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 To be released as ELinks 0.13.0.
15 * The protocol.fsp.sort option has been removed. ELinks always sorts.
19 * major bug 181: Slave ELinks processes can now run an external editor.
20 This used to work in the master process only.
21 * major bug 722: Filter CSS according to media types. New option
23 * bug 638: Propagate the existence of $DISPLAY from slave terminals to
24 mailcap test commands.
25 * bug 762: Small memory leak in goto_current_link/goto_imgmap
26 * bug 963: New option document.css.ignore_display_none.
27 * bug 977: Fixed crash when opening in new tab a non link with onclick
29 * bug 983: Give preference to the Content-Type specified in the HTTP
30 header over that specified via the HTML meta tag.
31 * bug 1008: File upload fields in HTML forms now stream the files to
32 the server, instead of reading them to memory in advance. This lets
33 you upload larger files. The downsides are that ELinks may use a
34 cached response even if you have modified a file between requests,
35 and that ELinks can send inconsistent data if you modify a file
36 while it is being uploaded.
37 * bug 1054: Don't abort downloads when closing the terminal from which
38 they were started. When such a download ends, display the message
39 in the most recently used terminal. If the user chooses
40 ``Background and Notify'' via the download manager in some terminal,
41 reassociate the download with that terminal. These changes do not
42 apply to downloads to external handlers.
43 * Really retry forever when connection.retries = 0.
44 * enhancement: Session-specific options. Any options changed with
45 toggle-* actions no longer affect other tabs or other terminals.
46 * enhancement: Domain-specific options. Use set_domain in elinks.conf
47 to e.g. disable cookies for google.com. The option manager window
48 does not yet support this.
49 * enhancement 867: Use bracketed paste mode on xterm. This requires
50 xterm patch #228 or later configured with --enable-readline-mouse.
51 * enhancement 824: Experimental support for combining characters.
52 See features.conf for details.
53 * enhancement: Add a new entry Link Info under Link main menu.
54 * enhancement: Indicate backgrounded downloads using an unused led.
55 * enhancement: Display the number of ECMAScript interpreters that have
56 been allocated for documents in the Resources dialog.
57 * Fedora enhancement 346861: Add support for nss_compat_ossl library
58 (OpenSSL replacement).
59 * enhancement 1070: Support 256 colors on fbterm-1.4.
60 * enhancement 1075: Scrolling the entire contents of dialog boxes.
61 Especially useful for multi-file BitTorrent downloads.
62 * Report if the Lua function edit_bookmark_dialog receives the wrong
63 number or types of arguments instead of silently failing.
65 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
66 The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.13.0
67 is released. They are currently listed here just to show that they
68 have already been considered.
70 * Fixed bugs that were not in previous versions:
71 - critical bug 1009: assertion failure in add_snippets()
73 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
75 ELinks 0.12pre3.GIT now:
76 ------------------------
78 To be released as 0.12pre4, 0.12rc1, or even 0.12.0.
80 * critical bug 1071: Fix crash in get_dom_node_child.
85 Released on 2009-03-29. This release also included the changes listed
86 under ``ELinks 0.11.6'' below.
90 * bug 1060: Regexp searching now requires the TRE library.
91 * lzma disabled by default. It's rarely used and doesn't build with new xz.
95 * critical: Fix assertion failure if IMG/@usemap refers to a different
97 * Preserve newlines in hidden input fields, and submit them as CRLF.
98 Previously, they could turn into spaces or disappear entirely.
99 * Perl scripts can use modules that dynamically load C libraries, like
100 XML::LibXML::SAX does.
101 * bug 153: Preserve Unicode characters in XBEL bookmark files.
102 However, Unicode in URIs (really IRIs) does not work reliably yet;
103 this is being tracked as bug 1066.
104 * bug 885: Convert xterm titles to ISO-8859-1 by default, but add an
105 option to disable this. When removing control characters from a
106 title, note the charset. Don't truncate titles to the width of the
108 * bug 1061: Correctly truncate UTF-8 titles in the tab bar.
109 * bug 1068: ELinks used to display a blank or truncated page if an
110 HTTP/1.1 server sent a compressed body with incorrect Content-Length.
111 That has now been fixed, and a new option (protocol.http.compression)
113 * Don't crash when the search-toggle-regex action is used and no regular
114 expression support is compiled in.
115 * minor bug 761: When reading bookmarks from an XBEL file, distinguish
116 attribute names from attribute values.
117 * enhancement: Updated ISO 8859-7, ISO 8859-16, KOI8-R, and MacRoman.
118 * lzma disabled by default. It's rarely used and doesn't build with new xz.
120 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
122 * critical bug 1067: Fixed a crash in the RSS parser that ``configure
123 --enable-html-highlight'' enables. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first
124 release that supported RSS at all.
125 * bug 1069: ELinks didn't report ECMAScript errors, even if the
126 ecmascript.error_reporting option was turned on. ELinks 0.12pre2
127 was the first release that had this bug.
132 Released on 2008-09-21. This release also included the changes listed
133 under ``ELinks 0.11.5'' below.
135 * bug 954, enhancement 952: Keep track of ECMAScript form and input
136 objects instead of constructing new ones on every access. When the
137 corresponding ELinks internal objects are destroyed, detach the
138 ECMAScript objects from them, to prevent crashes. (Bug 954 was
139 first added in ELinks 0.11.4, and the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1
140 made crashes more likely.)
141 * critical bug 1029 in user SMJS: Prefer JS_CallFunctionValue over
142 JS_CallFunction, which can crash if given a closure.
143 * critical bug 1031: Use the same JSRuntime for both user SMJS and
144 scripts on web pages, to work around SpiderMonkey bug 378918.
145 * bug 1013: Don't assume errno values are between 0 and 100000.
146 * bug 1022: Add connection.ssl.trusted_ca_file setting for GnuTLS.
147 Before this, ELinks did not trust any certificate authorities when
148 it used GnuTLS, so certificate verification always failed if you
149 enabled it at connection.ssl.cert_verify.
150 * bug 1040: Blacklist servers that don't support TLS. This reduces
151 SSL errors especially in HTTP POST requests using GnuTLS.
152 * bugs 1007, 1041: Display unrecognized lines in FTP directory
153 listings, instead of annoying the user with error messages.
154 * Hurd bug 22861: Work around select() falsely reporting exceptions
156 * minor bug 951: SpiderMonkey scripting objects used to prevent ELinks
157 from removing files from the memory cache.
158 * build bug 1044: Check whether -rdynamic works with libraries.
159 With Sun Studio 11 on Solaris 9, it reportedly doesn't.
161 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
163 * critical: Fix crash after a tab was opened during reload. This was
164 triggered by the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1.
165 * critical bug 1018: Avoid an assertion failure when selecting a value
166 from a pop-up menu for an input field in a tab that is no longer
167 current, e.g. because another tab was opened with elinks -remote.
168 This bug was first released in ELinks 0.12pre1.
169 * major bug 1026 in user SMJS: Protect the callback of elinks.load_uri
170 from the garbage collector. The elinks.load_uri method was added in
172 * bug 955: Reset buttons no longer run FORM/@onsubmit, and
173 ``harmless'' buttons no longer submit the form. ELinks 0.12pre1
174 was the first release that had these bugs.
175 * bug 1033: Fix memory leak in ECMAScript window.open. ELinks 0.12pre1
176 was the first release that had this bug.
177 * bug 1034: ``Content-Encoding: deflate'' allows a zlib header as
178 specified in RFC 2616.
179 * Global ECMAScript functions alert, open, and setTimeout again work
180 with SEE. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that supported SEE
182 * build bug 1045: Fix ``void function cannot return value'' in
183 never_for_this_site() of src/formhist/formhist.c. ELinks 0.12pre1
184 was the first release that had this bug.
189 Released on 2008-07-01. This release also included the changes listed
190 under ``ELinks 0.11.4'' below.
192 Notable new features:
194 * enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not merely UTF-8 I/O
195 of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions. Double-cell (aka
196 fullwidth) and supplementary characters work too, but combining
197 characters and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte
198 charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs
199 e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes
201 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
202 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
203 Unfortunately, Samba 3.2.0 and later seem GPLv2 incompatible.
207 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
208 bugs 548 and 771 with which malicious web pages can hang ELinks,
209 and its security goals are undocumented. If you must enable
210 ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
211 process with a sandbox of some kind.
212 * ECMAScript support no longer works with SpiderMonkey versions
213 earlier than JS1.5 RC3a.
214 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
215 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
216 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
217 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
219 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
220 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
221 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
222 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
223 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
224 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
228 * critical bug 723: fix dangling pointer crash when following a link
230 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
231 after HTTP proxy was changed
232 * critical bug 869: long mailcap entry buffer overflow (non-security)
234 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
235 * major bug 534, enhancement 517: fix HTTP gzip and bzip2
236 decompression, and add deflate and LZMA (requires LZMA Utils)
237 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
238 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
239 * bug 770: when the user chooses to resume an HTTP download, abort the
240 automatically started one and start a new one with the right range
241 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
242 sequences from the terminal
243 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
244 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
245 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
246 * bug 744: don't change ``//'' to ``/'' in URIs
247 * bug 766: speed up CSS
248 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
250 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
251 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
252 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
253 * several accesskey fixes
254 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
255 * minor bug 972: preserve the background color and underlining in
256 spaces when justifying
257 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
258 same line; don't let it fall to the next
259 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
260 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
261 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
262 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
264 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
265 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
266 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
267 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
268 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
269 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
271 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
272 * enhancement: new main actions move-cursor-line-start,
273 move-link-down-line, move-link-left-line, move-link-right-line,
275 * enhancement: new edit actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
277 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
278 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
279 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
280 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
282 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
284 * enhancement: make meta refresh content attribute parsing more tolerant
285 * enhancement: recognize meta http-equiv="cache-control" even if no
287 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
288 and on BSD via moused -z 4
289 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
290 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
291 * enhancement 994: treat only termios.c_cc[VERASE] as "Backspace"
292 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
293 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
295 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
296 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
298 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
300 * serious Debian bug 464384: fix warnings in alignof, ssl_connect, and
301 printing of off_t values
302 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
303 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
304 rest before propagating
305 * enhancement: make uninstall
306 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
307 * experimental enhancement: Win32 port (build with MinGW MSYS)
309 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
311 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
312 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
313 statements work as intended
314 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
315 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
316 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
317 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
318 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
319 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
320 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
321 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
322 window.setTimeout, window.status
324 Changes in the experimental NNTP client:
326 * HTML escape header field values
327 * Add support for handling RFC2047 encoded words
328 * Improve listing of articles for groups
330 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
332 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
333 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
334 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
335 support arbitrary XML though.
336 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
338 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
339 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
341 * enhancement: incremental parsing
347 Released on 2009-03-21.
349 * critical: fix double-free crash if EOF immediately follows </MAP>
350 * critical bug 1053: fix crash if a download finishes after ELinks has
351 closed the terminal from which the download was started
352 * major bug 1004: ignore locales when comparing HTML element names and
353 similar strings, so e.g. ``title'' matches ``TITLE'' even in the
355 * minor: clicking a link with the mouse activates that link, rather
356 than the one selected with move-cursor-* actions
357 * build bug 1047: attempt to make inline functions satisfy C99 6.7.4p3
358 so that ELinks can be built on OpenSolaris
363 Released on 2008-09-21.
365 * critical bug 1027 in user SMJS: make elinks.keymaps treat null and
366 "none" as equivalent actions, avoiding a segfault
367 * critical bug 1030: an assertion used to fail in the search dialog
368 on systems that lack a usable <regex.h>
369 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
370 * bug 698: Attach controls to the intended form even if it is
371 incorrectly nested in a table. (Was broken in 0.11.4.)
372 * build bug 1021: fixed uninitialized variable in http_got_header
373 * build: don't use libgnutls-openssl, which is no longer GPLv2
374 compatible in GnuTLS 2.2.0
379 Released on 2008-06-20.
381 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
383 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
385 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
386 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
388 * critical bug 1016: avoid JSFunctionSpec for better compatibility
389 across versions of SpiderMonkey
390 * critical bugs 674, 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects
391 that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
392 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
394 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
395 and a possible subsequent crash
396 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
397 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
398 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
399 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
401 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
402 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
403 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
404 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
405 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
406 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
407 * bug 1014: fix incompatible pointer type in Perl_sys_init3 call
408 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
409 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
410 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
411 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
412 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
413 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
414 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
415 if the terminal uses some other charset
416 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
417 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
418 file name to a file:// URL
419 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
420 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
421 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
422 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
423 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
424 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
426 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
428 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
429 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
430 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
431 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
432 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
433 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
434 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
440 Released on 2007-04-15.
442 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
444 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
446 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
447 server responds to PASV with status 200
448 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
449 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
450 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
451 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
453 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
454 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
455 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
456 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
458 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
459 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
461 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
462 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
464 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
466 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
467 listing, if off_t is large enough
468 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
470 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
471 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
473 * fix POST to local CGI
474 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
475 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
477 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
478 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
480 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
482 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
483 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
484 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
485 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
486 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
487 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
489 * enhancements in text wrapping
490 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
491 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
497 Released on 2006-11-19.
499 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
500 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
501 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
502 * build: Minix3 compatibility
507 Released on 2006-01-29.
509 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
510 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
513 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
515 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
516 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
517 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
518 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
519 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
520 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
521 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
522 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
523 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
526 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
527 -----------------------
529 Released on 2006-01-01.
531 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
532 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
533 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
534 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
536 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
537 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
538 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
539 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
540 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
541 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
542 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
543 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
544 * move from CVS to GIT
549 Released on 2005-09-15.
551 * external editor is configurable at run-time
556 Released on 2005-04-06.
558 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
564 Released on 2005-01-30.
566 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
567 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
569 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
570 -----------------------
572 Released on 2004-12-24.
574 * licensed under GPLv2 only
576 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
577 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
578 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
579 * multiple URIs on the command line
580 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
581 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
582 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
583 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
584 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
585 * manual cookies creating and editing
586 * incremental searching (press '#/')
587 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
588 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
589 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
590 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
591 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
592 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
593 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
594 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
595 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
596 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
597 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
598 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
599 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
600 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
601 * enhanced documentation
606 Released on 2004-09-24.
608 * directional links navigation
609 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
610 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
615 Released on 2004-01-23.
617 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
618 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
619 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
620 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
621 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
622 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
623 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
624 since its document was loaded
626 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
627 ------------------------
629 Released on 2003-12-24.
631 * used gettext for internationalization
632 * support for background document colors
634 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
636 * Guile scripting extensions
641 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
642 * document marks support
643 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
644 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
645 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
646 * HTTPS proxy support
647 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
649 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
650 -----------------------
652 Released on 2002-12-24.
655 * basic proxy auth support
656 * cookies parser rewritten
657 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
658 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
660 * global history support (+vlink support)
661 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
662 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
663 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
664 * support for utf8 i/o
665 * mouse wheel support
666 * portability enhancements
667 * performance enhancements
668 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
669 * downloads resuming support
671 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
672 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
673 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
674 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
675 your old config files!!!)
676 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
677 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
678 * colorful user interface
679 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
680 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
681 * extensive memory debugging support
686 Released on 2002-03-02.
689 * external textarea editor
690 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
692 * rewritten options handling
693 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
694 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
695 * added possibility to change default colors settings
700 Released on 2001-10-26.
702 * secured cookies file creation
703 * support for title attribute of img tag
704 * Catalan translation
705 * Romanian translation
706 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
707 * <listing> tag support
712 Released on 2001-10-06.
714 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
715 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
716 * http referrer, true http referrer
717 * limited textarea external editor support
718 * partial fix of
719 * enhanced manual page
720 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source