Der beliebte Open Source-Editor Notepad++ (kurz: Npp) ist in der neuen Version 8.9.8 erhältlich. In Notepad++ hat der Entwickler Don Ho etliche Bugs beseitigt, ein paar Verbesserungen vorgenommen und ...

A new version of Notepad++ with the number v8.9.8 was released yesterday, Sunday. Programmer Don Ho has fixed just over a dozen vulnerabilities in it. Users of the software should apply the update ...

Two flaws in the widely used open-source editor can be triggered through manipulated configuration files, prompting security updates from the project's maintainers. Two arbitrary code execution ...

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Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files. Image: Microsoft. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility ...

Microsoft continues to move Notepad away from its text-editing roots with planned support for images. Although not officially announced, an image icon has appeared on the Notepad toolbar for Windows ...

The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author. Don Ho made the ...

Among the many security fixes released by Microsoft on February 2026 Patch Tuesday is one for CVE-2026-20841, a command injection vulnerability in Notepad that could be exploited by attackers to ...

Bad actors could use the flaw to remotely load and execute malicious files on a victim’s computer. Bad actors could use the flaw to remotely load and execute malicious files on a victim’s computer. is ...

At the risk of going into old-man-yells-at-cloud mode, I remember when Notepad was the most basic text editor around. Some coders and writers liked the program—which comes included in every single ...

The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...