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Changelog for lynx-2.9.3-lp160.97.2.x86_64.rpm :

* Tue Jun 02 2026 Petr Gajdos - version update to 2.9.3
* correct position of whereis highlighting in wrapped lines, e.g., in source view (report by Rajeev V Pillai) -TD
* add option -fail_on_alert (WaitronCharm)
* review manpage, adding default values for most boolean options -TD
* implement formaction attribute for button and input tags in forms (report by Henning Haeske) -TD
* add a null pointer check to MakeFormAction (Debian #1119084) -TD
* do not report the case of a SELECT tag not within a FORM as Bad HTML (report by Jindrich Kolorenc) -TD
* update wcwidth from xterm -TD
* fix some inconsistencies in display of zero-width Unicode values (report by Russell Bell) -TD
* change ifdef\'s for configuring compression encodings to require both the library and the related command-line tool to ensure that Accept-Encoding will work consistently for downloads (report by Riku Virtanen) -TD
* increase the limit for color-style changes per line to work with pages such as https://nano-editor.org/ (report by Rajeev V Pillai) -TD
* add configure option --with-man2html, to help with generating html file from the manpage -TD
* modify --enable-locale-charset option to be enabled by default for ncurses, and change the compiled-in default for the corresponding option to true, for ncurses -TD
* change default for --enable-wcwidth-support to enabled if built with wide character ncurses -TD
* document link rel=\"author\" in user\'s guide, use instead of link rev=\"made\" in samples and documentation, cf: 2.8.7dev.11 -TD
* use plink.sh script to trim unnecessary libraries when linking -TD
* remove redundant configure macros -TD
* remove --enable-gnutls-compat configure option -TD
* remove --with-nss-compat configure option -TD see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Nss_compat_ossl
* modify HTTPS connection to retry with different versions of SSL and TLS (patch by Nate Choe)
* spelling fixes (Eric Lindblad)
* fix typos in user guide (patch by David Apps)
* correct parsing of named-entity, accepting \".\", \":\", \"_\", \"-\" -TD
* update src/chrtrans/entities.h using https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/ (report by Brian Inglis) -TD
* review/update copyright/licenses for test-package. add conditional macros for LY_TEST_FMTS to help check for format mismatch -TD
* correct sprintf-format used for gopher telnet connections -Ben Collver
* fix stricter gcc15 warnings -TD
* update config.guess (2024-07-28), config.sub (2024-06-03)
* update nl.po, add ka.po, kab.po from http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx
* add support for zstd encoding / compression (patch by Steffen Nurpmeso).
* changes to configure script: + improve file-globbing checks, e.g., for MingW + add option --enable-arc4random, normally enabled, to accommodate mawk\'s use of the CF_SRAND macro -TD + AM_WITH_NLS - don\'t define IGNOTE_MSGFMT_HACK on the command-line because that goes into the \".pc\" and \"
*-config\" files. Replace this by a check which can define HAVE__NL_MSG_CAT_CNTR, which is more informative -- should only occur with GNU gettext -TD + CF_BUILD_CC - revert build-fix for PDCurses, because it interferes with other scripts -TD + CF_CURSES_FUNCS - modify to work with autoheader (Debian #1071581) + CF__INTL_BODY - replace ifdef for _nc_msg_cat_cntr -TD
* update Debian test-package for renamed test-package of ncurses -TD
* modify mailcap \"test=\" handling to redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null (Debian #1072504) -TD
* implement \"%t\" substitution for mailcap -TD
* improve configure check for SOCKS library -TD- modified patches
* lynx-default-image-viewer.patch (refreshed)
* Wed Sep 18 2024 junknotAATTgmail.com- Change `Requires: feh` to `Suggests: feh`
* Fri Aug 30 2024 pgajdosAATTsuse.com- uses feh as the default image viewer - lynx-enable_xli.patch moved to lynx-default-image-viewer.patch
* Wed Aug 28 2024 Michael Gorse - version update to 2.9.2 2024-05-31 (2.9.2)
* modify makefile.in install-help to only remove files, leaving existing directories and symbolic links -TD
* in POSIX environments, check paths for external programs to ensure that they are executable, non-empty files -TD
* adapt special case of gzip decompression in 2.8.9dev.12 to brotli, to handle downloads from websites which support \"br\" (report by Rajeev V Pillai) -TD
* updated configure macro CF_ANSI_CC_C, to reset flags on test-failure, to keep options from accumulating. 2024-04-15 (2.9.1)
* add samples/mhtml-tool, from https://github.com/ThomasDickey/mhtml-tool which can use Lynx to display an \"mhtml\" file, e.g., foo.mht by mhtml-tool -e lynx foo.mht
* add --with-libintl-prefix configure option (from patch for tin by Urs JanBen) -TD
* improve bookmark file-updates, allowing for users to add HTML markup (report by TG) -TD
* remove obsolete option --with-included-gettext -TD
* override $BUILD_CPPFLAGS and $BUILD_LIBS when not cross-compiling, to help build Lynx with PDCurses -TD
* re-order configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to reduce compiler warnings with gcc 14 -TD
* fixes for saving a UTF-8 bookmark title -KH + correct comparison of Windows codepage values when setting DisplayCharsetMatchLocale, to handle UTF-8 + reset the internal state of UCTransToUni() before using it for bookmark title check.
* update/cleanup test-packages -TD
* correct logic in HTMLGen.c where XMP was not treated as a preformatted style, causing NNTP headers to be formatted (report by Marco Moock) -TD
* fix special case of main status line on a page without links, broken by fix for UBSAN/ASAN issue -TG
* Wed Feb 14 2024 pgajdosAATTsuse.com- version update to 2.9.0 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 2023-01-08 (2.9.0dev.12)
* add a rewind() call before reading existing bookmark file opened for append with read/write, to ensure that the file-position is at the beginning of the file (report by Klatt Volkmar) -TD
* improve compiler-warnings in configure script checks -TD
* fix a few ifdef\'ing problems (prompted by discussion with Klatt Volkmar) -TD
* fix spelling errors found with codespell (report by Jens Schleusener) -TD
* update eo.po from http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx 2022-12-28 (2.9.0dev.11)
* update ncurses/lynx homepage URLs to deprecate ftp -TD
* modify configure script to reduce implicit-function warnings (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
* update configure script to work around regression in grep 3.8 -TD
* add some consistency-checks to dtd_util to make it easier to use -TD
* improve formatting of bookmark file, e.g., to fix warnings by tidy -TD
* correct workaround for asan2 report of overlapping strcpy (report by KH) -TD
* amend fix for Debian #738121; URL-encoded \"?\" in HTFile.c corresponds to an actual \"?\" in a file path (report by TG) -TD
* before calling delscreen, delete the private working windows in case delwin invalidates those (Debian #1015756) -TD
* add presentation type for xhtml, related state information to better handle things such as \"