changelog

ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks

=== RELEASE 2.2 ===

Mon Jul 28 14:39:24 CEST 2008 mab:

	Swiss German (Zueriduetsch) translation

Fri Jul 18 23:35:44 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Fix scrollbars being offset by few pixels when "scrolling" attribute
	was used

Fri Jul 11 20:40:38 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Drop .gz or .bz2 extension when viewing files downloaded from ftp (and
	decompressing them)

=== RELEASE 2.1 ===

Wed Jul  2 03:48:23 MET DST 2008 mikulas:

	Turn memory debugging off by default

Tue Jun 24 06:08:04 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Security bug fixed: when "only proxies" is selected, don't pass URLs
	to external programs

=== RELEASE 2.1pre37 ===

Sun Jun 22 17:07:20 cet 2008 mikulas:

	-dump and -source don't lockup on authentication failure

Sat Jun 21 19:58:53 MET 2008 mikulas

	Accept broken numbers in HTTP code

Sat Jun 21 18:00:54 cet 2008 mikulas:

	Allow '+' in command-line URLs

Thu Jun 12 03:34:53 cet 2008 mikulas:

	Erase clipboard on OS/2 before copying to it - this prevents bugs
	when copying to/from Mozilla

Mon Jun  9 02:34:24 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Process 
 and 	 in form entry "value" attribute

Tue Jun  3 00:22:49 CEST 2008 mikulas:

	Fixed various display glitches with 64-bit big endian systems

Sun May 18 21:47:46 CEST 2008 mikulas:

	Fixed display quirks on Sparc framebuffer console
	Fixed some quirks on 64-bit big endian systems

=== RELEASE 2.1pre36 ===

Tue May 13 04:04:47 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Fixed crash that was introduced with Sun May 4 20:13:21 MET 2008 fix

Mon May 12 23:26:51 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Blacklist another broken HTTP/1.1 server - Apache Sausalito

Fri May  9 04:06:47 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Take downloaded file name from Content-Type; name argument, if it exists
	Also, get encoding information from Content-Type/Content-Disposition
	filename

=== RELEASE 2.1pre35 ===

Mon May  5 20:06:19 MET 2008 mikulas:

	The fix from Sun May 4 20:13:21 MET 2008 broke loading of animated gifs

=== RELEASE 2.1pre34 ===

Sun May  4 21:18:15 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Allow displaying large images in xwindow (that do not fit into xserver
	memory)

Sun May  4 20:13:21 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Fixed image was sometimes not redrawn, when connection was interrupted
	in the middle and resumed

Sun May  4 17:52:29 MET 2008 Ben Secrest <[e-mail]>:

	Don't change Xwindow class

Wed Apr 16 03:10:02 cet 2008 Didier Mequignon <[e-mail]>:

	Updated French translation

Wed Mar 26 20:50:32 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Fixed crash in text mode with small window height and bookmarks

Sat Mar 22 22:01:15 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Accept </> as an empty tag

Thu Mar 20 22:47:09 CET 2008 mikulas:

	Accept alternate description attributes for image buttons

Thu Mar 20 04:36:45 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Fixed the bug that when displaying source, some html entities were
	errorneously translated

Thu Mar 20 04:30:52 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Added fallback for &#8209; entity

Thu Mar 13 22:43:48 CET 2008 mikulas:

	Allow multiple WWW-Authenticate headers

=== RELEASE 2.1pre33 ===

Thu Jan 31 21:11:40 MET 2008 mikulas:

	Fixed memory leak when there was an error in decompression

Thu Dec 27 23:37:03 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Support few more keycodes on ANSI terminal (PAGE UP, PAGE DOWN and few
	F* keys)

Wed Dec 26 03:43:35 cet 2007 mikulas:

	Disable smb:// URLs on OS/2, fork+threads can cause crashes in EMX
	Besides, there's no usable smb client program anyway

Tue Dec 25 01:44:28 MET 2007 mikulas (sponsored by Dondor Ltd.):

	A .nsi file to make Windows installer with Nullsoft scriptable install

Mon Dec 24 01:44:11 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Fixed a bug that strings with spaces could not be passed from command
	line

Mon Dec 24 00:43:57 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Socks 4A support (so that Links can be used with tor without
	intermediate proxy)

Thu Dec 20 05:40:22 cet 2007 mikulas:

	Thre previous Windows fix broke opening new windows on OS/2

=== RELEASE 2.1pre32 ===

Thu Dec 13 04:44:01 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Do not display links to alternate stylesheets

Tue Dec 11 06:37:56 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Use Content-Disposition as a suggestion for downloaded file name

Sun Dec  9 04:52:37 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Fixed write to freed memory resulting in misbehavior of radio buttons
	and a possible crash

Wed Dec  5 23:26:55 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Make it run without Cygwin environment (only with Cygwin DLLs)
	Workaround for flaws in Cygwin Unix emulation:
		SIGWINCH is sometimes lost
		Signal handlers write to a pipe and it should wake select() up,
			sometimes, it doesn't
		exec("command.com") crashes Windows 98 when some sockets are
			open

Wed Dec  5 18:05:00 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Do not search for compressed-file extension (.gz, .bz2) in URLs
	containing '?', '&' or ';' --- they are likely scripts and they should
	provide information about compression in the header.

Tue Dec  4 04:09:51 MET 2007 mikulas:

	When the document was truncated to zero size on reload and no data were
	received, links didn't invalidate formatted document cache

Wed Nov  7 00:20:12 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Accept capital 'X' as a hex number mark in html entities

Fri Nov  2 19:53:01 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Do not print links to stylesheet to the document

Fri Nov  2 19:52:22 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Slightly improve parsing of ftp --- when the line contains "<DIR>", we
	can assume that it is a directory

Tue Oct 30 21:22:27 cet 2007 mikulas:

	Previous release didn't compile on OS/2 due to missing SIGCONT

=== RELEASE 2.1pre31 ===

Sat Oct 27 02:52:07 CEST 2007 mikulas:

	Some newer Linuxes unfortunatelly do not send SIGCONT when running
	process is brougt to foreground with 'fg' command. So implement 0.5s
	polling to test if we're on foreground.

Wed Oct 24 03:41:19 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Do not request compression for files with .Z, .gz or .bz2 suffix
	--- some servers will compress them again

Wed Oct 24 03:16:43 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Support HTTP/0.9 (without header)

Mon Oct 22 18:35:16 MET 2007 mikulas:

	In case of non-restartable connection, proceed with the connection
	even if the server is on blacklist

Mon Oct 22 02:00:13 MET 2007 mikulas:

	An option to disallow non-proxy connections (for anonymization via tor
	or similar services)

Sat Oct 20 22:08:02 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Turn off compression if the server closes the connection prematurely
	Some servers errorneously send the size of uncompressed data

Sat Oct 13 18:19:45 MET 2007 mikulas:

	An option to disable compression. Disable compression automatically for
	a given server if links receives errorneous compressed data

Mon Sep 17 03:59:33 CEST 2007 mikulas:

	Break ansi aliasing on ICC 10 with -ipo
	Empty function call was not enough to break it

Fri Sep  7 00:00:29 MET 2007 mikulas:

	When the connection dies after the last received byte, do not send
	"Range:" header in retry request --- servers don't like "Range" pointing
	after the last byte

=== RELEASE 2.1pre30 ===

Mon Aug  6 04:01:05 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Fixed security bug in pre29 (not in any previous versions):
	special characters in URL could be passed to a shell when spawning
	user viewer

Sat Jul 28 02:28:15 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Fixed needlessly large selection boxes in graphics mode

Mon Jul 16 02:41:18 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Release mouse when spawning OS shell or user viewers

=== RELEASE 2.1pre29 ===

Sun Jul  8 01:05:08 MET DST 2007 mikulas:

	Fixed bad redraw of X window when Expose event come for some area while
	scrolling different area

Sat Jul  7 04:06:52 cet 2007 mikulas:

	Accept drive letters without file: prefix in OS/2 and Win32

Sat Jul  7 03:50:27 cet 2007 mikulas:

	Use _getcwd2 on OS/2 --- it returns path including the drive letter

Sat Jul  7 02:19:35 cet 2007 mikulas:

	Set extension of downloaded or viewed files according to content-type,
	not according to URL extension

Sun May 27 17:15:00 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Fixed bad displaying of jpeg images on machines where memcpy operates in
	different order

Sun May 27 14:06:41 MET DST 2007 mikulas:

	Fixed crash on invalid jpeg files (found by Michael Scherer
	<[e-mail]> with http://fusil.hachoir.org/)

Wed May 23 00:41:53 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Do not send If-Modified-Since or Range in HTTP request if cached page
	has an error code

Tue May 15 23:15:21 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Fixed some quirks with download file handling --- when each terminal had
	different CWD, downloaded files were not deleted

	When getting EFBIG error (file size exceeded), continue download in
	another file

Fri May 11 22:39:02 MET 2007 mikulas:

	A possibility to pass HTTP or FTP URLs directly to external programs
	(programs such as mpg321, ogg123, mplayer can play directly from the
	network)

Thu May 10 23:07:47 cet 2007 mikulas:

	Fixed inability to display images compressed on the fly by the server
	(it is pointless to try to compress already compressed images, but some
	servers do it anyway)

Wed May  9 00:32:17 CEST 2007 mikulas:

	Escape Referer: correctly

Wed May  9 00:32:09 CEST 2007 mikulas:

	Fixed bug that it couldn't be compiled without optimization without
	javascript

Mon Apr 30 03:48:40 cet 2007 mikulas:

	Blacklist FORPSI server --- do not send Range: to it

Mon Apr 16 01:49:07 MET DST 2007 mikulas:

	Javascript was removed. The reason is that it is very buggy, Martin
	Pergel doesn't have time to develop it and code is so messy that no one
	else can understand it.

	If you use links for special purposes (embedded devices, etc.), you can
	bring javascript back by copying javascript files from previous release,
	removing "dnl javascript" lines from configure.in, adding *.c and *.h
	files to Makefile.am and re-running automake and autoconf.
	
	Javascript hooks from main code were not removed --- they just won't be
	maintained.

=== RELEASE 2.1pre28 ===

Wed Apr 11 01:39:36 cet 2007 mikulas:

	Fixed a bug in decompression and javascript document.write introduced in
	previous release (compressed data were displayed after document.write)

	(BTW. because the javascript interpreter has bugs, Martin Pergel has not
	time for it and the code is so messy that it couldn't be understand by
	anyone else, javascript will likely be removed in next release)

=== RELEASE 2.1pre27 ===

Sat Apr  7 02:43:28 CEST 2007 mikulas:

	Terminal resize, window title and clipboard support for Cygwin
	Clipboard supports non-ascii characters badly, it is a limitation in
	Cygwin

Wed Apr  4 23:19:00 MET 2007 Carles Pina i Estany <[e-mail]>:

	Add more top-level domains

Sat Mar 31 03:02:40 CEST 2007 student:

	win32.c file removed because in each new version of windows it doesn't
	work. Don't even try to fix it unless you have computers with Windows
	NT, Window 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista side by side.

	(new Cygwin emulates xterm-like mouse on the console, so it's not needed
	for mouse)

	Cygwin sometimes doesn't send SIGWINCH, it is its bug, so I didn't try
	to fix it in links. Press twice Alt-Enter if links doesn't notify window
	size change

Sun Mar 25 22:26:41 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Fixed bad behaviour of scrollbars on very large documents due to integer
	overflow

Wed Mar 21 22:15:25 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Support for zlib, gzip and bzip2 files

Wed Mar 21 04:37:42 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Limit image scaling to prevent allocation overflow

Tue Feb  6 00:23:43 MET 2007 mikulas:

	Allow quotation marks in Refresh URL parameter --- fixes Google Picasa

=== RELEASE 2.1pre26 ===

Tue Nov 28 23:13:38 MET 2006 mikulas:

	Fixed severe security bug: '"' and ';' in smb:// url could be used for
	remote command execution.

=== RELEASE 2.1pre25 ===

Wed Nov 22 23:55:21 MET 2006 mikulas:

	DirectFB no longer causes internal error on unsupported color depth.
	Normal error reporting and trying other drivers is be done.

Wed Nov 22 22:26:58 MET 2006 Jakub Bogusz <[e-mail]>:

	Updated Polish Translation

Sun Nov 12 17:23:46 MET 2006 mikulas:

	Fixed memory leak in http authentication

=== RELEASE 2.1pre24 ===

Mon Nov  6 02:13:48 cet 2006 mikulas:

	Fixed incorrect page displayed when search string ended with space and
	the word was last on page

Thu Oct 26 16:10:01 MET 2006 mikulas:

	More strict parsing of ftp list, fixes ftp.su.se

Sun Oct 15 22:55:28 MET DST 2006 mikulas:

	Allow cookie path to point to file, not only directory

Wed Oct 11 00:17:27 MET DST 2006 mikulas:

	Fixed quirk with displaying of links in text mode

Mon Oct  9 23:33:03 MET 2006 Jakub Bogusz <[e-mail]>:

	Updated Polish translation

Mon Oct  9 21:55:24 MET 2006 Jindrich Makovicka <[e-mail]>:

	Fixed memory corruption when redirecting URLs with user:password

Mon Sep 11 02:43:32 MET DST 2006 mikulas:

	Test for socklen_t
	Work without PF_INET (for Minix 3)
	Cleaned up use of AF_ and PF_ constants

Sat Sep  9 00:05:16 MET 2006 mikulas:

	Fixed double-to-string conversion for config files

Fri Aug 25 00:48:05 MET 2006 mikulas:

	Parsing ftp directories starts to be difficult because fixing one bug
	introduces other. Previous fix sometimes mistook size for year :-/

Sun Aug 20 05:06:57 cet 2006 mikulas:

	Correctly translate character set of "label" attribute

Thu Aug 17 19:57:34 MET 2006 mikulas:

	Fixed incremental loading of XBM images

Mon Aug  7 05:11:47 CEST 2006 Matthew Fischer <[e-mail]>:

	Fixed Japanese fonts

Mon Jul 31 00:32:58 MET 2006 mikulas:

	More cygwin fixes

=== RELEASE 2.1pre23 ===

Thu Jul 27 04:53:01 CEST 2006 mikulas:

	Fixed pagedown and search bugs in braille terminal introduced in
	links-2.1pre20

Sun Jul 16 16:35:54 cet 2006 mikulas:

	Link to "" redirects to current file rather than current directory
		(fixes some forms)

Sun Jul 16 00:08:30 cet 2006 mikulas:

	Better ftp directory parsing (process correctly file names starting with
		year)

Sat Jul 15 16:37:36 MET 2006 mikulas:

	Bigger default textarea

Mon Jul 10 22:53:09 MET DST 2006 mikulas:

	Use pkg-config to search for libpng and pcre

Tue Jun 27 23:50:43 cet 2006 mikulas:

	Fixed display of multiple consecutive spaces when searching

Tue Jun 27 23:14:35 cet 2006 mikulas:

	View &nbsp; as space when searching

Sun Jun 18 16:11:57 MET 2006 mikulas:

	Command "kill background connections" aborts also keepalive connections

Sat Jun 17 21:43:01 cet 2006 mikulas:

	Removed SDL support until someone fixes it.
	Remaining bugs:
		palette not installed with 256-color svgalib support
		drawing doesn't synchronize with softcursor (seen on svgalib)
		stupid keyboard handling (SDL has the ability to query
			operating system keymap and translate keys to unicode
			but this driver didn't use it)
		doesn't support virtual devices with Alt-1 ... Alt-0, like
			svgalib and framebuffer
		reportedly crashes with sdl-1.2.10
	If you want SDL support continued, take file sdl.c from previous