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
11 * critical: fix double-free crash if EOF immediately follows </MAP>
12 * critical bug 1053: fix crash if a download finishes after ELinks has
13 closed the terminal from which the download was started
14 * major bug 1004: ignore locales when comparing HTML element names and
15 similar strings, so e.g. ``title'' matches ``TITLE'' even in the
17 * minor: clicking a link with the mouse activates that link, rather
18 than the one selected with move-cursor-* actions
19 * build bug 1047: attempt to make inline functions satisfy C99 6.7.4p3
20 so that ELinks can be built on OpenSolaris
25 Released on 2008-09-21.
27 * critical bug 1027 in user SMJS: make elinks.keymaps treat null and
28 "none" as equivalent actions, avoiding a segfault
29 * critical bug 1030: an assertion used to fail in the search dialog
30 on systems that lack a usable <regex.h>
31 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
32 * bug 698: Attach controls to the intended form even if it is
33 incorrectly nested in a table. (Was broken in 0.11.4.)
34 * build bug 1021: fixed uninitialized variable in http_got_header
35 * build: don't use libgnutls-openssl, which is no longer GPLv2
36 compatible in GnuTLS 2.2.0
41 Released on 2008-06-20.
43 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
45 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
47 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
48 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
50 * critical bug 1016: avoid JSFunctionSpec for better compatibility
51 across versions of SpiderMonkey
52 * critical bugs 674, 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects
53 that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
54 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
56 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
57 and a possible subsequent crash
58 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
59 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
60 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
61 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
63 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
64 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
65 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
66 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
67 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
68 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
69 * bug 1014: fix incompatible pointer type in Perl_sys_init3 call
70 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
71 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
72 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
73 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
74 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
75 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
76 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
77 if the terminal uses some other charset
78 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
79 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
80 file name to a file:// URL
81 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
82 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
83 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
84 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
85 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
86 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
88 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
90 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
91 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
92 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
93 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
94 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
95 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
96 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
102 Released on 2007-04-15.
104 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
106 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
108 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
109 server responds to PASV with status 200
110 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
111 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
112 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
113 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
115 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
116 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
117 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
118 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
120 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
121 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
123 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
124 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
126 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
128 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
129 listing, if off_t is large enough
130 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
132 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
133 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
135 * fix POST to local CGI
136 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
137 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
139 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
140 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
142 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
144 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
145 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
146 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
147 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
148 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
149 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
151 * enhancements in text wrapping
152 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
153 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
159 Released on 2006-11-19.
161 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
162 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
163 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
164 * build: Minix3 compatibility
169 Released on 2006-01-29.
171 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
172 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
175 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
177 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
178 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
179 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
180 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
181 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
182 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
183 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
184 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
185 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
188 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
189 -----------------------
191 Released on 2006-01-01.
193 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
194 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
195 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
196 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
198 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
199 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
200 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
201 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
202 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
203 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
204 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
205 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
206 * move from CVS to GIT
211 Released on 2005-09-15.
213 * external editor is configurable at run-time
218 Released on 2005-04-06.
220 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
226 Released on 2005-01-30.
228 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
229 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
231 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
232 -----------------------
234 Released on 2004-12-24.
236 * licensed under GPLv2 only
238 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
239 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
240 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
241 * multiple URIs on the command line
242 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
243 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
244 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
245 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
246 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
247 * manual cookies creating and editing
248 * incremental searching (press '#/')
249 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
250 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
251 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
252 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
253 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
254 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
255 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
256 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
257 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
258 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
259 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
260 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
261 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
262 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
263 * enhanced documentation
268 Released on 2004-09-24.
270 * directional links navigation
271 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
272 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
277 Released on 2004-01-23.
279 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
280 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
281 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
282 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
283 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
284 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
285 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
286 since its document was loaded
288 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
289 ------------------------
291 Released on 2003-12-24.
293 * used gettext for internationalization
294 * support for background document colors
296 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
298 * Guile scripting extensions
303 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
304 * document marks support
305 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
306 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
307 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
308 * HTTPS proxy support
309 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
311 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
312 -----------------------
314 Released on 2002-12-24.
317 * basic proxy auth support
318 * cookies parser rewritten
319 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
320 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
322 * global history support (+vlink support)
323 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
324 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
325 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
326 * support for utf8 i/o
327 * mouse wheel support
328 * portability enhancements
329 * performance enhancements
330 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
331 * downloads resuming support
333 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
334 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
335 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
336 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
337 your old config files!!!)
338 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
339 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
340 * colorful user interface
341 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
342 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
343 * extensive memory debugging support
348 Released on 2002-03-02.
351 * external textarea editor
352 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
354 * rewritten options handling
355 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
356 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
357 * added possibility to change default colors settings
362 Released on 2001-10-26.
364 * secured cookies file creation
365 * support for title attribute of img tag
366 * Catalan translation
367 * Romanian translation
368 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
369 * <listing> tag support
374 Released on 2001-10-06.
376 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
377 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
378 * http referrer, true http referrer
379 * limited textarea external editor support
380 * partial fix of
381 * enhanced manual page
382 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source