Nextpad++ Release Notes

Native Linux port of Notepad++ / macOS Nextpad++, built on GTK4 + Scintilla. amd64 + arm64 — and, new this release, 32-bit i386 and armhf packages.

A polish release: a dozen and a half reports investigated and closed across the two trackers, the Tahoe-style toolbar settled in, translation lookup made deterministic in all 137 languages — and the Linux family grows downward with official 32-bit builds. macOS ships the same release at nextpad-plus-plus-macos.

New: Nextpad++ goes 32-bit

• i386 .deb — for x86 machines living a second life on a 32-bit distribution: Debian 12 and 13, antiX, MX Linux, Q4OS and friends (one package covers the current 32-bit Debian family)
• armhf .deb — Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit, current Debian-13-based images) and Debian 13 armhf; the older bookworm-based legacy Pi image uses an incompatible ABI and isn't covered

Both are the full application, npp terminal editor included — a headless Pi over SSH is npp's natural habitat. Two honest footnotes: files up to 2 GB (32-bit's architectural limit), and the plugin catalog for these builds starts out empty — plugins are 64-bit for now and will follow if the 32-bit builds find their audience

The Linux tracker, cleared out

• npp starts on every distribution (#8) — the terminal editor now carries its own statically linked ncurses instead of tripping over each distro's flavor
• Preferences window fixed (#9, #11) — closing it with the title-bar ✕ and reopening could present the wrong window, or none; both reports were one bug, now gone
• Mouse wheel works over long menus (#10) — an open submenu no longer swallows scrolling over a tall menu (Language, say)
• Markdown code fences behave (#13) — autocompletion no longer hijacks the Enter key; the Auto-Completion preferences page was rebuilt to match macOS, including the missing Matched pair 1–3 auto-insert settings
• The Document Map draws again — it could come up blank until poked
• Menus are safe at launch — opening a menu in the first seconds after startup could crash the app on some distributions
• Dark-mode details — tooltips now follow light/dark mode, and selected rows in the side panels are finally readable in dark themes
• Help menu — Nextpad++ Home (nextpad.org) and Nextpad++ Linux Project Page, correctly named, linked and translated

Everyday improvements (shared with macOS)

• Tab tooltips (#354) — hover any tab to see the file's full path; unsaved documents show their name and last-edit time
• Fold Level folds exactly one level (#343) — in Python and every indentation-based language (YAML, Haskell…), matching Windows Notepad++
• Preferences apply without Enter (#341) — typed values stick when you close the window; based on community PR #344 by arj-co
• Show Symbol toggles persist (#339) — apply to all tabs and survive a restart
• Status bar stays in its lane (#345) — a long path no longer pushes the window wider
• Tahoe-style toolbar polish — plugin buttons from uninstalled plugins are listed greyed as "(not loaded)", and an all-hidden Plugins capsule is called out plainly in Preferences
• A small ♥ Donate link now sits in the About dialog and on the update card — no pop-ups, no guilt trips

Lost in translation, found again

• Deterministic translation lookup (#349) — the same English string now always finds the same translation, in every one of the 137 languages, plus a batch of missing translations
• Chinese/Japanese vocabulary repairs (#340) — nine homonym slips fixed ("0 matches" read as "0 sports games" in Simplified Chinese)

npp 0.9.1

The terminal editor no longer repaints your terminal's color palette on exit (#342), and — per #8 above — runs on every distribution the app does.

What's next

1. 1.1.3 will be the plugin release — a large wave of newly ported classic Notepad++ plugins, plus new dark themes with Sublime Text and VS Code color schemes. And further out, said with all the usual caveats: an Android build is being explored, maybe sometime this year.

Full release notes: https://nextpad.org/news/?slug=npp_v1.1.2_updates

Native Linux port of Notepad++ / macOS Nextpad++, built on GTK4 + Scintilla. amd64 + arm64.

One feature towers over everything else this cycle: Nextpad++ now runs in your terminal. A new command, npp, gives you the same editor — same syntax highlighting, same themes, same preferences — inside GNOME Terminal, Konsole, kitty, tmux, or an SSH session to your Linux box. Around it: panels dock at the bottom, the interface localization got a big cleanup, keyboard shortcuts stopped misbehaving, and official Arch Linux packages join the family. This is also the first release where Linux and macOS ship together at feature parity — macOS lives at nextpad-plus-plus-macos.

npp — Nextpad++ in your terminal (0.9.0, beta)

• Same Scintilla engine, every language highlighted — including your User Defined Languages — your themes and preferences, live-synced with the GUI app, even over SSH
• Tabs, find/replace overlays, code folding, command palette (^P), menus (F10), Document List / Function List / Project / Folder panels on a dock
• Hot exit: ^Q quits instantly, unsaved changes survive the relaunch
• Nothing to install: every package ships /usr/bin/npp right next to the app (snap users: nextpad.npp)
• For IT: no network, no elevation, no persistence — it behaves exactly like any packaged terminal editor

New features

• Bottom-dockable panels — every panel gets left / right / bottom dock buttons; bottom panels sit side-by-side; sides and sizes are remembered
• Localization pass (#252) — hundreds of previously-English spots now translated across all 137 languages; Escape and dialog shortcuts work in translated alerts (#308, #294); the Nepali catalog — silently broken in every build ever shipped — found and repaired on Linux
• Official Arch Linux packages (.pkg.tar.zst, amd64 + arm64) — you asked (#4), it shipped

Shortcuts

Remapped shortcuts with Shift work (#268) · rectangular selection survives custom keys (#266) · remapped menu shortcuts survive a restart · Shortcut Mapper shows real GTK defaults · bonus: the stock Ctrl+Shift+[ ] / \ paragraph/word-part selection keys — dead on every GTK Scintilla app — now work

Everyday polish

• Status bar: encoding/EOL segments open their menus, INS/OVR toggles overtype (#313); live zoom indicator with double-click reset (PR #325)
• Paste with Hyperlinks (#299) · EOL preference respected for new/opened files (#312) · Find in Files sub-folders recursion fixed (#317) · no phantom "new 1" tab (#315) · split-view save updates the right tab (#321) · hide-toolbar checkbox (#319) · command-palette appearance (#314) · calltip word-chars (#322)
• Quitting is much faster; failed auto-backups keep the last good copy; Import Style Theme no longer destroys the theme it replaces

(Typing in Chinese, Japanese and Korean: the CJK input fixes in the macOS 1.1.1 notes were already correct here — GTK 4's input pipeline composes at every caret out of the box)

Linux issue tracker — cleared

• Dropping a file onto the editor opens it instead of pasting its path (#1)
• The editor right-click menu is now bulletproof — it sized itself out of existence in a band across the middle of the window on several distros (#3)
• Clicking far beyond a line end no longer strands the caret in virtual space (#5, #6)
• Window position restored on X11; no duplicate scratch tab after a restart (#7)

Plugins & API

• Windows docking API parity: NPPM_DMMREGASDCKDLG with a faithful tTbData, plus NPPM_DMMSHOW / NPPM_DMMHIDE / NPPM_DMMUPDATEDISPINFO — Windows docking code ports with a typedef swap; uMask picks the default region, the user's choice always wins, panels self-restore; validated field-for-field against the original Windows Docking.h
• Startup hardened so early panel-showing plugins can't disturb saved layouts
• Full message/notification reference on the Resources page; plugins built for v1.1.0 keep working unchanged

Install

• Debian / Ubuntu / Mint: sudo apt install ./Nextpad++v1.1.1_amd64.deb (or _arm64)
• Fedora / RHEL 10+ / openSUSE: sudo dnf install ./Nextpad++v1.1.1_amd64.rpm (or _arm64)
• Arch Linux: sudo pacman -U Nextpad++v1.1.1_amd64.pkg.tar.zst (or _arm64)

Built on Ubuntu 24.04 — needs GTK 4.14+ / glibc 2.38+. Also on the Snap Store (snap install nextpad).

Full release notes: https://nextpad.org/news/?slug=npp_v1.1.1_updates

Native Linux port of Notepad++ / macOS Nextpad++, built on GTK4 + Scintilla.

Highlights

• Full editor: multi-caret & column editing, macros, code folding, auto-completion for 33 languages, 45 encodings, sessions & backups.
• Five-tab Find window — Find / Replace / Find in Files / Find in Projects / Mark — with regex and fuzzy search.
• Dockable/floating side panels (Document List, Function List, Document Map, Folder as Workspace, Git…), split view, tab colors/pinning.
• Light/dark mode, the 22 Notepad++ themes, Style Configurator, User Defined Languages, and the optional Tahoe-inspired look.
• 26 plugins ported day one — including MCP Server and LuaScript — one-click install from Plugins Admin (per-arch, checksum-verified).
• Measured macOS parity: ~340 menu items, 16 Preferences panes, Windows Notepad++ shortcut layout, new Window menu.
• Small: ~5 MB download, ~32 MB installed, under 300 MB RAM in use.

Install

• Debian / Ubuntu / Mint: sudo apt install ./Nextpad++v1.1.0_amd64.deb (or _arm64)
• Fedora / RHEL 10+ / openSUSE: sudo dnf install ./Nextpad++v1.1.0_amd64.rpm (or _arm64)

Built on Ubuntu 24.04 — needs GTK 4.14+ / glibc 2.38+. Also on the Snap Store (snap install nextpad).