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 0.11.4.
13 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
15 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
17 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
18 * major bug 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects that may
19 have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
20 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
22 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
23 and a possible subsequent crash
24 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
25 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
26 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
27 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
29 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
30 * fix passive FTP over IPv6 when connect() fails with EINPROGRESS
31 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
32 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
33 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
34 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
35 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
36 if the terminal uses some other charset
37 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
38 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
40 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
42 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
43 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
44 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
45 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
46 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
47 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
48 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
50 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
52 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
53 The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.11.4
54 is released. They are currently listed here just to show that they
55 have already been considered.
57 * Fixed bugs that were not in previous versions:
58 - bug 975: fix int/size_t pointer type mismatch in Perl interface
59 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
64 Released on 2007-04-15.
66 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
68 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
70 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
71 server responds to PASV with status 200
72 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
73 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
74 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
75 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
77 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
78 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
79 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
80 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
82 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
83 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
85 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
86 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
88 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
90 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
91 listing, if off_t is large enough
92 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
94 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
95 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
97 * fix POST to local CGI
98 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
99 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
101 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
102 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
104 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
106 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
107 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
108 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
109 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
110 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
111 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
113 * enhancements in text wrapping
114 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
115 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
121 Released on 2006-11-19.
123 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
124 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
125 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
126 * build: Minix3 compatibility
131 Released on 2006-01-29.
133 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
134 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
137 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
139 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
140 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
141 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
142 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
143 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
144 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
145 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
146 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
147 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
150 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
151 -----------------------
153 Released on 2006-01-01.
155 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
156 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
157 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
158 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
160 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
161 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
162 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
163 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
164 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
165 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
166 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
167 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
168 * move from CVS to GIT
173 Released on 2005-09-15.
175 * external editor is configurable at run-time
180 Released on 2005-04-06.
182 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
188 Released on 2005-01-30.
190 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
191 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
193 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
194 -----------------------
196 Released on 2004-12-24.
198 * licensed under GPLv2 only
200 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
201 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
202 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
203 * multiple URIs on the command line
204 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
205 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
206 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
207 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
208 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
209 * manual cookies creating and editing
210 * incremental searching (press '#/')
211 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
212 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
213 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
214 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
215 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
216 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
217 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
218 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
219 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
220 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
221 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
222 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
223 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
224 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
225 * enhanced documentation
230 Released on 2004-09-24.
232 * directional links navigation
233 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
234 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
239 Released on 2004-01-23.
241 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
242 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
243 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
244 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
245 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
246 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
247 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
248 since its document was loaded
250 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
251 ------------------------
253 Released on 2003-12-24.
255 * used gettext for internationalization
256 * support for background document colors
258 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
260 * Guile scripting extensions
265 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
266 * document marks support
267 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
268 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
269 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
270 * HTTPS proxy support
271 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
273 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
274 -----------------------
276 Released on 2002-12-24.
279 * basic proxy auth support
280 * cookies parser rewritten
281 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
282 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
284 * global history support (+vlink support)
285 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
286 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
287 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
288 * support for utf8 i/o
289 * mouse wheel support
290 * portability enhancements
291 * performance enhancements
292 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
293 * downloads resuming support
295 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
296 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
297 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
298 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
299 your old config files!!!)
300 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
301 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
302 * colorful user interface
303 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
304 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
305 * extensive memory debugging support
310 Released on 2002-03-02.
313 * external textarea editor
314 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
316 * rewritten options handling
317 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
318 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
319 * added possibility to change default colors settings
324 Released on 2001-10-26.
326 * secured cookies file creation
327 * support for title attribute of img tag
328 * Catalan translation
329 * Romanian translation
330 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
331 * <listing> tag support
336 Released on 2001-10-06.
338 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
339 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
340 * http referrer, true http referrer
341 * limited textarea external editor support
342 * partial fix of
343 * enhanced manual page
344 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source