4 You can see the complete list of recent changes, bugfixes and new features
5 in the http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi[gitweb interface]. See the ChangeLog
11 To be released as 0.11.4.
13 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
14 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
15 and a possible subsequent crash
16 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
18 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/
19 * bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document if the
20 terminal uses some other charset
21 * bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
22 * fix passive FTP over IPv6 when connect() fails with EINPROGRESS
23 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
28 Released on 2007-04-15.
30 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
32 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
34 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
35 server responds to PASV with status 200
36 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
37 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
38 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
39 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
41 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
42 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
43 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
44 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
46 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
47 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
49 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
50 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
52 * major bug 937: don't send the entire HTTPS request to a CONNECT
54 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
55 listing, if off_t is large enough
56 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
58 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
59 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
61 * fix POST to local CGI
62 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
63 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
65 * secure file saving: restore umask after _all_ failure conditions
66 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
68 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
70 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
71 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
72 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
73 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
74 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
75 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
77 * enhancements in text wrapping
78 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
79 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
85 Released on 2006-11-19.
87 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
88 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
89 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
90 * build: Minix3 compatibility
95 Released on 2006-01-29.
97 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
98 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
101 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
103 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
104 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
105 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
106 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
107 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
108 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
109 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
110 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
111 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
114 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
115 -----------------------
117 Released on 2006-01-01.
119 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
120 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
121 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
122 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
124 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
125 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
126 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
127 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
128 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
129 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
130 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
131 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
132 * move from CVS to GIT
137 Released on 2005-09-15.
139 * external editor is configurable at run-time
144 Released on 2005-04-06.
146 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
152 Released on 2005-01-30.
154 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
155 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
157 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
158 -----------------------
160 Released on 2004-12-24.
163 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
164 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
165 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
166 * multiple URIs on the command line
167 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
168 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
169 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
170 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
171 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
172 * manual cookies creating and editing
173 * incremental searching (press '#/')
174 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
175 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
176 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html)
177 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (i.e. http4 or ftp6)
178 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
179 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
180 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
181 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and 2980) (experimental)
182 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
183 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
184 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
185 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
186 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
187 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
188 * enhanced documentation
193 Released on 2004-09-24.
195 * directional links navigation
196 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
197 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
202 Released on 2004-01-23.
204 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
205 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
206 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
207 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
208 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
209 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
210 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
211 since its document was loaded
213 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
214 ------------------------
216 Released on 2003-12-24.
218 * used gettext for internationalization
219 * support for background document colors
221 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
223 * Guile scripting extensions
228 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
229 * document marks support
230 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
231 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
232 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
233 * HTTPS proxy support
234 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
236 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
237 -----------------------
239 Released on 2002-12-24.
242 * basic proxy auth support
243 * cookies parser rewritten
244 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
245 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
247 * global history support (+vlink support)
248 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
249 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
250 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
251 * support for utf8 i/o
252 * mouse wheel support
253 * portability enhancements
254 * performance enhancements
255 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
256 * downloads resuming support
258 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
259 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
260 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
261 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
262 your old config files!!!)
263 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
264 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
265 * colorful user interface
266 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
267 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
268 * extensive memory debugging support
273 Released on 2002-03-02.
276 * external textarea editor
277 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
279 * rewritten options handling
280 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
281 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
282 * added possibility to change default colors settings
287 Released on 2001-10-26.
289 * secured cookies file creation
290 * support for title attribute of img tag
291 * Catalan translation
292 * Romanian translation
293 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
294 * <listing> tag support
299 Released on 2001-10-06.
301 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
302 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
303 * http referrer, true http referrer
304 * limited textarea external editor support
305 * partial fix of
306 * enhanced manual page
307 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source