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 0.11.4.
13 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
15 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
17 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
18 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
20 * major bug 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects that may
21 have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
22 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
24 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
25 and a possible subsequent crash
26 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
27 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
28 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
29 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
31 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
32 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
33 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
34 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
35 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
36 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
37 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
38 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
39 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
40 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
41 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
42 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
43 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
44 if the terminal uses some other charset
45 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
46 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
47 file name to a file:// URL
48 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
49 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
50 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
51 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
52 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
53 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
55 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
57 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
58 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
59 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
60 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
61 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
62 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
63 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
66 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
67 The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.11.4
68 is released. They are currently listed here just to show that they
69 have already been considered.
71 * Fixed bugs that were not in previous versions:
72 - bug 975: fix int/size_t pointer type mismatch in Perl interface
73 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
78 Released on 2007-04-15.
80 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
82 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
84 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
85 server responds to PASV with status 200
86 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
87 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
88 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
89 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
91 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
92 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
93 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
94 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
96 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
97 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
99 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
100 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
102 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
104 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
105 listing, if off_t is large enough
106 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
108 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
109 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
111 * fix POST to local CGI
112 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
113 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
115 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
116 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
118 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
120 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
121 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
122 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
123 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
124 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
125 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
127 * enhancements in text wrapping
128 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
129 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
135 Released on 2006-11-19.
137 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
138 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
139 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
140 * build: Minix3 compatibility
145 Released on 2006-01-29.
147 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
148 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
151 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
153 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
154 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
155 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
156 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
157 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
158 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
159 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
160 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
161 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
164 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
165 -----------------------
167 Released on 2006-01-01.
169 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
170 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
171 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
172 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
174 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
175 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
176 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
177 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
178 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
179 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
180 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
181 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
182 * move from CVS to GIT
187 Released on 2005-09-15.
189 * external editor is configurable at run-time
194 Released on 2005-04-06.
196 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
202 Released on 2005-01-30.
204 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
205 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
207 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
208 -----------------------
210 Released on 2004-12-24.
212 * licensed under GPLv2 only
214 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
215 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
216 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
217 * multiple URIs on the command line
218 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
219 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
220 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
221 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
222 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
223 * manual cookies creating and editing
224 * incremental searching (press '#/')
225 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
226 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
227 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
228 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
229 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
230 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
231 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
232 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
233 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
234 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
235 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
236 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
237 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
238 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
239 * enhanced documentation
244 Released on 2004-09-24.
246 * directional links navigation
247 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
248 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
253 Released on 2004-01-23.
255 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
256 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
257 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
258 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
259 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
260 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
261 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
262 since its document was loaded
264 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
265 ------------------------
267 Released on 2003-12-24.
269 * used gettext for internationalization
270 * support for background document colors
272 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
274 * Guile scripting extensions
279 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
280 * document marks support
281 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
282 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
283 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
284 * HTTPS proxy support
285 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
287 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
288 -----------------------
290 Released on 2002-12-24.
293 * basic proxy auth support
294 * cookies parser rewritten
295 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
296 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
298 * global history support (+vlink support)
299 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
300 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
301 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
302 * support for utf8 i/o
303 * mouse wheel support
304 * portability enhancements
305 * performance enhancements
306 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
307 * downloads resuming support
309 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
310 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
311 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
312 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
313 your old config files!!!)
314 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
315 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
316 * colorful user interface
317 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
318 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
319 * extensive memory debugging support
324 Released on 2002-03-02.
327 * external textarea editor
328 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
330 * rewritten options handling
331 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
332 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
333 * added possibility to change default colors settings
338 Released on 2001-10-26.
340 * secured cookies file creation
341 * support for title attribute of img tag
342 * Catalan translation
343 * Romanian translation
344 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
345 * <listing> tag support
350 Released on 2001-10-06.
352 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
353 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
354 * http referrer, true http referrer
355 * limited textarea external editor support
356 * partial fix of
357 * enhanced manual page
358 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source