Poedit Bugs

The official Poedit Windows v3.8.1 has a serious bug: the program may crash after opening the Statistics window several times. Users will lose all changes since the last saving of the editing file.

The bug was reported by someone else, and I verified that the issue really exists.

There is not a fixed number of time you need to open the Statistics window to crash the program. According to the original reporter of this bug, sometimes you need as few as two opens to crash the program. At other times, the program only crashes after opening the Statistics window for tens of times.

This issue happens in both free and pro versions. In the pro version, this bug is more frequently triggered.

Here are recordings of two automated tests, one on the free version and another on the pro version.

According to the crash dump, the error code is 0xc0000409, which means STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN.

The original reporter said that Poedit Windows v3.8 does not seem to have this issue. However, in the email communication with the developer, there is no changes in the Statistics window related code between v3.8 and v3.8.1. The behavior of this bug suggests that it may be due to some race conditions. It is suspected that even earlier Windows versions such as v3.8 may have similar race conditions issues, although they may not have manifested as program crashes. It is advised that users do not rely on Poedit for serious translation work as of now, since it is unclear which versions are affected by the race conditions issues. If you need to use the official proprietary version without alternatives, remember to save often and make backups. You may also try the open source version, but it lacks many pro features.