notepad plus plus end of life dates — full support timeline
9 of 10 tracked notepad plus plus releases have already reached end of life. The dates below are published support dates, not estimates.
Version support timeline
| Release | Released | End of life | Latest | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.9 | 2025-12-27 | not announced | 8.9.7 | supported |
| 8.8 | 2025-04-28 | 2025-12-27 | 8.8.9 | ended |
| 8.7 | 2024-09-17 | 2025-04-28 | 8.7.9 | ended |
| 8.6 | 2023-11-23 | 2024-09-17 | 8.6.9 | ended |
| 8.5 | 2023-03-06 | 2023-11-23 | 8.5.8 | ended |
| 8.4 | 2022-04-26 | 2023-03-06 | 8.4.9 | ended |
| 8.3 | 2022-02-03 | 2022-04-26 | 8.3.3 | ended |
| 8.2 | 2022-01-01 | 2022-02-03 | 8.2.1 | ended |
| 8.1 | 2021-06-17 | 2022-01-01 | 8.1.9.3 | ended |
| 7.9 | 2020-09-28 | 2021-06-17 | 7.9.5 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported notepad plus plus release. After end of life a version stops receiving security patches, which typically becomes an audit or compliance finding before it becomes an outage. Upgrading to a supported release is the migration path; the table above shows which releases still qualify.
Source
These dates are maintained by endoflife.date/notepad-plus-plus, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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