@Sylvester-Bullitt said:
When is the next update

As said in this post from June 26th, it is hoped to be a week from then – that is, July 3rd (still today, my time) would have been exactly 1 week… but it said “about”, because Notepad++ is just a side-gig volunteer thing that Don has done for the past few decades, and he does have a life (and job) outside of Notepad++. Given that he’s been merging a lot of PRs in the past few days, I am guessing it’s soon – probably this weekend – but cannot guarantee that.

The 8.9.6.4 bug that disabled loading files from HTML hyperlinks is killing my productivity.

I suggested two weeks ago that, if it really important to you, you could re-install an older version to use in the interim, which would have fixed your productivity two weeks ago. I’m sorry if you didn’t notice that part of my post.