💡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: You can enable View -> Unicode Control Character (available since v4.19.01) to prevent Trojan Source attacks.

Changes Since v4.21.09r3900

• Scintilla updated to 5.1.4, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for the changes.
• Unicode data updated to Unicode 14.0.0. 8431e9ce543ef9421244c87edab1c071c23b84e7
• Support blockdiag (issue #130), attribute list for GraphViz updated to GraphViz 2.49. edcd6a4dc5fd766cfbda15ac0d63832411bb1459 and 9345c76c45267c6564aead33f3a6829e8050adf4
• Support running both Notepad2 and metapath as symbolic links (see mklink command). 930874d9ce29e4a0e2dccf3a4fd8e76fbc909415
• Edit -> Special -> Hex to Char now supports UTF-32 hex sequences (\U or U+ with up to eight hex digits). 24bccfbcd2f1813a11b65b798bbc3fbc131c8146
• Added "group by file type" sorting option, which is useful for sorting file names. cd3176a8eb115eb1a6e2b0e46e056119573aa6e4
• Fixed wrong character classification data for Big5 encoding. 4ac3d6d0555eb91b5648406e7b20dfeb6f4b4c03
• Fixed Korean Hanja to Hangul conversion failure on some system, issue #393. 246121618f970cb74f66b235dd9d58027d14a84d
• Fixed single file instance failure when path name diffs, issue #378. 2c3b8d6fd07556858a94888ffd8602792c327b6d
• Fixed legacy ANSI file broken when "Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" is enabled, issue #39 and #386. db68b1380cfb96a30641da2ff37a985a00b69897
• Some lexer improvements. 025e2f27c36aff1874da481bf7f5c2fc1b2112a1, 078fedd291e30723e7ab38ad79b1f9c723aa5436, bbb8e7e450cf5b2211a78c5328e29d60821e6952, 28b255274e1ff15be8bc4ae4610c5822f7beac61 and 697c696c291343990fa146d0e50fd6aff063f653.

Behavior Changes

• "Open ANSI (unknown encoding) file in UTF-8 mode" is enabled by default. af59a7135ac483ca349f7f12d836f918a37e862a and 57649809a20c0bd2a26466c84ee8efe2c1c58dc8

File List

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.