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
8 ELinks 0.12pre5.GIT now:
9 ------------------------
11 To be released as 0.12pre6 or 0.12rc1.
13 * major bug 764: Correctly initialize options on big-endian 64-bit
16 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
18 * critical bug 943: Don't let user JavaScripts call any methods of
19 ``elinks.action'' in tabs that do not have the focus. If a tab was
20 closed with ``elinks.action.tab_close'' while it had pop-up windows,
21 ELinks could crash; as a precaution, don't allow other actions
22 either. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that supported
24 * critical bug 1083: Avoid an infinite loop when trying to decompress
25 malformed data. Caused by the bug 1068 fix in ELinks 0.12pre3.
30 Released on 2009-07-08.
32 * Debian bug 534835: Check the return values of some SpiderMonkey
33 functions, to avoid crashes if out of memory.
34 * minor bug 1017: To work around HTTP server bugs, disable
35 protocol.http.compression by default, until ELinks can report
36 decompression errors or automatically retry the connection.
37 * enhancement: The French translation was updated.
39 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
41 * critical bug 1081: To fix crashes caused by different definitions of
42 regfree() in TRE and in the system libc, link with TRE before any
43 other libraries. ELinks 0.12pre4 was the first release that had
45 * Searching for more than one fullwidth (e.g. Japanese) character now
47 * bug 1080: Support ``--dump-color-mode'' with ``--dump-charset UTF-8''.
48 Neither of those worked before ELinks 0.12pre1.
53 Released on 2009-05-31. This release also included the changes listed
54 under ``ELinks 0.11.6'' below.
58 * Debian build bug 529821: Use ``pkg-config gnutls'' instead of
59 ``libgnutls-config'', which is not included in GNUTLS 2.7.x.
60 You can no longer specify the location of GNUTLS using
61 ``configure --with-gnutls=DIR''.
65 * critical bug 1077: Fix crash opening a ``javascript:'' link in a new
67 * Debian bug 528661: If using GNUTLS 2.1.7 or later, disable various
68 TLS extensions (including CERT and SERVERNAME) to help handshaking
69 with the SSLv3-only bugzilla.novell.com.
70 * Debian build bug 526349: Include asciidoc.py from AsciiDoc 7.1.2,
71 to remove all dependencies on the installed version.
72 * build enhancement: Recognize ``configure --without-tre''.
74 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
76 * critical bug 1071: Fix crash in get_dom_node_child. ELinks 0.12pre1
77 was the first release that had this bug.
78 * bug 765: Opening a new tab no longer asks about the document of the
79 previous tab. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that had this
85 Released on 2009-03-29. This release also included the changes listed
86 under ``ELinks 0.11.6'' below.
90 * bug 1060: Regexp searching now requires the TRE library.
91 * lzma disabled by default. It's rarely used and doesn't build with new xz.
95 * critical: Fix assertion failure if IMG/@usemap refers to a different
97 * Preserve newlines in hidden input fields, and submit them as CRLF.
98 Previously, they could turn into spaces or disappear entirely.
99 * Perl scripts can use modules that dynamically load C libraries, like
100 XML::LibXML::SAX does.
101 * bug 153: Preserve Unicode characters in XBEL bookmark files.
102 However, Unicode in URIs (really IRIs) does not work reliably yet;
103 this is being tracked as bug 1066.
104 * bug 885: Convert xterm titles to ISO-8859-1 by default, but add an
105 option to disable this. When removing control characters from a
106 title, note the charset. Don't truncate titles to the width of the
108 * bug 1061: Correctly truncate UTF-8 titles in the tab bar.
109 * bug 1068: ELinks used to display a blank or truncated page if an
110 HTTP/1.1 server sent a compressed body with incorrect Content-Length.
111 That has now been fixed, and a new option (protocol.http.compression)
113 * Don't crash when the search-toggle-regex action is used and no regular
114 expression support is compiled in.
115 * minor bug 761: When reading bookmarks from an XBEL file, distinguish
116 attribute names from attribute values.
117 * enhancement: Updated ISO 8859-7, ISO 8859-16, KOI8-R, and MacRoman.
119 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
121 * critical bug 1067: Fixed a crash in the RSS parser that ``configure
122 --enable-html-highlight'' enables. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first
123 release that had this bug.
124 * bug 1069: ELinks didn't report ECMAScript errors, even if the
125 ecmascript.error_reporting option was turned on. ELinks 0.12pre2
126 was the first release that had this bug.
131 Released on 2008-09-21. This release also included the changes listed
132 under ``ELinks 0.11.5'' below.
134 * bug 954, enhancement 952: Keep track of ECMAScript form and input
135 objects instead of constructing new ones on every access. When the
136 corresponding ELinks internal objects are destroyed, detach the
137 ECMAScript objects from them, to prevent crashes. (Bug 954 was
138 first added in ELinks 0.11.4, and the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1
139 made crashes more likely.)
140 * critical bug 1029 in user SMJS: Prefer JS_CallFunctionValue over
141 JS_CallFunction, which can crash if given a closure.
142 * critical bug 1031: Use the same JSRuntime for both user SMJS and
143 scripts on web pages, to work around SpiderMonkey bug 378918.
144 * bug 1013: Don't assume errno values are between 0 and 100000.
145 * bug 1022: Add connection.ssl.trusted_ca_file setting for GnuTLS.
146 Before this, ELinks did not trust any certificate authorities when
147 it used GnuTLS, so certificate verification always failed if you
148 enabled it at connection.ssl.cert_verify.
149 * bug 1040: Blacklist servers that don't support TLS. This reduces
150 SSL errors especially in HTTP POST requests using GnuTLS.
151 * bugs 1007, 1041: Display unrecognized lines in FTP directory
152 listings, instead of annoying the user with error messages.
153 * Hurd bug 22861: Work around select() falsely reporting exceptions
155 * minor bug 951: SpiderMonkey scripting objects used to prevent ELinks
156 from removing files from the memory cache.
157 * build bug 1044: Check whether -rdynamic works with libraries.
158 With Sun Studio 11 on Solaris 9, it reportedly doesn't.
160 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
162 * critical: Fix crash after a tab was opened during reload. This was
163 triggered by the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1.
164 * critical bug 1018: Avoid an assertion failure when selecting a value
165 from a pop-up menu for an input field in a tab that is no longer
166 current, e.g. because another tab was opened with elinks -remote.
167 This bug was first released in ELinks 0.12pre1.
168 * major bug 1026 in user SMJS: Protect the callback of elinks.load_uri
169 from the garbage collector. The elinks.load_uri method was added in
171 * bug 955: Reset buttons no longer run FORM/@onsubmit, and
172 ``harmless'' buttons no longer submit the form. ELinks 0.12pre1
173 was the first release that had these bugs.
174 * bug 1033: Fix memory leak in ECMAScript window.open. ELinks 0.12pre1
175 was the first release that had this bug.
176 * bug 1034: ``Content-Encoding: deflate'' allows a zlib header as
177 specified in RFC 2616.
178 * Global ECMAScript functions alert, open, and setTimeout again work
179 with SEE. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that supported SEE
181 * build bug 1045: Fix ``void function cannot return value'' in
182 never_for_this_site() of src/formhist/formhist.c. ELinks 0.12pre1
183 was the first release that had this bug.
188 Released on 2008-07-01. This release also included the changes listed
189 under ``ELinks 0.11.4'' below.
191 Notable new features:
193 * enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not merely UTF-8 I/O
194 of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions. Double-cell (aka
195 fullwidth) and supplementary characters work too, but combining
196 characters and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte
197 charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs
198 e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes
200 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
201 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
202 Unfortunately, Samba 3.2.0 and later seem GPLv2 incompatible.
206 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
207 bugs 548 and 771 with which malicious web pages can hang ELinks,
208 and its security goals are undocumented. If you must enable
209 ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
210 process with a sandbox of some kind.
211 * ECMAScript support no longer works with SpiderMonkey versions
212 earlier than JS1.5 RC3a.
213 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
214 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
215 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
216 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
218 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
219 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
220 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
221 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
222 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
223 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
227 * critical bug 723: fix dangling pointer crash when following a link
229 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
230 after HTTP proxy was changed
231 * critical bug 869: long mailcap entry buffer overflow (non-security)
233 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
234 * major bug 534, enhancement 517: fix HTTP gzip and bzip2
235 decompression, and add deflate and LZMA (requires LZMA Utils)
236 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
237 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
238 * bug 770: when the user chooses to resume an HTTP download, abort the
239 automatically started one and start a new one with the right range
240 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
241 sequences from the terminal
242 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
243 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
244 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
245 * bug 744: don't change ``//'' to ``/'' in URIs
246 * bug 766: speed up CSS
247 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
249 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
250 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
251 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
252 * several accesskey fixes
253 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
254 * minor bug 972: preserve the background color and underlining in
255 spaces when justifying
256 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
257 same line; don't let it fall to the next
258 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
259 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
260 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
261 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
263 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
264 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
265 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
266 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
267 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
268 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
270 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
271 * enhancement: new main actions move-cursor-line-start,
272 move-link-down-line, move-link-left-line, move-link-right-line,
274 * enhancement: new edit actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
276 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
277 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
278 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
279 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
281 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
283 * enhancement: make meta refresh content attribute parsing more tolerant
284 * enhancement: recognize meta http-equiv="cache-control" even if no
286 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
287 and on BSD via moused -z 4
288 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
289 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
290 * enhancement 994: treat only termios.c_cc[VERASE] as "Backspace"
291 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
292 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
294 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
295 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
297 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
299 * serious Debian bug 464384: fix warnings in alignof, ssl_connect, and
300 printing of off_t values
301 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
302 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
303 rest before propagating
304 * enhancement: make uninstall
305 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
306 * experimental enhancement: Win32 port (build with MinGW MSYS)
308 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
310 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
311 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
312 statements work as intended
313 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
314 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
315 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
316 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
317 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
318 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
319 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
320 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
321 window.setTimeout, window.status
323 Changes in the experimental NNTP client:
325 * HTML escape header field values
326 * Add support for handling RFC2047 encoded words
327 * Improve listing of articles for groups
329 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
331 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
332 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
333 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
334 support arbitrary XML though.
335 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
337 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
338 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
340 * enhancement: incremental parsing
343 ELinks 0.11.6.GIT now:
344 ----------------------
346 To be released as 0.11.7.
348 * critical bug 1077: fix crash opening a ``javascript:'' link in a new
354 Released on 2009-03-21.
356 * critical: fix double-free crash if EOF immediately follows </MAP>
357 * critical bug 1053: fix crash if a download finishes after ELinks has
358 closed the terminal from which the download was started
359 * major bug 1004: ignore locales when comparing HTML element names and
360 similar strings, so e.g. ``title'' matches ``TITLE'' even in the
362 * minor: clicking a link with the mouse activates that link, rather
363 than the one selected with move-cursor-* actions
364 * build bug 1047: attempt to make inline functions satisfy C99 6.7.4p3
365 so that ELinks can be built on OpenSolaris
370 Released on 2008-09-21.
372 * critical bug 1027 in user SMJS: make elinks.keymaps treat null and
373 "none" as equivalent actions, avoiding a segfault
374 * critical bug 1030: an assertion used to fail in the search dialog
375 on systems that lack a usable <regex.h>
376 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
377 * bug 698: Attach controls to the intended form even if it is
378 incorrectly nested in a table. (Was broken in 0.11.4.)
379 * build bug 1021: fixed uninitialized variable in http_got_header
380 * build: don't use libgnutls-openssl, which is no longer GPLv2
381 compatible in GnuTLS 2.2.0
386 Released on 2008-06-20.
388 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
390 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
392 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
393 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
395 * critical bug 1016: avoid JSFunctionSpec for better compatibility
396 across versions of SpiderMonkey
397 * critical bugs 674, 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects
398 that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
399 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
401 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
402 and a possible subsequent crash
403 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
404 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
405 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
406 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
408 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
409 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
410 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
411 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
412 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
413 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
414 * bug 1014: fix incompatible pointer type in Perl_sys_init3 call
415 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
416 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
417 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
418 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
419 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
420 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
421 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
422 if the terminal uses some other charset
423 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
424 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
425 file name to a file:// URL
426 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
427 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
428 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
429 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
430 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
431 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
433 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
435 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
436 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
437 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
438 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
439 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
440 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
441 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
447 Released on 2007-04-15.
449 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
451 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
453 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
454 server responds to PASV with status 200
455 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
456 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
457 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
458 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
460 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
461 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
462 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
463 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
465 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
466 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
468 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
469 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
471 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
473 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
474 listing, if off_t is large enough
475 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
477 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
478 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
480 * fix POST to local CGI
481 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
482 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
484 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
485 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
487 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
489 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
490 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
491 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
492 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
493 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
494 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
496 * enhancements in text wrapping
497 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
498 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
504 Released on 2006-11-19.
506 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
507 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
508 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
509 * build: Minix3 compatibility
514 Released on 2006-01-29.
516 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
517 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
520 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
522 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
523 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
524 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
525 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
526 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
527 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
528 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
529 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
530 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
533 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
534 -----------------------
536 Released on 2006-01-01.
538 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
539 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
540 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
541 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
543 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
544 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
545 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
546 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
547 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
548 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
549 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
550 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
551 * move from CVS to GIT
556 Released on 2005-09-15.
558 * external editor is configurable at run-time
563 Released on 2005-04-06.
565 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
571 Released on 2005-01-30.
573 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
574 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
576 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
577 -----------------------
579 Released on 2004-12-24.
581 * licensed under GPLv2 only
583 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
584 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
585 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
586 * multiple URIs on the command line
587 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
588 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
589 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
590 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
591 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
592 * manual cookies creating and editing
593 * incremental searching (press '#/')
594 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
595 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
596 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
597 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
598 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
599 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
600 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
601 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
602 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
603 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
604 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
605 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
606 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
607 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
608 * enhanced documentation
613 Released on 2004-09-24.
615 * directional links navigation
616 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
617 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
622 Released on 2004-01-23.
624 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
625 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
626 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
627 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
628 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
629 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
630 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
631 since its document was loaded
633 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
634 ------------------------
636 Released on 2003-12-24.
638 * used gettext for internationalization
639 * support for background document colors
641 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
643 * Guile scripting extensions
648 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
649 * document marks support
650 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
651 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
652 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
653 * HTTPS proxy support
654 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
656 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
657 -----------------------
659 Released on 2002-12-24.
662 * basic proxy auth support
663 * cookies parser rewritten
664 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
665 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
667 * global history support (+vlink support)
668 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
669 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
670 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
671 * support for utf8 i/o
672 * mouse wheel support
673 * portability enhancements
674 * performance enhancements
675 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
676 * downloads resuming support
678 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
679 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
680 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
681 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
682 your old config files!!!)
683 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
684 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
685 * colorful user interface
686 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
687 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
688 * extensive memory debugging support
693 Released on 2002-03-02.
696 * external textarea editor
697 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
699 * rewritten options handling
700 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
701 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
702 * added possibility to change default colors settings
707 Released on 2001-10-26.
709 * secured cookies file creation
710 * support for title attribute of img tag
711 * Catalan translation
712 * Romanian translation
713 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
714 * <listing> tag support
719 Released on 2001-10-06.
721 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
722 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
723 * http referrer, true http referrer
724 * limited textarea external editor support
725 * partial fix of
726 * enhanced manual page
727 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source