From bb04bd6a4a4c1b11b7c85090d9369b34c14dc353 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 15:55:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Lots of NEWS. All important and many unimportant changes are listed. More work will be needed before the release to shorten this list so that users will actually bother to read it. --- NEWS | 260 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 257 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b98c4830..5a140687 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,9 +8,263 @@ file for details. ELinks now: ----------- -* Native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program in contrib/fsp/) -* SEE Ecmascript backend -* Minimalistic RSS renderer +This list now contains all the important changes from ELinks 0.11.0 to +ELinks 0.12.GIT (4d10c3fb8c2c4945fd9dba757b32a96ed16fe6a4). 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. + +* 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 + - (new feature) Support for pasting from GNU screen clipboard + - (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) 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) 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) 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) Native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program in + contrib/fsp/) + - (new feature) Local CGI + - (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. +* 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 "", assume it is text/html. + - (bugfix 387) Treat inside 
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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. + - (new feature) Let plain text change colors with ESC [ 31 m or + similar control sequences. +* 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) -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 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. + - (new feature) --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY + - (bugfix) Include 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. + - (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. + - (new feature) make uninstall + - (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 for HTML source rendering + - (enhancement) Add support for scanning comment endings such as + '--!>' correctly + - (new feature) Incremental parsing + - And more. + +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' +* 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) 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 +* 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 +* Unimportant changes: + - (enhancement) If select fails, save its errno. 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