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 0.13.0.
15 * The protocol.fsp.sort option has been removed. ELinks always sorts.
19 * major bug 181: Slave ELinks processes can now run an external editor.
20 This used to work in the master process only.
21 * major bug 722: Filter CSS according to media types. New option
23 * bug 638: Propagate the existence of $DISPLAY from slave terminals to
24 mailcap test commands.
25 * bug 963: New option document.css.ignore_display_none.
26 * bug 977: Fixed crash when opening in new tab a non link with onclick
28 * bug 983: Give preference to the Content-Type specified in the HTTP
29 header over that specified via the HTML meta tag.
30 * bug 1008: File upload fields in HTML forms now stream the files to
31 the server, instead of reading them to memory in advance. This lets
32 you upload larger files. The downsides are that ELinks may use a
33 cached response even if you have modified a file between requests,
34 and that ELinks can send inconsistent data if you modify a file
35 while it is being uploaded.
36 * Really retry forever when connection.retries = 0.
37 * enhancement: Session-specific options. Any options changed with
38 toggle-* actions no longer affect other tabs or other terminals.
39 * enhancement: Domain-specific options. Use set_domain in elinks.conf
40 to e.g. disable cookies for google.com. The option manager window
41 does not yet support this.
42 * enhancement 867: Use bracketed paste mode on xterm. This requires
43 xterm patch #228 or later configured with --enable-readline-mouse.
44 * enhancement 824: Experimental support for combining characters.
45 See features.conf for details.
46 * enhancement: Add a new entry Link Info under Link main menu.
47 * enhancement: New option protocol.http.compression.
48 * enhancement: Indicate backgrounded downloads using an unused led.
50 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
51 The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.13.0
52 is released. They are currently listed here just to show that they
53 have already been considered.
55 * Fixed bugs that were not in previous versions:
56 - critical bug 1009: assertion failure in add_snippets()
58 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
60 ELinks 0.12pre1.GIT now:
61 ------------------------
63 To be released as 0.12pre2, 0.12rc1, or even 0.12.0. This branch also
64 includes the changes listed under "ELinks 0.11.4.GIT now" below.
66 * bug 954, enhancement 952: Keep track of ECMAScript form and input
67 objects instead of constructing new ones on every access. When the
68 corresponding ELinks internal objects are destroyed, detach the
69 ECMAScript objects from them, to prevent crashes. (Bug 954 was
70 first added in ELinks 0.11.4, and the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1
71 made crashes more likely.)
72 * critical bug 1029 in user SMJS: Prefer JS_CallFunctionValue over
73 JS_CallFunction, which can crash if given a closure.
74 * critical bug 1031: Use the same JSRuntime for both user SMJS and
75 scripts on web pages, to work around SpiderMonkey bug 378918.
76 * bug 1013: Don't assume errno values are between 0 and 100000.
77 * bug 1022: Add connection.ssl.trusted_ca_file setting for GnuTLS.
78 Before this, ELinks did not trust any certificate authorities when
79 it used GnuTLS, so certificate verification always failed if you
80 enabled it at connection.ssl.cert_verify.
81 * bug 1040: Blacklist servers that don't support TLS. This reduces
82 SSL errors especially in HTTP POST requests using GnuTLS.
83 * minor bug 951: SpiderMonkey scripting objects used to prevent ELinks
84 from removing files from the memory cache.
86 Bugs that should be removed from NEWS before the 0.12.0 release:
88 * critical: Fix crash after a tab was opened during reload. This was
89 triggered by the bug 620 fix in ELinks 0.12pre1.
90 * critical bug 1018: Avoid an assertion failure when selecting a value
91 from a pop-up menu for an input field in a tab that is no longer
92 current, e.g. because another tab was opened with elinks -remote.
93 This bug was first released in ELinks 0.12pre1.
94 * major bug 1026 in user SMJS: Protect the callback of elinks.load_uri
95 from the garbage collector. The elinks.load_uri method was added in
97 * bug 955: Reset buttons no longer run FORM/@onsubmit, and
98 ``harmless'' buttons no longer submit the form. ELinks 0.12pre1
99 was the first release that had these bugs.
100 * bug 1033: Fix memory leak in ECMAScript window.open. ELinks 0.12pre1
101 was the first release that had this bug.
102 * bug 1034: ``Content-Encoding: deflate'' allows a zlib header as
103 specified in RFC 2616.
104 * Global ECMAScript functions alert, open, and setTimeout again work
105 with SEE. ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release that supported SEE
111 Released on 2008-07-01. This release also included all the bug fixes
112 of ELinks 0.11.4, but not the ones made in 0.11.4.GIT.
114 Notable new features:
116 * enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not merely UTF-8 I/O
117 of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions. Double-cell (aka
118 fullwidth) and supplementary characters work too, but combining
119 characters and right-to-left text do not. The only multibyte
120 charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the server outputs
121 e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy. See more notes
123 * enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
124 the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
128 * ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
129 bugs 548 and 771 with which malicious web pages can hang ELinks,
130 and its security goals are undocumented. If you must enable
131 ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
132 process with a sandbox of some kind.
133 * ECMAScript support no longer works with SpiderMonkey versions
134 earlier than JS1.5 RC3a.
135 * Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
136 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
137 on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
138 different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
140 * Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
141 hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
142 The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
143 previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
144 * Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
145 (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
149 * critical bug 723: fix dangling pointer crash when following a link
151 * critical bug 756: ``assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed''
152 after HTTP proxy was changed
153 * critical bug 869: long mailcap entry buffer overflow (non-security)
155 * tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
156 * major bug 534, enhancement 517: fix HTTP gzip and bzip2
157 decompression, and add deflate and LZMA (requires LZMA Utils)
158 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
159 * Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
160 * bug 770: when the user chooses to resume an HTTP download, abort the
161 automatically started one and start a new one with the right range
162 * bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
163 sequences from the terminal
164 * bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
165 * bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
166 * bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
167 * bug 744: don't change ``//'' to ``/'' in URIs
168 * bug 766: speed up CSS
169 * bug 355: add documents displayed via ``What to do'' dialog to the
171 * encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
172 * don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
173 reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
174 * several accesskey fixes
175 * in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
176 * minor bug 972: preserve the background color and underlining in
177 spaces when justifying
178 * minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
179 same line; don't let it fall to the next
180 * minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
181 * trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
182 * trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
183 * trivial bug 776: ``elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/'' no longer clears
185 * enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
186 * enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
187 * enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
188 * enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
189 * enhancement: ``Add server'' button in the cookie manager
190 * enhancement 887: ``Save'' in the cookie manager now saves cookies
192 * enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
193 * enhancement: new main actions move-cursor-line-start,
194 move-link-down-line, move-link-left-line, move-link-right-line,
196 * enhancement: new edit actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
198 * enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
199 * enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
200 * enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
201 * enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
203 * enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
205 * enhancement: make meta refresh content attribute parsing more tolerant
206 * enhancement: recognize meta http-equiv="cache-control" even if no
208 * enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
209 and on BSD via moused -z 4
210 * enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
211 * enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
212 * enhancement 994: treat only termios.c_cc[VERASE] as "Backspace"
213 * enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
214 * enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
216 * enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
217 elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
219 Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
221 * serious Debian bug 464384: fix warnings in alignof, ssl_connect, and
222 printing of off_t values
223 * bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
224 * enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
225 rest before propagating
226 * enhancement: make uninstall
227 * experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
228 * experimental enhancement: Win32 port (build with MinGW MSYS)
230 Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
232 * disabled by default, as mentioned under ``Incompatibilities'' above
233 * execute event-handler scripts as function bodies, so ``return''
234 statements work as intended
235 * fix error ``forms.namedItem is not a function''
236 * enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
237 * enhancement: handling onsubmit
238 * workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
239 reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script
240 * enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
241 * enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by 'id', not only 'name'
242 * enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
243 window.setTimeout, window.status
245 Changes in the experimental NNTP client:
247 * HTML escape header field values
248 * Add support for handling RFC2047 encoded words
249 * Improve listing of articles for groups
251 Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
253 * enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
254 * enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
255 application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
256 support arbitrary XML though.
257 * enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
259 * enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
260 * enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
262 * enhancement: incremental parsing
265 ELinks 0.11.4.GIT now:
266 ----------------------
268 To be released as 0.11.5.
270 * critical bug 1027 in user SMJS: make elinks.keymaps treat null and
271 "none" as equivalent actions, avoiding a segfault
272 * critical bug 1030: an assertion used to fail in the search dialog
273 on systems that lack a usable <regex.h>
274 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
275 * bug 698: Attach controls to the intended form even if it is
276 incorrectly nested in a table. (Was broken in 0.11.4.)
277 * build bug 1021: fixed uninitialized variable in http_got_header
282 Released on 2008-06-20.
284 * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct
286 * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls)
288 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
289 * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets
291 * critical bug 1016: avoid JSFunctionSpec for better compatibility
292 across versions of SpiderMonkey
293 * critical bugs 674, 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects
294 that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954.
295 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
297 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
298 and a possible subsequent crash
299 * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by
300 POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later
301 * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3)
302 * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
304 * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[]
305 * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6
306 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty
307 * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty)
308 * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now
309 * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available
310 * bug 1014: fix incompatible pointer type in Perl_sys_init3 call
311 * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits
312 with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either
313 * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File ->
314 Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy
315 * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
316 * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible
317 * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document
318 if the terminal uses some other charset
319 * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections
320 * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a
321 file name to a file:// URL
322 * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent
323 * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables
324 * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP
325 * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range
326 of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390
327 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory''
329 * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader
331 * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works
332 * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
333 * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
334 * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules
335 * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/
336 * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility
337 * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but
343 Released on 2007-04-15.
345 * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
347 * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
349 * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP
350 server responds to PASV with status 200
351 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with
352 various bogus BitTorrent URLs
353 * critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
354 * critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
356 * critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
357 * critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
358 * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
359 * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy
361 * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit
362 * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer
364 * major Gentoo bug 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
365 * major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
367 * major bug 937, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to
369 * bug 899, Debian bug 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
370 listing, if off_t is large enough
371 * bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
373 * bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
374 * bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
376 * fix POST to local CGI
377 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt
378 * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
380 * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions
381 * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking
383 * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4
385 * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
386 * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates
387 * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
388 * enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
389 * enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
390 * enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
392 * enhancements in text wrapping
393 * enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
394 * enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
400 Released on 2006-11-19.
402 * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol
403 * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames
404 * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64
405 * build: Minix3 compatibility
410 Released on 2006-01-29.
412 * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication
413 * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and
416 * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program
418 * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it
419 * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second
420 argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties
421 * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted
422 * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the
423 question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part
424 * updated character entity list from unicode.org
425 * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility
426 * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in
429 ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated):
430 -----------------------
432 Released on 2006-01-01.
434 * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher
435 * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now
436 * Python scripting back-end (experimental)
437 * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental)
439 * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that
440 was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI
441 * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link,
442 history-move-back, and history-move-forward
443 * BitTorrent protocol (experimental)
444 * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental)
445 * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console
446 * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required)
447 * move from CVS to GIT
452 Released on 2005-09-15.
454 * external editor is configurable at run-time
459 Released on 2005-04-06.
461 * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and
467 Released on 2005-01-30.
469 * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental)
470 * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us)
472 ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma):
473 -----------------------
475 Released on 2004-12-24.
477 * licensed under GPLv2 only
479 * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine
480 * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden)
481 * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation
482 * multiple URIs on the command line
483 * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<')
484 * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals
485 * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental)
486 * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation)
487 * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default)
488 * manual cookies creating and editing
489 * incremental searching (press '#/')
490 * Perl scripting back-end (experimental)
491 * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf
492 * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[])
493 * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6)
494 * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490)
495 * data URI protocol (RFC 2397)
496 * gopher protocol (RFC 1436)
497 * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental)
498 * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals
499 * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts
500 * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup
501 * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings
502 * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir
503 * -conffile option renamed to -config-file
504 * enhanced documentation
509 Released on 2004-09-24.
511 * directional links navigation
512 * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default
513 MIME type settings or external protocol handlers.
518 Released on 2004-01-23.
520 * support <object> tags by displaying a link to the data
521 * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields
522 * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default)
523 * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item
524 * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document
525 (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines)
526 * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected
527 since its document was loaded
529 ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider):
530 ------------------------
532 Released on 2003-12-24.
534 * used gettext for internationalization
535 * support for background document colors
537 * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support
539 * Guile scripting extensions
544 * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager
545 * document marks support
546 * displaying URIs in plain documents as links
547 * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient)
548 * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog)
549 * HTTPS proxy support
550 * typeahead link searching (press '#')
552 ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg):
553 -----------------------
555 Released on 2002-12-24.
558 * basic proxy auth support
559 * cookies parser rewritten
560 * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute
561 * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive
563 * global history support (+vlink support)
564 * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time
565 * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird
566 things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!)
567 * support for utf8 i/o
568 * mouse wheel support
569 * portability enhancements
570 * performance enhancements
571 * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support
572 * downloads resuming support
574 * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support
575 * source layout was dramatically reorganized
576 * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading
577 from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert
578 your old config files!!!)
579 * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically
580 * keybindings can be configured from the user interface
581 * colorful user interface
582 * tiny useless LED-like indicators support
583 * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues)
584 * extensive memory debugging support
589 Released on 2002-03-02.
592 * external textarea editor
593 * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly
595 * rewritten options handling
596 * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search)
597 * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change)
598 * added possibility to change default colors settings
603 Released on 2001-10-26.
605 * secured cookies file creation
606 * support for title attribute of img tag
607 * Catalan translation
608 * Romanian translation
609 * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver
610 * <listing> tag support
615 Released on 2001-10-06.
617 * cookies expiration, saving and resaving
618 * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action
619 * http referrer, true http referrer
620 * limited textarea external editor support
621 * partial fix of
622 * enhanced manual page
623 * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source