AkelPad (ultra lightweight text editor)

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Re: AkelPad (ultra lightweight text editor)

#16 Post by Midas »

Old topic update: AkelPad v4.9.8 released 2016-07-18 (changelog at akelpad.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2114).

Couldn't find a full changelog online, so I'm pointing to the most complete non-official one (back to v3.3.0):


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Re: AkelPad (ultra lightweight text editor)

#17 Post by freakazoid »

Even though the last official update was in 2016, there have been trickling updates as late as September 2020:
https://sourceforge.net/p/akelpad/codesvn/4413/log/

Hopefully we'll see a new official release sometime soon. According to the dev log, biggest changes include supporting 64-bit and native portable mode!
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Re: AkelPad (ultra lightweight text editor)

#18 Post by Midas »

freakazoid wrote:There have been trickling updates as late as September 2020 [...]

[Coming] changes include supporting 64-bit and native portable mode!

Thanks for the news, freakzoid.

I was once an AkelPad user and may quickly return, should those changes materialize. I seem to recall AkelPad being coded straight in assembly, but those updates are long overdue.

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#19 Post by freakazoid »

I found a test version on the AkelPad forums with the version number 4.9.9 dev, last updated on July 2019. At least this is better than nothing!
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#20 Post by freakazoid »

Someone compiled the latest AkelPad changes (last update: June 2023) on the AkelPad forums: https://akelpad.sourceforge.net/forum/v ... b9b8#36263

Scanned with Virustotal and came up clean.
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Re: AkelPad (ultra lightweight text editor)

#21 Post by Midas »

From the same source, an explanation for the lack of official updates after 2016: :shock:
DV wrote:
As Instructor wrote (I asked him the same question), it's not the time to release a new version yet.

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#22 Post by freakazoid »

Midas wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:10 am From the same source, an explanation for the lack of official updates after 2016: :shock:
Yeah, I read that. I have a feeling the developer is disenchanted with releasing updates to the public. However, at least there are still updates posted onto the Sourceforge SVN.
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#23 Post by Midas »

After playing around with this unofficial build from SafeType (kudos!), although it takes some fidgeting with its options and settings, I must confess AkelPad still is one of the best lightweight text editors out there -- and now supporting 64-bit and all, something it didn't do when I last used it regularly... :thumbsup:

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#24 Post by freakazoid »

From the AkelPad forums, there is a new, third-party build of AkelPad. This one is on GitHub - https://github.com/ssrlive/akelpad.

This incorporates the latest changes from the AkelPad SourceForge SVN and also uses Visual Studio 2010 to build AkelPad instead of Visual Studio 2003 - https://github.com/ssrlive/akelpad/issu ... 1374918521.
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Re: AkelPad (ultra lightweight text editor)

#25 Post by Andrew Lee »

Is it worth pointing the database entry to this build, seeing that the original has not been updated in ages?

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#26 Post by vevy »

Andrew Lee wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 4:52 am Is it worth pointing the database entry to this build, seeing that the original has not been updated in ages?
Since the original is still being (slowly) developed (the last commit was a week ago). I wouldn't consider the project dead, even without public builds.

If you must, we can make an entry for the fork or add a note in the description.

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#27 Post by Andrew Lee »

In that case, let's wait and see..

I think having this info in the forum topic for the software should be good enough for the time-being until the fork becomes more substantial.

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#28 Post by freakazoid »

The official dev version I posted about here has been updated. See https://akelpad.sourceforge.net/forum/v ... 6275#36275. This was posted a couple of weeks ago.
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#29 Post by Midas »

Just to make it all a little clearer AkelPad's ssrlive fork -- pointed to by freakzoid a couple of posts prior -- is v4.9.10, last released 2023-06-20 -- although it still shows v4.9.9 in its About dialog...

The latest official AkelPad build is still v4.9.9_dev, last released in its forums in 2023-06-28.

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