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1 Release info
2 ============
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
6 file for details.
8 ELinks 0.11.4:
9 --------------
11 Released on 2008-06-20.
13 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
14 form_state
15 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
16 failed''
17 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
18 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
19 too few parameters
20 * critical bug 1016: avoid JSFunctionSpec for better compatibility
21 across versions of SpiderMonkey
22 * critical bugs 674, 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects
23 that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
24 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
25 using ../po files
26 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
27 and a possible subsequent crash
28 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
29 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
30 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
31 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
32 hostname
33 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
34 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
35 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
36 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
37 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
38 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
39 * bug 1014: fix incompatible pointer type in Perl_sys_init3 call
40 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
41 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
42 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
43 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
44 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
45 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
46 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
47 if the terminal uses some other charset
48 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
49 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
50 file name to a file:// URL
51 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
52 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
53 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
54 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
55 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
56 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
57 on SunOS
58 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
59 incompatibility)
60 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
61 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
62 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
63 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
64 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
65 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
66 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
67 munmap() doesn't
69 ELinks 0.11.3:
70 --------------
72 Released on 2007-04-15.
74 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
75 scripting
76 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
77 table cell
78 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
79 server responds to PASV with status 200
80 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
81 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
82 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
83 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
84 mremap()
85 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
86 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
87 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
88 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
89 setting
90 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
91 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
92 crash with -no-home
93 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
94 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
95 radio button
96 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
97 a CONNECT proxy
98 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
99 listing, if off_t is large enough
100 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
101 spaces
102 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
103 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
104 authentication
105 * fix POST to local CGI
106 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
107 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
108 should cause a save
109 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
110 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
111 it up
112 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
113 rather than -lpython
114 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
115 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
116 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
117 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
118 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
119 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
120 screen readers
121 * enhancements in text wrapping
122 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
123 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
124 Content-Type
126 ELinks 0.11.2:
127 --------------
129 Released on 2006-11-19.
131 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
132 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
133 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
134 * build: Minix3 compatibility
136 ELinks 0.11.1:
137 --------------
139 Released on 2006-01-29.
141 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
142 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
143 uppercase URIs
144 * fix Gopher crashes
145 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
146 in contrib/cgi/)
147 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
148 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
149 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
150 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
151 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
152 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
153 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
154 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
155 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
156 the source directory
158 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
159 -----------------------
161 Released on 2006-01-01.
163 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
164 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
165 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
166 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
167 * 88 colors support
168 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
169 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
170 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
171 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
172 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
173 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
174 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
175 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
176 * move from CVS to GIT
178 ELinks 0.10.6:
179 --------------
181 Released on 2005-09-15.
183 * external editor is configurable at run-time
185 ELinks 0.10.4:
186 --------------
188 Released on 2005-04-06.
190 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
191 are now highlighted
193 ELinks 0.10.2:
194 --------------
196 Released on 2005-01-30.
198 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
199 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
201 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
202 -----------------------
204 Released on 2004-12-24.
206 * licensed under GPLv2 only
207 * simple CSS
208 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
209 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
210 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
211 * multiple URIs on the command line
212 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
213 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
214 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
215 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
216 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
217 * manual cookies creating and editing
218 * incremental searching (press '#/')
219 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
220 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
221 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
222 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
223 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
224 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
225 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
226 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
227 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
228 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
229 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
230 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
231 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
232 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
233 * enhanced documentation
235 ELinks 0.9.2:
236 -------------
238 Released on 2004-09-24.
240 * directional links navigation
241 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
242 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
244 ELinks 0.9.1:
245 -------------
247 Released on 2004-01-23.
249 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
250 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
251 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
252 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
253 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
254 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
255 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
256 since its document was loaded
258 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
259 ------------------------
261 Released on 2003-12-24.
263 * used gettext for internationalization
264 * support for background document colors
265 * tabs support
266 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
267 * local CGI support
268 * Guile scripting extensions
269 * HTML meta refresh
270 * forms history
271 * 256 colors support
272 * regex searches
273 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
274 * document marks support
275 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
276 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
277 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
278 * HTTPS proxy support
279 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
281 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
282 -----------------------
284 Released on 2002-12-24.
286 * merged HTTP_AUTH
287 * basic proxy auth support
288 * cookies parser rewritten
289 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
290 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
291 mode support, ...
292 * global history support (+vlink support)
293 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
294 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
295 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
296 * support for utf8 i/o
297 * mouse wheel support
298 * portability enhancements
299 * performance enhancements
300 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
301 * downloads resuming support
302 * mailcap support
303 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
304 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
305 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
306 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
307 your old config files!!!)
308 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
309 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
310 * colorful user interface
311 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
312 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
313 * extensive memory debugging support
315 ELinks 0.3.0:
316 -------------
318 Released on 2002-03-02.
320 * unhistory
321 * external textarea editor
322 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
323 * IPv6 support
324 * rewritten options handling
325 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
326 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
327 * added possibility to change default colors settings
329 Links 0.96-pb3:
330 ---------------
332 Released on 2001-10-26.
334 * secured cookies file creation
335 * support for title attribute of img tag
336 * Catalan translation
337 * Romanian translation
338 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
339 * <listing> tag support
341 Links 0.96-pb2:
342 ---------------
344 Released on 2001-10-06.
346 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
347 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
348 * http referrer, true http referrer
349 * limited textarea external editor support
350 * partial fix of
351 * enhanced manual page
352 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source
353 * fixed keybindings