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NEWS: Document the upcoming 0.11.3 changes.

Extracted from NEWS of commit 74799c60b2
in ELinks 0.11.2.GIT.
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Kalle Olavi Niemitalo 2007-04-01 15:32:42 +03:00 committed by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
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* 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
- (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
@ -57,7 +51,6 @@ roughly in decreasing order of importance.
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
@ -66,24 +59,16 @@ roughly in decreasing order of importance.
* 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, 872) 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 145) 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 24) 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) Two small fixes in the authentication dialog.
@ -91,13 +76,11 @@ roughly in decreasing order of importance.
dialogs.
- (bugfix 396) Never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog
* Changes in support for URI schemes, protocols, caching, and encodings
- (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.
@ -107,12 +90,7 @@ roughly in decreasing order of importance.
- (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.
- (bugfix 919) Fixed a buffer overflow when shrinking a cached fragment.
* Changes in parsing and rendering of HTML (without DOM)
- (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.
@ -120,9 +98,6 @@ roughly in decreasing order of importance.
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 "<html>", assume it is text/html.
- (bugfix 387) Treat &#013; inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline.
* Changes in parsing and rendering of non-HTML content-types
- (new feature) If a mailcap entry indicates copiousoutput, ELinks
@ -140,10 +115,7 @@ roughly in decreasing order of importance.
- (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: Don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring.
@ -156,8 +128,6 @@ roughly in decreasing order of importance.
- (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)
@ -197,8 +167,6 @@ roughly in decreasing order of importance.
- (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
@ -264,8 +232,53 @@ have already been considered.
reverted in 763f03f146cc1391b303c8074556f0ddea1e3c7a
* Unimportant changes:
- (enhancement) If select fails, save its errno.
- (bugfix) Use PF_* instead of AF_* as first parameter of socket(2).
(commits 8b7657deaf6037736d0abe88bae1865fec55fe93 in 0.12.GIT
and d9b56bad7d528a87376768572c2601c57d8afb02 in 0.11.0.GIT)
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ELinks 0.11.2.GIT now:
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* critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user
scripting
* critical bug 868: fix segfault in check_timers
* critical bugs 897, 919: fix crashes on operating systems lacking
mremap()
* critical: fix null pointer crash if XBEL bookmark has no title
* critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a
table cell
* critical bug 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder
* critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu
* major Gentoo 121247: fix segfaults in Ruby user scripting
* major bug 908: don't write to freed memory when the user pushes a
radio button
* major bug 937: don't send the entire HTTPS request to a CONNECT
proxy
* bug 899, Debian 403139: recognize >2GB files in FTP directory
listing, if off_t is large enough
* bug 942: encode/decode file names in FTP URLs, so they can contain
spaces
* bug 741: don't recognize HTML comments inside STYLE elements
* bug 769: fix MD5 computation/formatting in HTTP digest
authentication
* fix POST to local CGI
* bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager
should cause a save
* minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments
* enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus
* enhancement in experimental Python scripting: changed
goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(current, new).
ELinks 0.12.0 will further change it to goto_url_hook(new).
* enhancement: recognize function keys and backspace/delete on FreeBSD
* enhancement 772: recognize Shift-Tab on XTerm
* enhancement: place cursor on listbox rather than button, to help
screen readers
* enhancements in text wrapping
* enhancement 767: recognize URL in META Refresh even without "URL="
* enhancement 396: search for "<html>" if the server doesn't specify a
Content-Type
ELinks 0.11.2:
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