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 0.12.0.
13 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
14 This list now contains all the important changes from ELinks 0.11.0 to
15 ELinks 0.12.GIT (0cf15ca9d9dbc00c10f23440674fcdb832dffd75) 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 supplementary characters work too, but combining
29 characters and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte
30 charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs
31 e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes
33 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
34 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
38 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
39 bugs 548 and 771 with which malicious web pages can hang ELinks,
40 and its security goals are undocumented. If you must enable
41 ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
42 process with a sandbox of some kind.
43 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
44 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
45 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
46 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
48 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
49 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
50 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
51 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
52 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
53 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
57 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
58 after HTTP proxy was changed
59 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
60 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
61 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
62 sequences from the terminal
63 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
64 * gzip_read: always call gzclearerr
65 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
66 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
67 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
69 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
70 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
71 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
72 * several accesskey fixes
73 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
74 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
75 same line; don't let it fall to the next
76 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
77 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
78 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy.
79 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
80 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
81 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
83 * enhancement 121: if a mailcap entry indicates 'copiousoutput', ELinks
84 itself acts as a pager
85 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
86 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
87 * enhancement 517: fixed and enabled HTTP bzip2 decompression
88 * enhancement: LZMA decompression
89 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
90 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
91 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
92 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
94 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
95 * enhancement: new actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
97 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
98 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
99 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
100 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
102 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
104 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
105 and on BSD via moused -z 4
106 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
107 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
108 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
109 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
111 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
112 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
114 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
116 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
117 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
118 rest before propagating
119 * enhancement: avoid compilation of vernum.c in 'make install'
120 * enhancement: make uninstall
121 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
122 * experimental enhancement: native Win32 port
124 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
126 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
127 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
129 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
130 statements work as intended
131 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
132 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
133 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
134 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
135 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
136 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
137 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
138 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
139 window.setTimeout, window.status
141 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
143 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
144 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
145 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
146 support arbitrary XML though.
147 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
149 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
150 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
152 * enhancement: incremental parsing
155 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
156 The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.12.0
157 is released. They are currently listed here just to show that they
158 have already been considered.
160 * Not clear whether the bugs have been fixed:
161 - (bugfix 674) Reproduceable crashes while trying to unsubscribe
162 from a community on Orkut
163 - (bugfix 770) Download resuming simply restarts the download
164 * Only partially fixed bugs:
165 - (bugfix 764) int/long type punning in options
166 - (bugfix 890) Change colors 0-15 to match xterm defaults.
167 The bug report also requests asking xterm to report its palette,
168 but that part will be delayed to 0.13 or later.
169 - (bugfix 784) attributes corrupt character entity references if
170 terminal charset != document charset
171 * Fixed bugs that were not in previous versions:
172 - (bugfix) Fix a crash when adding a server in the cookie manager.
173 - (bugfix) cookies: "Add Server" ignores "cookies.accept_policy".
174 - (bugfix) Fix data: protocol.
175 - (bugfix 747) Properly deselect the main menu instead of crashing
176 - (bugfix 778) ELinks crashes on binary files when
177 document.plain.display_links is set
178 - (bugfix 782) UTF-8 buffer overwritten while in use
179 - (bugfix) switch_to_tab: Prevent "tab number out of range"
181 - (bugfix) Fixed about:
182 - (bugfix 821) I cannot enter national characters in dialog boxes
183 - (bugfix 834) Gzip decompression doesn't work
184 - (bugfix) Fix out-of-bound access to the quote_char buffer
185 - (bugfix 827) Crash with term charset set to Unicode and UTF-8 I/O
187 - (bugfix 826) too small table for double-cell characters
188 - (bugfix 902) crash: "overflow detected realloc()" in realloc_line
189 - (bugfix 912) wrong color in one cell of an HTML input field
190 - (bugfix 835) Text in textarea is unaffected by horizontal
191 scrolling of document in UTF-8 mode
192 - (bugfix 823) Big textarea is too slow with CONFIG_UTF8
193 - (bugfix 754) Pressing ESC do not pop up main menu anymore.
194 - (bugfix 794) tab-close-all-but-current crashes
195 - (bugfix 781) document->buf can overflow with UTF-8 enabled
196 - (bugfix 882) C1 controls pass through to the terminal if written
198 - (bugfix 935) Yes and No buttons override the bottom border of the
200 - (bugfix in SEE) Use frame->name instead of target avoiding
202 - (bugfix 957) crash within js_Interpret: cx->fp points to freed
204 - (bugfix 920) assertion priority >= prev_priority failed: queue is
206 * Already backported to a previous release but not listed there:
207 - (enhancement) Activate link only when onClick returns true.
208 Fixed bug 786 in ELinks 0.11.2.
209 - when the configure script cleans old object files, this no longer
210 causes it to loop. Commit 564b67883b189a05839bcd2a30d8d4c6eb89c66d
212 - don't include <sys/param.h> for MIN and MAX because it may interfere with
213 CONFIG_IPV6 on Linux. Commit 63797ae9b331efd91be27512bd9d5b2e2ff74741
215 - Debian bug 400871: include <sys/types.h> for off_t. (Bug 936 was
216 reported for GIT (HEAD) after the change and may still exist.)
217 Commit 135a79a3c309af36cf963f1d3c34b07f296fa2f7 in ELinks 0.11.3.
218 - bug 107: recognize "localhost" in file: URIs. Cannot reproduce in
220 - fix compilation under gcc 4.x. Backported from gentoo portage.
221 Commit bcabd8b7951f3319199811088e607501296ee573 in ELinks 0.11.3.
223 - (new feature) document.write, reverted in
224 2c087e52e74528a720621186b91880463e039d50
225 - (enhancement) restore Linux console mode (UTF-8 or not), reverted
226 in 10d72cae7eafa6b90db1c8f303deb200555734c2
227 - (enhancement) wcwidth, reverted in
228 d050cb67aa37390ab938b0a308c7541f19578506
229 - (new feature) Let plain text change colors with ESC [ 31 m or
230 similar control sequences, reverted in
231 2a6125e3d0407b588eb286d4d0ff5c98c23ebda9
232 - (enhancement) Support for pasting from GNU screen clipboard,
233 reverted in 763f03f146cc1391b303c8074556f0ddea1e3c7a
234 * Unimportant changes:
235 - (enhancement) If select fails, save its errno.
236 - (bugfix) Use PF_* instead of AF_* as first parameter of socket(2).
237 (commits 8b7657deaf6037736d0abe88bae1865fec55fe93 in 0.12.GIT
238 and d9b56bad7d528a87376768572c2601c57d8afb02 in 0.11.0.GIT)
239 - (bugfix) Better error handling in save_form_data_to_file and
241 (commit 6bdc34cfbcade0c25922c1ad96c753cc7d1c9949 and nearby)
242 - (bugfix) Do not call toupper with potentially out-of-range values.
243 (commit 9e30ee631ced843f26a264c351cfa1716e7e1941)
244 - (bugfix) If ELinks logs debug information to a file, it now opens
245 that in binary mode. (commit 4ced25779dca68c0e15ce1e695ce191b536bb05d)
246 - (bugfix) Kill the ESC timer when blocking the terminal.
247 (commit 539f756438fca4264ab937b2ccfba2351e916a16)
248 - (bugfix) Don't claim that the authentication is for HTTP.
249 (commit ef2f6383c6f0bed576e6f69030eacc4931b42a27)
250 - (enhancement) Reject invalid UTF-8 input from documents and
252 - (bugfix) Decode UTF-8 only from bytes, not from codes of special
254 - (enhancement) "Resize terminal" tries to use the window size
256 - (bugfix) Subprocess forked for SIGTSTP calls _exit, not exit.
257 - (enhancement) Tell the user how to move bookmarks.
258 - (enhancement) Localization updates. For this to be important, we
259 should at least list the languages.
260 - (enhancement) Ctrl+characters don't trigger hotkeys in menus and
262 - (bitrot) Fix two warnings on Mac OS X.
263 - (enhancement) reduce warnings on gcc 4.2 snapshots
264 * don't use cmp -b, which FreeBSD doesn't support. This is commit
265 7a5f699a88c5fc89c510854b04702c16c30ece5a in src/dom/test/ which
266 is run only by "make test" rather than "make".
267 * support much longer locale-specific timestamps when formatting a
268 directory listing. LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8 now works. Let's treat
269 this as part of the UTF-8 support.
270 * enhancement in user SMJS: elinks.alert no longer displays as an
272 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
274 ELinks 0.11.3.GIT now:
275 ----------------------
277 To be released as 0.11.4.
279 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
280 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
282 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
283 and a possible subsequent crash
284 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
285 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
286 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
287 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
289 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
290 * fix passive FTP over IPv6 when connect() fails with EINPROGRESS
291 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
292 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
293 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
294 if the terminal uses some other charset
295 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
296 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
298 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
299 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
304 Released on 2007-04-15.
306 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
308 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
310 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
311 server responds to PASV with status 200
312 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
313 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
314 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
315 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
317 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
318 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
319 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
320 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
322 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
323 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
325 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
326 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
328 * major bug 937: don't send the entire HTTPS request to a CONNECT
330 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
331 listing, if off_t is large enough
332 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
334 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
335 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
337 * fix POST to local CGI
338 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
339 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
341 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
342 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
344 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
346 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
347 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
348 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
349 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
350 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
351 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
353 * enhancements in text wrapping
354 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
355 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
361 Released on 2006-11-19.
363 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
364 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
365 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
366 * build: Minix3 compatibility
371 Released on 2006-01-29.
373 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
374 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
377 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
379 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
380 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
381 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
382 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
383 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
384 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
385 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
386 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
387 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
390 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
391 -----------------------
393 Released on 2006-01-01.
395 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
396 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
397 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
398 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
400 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
401 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
402 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
403 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
404 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
405 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
406 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
407 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
408 * move from CVS to GIT
413 Released on 2005-09-15.
415 * external editor is configurable at run-time
420 Released on 2005-04-06.
422 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
428 Released on 2005-01-30.
430 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
431 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
433 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
434 -----------------------
436 Released on 2004-12-24.
438 * licensed under GPLv2 only
440 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
441 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
442 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
443 * multiple URIs on the command line
444 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
445 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
446 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
447 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
448 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
449 * manual cookies creating and editing
450 * incremental searching (press '#/')
451 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
452 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
453 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
454 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
455 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
456 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
457 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
458 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
459 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
460 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
461 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
462 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
463 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
464 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
465 * enhanced documentation
470 Released on 2004-09-24.
472 * directional links navigation
473 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
474 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
479 Released on 2004-01-23.
481 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
482 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
483 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
484 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
485 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
486 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
487 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
488 since its document was loaded
490 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
491 ------------------------
493 Released on 2003-12-24.
495 * used gettext for internationalization
496 * support for background document colors
498 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
500 * Guile scripting extensions
505 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
506 * document marks support
507 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
508 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
509 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
510 * HTTPS proxy support
511 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
513 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
514 -----------------------
516 Released on 2002-12-24.
519 * basic proxy auth support
520 * cookies parser rewritten
521 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
522 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
524 * global history support (+vlink support)
525 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
526 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
527 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
528 * support for utf8 i/o
529 * mouse wheel support
530 * portability enhancements
531 * performance enhancements
532 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
533 * downloads resuming support
535 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
536 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
537 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
538 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
539 your old config files!!!)
540 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
541 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
542 * colorful user interface
543 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
544 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
545 * extensive memory debugging support
550 Released on 2002-03-02.
553 * external textarea editor
554 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
556 * rewritten options handling
557 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
558 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
559 * added possibility to change default colors settings
564 Released on 2001-10-26.
566 * secured cookies file creation
567 * support for title attribute of img tag
568 * Catalan translation
569 * Romanian translation
570 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
571 * <listing> tag support
576 Released on 2001-10-06.
578 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
579 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
580 * http referrer, true http referrer
581 * limited textarea external editor support
582 * partial fix of
583 * enhanced manual page
584 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source