4 You can see the complete list of recent changes, bugfixes and new features
5 in the http://repo.or.cz/w/elinks.git[gitweb interface]. See the ChangeLog
8 ELinks 0.12pre1.GIT now:
9 ------------------------
11 To be released as 0.12pre2, 0.12rc1, or even 0.12.0. This branch
12 generally also includes the bug fixes made in ELinks 0.11.4.GIT.
14 * bug 954, enhancement 952: Keep track of ECMAScript form and input
15 objects instead of constructing new ones on every access. When the
16 corresponding ELinks internal objects are destroyed, detach the
17 ECMAScript objects from them, to prevent crashes. (Bug 954 was
18 first added in ELinks 0.11.4, and the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1
19 made crashes more likely.)
20 * critical bug 1029 in user SMJS: Prefer JS_CallFunctionValue over
21 JS_CallFunction, which can crash if given a closure.
22 * critical bug 1031: Use the same JSRuntime for both user SMJS and
23 scripts on web pages, to work around SpiderMonkey bug 378918.
24 * bug 698: Attach controls to the intended form even if it is
25 incorrectly nested in a table. (Was broken in 0.11.4.)
26 * minor bug 951: SpiderMonkey scripting objects used to prevent ELinks
27 from removing files from the memory cache
29 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
31 * critical: Fix crash after a tab was opened during reload. This was
32 triggered by the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1.
33 * major bug 1026 in user SMJS: Protect the callback of elinks.load_uri
34 from the garbage collector. The elinks.load_uri method was added in
36 * bug 955: Reset buttons no longer run FORM/@onsubmit, and
37 ``harmless'' buttons no longer submit the form. ELinks 0.12pre1
38 was the first release that had these bugs.
39 * bug 1033: Fix memory leak in ECMAScript window.open. ELinks 0.12pre1
40 was the first release that had this bug.
41 * Global ECMAScript functions alert, open, and setTimeout again work
42 with SEE. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that supported SEE
48 Released on 2008-07-01. This release also included all the bug fixes
49 of ELinks 0.11.4, but not the ones made in 0.11.4.GIT.
53 * enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not merely UTF-8 I/O
54 of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions. Double-cell (aka
55 fullwidth) and supplementary characters work too, but combining
56 characters and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte
57 charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs
58 e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes
60 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
61 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
65 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
66 bugs 548 and 771 with which malicious web pages can hang ELinks,
67 and its security goals are undocumented. If you must enable
68 ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
69 process with a sandbox of some kind.
70 * ECMAScript support no longer works with SpiderMonkey versions
71 earlier than JS1.5 RC3a.
72 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
73 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
74 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
75 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
77 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
78 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
79 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
80 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
81 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
82 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
86 * critical bug 723: fix dangling pointer crash when following a link
88 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
89 after HTTP proxy was changed
90 * critical bug 869: long mailcap entry buffer overflow (non-security)
92 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
93 * major bug 534, enhancement 517: fix HTTP gzip and bzip2
94 decompression, and add deflate and LZMA (requires LZMA Utils)
95 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
96 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
97 * bug 770: when the user chooses to resume an HTTP download, abort the
98 automatically started one and start a new one with the right range
99 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
100 sequences from the terminal
101 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
102 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
103 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
104 * bug 744: don't change ``//'' to ``/'' in URIs
105 * bug 766: speed up CSS
106 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
108 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
109 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
110 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
111 * several accesskey fixes
112 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
113 * minor bug 972: preserve the background color and underlining in
114 spaces when justifying
115 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
116 same line; don't let it fall to the next
117 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
118 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
119 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
120 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
122 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
123 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
124 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
125 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
126 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
127 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
129 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
130 * enhancement: new main actions move-cursor-line-start,
131 move-link-down-line, move-link-left-line, move-link-right-line,
133 * enhancement: new edit actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
135 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
136 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
137 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
138 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
140 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
142 * enhancement: make meta refresh content attribute parsing more tolerant
143 * enhancement: recognize meta http-equiv="cache-control" even if no
145 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
146 and on BSD via moused -z 4
147 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
148 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
149 * enhancement 994: treat only termios.c_cc[VERASE] as "Backspace"
150 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
151 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
153 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
154 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
156 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
158 * serious Debian bug 464384: fix warnings in alignof, ssl_connect, and
159 printing of off_t values
160 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
161 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
162 rest before propagating
163 * enhancement: make uninstall
164 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
165 * experimental enhancement: Win32 port (build with MinGW MSYS)
167 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
169 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
170 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
171 statements work as intended
172 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
173 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
174 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
175 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
176 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
177 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
178 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
179 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
180 window.setTimeout, window.status
182 Changes in the experimental NNTP client:
184 * HTML escape header field values
185 * Add support for handling RFC2047 encoded words
186 * Improve listing of articles for groups
188 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
190 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
191 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
192 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
193 support arbitrary XML though.
194 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
196 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
197 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
199 * enhancement: incremental parsing
202 ELinks 0.11.4.GIT now:
203 ----------------------
205 To be released as 0.11.5.
207 * critical bug 1027 in user SMJS: make elinks.keymaps treat null and
208 "none" as equivalent actions, avoiding a segfault
209 * critical bug 1030: an assertion used to fail in the search dialog
210 on systems that lack a usable <regex.h>
211 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
212 * build bug 1021: fixed uninitialized variable in http_got_header
217 Released on 2008-06-20.
219 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
221 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
223 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
224 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
226 * critical bug 1016: avoid JSFunctionSpec for better compatibility
227 across versions of SpiderMonkey
228 * critical bugs 674, 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects
229 that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
230 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
232 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
233 and a possible subsequent crash
234 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
235 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
236 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
237 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
239 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
240 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
241 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
242 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
243 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
244 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
245 * bug 1014: fix incompatible pointer type in Perl_sys_init3 call
246 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
247 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
248 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
249 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
250 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
251 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
252 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
253 if the terminal uses some other charset
254 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
255 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
256 file name to a file:// URL
257 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
258 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
259 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
260 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
261 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
262 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
264 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
266 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
267 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
268 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
269 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
270 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
271 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
272 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
278 Released on 2007-04-15.
280 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
282 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
284 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
285 server responds to PASV with status 200
286 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
287 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
288 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
289 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
291 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
292 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
293 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
294 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
296 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
297 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
299 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
300 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
302 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
304 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
305 listing, if off_t is large enough
306 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
308 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
309 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
311 * fix POST to local CGI
312 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
313 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
315 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
316 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
318 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
320 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
321 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
322 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
323 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
324 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
325 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
327 * enhancements in text wrapping
328 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
329 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
335 Released on 2006-11-19.
337 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
338 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
339 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
340 * build: Minix3 compatibility
345 Released on 2006-01-29.
347 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
348 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
351 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
353 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
354 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
355 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
356 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
357 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
358 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
359 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
360 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
361 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
364 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
365 -----------------------
367 Released on 2006-01-01.
369 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
370 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
371 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
372 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
374 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
375 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
376 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
377 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
378 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
379 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
380 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
381 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
382 * move from CVS to GIT
387 Released on 2005-09-15.
389 * external editor is configurable at run-time
394 Released on 2005-04-06.
396 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
402 Released on 2005-01-30.
404 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
405 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
407 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
408 -----------------------
410 Released on 2004-12-24.
412 * licensed under GPLv2 only
414 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
415 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
416 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
417 * multiple URIs on the command line
418 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
419 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
420 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
421 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
422 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
423 * manual cookies creating and editing
424 * incremental searching (press '#/')
425 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
426 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
427 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
428 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
429 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
430 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
431 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
432 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
433 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
434 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
435 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
436 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
437 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
438 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
439 * enhanced documentation
444 Released on 2004-09-24.
446 * directional links navigation
447 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
448 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
453 Released on 2004-01-23.
455 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
456 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
457 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
458 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
459 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
460 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
461 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
462 since its document was loaded
464 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
465 ------------------------
467 Released on 2003-12-24.
469 * used gettext for internationalization
470 * support for background document colors
472 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
474 * Guile scripting extensions
479 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
480 * document marks support
481 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
482 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
483 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
484 * HTTPS proxy support
485 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
487 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
488 -----------------------
490 Released on 2002-12-24.
493 * basic proxy auth support
494 * cookies parser rewritten
495 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
496 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
498 * global history support (+vlink support)
499 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
500 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
501 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
502 * support for utf8 i/o
503 * mouse wheel support
504 * portability enhancements
505 * performance enhancements
506 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
507 * downloads resuming support
509 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
510 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
511 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
512 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
513 your old config files!!!)
514 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
515 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
516 * colorful user interface
517 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
518 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
519 * extensive memory debugging support
524 Released on 2002-03-02.
527 * external textarea editor
528 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
530 * rewritten options handling
531 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
532 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
533 * added possibility to change default colors settings
538 Released on 2001-10-26.
540 * secured cookies file creation
541 * support for title attribute of img tag
542 * Catalan translation
543 * Romanian translation
544 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
545 * <listing> tag support
550 Released on 2001-10-06.
552 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
553 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
554 * http referrer, true http referrer
555 * limited textarea external editor support
556 * partial fix of
557 * enhanced manual page
558 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source