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.
16 To be released as ELinks 0.12.0.
18 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
19 This list now contains all the important changes from ELinks 0.11.0 to
20 ELinks 0.12.GIT (98260f7970bcd940f2d2146ac7b5a980a7586082) and related
21 bug numbers. Each section is sorted by severity and grouped by topic.
23 The list no doubt includes several changes that are not really
24 important enough. Please move them to the separate "should be removed
25 from NEWS" list below, or coalesce several changes into one entry (but
26 do list all bug numbers).
27 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
31 * enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not merely UTF-8 I/O
32 of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions. Double-cell (aka
33 fullwidth) and supplementary characters work too, but combining
34 characters and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte
35 charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs
36 e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes
38 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
39 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
43 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
44 bugs 548 and 771 with which malicious web pages can hang ELinks,
45 and its security goals are undocumented. If you must enable
46 ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
47 process with a sandbox of some kind.
48 * ECMAScript support no longer works with SpiderMonkey versions
49 earlier than JS1.5 RC3a.
50 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
51 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
52 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
53 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
55 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
56 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
57 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
58 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
59 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
60 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
64 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
65 after HTTP proxy was changed
66 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
67 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
68 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
69 sequences from the terminal
70 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
71 * gzip_read: always call gzclearerr
72 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
73 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
74 * bug 744: don't change ``//'' to ``/'' in URIs
75 * bug 766: speed up CSS
76 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
78 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
79 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
80 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
81 * several accesskey fixes
82 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
83 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
84 same line; don't let it fall to the next
85 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
86 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
87 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
88 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
90 * enhancement 121: if a mailcap entry indicates 'copiousoutput', ELinks
91 itself acts as a pager
92 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
93 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
94 * enhancement 517: fixed and enabled HTTP bzip2 decompression
95 * enhancement: LZMA decompression
96 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
97 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
98 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
99 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
101 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
102 * enhancement: new actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
104 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
105 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
106 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
107 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
109 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
111 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
112 and on BSD via moused -z 4
113 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
114 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
115 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
116 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
118 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
119 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
121 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
123 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
124 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
125 rest before propagating
126 * enhancement: avoid compilation of vernum.c in 'make install'
127 * enhancement: make uninstall
128 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
129 * experimental enhancement: Win32 port (build with MinGW MSYS)
131 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
133 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
134 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
135 statements work as intended
136 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
137 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
138 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
139 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
140 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
141 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
142 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
143 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
144 window.setTimeout, window.status
146 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
148 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
149 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
150 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
151 support arbitrary XML though.
152 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
154 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
155 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
157 * enhancement: incremental parsing
160 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
161 The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.12.0
162 is released. They are currently listed here just to show that they
163 have already been considered.
165 * Not clear whether the bugs have been fixed:
166 - (bugfix 674) Reproduceable crashes while trying to unsubscribe
167 from a community on Orkut
168 - (bugfix 770) Download resuming simply restarts the download
169 * Only partially fixed bugs:
170 - (bugfix 764) int/long type punning in options
171 - (bugfix 890) Change colors 0-15 to match xterm defaults.
172 The bug report also requests asking xterm to report its palette,
173 but that part will be delayed to 0.13 or later.
174 - (bugfix 784) attributes corrupt character entity references if
175 terminal charset != document charset
176 * Fixed bugs that were not in previous versions:
177 - (bugfix) Fix a crash when adding a server in the cookie manager.
178 - (bugfix) cookies: "Add Server" ignores "cookies.accept_policy".
179 - (bugfix) Fix data: protocol.
180 - (bugfix 747) Properly deselect the main menu instead of crashing
181 - (bugfix 778) ELinks crashes on binary files when
182 document.plain.display_links is set
183 - (bugfix 782) UTF-8 buffer overwritten while in use
184 - (bugfix) switch_to_tab: Prevent "tab number out of range"
186 - (bugfix) Fixed about:
187 - (bugfix 821) I cannot enter national characters in dialog boxes
188 - (bugfix 834) Gzip decompression doesn't work
189 - (bugfix) Fix out-of-bound access to the quote_char buffer
190 - (bugfix 827) Crash with term charset set to Unicode and UTF-8 I/O
192 - (bugfix 826) too small table for double-cell characters
193 - (bugfix 902) crash: "overflow detected realloc()" in realloc_line
194 - (bugfix 912) wrong color in one cell of an HTML input field
195 - (bugfix 835) Text in textarea is unaffected by horizontal
196 scrolling of document in UTF-8 mode
197 - (bugfix 823) Big textarea is too slow with CONFIG_UTF8
198 - (bugfix 754) Pressing ESC do not pop up main menu anymore.
199 - (bugfix 794) tab-close-all-but-current crashes
200 - (bugfix 781) document->buf can overflow with UTF-8 enabled
201 - (bugfix 882) C1 controls pass through to the terminal if written
203 - (bugfix 935) Yes and No buttons override the bottom border of the
205 - (bugfix in SEE) Use frame->name instead of target avoiding
207 - (bugfix 957) crash within js_Interpret: cx->fp points to freed
209 - (bugfix 920) assertion priority >= prev_priority failed: queue is
211 * Already backported to a previous release but not listed there:
212 - (enhancement) Activate link only when onClick returns true.
213 Fixed bug 786 in ELinks 0.11.2.
214 - when the configure script cleans old object files, this no longer
215 causes it to loop. Commit 564b67883b189a05839bcd2a30d8d4c6eb89c66d
217 - don't include <sys/param.h> for MIN and MAX because it may interfere with
218 CONFIG_IPV6 on Linux. Commit 63797ae9b331efd91be27512bd9d5b2e2ff74741
220 - Debian bug 400872: include <sys/types.h> for off_t.
221 (Related to bug 936 but not the same.)
222 Commit 135a79a3c309af36cf963f1d3c34b07f296fa2f7 in ELinks 0.11.3.
223 - bug 107: recognize "localhost" in file: URIs. Cannot reproduce in
225 - fix compilation under gcc 4.x. Backported from gentoo portage.
226 Commit bcabd8b7951f3319199811088e607501296ee573 in ELinks 0.11.3.
228 - (new feature) document.write, reverted in
229 2c087e52e74528a720621186b91880463e039d50
230 - (enhancement) restore Linux console mode (UTF-8 or not), reverted
231 in 10d72cae7eafa6b90db1c8f303deb200555734c2
232 - (enhancement) wcwidth, reverted in
233 d050cb67aa37390ab938b0a308c7541f19578506
234 - (new feature) Let plain text change colors with ESC [ 31 m or
235 similar control sequences, reverted in
236 2a6125e3d0407b588eb286d4d0ff5c98c23ebda9
237 - (enhancement) Support for pasting from GNU screen clipboard,
238 reverted in 763f03f146cc1391b303c8074556f0ddea1e3c7a
239 * Unimportant changes:
240 - (enhancement) If select fails, save its errno.
241 - (bugfix) Use PF_* instead of AF_* as first parameter of socket(2).
242 (commits 8b7657deaf6037736d0abe88bae1865fec55fe93 in 0.12.GIT
243 and d9b56bad7d528a87376768572c2601c57d8afb02 in 0.11.0.GIT)
244 - (bugfix) Better error handling in save_form_data_to_file and
246 (commit 6bdc34cfbcade0c25922c1ad96c753cc7d1c9949 and nearby)
247 - (bugfix) Do not call toupper with potentially out-of-range values.
248 (commit 9e30ee631ced843f26a264c351cfa1716e7e1941)
249 - (bugfix) If ELinks logs debug information to a file, it now opens
250 that in binary mode. (commit 4ced25779dca68c0e15ce1e695ce191b536bb05d)
251 - (bugfix) Kill the ESC timer when blocking the terminal.
252 (commit 539f756438fca4264ab937b2ccfba2351e916a16)
253 - (bugfix) Don't claim that the authentication is for HTTP.
254 (commit ef2f6383c6f0bed576e6f69030eacc4931b42a27)
255 - (enhancement) Reject invalid UTF-8 input from documents and
257 - (bugfix) Decode UTF-8 only from bytes, not from codes of special
259 - (enhancement) "Resize terminal" tries to use the window size
261 - (bugfix) Subprocess forked for SIGTSTP calls _exit, not exit.
262 - (enhancement) Tell the user how to move bookmarks.
263 - (enhancement) Localization updates. For this to be important, we
264 should at least list the languages.
265 - (enhancement) Ctrl+characters don't trigger hotkeys in menus and
267 - (bitrot) Fix two warnings on Mac OS X.
268 - (enhancement) reduce warnings on gcc 4.2 snapshots
269 * don't use cmp -b, which FreeBSD doesn't support. This is commit
270 7a5f699a88c5fc89c510854b04702c16c30ece5a in src/dom/test/ which
271 is run only by "make test" rather than "make".
272 * support much longer locale-specific timestamps when formatting a
273 directory listing. LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8 now works. Let's treat
274 this as part of the UTF-8 support.
275 * enhancement in user SMJS: elinks.alert no longer displays as an
277 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
279 ELinks 0.11.3.GIT now:
280 ----------------------
282 To be released as 0.11.4.
284 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
286 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
288 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
289 * major bug 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects that may
290 have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
291 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
293 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
294 and a possible subsequent crash
295 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
296 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
297 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
298 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
300 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
301 * fix passive FTP over IPv6 when connect() fails with EINPROGRESS
302 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
303 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
304 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
305 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
306 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
307 if the terminal uses some other charset
308 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
309 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
311 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
313 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
314 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
315 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
316 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
322 Released on 2007-04-15.
324 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
326 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
328 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
329 server responds to PASV with status 200
330 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
331 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
332 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
333 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
335 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
336 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
337 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
338 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
340 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
341 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
343 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
344 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
346 * major bug 937: don't send the entire HTTPS request to a CONNECT
348 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
349 listing, if off_t is large enough
350 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
352 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
353 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
355 * fix POST to local CGI
356 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
357 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
359 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
360 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
362 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
364 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
365 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
366 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
367 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
368 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
369 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
371 * enhancements in text wrapping
372 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
373 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
379 Released on 2006-11-19.
381 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
382 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
383 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
384 * build: Minix3 compatibility
389 Released on 2006-01-29.
391 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
392 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
395 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
397 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
398 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
399 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
400 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
401 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
402 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
403 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
404 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
405 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
408 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
409 -----------------------
411 Released on 2006-01-01.
413 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
414 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
415 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
416 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
418 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
419 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
420 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
421 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
422 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
423 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
424 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
425 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
426 * move from CVS to GIT
431 Released on 2005-09-15.
433 * external editor is configurable at run-time
438 Released on 2005-04-06.
440 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
446 Released on 2005-01-30.
448 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
449 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
451 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
452 -----------------------
454 Released on 2004-12-24.
456 * licensed under GPLv2 only
458 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
459 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
460 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
461 * multiple URIs on the command line
462 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
463 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
464 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
465 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
466 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
467 * manual cookies creating and editing
468 * incremental searching (press '#/')
469 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
470 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
471 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
472 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
473 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
474 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
475 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
476 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
477 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
478 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
479 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
480 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
481 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
482 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
483 * enhanced documentation
488 Released on 2004-09-24.
490 * directional links navigation
491 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
492 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
497 Released on 2004-01-23.
499 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
500 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
501 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
502 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
503 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
504 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
505 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
506 since its document was loaded
508 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
509 ------------------------
511 Released on 2003-12-24.
513 * used gettext for internationalization
514 * support for background document colors
516 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
518 * Guile scripting extensions
523 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
524 * document marks support
525 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
526 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
527 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
528 * HTTPS proxy support
529 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
531 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
532 -----------------------
534 Released on 2002-12-24.
537 * basic proxy auth support
538 * cookies parser rewritten
539 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
540 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
542 * global history support (+vlink support)
543 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
544 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
545 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
546 * support for utf8 i/o
547 * mouse wheel support
548 * portability enhancements
549 * performance enhancements
550 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
551 * downloads resuming support
553 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
554 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
555 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
556 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
557 your old config files!!!)
558 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
559 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
560 * colorful user interface
561 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
562 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
563 * extensive memory debugging support
568 Released on 2002-03-02.
571 * external textarea editor
572 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
574 * rewritten options handling
575 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
576 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
577 * added possibility to change default colors settings
582 Released on 2001-10-26.
584 * secured cookies file creation
585 * support for title attribute of img tag
586 * Catalan translation
587 * Romanian translation
588 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
589 * <listing> tag support
594 Released on 2001-10-06.
596 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
597 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
598 * http referrer, true http referrer
599 * limited textarea external editor support
600 * partial fix of
601 * enhanced manual page
602 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source