diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2327328a..74f32302 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -22,168 +22,159 @@ do list all bug numbers). It might be a good idea to sort the entries roughly in decreasing order of importance. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -* Notable new features - - (unfinished enhancement 822) 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. - - (enhancement 844) SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces - the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2. -* Incompatibilities - - ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known - bugs (548, 755, 771) with which malicious web pages can crash or - hang ELinks, and its security goals are undocumented. If you must - enable ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the - ELinks process with a sandbox of some kind. - - (bug 871) The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends on - config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between - different configurations but unfortunately not between this and - previous versions. - - Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The - hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired. - The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in - previous releases, but it is still considered experimental. -* Miscellaneous - - (enhancement 752) Documentation updates - - (enhancement 381) Reduce memory consumption of codepages and some - other arrays. - - (enhancement) Reject invalid UTF-8 input from documents and - terminals. -* Changes in terminal support - - (enhancement) Mouse wheel support on BSD via moused -z 4 - - (enhancement) Support for mouse wheel over GPM - - (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. - - (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. - - (enhancement) Turn terminal transparency off by default. - - (bugfix 776) "elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/" no longer clears - the screen. - - (bugfix 948) wrong UTF-8 output after using charset menu -* Changes in cookies and bookmarks - - (new feature) "Add server" button in the cookie manager. - - (enhancement) Tell the user how to move bookmarks. - - (enhancement 887) Save in cookie manager should save cookies even - if unmodified. -* Changes in the user interface - - (new feature 145) Internal clipboard support - - (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 688) Option ui.show_menu_bar_always - - (new feature 687) Option ui.tabs.top - - (new feature) New actions: kill-word-back, move-backward-word, - move-forward-word - - (enhancement) Ctrl+characters don't trigger hotkeys in menus and - dialogs. - - (bugfix 930) Refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten. -* Changes in support for URI schemes, protocols, caching, and encodings - - (bugfix) Fixes cache-control issue. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005 - - (new feature) LZMA decompression - - (bugfix 517) Fixed and enabled HTTP bzip2 decompression - - (new feature) HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI - - (bugfix 770) Download resuming simply restarts the download - - (enhancement 790) If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match - - (bugfix) gzip_read: always call gzclearerr - - (bugfix 107) Recognize "localhost" in file: URIs. - - (bugfix 756) "assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed" - after HTTP proxy was changed - - (bugfix) Encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs. - - (enhancement) FSP progress indicator and password prompt. - - (bugfix) Support much longer locale-specific timestamps when - formatting a directory listing. LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8 now works. -* Changes in parsing and rendering of HTML (without DOM) - - (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 - - (bugfix 387) Treat inside 
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as a newline. - - (bugfix 816) Convert entity references in input/@value only once. -* Changes in parsing and rendering of non-HTML content-types - - (new feature 121) If a mailcap entry indicates copiousoutput, - ELinks itself acts as a pager. - - (new feature 916) If a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file - as stdin. -* 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 622) -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). -* Changes in user scripting - - (enhancement) Guile: Read hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm. - (Keep reading user-hooks.scm, too.) - - (bugfix) Lua: Don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring. - - (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. -* 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. - - (experimental, 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. - Also, reduce warnings on gcc 4.2 snapshots. - - (bitrot) Update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility - - (new feature 779) make uninstall - - (experimental, new feature) Native Win32 port - - (enhancement) If make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the - rest before propagating. - - (enhancement) Avoid compilation of vernum.c in 'make install' - - (bugfix) Don't use $(AM_CFLAGS) anymore. Use $(CPPFLAGS) instead. - - (bitrot) Fix two warnings on Mac OS X. - - (bugfix 725) Fixes version checking for Ruby in 'configure' -* (experimental) Changes in ECMAScript support - - (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 - - (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 -* (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. +Notable new features: +* unfinished enhancement 822: 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. +* enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces + the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2. + +Incompatibilities: +* ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known + bugs (548, 755, 771) with which malicious web pages can crash or + hang ELinks, and its security goals are undocumented. If you must + enable ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the + ELinks process with a sandbox of some kind. +* bug 871: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends on + config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between + different configurations but unfortunately not between this and + previous versions. +* Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The + hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired. + The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in + previous releases, but it is still considered experimental. +* Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm. + (It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.) + +Miscellaneous: +* minor bug 752 and other documentation updates +* enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some + other arrays + +Changes in terminal support: +* bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control + sequences from the terminal +* bug 776: "elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/" no longer clears the + screen +* bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used +* enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM, and on BSD via moused -z 4 +* enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode +* enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations +* enhancement: turn terminal transparency off by default + +Changes in cookies: +* enhancement: "Add server" button in the cookie manager +* enhancement 887: "Save" in the cookie manager now saves cookies even + if unmodified. + +Changes in the user interface: +* bug 355: add documents displayed via "What to do" dialog to the + global history +* trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten +* enhancement 145: internal clipboard support +* enhancement 687: option ui.tabs.top +* enhancement 688: option ui.show_menu_bar_always +* enhancement: new actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word, + move-forward-word + +Changes in support for URI schemes, protocols, caching, and encodings: +* critical bug 756: "assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed" + after HTTP proxy was changed +* bug 107: recognize "localhost" in file: URIs +* Fixes cache-control issue. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005 +* encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs +* gzip_read: always call gzclearerr +* support much longer locale-specific timestamps when formatting a + directory listing. LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8 now works. +* enhancement 517: fixed and enabled HTTP bzip2 decompression +* enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match +* enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file +* enhancement: LZMA decompression +* enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI +* enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt + +Changes in parsing and rendering of HTML (without DOM): +* bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the same + line; don't let it fall to the next +* bug 387: treat inside 
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as a newline +* bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once +* enhancement: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than + italics +* enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class + attribute values + +Changes in parsing and rendering of non-HTML content-types: +* bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin +* enhancement 121: if a mailcap entry indicates copiousoutput, ELinks + itself acts as a pager + +Changes in the document viewer and tabs: +* tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs +* several accesskey fixes +* enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode +* enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes +* enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix +* enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link + on enter + +Changes in user scripting: +* in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring +* enhancement in SMJS: elinks.alert no longer displays as an "error" +* enhancement in SMJS: new properties elinks.action, elinks.globhist, + elinks.vs +* enhancement in SMJS: new function elinks.load_uri +* enhancement in SMJS: new method elinks.execute +* enhancement in SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on File -> Flush + all caches. This is a workaround to how cache_entry SMJS objects + added in ELinks 0.11.0 prevent ELinks from freeing cache entries + until SMJS collects them as garbage. + +Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks): +* bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure' +* fixed some bugs about compiling outside the source directory +* don't use cmp -b, which FreeBSD doesn't support +* don't include for MIN and MAX because it may interfere + with CONFIG_IPV6 on Linux +* when the configure script cleans old object files, this no longer + causes it to loop +* use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS) +* fix compilation under gcc 4.x. Backported from gentoo portage. +* include and fix compilation on an old PPC/Debian system + (bug 936 may be related) +* update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility +* enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the + rest before propagating +* enhancement: avoid compilation of vernum.c in 'make install' +* enhancement: make uninstall +* experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY +* experimental enhancement: native Win32 port + +Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support: +* disabled by default, as mentioned under "Incompatibilities" above +* enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey +* enhancement: handling onsubmit +* workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't + reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script. +* enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments +* enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by id, not only name +* enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex, + window.setTimeout, window.status + +Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation: +- enhancement: 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 +- enhancement: incremental parsing +- and more. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.12.0 @@ -193,6 +184,7 @@ have already been considered. * Not clear whether the bugs have been fixed: - (bugfix 674) Reproduceable crashes while trying to unsubscribe from a community on Orkut + - (bugfix 770) Download resuming simply restarts the download * Only partially fixed bugs: - (bugfix 764) int/long type punning in options - (bugfix 890) Change colors 0-15 to match xterm defaults. @@ -229,6 +221,11 @@ have already been considered. as entity references - (bugfix 935) Yes and No buttons override the bottom border of the dialog. + - (bugfix in SEE) Use frame->name instead of target avoiding + possible segfault. +* Already backported to a previous release: + - (enhancement) Activate link only when onClick returns true. + Fixed bug 786 in ELinks 0.11.2. * Reverted changes: - (new feature) document.write, reverted in 2c087e52e74528a720621186b91880463e039d50 @@ -257,6 +254,21 @@ have already been considered. (commit 539f756438fca4264ab937b2ccfba2351e916a16) - (bugfix) Don't claim that the authentication is for HTTP. (commit ef2f6383c6f0bed576e6f69030eacc4931b42a27) + - (enhancement) Reject invalid UTF-8 input from documents and + terminals + - (bugfix) Decode UTF-8 only from bytes, not from codes of special + keys. + - (enhancement) "Resize terminal" tries to use the window size + increment. + - (bugfix) Subprocess forked for SIGTSTP calls _exit, not exit. + - (enhancement) Tell the user how to move bookmarks. + - (enhancement) Localization updates. For this to be important, we + should at least list the languages. + - (enhancement) Ctrl+characters don't trigger hotkeys in menus and + dialogs. + - (bitrot) Fix two warnings on Mac OS X. + - (enhancement) reduce warnings on gcc 4.2 snapshots + ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ELinks 0.11.3.GIT now: