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 * bugs 762, 1082: 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 * Do not crash when document.browse.minimum_refresh_time = 0 and
47 a document has a meta refresh with a delay of 0.
48 * enhancement 15: Domain-specific options. Use set_domain in
49 elinks.conf to e.g. disable cookies for google.com. The option
50 manager window does not yet support this.
51 * enhancement 867: Use bracketed paste mode on xterm. This requires
52 xterm patch #228 or later configured with --enable-readline-mouse.
53 * enhancement 824: Experimental support for combining characters.
54 See features.conf for details.
55 * enhancement: Add a new entry Link Info under Link main menu.
56 * enhancement: Indicate backgrounded downloads using an unused led.
57 * enhancement: Display the number of ECMAScript interpreters that have
58 been allocated for documents in the Resources dialog.
59 * Fedora enhancement 346861: Add support for nss_compat_ossl library
60 (OpenSSL replacement).
61 * enhancement: ``elinks --dump'' uses box-drawing characters if supported
63 * enhancement 1070: Support 256 colors on fbterm-1.4.
64 * enhancement 1075: Scrolling the entire contents of dialog boxes.
65 Especially useful for multi-file BitTorrent downloads.
66 * Report if the Lua function edit_bookmark_dialog receives the wrong
67 number or types of arguments instead of silently failing.
68 * enhancement: Add ``Invalidate'' button to the cache manager.
69 * enhancement: Add ``Search contents'' button to the cache manager with
70 which one can search through the cache items' data rather than their
72 * link against lua51 not lua50
73 * configure options to link against libmozjs of xulrunner
75 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
76 The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.13.0
77 is released. They are currently listed here just to show that they
78 have already been considered.
80 * Fixed bugs that were not in previous versions:
81 - critical bug 1009: assertion failure in add_snippets()
83 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
88 Released on 2009-07-08.
90 * Debian bug 534835: Check the return values of some SpiderMonkey
91 functions, to avoid crashes if out of memory.
92 * minor bug 1017: To work around HTTP server bugs, disable
93 protocol.http.compression by default, until ELinks can report
94 decompression errors or automatically retry the connection.
95 * enhancement: The French translation was updated.
97 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
99 * critical bug 1081: To fix crashes caused by different definitions of
100 regfree() in TRE and in the system libc, link with TRE before any
101 other libraries. ELinks 0.12pre4 was the first release that had
103 * Searching for more than one fullwidth (e.g. Japanese) character now
105 * bug 1080: Support ``--dump-color-mode'' with ``--dump-charset UTF-8''.
106 Neither of those worked before ELinks 0.12pre1.
111 Released on 2009-05-31. This release also included the changes listed
112 under ``ELinks 0.11.6'' below.
116 * Debian build bug 529821: Use ``pkg-config gnutls'' instead of
117 ``libgnutls-config'', which is not included in GNUTLS 2.7.x.
118 You can no longer specify the location of GNUTLS using
119 ``configure --with-gnutls=DIR''.
123 * critical bug 1077: Fix crash opening a ``javascript:'' link in a new
125 * Debian bug 528661: If using GNUTLS 2.1.7 or later, disable various
126 TLS extensions (including CERT and SERVERNAME) to help handshaking
127 with the SSLv3-only bugzilla.novell.com.
128 * Debian build bug 526349: Include asciidoc.py from AsciiDoc 7.1.2,
129 to remove all dependencies on the installed version.
130 * build enhancement: Recognize ``configure --without-tre''.
132 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
134 * critical bug 1071: Fix crash in get_dom_node_child. ELinks 0.12pre1
135 was the first release that had this bug.
136 * bug 765: Opening a new tab no longer asks about the document of the
137 previous tab. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that had this
143 Released on 2009-03-29. This release also included the changes listed
144 under ``ELinks 0.11.6'' below.
148 * bug 1060: Regexp searching now requires the TRE library.
149 * lzma disabled by default. It's rarely used and doesn't build with new xz.
153 * critical: Fix assertion failure if IMG/@usemap refers to a different
155 * Preserve newlines in hidden input fields, and submit them as CRLF.
156 Previously, they could turn into spaces or disappear entirely.
157 * Perl scripts can use modules that dynamically load C libraries, like
158 XML::LibXML::SAX does.
159 * bug 153: Preserve Unicode characters in XBEL bookmark files.
160 However, Unicode in URIs (really IRIs) does not work reliably yet;
161 this is being tracked as bug 1066.
162 * bug 885: Convert xterm titles to ISO-8859-1 by default, but add an
163 option to disable this. When removing control characters from a
164 title, note the charset. Don't truncate titles to the width of the
166 * bug 1061: Correctly truncate UTF-8 titles in the tab bar.
167 * bug 1068: ELinks used to display a blank or truncated page if an
168 HTTP/1.1 server sent a compressed body with incorrect Content-Length.
169 That has now been fixed, and a new option (protocol.http.compression)
171 * Don't crash when the search-toggle-regex action is used and no regular
172 expression support is compiled in.
173 * minor bug 761: When reading bookmarks from an XBEL file, distinguish
174 attribute names from attribute values.
175 * enhancement: Updated ISO 8859-7, ISO 8859-16, KOI8-R, and MacRoman.
176 * lzma disabled by default. It's rarely used and doesn't build with new xz.
178 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
180 * critical bug 1067: Fixed a crash in the RSS parser that ``configure
181 --enable-html-highlight'' enables. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first
182 release that had this bug.
183 * bug 1069: ELinks didn't report ECMAScript errors, even if the
184 ecmascript.error_reporting option was turned on. ELinks 0.12pre2
185 was the first release that had this bug.
190 Released on 2008-09-21. This release also included the changes listed
191 under ``ELinks 0.11.5'' below.
193 * bug 954, enhancement 952: Keep track of ECMAScript form and input
194 objects instead of constructing new ones on every access. When the
195 corresponding ELinks internal objects are destroyed, detach the
196 ECMAScript objects from them, to prevent crashes. (Bug 954 was
197 first added in ELinks 0.11.4, and the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1
198 made crashes more likely.)
199 * critical bug 1029 in user SMJS: Prefer JS_CallFunctionValue over
200 JS_CallFunction, which can crash if given a closure.
201 * critical bug 1031: Use the same JSRuntime for both user SMJS and
202 scripts on web pages, to work around SpiderMonkey bug 378918.
203 * bug 1013: Don't assume errno values are between 0 and 100000.
204 * bug 1022: Add connection.ssl.trusted_ca_file setting for GnuTLS.
205 Before this, ELinks did not trust any certificate authorities when
206 it used GnuTLS, so certificate verification always failed if you
207 enabled it at connection.ssl.cert_verify.
208 * bug 1040: Blacklist servers that don't support TLS. This reduces
209 SSL errors especially in HTTP POST requests using GnuTLS.
210 * bugs 1007, 1041: Display unrecognized lines in FTP directory
211 listings, instead of annoying the user with error messages.
212 * Hurd bug 22861: Work around select() falsely reporting exceptions
214 * minor bug 951: SpiderMonkey scripting objects used to prevent ELinks
215 from removing files from the memory cache.
216 * build bug 1044: Check whether -rdynamic works with libraries.
217 With Sun Studio 11 on Solaris 9, it reportedly doesn't.
219 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
221 * critical: Fix crash after a tab was opened during reload. This was
222 triggered by the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1.
223 * critical bug 1018: Avoid an assertion failure when selecting a value
224 from a pop-up menu for an input field in a tab that is no longer
225 current, e.g. because another tab was opened with elinks -remote.
226 This bug was first released in ELinks 0.12pre1.
227 * major bug 1026 in user SMJS: Protect the callback of elinks.load_uri
228 from the garbage collector. The elinks.load_uri method was added in
230 * bug 955: Reset buttons no longer run FORM/@onsubmit, and
231 ``harmless'' buttons no longer submit the form. ELinks 0.12pre1
232 was the first release that had these bugs.
233 * bug 1033: Fix memory leak in ECMAScript window.open. ELinks 0.12pre1
234 was the first release that had this bug.
235 * bug 1034: ``Content-Encoding: deflate'' allows a zlib header as
236 specified in RFC 2616.
237 * Global ECMAScript functions alert, open, and setTimeout again work
238 with SEE. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that supported SEE
240 * build bug 1045: Fix ``void function cannot return value'' in
241 never_for_this_site() of src/formhist/formhist.c. ELinks 0.12pre1
242 was the first release that had this bug.
247 Released on 2008-07-01. This release also included the changes listed
248 under ``ELinks 0.11.4'' below.
250 Notable new features:
252 * enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not merely UTF-8 I/O
253 of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions. Double-cell (aka
254 fullwidth) and supplementary characters work too, but combining
255 characters and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte
256 charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs
257 e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes
259 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
260 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
261 Unfortunately, Samba 3.2.0 and later seem GPLv2 incompatible.
265 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
266 bugs 548 and 771 with which malicious web pages can hang ELinks,
267 and its security goals are undocumented. If you must enable
268 ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
269 process with a sandbox of some kind.
270 * ECMAScript support no longer works with SpiderMonkey versions
271 earlier than JS1.5 RC3a.
272 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
273 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
274 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
275 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
277 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
278 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
279 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
280 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
281 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
282 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
286 * critical bug 723: fix dangling pointer crash when following a link
288 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
289 after HTTP proxy was changed
290 * critical bug 869: long mailcap entry buffer overflow (non-security)
292 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
293 * major bug 534, enhancement 517: fix HTTP gzip and bzip2
294 decompression, and add deflate and LZMA (requires LZMA Utils)
295 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
296 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
297 * bug 770: when the user chooses to resume an HTTP download, abort the
298 automatically started one and start a new one with the right range
299 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
300 sequences from the terminal
301 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
302 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
303 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
304 * bug 744: don't change ``//'' to ``/'' in URIs
305 * bug 766: speed up CSS
306 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
308 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
309 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
310 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
311 * several accesskey fixes
312 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
313 * minor bug 972: preserve the background color and underlining in
314 spaces when justifying
315 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
316 same line; don't let it fall to the next
317 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
318 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
319 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
320 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
322 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
323 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
324 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
325 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
326 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
327 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
329 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
330 * enhancement: new main actions move-cursor-line-start,
331 move-link-down-line, move-link-left-line, move-link-right-line,
333 * enhancement: new edit actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
335 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
336 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
337 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
338 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
340 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
342 * enhancement: make meta refresh content attribute parsing more tolerant
343 * enhancement: recognize meta http-equiv="cache-control" even if no
345 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
346 and on BSD via moused -z 4
347 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
348 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
349 * enhancement 994: treat only termios.c_cc[VERASE] as "Backspace"
350 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
351 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
353 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
354 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
356 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
358 * serious Debian bug 464384: fix warnings in alignof, ssl_connect, and
359 printing of off_t values
360 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
361 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
362 rest before propagating
363 * enhancement: make uninstall
364 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
365 * experimental enhancement: Win32 port (build with MinGW MSYS)
367 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
369 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
370 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
371 statements work as intended
372 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
373 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
374 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
375 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
376 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
377 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
378 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
379 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
380 window.setTimeout, window.status
382 Changes in the experimental NNTP client:
384 * HTML escape header field values
385 * Add support for handling RFC2047 encoded words
386 * Improve listing of articles for groups
388 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
390 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
391 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
392 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
393 support arbitrary XML though.
394 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
396 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
397 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
399 * enhancement: incremental parsing
402 ELinks 0.11.6.GIT now:
403 ----------------------
405 To be released as 0.11.7.
407 * critical bug 1077: fix crash opening a ``javascript:'' link in a new
413 Released on 2009-03-21.
415 * critical: fix double-free crash if EOF immediately follows </MAP>
416 * critical bug 1053: fix crash if a download finishes after ELinks has
417 closed the terminal from which the download was started
418 * major bug 1004: ignore locales when comparing HTML element names and
419 similar strings, so e.g. ``title'' matches ``TITLE'' even in the
421 * minor: clicking a link with the mouse activates that link, rather
422 than the one selected with move-cursor-* actions
423 * build bug 1047: attempt to make inline functions satisfy C99 6.7.4p3
424 so that ELinks can be built on OpenSolaris
429 Released on 2008-09-21.
431 * critical bug 1027 in user SMJS: make elinks.keymaps treat null and
432 "none" as equivalent actions, avoiding a segfault
433 * critical bug 1030: an assertion used to fail in the search dialog
434 on systems that lack a usable <regex.h>
435 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
436 * bug 698: Attach controls to the intended form even if it is
437 incorrectly nested in a table. (Was broken in 0.11.4.)
438 * build bug 1021: fixed uninitialized variable in http_got_header
439 * build: don't use libgnutls-openssl, which is no longer GPLv2
440 compatible in GnuTLS 2.2.0
445 Released on 2008-06-20.
447 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
449 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
451 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
452 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
454 * critical bug 1016: avoid JSFunctionSpec for better compatibility
455 across versions of SpiderMonkey
456 * critical bugs 674, 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects
457 that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
458 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
460 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
461 and a possible subsequent crash
462 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
463 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
464 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
465 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
467 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
468 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
469 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
470 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
471 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
472 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
473 * bug 1014: fix incompatible pointer type in Perl_sys_init3 call
474 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
475 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
476 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
477 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
478 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
479 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
480 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
481 if the terminal uses some other charset
482 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
483 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
484 file name to a file:// URL
485 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
486 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
487 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
488 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
489 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
490 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
492 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
494 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
495 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
496 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
497 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
498 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
499 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
500 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
506 Released on 2007-04-15.
508 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
510 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
512 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
513 server responds to PASV with status 200
514 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
515 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
516 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
517 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
519 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
520 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
521 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
522 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
524 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
525 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
527 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
528 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
530 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
532 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
533 listing, if off_t is large enough
534 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
536 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
537 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
539 * fix POST to local CGI
540 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
541 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
543 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
544 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
546 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
548 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
549 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
550 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
551 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
552 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
553 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
555 * enhancements in text wrapping
556 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
557 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
563 Released on 2006-11-19.
565 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
566 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
567 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
568 * build: Minix3 compatibility
573 Released on 2006-01-29.
575 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
576 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
579 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
581 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
582 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
583 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
584 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
585 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
586 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
587 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
588 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
589 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
592 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
593 -----------------------
595 Released on 2006-01-01.
597 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
598 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
599 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
600 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
602 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
603 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
604 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
605 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
606 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
607 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
608 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
609 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
610 * move from CVS to GIT
615 Released on 2005-09-15.
617 * external editor is configurable at run-time
622 Released on 2005-04-06.
624 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
630 Released on 2005-01-30.
632 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
633 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
635 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
636 -----------------------
638 Released on 2004-12-24.
640 * licensed under GPLv2 only
642 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
643 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
644 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
645 * multiple URIs on the command line
646 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
647 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
648 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
649 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
650 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
651 * manual cookies creating and editing
652 * incremental searching (press '#/')
653 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
654 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
655 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
656 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
657 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
658 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
659 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
660 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
661 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
662 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
663 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
664 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
665 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
666 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
667 * enhanced documentation
672 Released on 2004-09-24.
674 * directional links navigation
675 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
676 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
681 Released on 2004-01-23.
683 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
684 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
685 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
686 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
687 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
688 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
689 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
690 since its document was loaded
692 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
693 ------------------------
695 Released on 2003-12-24.
697 * used gettext for internationalization
698 * support for background document colors
700 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
702 * Guile scripting extensions
707 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
708 * document marks support
709 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
710 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
711 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
712 * HTTPS proxy support
713 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
715 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
716 -----------------------
718 Released on 2002-12-24.
721 * basic proxy auth support
722 * cookies parser rewritten
723 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
724 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
726 * global history support (+vlink support)
727 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
728 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
729 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
730 * support for utf8 i/o
731 * mouse wheel support
732 * portability enhancements
733 * performance enhancements
734 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
735 * downloads resuming support
737 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
738 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
739 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
740 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
741 your old config files!!!)
742 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
743 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
744 * colorful user interface
745 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
746 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
747 * extensive memory debugging support
752 Released on 2002-03-02.
755 * external textarea editor
756 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
758 * rewritten options handling
759 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
760 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
761 * added possibility to change default colors settings
766 Released on 2001-10-26.
768 * secured cookies file creation
769 * support for title attribute of img tag
770 * Catalan translation
771 * Romanian translation
772 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
773 * <listing> tag support
778 Released on 2001-10-06.
780 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
781 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
782 * http referrer, true http referrer
783 * limited textarea external editor support
784 * partial fix of
785 * enhanced manual page
786 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source