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
8 ELinks 0.12pre2.GIT now:
9 ------------------------
11 To be released as 0.12pre3, 0.12rc1, or even 0.12.0. This branch also
12 includes the changes listed under ``ELinks 0.11.5.GIT'' below.
14 * critical: Fix assertion failure if IMG/@usemap refers to a different
16 * Preserve newlines in hidden input fields, and submit them as CRLF.
17 Previously, they could turn into spaces or disappear entirely.
18 * Perl scripts can use modules that dynamically load C libraries, like
19 XML::LibXML::SAX does.
20 * bug 153: Preserve Unicode characters in XBEL bookmark files.
21 However, Unicode in URIs (really IRIs) does not work reliably yet;
22 this is being tracked as bug 1066.
23 * bug 885: Convert xterm titles to ISO-8859-1 by default, but add an
24 option to disable this. When removing control characters from a
25 title, note the charset. Don't truncate titles to the width of the
27 * bug 1061: Correctly truncate UTF-8 titles in the tab bar.
28 * enhancement: Updated ISO 8859-7, ISO 8859-16, KOI8-R, and MacRoman.
33 Released on 2008-09-21. This release also included the changes listed
34 under ``ELinks 0.11.5'' below.
36 * bug 954, enhancement 952: Keep track of ECMAScript form and input
37 objects instead of constructing new ones on every access. When the
38 corresponding ELinks internal objects are destroyed, detach the
39 ECMAScript objects from them, to prevent crashes. (Bug 954 was
40 first added in ELinks 0.11.4, and the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1
41 made crashes more likely.)
42 * critical bug 1029 in user SMJS: Prefer JS_CallFunctionValue over
43 JS_CallFunction, which can crash if given a closure.
44 * critical bug 1031: Use the same JSRuntime for both user SMJS and
45 scripts on web pages, to work around SpiderMonkey bug 378918.
46 * bug 1013: Don't assume errno values are between 0 and 100000.
47 * bug 1022: Add connection.ssl.trusted_ca_file setting for GnuTLS.
48 Before this, ELinks did not trust any certificate authorities when
49 it used GnuTLS, so certificate verification always failed if you
50 enabled it at connection.ssl.cert_verify.
51 * bug 1040: Blacklist servers that don't support TLS. This reduces
52 SSL errors especially in HTTP POST requests using GnuTLS.
53 * bugs 1007, 1041: Display unrecognized lines in FTP directory
54 listings, instead of annoying the user with error messages.
55 * Hurd bug 22861: Work around select() falsely reporting exceptions
57 * minor bug 951: SpiderMonkey scripting objects used to prevent ELinks
58 from removing files from the memory cache.
59 * build bug 1044: Check whether -rdynamic works with libraries.
60 With Sun Studio 11 on Solaris 9, it reportedly doesn't.
62 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
64 * critical: Fix crash after a tab was opened during reload. This was
65 triggered by the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1.
66 * critical bug 1018: Avoid an assertion failure when selecting a value
67 from a pop-up menu for an input field in a tab that is no longer
68 current, e.g. because another tab was opened with elinks -remote.
69 This bug was first released in ELinks 0.12pre1.
70 * major bug 1026 in user SMJS: Protect the callback of elinks.load_uri
71 from the garbage collector. The elinks.load_uri method was added in
73 * bug 955: Reset buttons no longer run FORM/@onsubmit, and
74 ``harmless'' buttons no longer submit the form. ELinks 0.12pre1
75 was the first release that had these bugs.
76 * bug 1033: Fix memory leak in ECMAScript window.open. ELinks 0.12pre1
77 was the first release that had this bug.
78 * bug 1034: ``Content-Encoding: deflate'' allows a zlib header as
79 specified in RFC 2616.
80 * Global ECMAScript functions alert, open, and setTimeout again work
81 with SEE. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that supported SEE
83 * build bug 1045: Fix ``void function cannot return value'' in
84 never_for_this_site() of src/formhist/formhist.c. ELinks 0.12pre1
85 was the first release that had this bug.
90 Released on 2008-07-01. This release also included the changes listed
91 under ``ELinks 0.11.4'' below.
95 * enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not merely UTF-8 I/O
96 of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions. Double-cell (aka
97 fullwidth) and supplementary characters work too, but combining
98 characters and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte
99 charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs
100 e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes
102 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
103 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
104 Unfortunately, Samba 3.2.0 and later seem GPLv2 incompatible.
108 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
109 bugs 548 and 771 with which malicious web pages can hang ELinks,
110 and its security goals are undocumented. If you must enable
111 ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
112 process with a sandbox of some kind.
113 * ECMAScript support no longer works with SpiderMonkey versions
114 earlier than JS1.5 RC3a.
115 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
116 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
117 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
118 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
120 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
121 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
122 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
123 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
124 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
125 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
129 * critical bug 723: fix dangling pointer crash when following a link
131 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
132 after HTTP proxy was changed
133 * critical bug 869: long mailcap entry buffer overflow (non-security)
135 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
136 * major bug 534, enhancement 517: fix HTTP gzip and bzip2
137 decompression, and add deflate and LZMA (requires LZMA Utils)
138 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
139 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
140 * bug 770: when the user chooses to resume an HTTP download, abort the
141 automatically started one and start a new one with the right range
142 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
143 sequences from the terminal
144 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
145 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
146 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
147 * bug 744: don't change ``//'' to ``/'' in URIs
148 * bug 766: speed up CSS
149 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
151 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
152 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
153 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
154 * several accesskey fixes
155 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
156 * minor bug 972: preserve the background color and underlining in
157 spaces when justifying
158 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
159 same line; don't let it fall to the next
160 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
161 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
162 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
163 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
165 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
166 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
167 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
168 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
169 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
170 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
172 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
173 * enhancement: new main actions move-cursor-line-start,
174 move-link-down-line, move-link-left-line, move-link-right-line,
176 * enhancement: new edit actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
178 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
179 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
180 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
181 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
183 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
185 * enhancement: make meta refresh content attribute parsing more tolerant
186 * enhancement: recognize meta http-equiv="cache-control" even if no
188 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
189 and on BSD via moused -z 4
190 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
191 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
192 * enhancement 994: treat only termios.c_cc[VERASE] as "Backspace"
193 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
194 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
196 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
197 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
199 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
201 * serious Debian bug 464384: fix warnings in alignof, ssl_connect, and
202 printing of off_t values
203 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
204 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
205 rest before propagating
206 * enhancement: make uninstall
207 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
208 * experimental enhancement: Win32 port (build with MinGW MSYS)
210 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
212 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
213 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
214 statements work as intended
215 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
216 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
217 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
218 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
219 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
220 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
221 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
222 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
223 window.setTimeout, window.status
225 Changes in the experimental NNTP client:
227 * HTML escape header field values
228 * Add support for handling RFC2047 encoded words
229 * Improve listing of articles for groups
231 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
233 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
234 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
235 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
236 support arbitrary XML though.
237 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
239 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
240 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
242 * enhancement: incremental parsing
245 ELinks 0.11.5.GIT now:
246 ----------------------
248 To be released as 0.11.6.
250 * critical: fix double-free crash if EOF immediately follows </MAP>
251 * critical bug 1053: fix crash if a download finishes after ELinks has
252 closed the terminal from which the download was started
253 * major bug 1004: ignore locales when comparing HTML element names and
254 similar strings, so e.g. ``title'' matches ``TITLE'' even in the
256 * minor: clicking a link with the mouse activates that link, rather
257 than the one selected with move-cursor-* actions
262 Released on 2008-09-21.
264 * critical bug 1027 in user SMJS: make elinks.keymaps treat null and
265 "none" as equivalent actions, avoiding a segfault
266 * critical bug 1030: an assertion used to fail in the search dialog
267 on systems that lack a usable <regex.h>
268 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
269 * bug 698: Attach controls to the intended form even if it is
270 incorrectly nested in a table. (Was broken in 0.11.4.)
271 * build bug 1021: fixed uninitialized variable in http_got_header
272 * build: don't use libgnutls-openssl, which is no longer GPLv2
273 compatible in GnuTLS 2.2.0
278 Released on 2008-06-20.
280 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
282 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
284 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
285 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
287 * critical bug 1016: avoid JSFunctionSpec for better compatibility
288 across versions of SpiderMonkey
289 * critical bugs 674, 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects
290 that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
291 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
293 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
294 and a possible subsequent crash
295 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
296 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
297 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
298 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
300 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
301 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
302 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
303 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
304 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
305 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
306 * bug 1014: fix incompatible pointer type in Perl_sys_init3 call
307 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
308 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
309 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
310 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
311 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
312 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
313 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
314 if the terminal uses some other charset
315 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
316 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
317 file name to a file:// URL
318 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
319 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
320 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
321 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
322 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
323 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
325 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
327 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
328 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
329 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
330 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
331 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
332 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
333 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
339 Released on 2007-04-15.
341 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
343 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
345 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
346 server responds to PASV with status 200
347 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
348 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
349 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
350 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
352 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
353 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
354 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
355 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
357 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
358 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
360 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
361 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
363 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
365 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
366 listing, if off_t is large enough
367 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
369 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
370 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
372 * fix POST to local CGI
373 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
374 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
376 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
377 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
379 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
381 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
382 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
383 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
384 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
385 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
386 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
388 * enhancements in text wrapping
389 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
390 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
396 Released on 2006-11-19.
398 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
399 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
400 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
401 * build: Minix3 compatibility
406 Released on 2006-01-29.
408 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
409 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
412 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
414 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
415 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
416 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
417 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
418 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
419 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
420 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
421 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
422 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
425 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
426 -----------------------
428 Released on 2006-01-01.
430 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
431 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
432 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
433 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
435 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
436 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
437 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
438 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
439 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
440 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
441 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
442 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
443 * move from CVS to GIT
448 Released on 2005-09-15.
450 * external editor is configurable at run-time
455 Released on 2005-04-06.
457 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
463 Released on 2005-01-30.
465 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
466 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
468 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
469 -----------------------
471 Released on 2004-12-24.
473 * licensed under GPLv2 only
475 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
476 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
477 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
478 * multiple URIs on the command line
479 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
480 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
481 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
482 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
483 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
484 * manual cookies creating and editing
485 * incremental searching (press '#/')
486 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
487 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
488 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
489 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
490 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
491 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
492 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
493 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
494 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
495 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
496 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
497 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
498 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
499 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
500 * enhanced documentation
505 Released on 2004-09-24.
507 * directional links navigation
508 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
509 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
514 Released on 2004-01-23.
516 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
517 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
518 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
519 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
520 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
521 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
522 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
523 since its document was loaded
525 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
526 ------------------------
528 Released on 2003-12-24.
530 * used gettext for internationalization
531 * support for background document colors
533 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
535 * Guile scripting extensions
540 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
541 * document marks support
542 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
543 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
544 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
545 * HTTPS proxy support
546 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
548 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
549 -----------------------
551 Released on 2002-12-24.
554 * basic proxy auth support
555 * cookies parser rewritten
556 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
557 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
559 * global history support (+vlink support)
560 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
561 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
562 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
563 * support for utf8 i/o
564 * mouse wheel support
565 * portability enhancements
566 * performance enhancements
567 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
568 * downloads resuming support
570 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
571 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
572 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
573 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
574 your old config files!!!)
575 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
576 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
577 * colorful user interface
578 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
579 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
580 * extensive memory debugging support
585 Released on 2002-03-02.
588 * external textarea editor
589 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
591 * rewritten options handling
592 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
593 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
594 * added possibility to change default colors settings
599 Released on 2001-10-26.
601 * secured cookies file creation
602 * support for title attribute of img tag
603 * Catalan translation
604 * Romanian translation
605 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
606 * <listing> tag support
611 Released on 2001-10-06.
613 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
614 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
615 * http referrer, true http referrer
616 * limited textarea external editor support
617 * partial fix of
618 * enhanced manual page
619 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source