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NEWS: merge most categories, sort by severity, sync 0.11.3.GIT
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//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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This list now contains all the important changes from ELinks 0.11.0 to
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ELinks 0.12.GIT (6b2ef468dce9e289c292f7327056f8c9e70023b5) and related
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bug numbers.
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ELinks 0.12.GIT (3f93148c9b131069aa5ee8b655652da40e1a4b70) and related
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bug numbers. Each section is sorted by severity and grouped by topic.
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The list no doubt includes several changes that are not really
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important enough. Please move them to the separate "should be removed
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from NEWS" list below, or coalesce several changes into one entry (but
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do list all bug numbers). It might be a good idea to sort the entries
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roughly in decreasing order of importance.
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do list all bug numbers).
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Notable new features:
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@ -40,8 +39,8 @@ Incompatibilities:
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hang ELinks, and its security goals are undocumented. If you must
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enable ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the
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ELinks process with a sandbox of some kind.
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* bug 871: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends on
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config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
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* bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
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on config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
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different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
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previous versions.
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* Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
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@ -53,95 +52,64 @@ Incompatibilities:
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Miscellaneous:
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* minor bug 752 and other documentation updates
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* enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
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other arrays
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Changes in terminal support:
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* critical bug 756: "assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed"
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after HTTP proxy was changed
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* tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
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* Debian bug 257762: turn terminal transparency off by default
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* bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
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sequences from the terminal
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* bug 776: "elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/" no longer clears the
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screen
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* bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
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* enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM, and on BSD via moused -z 4
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* enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
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* enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
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* enhancement: turn terminal transparency off by default
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Changes in cookies:
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* gzip_read: always call gzclearerr
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* bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
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* bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
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* bug 355: add documents displayed via "What to do" dialog to the
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global history
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* encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
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* don't use a busy cache entry if it has expired or should be
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reloaded. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005.
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* several accesskey fixes
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* in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
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* minor bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the
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same line; don't let it fall to the next
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* minor: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than italics
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* trivial bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
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* trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
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* trivial bug 776: "elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/" no longer clears
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the screen
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* enhancement 121: if a mailcap entry indicates copiousoutput, ELinks
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itself acts as a pager
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* enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
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* enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
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* enhancement 517: fixed and enabled HTTP bzip2 decompression
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* enhancement: LZMA decompression
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* enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
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* enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
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* enhancement: "Add server" button in the cookie manager
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* enhancement 887: "Save" in the cookie manager now saves cookies even
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if unmodified
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Changes in the user interface:
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* bug 355: add documents displayed via "What to do" dialog to the
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global history
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* trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
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* enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
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* enhancement 687: option ui.tabs.top
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* enhancement 688: option ui.show_menu_bar_always
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* enhancement: new actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
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move-forward-word
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Changes in support for URI schemes, protocols, caching, and encodings:
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* critical bug 756: "assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed"
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after HTTP proxy was changed
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* bug 107: recognize "localhost" in file: URIs
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* Fixes cache-control issue. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005
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* encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
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* gzip_read: always call gzclearerr
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* support much longer locale-specific timestamps when formatting a
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directory listing. LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8 now works.
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* enhancement 517: fixed and enabled HTTP bzip2 decompression
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* enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
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* enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
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* enhancement: LZMA decompression
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* enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
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* enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
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Changes in parsing and rendering of HTML (without DOM):
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* bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the same
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line; don't let it fall to the next
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* bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
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* bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
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* enhancement: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than
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italics
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* enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
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attribute values
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Changes in parsing and rendering of non-HTML content-types:
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* bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
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* enhancement 121: if a mailcap entry indicates copiousoutput, ELinks
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itself acts as a pager
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Changes in the document viewer and tabs:
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* tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
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* several accesskey fixes
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* enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
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* enhancements 687, 688: options ui.tabs.top, ui.show_menu_bar_always
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* enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
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* enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
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* enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
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on enter
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Changes in user scripting:
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* in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
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* enhancement in SMJS: elinks.alert no longer displays as an "error"
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* enhancement in SMJS: new properties elinks.action, elinks.globhist,
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elinks.vs
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* enhancement in SMJS: new function elinks.load_uri
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* enhancement in SMJS: new method elinks.execute
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* enhancement in SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on File -> Flush
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all caches. This is a workaround to how cache_entry SMJS objects
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added in ELinks 0.11.0 prevent ELinks from freeing cache entries
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until SMJS collects them as garbage.
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* enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
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attribute values
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* enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM (contrib/gpm-wheel.patch),
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and on BSD via moused -z 4
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* enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
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* enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
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* enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
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* enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
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other arrays
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* enhancement in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on File ->
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Flush all caches. This is a workaround to how cache_entry SMJS
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objects added in ELinks 0.11.0 prevent ELinks from freeing cache
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entries until SMJS collects them as garbage.
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* enhancement in user SMJS: new properties/functions elinks.action,
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elinks.execute, elinks.globhist, elinks.load_uri, elinks.vs
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Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
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- don't include <sys/param.h> for MIN and MAX because it may interfere with
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CONFIG_IPV6 on Linux. Commit 63797ae9b331efd91be27512bd9d5b2e2ff74741
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in ELinks 0.11.1.
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- include <sys/types.h> and fix compilation on an old PPC/Debian
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system (bug 936 may be related but was reported after the changes).
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Commit 135a79a3c309af36cf963f1d3c34b07f296fa2f7 in ELinks 0.11.3.
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- Debian bug 400871: include <sys/types.h> for off_t. (Bug 936 was
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reported for GIT (HEAD) after the change and may still exist.)
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Commit c135a79a3c309af36cf963f1d3c34b07f296fa2f7 in ELinks 0.11.3.
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- bug 107: recognize "localhost" in file: URIs. Cannot reproduce in
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earlier versions.
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* Reverted changes:
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- (new feature) document.write, reverted in
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2c087e52e74528a720621186b91880463e039d50
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@ -287,7 +257,11 @@ have already been considered.
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* don't use cmp -b, which FreeBSD doesn't support. This is commit
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7a5f699a88c5fc89c510854b04702c16c30ece5a in src/dom/test/ which
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is run only by "make test" rather than "make".
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* support much longer locale-specific timestamps when formatting a
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directory listing. LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8 now works. Let's treat
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this as part of the UTF-8 support.
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* enhancement in user SMJS: elinks.alert no longer displays as an
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"error"
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//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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ELinks 0.11.3.GIT now:
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@ -296,6 +270,8 @@ ELinks 0.11.3.GIT now:
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To be released as 0.11.4.
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* critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
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* CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
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using ../po files
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* important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache
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and a possible subsequent crash
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* bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a
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