One of the users commented, “ Well I don’t care if the developer paid the certificate, and I don’t see why someone that develops FOSS should pay money for something that doesn’t bring to him any of that money back. This sparked a discussion on Hacker News, and many users supported the developer’s decision. He added in the blog post, “ Notepad++ has done without a certificate for more than 10 years, I don’t see why I should add the dependency now (and be an accomplice of this overpricing industry). The problem here is that as Notepad++ is not a company or organization, Certum did not allow him to use Notepad++ as CN.Īdditionally, he also feels that these code-signing certificates are too overpriced. Now when Don Ho was trying to repurchase a new certificate from Certum, a Certification Authority, he was required to mention a Common Name (CN). Why Notepad++ decided to drop code-signing for its releases?ĭigiCert, a US-based X.509 SSL certificate authority, donated a three years code signing certificate to Notepad++ in 2016, which has now expired. UAC is a Windows security feature which helps prevent unauthorized changes to operating systems.

He also shared that from this release onwards, users will not see the blue-trusted User Access Control (UAC) popup as Notepad++ has dropped code signing for its releases. On Wednesday, Don Ho, Notepad++ developer announced the release of Notepad++ 7.6.4.

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