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 0.12pre1.GIT now:
9 ------------------------
11 To be released as 0.12pre2, 0.12rc1, or even 0.12.0. This branch
12 generally also includes the bug fixes made in ELinks 0.11.4.GIT.
14 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
16 * bug 955: Reset buttons no longer run FORM/@onsubmit, and
17 ``harmless'' buttons no longer submit the form. ELinks 0.12pre1
18 was the first release that had these bugs.
23 Released on 2008-07-01. This release also included all the bug fixes
28 * enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not merely UTF-8 I/O
29 of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions. Double-cell (aka
30 fullwidth) and supplementary characters work too, but combining
31 characters and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte
32 charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs
33 e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes
35 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
36 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
40 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
41 bugs 548 and 771 with which malicious web pages can hang ELinks,
42 and its security goals are undocumented. If you must enable
43 ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
44 process with a sandbox of some kind.
45 * ECMAScript support no longer works with SpiderMonkey versions
46 earlier than JS1.5 RC3a.
47 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
48 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
49 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
50 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
52 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
53 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
54 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
55 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
56 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
57 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
61 * critical bug 723: fix dangling pointer crash when following a link
63 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
64 after HTTP proxy was changed
65 * critical bug 869: long mailcap entry buffer overflow (non-security)
67 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
68 * major bug 534, enhancement 517: fix HTTP gzip and bzip2
69 decompression, and add deflate and LZMA (requires LZMA Utils)
70 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
71 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
72 * bug 770: when the user chooses to resume an HTTP download, abort the
73 automatically started one and start a new one with the right range
74 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
75 sequences from the terminal
76 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
77 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
78 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
79 * bug 744: don't change ``//'' to ``/'' in URIs
80 * bug 766: speed up CSS
81 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
83 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
84 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
85 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
86 * several accesskey fixes
87 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
88 * minor bug 972: preserve the background color and underlining in
89 spaces when justifying
90 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
91 same line; don't let it fall to the next
92 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
93 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
94 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
95 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
97 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
98 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
99 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
100 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
101 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
102 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
104 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
105 * enhancement: new main actions move-cursor-line-start,
106 move-link-down-line, move-link-left-line, move-link-right-line,
108 * enhancement: new edit actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
110 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
111 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
112 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
113 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
115 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
117 * enhancement: make meta refresh content attribute parsing more tolerant
118 * enhancement: recognize meta http-equiv="cache-control" even if no
120 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
121 and on BSD via moused -z 4
122 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
123 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
124 * enhancement 994: treat only termios.c_cc[VERASE] as "Backspace"
125 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
126 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
128 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
129 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
131 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
133 * serious Debian bug 464384: fix warnings in alignof, ssl_connect, and
134 printing of off_t values
135 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
136 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
137 rest before propagating
138 * enhancement: make uninstall
139 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
140 * experimental enhancement: Win32 port (build with MinGW MSYS)
142 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
144 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
145 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
146 statements work as intended
147 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
148 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
149 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
150 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
151 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
152 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
153 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
154 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
155 window.setTimeout, window.status
157 Changes in the experimental NNTP client:
159 * HTML escape header field values
160 * Add support for handling RFC2047 encoded words
161 * Improve listing of articles for groups
163 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
165 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
166 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
167 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
168 support arbitrary XML though.
169 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
171 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
172 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
174 * enhancement: incremental parsing
177 ELinks 0.11.4.GIT now:
178 ----------------------
180 To be released as 0.11.5.
182 * build bug 1021: fixed uninitialized variable in http_got_header
187 Released on 2008-06-20.
189 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
191 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
193 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
194 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
196 * critical bug 1016: avoid JSFunctionSpec for better compatibility
197 across versions of SpiderMonkey
198 * critical bugs 674, 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects
199 that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
200 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
202 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
203 and a possible subsequent crash
204 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
205 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
206 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
207 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
209 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
210 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
211 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
212 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
213 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
214 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
215 * bug 1014: fix incompatible pointer type in Perl_sys_init3 call
216 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
217 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
218 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
219 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
220 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
221 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
222 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
223 if the terminal uses some other charset
224 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
225 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
226 file name to a file:// URL
227 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
228 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
229 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
230 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
231 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
232 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
234 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
236 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
237 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
238 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
239 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
240 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
241 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
242 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
248 Released on 2007-04-15.
250 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
252 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
254 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
255 server responds to PASV with status 200
256 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
257 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
258 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
259 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
261 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
262 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
263 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
264 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
266 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
267 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
269 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
270 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
272 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
274 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
275 listing, if off_t is large enough
276 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
278 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
279 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
281 * fix POST to local CGI
282 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
283 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
285 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
286 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
288 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
290 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
291 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
292 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
293 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
294 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
295 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
297 * enhancements in text wrapping
298 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
299 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
305 Released on 2006-11-19.
307 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
308 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
309 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
310 * build: Minix3 compatibility
315 Released on 2006-01-29.
317 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
318 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
321 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
323 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
324 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
325 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
326 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
327 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
328 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
329 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
330 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
331 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
334 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
335 -----------------------
337 Released on 2006-01-01.
339 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
340 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
341 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
342 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
344 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
345 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
346 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
347 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
348 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
349 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
350 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
351 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
352 * move from CVS to GIT
357 Released on 2005-09-15.
359 * external editor is configurable at run-time
364 Released on 2005-04-06.
366 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
372 Released on 2005-01-30.
374 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
375 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
377 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
378 -----------------------
380 Released on 2004-12-24.
382 * licensed under GPLv2 only
384 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
385 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
386 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
387 * multiple URIs on the command line
388 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
389 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
390 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
391 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
392 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
393 * manual cookies creating and editing
394 * incremental searching (press '#/')
395 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
396 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
397 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
398 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
399 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
400 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
401 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
402 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
403 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
404 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
405 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
406 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
407 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
408 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
409 * enhanced documentation
414 Released on 2004-09-24.
416 * directional links navigation
417 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
418 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
423 Released on 2004-01-23.
425 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
426 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
427 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
428 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
429 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
430 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
431 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
432 since its document was loaded
434 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
435 ------------------------
437 Released on 2003-12-24.
439 * used gettext for internationalization
440 * support for background document colors
442 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
444 * Guile scripting extensions
449 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
450 * document marks support
451 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
452 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
453 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
454 * HTTPS proxy support
455 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
457 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
458 -----------------------
460 Released on 2002-12-24.
463 * basic proxy auth support
464 * cookies parser rewritten
465 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
466 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
468 * global history support (+vlink support)
469 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
470 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
471 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
472 * support for utf8 i/o
473 * mouse wheel support
474 * portability enhancements
475 * performance enhancements
476 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
477 * downloads resuming support
479 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
480 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
481 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
482 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
483 your old config files!!!)
484 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
485 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
486 * colorful user interface
487 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
488 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
489 * extensive memory debugging support
494 Released on 2002-03-02.
497 * external textarea editor
498 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
500 * rewritten options handling
501 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
502 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
503 * added possibility to change default colors settings
508 Released on 2001-10-26.
510 * secured cookies file creation
511 * support for title attribute of img tag
512 * Catalan translation
513 * Romanian translation
514 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
515 * <listing> tag support
520 Released on 2001-10-06.
522 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
523 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
524 * http referrer, true http referrer
525 * limited textarea external editor support
526 * partial fix of
527 * enhanced manual page
528 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source