4 You can see the complete list of recent changes, bugfixes and new features
5 in the http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi[gitweb interface]. See the ChangeLog
11 To be released as ELinks 0.12.0.
13 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
14 This list now contains all the important changes from ELinks 0.11.0 to
15 ELinks 0.12.GIT (3f93148c9b131069aa5ee8b655652da40e1a4b70) and related
16 bug numbers. Each section is sorted by severity and grouped by topic.
18 The list no doubt includes several changes that are not really
19 important enough. Please move them to the separate "should be removed
20 from NEWS" list below, or coalesce several changes into one entry (but
21 do list all bug numbers).
22 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
26 * enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not merely UTF-8 I/O
27 of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions. Double-cell (aka
28 fullwidth) and non-BMP characters work too, but combining characters
29 and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte charset ELinks
30 can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs e.g. Shift-JIS,
31 you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes in features.conf.
32 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
33 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
37 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
38 bugs (548, 755, 771) with which malicious web pages can crash or
39 hang ELinks, and its security goals are undocumented. If you must
40 enable ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the
41 ELinks process with a sandbox of some kind.
42 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
43 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
44 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
46 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
47 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
48 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
49 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
50 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
51 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
55 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
56 after HTTP proxy was changed
57 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
58 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
59 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
60 sequences from the terminal
61 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
62 * gzip_read: always call gzclearerr
63 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
64 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
65 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
67 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
68 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
69 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
70 * several accesskey fixes
71 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
72 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
73 same line; don't let it fall to the next
74 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
75 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
76 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
77 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy.
78 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
79 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
80 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
82 * enhancement 121: if a mailcap entry indicates 'copiousoutput', ELinks
83 itself acts as a pager
84 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
85 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
86 * enhancement 517: fixed and enabled HTTP bzip2 decompression
87 * enhancement: LZMA decompression
88 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
89 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
90 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
91 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
93 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
94 * enhancement: new actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
96 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
97 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
98 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
99 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
101 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
103 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
104 and on BSD via moused -z 4
105 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
106 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
107 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
108 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
110 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
111 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
113 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
115 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
116 * use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
117 * update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
118 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
119 rest before propagating
120 * enhancement: avoid compilation of vernum.c in 'make install'
121 * enhancement: make uninstall
122 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
123 * experimental enhancement: native Win32 port
125 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
127 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
128 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
129 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
130 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
131 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
132 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
133 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
134 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
135 window.setTimeout, window.status
137 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
139 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
140 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
141 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
142 support arbitrary XML though.
143 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
145 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
146 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
148 * enhancement: incremental parsing
151 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
152 The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.12.0
153 is released. They are currently listed here just to show that they
154 have already been considered.
156 * Not clear whether the bugs have been fixed:
157 - (bugfix 674) Reproduceable crashes while trying to unsubscribe
158 from a community on Orkut
159 - (bugfix 770) Download resuming simply restarts the download
160 * Only partially fixed bugs:
161 - (bugfix 764) int/long type punning in options
162 - (bugfix 890) Change colors 0-15 to match xterm defaults.
163 The bug report also requests asking xterm to report its palette,
164 but that part will be delayed to 0.13 or later.
165 - (bugfix 784) attributes corrupt character entity references if
166 terminal charset != document charset
167 * Fixed bugs that were not in previous versions:
168 - (bugfix) Fix a crash when adding a server in the cookie manager.
169 - (bugfix) cookies: "Add Server" ignores "cookies.accept_policy".
170 - (bugfix) Fix data: protocol.
171 - (bugfix 747) Properly deselect the main menu instead of crashing
172 - (bugfix 778) ELinks crashes on binary files when
173 document.plain.display_links is set
174 - (bugfix 782) UTF-8 buffer overwritten while in use
175 - (bugfix) switch_to_tab: Prevent "tab number out of range"
177 - (bugfix) Fixed about:
178 - (bugfix 821) I cannot enter national characters in dialog boxes
179 - (bugfix 834) Gzip decompression doesn't work
180 - (bugfix) Fix out-of-bound access to the quote_char buffer
181 - (bugfix 827) Crash with term charset set to Unicode and UTF-8 I/O
183 - (bugfix 826) too small table for double-cell characters
184 - (bugfix 902) crash: "overflow detected realloc()" in realloc_line
185 - (bugfix 912) wrong color in one cell of an HTML input field
186 - (bugfix 835) Text in textarea is unaffected by horizontal
187 scrolling of document in UTF-8 mode
188 - (bugfix 823) Big textarea is too slow with CONFIG_UTF8
189 - (bugfix 754) Pressing ESC do not pop up main menu anymore.
190 - (bugfix 794) tab-close-all-but-current crashes
191 - (bugfix 781) document->buf can overflow with UTF-8 enabled
192 - (bugfix 882) C1 controls pass through to the terminal if written
194 - (bugfix 935) Yes and No buttons override the bottom border of the
196 - (bugfix in SEE) Use frame->name instead of target avoiding
198 * Already backported to a previous release but not listed there:
199 - (enhancement) Activate link only when onClick returns true.
200 Fixed bug 786 in ELinks 0.11.2.
201 - when the configure script cleans old object files, this no longer
202 causes it to loop. Commit 564b67883b189a05839bcd2a30d8d4c6eb89c66d
204 - don't include <sys/param.h> for MIN and MAX because it may interfere with
205 CONFIG_IPV6 on Linux. Commit 63797ae9b331efd91be27512bd9d5b2e2ff74741
207 - Debian bug 400871: include <sys/types.h> for off_t. (Bug 936 was
208 reported for GIT (HEAD) after the change and may still exist.)
209 Commit 135a79a3c309af36cf963f1d3c34b07f296fa2f7 in ELinks 0.11.3.
210 - bug 107: recognize "localhost" in file: URIs. Cannot reproduce in
212 - fix compilation under gcc 4.x. Backported from gentoo portage.
213 Commit bcabd8b7951f3319199811088e607501296ee573 in ELinks 0.11.3.
215 - (new feature) document.write, reverted in
216 2c087e52e74528a720621186b91880463e039d50
217 - (enhancement) restore Linux console mode (UTF-8 or not), reverted
218 in 10d72cae7eafa6b90db1c8f303deb200555734c2
219 - (enhancement) wcwidth, reverted in
220 d050cb67aa37390ab938b0a308c7541f19578506
221 - (new feature) Let plain text change colors with ESC [ 31 m or
222 similar control sequences, reverted in
223 2a6125e3d0407b588eb286d4d0ff5c98c23ebda9
224 - (enhancement) Support for pasting from GNU screen clipboard,
225 reverted in 763f03f146cc1391b303c8074556f0ddea1e3c7a
226 * Unimportant changes:
227 - (enhancement) If select fails, save its errno.
228 - (bugfix) Use PF_* instead of AF_* as first parameter of socket(2).
229 (commits 8b7657deaf6037736d0abe88bae1865fec55fe93 in 0.12.GIT
230 and d9b56bad7d528a87376768572c2601c57d8afb02 in 0.11.0.GIT)
231 - (bugfix) Better error handling in save_form_data_to_file and
233 (commit 6bdc34cfbcade0c25922c1ad96c753cc7d1c9949 and nearby)
234 - (bugfix) Do not call toupper with potentially out-of-range values.
235 (commit 9e30ee631ced843f26a264c351cfa1716e7e1941)
236 - (bugfix) If ELinks logs debug information to a file, it now opens
237 that in binary mode. (commit 4ced25779dca68c0e15ce1e695ce191b536bb05d)
238 - (bugfix) Kill the ESC timer when blocking the terminal.
239 (commit 539f756438fca4264ab937b2ccfba2351e916a16)
240 - (bugfix) Don't claim that the authentication is for HTTP.
241 (commit ef2f6383c6f0bed576e6f69030eacc4931b42a27)
242 - (enhancement) Reject invalid UTF-8 input from documents and
244 - (bugfix) Decode UTF-8 only from bytes, not from codes of special
246 - (enhancement) "Resize terminal" tries to use the window size
248 - (bugfix) Subprocess forked for SIGTSTP calls _exit, not exit.
249 - (enhancement) Tell the user how to move bookmarks.
250 - (enhancement) Localization updates. For this to be important, we
251 should at least list the languages.
252 - (enhancement) Ctrl+characters don't trigger hotkeys in menus and
254 - (bitrot) Fix two warnings on Mac OS X.
255 - (enhancement) reduce warnings on gcc 4.2 snapshots
256 * don't use cmp -b, which FreeBSD doesn't support. This is commit
257 7a5f699a88c5fc89c510854b04702c16c30ece5a in src/dom/test/ which
258 is run only by "make test" rather than "make".
259 * support much longer locale-specific timestamps when formatting a
260 directory listing. LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8 now works. Let's treat
261 this as part of the UTF-8 support.
262 * enhancement in user SMJS: elinks.alert no longer displays as an
264 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
266 ELinks 0.11.3.GIT now:
267 ----------------------
269 To be released as 0.11.4.
271 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
272 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
274 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
275 and a possible subsequent crash
276 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
278 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
279 * bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by POPpx of
280 Perl v5.8.8 and later
281 * bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document if the
282 terminal uses some other charset
283 * bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
284 * fix passive FTP over IPv6 when connect() fails with EINPROGRESS
285 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
286 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
292 Released on 2007-04-15.
294 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
296 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
298 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
299 server responds to PASV with status 200
300 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
301 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
302 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
303 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
305 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
306 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
307 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
308 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
310 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
311 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
313 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
314 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
316 * major bug 937: don't send the entire HTTPS request to a CONNECT
318 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
319 listing, if off_t is large enough
320 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
322 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
323 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
325 * fix POST to local CGI
326 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
327 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
329 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
330 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
332 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
334 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
335 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
336 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
337 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
338 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
339 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
341 * enhancements in text wrapping
342 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
343 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
349 Released on 2006-11-19.
351 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
352 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
353 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
354 * build: Minix3 compatibility
359 Released on 2006-01-29.
361 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
362 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
365 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
367 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
368 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
369 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
370 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
371 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
372 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
373 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
374 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
375 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
378 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
379 -----------------------
381 Released on 2006-01-01.
383 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
384 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
385 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
386 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
388 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
389 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
390 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
391 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
392 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
393 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
394 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
395 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
396 * move from CVS to GIT
401 Released on 2005-09-15.
403 * external editor is configurable at run-time
408 Released on 2005-04-06.
410 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
416 Released on 2005-01-30.
418 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
419 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
421 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
422 -----------------------
424 Released on 2004-12-24.
427 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
428 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
429 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
430 * multiple URIs on the command line
431 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
432 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
433 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
434 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
435 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
436 * manual cookies creating and editing
437 * incremental searching (press '#/')
438 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
439 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
440 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
441 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
442 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
443 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
444 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
445 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
446 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
447 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
448 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
449 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
450 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
451 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
452 * enhanced documentation
457 Released on 2004-09-24.
459 * directional links navigation
460 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
461 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
466 Released on 2004-01-23.
468 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
469 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
470 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
471 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
472 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
473 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
474 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
475 since its document was loaded
477 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
478 ------------------------
480 Released on 2003-12-24.
482 * used gettext for internationalization
483 * support for background document colors
485 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
487 * Guile scripting extensions
492 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
493 * document marks support
494 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
495 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
496 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
497 * HTTPS proxy support
498 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
500 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
501 -----------------------
503 Released on 2002-12-24.
506 * basic proxy auth support
507 * cookies parser rewritten
508 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
509 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
511 * global history support (+vlink support)
512 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
513 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
514 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
515 * support for utf8 i/o
516 * mouse wheel support
517 * portability enhancements
518 * performance enhancements
519 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
520 * downloads resuming support
522 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
523 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
524 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
525 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
526 your old config files!!!)
527 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
528 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
529 * colorful user interface
530 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
531 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
532 * extensive memory debugging support
537 Released on 2002-03-02.
540 * external textarea editor
541 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
543 * rewritten options handling
544 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
545 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
546 * added possibility to change default colors settings
551 Released on 2001-10-26.
553 * secured cookies file creation
554 * support for title attribute of img tag
555 * Catalan translation
556 * Romanian translation
557 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
558 * <listing> tag support
563 Released on 2001-10-06.
565 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
566 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
567 * http referrer, true http referrer
568 * limited textarea external editor support
569 * partial fix of
570 * enhanced manual page
571 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source