Popular and powerful open source text editor for Windows, Notepad++ has announced the release of version 6.1.5 today. The new version is now more compatible with Windows 8. Apart from that major changes include:

• Fix a html tag match freezing issue.
• Fix un regression: folding/unfolding performance issue.
• Fix tab context menu in the other localization regression due to adding new command “Reload”.
• Fix lower/UPPER case on selected text which contains NULL characters.
• Fix xml syntax highlighting broken because of php preprocessor instruction inside.
• Fix a GUI bug which shows empty tab row while closing a last tab in a row (in the multi-line tab mode).

Features of Notepad++:

If you are still using the default text editor Notepad provided by Microsoft, you might not have come across Notepad++. It is an awesome text editor which makes Notepad look like its granny, old, ugly and weak. Main features of Notepad++ include:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting and Folding
• PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression) Search/Replace
• Document Map
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document (Tab interface)
• Multi-View
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Bookmark
• Macro recording and playback

If you have never used before it is a must try application which is available for free. Download it now!

Download Notepad++ 6.1.5

If you are a die hard Linux lover, you might want to check out the Linux alternative of Notepad++.