[Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.9.0dev.1

[Thomas Dickey]

The current version of lynx is 2.8.9

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

Files:
        ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/patches/lynx2.9.0dev.1.patch.gz
        ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/patches/lynx2.9.0dev.1.patch.gz.asc
        ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0dev.1.tar.bz2
        ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0dev.1.tar.bz2.asc
        ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0dev.1.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0dev.1.tar.gz.asc
        ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0dev.1.zip

2019-01-27 (2.9.0dev.1)
* add/adapt changes from Keith Bowes' github:
  * updated eo.po
  * modify GridText to make page/line percentages translatable
  + modify HTInit.c to make it possible to view the source of XHTML documents
  + modify def7_uni.tbl adding ch, gh, hh, jh, sh to replace some single-chars
* implement features of RFC 6265 (prompted by discussion on mailing list) -TD
  * recognize but ignore "HttpOnly" attribute
  * add COOKIE_VERSION to lynx.cfg, which can be used to specify older cookie
    RFC; provide special cases for RFCs 2109, 2965 and 6265.
  * add selection for cookie version in options menu.
* add dummy "check" rule to makefile.in to help with testing Arch package -TD
* modify tidy_tls.c to work with TLS 1.3 when built with gnutls 3.6.5 or later
  (patch by Andreas Metzler).
* add to experimental Japanese UTF-8 feature -KH
  + fix JIS X 0201 Katakana conversion from Shift_JIS/EUC-JP to UTF-8.
    http://www1.interq.or.jp/~deton/lynx-sjisjisx0201/
  + add conversion from Japanese ISO-2022-JP html to UTF-8 display_charset.
    http://www1.interq.or.jp/~deton/lynx-jis2utf8/
* add configure option for experimental feature "--enable-wcwidth-support" -TD
* use/adapt wcwidth from xterm -TD
* add support for displaying double-cell characters -KH
  Screen capture:
    http://www1.interq.or.jp/~deton/lynx-wcwidth/
  Known issues:
  * Highlight is incorrect on selecting wrapped long wide-char link text.
  * Whereis highlight position is incorrect after wide-char text.
  * Does not support treating double-width for East Asian Ambiguous Width
    characters (e.g., xterm -cjk_width).
    TODO:
      * Use mk_wcwidth_cjk() in http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c
      * Add cjk_width option to lynx
* modify generated HTML when processing -source option for a Gopher menu to
  convert literal "<", "&", and ">" to HTML named entities (report/testcase by
  Zachary Lee Andrews) -TD
* build-fix when persistent cookies are disabled (report by Juan Manuel
  Guerrero) -TD
* memory-leak and dead-code fixes from static analysis (patch by Kamil Dudka).
* restore whitespace in info-page omitted in 2.8.9dev.17, useful for screen
  readers (report by Dan Dunfee) -Chuck Martin
* improve error-checks in parsdate.y (prompted by patch by TH) -TD
* compiler-warning fixes for gcc8 and VS2015 -TD
* fix overlooked "2.8.9" in README -Larry Hynes

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
https://invisible-island.net
ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net

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