ANN: lynx2.9.0

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:37:34 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
The current version of lynx is 2.9.0

It's available at
	https://lynx.invisible-island.net/
	https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/
Development & patches:
	https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/index.html

Files:
  https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/patches/lynx2.9.0.patch.gz
  https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/patches/lynx2.9.0.patch.gz.asc
  https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0.tar.bz2
  https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0.tar.bz2.asc
  https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0.tar.gz
  https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0.tar.gz.asc
  https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0.zip

2024-01-15 (2.9.0)
* change version of OpenSSL used in Windows installers to 3.x and 1.1.1x,
  for new/old respectively -TD
* fixes for UBSAN/ASAN issues with clang on Windows -GV
* modify install-doc rule to use relative path for symbolic links -TD
* add support for gopher's hURL functionality (patch by Viatrix).
* allow ^G interrupt to end read from a stalled connection without exiting
  Lynx (Debian #1033423) -TD
* allow the ^S keymap to be disabled in the configuration file, e.g.,
    KEYMAP:^S:UNMAPPED
  (report by TG) -TD
* repair docs/OS-390.announce and docs/README.jp -TD
* make the test-files non-empty, to appease some packaging tools -TD
* check for getpwuid(), use in preference to deprecated cuserid() -TD
* modify curses initialization to permit ^S built-in keymap to work without
  needing external stty changes -TD
* correct ifdef for LYmsec_delay() (report by Alexander Arkhipov) -TD
* add a NUL after "/" in the SGML parser when the next character is ">", to
  make PRETTYSRC view display correctly (report by "Dima") -TD
* trim some obsolete style code for NeXT -TD
* improve responsiveness with respect to SIGWINCH (report by Mark Zaharov) -TD
* improve check for MAX_URI_SIZE -TD
* improve check for UTF-8 character encoding in XML Text Declaration (report by
  Lennart Jablonka) -TD
* fix for decoding utf-8 in CDATA sections (patch by Hiltjo Posthuma)
* treat HTTP 308 permanently redirected the same as HTTP 301 permanently moved
  (Debian #1041686).
* formatting fixes for manpage (Debian #1037353).
* change defaults in configure script to use compression -TD
* modify HTChunkPutb2() to avoid passing a zero-size or null pointer to
  memcpy() -TD
* correct loop in fill_addrinfo() which adds sizes of struct addrinfo's found
  in getaddrinfo() call; the 2.8.8dev.15 change did not update the pointer to
  the struct addrinfo's (Redhat #2185402) -TD
* modify configure script to reduce implicit-function warnings -TD
* add viewport meta-tag to documentation/test files -TD
* update config.guess (2023-08-22), config.sub (2023-09-15)
* update ro.po from
    http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
https://invisible-island.net
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