Release info ============ You can see the complete list of recent changes, bugfixes and new features in the http://repo.or.cz/w/elinks.git[gitweb interface]. See the ChangeLog file for details. ELinks 0.11.4rc1: ----------------- To be released as 0.11.4. * critical bug 755: fix crashes due to dangling pointers to struct form_state * critical bugs 613, 714, 961: ``assertion list_empty(form_controls) failed'' * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil) * critical bug 1003: don't crash if a smart URI rewrite template gets too few parameters * major bug 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects that may have been collected as garbage. This fix causes bug 954. * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before using ../po files * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache and a possible subsequent crash * major bug 788: don't read STRLEN n_a, which isn't initialized by POPpx of Perl v5.8.8 and later * fix query parsing in file: URIs for local CGI (was broken in 0.11.3) * bug 691: don't look up bogus IPv4 addresses based on characters of a hostname * bug 712: GnuTLS works on https://www-s.uiuc.edu/[] * fix active and passive FTP over IPv6 * bug 938: elinks -remote no longer needs a controlling tty * bug 939: fix FSP directory listing (some compiler options left it empty) * bug 978: Python's webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) works since now * bug 1012: compile with -fno-strict-overflow or -fwrapv if available * minor bug 54, Debian bug 338402: don't force the terminal to 8 bits with no parity, and don't disable XON/XOFF flow control either * minor bug 951 in user SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on 'File -> Flush all caches' to work around their holding cache entries busy * minor bug 396: never show empty filename in the what-to-do dialog * minor bug 461: ensure contrast in blank areas, to keep the cursor visible * minor bug 928: properly display no-break spaces in a UTF-8 document if the terminal uses some other charset * minor bug 987: English spelling and grammar corrections * minor bug 1000: preserve any query and fragment when converting a file name to a file:// URL * minor: don't assume sizeof(int)==4 in bittorrent * trivial bug 947: document.html.wrap_nbsp also affects text in tables * trivial bug 997: fix unlikely stack corruption in active FTP * build bug 1002: fix ``comparison is always true due to limited range of data type'' warning on PowerPC and s390 * build bug 950: fix ``config/install-sh: No such file or directory'' on SunOS * build bug 936: fix errors about undefined off_t (autoheader incompatibility) * build bug 959: test in configure whether -lX11 works * build: update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility * build: use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS) * build: disable GCC 4.2 warning about builtin_modules * build: move debian/ to contrib/debian/ * minor build bug 989: AsciiDoc 8.2.2 compatibility * minor build bug 960: fix errors in loadmsgcat.c if mmap() exists but munmap() doesn't ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.11.4 is released. They are currently listed here just to show that they have already been considered. * Fixed bugs that were not in previous versions: - bug 975: fix int/size_t pointer type mismatch in Perl interface ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ELinks 0.11.3: -------------- Released on 2007-04-15. * critical bugs 846, 870: fix crashes in web ECMAScripts and SMJS user scripting * critical bug 927: fix null pointer crash if META Refresh is in a table cell * critical bug 941: fix assertion failure or memory corruption if FTP server responds to PASV with status 200 * critical bug 729 in experimental BitTorrent: fix crashes with various bogus BitTorrent URLs * 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 760: fix crash when moving bookmarks out of a folder * critical: fix crash in an empty file-extensions menu * critical bug 715: fix null pointer crash caused by malformed proxy setting * critical: fix SMJS null pointer crash on exit * critical bug 880 in experimental Python scripting: fix null pointer crash with -no-home * major Gentoo bug 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, CVE-2007-5034: don't send the entire HTTPS request to a CONNECT proxy * bug 899, Debian bug 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 * remove a garbage character from the end of the authentication prompt * bugs 872, 886: editing or deleting cookies in the cookie manager should cause a save * secure file saving: restore umask after *all* failure conditions * decode the fragment identifier extracted from the URI when looking it up * bug 768 in experimental Python scripting: link with e.g. -lpython2.4 rather than -lpython * minor bugs 830, 831: changes in parsing of -remote arguments * minor Debian bug 313696 and other translation updates * enhancement 24: fix searching past unselectable elements in menus * 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 "" if the server doesn't specify a Content-Type ELinks 0.11.2: -------------- Released on 2006-11-19. * critical bug 841, CVE-2006-5925: prevent enabling the SMB protocol * critical bug 786: fix crash when following a link in frames * print off_t with custom OFF_T_FORMAT instead of PRId64 * build: Minix3 compatibility ELinks 0.11.1: -------------- Released on 2006-01-29. * work around null pointer crashes in HTTP digest authentication * fix assertion failure with document.plain.display_links and uppercase URIs * fix Gopher crashes * enhancement 630: native FSP protocol support (replaces CGI program in contrib/cgi/) * SMJS user scripting: check for hooks.js before trying to load it * SMJS user scripting: the elinks.preformat_html hook gets a second argument: a view_state object with .uri and .plain properties * bug 921 in Lua scripting: fix current_document_formatted * if given "a?b" in the command line, try to guess whether the question mark is part of the file name or indicates a query part * updated character entity list from unicode.org * build: use asciidoc -unsafe for AsciiDoc 7.0.4 compatibility * build bug 738: fix "/config.charset" error triggered by building in the source directory ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated): ----------------------- Released on 2006-01-01. * SSL support via GNUTLS now requires 1.2 or higher * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now * Python scripting back-end (experimental) * Spidermonkey based ECMAScript scripting back-end (experimental) * 88 colors support * default URI-rewrite rule, used when no other rules match but the string that was entered in the Go to URL box does not resemble a URI * support prefixes for add-bookmark-link, document-info, goto-url-current-link, history-move-back, and history-move-forward * BitTorrent protocol (experimental) * FSP protocol via a CGI script (see contrib/cgi/README.FSP) (experimental) * enhancement 694: sysmouse support on the BSD console * new GNU make based build system (aclocal from automake is still required) * move from CVS to GIT ELinks 0.10.6: -------------- Released on 2005-09-15. * external editor is configurable at run-time ELinks 0.10.4: -------------- Released on 2005-04-06. * explicit keyboard accelerators were defined for buttons in dialogue boxes and are now highlighted ELinks 0.10.2: -------------- Released on 2005-01-30. * Ruby scripting back-end (experimental) * Debian package files (apt-get install devscripts && debuild -uc -us) ELinks 0.10.0 (Thelma): ----------------------- Released on 2004-12-24. * licensed under GPLv2 only * simple CSS * simple JavaScript/ECMAScript support by the SpiderMonkey Mozilla JS engine * plain-text mark-up (_^Hx to underline, x^Hx to embolden) * HTML source high-lighting using DOM implementation * multiple URIs on the command line * tabs moving (press Alt-'>' or Alt-'<') * periodic snapshotting of all tabs in all terminals * exmode CLI support (press ':' followed by action and args) (experimental) * cursor routing (aka w3m-style navigation) * modal text-input form-fields editing (enabled by default) * manual cookies creating and editing * incremental searching (press '#/') * Perl scripting back-end (experimental) * build-time configurability and feature documentation through features.conf * Mozilla-compatible -remote option (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html[]) * support for specifying IP family as protocol postfix (e.g. http4 or ftp6) * internationalized domain names via libidn (RFC 3490) * data URI protocol (RFC 2397) * gopher protocol (RFC 1436) * NNTP protocol (RFC 977 and RFC 2980) (experimental) * build system fine-tuned to use automake conditionals * -localhost option to block connections to remote hosts * -verbose option to control messages printed at startup * -default-keys command line option to ignore user-defined keybindings * -confdir option renamed to -config-dir * -conffile option renamed to -config-file * enhanced documentation ELinks 0.9.2: ------------- Released on 2004-09-24. * directional links navigation * 'unset' configuration directive, which can be used, e.g., to delete default MIME type settings or external protocol handlers. ELinks 0.9.1: ------------- Released on 2004-01-23. * support tags by displaying a link to the data * add beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer actions for text fields * automatic session saving/restoring support (disabled by default) * add-bookmark-tabs (bookmark all tabs) option and menu item * fold successive blank lines when displaying a plain-text document (disabled by default; use the option document.plain.compress_empty_lines) * 'fresh' color for any tab that has not been selected since its document was loaded ELinks 0.9.0 (Skyrider): ------------------------ Released on 2003-12-24. * used gettext for internationalization * support for background document colors * tabs support * new MIME subsystem adding mimetypes files support * local CGI support * Guile scripting extensions * HTML meta refresh * forms history * 256 colors support * regex searches * cookies manager, cache manager and download manager * document marks support * displaying URIs in plain documents as links * SMB protocol support (requires smbclient) * builtin user prefixes support (enter 'gg' or 'gg:elinks' to the goto dialog) * HTTPS proxy support * typeahead link searching (press '#') ELinks 0.4.0 (Iceberg): ----------------------- Released on 2002-12-24. * merged HTTP_AUTH * basic proxy auth support * cookies parser rewritten * support for tabindex,accesskey,title attribute * FTP support dramatically improved: bugfixes, interoperability fixes, passive mode support, ... * global history support (+vlink support) * make some modules (cookies,bookmarks,globhist,..) optional at compile time * secure saving support (see secure_save option desc. if you're doing weird things with your links files like symlinking or nonstandart permissions!!!) * support for utf8 i/o * mouse wheel support * portability enhancements * performance enhancements * file/http gzip/bzip2 decompression support * downloads resuming support * mailcap support * hierarchic bookmarks support, XBEL bookmarks support * source layout was dramatically reorganized * relocated ELinks configuration files, changed format (if you are upgrading from Links or older ELinks version, read INSTALL file to see how to convert your old config files!!!) * options are now in tree hierarchy and are configurable generically * keybindings can be configured from the user interface * colorful user interface * tiny useless LED-like indicators support * GNUTLS support parallel to the OpenSSL support (fixes some license issues) * extensive memory debugging support ELinks 0.3.0: ------------- Released on 2002-03-02. * unhistory * external textarea editor * DNS rewrite - we handle multi RR per host correctly * IPv6 support * rewritten options handling * bookmarks filtering (aka bookmarks search) * bookmarks resaving (save on the disk after every change) * added possibility to change default colors settings Links 0.96-pb3: --------------- Released on 2001-10-26. * secured cookies file creation * support for title attribute of img tag * Catalan translation * Romanian translation * changing of User-Agent string sent to webserver * tag support Links 0.96-pb2: --------------- Released on 2001-10-06. * cookies expiration, saving and resaving * do NOT strip everything after ? in form action * http referrer, true http referrer * limited textarea external editor support * partial fix of * enhanced manual page * fixed multi-level HTTP moved when using -dump/-source * fixed keybindings