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 0.12pre2.GIT now:
9 ------------------------
11 To be released as 0.12pre3, 0.12rc1, or even 0.12.0. This branch also
12 includes the changes listed under ``ELinks 0.11.5.GIT'' below.
14 * critical: Fix assertion failure if IMG/@usemap refers to a different
16 * Preserve newlines in hidden input fields, and submit them as CRLF.
17 Previously, they could turn into spaces or disappear entirely.
18 * Perl scripts can use modules that dynamically load C libraries, like
19 XML::LibXML::SAX does.
20 * bug 885: Convert xterm titles to ISO-8859-1 by default, but add an
21 option to disable this. When removing control characters from a
22 title, note the charset. Don't truncate titles to the width of the
24 * bug 1061: Correctly truncate UTF-8 titles in the tab bar.
25 * enhancement: Updated ISO 8859-7, ISO 8859-16, KOI8-R, and MacRoman.
30 Released on 2008-09-21. This release also included the changes listed
31 under ``ELinks 0.11.5'' below.
33 * bug 954, enhancement 952: Keep track of ECMAScript form and input
34 objects instead of constructing new ones on every access. When the
35 corresponding ELinks internal objects are destroyed, detach the
36 ECMAScript objects from them, to prevent crashes. (Bug 954 was
37 first added in ELinks 0.11.4, and the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1
38 made crashes more likely.)
39 * critical bug 1029 in user SMJS: Prefer JS_CallFunctionValue over
40 JS_CallFunction, which can crash if given a closure.
41 * critical bug 1031: Use the same JSRuntime for both user SMJS and
42 scripts on web pages, to work around SpiderMonkey bug 378918.
43 * bug 1013: Don't assume errno values are between 0 and 100000.
44 * bug 1022: Add connection.ssl.trusted_ca_file setting for GnuTLS.
45 Before this, ELinks did not trust any certificate authorities when
46 it used GnuTLS, so certificate verification always failed if you
47 enabled it at connection.ssl.cert_verify.
48 * bug 1040: Blacklist servers that don't support TLS. This reduces
49 SSL errors especially in HTTP POST requests using GnuTLS.
50 * bugs 1007, 1041: Display unrecognized lines in FTP directory
51 listings, instead of annoying the user with error messages.
52 * Hurd bug 22861: Work around select() falsely reporting exceptions
54 * minor bug 951: SpiderMonkey scripting objects used to prevent ELinks
55 from removing files from the memory cache.
56 * build bug 1044: Check whether -rdynamic works with libraries.
57 With Sun Studio 11 on Solaris 9, it reportedly doesn't.
59 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
61 * critical: Fix crash after a tab was opened during reload. This was
62 triggered by the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1.
63 * critical bug 1018: Avoid an assertion failure when selecting a value
64 from a pop-up menu for an input field in a tab that is no longer
65 current, e.g. because another tab was opened with elinks -remote.
66 This bug was first released in ELinks 0.12pre1.
67 * major bug 1026 in user SMJS: Protect the callback of elinks.load_uri
68 from the garbage collector. The elinks.load_uri method was added in
70 * bug 955: Reset buttons no longer run FORM/@onsubmit, and
71 ``harmless'' buttons no longer submit the form. ELinks 0.12pre1
72 was the first release that had these bugs.
73 * bug 1033: Fix memory leak in ECMAScript window.open. ELinks 0.12pre1
74 was the first release that had this bug.
75 * bug 1034: ``Content-Encoding: deflate'' allows a zlib header as
76 specified in RFC 2616.
77 * Global ECMAScript functions alert, open, and setTimeout again work
78 with SEE. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that supported SEE
80 * build bug 1045: Fix ``void function cannot return value'' in
81 never_for_this_site() of src/formhist/formhist.c. ELinks 0.12pre1
82 was the first release that had this bug.
87 Released on 2008-07-01. This release also included the changes listed
88 under ``ELinks 0.11.4'' below.
92 * enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not merely UTF-8 I/O
93 of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions. Double-cell (aka
94 fullwidth) and supplementary characters work too, but combining
95 characters and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte
96 charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs
97 e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes
99 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
100 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
101 Unfortunately, Samba 3.2.0 and later seem GPLv2 incompatible.
105 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
106 bugs 548 and 771 with which malicious web pages can hang ELinks,
107 and its security goals are undocumented. If you must enable
108 ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
109 process with a sandbox of some kind.
110 * ECMAScript support no longer works with SpiderMonkey versions
111 earlier than JS1.5 RC3a.
112 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
113 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
114 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
115 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
117 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
118 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
119 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
120 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
121 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
122 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
126 * critical bug 723: fix dangling pointer crash when following a link
128 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
129 after HTTP proxy was changed
130 * critical bug 869: long mailcap entry buffer overflow (non-security)
132 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
133 * major bug 534, enhancement 517: fix HTTP gzip and bzip2
134 decompression, and add deflate and LZMA (requires LZMA Utils)
135 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
136 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
137 * bug 770: when the user chooses to resume an HTTP download, abort the
138 automatically started one and start a new one with the right range
139 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
140 sequences from the terminal
141 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
142 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
143 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
144 * bug 744: don't change ``//'' to ``/'' in URIs
145 * bug 766: speed up CSS
146 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
148 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
149 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
150 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
151 * several accesskey fixes
152 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
153 * minor bug 972: preserve the background color and underlining in
154 spaces when justifying
155 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
156 same line; don't let it fall to the next
157 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
158 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
159 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
160 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
162 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
163 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
164 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
165 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
166 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
167 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
169 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
170 * enhancement: new main actions move-cursor-line-start,
171 move-link-down-line, move-link-left-line, move-link-right-line,
173 * enhancement: new edit actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
175 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
176 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
177 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
178 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
180 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
182 * enhancement: make meta refresh content attribute parsing more tolerant
183 * enhancement: recognize meta http-equiv="cache-control" even if no
185 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
186 and on BSD via moused -z 4
187 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
188 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
189 * enhancement 994: treat only termios.c_cc[VERASE] as "Backspace"
190 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
191 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
193 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
194 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
196 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
198 * serious Debian bug 464384: fix warnings in alignof, ssl_connect, and
199 printing of off_t values
200 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
201 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
202 rest before propagating
203 * enhancement: make uninstall
204 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
205 * experimental enhancement: Win32 port (build with MinGW MSYS)
207 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
209 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
210 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
211 statements work as intended
212 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
213 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
214 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
215 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
216 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
217 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
218 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
219 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
220 window.setTimeout, window.status
222 Changes in the experimental NNTP client:
224 * HTML escape header field values
225 * Add support for handling RFC2047 encoded words
226 * Improve listing of articles for groups
228 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
230 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
231 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
232 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
233 support arbitrary XML though.
234 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
236 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
237 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
239 * enhancement: incremental parsing
242 ELinks 0.11.5.GIT now:
243 ----------------------
245 To be released as 0.11.6.
247 * critical: fix double-free crash if EOF immediately follows </MAP>
248 * critical bug 1053: fix crash if a download finishes after ELinks has
249 closed the terminal from which the download was started
250 * major bug 1004: ignore locales when comparing HTML element names and
251 similar strings, so e.g. ``title'' matches ``TITLE'' even in the
253 * minor: clicking a link with the mouse activates that link, rather
254 than the one selected with move-cursor-* actions
259 Released on 2008-09-21.
261 * critical bug 1027 in user SMJS: make elinks.keymaps treat null and
262 "none" as equivalent actions, avoiding a segfault
263 * critical bug 1030: an assertion used to fail in the search dialog
264 on systems that lack a usable <regex.h>
265 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
266 * bug 698: Attach controls to the intended form even if it is
267 incorrectly nested in a table. (Was broken in 0.11.4.)
268 * build bug 1021: fixed uninitialized variable in http_got_header
269 * build: don't use libgnutls-openssl, which is no longer GPLv2
270 compatible in GnuTLS 2.2.0
275 Released on 2008-06-20.
277 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
279 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
281 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
282 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
284 * critical bug 1016: avoid JSFunctionSpec for better compatibility
285 across versions of SpiderMonkey
286 * critical bugs 674, 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects
287 that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
288 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
290 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
291 and a possible subsequent crash
292 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
293 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
294 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
295 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
297 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
298 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
299 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
300 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
301 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
302 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
303 * bug 1014: fix incompatible pointer type in Perl_sys_init3 call
304 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
305 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
306 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
307 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
308 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
309 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
310 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
311 if the terminal uses some other charset
312 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
313 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
314 file name to a file:// URL
315 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
316 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
317 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
318 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
319 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
320 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
322 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
324 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
325 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
326 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
327 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
328 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
329 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
330 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
336 Released on 2007-04-15.
338 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
340 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
342 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
343 server responds to PASV with status 200
344 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
345 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
346 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
347 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
349 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
350 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
351 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
352 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
354 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
355 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
357 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
358 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
360 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
362 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
363 listing, if off_t is large enough
364 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
366 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
367 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
369 * fix POST to local CGI
370 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
371 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
373 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
374 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
376 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
378 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
379 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
380 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
381 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
382 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
383 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
385 * enhancements in text wrapping
386 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
387 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
393 Released on 2006-11-19.
395 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
396 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
397 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
398 * build: Minix3 compatibility
403 Released on 2006-01-29.
405 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
406 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
409 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
411 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
412 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
413 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
414 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
415 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
416 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
417 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
418 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
419 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
422 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
423 -----------------------
425 Released on 2006-01-01.
427 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
428 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
429 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
430 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
432 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
433 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
434 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
435 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
436 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
437 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
438 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
439 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
440 * move from CVS to GIT
445 Released on 2005-09-15.
447 * external editor is configurable at run-time
452 Released on 2005-04-06.
454 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
460 Released on 2005-01-30.
462 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
463 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
465 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
466 -----------------------
468 Released on 2004-12-24.
470 * licensed under GPLv2 only
472 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
473 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
474 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
475 * multiple URIs on the command line
476 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
477 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
478 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
479 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
480 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
481 * manual cookies creating and editing
482 * incremental searching (press '#/')
483 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
484 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
485 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
486 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
487 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
488 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
489 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
490 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
491 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
492 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
493 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
494 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
495 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
496 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
497 * enhanced documentation
502 Released on 2004-09-24.
504 * directional links navigation
505 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
506 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
511 Released on 2004-01-23.
513 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
514 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
515 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
516 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
517 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
518 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
519 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
520 since its document was loaded
522 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
523 ------------------------
525 Released on 2003-12-24.
527 * used gettext for internationalization
528 * support for background document colors
530 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
532 * Guile scripting extensions
537 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
538 * document marks support
539 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
540 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
541 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
542 * HTTPS proxy support
543 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
545 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
546 -----------------------
548 Released on 2002-12-24.
551 * basic proxy auth support
552 * cookies parser rewritten
553 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
554 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
556 * global history support (+vlink support)
557 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
558 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
559 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
560 * support for utf8 i/o
561 * mouse wheel support
562 * portability enhancements
563 * performance enhancements
564 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
565 * downloads resuming support
567 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
568 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
569 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
570 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
571 your old config files!!!)
572 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
573 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
574 * colorful user interface
575 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
576 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
577 * extensive memory debugging support
582 Released on 2002-03-02.
585 * external textarea editor
586 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
588 * rewritten options handling
589 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
590 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
591 * added possibility to change default colors settings
596 Released on 2001-10-26.
598 * secured cookies file creation
599 * support for title attribute of img tag
600 * Catalan translation
601 * Romanian translation
602 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
603 * <listing> tag support
608 Released on 2001-10-06.
610 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
611 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
612 * http referrer, true http referrer
613 * limited textarea external editor support
614 * partial fix of
615 * enhanced manual page
616 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source