4 You can see the complete list of recent changes, bugfixes and new features
5 in the http://repo.or.cz/w/elinks.git[gitweb interface]. See the ChangeLog
11 To be released as ELinks 0.13.0.
15 * The protocol.fsp.sort option has been removed. ELinks always sorts.
19 * major bug 181: Slave ELinks processes can now run an external editor.
20 This used to work in the master process only.
21 * major bug 722: Filter CSS according to media types. New option
23 * bug 638: Propagate the existence of $DISPLAY from slave terminals to
24 mailcap test commands.
25 * bugs 762, 1082: Small memory leak in goto_current_link/goto_imgmap
26 * bug 963: New option document.css.ignore_display_none.
27 * bug 977: Fixed crash when opening in new tab a non link with onclick
29 * bug 983: Give preference to the Content-Type specified in the HTTP
30 header over that specified via the HTML meta tag.
31 * bug 1008: File upload fields in HTML forms now stream the files to
32 the server, instead of reading them to memory in advance. This lets
33 you upload larger files. The downsides are that ELinks may use a
34 cached response even if you have modified a file between requests,
35 and that ELinks can send inconsistent data if you modify a file
36 while it is being uploaded.
37 * bug 1054: Don't abort downloads when closing the terminal from which
38 they were started. When such a download ends, display the message
39 in the most recently used terminal. If the user chooses
40 ``Background and Notify'' via the download manager in some terminal,
41 reassociate the download with that terminal. These changes do not
42 apply to downloads to external handlers.
43 * Really retry forever when connection.retries = 0.
44 * enhancement: Session-specific options. Any options changed with
45 toggle-* actions no longer affect other tabs or other terminals.
46 * Do not crash when document.browse.minimum_refresh_time = 0 and
47 a document has a meta refresh with a delay of 0.
48 * enhancement 15: Domain-specific options. Use set_domain in
49 elinks.conf to e.g. disable cookies for google.com. The option
50 manager window does not yet support this.
51 * enhancement 867: Use bracketed paste mode on xterm. This requires
52 xterm patch #228 or later configured with --enable-readline-mouse.
53 * enhancement 824: Experimental support for combining characters.
54 See features.conf for details.
55 * enhancement: Add a new entry Link Info under Link main menu.
56 * enhancement: Indicate backgrounded downloads using an unused led.
57 * enhancement: Display the number of ECMAScript interpreters that have
58 been allocated for documents in the Resources dialog.
59 * Fedora enhancement 346861: Add support for nss_compat_ossl library
60 (OpenSSL replacement).
61 * enhancement: ``elinks --dump'' uses box-drawing characters if supported
63 * enhancement 1070: Support 256 colors on fbterm-1.4.
64 * enhancement 1075: Scrolling the entire contents of dialog boxes.
65 Especially useful for multi-file BitTorrent downloads.
66 * Report if the Lua function edit_bookmark_dialog receives the wrong
67 number or types of arguments instead of silently failing.
68 * enhancement: Add ``Invalidate'' button to the cache manager.
69 * enhancement: Add ``Search contents'' button to the cache manager with
70 which one can search through the cache items' data rather than their
72 * link against lua51 not lua50
73 * configure options to link against libmozjs of xulrunner
74 * using iconv for some multibyte charsets. It works if the terminal codepage
75 is UTF-8. More charsets will be added on demand.
77 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
78 The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.13.0
79 is released. They are currently listed here just to show that they
80 have already been considered.
82 * Fixed bugs that were not in previous versions:
83 - critical bug 1009: assertion failure in add_snippets()
85 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
90 Released on 2009-07-08.
92 * Debian bug 534835: Check the return values of some SpiderMonkey
93 functions, to avoid crashes if out of memory.
94 * minor bug 1017: To work around HTTP server bugs, disable
95 protocol.http.compression by default, until ELinks can report
96 decompression errors or automatically retry the connection.
97 * enhancement: The French translation was updated.
99 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
101 * critical bug 1081: To fix crashes caused by different definitions of
102 regfree() in TRE and in the system libc, link with TRE before any
103 other libraries. ELinks 0.12pre4 was the first release that had
105 * Searching for more than one fullwidth (e.g. Japanese) character now
107 * bug 1080: Support ``--dump-color-mode'' with ``--dump-charset UTF-8''.
108 Neither of those worked before ELinks 0.12pre1.
113 Released on 2009-05-31. This release also included the changes listed
114 under ``ELinks 0.11.6'' below.
118 * Debian build bug 529821: Use ``pkg-config gnutls'' instead of
119 ``libgnutls-config'', which is not included in GNUTLS 2.7.x.
120 You can no longer specify the location of GNUTLS using
121 ``configure --with-gnutls=DIR''.
125 * critical bug 1077: Fix crash opening a ``javascript:'' link in a new
127 * Debian bug 528661: If using GNUTLS 2.1.7 or later, disable various
128 TLS extensions (including CERT and SERVERNAME) to help handshaking
129 with the SSLv3-only bugzilla.novell.com.
130 * Debian build bug 526349: Include asciidoc.py from AsciiDoc 7.1.2,
131 to remove all dependencies on the installed version.
132 * build enhancement: Recognize ``configure --without-tre''.
134 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
136 * critical bug 1071: Fix crash in get_dom_node_child. ELinks 0.12pre1
137 was the first release that had this bug.
138 * bug 765: Opening a new tab no longer asks about the document of the
139 previous tab. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that had this
145 Released on 2009-03-29. This release also included the changes listed
146 under ``ELinks 0.11.6'' below.
150 * bug 1060: Regexp searching now requires the TRE library.
151 * lzma disabled by default. It's rarely used and doesn't build with new xz.
155 * critical: Fix assertion failure if IMG/@usemap refers to a different
157 * Preserve newlines in hidden input fields, and submit them as CRLF.
158 Previously, they could turn into spaces or disappear entirely.
159 * Perl scripts can use modules that dynamically load C libraries, like
160 XML::LibXML::SAX does.
161 * bug 153: Preserve Unicode characters in XBEL bookmark files.
162 However, Unicode in URIs (really IRIs) does not work reliably yet;
163 this is being tracked as bug 1066.
164 * bug 885: Convert xterm titles to ISO-8859-1 by default, but add an
165 option to disable this. When removing control characters from a
166 title, note the charset. Don't truncate titles to the width of the
168 * bug 1061: Correctly truncate UTF-8 titles in the tab bar.
169 * bug 1068: ELinks used to display a blank or truncated page if an
170 HTTP/1.1 server sent a compressed body with incorrect Content-Length.
171 That has now been fixed, and a new option (protocol.http.compression)
173 * Don't crash when the search-toggle-regex action is used and no regular
174 expression support is compiled in.
175 * minor bug 761: When reading bookmarks from an XBEL file, distinguish
176 attribute names from attribute values.
177 * enhancement: Updated ISO 8859-7, ISO 8859-16, KOI8-R, and MacRoman.
178 * lzma disabled by default. It's rarely used and doesn't build with new xz.
180 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
182 * critical bug 1067: Fixed a crash in the RSS parser that ``configure
183 --enable-html-highlight'' enables. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first
184 release that had this bug.
185 * bug 1069: ELinks didn't report ECMAScript errors, even if the
186 ecmascript.error_reporting option was turned on. ELinks 0.12pre2
187 was the first release that had this bug.
192 Released on 2008-09-21. This release also included the changes listed
193 under ``ELinks 0.11.5'' below.
195 * bug 954, enhancement 952: Keep track of ECMAScript form and input
196 objects instead of constructing new ones on every access. When the
197 corresponding ELinks internal objects are destroyed, detach the
198 ECMAScript objects from them, to prevent crashes. (Bug 954 was
199 first added in ELinks 0.11.4, and the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1
200 made crashes more likely.)
201 * critical bug 1029 in user SMJS: Prefer JS_CallFunctionValue over
202 JS_CallFunction, which can crash if given a closure.
203 * critical bug 1031: Use the same JSRuntime for both user SMJS and
204 scripts on web pages, to work around SpiderMonkey bug 378918.
205 * bug 1013: Don't assume errno values are between 0 and 100000.
206 * bug 1022: Add connection.ssl.trusted_ca_file setting for GnuTLS.
207 Before this, ELinks did not trust any certificate authorities when
208 it used GnuTLS, so certificate verification always failed if you
209 enabled it at connection.ssl.cert_verify.
210 * bug 1040: Blacklist servers that don't support TLS. This reduces
211 SSL errors especially in HTTP POST requests using GnuTLS.
212 * bugs 1007, 1041: Display unrecognized lines in FTP directory
213 listings, instead of annoying the user with error messages.
214 * Hurd bug 22861: Work around select() falsely reporting exceptions
216 * minor bug 951: SpiderMonkey scripting objects used to prevent ELinks
217 from removing files from the memory cache.
218 * build bug 1044: Check whether -rdynamic works with libraries.
219 With Sun Studio 11 on Solaris 9, it reportedly doesn't.
221 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
223 * critical: Fix crash after a tab was opened during reload. This was
224 triggered by the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1.
225 * critical bug 1018: Avoid an assertion failure when selecting a value
226 from a pop-up menu for an input field in a tab that is no longer
227 current, e.g. because another tab was opened with elinks -remote.
228 This bug was first released in ELinks 0.12pre1.
229 * major bug 1026 in user SMJS: Protect the callback of elinks.load_uri
230 from the garbage collector. The elinks.load_uri method was added in
232 * bug 955: Reset buttons no longer run FORM/@onsubmit, and
233 ``harmless'' buttons no longer submit the form. ELinks 0.12pre1
234 was the first release that had these bugs.
235 * bug 1033: Fix memory leak in ECMAScript window.open. ELinks 0.12pre1
236 was the first release that had this bug.
237 * bug 1034: ``Content-Encoding: deflate'' allows a zlib header as
238 specified in RFC 2616.
239 * Global ECMAScript functions alert, open, and setTimeout again work
240 with SEE. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that supported SEE
242 * build bug 1045: Fix ``void function cannot return value'' in
243 never_for_this_site() of src/formhist/formhist.c. ELinks 0.12pre1
244 was the first release that had this bug.
249 Released on 2008-07-01. This release also included the changes listed
250 under ``ELinks 0.11.4'' below.
252 Notable new features:
254 * enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not merely UTF-8 I/O
255 of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions. Double-cell (aka
256 fullwidth) and supplementary characters work too, but combining
257 characters and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte
258 charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs
259 e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes
261 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
262 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
263 Unfortunately, Samba 3.2.0 and later seem GPLv2 incompatible.
267 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
268 bugs 548 and 771 with which malicious web pages can hang ELinks,
269 and its security goals are undocumented. If you must enable
270 ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
271 process with a sandbox of some kind.
272 * ECMAScript support no longer works with SpiderMonkey versions
273 earlier than JS1.5 RC3a.
274 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
275 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
276 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
277 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
279 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
280 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
281 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
282 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
283 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
284 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
288 * critical bug 723: fix dangling pointer crash when following a link
290 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
291 after HTTP proxy was changed
292 * critical bug 869: long mailcap entry buffer overflow (non-security)
294 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
295 * major bug 534, enhancement 517: fix HTTP gzip and bzip2
296 decompression, and add deflate and LZMA (requires LZMA Utils)
297 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
298 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
299 * bug 770: when the user chooses to resume an HTTP download, abort the
300 automatically started one and start a new one with the right range
301 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
302 sequences from the terminal
303 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
304 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
305 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
306 * bug 744: don't change ``//'' to ``/'' in URIs
307 * bug 766: speed up CSS
308 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
310 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
311 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
312 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
313 * several accesskey fixes
314 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
315 * minor bug 972: preserve the background color and underlining in
316 spaces when justifying
317 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
318 same line; don't let it fall to the next
319 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
320 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
321 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
322 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
324 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
325 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
326 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
327 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
328 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
329 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
331 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
332 * enhancement: new main actions move-cursor-line-start,
333 move-link-down-line, move-link-left-line, move-link-right-line,
335 * enhancement: new edit actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
337 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
338 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
339 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
340 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
342 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
344 * enhancement: make meta refresh content attribute parsing more tolerant
345 * enhancement: recognize meta http-equiv="cache-control" even if no
347 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
348 and on BSD via moused -z 4
349 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
350 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
351 * enhancement 994: treat only termios.c_cc[VERASE] as "Backspace"
352 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
353 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
355 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
356 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
358 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
360 * serious Debian bug 464384: fix warnings in alignof, ssl_connect, and
361 printing of off_t values
362 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
363 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
364 rest before propagating
365 * enhancement: make uninstall
366 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
367 * experimental enhancement: Win32 port (build with MinGW MSYS)
369 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
371 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
372 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
373 statements work as intended
374 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
375 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
376 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
377 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
378 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
379 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
380 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
381 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
382 window.setTimeout, window.status
384 Changes in the experimental NNTP client:
386 * HTML escape header field values
387 * Add support for handling RFC2047 encoded words
388 * Improve listing of articles for groups
390 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
392 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
393 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
394 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
395 support arbitrary XML though.
396 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
398 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
399 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
401 * enhancement: incremental parsing
404 ELinks 0.11.6.GIT now:
405 ----------------------
407 To be released as 0.11.7.
409 * critical bug 1077: fix crash opening a ``javascript:'' link in a new
415 Released on 2009-03-21.
417 * critical: fix double-free crash if EOF immediately follows </MAP>
418 * critical bug 1053: fix crash if a download finishes after ELinks has
419 closed the terminal from which the download was started
420 * major bug 1004: ignore locales when comparing HTML element names and
421 similar strings, so e.g. ``title'' matches ``TITLE'' even in the
423 * minor: clicking a link with the mouse activates that link, rather
424 than the one selected with move-cursor-* actions
425 * build bug 1047: attempt to make inline functions satisfy C99 6.7.4p3
426 so that ELinks can be built on OpenSolaris
431 Released on 2008-09-21.
433 * critical bug 1027 in user SMJS: make elinks.keymaps treat null and
434 "none" as equivalent actions, avoiding a segfault
435 * critical bug 1030: an assertion used to fail in the search dialog
436 on systems that lack a usable <regex.h>
437 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
438 * bug 698: Attach controls to the intended form even if it is
439 incorrectly nested in a table. (Was broken in 0.11.4.)
440 * build bug 1021: fixed uninitialized variable in http_got_header
441 * build: don't use libgnutls-openssl, which is no longer GPLv2
442 compatible in GnuTLS 2.2.0
447 Released on 2008-06-20.
449 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
451 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
453 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
454 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
456 * critical bug 1016: avoid JSFunctionSpec for better compatibility
457 across versions of SpiderMonkey
458 * critical bugs 674, 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects
459 that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
460 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
462 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
463 and a possible subsequent crash
464 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
465 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
466 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
467 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
469 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
470 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
471 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
472 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
473 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
474 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
475 * bug 1014: fix incompatible pointer type in Perl_sys_init3 call
476 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
477 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
478 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
479 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
480 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
481 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
482 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
483 if the terminal uses some other charset
484 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
485 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
486 file name to a file:// URL
487 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
488 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
489 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
490 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
491 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
492 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
494 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
496 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
497 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
498 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
499 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
500 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
501 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
502 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
508 Released on 2007-04-15.
510 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
512 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
514 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
515 server responds to PASV with status 200
516 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
517 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
518 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
519 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
521 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
522 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
523 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
524 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
526 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
527 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
529 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
530 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
532 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
534 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
535 listing, if off_t is large enough
536 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
538 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
539 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
541 * fix POST to local CGI
542 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
543 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
545 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
546 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
548 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
550 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
551 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
552 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
553 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
554 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
555 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
557 * enhancements in text wrapping
558 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
559 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
565 Released on 2006-11-19.
567 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
568 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
569 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
570 * build: Minix3 compatibility
575 Released on 2006-01-29.
577 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
578 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
581 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
583 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
584 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
585 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
586 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
587 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
588 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
589 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
590 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
591 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
594 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
595 -----------------------
597 Released on 2006-01-01.
599 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
600 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
601 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
602 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
604 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
605 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
606 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
607 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
608 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
609 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
610 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
611 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
612 * move from CVS to GIT
617 Released on 2005-09-15.
619 * external editor is configurable at run-time
624 Released on 2005-04-06.
626 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
632 Released on 2005-01-30.
634 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
635 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
637 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
638 -----------------------
640 Released on 2004-12-24.
642 * licensed under GPLv2 only
644 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
645 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
646 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
647 * multiple URIs on the command line
648 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
649 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
650 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
651 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
652 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
653 * manual cookies creating and editing
654 * incremental searching (press '#/')
655 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
656 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
657 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
658 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
659 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
660 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
661 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
662 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
663 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
664 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
665 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
666 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
667 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
668 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
669 * enhanced documentation
674 Released on 2004-09-24.
676 * directional links navigation
677 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
678 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
683 Released on 2004-01-23.
685 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
686 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
687 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
688 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
689 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
690 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
691 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
692 since its document was loaded
694 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
695 ------------------------
697 Released on 2003-12-24.
699 * used gettext for internationalization
700 * support for background document colors
702 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
704 * Guile scripting extensions
709 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
710 * document marks support
711 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
712 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
713 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
714 * HTTPS proxy support
715 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
717 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
718 -----------------------
720 Released on 2002-12-24.
723 * basic proxy auth support
724 * cookies parser rewritten
725 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
726 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
728 * global history support (+vlink support)
729 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
730 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
731 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
732 * support for utf8 i/o
733 * mouse wheel support
734 * portability enhancements
735 * performance enhancements
736 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
737 * downloads resuming support
739 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
740 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
741 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
742 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
743 your old config files!!!)
744 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
745 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
746 * colorful user interface
747 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
748 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
749 * extensive memory debugging support
754 Released on 2002-03-02.
757 * external textarea editor
758 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
760 * rewritten options handling
761 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
762 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
763 * added possibility to change default colors settings
768 Released on 2001-10-26.
770 * secured cookies file creation
771 * support for title attribute of img tag
772 * Catalan translation
773 * Romanian translation
774 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
775 * <listing> tag support
780 Released on 2001-10-06.
782 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
783 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
784 * http referrer, true http referrer
785 * limited textarea external editor support
786 * partial fix of
787 * enhanced manual page
788 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source