GUI for ripgrep, latest builds are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/FindInFiles/actions.

File	System Requirement
FindInFiles-net4.8	.NET Framework 4.8 prior Windows 10
FindInFiles-net6.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 6.0
FindInFiles-net8.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 8.0

v25.01r5618

💡Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad4.ini, matepath.ini or any theme (INI) files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes if any.

Changes Since v24.11r5548

• Scintilla updated to 5.5.4, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for the changes.
• Improved large file support, issue #911. 633c1aa, etc.
• Support size adjustment (size:[±]pixel) for code folding margin width, issue #940. 8e43a82
• Lexer and API updates: ASM (7bdf7e6), C/C++ (4b3b0f0), CSS (78a4cbc), CSV (2bfd010), HTML (eac5008), Pascal (840401c), PHP (0e19b50), Ruby (68c7b56), Swift (bd29e3c), VB (cee1374).
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

Behavior Changes

Following menus were moved into "Search" menu, issue #944. 6633033

Old Menu	New Menu
Edit -> Find and Replace	Search
Edit -> Bookmarks	Search -> Bookmarks
Edit -> Goto	Search -> Goto

File List

Localization	Language	Architecture	Minimum System
de	Deutsch	ARM64	🟢Windows 10 on ARM
en	English	ARM	🔴discontinued Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM)
fr	French	AVX2	🟢64-bit Windows 7, Server 2008 R2
it	Italiano	x64	🟡legacy 64-bit Windows Vista, Server 2008
ja	日本語	Win32	🟠legacy Windows XP, Server 2003
ko	한국어
ru	Русский
zh-Hans	中文 (简体)
zh-Hant	中文 (繁體)	Chocolatey	choco install notepad4
i18n	all above languages	winget	winget install -e "Notepad4"
한국어	https://teus.me/Notepad4	winget	winget install zufuliu.notepad4

Latest development builds (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4/actions and https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad4.

FindInFiles (see issue #259) is a simple GUI for ripgrep, latest builds are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/FindInFiles/actions.

File	System Requirement
FindInFiles-net4.8	.NET Framework 4.8 prior Windows 10
FindInFiles-net6.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 6.0
FindInFiles-net8.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 8.0

v24.11r5548

💡Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad4.ini, matepath.ini or any theme (INI) files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes if any.

Changes Since v24.09r5472

• Localization for German (issue #215), contributed by @xelsios in PR #883.
• Localization for Russian, contributed by @tretdm in PR #893.
• Add option to show change history marker, issue #752. f69ab8b
• HD version add menu "Use Large Toolbar" to adjust toolbar size, issue #867. a263fdd
• Add menu "URL Component Encode" to encode URL component, issue #905. b623310
• Change F3/Shift+F3 to directly find next/previous occurrence of current selected text (similar to Ctrl+F3/Ctrl+Shift+F3) when find text not initialized, issue #862. 8d1ce64
• Make maximum history files configurable, issue #886. b1b1f95
• Auto detect common CSV delimiter, issue #892. 4243079
• Various improvements for Visual Basic (VB6, VBA and VB.NET) and VBScript.
• Other lexer and API updates: Batch (151b9ec), Cangjie (b5e879c), CSS (97aabf1), HTML (beffa94), JavaScript (2714853), Markdown (e3124e2), PHP (957001c), Python (3b8770d), Zig (00257cf).
• Fix Touchpad and Logitech mouse horizontal scrolling, issue #609. 666f766
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

Breaking Changes

• Scheme "2nd Global Styles" was removed. 362e46d
• INI section [Toolbar Images] was removed, external toolbar image can be set with ToolbarImage property from [Settings2] section. 7752980

File List

Localization	Language	Architecture	Minimum System
de	Deutsch	ARM64	🟢Windows 10 on ARM
en	English	ARM	🔴discontinued Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM)
fr	French	AVX2	🟢64-bit Windows 7, Server 2008 R2
it	Italiano	x64	🟡legacy 64-bit Windows Vista, Server 2008
ja	日本語	Win32	🟠legacy Windows XP, Server 2003
ko	한국어
ru	Русский
zh-Hans	中文 (简体)
zh-Hant	中文 (繁體)	Chocolatey	choco install notepad4
i18n	all above languages	winget	winget install -e "Notepad4"
한국어	https://teus.me/Notepad4	winget	winget install zufuliu.notepad4

Latest development builds (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4/actions and https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad4.

FindInFiles (see issue #259) is a simple GUI for ripgrep, latest builds are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/FindInFiles/actions.

File	System Requirement
FindInFiles-net4.8	.NET Framework 4.8 prior Windows 10
FindInFiles-net6.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 6.0
FindInFiles-net8.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 8.0

v24.09r5472

💡Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad4.ini, matepath.ini or any theme (INI) files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes if any.

Changes Since v24.07r5332

• Scintilla updated to 5.5.2, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for the changes.
• Support Boost regex (see Perl Regular Expression Syntax for document), issue #725, contributed by @atauzki in PR #722.
• Added Chocolatey package (see issue #379), contributed by @teknowledgist.
• Lexer and API updates: Asm (e92cad9), Bash (9ae95ae), Batch (01d55f3), C# (de88eae), CSS (294c105), Dart (9b3b231), Fortran (e5dbf6e), Groovy (3625192), Haxe (9095472), HTML (40ac7b4), Java (24b130f), JavaScript (46c5427), Kotlin (9ed90cf), M4 and Autoconf (f956b78), Nim (31a5f65), Python (99face5), Rust (25dcd80), Scala (6354c9f), Swift (6b61acc), TOML (57527b2), XML (e1e7fb9), Zig (a88cba6).
• Add AutoSave option to directly overwrite current file, discussion #800. c79fff1
• Add auto-completion option to only use words in current document, discussion #798. 352a188
• Change code compress and pretty to format whole document when no text is selected, issue #830. 17106fb
• Handle match text command option for single file instance, issue #850. 59201fe
• Fix open and create link (.lnk file) broken, issue #822. ba5c8a8
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

Behavior Changes

• Convert to title case now convert text to lower case first, whole uppercase word no longer treated as abbreviation, issue #241. 5939549

File List

Localization	Language	Architecture	Minimum System
en	English	ARM64	🟢Windows 10 on ARM
fr	French	ARM	🔴legacy Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM)
it	Italiano	AVX2	🟢64-bit Windows 7, Server 2008 R2
ja	日本語	x64	🟡legacy 64-bit Windows Vista, Server 2008
ko	한국어	Win32	🟠legacy Windows XP, Server 2003
zh-Hans	中文 (简体)
zh-Hant	中文 (繁體)	Chocolatey	choco install notepad4
i18n	all above languages	winget	winget install -e "Notepad4"
한국어	https://teus.me/Notepad4	winget	winget install zufuliu.notepad4

Latest development builds (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4/actions and https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad4.

FindInFiles (see issue #259) is a simple GUI for ripgrep, latest builds are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/FindInFiles/actions.

File	System Requirement
FindInFiles-net4.8	.NET Framework 4.8 prior Windows 10
FindInFiles-net6.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 6.0
FindInFiles-net8.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 8.0

v24.07r5332

💡Tips 1: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad4.ini, matepath.ini or any theme (INI) files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes if any.
💡Tips 2: boost_regex branch contains Notepad4 built with Boost regex engine, feel free to test latest builds from this branch.

Changes Since v4.24.05r5242

• Support Cangjie (仓颉), issue #803. 101416e
• Support SAS Viya, issue #787. 4f20795
• Lexer and API updates: CSS (8f3045d), HTML (d5bac68), Kotlin (e9fb072), Markdown (f0b9e1a), PowerShell (57436b1), Ruby (c8fcb93), XML (d5bac68).
• Improve encoding detection for UTF-16 without BOM, issue #813. fe29167
• Improve copy for multiple selections, issue #814. 54994f1
• Fix matepath doesn't remember target application settings, issue #795. 87d8220
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

Breaking Changes

• Program names (including these inside INI files) were renamed, see following table. New program (all exe, INI and system integrations) can coexist with existing Notepad2 and metapath, be sure to remove system integrations before deleting old program files.

Old Name	New Name
Notepad2	Notepad4
Notepad2.exe	Notepad4.exe
Notepad2.ini	Notepad4.ini
Notepad2 DarkTheme.ini	Notepad4 DarkTheme.ini
metapath	matepath
metapath.exe	matepath.exe
metapath.ini	matepath.ini

• All C source code is C++ compatible since 2018 (f4f7ef8), and now all of them were renamed to corresponding *.cpp files and rewritten in modern type safe C++ (so called Notepad2++ 😊).

File List

Localization	Language	Architecture	Minimum System
en	English	ARM64	🟢Windows 10 on ARM
fr-FR	French	ARM	🔴legacy Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM)
it	Italiano	AVX2	🟢64-bit Windows 7, Server 2008 R2
ja	日本語	x64	🟡legacy 64-bit Windows Vista, Server 2008
ko	한국어	Win32	🟠legacy Windows XP, Server 2003
zh-Hans	中文 (简体)
zh-Hant	中文 (繁體)	Chocolatey	choco install notepad4
i18n	all above languages	winget	winget install -e "Notepad4"
한국어	https://teus.me/Notepad4	winget	winget install zufuliu.notepad4

Latest development builds (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4/actions and https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad4.

FindInFiles (see issue #259) is a simple GUI for ripgrep, latest builds are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/FindInFiles/actions.

File	System Requirement
FindInFiles-net4.8	.NET Framework 4.8 prior Windows 10
FindInFiles-net6.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 6.0
FindInFiles-net8.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 8.0

v4.24.05r5242

💡Tips 1: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad2.ini, metapath.ini or any theme (INI) files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes if any.
💡Tips 2: boost_regex branch contains Notepad2 built with Boost regex engine, feel free to test latest builds from this branch.

Changes Since v4.24.03r5146

• Scintilla updated to 5.5.0, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for the changes. following bugs were fixed:
  • App crashes when using 双拼输入法 to input certain character, issue #775. 339e3fa
  • Respect mouse pointer size and color for cursor on line number margin, issue #635. 244c226, 8671ed5, etc.
• Support compress & pretty for CSS, JavaScript, JSON and JSON5 with menu Tools -> Action on Selection -> Code Compress and Tools -> Action on Selection -> Code Pretty when using corresponding schemes, issue #614, PR #772. 207eb02, etc.
• Lexer and API updates: AWK (43406dc), CSS (8a997c1), Fortran (95ad52a), Java (9399a27), JavaScript (604b553), JSON (ddc177c), HTML (3196807), Markdown (8104d2d), Ruby (d1a0f69), Zig (4708200).
• Reset "Transforms Backslashes" after copy selection or clipboard text as find text to prevent unexpected text replacing, issue #783. dd82a7a, 913655f.
• Fix cursor flash on typing when "Hide pointer while typing" is enabled. 9235d7e
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

File List

Localization	Language	Architecture	Minimum System
en	English	ARM64	🟢Windows 10 on ARM
it	Italiano	ARM	🔴legacy Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM)
ja	日本語	AVX2	🟢64-bit Windows 7, Server 2008 R2
ko	한국어	x64	🟡legacy 64-bit Windows Vista, Server 2008
zh-Hans	中文 (简体)	Win32	🟠legacy Windows XP, Server 2003
zh-Hant	中文 (繁體)
i18n	all above languages include French	winget	winget install -e "Notepad2"
한국어	https://teus.me/category/IT/Notepad2	winget	winget install zufuliu.notepad2

Latest development builds (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2/actions and https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad2.

FindInFiles (see issue #259) is a simple GUI for ripgrep, latest builds are available at https://github.com/zufuliu/FindInFiles/actions.

File	System Requirement
FindInFiles-net4.8	.NET Framework 4.8 prior Windows 10
FindInFiles-net6.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 6.0
FindInFiles-net8.0	.NET Desktop Runtime 8.0