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 (98260f7970bcd940f2d2146ac7b5a980a7586082) 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 * ECMAScript support no longer works with SpiderMonkey versions
44 earlier than JS1.5 RC3a.
45 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
46 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
47 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
48 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
50 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
51 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
52 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
53 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
54 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
55 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
59 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
60 after HTTP proxy was changed
61 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
62 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
63 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
64 sequences from the terminal
65 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
66 * gzip_read: always call gzclearerr
67 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
68 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
69 * bug 766: speed up CSS
70 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
72 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
73 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
74 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
75 * several accesskey fixes
76 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
77 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
78 same line; don't let it fall to the next
79 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
80 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
81 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
82 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
84 * enhancement 121: if a mailcap entry indicates 'copiousoutput', ELinks
85 itself acts as a pager
86 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
87 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
88 * enhancement 517: fixed and enabled HTTP bzip2 decompression
89 * enhancement: LZMA decompression
90 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
91 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
92 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
93 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
95 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
96 * enhancement: new actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
98 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
99 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
100 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
101 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
103 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
105 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
106 and on BSD via moused -z 4
107 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
108 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
109 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
110 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
112 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
113 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
115 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
117 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
118 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
119 rest before propagating
120 * enhancement: avoid compilation of vernum.c in 'make install'
121 * enhancement: make uninstall
122 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
123 * experimental enhancement: native Win32 port
125 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
127 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
128 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
129 statements work as intended
130 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
131 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
132 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
133 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
134 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
135 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
136 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
137 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
138 window.setTimeout, window.status
140 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
142 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
143 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
144 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
145 support arbitrary XML though.
146 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
148 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
149 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
151 * enhancement: incremental parsing
154 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
155 The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.12.0
156 is released. They are currently listed here just to show that they
157 have already been considered.
159 * Not clear whether the bugs have been fixed:
160 - (bugfix 674) Reproduceable crashes while trying to unsubscribe
161 from a community on Orkut
162 - (bugfix 770) Download resuming simply restarts the download
163 * Only partially fixed bugs:
164 - (bugfix 764) int/long type punning in options
165 - (bugfix 890) Change colors 0-15 to match xterm defaults.
166 The bug report also requests asking xterm to report its palette,
167 but that part will be delayed to 0.13 or later.
168 - (bugfix 784) attributes corrupt character entity references if
169 terminal charset != document charset
170 * Fixed bugs that were not in previous versions:
171 - (bugfix) Fix a crash when adding a server in the cookie manager.
172 - (bugfix) cookies: "Add Server" ignores "cookies.accept_policy".
173 - (bugfix) Fix data: protocol.
174 - (bugfix 747) Properly deselect the main menu instead of crashing
175 - (bugfix 778) ELinks crashes on binary files when
176 document.plain.display_links is set
177 - (bugfix 782) UTF-8 buffer overwritten while in use
178 - (bugfix) switch_to_tab: Prevent "tab number out of range"
180 - (bugfix) Fixed about:
181 - (bugfix 821) I cannot enter national characters in dialog boxes
182 - (bugfix 834) Gzip decompression doesn't work
183 - (bugfix) Fix out-of-bound access to the quote_char buffer
184 - (bugfix 827) Crash with term charset set to Unicode and UTF-8 I/O
186 - (bugfix 826) too small table for double-cell characters
187 - (bugfix 902) crash: "overflow detected realloc()" in realloc_line
188 - (bugfix 912) wrong color in one cell of an HTML input field
189 - (bugfix 835) Text in textarea is unaffected by horizontal
190 scrolling of document in UTF-8 mode
191 - (bugfix 823) Big textarea is too slow with CONFIG_UTF8
192 - (bugfix 754) Pressing ESC do not pop up main menu anymore.
193 - (bugfix 794) tab-close-all-but-current crashes
194 - (bugfix 781) document->buf can overflow with UTF-8 enabled
195 - (bugfix 882) C1 controls pass through to the terminal if written
197 - (bugfix 935) Yes and No buttons override the bottom border of the
199 - (bugfix in SEE) Use frame->name instead of target avoiding
201 - (bugfix 957) crash within js_Interpret: cx->fp points to freed
203 - (bugfix 920) assertion priority >= prev_priority failed: queue is
205 * Already backported to a previous release but not listed there:
206 - (enhancement) Activate link only when onClick returns true.
207 Fixed bug 786 in ELinks 0.11.2.
208 - when the configure script cleans old object files, this no longer
209 causes it to loop. Commit 564b67883b189a05839bcd2a30d8d4c6eb89c66d
211 - don't include <sys/param.h> for MIN and MAX because it may interfere with
212 CONFIG_IPV6 on Linux. Commit 63797ae9b331efd91be27512bd9d5b2e2ff74741
214 - Debian bug 400872: include <sys/types.h> for off_t.
215 (Related to bug 936 but not the same.)
216 Commit 135a79a3c309af36cf963f1d3c34b07f296fa2f7 in ELinks 0.11.3.
217 - bug 107: recognize "localhost" in file: URIs. Cannot reproduce in
219 - fix compilation under gcc 4.x. Backported from gentoo portage.
220 Commit bcabd8b7951f3319199811088e607501296ee573 in ELinks 0.11.3.
222 - (new feature) document.write, reverted in
223 2c087e52e74528a720621186b91880463e039d50
224 - (enhancement) restore Linux console mode (UTF-8 or not), reverted
225 in 10d72cae7eafa6b90db1c8f303deb200555734c2
226 - (enhancement) wcwidth, reverted in
227 d050cb67aa37390ab938b0a308c7541f19578506
228 - (new feature) Let plain text change colors with ESC [ 31 m or
229 similar control sequences, reverted in
230 2a6125e3d0407b588eb286d4d0ff5c98c23ebda9
231 - (enhancement) Support for pasting from GNU screen clipboard,
232 reverted in 763f03f146cc1391b303c8074556f0ddea1e3c7a
233 * Unimportant changes:
234 - (enhancement) If select fails, save its errno.
235 - (bugfix) Use PF_* instead of AF_* as first parameter of socket(2).
236 (commits 8b7657deaf6037736d0abe88bae1865fec55fe93 in 0.12.GIT
237 and d9b56bad7d528a87376768572c2601c57d8afb02 in 0.11.0.GIT)
238 - (bugfix) Better error handling in save_form_data_to_file and
240 (commit 6bdc34cfbcade0c25922c1ad96c753cc7d1c9949 and nearby)
241 - (bugfix) Do not call toupper with potentially out-of-range values.
242 (commit 9e30ee631ced843f26a264c351cfa1716e7e1941)
243 - (bugfix) If ELinks logs debug information to a file, it now opens
244 that in binary mode. (commit 4ced25779dca68c0e15ce1e695ce191b536bb05d)
245 - (bugfix) Kill the ESC timer when blocking the terminal.
246 (commit 539f756438fca4264ab937b2ccfba2351e916a16)
247 - (bugfix) Don't claim that the authentication is for HTTP.
248 (commit ef2f6383c6f0bed576e6f69030eacc4931b42a27)
249 - (enhancement) Reject invalid UTF-8 input from documents and
251 - (bugfix) Decode UTF-8 only from bytes, not from codes of special
253 - (enhancement) "Resize terminal" tries to use the window size
255 - (bugfix) Subprocess forked for SIGTSTP calls _exit, not exit.
256 - (enhancement) Tell the user how to move bookmarks.
257 - (enhancement) Localization updates. For this to be important, we
258 should at least list the languages.
259 - (enhancement) Ctrl+characters don't trigger hotkeys in menus and
261 - (bitrot) Fix two warnings on Mac OS X.
262 - (enhancement) reduce warnings on gcc 4.2 snapshots
263 * don't use cmp -b, which FreeBSD doesn't support. This is commit
264 7a5f699a88c5fc89c510854b04702c16c30ece5a in src/dom/test/ which
265 is run only by "make test" rather than "make".
266 * support much longer locale-specific timestamps when formatting a
267 directory listing. LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8 now works. Let's treat
268 this as part of the UTF-8 support.
269 * enhancement in user SMJS: elinks.alert no longer displays as an
271 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
273 ELinks 0.11.3.GIT now:
274 ----------------------
276 To be released as 0.11.4.
278 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
280 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
282 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
283 * major bug 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects that may
284 have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
285 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
287 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
288 and a possible subsequent crash
289 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
290 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
291 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
292 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
294 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
295 * fix passive FTP over IPv6 when connect() fails with EINPROGRESS
296 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
297 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
298 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
299 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
300 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
301 if the terminal uses some other charset
302 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
303 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
305 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
307 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
308 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
309 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
310 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
316 Released on 2007-04-15.
318 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
320 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
322 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
323 server responds to PASV with status 200
324 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
325 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
326 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
327 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
329 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
330 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
331 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
332 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
334 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
335 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
337 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
338 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
340 * major bug 937: don't send the entire HTTPS request to a CONNECT
342 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
343 listing, if off_t is large enough
344 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
346 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
347 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
349 * fix POST to local CGI
350 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
351 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
353 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
354 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
356 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
358 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
359 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
360 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
361 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
362 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
363 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
365 * enhancements in text wrapping
366 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
367 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
373 Released on 2006-11-19.
375 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
376 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
377 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
378 * build: Minix3 compatibility
383 Released on 2006-01-29.
385 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
386 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
389 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
391 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
392 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
393 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
394 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
395 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
396 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
397 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
398 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
399 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
402 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
403 -----------------------
405 Released on 2006-01-01.
407 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
408 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
409 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
410 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
412 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
413 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
414 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
415 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
416 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
417 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
418 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
419 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
420 * move from CVS to GIT
425 Released on 2005-09-15.
427 * external editor is configurable at run-time
432 Released on 2005-04-06.
434 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
440 Released on 2005-01-30.
442 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
443 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
445 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
446 -----------------------
448 Released on 2004-12-24.
450 * licensed under GPLv2 only
452 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
453 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
454 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
455 * multiple URIs on the command line
456 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
457 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
458 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
459 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
460 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
461 * manual cookies creating and editing
462 * incremental searching (press '#/')
463 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
464 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
465 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
466 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
467 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
468 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
469 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
470 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
471 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
472 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
473 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
474 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
475 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
476 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
477 * enhanced documentation
482 Released on 2004-09-24.
484 * directional links navigation
485 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
486 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
491 Released on 2004-01-23.
493 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
494 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
495 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
496 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
497 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
498 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
499 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
500 since its document was loaded
502 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
503 ------------------------
505 Released on 2003-12-24.
507 * used gettext for internationalization
508 * support for background document colors
510 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
512 * Guile scripting extensions
517 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
518 * document marks support
519 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
520 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
521 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
522 * HTTPS proxy support
523 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
525 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
526 -----------------------
528 Released on 2002-12-24.
531 * basic proxy auth support
532 * cookies parser rewritten
533 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
534 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
536 * global history support (+vlink support)
537 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
538 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
539 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
540 * support for utf8 i/o
541 * mouse wheel support
542 * portability enhancements
543 * performance enhancements
544 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
545 * downloads resuming support
547 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
548 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
549 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
550 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
551 your old config files!!!)
552 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
553 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
554 * colorful user interface
555 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
556 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
557 * extensive memory debugging support
562 Released on 2002-03-02.
565 * external textarea editor
566 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
568 * rewritten options handling
569 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
570 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
571 * added possibility to change default colors settings
576 Released on 2001-10-26.
578 * secured cookies file creation
579 * support for title attribute of img tag
580 * Catalan translation
581 * Romanian translation
582 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
583 * <listing> tag support
588 Released on 2001-10-06.
590 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
591 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
592 * http referrer, true http referrer
593 * limited textarea external editor support
594 * partial fix of
595 * enhanced manual page
596 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source