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Release info
============

You can see the complete list of recent changes, bugfixes and new features in
the link:http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi[gitweb interface]. See the ChangeLog
file for details.

ELinks now:
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This list now contains all the important changes from ELinks 0.11.0 to
ELinks 0.12.GIT (26473f72f59641aa60277f14f703f8a76dda5a82).  The next
step will be to scan through Bugzilla and look for bug numbers that
were not mentioned in related commit messages.

The list no doubt includes several changes that are not really
important enough.  Please move them to the separate "should be removed
from NEWS" list below, or coalesce several changes into one entry (but
do list all bug numbers).  It might be a good idea to sort the entries
roughly in decreasing order of importance.
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* Miscellaneous
  - (bugfix) If ELinks logs debug information to a file, it now opens
    that in binary mode.
  - (bugfix) Use PF_* instead of AF_* as first parameter of socket(2).
  - (enhancement 752) Documentation updates
  - (enhancement 381) Reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
    other arrays.
  - (bugfix) Secure file saving: restore umask after _all_ failure
    conditions
  - (bugfix 830) Fix misparsing of -remote URLs containing parenthesis.
  - (bugfix 868) kill_timer from timer->func can crash check_timers.
  - (enhancement 831) -remote openURL(URL) can include quoted commas.
  - (enhancement) Reject invalid UTF-8 input from documents and
    terminals.
* Changes in terminal support
  - (enhancement) Make ELinks FreeBSD friendly. Defined keys used on
    FreeBSD console
  - (enhancement) Mouse wheel support on BSD via moused -z 4
  - (enhancement) Support for mouse wheel over GPM
  - (experimental, new feature) UTF-8 as terminal charset: not merely
    UTF-8 I/O of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions.
    Double-cell (aka fullwidth) and non-BMP characters work too, but
    combining characters and right-to-left text do not.  The only
    multibyte charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the
    server outputs e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy.
  - (bugfix) Kill the ESC timer when blocking the terminal.
  - (bugfix 724) Better parsing of escape sequences and control
    sequences from the terminal.
  - (bugfix) Decode UTF-8 only from bytes, not from codes of special
    keys.
  - (bugfix) Do not call toupper with potentially out-of-range values.
  - (new feature) 24-bit truecolor mode
  - (enhancement) "Resize terminal" tries to use the window size
    increment.
  - (new feature) Support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations.
  - (bugfix) Subprocess forked for SIGTSTP calls _exit, not exit.
  - (new feature 772) Recognize Shift+Tab on Xterm.
  - (enhancement) Turn terminal transparency off by default.
  - (bugfix 871) Lock down the numbering of terminal.*.colors
    regardless of config options.  This change makes elinks.conf
    portable between different configurations but unfortunately not
    between this and previous versions.
* Changes in cookies and bookmarks
  - (new feature) "Add server" button in the cookie manager.
  - (enhancement) Tell the user how to move bookmarks.
  - (bugfix) Fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder.
  - (bugfix) Fixed crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
  - (bugfix 886, 872) If the user edits or deletes a cookie, mark the
    cookie list as needing to be saved.
  - (enhancement 887) Save in cookie manager should save cookies even
    if unmodified.
* Changes in the user interface
  - (new feature 145) Internal clipboard support
  - (enhancement) Place the cursor on the current listbox item, to
    help screen readers
  - (enhancement) Localization updates
  - (bugfix 355) Add documents displayed via "What to do" dialog to
    globhist
  - (new feature) Autocreate directories needed to download a file.
  - (new feature) Option ui.show_menu_bar_always
  - (new feature) Option ui.tabs moves the tab bar to the top.
  - (bugfix 24) Fix searching in menus past unselectable items.
  - (bugfix) Fix crash with empty File extensions menu.
  - (new feature) New actions: kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
    move-forward-word
  - (bugfix) Use internal OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
  - (bugfix) Two small fixes in the authentication dialog.
  - (enhancement) Ctrl+characters don't trigger hotkeys in menus and
    dialogs.
  - (bugfix 396) Never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
* Changes in support for URI schemes, protocols, caching, and encodings
  - (workaround 841) SMB is now disabled because of CVE-2006-5925.
  - (new feature 630) Native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI
    program in contrib/fsp/)
  - (experimental, bugfix) Gopher changes, including crash fixes
  - (enhancement) FTP handler parses file sizes better
  - (bugfix) Fixes cache-control issue. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005
  - (new feature) LZMA decompression
  - (bugfix) Local files in a directory whose name contained + were
    unreachable.
  - (new feature) HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
  - (bugfix 769) HTTP digest auth computed MD5 from insufficient input.
  - (bugfix 770) Download resuming simply restarts the download
  - (bugfix) Fix IPv4 DNS lookup bug
  - (bugfix) Fix null-pointer crash caused by malformed $HTTP_PROXY.
  - (enhancement) If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
  - (bugfix) gzip_read: always call gzclearerr
  - (bugfix 107) Recognize "localhost" in file: URIs.
  - (bugfix 729) Fix crashes with various bogus BitTorrent URLs.
  - (bugfix 756) "assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed"
    after HTTP proxy was changed
  - (bugfix 899, Debian 403139) Fix size handling in FTP directory
    listings.
  - (bugfix 919) Fixed a buffer overflow when shrinking a cached fragment.
* Changes in parsing and rendering of HTML (without DOM)
  - (enhancement) The list of SGML character entities has been updated
    from unicode.org.  However, it still isn't subsetted per DTD like
    it probably should be.
  - (new feature) Add support for forcing wrapping at the screen boundary
  - (bugfix 741) HTML comments shouldn't be evaluated inside STYLE elements
  - (bugfix) Use frame->name instead of target avoiding possible segfault.
  - (bugfix 284) Render closing parentheses for HTML elements SUB, SUP
    in the same line; don't let them fall to the next.
  - (enhancement) Show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather
    than italics.
  - (enhancement) Add support for parsing space separated CSS class
    attribute values
  - (enhancement 767) HTML meta refresh finds the URL even without "URL=".
  - (enhancement 396) If the server doesn't say what the Content-Type is
    but the data contains "<html>", assume it is text/html.
  - (bugfix 387) Treat &#013; inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline.
* Changes in parsing and rendering of non-HTML content-types
  - (new feature) If a mailcap entry indicates copiousoutput, ELinks
    itself acts as a pager.
* Changes in the document viewer and tabs
  - (new feature) Highlight links as one enters link prefixes.
  - (new feature) Backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix.
  - (bugfix) Tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs.
  - (new feature 622) -dump-color-mode
  - (bugfix) Fix accesskeys so that they work when priority is 0
  - (enhancement) Text type-ahead searching: don't follow current link
    on enter
  - (bugfix) Take the terminal charset in account when comparing
    accesskeys.
  - (enhancement) Display accesskeys as e.g. (Alt-f), not just (f).
  - (bugfix) Decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI
    when looking it up
  - (bugfix 908) radio button writes via a dangling pointer (potential
    crash)
* Changes in user scripting
  - (bugfix, Gentoo 121247) Ruby: Fix segfaults.
  - (enhancement) Guile: Read hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
    (Keep reading user-hooks.scm, too.)
  - (bugfix) Lua: current_document_formatted now works.
  - (bugfix) Lua: Don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring.
  - (experimental, new feature, bugfix) Python: Many additions and
    bug fixes.
  - (bugfix) SMJS: Don't complain about a missing hooks.js on startup.
  - (new feature) SMJS: The elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
    argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties.
  - (enhancement) SMJS: elinks.alert no longer displays as an "error".
  - (new feature) SMJS: New properties elinks.action, elinks.globhist,
    elinks.vs.
  - (new feature) SMJS: New function elinks.load_uri.
  - (new feature) SMJS: New method elinks.execute.
  - (enhancement) SMJS: Garbage-collect SMJS objects before flushing
    caches.
  - (bugfix 870) SMJS: Don't panic if a property ID is unrecognized.
    (The bug also affected SMJS on web pages, but that's experimental.)
  - (bitrot) Perl: Don't assume POPpx stores the length to n_a.
  - (bugfix) Perl: Fix pre_format_html hook wrt. binary files.
* Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks)
  - (bugfix) Fixed some bugs about compiling outside the source
    directory.
  - (bugfix) Don't use cmp -b, which FreeBSD doesn't support.
  - (bugfix) Don't include <sys/param.h> for MIN and MAX because it
    may interfere with CONFIG_IPV6 on Linux.
  - (bugfix) When the configure script cleans old object files, this
    no longer causes it to loop.
  - (experimental, new feature) --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
  - (bugfix) Include <sys/types.h> and fix compilation on an old
    PPC/Debian system
  - (bitrot) Fix compilation under gcc 4.x. Backported from gentoo portage.
  - (bitrot) Update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
  - (new feature) Tiny C Compiler support
  - (experimental, new feature) Native Win32 port
  - (enhancement) If make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
    rest before propagating.
  - (experimental, bitrot 768) Look for e.g. -lpython2.4 rather than
    -lpython.
  - (enhancement) Avoid compilation of vernum.c in 'make install'
  - (bugfix) Don't use $(AM_CFLAGS) anymore.  Use $(CPPFLAGS) instead.
  - (bugfix) Fix compilation on Minix3.
  - (bitrot) Fix two warnings on Mac OS X.
* (experimental) Changes in ECMAScript support
  - (enhancement) Disable ECMAScript by default.
  - (new feature) SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey.
  - (new feature) Handling onsubmit
  - (workaround) window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
    reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script.
  - (enhancement) Recognize document.location.href for SMJS.
  - (enhancement) Better handling of form.action assignments
  - (bugfix) SMJS: fix segfault on exit.
  - (enhancement) form[x] looks up controls also by id, not only name.
  - (new feature) New property input.selectedIndex.
  - (new feature) Activate link only when onClick returns true.
  - (enhancement) input.accessKey can be any Unicode character except
    U+0000.
  - (new feature) window.setTimeout, window.status
  - (bugfix 846) Fix potentially exploitable crashes if properties
    were invoked with "this" objects of unexpected types.
* (experimental) Changes in SGML/DOM implementation
  - (new feature) Minimalistic RSS renderer
  - (enhancement) Source highlighting also recognizes
    application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml.  It doesn't yet
    support arbitrary XML though.
  - (enhancement) Make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
    source highlighting
  - (enhancement) Handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
  - (enhancement) Add support for scanning comment endings such as
    '--!>' correctly
  - (new feature) Incremental parsing
  - And more.

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The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.12.0
is released.  They are currently listed here just to show that they
have already been considered.

* Only partially fixed bugs:
  - (bugfix 764) int/long type punning in options
  - (bugfix 725) Fixes version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
  - (new feature 779) make uninstall
* Fixed bugs that were not in previous versions:
  - (bugfix) Fix a crash when adding a server in the cookie manager.
  - (bugfix) cookies: "Add Server" ignores "cookies.accept_policy".
  - (bugfix) Fix data: protocol.
  - (bugfix 747) Properly deselect the main menu instead of crashing
  - (bugfix 778) ELinks crashes on binary files when
    document.plain.display_links is set
  - (bugfix 784) UTF-8 mode misconverts non-ASCII entity in Latin-1
    document
  - (bugfix 782) UTF-8 buffer overwritten while in use
  - (bugfix) switch_to_tab: Prevent "tab number out of range"
    assertion failure.
  - (bugfix) Fixed about:
  - (bugfix 821) I cannot enter national characters in dialog boxes
  - (bugfix 834) Gzip decompression doesn't work
  - (bugfix) Fix out-of-bound access to the quote_char buffer
  - (bugfix 880) Prevent SIGSEGV in init_python when -no-home is used.
  - (bugfix 788) compile error with --enable-perl
  - (bugfix 827) Crash with term charset set to Unicode and UTF-8 I/O
    disabled
  - (bugfix 826) too small table for double-cell characters
  - (bugfix 902) crash: "overflow detected realloc()" in realloc_line
  - (bugfix 912) wrong color in one cell of an HTML input field
  - (bugfix 835) Text in textarea is unaffected by horizontal
    scrolling of document in UTF-8 mode
  - (bugfix 823) Big textarea is too slow with CONFIG_UTF8
  - (bugfix 754) Pressing ESC do not pop up main menu anymore.
  - (bugfix 794) tab-close-all-but-current crashes
  - (bugfix 781) document->buf can overflow with UTF-8 enabled
* Reverted changes:
  - (new feature) document.write, reverted in
    2c087e52e74528a720621186b91880463e039d50
  - (enhancement) restore Linux console mode (UTF-8 or not), reverted
    in 10d72cae7eafa6b90db1c8f303deb200555734c2
  - (enhancement) wcwidth, reverted in
    d050cb67aa37390ab938b0a308c7541f19578506
  - (new feature) Let plain text change colors with ESC [ 31 m or
    similar control sequences, reverted in
    2a6125e3d0407b588eb286d4d0ff5c98c23ebda9
  - (enhancement) Support for pasting from GNU screen clipboard,
    reverted in 763f03f146cc1391b303c8074556f0ddea1e3c7a
* Unimportant changes: 
  - (enhancement) If select fails, save its errno.
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ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
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* SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
* support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
* Python scripting back-end (experimental)
* Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
* 88 colors support
* default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
  was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
* support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
  history-move-back, and history-move-forward
* BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
* FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
* sysmouse support on the BSD console
* new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
* move from CVS to GIT

ELinks 0.10.6:
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* external editor is configurable at run-time

ELinks 0.10.4:
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* explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
  are now highlighted

ELinks 0.10.2:
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* Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
* Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)

ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
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* simple CSS
* simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
* plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
* HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
* multiple URIs on the command line
* tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
* periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
* exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
* cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
* modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
* manual cookies creating and editing
* incremental searching (press '#/')
* Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
* build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
* Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html)
* support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (i.e. http4 or ftp6)
* internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
* data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
* gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
* NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and 2980) (experimental)
* build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
* -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
* -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
* -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
* -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
* -conffile option renamed to -config-file
* enhanced documentation

ELinks 0.9.2:
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* directional links navigation
* 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
  MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.

ELinks 0.9.1:
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* support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
* add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
* automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
* add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
* fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
  (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
* 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
  since its document was loaded

ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
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* used gettext for internationalization
* support for background document colors
* tabs support
* new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
* local CGI support
* Guile scripting extensions
* HTML meta refresh
* forms history
* 256 colors support
* regex searches
* cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
* document marks support
* displaying URIs in plain documents as links
* SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
* builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
* HTTPS proxy support
* typeahead link searching (press '#')

ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
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* merged HTTP_AUTH
* basic proxy auth support
* cookies parser rewritten
* support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
* FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
  mode support, ...
* global history support (+vlink support)
* make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
* secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
  things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
* support for utf8 i/o
* mouse wheel support
* portability enhancements
* performance enhancements
* file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
* downloads resuming support
* mailcap support
* hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
* source layout was dramatically reorganized
* relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
  from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
  your old config files!!!)
* options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
* keybindings can be configured from the user interface
* colorful user interface
* tiny useless LED-like indicators support
* GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
* extensive memory debugging support

ELinks 0.3.0:
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* unhistory
* external textarea editor
* DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
* IPv6 support
* rewritten options handling
* bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
* bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
* added possibility to change default colors settings

Links 0.96-pb3:
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* secured cookies file creation
* support for title attribute of img tag
* Catalan translation
* Romanian translation
* changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
* <listing> tag support

Links 0.96-pb2:
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* cookies expiration, saving and resaving
* do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
* http referrer, true http referrer
* limited textarea external editor support
* partial fix of &#13;
* enhanced manual page
* fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source
* fixed keybindings