Upcoming 5.5.9 release

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Feb 21, 2026, 6:04:46 PM (15 hours ago) Feb 21
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New versions of Lexilla (5.4.7), Scintilla (5.5.9), and SciTE (5.5.9)
will be released soon in a few days.

Changes:

• SciTE 5.5.9
• Windows executable releases are now signed with "Open Source Developer, Neil Hodgson". This should help with avoiding system warnings. Feature #1509.
• On Windows, fix window border after restore from full screen. Bug #2499.

• Lexilla 5.4.7
• Lexer added for escape sequences "escseq". Pull request #336.
• Errorlist: Fix reset escape sequence to set style SCE_ERR_DEFAULT (0) instead of SCE_ERR_ES_BLACK. Issue #333.
• Makefile: Recognize comments in more situations. Issue #40.
• Perl: Handle 'method' the same as 'sub' for special cases. Issue #342, Pull request #343.
• Progress: Add SCE_ABL_ANNOTATION and SCE_ABL_TYPEDANNOTATION styles. Pull request #346.
• Test a single lexer or multiple directories by specifying as command line arguments to TestLexers. Pull request #344.

• Scintilla 5.5.9
• Add option to disable drag/drop editing. Feature #184.
• Allow Euro '€' in code page 936 for 0x80. Feature #1575.
• Fix SCI_SETSELECTIONNSTART and SCI_SETSELECTIONNEND to behave more sensibly. Bug #2488.
• Fix lexing after undo at end of document. Bug #2491.
• When a line end is not selected, change the colour of the rectangle that indicates the line end is selected to white space background instead of previous character's background except for EOL filled style.
• On Qt, add const to ScintillaDocument and ScintillaEdit methods. Bug #2494.
• On Qt, prevent crash when using ScintillaDocument object. Bug #2495.

The committed changes can be examined either in the repositories

git clone https://github.com/ScintillaOrg/lexilla
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/scintilla/code scintilla
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/scintilla/scite

or from

https://www.scintilla.org/scite.zip Source
https://www.scintilla.org/wscite.zip Windows executable (64-bit)

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