2014-03-09 (2.8.8rel.2)
* correct errata in test-files which cause broken links in break-out directory
in lynx.isc.org server -TD
* amend change from 2.8.8pre.2, to ensure that MinGW libraries already
declaring 'sleep()' will build -TD
* drop unused save/compress rules from makefile.in, because fixing umask for
these is pointless -TD
* modify makefile.in to establish sane umask value in the "install-doc" rule
(report by Rajeev V Pillai) -TD
* build-fix for NetBSD, whose curses library provides use_default_colors(),
but the package turns off the keymap feature (patch by Thomas Klausner).
2014-02-14 (2.8.8rel.1)
2014-02-14 (2.8.8pre.5)
* change quoting for fixup to help_files.sed in 2.8.8dev.17 to work around
bug in cygwin's make/sed programs -TD
* change quality value for application/xhtml+xml mime type added for Debian
#184482, to ensure that it is offered as one of Lynx's internal types on
an "Accept:" line sent to the server (Debian #725178) -TD
* trim unexpected query-parameters from file: URIs when checking for their
presentation and compression types. Not all browsers do this, etc. -TD
* modify forms-submit to trim query-parameters from the action URI if it
happens to be a file-URL. IE and some other browsers do this. The RFCs
do not mention this since forms are an HTTP feature (Debian #738121) -TD
* reviewed command-line options which were not provided in lynx.cfg; added
others which could be useful for dumps (i.e., force_html, hiddenlinks,
listonly, list_inline, localhost, short_url, with_backspaces) -TD:
* add dont_wrap_pre to lynx.cfg (request by GV) -TD
* use idn_free() rather than ordinary free (patch by GV)
* build-fix when alt-bindings are disabled (patch by GV)
* correct sense of --disable-alt-bindings option in configure script (prompted
by report by GV) -TD
2014-02-04 (2.8.8pre.4)
* modify the LOCALE_CHARSET feature to provide a default value for the
ASSUMED_CHARSET feature aka "display-charset" (Debian #737416) -TD
* fix two bugs in print-to-file from 2.8.8dev.10 changes -TD
+ suggested filename suffix for text/html was ".html" rather than ".txt"
+ using ^U to clear the filename to print to did not cancel the prompt
(report by Klaus-Peter Wegge)
* disable EXP_JAPANESEUTF8_SUPPORT if the system has no iconv support -TD
* modify makefiles to perform the src/chrtrans rules from the top-level rather
than via the src-level, solving the issue of "makefile races" -TD
* reviewed minor fixes from OpenBSD CVS for these issues:
- fix makefile races [espie]
- read/write result checking fixes to avoid unsigned comparisons vs -1 [krw]
However, the former is not an improvement; kept only the latter -TD
2014-01-11 (2.8.8pre.3)
* apply analogous changes to tidytls.c interface -TD
* apply openssl patch from openSUSE package for Lynx to modify the SSL options
to omit the SSLv2 and compression features (report by BJP) -TD
* add check for alternate package "libssl" also used with Fedora20 -TD
* fix a check in configure-script for openssl subdirectory in includes. It
happened to work in most cases due to a spurious blank in the pkg-config
file; this was removed recently, e.g., for Fedora20 -TD
* fill-in some dangling links in test-files -TD
* build-fix for --disable-prettysrc (reported by Don Hsi-Yun Yang aka
"omoikane") -TD
* review/improve html helpfiles -TD
* ensure that $(sysconfdir) exists in makefile as dependency of install-help
rule -TD
* update config.guess (2014-01-01), config.sub (2014-01-01)
2013-12-17 (2.8.8pre.2)
* change makefile.msc and lynx-slang.iss to use dll for slang -TD
* change URL for HELPFILE in lynx.cfg, etc., to omit version-specifics -TD
* update example of options menu shown in user-guide -TD
* restore ^Z maxscreen-toggle for Windows, omitted in 2.8.8dev.17 cleanup -TD
* typographical fixes for manpage (Bjarni I. Gislason, Debian #732236).
* allow fallback sleep() function to be used for MinGW -GV
* remove special case in configure.in which added "-lcompat" to $LIBS
for OpenBSD, MirBSD and EkkoBSD (Christian Weisgerber, Thorsten Glaser).
* build-fix for --disable-forms-options -TD
* omit request for admin-access in NullSoft installer, since lynx could be
installed in user's directory -TD
* change Windows default for LYNX_LSS_FILE to not use a directory-path -TD
2013-11-28 (2.8.8pre.1)
2013-11-28 (2.8.8dev.17)
* revise/update counts in README.metrics, using a script replacing a manual
procedure -TD
* amend check for magic header bytes from 2.8.8dev.3 for "deflate" to limit it
to the 3-bit block header described in RFC-1951 -TD
* install the sample-files in the dpkg test-script -TD
* add configure option --with-cfg-path and environment variables LYNX_CFG_PATH
to provide search-list capability for the ".cfg" and ".lss" files -TD
* modify configuration of COLOR_STYLE value in lynx.cfg, allowing multiple
filenames to be specified and providing those as choices in the O'ptions
menu (Debian #404893) -TD
* updates for lynx_help_main.html -TD
* update URLs in about_lynx.html -TD
* add internal URL "LYNXEDITMAP:", which is (like "LYNXKEYMAP:") generated,
making that the primary page for field-editing help -TD
* improve DOSPATH-related logic in HomeEnv(), making this work properly with
Windows Vista and 7. The feature is needed to read Lynx's bookmarks file
from the user's "Personal" shell-folder (report by Manuel Nunez) -TD
* modify samples/*.bat to work when running in a directory whose pathname
contains spaces -TD
* reduce required privileges for installing in lynx.iss -TD
* improve sed expression appended to help_files.sed to fix a case for the
edit-helpfiles which left a ".gz.gz" suffix for compressed filename URLs,
overlooked since 2.8.1pre.3 -TD
* modify logic in lkcstring_to_lkc() to allow named keys, e.g., from curses,
to be used consistently in a KEYMAP directive -TD
* add version-info to LYIcon.rc -TD
* add symbols in Keysym_Strings[] and table in setup_vtXXX_keymap() for
function keys 2-12, to improve keymap-configurability -TD
* change extra-key #define's in LYStrings.h to enum -TD
* cleanup pre-2.7 debris from LYStrings.c and LYStrings.h -TD
* modify tables for key-bindings and edit-bindings to allow them to be reloaded
to their initial values -TD
* add check in get_connection() for ftp-connections to ensure that a password
from a URL is non-empty -TD
* add samples/oldlynx.bat to demonstrate how to use non-color-style -TD
* add NSIS script, to allow building Windows installer via cross-compiling -TD
* fixes to configure script and makefiles to work with empty $prefix, e.g.,
as used in MSYS -TD
* improve configure check for sleep() for cross-compiling to MinGW -TD
* modify configure check for inet_addr() for cross-compiling to MinGW -TD
* add configure check for Win32 flavor of PDCurses when cross-compiling to
MinGW using the "--with-screen=pdcurses" option -TD
* improve color-style simulation of old color scheme by coloring input fields
with color #5 -TD
* correct search logic to match links which are wrapped on the right margin.
Previous fixes to highlight arbitrarily long links overlooked this case
(Debian #546264) -TD
* modify the INFO page, normally bound to "=", to show decoded strings for
URLs, e.g., which use %xy hexadecimal encoding. The decoded strings are
shown on the line following the encoded URLs if the strings are different.
Also if display-charset is UTF-8, modify -dump "References" URLs to show
the corresponding decoded strings for consistency with the text which is
already in UTF-8. Other URLs such as that shown in the status area are
shown in encoded form per previous discussion which recommending doing this
to address phishing attempts (Debian #398274) -TD
* simplify file-URLs shown in reference list of -dump by trimming unnecessary
"localhost", e.g.,
file://localhost/XXX
becomes
file:///XXX
(Debian #334787) -TD
* extend the "Bad HTML" warning feature to -dump option when the -stderr
option is also set (Debian #398304) -TD
* add -list_inline option, which modifies -dump output to put links inline with
the text rather than in a list at the end of the dump (Debian #584080) -TD
* add clarification in manpage regarding -force_html option versus -dump or
-crawl (Debian #254603, Debian #295273) -TD
* improve manpage descriptions of -reload, -get_data and -post_data (Debian
#350853) -TD
* modify manpage synopsis to make it clearer that Lynx accepts more than one
path and/or URL on the command-line. The paragraph explaining this was
added in 2.8.6dev.5 (Debian #350853) -TD
* update COPYHEADER, clarifying license issues -TD
* minor change to Content-Length logic from 2.8.8dev.13 to work with Amazon's
cookies (Debian #720541) -TD
* improve warning message for GNUTLS_CERT_SIGNER_NOT_FOUND (Debian #695653) -TD
* ignore non-fatal return codes from gnutls_handshake introduced by SNI change
in 2.8.8dev.15 (Debian #724812, patch by Hans Wurst).
* updates for configure macros -TD
+ CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, fix from byacc for "newer" autoconf.
+ CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER, fix from xterm for problem with -Wl,xxx options
+ CF_CURSES_LIBS, modify to allow external script to set $cf_term_lib and/or
$cf_curs_lib
+ CF_INTEL_COMPILER, $host_os needs AC_CANONICAL_HOST
+ CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES, add msys / msysdll to known host/platform types
+ CF_RPATH_HACK, use sort and uniq rather than sort -u, to work with HPUX
11.11, etc.
+ CF_TRY_PKG_CONFIG, set variables for consistent usage of this macro
+ CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, add msys / msysdll to known host/platform types
+ CF_X_ATHENA, trim extra X libraries after updating lists, to work with ld
--as-needed option which in effect uses only the first mention of the
library. If that does not follow everything that depends on the library,
ld will silently fail to resolve symbols.
* update config.guess (2013-06-10), config.sub (2013-09-05)
2013-07-29 (2.8.8dev.16)
* build-fix for setmode() definition on Cygwin -TD
* modify HTUtils.h to work around header conflict with Cygwin w32api and
openssl 1.0.1e (prompted by report/patch by Supriyo Biswas) -TD
* protect redefined errno values for Windows port from redefinition warnings
when using MinGW build, since the WSAxxx values are what the configuration
actually uses -TD
* modify <address> tag to treat it like <p> when used within a list -TD
* update fi.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx
* add on/off toggles to options menu for the color-style and default-colors
features, to help deal with packages which enable default colors without
adjusting the color-style settings to avoid having yellow text on a white
background (report by Stephen Isard) -TD
* add -default-colors command-line option to allow toggling the state of the
DEFAULT_COLORS setting from lynx.cfg -TD
* improve discussion of -dump and -force_html in manpage (Ubuntu #1112568) -TD
* cleanup quoting and use of ASCII "-" versus hyphen in manpage -TD
* add checks for zero-length strings in a few places to prevent infinite loop
when the focus moves to a text-field which is past the right margin due to
improper placement for the nested-tables configuration (report by Rajeev V
Pillai) -TD
* update doctype for html documentation to 4.01 strict -TD
* correct handling of backslash in TrimCommand() function introduced in
2.8.6dev.4, used to process the commands for "test=" in mime-types -TD
* correct 2.8.3dev.13 check for permissible place to split UTF-8 encoded text,
reported by Coverity -TD
* make DONT_TRACK_INTERNAL_LINKS logic configurable via lynx.cfg as
TRACK_INTERNAL_LINKS; the configure script now sets the default value -TD
* fix most issues found by clang 3.2 analyze -TD
* fix most issues found by Coverity scan -TD
2012-11-18 (2.8.8dev.15)
* corrected position of highlighting from search/whereis function when using
multibyte characters (Debian #673385) -TD
* modify default case for HTLoadGopher() to use the file's suffix to obtain
a MIME mapping rather than always storing unknown types to disk (suggested by
Dario Niederman) -TD
* modify ^X-e handling to not limit the result to the form field's length
(report by Keith Bowes) -TD
* modify the Inno Setup files to show lynx's version numbers. Development
and prerelease versions are indicated in the numeric-only versions by
prefixing a "10" or "20" -TD
* ask for filesize when downloading via ftp, to use this in the read-progress
ETA -TD
* fix special case when -dont_wrap_pre option is used, to restore space between
words which was lost when inserting a soft newline used to splice together
segments of a long line (Ubuntu #806749) -TD
* provide more readable ETA message as an option (prompted by patch by Joerg
Hahn) -TD
* add GNUTLS call to enable SNI (Server Name Indication) extension (Ubuntu
#732177) -TD
* correct typo for -bibhost option in manpage (Redhat #854574) -TD
* revise nsl-fork logic for passing addrinfo and hostent data back to eliminate
fixed limit on the number of records to return -TD
* correct problem with loop logic in fill_addrinfo() exposed by multiple
addresses from
http://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net
(report/analysis by TG) -TD
* updates for configure script macros (TD):
+ add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run
+ remove unused macros
* update nl.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx
* improve checking of certificates in the gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2()
by handling special case where self-signed certificates should be reported
(patch by Jamie Strandboge).
* update config.guess (2012-09-25), config.sub (2012-08-18)
2012-08-22 (2.8.8dev.14)
* reset anchor's actual-length calculation at the end of pumpData() to handle
scenario where this is used for internal data movement, i.e., for
decompressing files (report by Owen Leibman, Debian #681214) -TD
* drop two files overlooked in previous commit (TD):
lynx.rsp and WWW/Library/Implementation/HTFWriter.c
2012-08-15 (2.8.8dev.13)
* make nsl-fork work for the DNS lookup using getaddrinfo, i.e., for IPv6
configurations (report by FLWM) -TD
* add U+0218, U+0219, U+021a, and U+021b to 0x53, 0x73, 0x54, and 0x74,
respectively, for Romanian s/t with cedilla in def7_uni.tbl (Ralph Babel)
* modify handling of "set" in -cmd_script option to try both cfg-file and
rc-file settings (prompted by discussion with Andrew Watts) -TD
* update configure script to add --datarootdir option, which changes the
default for man-page from /usr/lib to /usr/share -TD
* modify configure check for sizeof(time_t), sizeof(off_t) to help recover if
it is run in a deficient environment such as busybox -TD
* limit downloaded files by Content-Length if any, to match behavior of IE,
Firefox and some other browsers; this is not addressed in RFC 2616 (Debian
#681214) -TD
For more information, see "Content-Length in the Real World" by Eric Law:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2011/03/09/browsers-accommodate-incorrect-http-content-length-and-sites-depressingly-depend-on-it.aspx
* fix an unbounded loop in restrictions_fun() which could cause a core dump
(Debian #616107) -TD
* add LDFLAGS to top-level makefile.in, for consistency with other recursive
options (suggested by Naomasa Maruyama) -TD
* modify makefile.in and src/makefile.in to pass make-flags, e.g., "-n" for
POSIX make -TD
* updated configure macros (TD):
+ add check for clang warning options
+ check for tinfo library, which may be present
+ omit -Wpointer-arith check for pre-3.0 gcc
+ add check for 'make' programs ${MAKEFLAGS} versus ${MFLAGS}, for recursive
operation.
* updated list for "$(TABLES)" in src/makefile.in so that parallel builds work
properly (patch by Diego Elio Petteno)
* remove extra "$(LDFLAGS)" from src/makefile.in when linking lynx (patch by
Josef Sontgen)
* correct formatting of large file-sizes in directory listing (Debian
#666213) -TD
* improve checking of certificates in the gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2()
(report by Martin Georgiev) -TD
* update de.po eo.po sv.po vi.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx
* use PDCurses "wide" variation in makefile.msc -TD
* modified quoting for parameter values passed to blat mailer to ensure that
it handles embedded blanks (report by pfourier) -TD
* fix regression introduced by changes for Debian #603648 -TD
* modify makew32.bat and makefile.bcb to use GnuWin32 packages to simplify
builds with Borland 5.51 C++ compiler (prompted by discussion with
pfourier) -TD
* add configure check for windres needed for mingw build if cross-compiling -TD
2012-02-22 (2.8.8dev.12)
* treat charsets ISO-8859-8-E and ISO-8859-8-I as aliases of ISO-8859-8
(Owen Leibman)
* amend the dev.10 change to HTLoadDocument(), which broke caching of forms,
to limit it to just the case where the user has pressed ^R, etc (report by
TG) -TD
2012-02-19 (2.8.8dev.11)
* correct help-message for -html5_charset option -Kihara Hideto
* correct a typo in strtol change from dev.10 which caused hexadecimal numeric
entities to be misrendered -TG
* update eo.po, et.po and tr.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx
* correct dll name for bzip2 in lynx.iss package script -TD
2012-02-12 (2.8.8dev.10)
* updated po/lynx.pot; there are a few new messages -TD
* add "submit" and "reset" commands (Debian #603645) -TD
* add "pwd" command, to show current working directory in the statusline -TD
* modify check in HText_endForm() when a form contains only a single input
field, to allow a return in any text-like field other than textarea to cause
the form to be submitted (Debian #603648) -TD
* add bzlib to win32 makefile.msc -TD
* define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN in makefile.msc to accommodate naming conflict
in recent Win32 SDKs, which otherwise include winsock.h in windows.h -TD
* fixes for the dev.9 Win32 feature to toggle between normal/fullscreen,
by checking the actual screensize after maximizing the display -TD
* use ASCII apostrophe for 7-bit approximation to U+02bd as well -TD
* use ASCII apostrophe 0x27 for 7-bit approximation to Unicode apostrophe
U+02bc (suggested by Ralph Babel)
* update LYLeaks.c / LYLeaks.h to include the bstring allocation, copy and free
functions -TD
* several fixes for the -find-leaks option, e.g., include LYLeaks.h in a few
modules, modify the StrAllocVsprintf function to update the bookkeeping,
etc -TD
* move call to LYCanWriteFile into LYValidateOutput, to make prompts for
download, print and upload more alike -TD
* correct an old bug in send_file_to_file(), used when printing a page to a
file, which prevented its check for appending to an existing file -TD
* modify LYValidateFilename to use LYTildeExpand -TD
* modify LYConvertToURL to use LYTildeExpand for Unix, and further modify
LYTildeExpand to lookup given user's home directory, thereby making commands
such as "g ~root/tmp" work as expected -TD
* replaced most LYgetStr calls with LYgetBString, except for LYMail.c and
LYNews.c since those do use LYgetStr's limits as it was designed. Other
calls generally did not need those limits -TD
* modify finish_ExtEditForm to eliminate wrapping when an edited line is longer
than MAX_LINE. The user is still offered the choice of wrapping to the
displayed size of a TEXTAREA, but if declined, the TEXTAREA's content will
not be wrapped -TD
* modify LYgetstr, making it call revised function LYgetBString which handles
bstring's, and allows editing fields which can grow without fixed buffer
limits. In particular, forms all use the same calls, which means that
their result is no longer limited by MAX_LINE -TD
* extend ^X-e editing of textarea's to include single-line fields -TD
* modify comparison for splitting lines to allow for long preformatted lines,
e.g., using 's to not wrap when the line-wrap mode is disabled -TD
* modify cfg2html.pl to handle options which contain a digit, e.g.,
HTML5_CHARSETS whose default value was not marked properly -TD
* modify HTLoadDocument() to not retain a cached document if user is explicitly
doing a refresh. This fixes the case for a #fragment url, which was
otherwise treated as the same as the address without the #fragment -TD
* clarify version of GPL used in README (request by Paul Menzel) -TD
* modify HTLoad() to discard charset information before reloading a document,
in case the server changes the content-type information between loads
(report by Stanislav Brabec) -TD
* use tidy to indent html documentation -TD
* provide a way to substitute parameters in URLs for jumpfiles (adapted from
patch by Mark Skilbeck -TD
* ensure that button/input tags have a value for display, in case the tag is
improperly terminated (report by Aki Helin) -TD
* work around glibc bug in sscanf in SGML_character() using strtol() (report by
Aki Helin) -TD
* add check for charset attribute on meta element -Kihara Hideto
* eliminate ON/OFF macros, using TRUE/FALSE both to work around breakage from
zlib 1.2.5.1 changes as well as because they were unnecessary (GenToo
#383113) -Nikos Chantziaras, TD
* updated several configure script macros (TD):
CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK, CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_LD_RPATH_OPT, CF_NETLIBS,
CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, CF_X_ATHENA_LIBS
2011-06-12 (2.8.8dev.9)
* modfy cfg2html to add ".url" directive for referencing RFC's etc -TD
* document blat/blatj usage in lynx.cfg -TD
* add/use WriteStreamTitle(), to provide doctype for cookie-jar page, used to
help validate the page -TD
* improve readability of cookie-jar page by showing the unescaped cookie
values, other minor formatting changes -TD
* modify cookie domain-matching to accommodate RFC 6265, which states that a
leading dot on a domain attribute should be discarded (report by Sebastien
Hinderer) -TD
* integrate most of the changes from patch in 2.8.6rel.4 package at
http://en.sourceforge.jp/project/lynx-win32-pata -TH, TD
+ provide toggle between normal/fullscreen
+ ifdef'd changes for FEP.
+ correct a message translation in ja.po
+ modify Xsystem.c to not use MinGW's system() call.
+ add three items to lynx.cfg
conv_jisx0201kana
message_language
wait_viewer_termination
+ replace ifdef's for CONV_JISX0201KANA_JISX0208KANA with configuration
variable conv_jisx0201kana
+ modify makefile.bcb and lynx.rsp to use openssl and intl libraries.
+ add feature ifdef'd with USE_PROGRAM_DIR which adds fallback definitions
for pathnames to use the directory of lynx.exe
+ add check for unsafe filenames in DOS/Windows, e.g., those that correspond
to a device.
* update command-line syntax for the blat mailer, to work with blat 2.6.2 -TD
* change default in makelynx.bat to assume blat rather than blatj, because
the latter does not provide a way to authenticate user/password on a mail
server -TD
* change #define's for addrlist-page and alt-bindings to reflect their
non-experimental status -TD
* change default for --enable-addrlist-page configure option to enabled -TD
* modify blat/blatj configuration so that support for both is compiled-in
for DOSPATH configurations. Add "-altblat" option to select blat vs blatj.
Define USE_ALT_BLAT_MAILER to specify which is the default (prompted by
report by LarryL) -TD
* correct an interaction between LYCloseOutput() and LYRemoveTemp() as used in
send_file_to_mail(), to allow a temporary file to be closed and used by
external program before removing it -TD
* modify lkcstring_to_lkc() to accept hex/octal values, allowing those in the
KEYMAP configuration as suggested by the commented lines in lynx.cfg (report
by Richie Wood) -TD
* build-fix for DEC C 5.x with _DECC_V4_SOURCE defined, i.e., missing
declaration of "off_t" (report/analysis by Rod Reiger) -TD
* build-fixes for Alpha VMS V8.3 with C V7.1-015, based on lynx 2.8.7
development snapshot (report/analysis by Scott Harrod) -TD
* improve scripts/tbl2html.pl, to handle translation of octal escapes in the
approximation comments -TD
* amend implementation of "readonly" attribute from 2.8.7dev.10 to distinguish
it from "disabled" (report by David Paschal) -TD
* amend change to cookie prefix matching from Debian #460108. The discussion
overlooked this definition from RFC 2109:
Path Defaults to the path of the request URL that generated the
Set-Cookie response, up to, but not including, the
right-most /.
In that context, lynx was correct to extract the default "path" attribute
of
http://jukebox/cgi-bin/disorder
as
/cgi-bin
rather than
/cgi-bin/disorder
as asserted in the report. However, lynx warned unnecessarily (according to
the bug report) about the given path attribute. Deciding whether to suppress
this warning is under control of the user via the lynx.cfg setting
COOKIE_QUERY_INVALID_DOMAINS since 2.8.2dev.16 (report by Owen Leibman) -TD
* add eo.po (Esperanto) from
http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx
* modify format of ADVANCED_COOKIE_CONFIRMATION message in nl.po per guideline
to allow localized single-letter responses to prompt (report by Jurgen
Gaeremy) -TD
* add configure check for <bsd/random.h>, used in Debian package -TD
* modify src/tidy_tls.c to use gnutls_priority_set_direct() in preference to
various access functions, to eliminate deprecation warnings (report by
Andreas Metzler) -TD
* updated several configure script macros (TD):
CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS, CF_CURSES_FUNCS, CF_CURSES_HEADER, CF_CURSES_LIBS,
CF_CURSES_TERM_H, CF_DISABLE_RPATH_HACK, CF_PDCURSES_X11, CF_PKG_CONFIG,
CF_RPATH_HACK, CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS, CF_XOPEN_CURSES, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
CF_X_ATHENA_LIBS
* update config.guess (2011-01-01), config.sub (2011-04-01)
2011-01-10 (2.8.8dev.8)
* correct sense of menu-name parameter in add_item_to_list() from dev.7
changes (report by Larry Hart) -TD
* remove duplicate copy of CF_TRY_PKG_CONFIG added to aclocal.m4 in 2.8.8dev.4,
which caused autoconf-2.13 to emit weird error messages about undefined
symbols (report by TG) -TD
2010-12-11 (2.8.8dev.7)
* add PERSONAL_MAIL_NAME to options menu and .lynxrc (Debian #603647) -TD
* remind user how to cancel message (Debian #292787) -TD
* add HTML5_CHARSETS feature, which allows the user to choose whether to
interpret pages without an explicit charset according to the HTML5
"compatibility" feature (Debian #604466, Debian #514897) -TD
* add EXTERNAL_MENU feature to lynx.cfg, which allows the user to customize the
menu-entry shown, e.g., to suppress the display of the URL
(Debian #603646) -TD
* cleanup URLs in lynx documentation -DK
* add check in getfile() when handling a "mailto:" url, to prevent it when the
user has requested a dump (Debian #563308) -TD
* improve configure check for IDNA library, which may depend upon intllib,
e.g., building with mingw on cygwin -DK
* modify autoconf macros which look for X libraries, e.g., for PDCurses, to
accommodate ongoing changes in xorg package scripts -TD
* reorganize autoconf macro CF_WITH_CURSES_DIR, to make it usable for both
curses and ncurses -TD
* several changes to autoconf macros to lessen use of legacy shell feature
"${name-value}" in favor of "${name:-value}", since the former is broken in
recent versions of bash -TD
* apply overlooked patch from pre-2.8.5, makes RMDIR_PATH configurable
(report/patch by Frank Heckenbach).
* correct one of the places where link-number is formatted, for form input
anchors. This was broken in dev.6 by the -unique_urls changes (report by
DK) -TD
* undo a cleanup change to link-types from dev.6 which broke some uses of
input-anchors (report by FLWM) -TD
* minor formatting improvements to sources using cindent 2.0-20101107 -TD
* restore \r to \n conversion in HTML_put_character(), broken in gcc warning
cleanup (report by FLWM) -TD
* fix a double-free in make_argv() (report by FLWM) -TD
* add a memset in RestoreSession(), fixes uninitialized memory reference for
the VLINK section -PBM
* update config.guess (2010-09-24), config.sub (2010-09-11)
2010-10-04 (2.8.8dev.6)
* amend change for Debian #514897 to exclude XML documents (Debian #592883) -TD
* use HTParsePort() in a few places, e.g., HTFinger.c, to allow for IPv6
addresses with colons (Debian #587330) -TD
* modify option -dump so it is parsed in the first pass, using that to suppress
requirement for lss file if lynx is used only to dump output -TD
* add option -unique-urls (Debian #586762) -TD
* fix most gcc type-conversion warnings -TD
* add configure check for ctags/etags programs, needed for some BSD ports -TD
* add configure --with-textdomain option to allow overriding the "lynx"
NLS textdomain, to help ensure that Lynx's build-script does not conflict
with alternative packages -TD
* use AC_ARG_PROGRAM in configure script, to support --program-suffix, etc.,
to help with packaging -TD
* add Debian build script, for testing (adapted from lynx-cur package) -TD
* add RPM build script, for testing -TD
2010-08-25 (2.8.8dev.5)
* modify convert_to_idna() to check for malformed urls (Debian #594300 reports
this as CVE-2010-2810) -TD
* correct typo in po/makefile.inn from removal of mkdirs.sh in dev.4 (Debian
#592078) -TD
* correct a sign-extension error in UpdateBoundary(), used for MIME boundary
computation, broken in dev.4 compiler-warning fixes -TD
2010-06-21 (2.8.8dev.4)
* check for SSL error when reading response from "GET". This incidentally
exposes a longstanding bug in GNUTLS:
https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?106987
(google the message "A TLS packet with unexpected length was received")
which prevents connection to
https://www.mynortonaccount.com/amsweb/default.do
(report by Ignac Vucko) -TD
* fix ifdef/define's in LYMain.c to show GNUTLS version in user-agent when
built with tidy_tls.c -TD
* improve format of X509_NAME_oneline() in tidy_tls.c, making it compatible
with the OpenSSL function so that no post-processing is needed -TD
* correct typo in configure --enable-gnutls-compat option, which sometimes made
it enabled as a side-effect of setting --with-gnutls -TD
* add configure option --enable-wais, for test-compiles with freeWAIS -TD
* fixes to build with VMS -Christoph J Gartmann
+ created [.src]multinet_ucx.opt with a single line
multinet_root:[multinet.library]ucx$ipc/LIBRARY
+ modified build.com to have an additional option "Multinet with
UCX emulation"
+ modified libmake.com for the same reason
+ modified [.www.library.implementation]www_tcp.h for the same reason
+ provide definition of IS_CJK_TTY for HTWAIS.c by adding include of
LYStrings.h
* fix typo in users's guide -PBM
* drop mkdirs.sh and MKINSTALLDIRS symbol from makefiles, using "mkdir -p" -TD
* limit parsed URIs with new config parameter MAX_URI_SIZE, default 8192
(RedHat #605286, forwarded by Vincent Danen). For arbitrarily long URIs,
alloca() could run out of stack space -TD
* several changes to configure script, from ongoing work on xterm, etc -TD
+ workaround for broken ".pc" file for X Toolkit, which omits the ICE
library.
+ modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to use CF_CURSES_HEADER to pick out the particular
flavor of ncurses.h, e.g., <ncursesw/curses.h>
+ add parameter to CF_CURSES_HEADER to allow looking for specific
subdirectory ncurses/ncursesw/etc + restructured CF_X_ATHENA to use
pkg-config, if available.
+ use CF_ADD_LIB/CF_ADD_LIBS
+ CF_GNUTLS eliminates duplicate libraries when configuring with pkg-config
+ modified several macros to quote params of ifelse()
+ CF_AR_FLAGS allows $ARFLAGS to override the choice of ar-flags, in
particular check if a given choice is part of the current $ARFLAGS
+ workaround CF_XOPEN_CURSES for (temporary) problem with ncurses headers,
which did not account for the fact that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED may be
defined in a system header.
* remove redundant updates for CFLAGS and LIBS in configure script which are
now done in CF_FIND_LINKAGE macro -TD
* fix a problem with configure script which broke "--with-gnutls=/usr" (report
by Atsuhito Kohda) -TD
* resolve warnings from "clang --analyze", tested with Fedora 12 and clang
2.6-0.5.pre1.fc12, 2.7-1.fc12 -TD
* further improvements to print_wwwfile_to_fd() -TD
+ corrected length used for radio/checkboxes.
+ fill in wrapped fields.
2010-04-25 (2.8.8dev.3)
* modify print_wwwfile_to_fd() to add field values to the printed form (Debian
#574940) -TD
* add check for magic (header bytes) before trying to decompress, since zlib
does not provide this check (Redhat #503921) -TD
* add workaround in CF_SSL configure macro for broken openssl pkg-config script
on Redhat, CentOS -TD
* add configure option --disable-rpath-hack -TD
* allow IPv6 addresses without "http://" prefix (Redhat #425879, patch by Kamil
Dudka)
* build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11 -TD
* add/use CF_RPATH_HACK, for constructing rpath references to libraries in
nonstandard locations -TD
* improve configure macros CF_CURSES_TERM_H and CF_FIND_LINKAGE -TD
* add synopsis entries for -get_data and -post_data options to lynx.man
(report by Dallas E. Legan II) -TD
* fix a possible conflict between CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH by setting
their respective target variables, not appending -TD
* improve configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE by removing rather than undefining
preexisting symbols as they are added to the definitions -TD
* add configure check for -lnetwork, from tin -TD
* when renaming/copying a bookmark file, e.g., to delete a bookmark, modify
its permissions for compatibility with IsOurFile() (Redhat #486070) -TD
* fix most gcc writable-strings warnings -TD
* update config.guess (2009-12-30), config.sub (2009-12-31)
2009-11-25 (2.8.8dev.2)
* modify trimming of URI in LYSetCookie() to eliminate trimming of final leaf
(Debian #460108) -TD
* document the various xxx_PATH settings in lynx.cfg -TD
* modify cfg2html.pl to improve formatting of cattoc.html -TD
* split-up top-level makefile install-html rule to allow generating the
htmlized cfg without doing an install -TD
* suppress positioning for editor when using it to edit files via dired -TD
* modify samples/lynx-demo.cfg to suppress external file-utilities, since the
intent is to make the installer work standalone, but allow extension -TD
* add traces for builtin dired operations -TD
* modify built-in "touch" for dired to use binary mode when opening file -TD
* remove check from 2.8.5dev.11 which prevents user from moving a directory in
dired unless the external program "mv" is provided -TD
* regularize use of isEmpty(), non_empty() -BL
* match built-in "positionable" editor names more liberally -BL
* promote some experimental options to normal, tidy up related EXP_xxx vs
USE_xxx symbols -TD
EXP_ASCII_CTYPES is now USE_ASCII_CTYPES
EXP_JUSTIFY_ELTS is now USE_JUSTIFY_ELTS
EXP_CHARSET_CHOICE is now USE_CHARSET_CHOICE
The scrollbar, progressbar, sessions and session-cache options are now
enabled by default.
* modify scanning in HTRules.c to only trim comments where '#' is either at
the beginning of a line, or follows whitespace (patch by Kihara Hideto).
* correct a place where LYStrExtent2 was used where byte-count is needed
(patch by Bake Timmons).
* modify LYExecv() in LYLocal.c to allow win32 applications to use this
function -TD
* modify ok_stat() in LYLocal.c to retry with "." appended when the path syntax
indicates that it is probably a directory name -TD
* fix an old typo in configure macro CF_CHECK_FUNCDECL -TD
* change library dependency for gnutls from crypt to gcrypt, originally in
2.8.5dev.15 (Debian #555579) -TD
* update de.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx
* fix some tidy- and linklint-warnings in help-files -TD
* amend change from 2.8.7dev.14 to not use clrscr() function in stop_curses()
if using PDCurses, since clrscr() is not in the win32 api -TD
* modify configure script to check if linkage for bzlib and zlib succeeded,
before defining symbol which makes the compiler uses these libraries -TD
* update lynx_help_main.html to point to "release/lynx2-8-7" documentation -TD
2009-08-28 (2.8.8dev.1)
* add <sys/types.h> include in socklen_t configure check (from OpenBSD CVS)
* eliminate UCPutUtf8ToBuffer() - redundant -TD
* use memset's to simplify some initialization in HTML.c, extending a change
made in 2.8.7dev.10 (prompted by issue in OpenBSD) -TD
* add optional support for IDNA using GNU libidn (Debian #352596) -TD
* ignore LEFT-TO-RIGHT-MARK (U+200E) in HTML files (Debian #408835) -TD
* correct check for return-value from gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2(), which
in conjunction with unclean internals of gnutls caused caused some sites to
be treated as if they were version-1 X.509 CAs (Debian #231609,
Ubuntu 293708) -TD
* revise dired-mode's modify_tagged() function, correcting and extending the
source-paths to validate against the target path. Before, lynx's current
working directory was used to validate against target path, i.e., when moving
all tagged files to a new location. Lynx's check to ensure that
source/target paths are distinct prevented users from moving tagged files to
the current directory (report by Jasper) -TD
* change compiled-in default for SYSLOG_REQUESTED_URLS to false (prompted by
Debian #537907) -TD
* adjust ifdef in change_sug_filename() so that paths containing square
brackets are trimmed on VMS only (report by Gaute Strokkenes) -TD
* amend change to ifdef in LYMain.c (from 2.8.7dev.14), since it prevents build
on NetBSD, whose libintl.h does not include locale.h (report by Thomas
Klausner) -TD
* modify configure macro CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES to make it more self-contained -TD
* improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE for HPUX 11 to ensure mbstate_t is
declared -TD
* update config.guess (2009-08-19), config.sub (2009-08-19)
Same distfile name, different contents.
Changes:
2010-06-21 (2.8.7rel.2)
* add limit-check for too-long URIs in href's (RedHat #605286) -TD
* fix a few places still referring to "2-8-6" -TD
New features (some are compile-time options):
* add session save/restore feature
o bind ^X to toggle view of page showing session information
o add binding for ^U to previous-document (outside of
line-editing).
o documented command-line options and configuration data
for this feature.
o document -child_relaxed option in Lynx users's guide.
* add -passive-ftp option.
* add -child_relaxed option.
* add "read_timeout" to lynx.cfg, and -read_timeout option to
command-line
* add -show_cfg option.
* add LYNX_HELPFILE environment variable to allow override of
location of the help-file
* add NO_PAUSE setting to lynx.cfg, .lynxrc and Options menu
* implement a LONG_LIST equivalent for ftp, configurable as
FTP_FORMAT
* add XWINDOWS / NON_XWINDOWS environment-variable field to
DOWNLOAD, etc., in lynx.cfg to specify whether a downloader
(printer, etc) is enabled when the X display variable is set
* configure script improvements
o add --with-mime-libdir option to set MIME_LIBDIR in
userdefs.h file
o add --with-destdir configure option to set a default
value for the DESTDIR variable in makefiles, and modified
makefiles to ensure that setting DESTDIR in the top-level
makefile propagates to lower levels
o add --enable-local-docs option to link doc-directory
from help-page
o add --enable-ascii-ctypes option to enable EXP_ASCII_CTYPES
Other enhancements:
* improve SSL support:
o improve X.509 certificate validation This is tested
for OpenSSL, ifdef'd to not break gnutls. Changes:
+ peer certificate is cached, no need to call
SSL_get_peer_certificate() twice
+ support foo.domain:port and [ip.add.re.ss] and
[ip.add.re.ss]:port and [i:p:v:6:ad:dr:es:s] and
[i:p:v:6:ad:dr:es:s]:port
+ add support for checking X.509v3 SubjectAltName
extensions (of type DNS - tested - and IP - untested)
when the X.509 commonName check fails.
+ when displaying a list of failed CNs, change
format from foo:bar:baz to
CN{foo}:CN{bar}:CN{baz}:SAN{DNS=foo}:SAN{IP=1.2.3.4}
so that we know where what comes from (in "Your
recent statusline messages")
+ if the peer certificate can *NOT* be verified,
output a message to the log as well
+ fix a possible use of an uninitialised value
ssl_all_cns
+ output certificate issuer to the logs as well
(so that you can, before entering your online
banking PIN, see if the certificate has been issued
not only _to_ your bank but also _from_ a place
you trust, in case /etc/ssl/certs/ contains a lot
of Root CA certs)
o add support for the X.509 extension subjectAltName
using GNUTLS.
o log SSL/TLS (HTTPS connection) X.509 certificate issuer
information into the "recent statusline messages"
(accessible via the backspace key)
o add TNS SNI support for the OpenSSL configuration
o modify CF_SSL configure macro to check for -ldl needed
for recent OpenSSL versions
o modify CF_SSL configure macro to build with MSYS for
MinGW configuration
o extend configure macros CF_SSL and CF_GNUTLS to check
for pkg-config, using that for the default if the
corresponding openssl or gnutls packages are installed.
o add configure --with-nss-compat option, for building
with NSS library's OpenSSL-compatible interface
o add SSL_CERT_FILE to lynx.cfg
o rewrite strcasecomp_asterisk() to support wildcards as
in RFC 2818
o add --enable-gnutls-compat configure option and associated
files to configure with GNU TLS without its gnutls-openssl
library, whose newer versions are available only under
a restrictive license.
o fix src/tidy_tls.c X509_get_issuer_name to actually
take the issuer DN of the present certificate and not
hope that it is the same as taking the subject DN of the
"next" certificate which may or may not exist.
* improve HTML interpretation:
o update Lynx's tables of HTML attributes to cover (except
for events) the keywords from HTML 4.01
o use RFC-822 encoding for filenames passed via file-upload
forms.
o provide navigation to script-buttons, to make them more
visible, showing their name
o add "Bad HTML messages" to Options menu, letting the
user disable the warning message, write the detailed
messages to the LYNXMESSAGES: status buffer.
o remove "Bad HTML" warning for buttons outside a form,
since those can be inline, according to the HTML 4 DTD
o correct check for default type of HTML BUTTON, which
is "submit". The code treated this as "button".
o implement "readonly" attribute for TEXTAREA and TEXT
fields
o accommodate (in)compatibility "feature" in HTML5 draft
which replaces ISO-8859-1 with Windows-1252, as indicated
here.
o add support for HTML5 rel=author in link.
o modify SGML_write() to check for UCS-2 BOMs, to provide
support for UCS-2 pages.
o modify SGML_write() to check for UTF-8 BOM, using that
as a hint to set the default document charset to UTF-8.
o parse xml processing-instruction to turn on UTF-8
decoding, as well as disable upper/lower case transforming
in source view.
o parse doctype for xhtml, to tell when empty tags such
as "<textarea />" can be discarded
o translate named entities, etc., for "content" field of
refresh-URL.
o add switch -xhtml-parsing and lynx.cfg XHTML_PARSING
setting to control whether the extensions for XHTML 1.0
are used.
o modify Lynx's DTD information to allow it to display
form-related tags that are inline, even without being in
a form as indicated in
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
for %inline.forms and %misc.inline.
* improvements to character sets and display:
o improve drawing of menus for multibyte characters by
changing the way the number of fill-characters is computed
in LYpaddstr
o fix some uses of gettext in options menu and info page
where a translated string might contain angle-brackets
or ampersand
o modify popup for externals added in 2.8.4dev.20 to
number the entries if keypad mode is set to one of the
numbered forms
o ie multibyte editing of text-fields.
* improvements to color-style:
o bug-fixes only
* improve interaction with user:
o remove check for -dump option from HTHandleAuthInfo(),
allowing Lynx to -dump or -source NNTP urls
o change the phase during which "-help" option is processed,
to allow it to reflect the configured values of the options
in the help-message
o check if there is piped-in data when starting without
"-" or "-stdin" options, warn about the ignored input
data in that case.
o add ncurses scroll-wheel support, which requires the
extended-mouse configure option of ncurses.
o modify initial active link in download-page to be the
first download action rather than the "help" link whided
in Novice mode.
o make the size of LYNXMESSAGES configurable in lynx.cfg
with STATUS_BUFFER_SIZE
* improve interaction with other programs:
o discard anchor's post_data field in HTLoadDocument()
if Lynx is about to reload a do. That would happen if
the result of the form includes a link back to the form.
Removing the data causes Lynx to prompt the user, e.g.,
Resubmit POST content to
http://localhost/cgi-bin/lynxtest.pl ? (y/n)
to offer the user the choice between revisiting form
or re-POST'ing the data that was on the form
o pass a newline after the start of PRE-section in
HTGopher.c to force the first newline between records to
be seen and cause the lines to split
o add POSITIONAL_EDITOR setting to configure editors
which accept a "+line" parameter
o modify external editing of TEXTAREA to not do
tab-conversion.
o modify behavior of "-nonumbers" option for -dump so it
can be combined with -listonly to obtain a list of the
URLs without reference numbers.
o implement "chunked" transfer-encoding to work with
servers that ignore the version number in HTTP get's
o add an Options menu checkbox to tell if Lynx should
send a user-agent string. Unless the useragent restriction
is set, the default for this checkbox is off, so that
Lynx will not send the string. The corresponding setting,
send_useragent, may be saved to ~/.lynxrc, but normally
is not.
o change default for configure --enable-ascii-ctypes to
true.
o modify exit code when doing a "-dump" to exit with
error if the server returned an error status for the
page.
* improve cookie support:
o modify cookie-writing to not write if no cookies were
read from the file and none are available.
o adapt/extend parsdate.y from tin to improve parsing of
cookie expiration times.
* improvements to debug/traces:
o change initialization of trace file, handing this during
the first part of argument parsing along with -help and
-version, to show steps done for initialization of
presentors, etc
* improvements to scripting/logging:
o bug-fixes only
* other improvements:
o build/install "en" po file so that GNU gettext LANGUAGE
environment variable can find the corresponding English
message file.
o if iconv_open() using transliteration fails, retry
without the transliteration feature.
o improve change for UCSetBoxChars() from 2.8.6dev.16
for EXP_CHARTRANS_AUTOSWITCH which assumed that the
line-drawing character set was always different from the
display character set. If both are US_ASCII for example,
ASCII lines would be drawn, which is not good
o modify scanning of floats from lynx.cfg to allow Lynx
to read POSIX values in non-POSIX locales
o replace BROKEN_PROFTPD and BROKEN_WU_FTPD logic with
configurable list of strings in lynx.cfg, i.e.,
BROKEN_FTP_RETR and BROKEN_FTP_EPSV, and add "spftp/" to
the predefined values for the former.
o modify to handle a special case where the content-type
is given as one of the compressed types, to check if the
address (after stripping the file suffix for that
compression) has a suffix that lynx could present For
example:
http://foo/bar.html.gz
would display the uncompressed "bar.html" rather than
offering to download the file. This also allows one to
add SUFFIX commands to lynx.cfg to display the
corresponding plain files. For example:
SUFFIX:CHANGES.*:text/plain:8bit
SUFFIX:CHANGES:text/plain:8bit
for
http://foo/CHANGES.tmp.gzhttp://foo/CHANGES.gz
o fix ipv6 literal command-line parsing.
o setup locale before writing version-message.
New/improved sample files:
* add sample scripts for configuring MinGW version using Cygwin.
New ports:
* none
(it seems to run everywhere, but there are a few possibilities)
Improvements to existing ports:
* UNIX:
o add definition for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS in CF_LARGEFILE,
needed for Solaris 64-bit compiles.
o modify UCdomap.c to work with Solaris iconv and handle
additional encodings:
+ if "TRANSLIT" feature (an extension of glibc)
does not succeed, retry the call to iconv_open
without "TRANSLIT"
+ add check for any MIME name beginning "iso8859",
mapping to "iso-8859"
+ recognize "eucjp" MIME name as alias for "euc-jp"
+ recognize "pck" MIME name as alias for "shift_jis"
+ recognize "ansi-1251" MIME name as alias for "windows-1251"
o modify parsdate.y to convert between EBCDIC/ASCII to work on z/OS
* Linux:
o bug-fixes only
Improvements for maintainability and testing:
* modify definitions in LYStructs.h for union to cast to a
void* rather than a long, to help with 64-bit ports
* fix some mismatched BOOL vs BOOLEAN from compiler warnings
due to dev.13 change to LYStructs.h
* change a few options such as --enable-locale-charset option
to non-experimental
* free leaks of LYLeaks.c, to make it simpler to check it with
a second tool such as valgrind.
* use off_t rather than long for representing file sizes, e.g.,
when used to print progress messages
* use dtd_util to replace most of HTMLDTD.h and HTMLDTD.c with
source generated from the existing tables in those files
* rename variable defined by CF_PATHSP to PATH_SEPARATOR, use
this consistently to ease use in later autoconf versions
As well as security-related changes:
* modify prompt in LYLoadCGI() from 2.8.6dev.15 to always prompt
user (from FEDORA-2008-9597), and modify compiled-in configuration
default for consistency with other lynx.cfg settings to require
that lynx.cfg be set to permit use of lynxcgi scripts.
* modify logic for reading PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP and
PERSONAL_MAILCAP to ensure that they are files that are controlled
only by the user. The default values for these allow lynx to
read configuration information from the user's current directory
at lynx's startup.
* ensure that PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP and PERSONAL_MAILCAP are
absolute pathnames, performing tilde expansion as needed.
Pathnames that are not given in absolute form will be sought
under the user's home directory as if they began with "~/".
* ensure that the configured values for GLOBAL_EXTENSION_MAP
and GLOBAL_MAILCAP are absolute pathnames.
And finally:
* A lot of bug fixes
* A lot of documentation changes.
* A lot of dead code removed
(I guess it is probably not needed in this case, but the changes
to ignore it for the slang option alone are much more effort).
Addresses PR 38284 by Daniel Horecki.
New features (some are compile-time options):
* INFO and Options pages are laid out properly for multibyte locales,
accounting for character widths.
* change configure option default for --enable-justify-elts to true.
Change default for JUSTIFY to "false".
* add PREFERRED_ENCODING to lynx.cfg, along with an options-menu
selection for this, to set "Accept-Encoding:" string
* add PREFERRED_MEDIA_TYPES to lynx.cfg, corresponding to the option for
HTFilterPresentations(). A minimal set of media types is used by
default, though the old behavior can be selected
* add -nonumbers option, which modifies the output of -dump to suppress
the link-numbering
* add -listonly option, which modifies the output of -dump to show only
the list of links
* add -syslog-urls option and lynx.cfg settings (SYSLOG_TEXT,
SYSLOG_REQUESTED_URLS) to allow syslog'ing of URLs to be optional.
This cannot be set from the options menu
* the -version option shows the version of ncurses, curses, etc., from
runtime data when available.
* add -notitle option to suppress title line and following blank line to
maximize screen use for small displays
* add -nomargins option to suppress left/right margins to maximize
screen use for small displays
* add NO_MARGINS and NO_TITLE to lynx.cfg
* add NESTED_TABLES setting to lynx.cfg to allow site override of the
built-in default
* add DEFAULT_COLORS item to lynx.cfg to allow disabling the default
colors feature at runtime, allowing better matching of old color
scheme via a script
* add -stderr option to write error messages when doing a -dump -or
-source. Normally these are written to the status line but that does
not exist when dumping to standard output
* add configure --enable-largefile / --disable-largefile options.
* add --enable-widec configure option to allow building lynx without
wide character support using ncursesw, to accommodate users with older
releases of ncurses
Other enhancements:
* improve SSL support:
* updated README.sslcerts
* update CF_GNUTLS macro to look for -lgnutls-openssl as well as
the older -lgnutls-extra library
* modify HTLoadHTTP() to interpret leading asterisks in common name
fields as wildcards
* suppress OpenSSL URL from version message if it happens to be
built using GNU TLS (or other libraries which happen to define
symbols to pretend they are OpenSSL).
* improve HTML interpretation:
* fix function, which was checking for the absence only of some
nonstandard encodings (8bit, 7bit, binary) rather than for the
presence of the encodings as specified in RFC 2068 (gzip,
compress, etc). This makes lynx able to view a site which puts
the charset as the Content-Type
* add "deflate" to the encoding types which lynx implements. This
consists of several parts
* adapted logic from w3m's inflate.c to construct an internal
"deflate" decompressor. Tested this with
http://carsten.codimi.de/gzip.yaws/
* add "deflate" to the options menu.
* modify logic that builds "Accept-Encoding" value to omit
encodings which have no external decompressor associated.
The effect of this change is to allow lynx to behave as it
did before adding the (possibly incomplete) "inflate"
support.
* add INFLATE_PATH to lynx.cfg, to optionally specify an
external program which can be used to decompress deflated
files. For testing, a shell script using w3m's utility,
e.g., /usr/lib/w3m/inflate, sufficed. NOTE: As currently
implemented, lynx requires the external decompression
programs to be specified even if it can decompress using
library calls.
* use ".zz" for suffix of downloaded (but not inflated)
deflated files, mapped to application/deflate and
application/x-deflate.
* modify source-view toggle to keep the current anchor visible.
Toggling source view may change the line number on which the
anchor is found, requiring some adjustment. This feature is
implemented only for source cached pages
* fixes to source-view of ftp:// and file:// URLs, i.e., eliminate
redundant PRE's, add DOCTYPE and meta tags
* correct parsing of embedded URLs which have parameters but no
path, e.g., base
http://wj55.org/Minutes.php
and embedded
?date_meeting=2004-08-31
* add presentation type for application/xml and text/xml mime types
as per
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20020801
which states that they may be used, though application/xhtml+xml
is the preferred media type
* add presentation type for application/xhtml+xml mime type as per
RFC 3236
* add presentation for text/css, to allow browsing ".css" files
* force a newline in HTML_end_element() after a </pre>, which
causes lines containing only whitespace before the </pre> to
display a new line, rather than putting that whitespace before
text that follows the </pre>
* following a link consisting of a "#" fragment will move the
cursor to the link containing the target rather than simply
ensuring that it is visible
* improvements to character sets and display:
* new message files for localization: rw.po, vi.po
* updated message files for localization: cs.po, da.po, de.po,
et.po, fr.po, hu.po, nl.po, pt_BR.po, sv.po, tr.po
* use puts() rather than printf() in some messages to avoid chance
of "%" in the translation
* modify HTConfirmCookie() to ensure the translator's note is
copied into the lynx.pot file, by adding a gettext("Y/N/A/V")
call after the comment
* improve layout of options-menu and info-page for multibyte
character sets by computing the extent of the labels. This works
only for wide-character curses.
* add ISO-8859-13 and ISO-8859-14 chrtrans tables, revise
ISO-8859-10 based on
http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html
Change display name for ISO-8859-10 to indicate the region
* improve checking if the current character set does not match the
character set inferred from the locale. This reduces the number
of cases where line-drawing in the options menu does not work
* improve recovery when a charset is found that cannot be
translated. Before this change, the charset was not stripped from
the format string, e.g.,
text/html; charset=big5
and since there would be no match for the format, lynx would
offer to simply download the page (if interactive), or refuse to
format (for dumps). Although the content of the page is unusable,
the user can still navigate the page using the links which may be
there
* modify logic for locale_charset configuration variable so it is
not modified simply by saving the .lynxrc while in running in a
non-locale configuration. That does not alter the display charset
used by lynx
* improve workaround for line-drawing characters with
font-switching by checking if the loaded font has line-drawing
characters in the same positions as the terminal description,
rather than simply ignoring line-drawing when the codeset differs
* workaround for codepage support on OS/2 by changing the effect of
unctrl(). Add/use new preferred function use_legacy_coding() to
ncurses which provides the same effect with the wide-character
ncursesw
* improve def7_uni.tbl substitutions for the symbols beginning at
U+2600
* add experimental option --enable-japanese-utf8 for using libiconv
for Japanese and UTF-8
* improvements to color-style:
* change configure script --enable-color-style so it is enabled by
default
* add COLOR_STYLE setting to lynx.cfg
* change default initialization of color-style code when no lss
file is given to simulate the non-color-style code. There are
some visual differences, e.g., links that contain a mixture of
styles will display with mixed colors, but overall the visual
effect matches the non-color-style code well enough to change the
default configuration. If an empty string is given for the lss
filename, this is treated as an empty style file, and lynx will
not use its built-in default color style. To make the behavior
easier to diagnose, lynx will now exit with an error if it cannot
find the lss file.
* improve interaction with user:
* highlight the target and pause for 20 milliseconds when selecting
a link with the mouse
* modify behavior when user attempts to toggle a radiobutton off,
to make the message that one radio button must be selected only
in novice mode
* modify column limits, allowing text to be written to the last
column on the screen. This allows users to view text which is
formatted for 80 columns without the last character of each line
wrapping to the next line
* prompt user, displaying the command that would be executed, to
confirm that it should be. This makes it easier to notice when a
local program would be run by activating a lynxcgi link. This is
not done in advanced mode, since the URL is already visible in
the status line
* modify HTSaveAndExecute() to check first for result from
HTFileSuffix() before choosing between BIN_SUFFIX and
HTML_SUFFIX. This allows the PDF viewer on OS X to get the proper
suffix (.pdf) rather than .bin
* add check for failure to write to disk, e.g., on disk full, and
report error condition via HTAlert()
* modify suggested_filename() to strip bzip2's ".bz2" suffixes as
well as ".zz" suffixes
* modify INFO-page to list the rendered size in bytes if the
Content-Length is not available
* print the contents of image maps, if any, at the end of a dump
* command-line options that toggle or set a boolean now accept
"true" and "false" strings.
* improve interaction with other programs:
* strip special characters such as '%' from parameters passed to
external programs for EXTERNAL mechanism on Windows platform.
This is ifdef'd with WIN_EX
* improve cookie support:
* modify HTConfirmCookie() and statusline() to allow cookie prompt
message in Japanese to not be truncated when using wide-curses
* make the maximum number of cookies configurable in lynx.cfg,
added MAX_COOKIES_DOMAIN, MAX_COOKIES_GLOBAL and
MAX_COOKIES_BUFFER
* improvements to debug/traces:
* use symbol USE_VERTRACE in HTUtils.h to allow makefiles that do
not use the configure script to turn on the equivalent --enable
vertrace feature
* improvements to scripting/logging:
* make "lynx -version" work in the absence of ".cfg" or ".lss"
files
* modify print_wwwfile_to_fd() and print_crawl_to_fd() to ensure
that no trailing blanks are written in a -dump, etc.
* correct parsing of "key 0xNN" lines in command-scripts, had
omitted a "!" to invert a check
* modify initialization so that
cat options.txt | lynx -
will allow interactive use
* other improvements:
* modify logic for -dump so it can dump all pages listed on the
command line
* lynx accepts multiple URLs on the command line; all are added to
G)oto history. Documented this in manpage
* add (ifdef'd with EXP_HTTP_HEADERS) code to display the full text
of the HTTP headers in the INFO page.
* modify treatment of symbolic links for ftp-URLs to show the link
target, as with the local directory editor
* correct sort-order of local directory listing, using the target
of a symbolic link to determine whether it is grouped with files
or directories
* modified mailcap command and testcommand substitutions to provide
for running the testcommand's after program initialization
* read user's ".newsauth" file for news-server authentication
information
* escape "From " when it appears in a page which is mailed, to
avoid confusing mail clients
* add "Anonymous FTP Password" to Options menu, to allow user to
override use of personal email address as the anonymous ftp
password
New/improved sample files:
* add script samples/oldlynx, which gives the non-color-style scheme
using an executable built for color-style
* add scripts/tbl2html.pl, which can be used to generate test pages for
the charsets from src/chrtrans/*.tbl
* add test/special_urls.html
* modify ".lss" files to work equally well on terminals setup with white
text on black background, or the reverse. This also required fixing a
few places in LYsubwindow() and curses_w_style() to make window
backgrounds use the colors given in the ".lss" default- and
normal-colors lines
* make ".lss" example files somewhat readable by modifying parser to
remove blanks from the color description lines and modifying the
example files to use this feature
New ports:
* none
(it seems to run everywhere, but there are a few possibilities)
Improvements to existing ports:
* UNIX:
* improve configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, ensuring that
_POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined with a value.
* revise configure script check whether _POSIX_C_SOURCE should be
defined, taking into account the _POSIX_SOURCE definition
* Linux:
* add codepage 857 (DOSTurkish), since console-tools package
provides a suitable font
* update Linux console font support to use console-tools package.
The configure script checks for consolechars and setfont programs
(must find at least one). The corresponding SETFONT_PATH can be
set in lynx.cfg to provide a choice between the two
* modify configure script to check for Intel compiler 8.0 (and
9.0).
* some others [stripped]
Improvements for maintainability and testing:
* remove macros such as ARGS1, NOPARM which supported K&R compilers
* make ANSI C required, drop support for K&R C.
* add scripts/indent.sh, use this to reindent C source files
* add tags rules to makefile.in's
* modify makefile.in to ensure that scripts are prefixed with $(SHELL),
in case packager has stripped executable permissions from scripts,
e.g., by using CVS
* modify configure script and makefiles to allow cross-compiling
* add --with-system-type option to configure script to simplify testing
the case-statements involving $host_os
* change configure script to put the ".cfg" and ".lss" files by default
in the --sysconfdir, e.g., $prefix/etc, and the help-files in lynx_doc
and lynx_help directories under --datadir, e.g.,
$prefix/share/lynx_doc, $prefix/share/lynx_doc. To obtain the old
behavior, use configure --sysconfdir=/usr/local/lib
--datadir=/usr/local/lib
* add configure options --with-cfg-file and --with-lss-file to allow one
to specify the names and paths of the default configuration and
color-style files
* filter out obsolete URLs from the customizations saved during install
of lynx.cfg
* rename test/iso8859-1.html and test/iso88592.html to
test/iso-8859-1.html and test/isoi-8859-2.html, corresponding to the
proper MIME names to simplify test-scripts
* update test/iso8859-1.html (minor fixes) from
http://www.ramsch.org/martin/uni/fmi-hp/iso8859-1.html
* applied lynx's changes to updated files from ftp.unicode.org to take
advantage of less restrictive copyright
As well as security-related changes:
* eliminate fixed-size buffers in HTrjis() and related functions to
avoid potential buffer overflow in nntp pages
* eliminate fixed-size buffers in LYExpandHostForURL() to guard against
buffer overflow resulting from too-long domain prefix/suffix data from
lynx.cfg
* reduce TRST_MAXROWSPAN and TRST_MAXCOLSPAN to 200, which is more
plausible than 10000 by 1000.
* limit TEXTAREA columns to the screen width, and rows to 3 times the
screen height.
And finally:
* A lot of bug fixes
* A lot of documentation changes.
* A lot of dead code removed
PKGLOCALEDIR and which install their locale files directly under
${PREFIX}/${PKGLOCALEDIR} and sort the PLIST file entries. From now
on, pkgsrc/mk/plist/plist-locale.awk will automatically handle
transforming the PLIST to refer to the correct locale directory.
2005-10-25 (2.8.5rel.4 fixes from 2.8.6dev.14)
* fix error in rel.3 patch (report by Klaus Singvogel)
2005-10-29 (2.8.5rel.5 fixes from 2.8.6dev.15)
* modify LYLoadCGI() to prompt user, displaying the command that would be
executed, to confirm that it should be. This makes it easier to notice when
a local program would be run by activating a lynxcgi link. This is not done
in advanced mode, since the URL is already visible in the status line (report
by vade79, comments by Greg MacManus) -TD
2004-10-17 (2.8.5rel.3 fixes from 2.8.6dev.14)
* eliminate fixed-size buffers in LYExpandHostForURL() to guard against
buffer overflow resulting from too-long domain prefix/suffix data from
lynx.cfg (report by Ulf Harnhammar, CAN-2005-3120) -TD
