Version 26.0¶

February 4, 2026

New General Features¶

You can now add both folders and files to Favorites. ^[PF]
The Markdown Bold/Italic/Code command now works even when no text is selected. ^[P]
The Undo/Redo History dialog has been replaced with a custom bar. ^[PF]
The Insert Special Character dialog has been replaced with a custom bar, with improvements including a larger, color font and filtering by Unicode name and block. ^[PF]
The Character Code Value dialog has been improved with a larger font and color support. ^[PF]
Improved awkward English, German, and Japanese UI text. ^[PF]
Discontinued the Russian UI in v25.4. ^[PF]
Improved the speed of various operations including Opening a large file containing no newlines (one-line file). ^[PF]

	v25.4	v26.0	Comparison to v25.4
Open a large file without newlines [*a]	1.426 seconds	0.619 seconds	2.30 times faster
Find (Select All) [*b]	43.3 seconds	0.065 seconds	666 times faster
Replace All [*c]	44.1 seconds	0.359 seconds	123 times faster

*a: Open a file.
*b: Select all "abc".
*c: Replace all "abc" with "###".
*All: A Wikipedia dump file (UTF-8, 1.98 GB, no newline), All default options, Windows 11, Ryzen 9 7950X, 96 GB RAM.

Added the Add Folder button to the Favorites page of the Customize dialog box. ^[PF]
Added gpt-5.2 and gpt-5.2.codex to the Preferred Model drop-down list in the AI Options page of the Customize dialog box (this feature requires the Chat with AI plugin). ^[P]