[Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.9.0

As of today, current edition of lynx.
Announcement below.
Kare



On Tue, 16 Jan 2024, Thomas Dickey wrote:

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