instead of 
 for output of AATTdisplaymath    . remove border, cellpadding, cellspacing and align attributes.  add    classes and use CSS when needed.    . EPUB output:    . stricter conformance for conformance checkers  
* info    . check for init file under XDG_CONFIG_HOME/texinfo/infokey after    checking ~/.infokey, in accordance with the XDG Base Directory    Specification  
* Distribution    . automake 1.17, autoconf 2.72, gettext 0.22.5, libtool 2.5.3- Update patches to compile for the new version  - texinfo-perl-5.42.patch  - texinfo-zlib.patch- Fix texinfo-zlib.patch  texinfo-zlib.patch had the wrong variable referenced in the error check for  reopening a file.  Furthermore, it could potentially have leaked the memory a  string.  Both are minor bugs and very unlikely to occour
* Mon Jul 14 2025 Dominique Leuenberger - Add texinfo-perl-5.42.patch: Fix syntax to be unambiguous  if (! $str eq \'\') is not really clear; is it    (!$str) eq \'\'  or    !($str eq \'\')  Perl 5.42 rightly flagges this syntax with:    Possible precedence problem between ! and string eq  Assuming !($str eq \'\') was meant, we can rewrite this as  $str ne \'\', which happens to also be used in multiple places  already (sometimes just a few lines further down in the same  files)
* Fri Apr 04 2025 Friedrich Haubensak - add -std=gnu17 to CFLAGS to fix gcc15 compile time error  (flag can be dropped w/ release 7.2)
* Fri Feb 02 2024 Dr. Werner Fink - Update to version 7.1 (18 October 2023)  
* Language  . new generic definition commands, AATTdefblock, AATTdefline and AATTdeftypeline,    for definitions without automatic index entries  . new AATTlinemacro facility eases use of generic definition commands  . new command AATTlink creates plain links (supported output formats only)  . AATTcartouche takes an argument to specify the cartouche title  . you can use the new commands AATTnodedescription and AATTnodedescriptionblock    to give text to be used in menu descriptions in Info and HTML output  
* texi2any  . AATTitemx at the beginning of a AATTtable is now an error, not a warning  . better validity checking of deeply nested commands  . check that AATTset and AATTclear only appear at the start of a line  . warn about missing menu entries even if CHECK_NORMAL_MENU_STRUCTURE is    not set.  you can turn this off by setting CHECK_MISSING_MENU_ENTRY to 0.  . no longer use --enable-encoding and --disable-encoding to determine    whether to output encoded characters (instead of entities or commands)    for HTML, XML, DocBook and LaTeX; instead, use the value of the    OUTPUT_CHARACTERS customization variable.  . stricter checks on input encoding, in particular more warnings and    errors with malformed UTF-8  . support any input file encoding if support exists in the operating    system, not just a selected list of encodings  . resolve an alias referring to another alias at definition time  . internally, use \"source marks\" to keep all Texinfo source information that    is not in the final tree (location of macros, values and included files    expansion, AATTif
* blocks, DEL comment, and AATT protecting end of line on AATTdef
*    lines)  . HTML output:    . format AATTsubentry and index entries with AATTseealso or AATTseeentry in a more    similar way to printed output    . output AATTshortcontents before AATTcontents by default    . omit colons after index entries by default.  this can still be    configured with INDEX_ENTRY_COLON.    . add AATTexample syntax highlighting as a texi2any extension    . no more capitalization of AATTsc argument in HTML Cross-references    . change AATTpoint expansion to U+22C6 in HTML Cross-references    . if a AATTnode is not associated with a sectioning command but is    followed by a heading command not usually associated to nodes    such as AATTheading and this command appears before other formatted    content, the heading command is assumed to supply the node heading.    you can customize this with USE_NEXT_HEADING_FOR_LONE_NODE.  . Info output:    . new variable ASCII_DASHES_AND_QUOTES, on by default,    outputs ASCII characters for literal quote or hyphen characters    in source, rather than UTF-8.  this makes it easier to search    Info files.    . new ASCII_GLYPH variable for using ASCII renditions for glyph    commands (like AATTbullet)    . ASCII_PUNCTUATION still includes the effect of these new variables.    . new variables AUTO_MENU_DESCRIPTION_ALIGN_COLUMN and AUTO_MENU_MAX_WIDTH    control the format of descriptions in generated menus  . XML output:    . place menu leading text and menu separators in elements instead    of attributes  
* texi2dvi  . macro expansion with texi2any requires at least version 5.0 (only    happens with --expand option or with very old texinfo.tex)  
* texinfo.tex  . in AATTcode, ` and \' output by default with backtick and undirected    single quote glyphs in the typewriter font.  you can still configure    this using the AATTcodequoteundirected/AATTcodequotebacktick commands.  . do not insert a space for AATT def line continuation, matching the behavior    of texi2any  . align section titles in table of contents when more than 10 sections  . microtype is off by default, for speed  . page headings generation is no longer linked to the AATTtitlepage command  
* info  . when going Up, position cursor on menu entry for current node  . allow mouse scrolling support regardless of termcap entries.  this    supports some more xterm configurations.  . do not use \"/index\" as a possible file extension for Info files  
* texi2any    . fix performance regression when Perl binary extension (XS) modules    are not being used (e.g. with TEXINFO_XS=omit)  
* info    . further fix of recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII to avoid text    disappearing from nodes    . avoid possible freeze at start of a file with `-v nodeline=pointers\'  
* texi2any    . do not distribute architecture-dependent files    . build fixed on OpenIndiana 11  
* info    . further fix of recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII    . fix check for presence of man pages on Solaris  
* install-info    . fix build by avoiding function name clash on some platforms    . compiler warning re strncat silenced  
* texi2any    . avoid crashes on empty AATTimage argument and other potential crashes    (with \"Can\'t use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference\" message)    . avoid hang on AATTref command inside section command  
* info    . fix recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII when run in C locale  
* js    . index search fixed for new HTML output    . some obsolete files removed from distribution- Port patch texinfo-zlib.patch- Use libzio 1.09 to support compressed \'dir\' data base files
* Sun Mar 26 2023 Andreas Stieger - texinfo 7.0.3:  
* texi2any: fix performance regression when Perl binary    extension (XS) modules are not being used (e.g. with    TEXINFO_XS=omit)  
* info: further fix of recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII to avoid    text disappearing from nodes  
* info: avoid possible freeze at start of a file with    `-v nodeline=pointers\'
* Sat Feb 04 2023 Andreas Stieger - texinfo 7.0.2:  
* texi2any: do not distribute architecture-dependent files  
* info: further fix of recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII  
* install-info: build fixes
* Tue Dec 27 2022 Ludwig Nussel - Replace transitional %usrmerged macro with regular version check (boo#1206798)
* Sun Dec 04 2022 Andreas Stieger - texinfo 7.0.1:  
* texi2any: avoid multiple crashes on empty AATTimage argument and    other conditions  
* avoid hang on AATTref command inside section command  
* info: fix recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII when run in C    locale  
* js: index search fixed for new HTML output
* Tue Nov 15 2022 Dr. Werner Fink - Update to version 7.0 (7 November 2022)  
* texi2any  
* LaTeX added as an output format, selected with --latex  
* EPUB 3 added as an output format, selected with --epub3  
* reform throughout the code in general  
* thorough review of character encoding issues  
* new customization variables involved with character encoding:    INPUT_FILE_NAME_ENCODING, OUTPUT_FILE_NAME_ENCODING,    DOC_ENCODING_FOR_INPUT_FILE_NAME, DOC_ENCODING_FOR_OUTPUT_FILE_NAME,    MESSAGE_ENCODING and COMMAND_LINE_ENCODING  
* warn if full-text commands (AATTref, AATTfootnote, AATTanchor) appear in AATTw  
* new variable NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT  
* IGNORE_BEFORE_SETFILENAME variable removed.  former effect    is now always on.  
* HTML output:  
* use manual_name_html as output directory for split HTML instead of    manual_name or manual_name.html  
* default DOCTYPE declaration changed to plain HTML5 style rather than    HTML4 DTD reference  
* output only the CSS rules that are needed in an output file    . remove CSS_LINES variable and add SHOW_BUILTIN_CSS_RULES  
* (custom CSS can still be output using EXTRA_HEAD)  
* use  tag for the output of AATTt and AATTverb instead of   
* use  for AATTacronym instead of   
* link to table of contents from short table of contents only if a    table of contents is actually output  
* prefix classes from AATTexample arguments with `user-\'  
* percent encode URL in AATTurl/AATTuref, AATTemail, AATTimage and external    manual file  
* new USE_XML_SYNTAX, HTML_ROOT_ELEMENT_ATTRIBUTES and    NO_CUSTOM_HTML_ATTRIBUTE variables can be used to output    valid XHTML  
* systematic addition of classes attribute in HTML elements based on the    Texinfo AATT-command names.  renaming of class attributes to avoid    confusion with AATT-commands formatting and describe the role in the    document rather than the formatting style.  
* COPIABLE_ANCHORS renamed to COPIABLE_LINKS  
* do not add a title by default; SHOW_TITLE or NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT has    to be set  
* USE_TITLEPAGE_FOR_TITLE is now true by default  
* L2H variable removed, replaced by HTML_MATH set to `l2h\'  
* rename OVERVIEW_LINK_TO_TOC to SHORT_TOC_LINK_TO_TOC  
* rename BEFORE_OVERVIEW to BEFORE_SHORT_TOC_LINE  
* rename AFTER_OVERVIEW to AFTER_SHORT_TOC_LINES  
* remove PRE_ABOUT, AFTER_ABOUT, and add PROGRAM_NAME_IN_ABOUT  
* remove KEEP_TOP_EXTERNAL_REF  
* new variables IGNORE_REF_TO_TOP_NODE_UP, CONVERT_TO_LATEX_IN_MATH,    HTMLXREF_MODE and HTMLXREF_FILE  
* DocBook output:  
* do not output Top node or text before the first AATTnode or sectioning    AATT-command.  NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT can be set to false to output Top node    for now.  
* replace AATTdefinfocenlose defined AATT-commands by the argument as-is    to be more consistent with printed output  
* HTML/DocBook output:  
* USE_NUMERIC_ENTITY changed to mean to use numeric entities instead    of named entities.  former effect is now always on.  
* ENABLE_ENCODING_USE_ENTITY variable removed.  former effect is now    always off.  
* Info output  
* quote problematic node names (with :, comma...) by default  
* new customization variable ASCII_PUNCTUATION to use plain ASCII    characters for quotation marks and a few other symbols  
* texinfo.tex  
* `AATTmicrotype on\' uses microtypography in formatting for pdfTeX and LuaTeX  
* do not ignore AATTpart page immediately following Top node  
* do `AATTset txicodevaristt\' to get slanted typewriter for AATTvar in code,    `AATTclear txicodevaristt\' to use slanted, variable-width roman font for    AATTvar everywhere.  flag is AATTset by default, but we may turn this off    in the future.  
* new file doc/texinfo-zh.tex for Texinfo documents in Chinese.    new support file doc/txi-zh.tex for Chinese.  doc/short-sample-zh.texi is    a sample document.  
* info  
* better support for index entries containing parentheses  
* better support for getting bold text etc. when displaying manpages  
* bug fixed where the first index entry in a file could be ignored  
* M-C-f closes as well as opens footnotes window  
* do not crash if run in Brazilian Portuguese locale  
* Language  
* AATTdeftype
* commands use typewriter font in argument list  
* new commands AATTlatex, AATTiflatex, AATTifnotlatex for new LaTeX output format  
* do `AATTset txidefnamenospace\' to omit space after a definition name  
* Other  
* build fixed for glibc 2.34- Delete patch 13a8894fe2.patch as now part of upstream tar ball
* Wed Aug 03 2022 Dr. Werner Fink - In case of an update of package info: do never remove existing  info page from dir file (boo#1201852)
* Fri Jul 29 2022 Dr. Werner Fink - Do lua scripting only once for execute() function
* Wed Jul 27 2022 Dr. Werner Fink - Check for filetrigger lua scriplets if rpm.execute() as function  call is given and used this
* Tue Apr 26 2022 Ferdinand Thiessen - Add 13a8894fe2.patch  
* Fixing AATTheadings: Add missing option value \'single\'.    Resolved regression where gpm could not be build.
* Mon Apr 25 2022 Ferdinand Thiessen - Update to version 6.8  
* new command AATTdisplaymath for formatting of mathematical notation  
* new command AATTexample takes an argument to specify the language  
* Deprecate commands: AATTcenterchap, AATTdefinfoenclose, AATTrefill, AATTinforef  
* new paper size AATTbsixpaper  
* texi2any  
* should be faster as Perl XS parser is enabled by default  
* SHOW_MENU customization variable replaced by FORMAT_MENU.  
* only check menu structure if CHECK_NORMAL_MENU_STRUCTURE    variable is set  
* MathJax support for display of math.  
* JavaScript License Web Labels support  
* Use sectional tables of contents instead of menus by defaut  
* Use section names in links by default  
* CONTENTS_OUTPUT_LOCATION sets location of table of contents  
* Document sections wrapped in 
 elements  
* New variable USE_NODE_DIRECTIONS to use node or section structure    for node directions  
* copiable anchor links for definitions  
* Don\'t add an extra period before file extension given as    an argument to AATTimage if image file is not found  
* info: Support compressed dir files  
* texi2dvi: Stop on first error in input file  
* texinfo.tex:  
* put logical page numbers into PDF\'s (\'page labels\')  
* put chapter numbers in the PDF outline  
* new Finnish translation- Rebased texinfo-zlib.patch
* Mon Feb 21 2022 Dr. Werner Fink - Split locale text-domain to take care of package info- The package makeinfo needs both the locale text-domain of info  and makeinfo
* Fri Feb 18 2022 Dr. Werner Fink - Do not recommend texinfo-lang in package info anymore (boo#1196156)- Rename texinfo-lang to makeinfo-lang as package makeinfo  uses those locale files
* Wed Feb 16 2022 Dr. Werner Fink - The new package texinfo-lang should not include the binaries  with its helper files, therefore recreate texinfo package- Require glibc-locale at build time as otherwise perl falls  always back to C locale
* Thu Feb 10 2022 Stanislav Brabec - Split out texinfo-lang package, so info does not refer to  traslations from texinfo package.