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Good thing I always ignore notepad++ updates. I mean, good on the devs for active development, but having a user-intervention-required update option every time I launch? Feels clunky.
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
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You would prefer it automatically pull down and install malware?
I think they want them to reduce the release frequency.
Software should have version notification settings like, All, Security Only, Major Release, etc.
While I enjoy staying current, I don’t need the 2.1.3.2.1.000000023 release where someone fixes a minor bug in a niche feature that I have never used to begin with.
I'd love that. Some things I'm willing to be on beta release. Some things I just want to be invisible and silent unless there's a security problem.
I mean, isn't that what Windows does anyway?
I'd obviously prefer Notepad++ didn't auto-install malware. Steam and Discord force auto-updates on every launch and do so without user intervention. I haven't knowingly been burned by either yet, but they're bigger players with more resources than Notepad++.
Well this sucks
From their blog post, it seems the software itself and its code was unaffected, but the attack was only on the website?
Fuck.
Anyone have an open source alternate that has commensurate features as N++
Getting increasingly paranoid about the software I allow on my devices and now that I have a self-hosted LLM, I can feed it the source code and cross-reference it on 5Gb of CVE databases I've trained it on to ensure sanitary code.
Just to be clear, N++ wasn't compromised, the shared web host running the auto update infrastructure was. They responsibly disclosed it and shared safety steps. I don't know if it is time to bail on them yet.
Some options are atom, brackets/phoenix, lime text. I went with gVim for now.
Atom's final release was in 2022.
I already hated it, now I uninstalled it, thank you