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 * Perl scripts can use modules that dynamically load C libraries, like
15 XML::LibXML::SAX does.
20 Released on 2008-09-21. This release also included the changes listed
21 under ``ELinks 0.11.5'' below.
23 * bug 954, enhancement 952: Keep track of ECMAScript form and input
24 objects instead of constructing new ones on every access. When the
25 corresponding ELinks internal objects are destroyed, detach the
26 ECMAScript objects from them, to prevent crashes. (Bug 954 was
27 first added in ELinks 0.11.4, and the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1
28 made crashes more likely.)
29 * critical bug 1029 in user SMJS: Prefer JS_CallFunctionValue over
30 JS_CallFunction, which can crash if given a closure.
31 * critical bug 1031: Use the same JSRuntime for both user SMJS and
32 scripts on web pages, to work around SpiderMonkey bug 378918.
33 * bug 1013: Don't assume errno values are between 0 and 100000.
34 * bug 1022: Add connection.ssl.trusted_ca_file setting for GnuTLS.
35 Before this, ELinks did not trust any certificate authorities when
36 it used GnuTLS, so certificate verification always failed if you
37 enabled it at connection.ssl.cert_verify.
38 * bug 1040: Blacklist servers that don't support TLS. This reduces
39 SSL errors especially in HTTP POST requests using GnuTLS.
40 * bugs 1007, 1041: Display unrecognized lines in FTP directory
41 listings, instead of annoying the user with error messages.
42 * Hurd bug 22861: Work around select() falsely reporting exceptions
44 * minor bug 951: SpiderMonkey scripting objects used to prevent ELinks
45 from removing files from the memory cache.
46 * build bug 1044: Check whether -rdynamic works with libraries.
47 With Sun Studio 11 on Solaris 9, it reportedly doesn't.
49 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
51 * critical: Fix crash after a tab was opened during reload. This was
52 triggered by the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1.
53 * critical bug 1018: Avoid an assertion failure when selecting a value
54 from a pop-up menu for an input field in a tab that is no longer
55 current, e.g. because another tab was opened with elinks -remote.
56 This bug was first released in ELinks 0.12pre1.
57 * major bug 1026 in user SMJS: Protect the callback of elinks.load_uri
58 from the garbage collector. The elinks.load_uri method was added in
60 * bug 955: Reset buttons no longer run FORM/@onsubmit, and
61 ``harmless'' buttons no longer submit the form. ELinks 0.12pre1
62 was the first release that had these bugs.
63 * bug 1033: Fix memory leak in ECMAScript window.open. ELinks 0.12pre1
64 was the first release that had this bug.
65 * bug 1034: ``Content-Encoding: deflate'' allows a zlib header as
66 specified in RFC 2616.
67 * Global ECMAScript functions alert, open, and setTimeout again work
68 with SEE. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that supported SEE
70 * build bug 1045: Fix ``void function cannot return value'' in
71 never_for_this_site() of src/formhist/formhist.c. ELinks 0.12pre1
72 was the first release that had this bug.
77 Released on 2008-07-01. This release also included the changes listed
78 under ``ELinks 0.11.4'' below.
82 * enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not merely UTF-8 I/O
83 of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions. Double-cell (aka
84 fullwidth) and supplementary characters work too, but combining
85 characters and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte
86 charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs
87 e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes
89 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
90 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
94 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
95 bugs 548 and 771 with which malicious web pages can hang ELinks,
96 and its security goals are undocumented. If you must enable
97 ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
98 process with a sandbox of some kind.
99 * ECMAScript support no longer works with SpiderMonkey versions
100 earlier than JS1.5 RC3a.
101 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
102 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
103 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
104 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
106 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
107 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
108 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
109 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
110 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
111 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
115 * critical bug 723: fix dangling pointer crash when following a link
117 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
118 after HTTP proxy was changed
119 * critical bug 869: long mailcap entry buffer overflow (non-security)
121 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
122 * major bug 534, enhancement 517: fix HTTP gzip and bzip2
123 decompression, and add deflate and LZMA (requires LZMA Utils)
124 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
125 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
126 * bug 770: when the user chooses to resume an HTTP download, abort the
127 automatically started one and start a new one with the right range
128 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
129 sequences from the terminal
130 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
131 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
132 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
133 * bug 744: don't change ``//'' to ``/'' in URIs
134 * bug 766: speed up CSS
135 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
137 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
138 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
139 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
140 * several accesskey fixes
141 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
142 * minor bug 972: preserve the background color and underlining in
143 spaces when justifying
144 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
145 same line; don't let it fall to the next
146 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
147 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
148 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
149 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
151 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
152 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
153 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
154 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
155 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
156 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
158 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
159 * enhancement: new main actions move-cursor-line-start,
160 move-link-down-line, move-link-left-line, move-link-right-line,
162 * enhancement: new edit actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
164 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
165 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
166 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
167 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
169 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
171 * enhancement: make meta refresh content attribute parsing more tolerant
172 * enhancement: recognize meta http-equiv="cache-control" even if no
174 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
175 and on BSD via moused -z 4
176 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
177 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
178 * enhancement 994: treat only termios.c_cc[VERASE] as "Backspace"
179 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
180 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
182 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
183 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
185 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
187 * serious Debian bug 464384: fix warnings in alignof, ssl_connect, and
188 printing of off_t values
189 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
190 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
191 rest before propagating
192 * enhancement: make uninstall
193 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
194 * experimental enhancement: Win32 port (build with MinGW MSYS)
196 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
198 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
199 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
200 statements work as intended
201 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
202 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
203 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
204 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
205 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
206 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
207 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
208 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
209 window.setTimeout, window.status
211 Changes in the experimental NNTP client:
213 * HTML escape header field values
214 * Add support for handling RFC2047 encoded words
215 * Improve listing of articles for groups
217 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
219 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
220 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
221 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
222 support arbitrary XML though.
223 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
225 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
226 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
228 * enhancement: incremental parsing
231 ELinks 0.11.5.GIT now:
232 ----------------------
234 To be released as 0.11.6.
236 * critical bug 1053: fix crash if a download finishes after ELinks has
237 closed the terminal from which the download was started
242 Released on 2008-09-21.
244 * critical bug 1027 in user SMJS: make elinks.keymaps treat null and
245 "none" as equivalent actions, avoiding a segfault
246 * critical bug 1030: an assertion used to fail in the search dialog
247 on systems that lack a usable <regex.h>
248 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
249 * bug 698: Attach controls to the intended form even if it is
250 incorrectly nested in a table. (Was broken in 0.11.4.)
251 * build bug 1021: fixed uninitialized variable in http_got_header
252 * build: don't use libgnutls-openssl, which is no longer GPLv2
253 compatible in GnuTLS 2.2.0
258 Released on 2008-06-20.
260 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
262 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
264 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
265 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
267 * critical bug 1016: avoid JSFunctionSpec for better compatibility
268 across versions of SpiderMonkey
269 * critical bugs 674, 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects
270 that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
271 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
273 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
274 and a possible subsequent crash
275 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
276 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
277 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
278 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
280 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
281 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
282 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
283 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
284 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
285 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
286 * bug 1014: fix incompatible pointer type in Perl_sys_init3 call
287 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
288 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
289 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
290 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
291 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
292 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
293 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
294 if the terminal uses some other charset
295 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
296 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
297 file name to a file:// URL
298 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
299 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
300 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
301 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
302 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
303 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
305 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
307 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
308 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
309 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
310 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
311 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
312 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
313 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
319 Released on 2007-04-15.
321 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
323 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
325 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
326 server responds to PASV with status 200
327 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
328 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
329 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
330 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
332 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
333 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
334 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
335 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
337 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
338 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
340 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
341 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
343 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
345 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
346 listing, if off_t is large enough
347 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
349 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
350 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
352 * fix POST to local CGI
353 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
354 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
356 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
357 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
359 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
361 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
362 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
363 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
364 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
365 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
366 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
368 * enhancements in text wrapping
369 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
370 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
376 Released on 2006-11-19.
378 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
379 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
380 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
381 * build: Minix3 compatibility
386 Released on 2006-01-29.
388 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
389 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
392 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
394 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
395 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
396 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
397 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
398 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
399 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
400 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
401 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
402 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
405 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
406 -----------------------
408 Released on 2006-01-01.
410 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
411 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
412 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
413 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
415 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
416 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
417 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
418 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
419 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
420 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
421 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
422 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
423 * move from CVS to GIT
428 Released on 2005-09-15.
430 * external editor is configurable at run-time
435 Released on 2005-04-06.
437 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
443 Released on 2005-01-30.
445 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
446 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
448 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
449 -----------------------
451 Released on 2004-12-24.
453 * licensed under GPLv2 only
455 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
456 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
457 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
458 * multiple URIs on the command line
459 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
460 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
461 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
462 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
463 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
464 * manual cookies creating and editing
465 * incremental searching (press '#/')
466 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
467 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
468 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
469 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
470 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
471 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
472 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
473 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
474 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
475 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
476 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
477 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
478 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
479 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
480 * enhanced documentation
485 Released on 2004-09-24.
487 * directional links navigation
488 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
489 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
494 Released on 2004-01-23.
496 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
497 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
498 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
499 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
500 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
501 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
502 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
503 since its document was loaded
505 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
506 ------------------------
508 Released on 2003-12-24.
510 * used gettext for internationalization
511 * support for background document colors
513 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
515 * Guile scripting extensions
520 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
521 * document marks support
522 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
523 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
524 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
525 * HTTPS proxy support
526 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
528 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
529 -----------------------
531 Released on 2002-12-24.
534 * basic proxy auth support
535 * cookies parser rewritten
536 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
537 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
539 * global history support (+vlink support)
540 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
541 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
542 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
543 * support for utf8 i/o
544 * mouse wheel support
545 * portability enhancements
546 * performance enhancements
547 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
548 * downloads resuming support
550 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
551 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
552 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
553 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
554 your old config files!!!)
555 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
556 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
557 * colorful user interface
558 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
559 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
560 * extensive memory debugging support
565 Released on 2002-03-02.
568 * external textarea editor
569 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
571 * rewritten options handling
572 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
573 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
574 * added possibility to change default colors settings
579 Released on 2001-10-26.
581 * secured cookies file creation
582 * support for title attribute of img tag
583 * Catalan translation
584 * Romanian translation
585 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
586 * <listing> tag support
591 Released on 2001-10-06.
593 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
594 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
595 * http referrer, true http referrer
596 * limited textarea external editor support
597 * partial fix of
598 * enhanced manual page
599 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source