[Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.17

Thu Mar 22 00:52:00 UTC 2018

quite a few upgrades in this latest developers release.
Karen

> The current version of lynx is 2.8.8
>
> It's available at
> 	http://lynx.invisible-island.net/
> 	ftp://invisible-island.net/lynx/
> 2.8.9 Development & patches:
> 	http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/index.html
>
> Files:
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/patches/lynx2.8.9dev.17.patch.gz
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/patches/lynx2.8.9dev.17.patch.gz.asc
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.8.9dev.17.tar.bz2
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.8.9dev.17.tar.bz2.asc
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.8.9dev.17.tar.gz
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.8.9dev.17.tar.gz.asc
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.8.9dev.17.zip
>
> 2018-03-21 (2.8.9dev.17)
> * modify samples/oldlynx.bat to check if Lynx recognizes the -lss option -TD
> * modify samples/*lynx.bat to check for environment variables that Lynx would
>  test for temp-directory, and only if those are absent will the scripts
>  attempt to create a temp-directory -TD
> * modify samples/*lynx.bat to set PATH for executing utility programs -TD
> * remove unused critSec_DNS -TD
> * use EnterCriticalSection in ws_netread rather than InitializeCriticalSection
>  since critSec_READ was initialized in LYMain.c (report by GV) -TD
> * use freeaddrinfo() in one case where free() was used (report by GV) -TD
> * implement "+" item type for gopher protocol (report by James Tomasino) -TD
> * add checks in options-menu in case no color-styles have been defined -TD
> * add Visual Studio project files for 2010, 2012 -TD
> * improve checks for strings which should not be empty -TD
> * check for empty personal-mail-address (report by TG) -TD
> * modify samples/lynx-demo.cfg to use SOURCE_CACHE:memory -TD
> * modify samples/*lynx.bat to use existing TEMP-directory if possible -TD
> * modify windows installer to select directory containing SSL DLLs and copy
>  them into lynx's application directory -TD
> * add oldlynx.bat sample script to windows installer -TD
> * use default lynx.lss color scheme with samples/lynx.bat -TD
> * modify windows installers to use static libraries for pdcurses and slang,
>  because the dll for the latter is much larger than the rest of lynx.
>  Even with this change, lynx.exe is 50% larger when using slang than with
>  pdcurses -TD
> * rename test-package for ".rpm" to "lynx-dev" for consistency with ".deb" -TD
> * improve samples/lynx.bat by using location of script rather than current
>  directory ("Smuggler" loto1992 at inbox.ru).
> * permanently enable MISC_EXP feature -TD
> * remove several obsolete ifdefs: DGUX, DGUX_OLD, HP_TERMINAL,
>  REVERSE_CLEAR_SCREEN_PROBLEM, SHORTENED_RBIND, SLANG_MBCS_HACK, SNAKE -TD
> * improve logic in HTCopy used to limit reads based on content-length to
>  take into account server headers which extend past the first block read
>  (report/test-case by Dick Wesseling) -TD
> * permanently enable EXP_HTTP_HEADERS feature -TD
> * modify color-style hashing to check for collisions (reported by TG, Russell
>  Bell) -TD
> * add PREFERRED_CONTENT_TYPE defaulting to text/plain and options-menu to
>  replace an assumption in HTMIMEConvert that everything is text/html.
>  Since most servers provide a valid Content-Type for HTML, and are more likely
>  to omit it for files lacking a known suffix, defaulting to text/plain is a
>  better choice -TD
> * remove dead-code for OMIT_SCN_KEEPING -TD
> * remove dead/unreachable pretty-source code in HTML.c, noticed because
>  it complicates hashing -TD
> * improve hashing for anchors and styles by using a more suitable hash-table
>  size -TD
> * add a note in lynx.cfg telling how to remove a default key-mapping -TD
> * modify "=" command to make it possible to disable margins for the URL string,
>  by first disabling wrapping using "|" -TD
> * several fixes for Windows version -TH
>  + fix an abnormal terminate when pressing 'd'(download) on no action button.
>  + work around incompatibility in move() between POSIX and Windows.
>    ref: https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/c/FIO10-C.+Take+care+when+using+the+rename%28%29+function
>  + fix limit-check for SJIS which prevented showing a show long title in the
>    title bar on Windows environment.
>  + fix problem with PDCurses when wrapping lines.
>    ref: lynx-dev discussions "Subject: Wrapping line behavior"
>  + fix resizing terminal problem with Windows + PDCurses.
>    This problem occurs only with some combinations of source and destination
>    screen size.
>    For example: 80x25 -> 90x20
>  + including some code clean up
> * improve consistency in help-files discussing line-edit keymaps (prompted by
>  Debian #888391) -TD
> * additional fixes to work with LibreSSL on OpenBSD 6.2 -TD
> * build-fixes for OpenSSL 1.1.0 versus 1.0.0 (patch by Quentin Minster).
> * modify configure script to make a quirk of NetBSD's make-program less
>  noticeable -TD
> * modify configure script to work around pkgsrc's misconfiguration of shared
>  libraries -TD
> * modify po/makefile.inn to ensure the temporary files have distinct names
>  to avoid problem with "make -j8" (Debian #890811).
> * update makefile/batch-scripts to allow building with newer Visual Studio
>  versions, e.g., 2010, 2012, so that a 64-bit executable can be built -TD
> * repair link in lynx_help_main.html to HTML 3.2 documentation
>  (Savannah #47803).
> * update eo.po, fr.po from
>    http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx
> * improved several configure macros:
>  CF_BUILD_CC, CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, CF_CURSES_FUNCS, CF_CURSES_LIBS,
>  CF_NCURSES_CONFIG -D
> * updated ftp-site url -TD
> * update config.guess (2018-01-26), config.sub (2018-01-15)
>
> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
> https://invisible-island.net
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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