2025-07-09“Sometimes, when one door closes (lack of code signing) in life, another one opens (vulnerability) .” The sentence sumarizes well the situation in the previous vession, 8.8.2.There were - and still are - many false-positives reported in the previous version v8.8.2, by the antivirus software due to the absence of Windows code siging certificate. To prevent this issue from recurring in future releases, from this version the Notepad++ release is signed with a certificate issued by a self-signed Certificate Authority (CA). Continue reading at the publisher's website.