| 12/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.23 is the "race conditions bite" release. The |
| main reason for this release is the less-than-optimal |
| fix for the security issue in nano with following symbolic |
| links. Hopefully this will fix the probelm permanently. |
| The --nofollow option also works again for those who |
| are real security nuts. There are also some display and |
| search fixes, and the --disable-spell function was renamed |
| to --disable-speller to be in line with nano and pico's |
| "speller" term. |
| |
| 12/02/2000 - Nano 0.9.22 is released, with many more changes and |
| additions than imaginable. The most important change is |
| a fix for unsafe handling of symbolic links which could |
| lead to symlink attacks if nano were to exit because |
| of an error or signal. Also there are better checks when |
| saving files. |
| As for new features, username tab completion is |
| now working well, the internal spell checker code has been |
| tweaked, you can now unjustify if you don't like how the |
| justify formatted your text, and there are more |
| options for configure, including --disable-spell and |
| --disable-justify and --enable-extra (for those who like |
| surprises). All in all, a whole lot of changes in |
| a little over a week. |
| |
| 11/23/2000 - Happy Thanksgiving! Nano 0.9.21 is our "last version was |
| a big turkey" release. It fixes several bugs introduced |
| by the previous version, as well as a few long- |
| standing display bugs. All 0.9.20 users are strongly |
| encouraged to upgrade to this release. |
| |
| 11/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.20 is finally out the door. Probably the biggest |
| change is the brand new way nano displays previous search |
| and replace strings (they are now editable!) This is a |
| break from Pico's (inconsistent) interface, so if you |
| don't like the new way, "Pico" mode (-p on the command |
| line or Meta-P within nano) still works the "old" |
| way. |
| Other new features include being able to deal with |
| search strings of any length, a new internal spell feature |
| (courtesy of Mr. Rocco Corsi) and tab completion when |
| reading in or writing out files! There's also the usual |
| billion or so bug fixes. Feedback on this release is |
| welcome because so much much has changed, especially with |
| the previous string display in search and replace. Email |
| -> nano@nano-editor.org <-. If you like something, don't |
| like something, or just want to order a pizza, let us know! |
| |
| 10/02/2000 - Nano 0.9.19 is the "Chris is getting married in less than |
| a week and needs a distraction" release. There are only |
| a few actual code changes, mainly portability and compiler |
| warning fixes. Nano now also supports PDCurses, which |
| enables easily-built nano executables for Windows NT |
| and 95/98 for the brave. The official nano site has |
| changed (again) as well, check out www.nano-editor.org for |
| all the latest nano schtuff. |
| |
| 09/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.18 is unleashed. It has some new keyboard |
| handling code, cygwin support out of the box, and |
| a more portable handler for the NOHELP toggle. There |
| is also a fix for a somewhat serious bug whereby trying |
| to insert a directory instead of a normal file would |
| destroy the contents of the editor. A must-see. Four |
| stars. |
| |
| 09/04/2000 - Nano 0.9.17, the Labor Day release, is released after a |
| quiet spell (almost an entire month since last release!) |
| New features include better (not yet perfect) binary |
| display support and toggle support for most of the program |
| flags (M-c, M-i, M-z, M-x, M-p, M-w, M-m, M-k and M-e for |
| -c, -i, -x, -p, -w, -k, and -R). |
| |
| 08/09/2000 - Nano 0.9.16, after some struggling, is release. This release |
| should fix a few of the holes that 0.9.15 dug. The |
| "cutting text on the first line" bug is fixed, as is the |
| "cutting text on the last line" bug. Nice symmetry there |
| huh? Also the --tabsize argument should now work as well |
| as by using -T. |
| |
| 08/03/2000 - Nano 0.9.15 is the "I cant think of a release description" |
| release. There are the usual gala of display bugfixes, |
| a for the the nasty bug in -k mode that could create a |
| loop in the file being edited, and some other code |
| cleanup. Also, the -T option should now work regardless |
| of the curses library used. Yay. |
| |
| 07/27/2000 - Nano 0.9.14 is officially the "13 is so unlucky it should |
| be skipped as a version number" release. One typo |
| caused unending problems (calling nano with either -t or |
| -k caused both flags to be used). The -k code is also now |
| closer in functionality to Pico's -k mode, please |
| note that this code is not finished yet. Working on this |
| code has made me realize that there is not enough |
| abstraction in the code, and I will be working on that |
| for the next release. Until then, have fun with this |
| version. |
| |
| 07/23/2000 - Nano 0.9.13 has a few new bits and bobs, most notably the |
| -k option from Pico (cut to end of line). The majority |
| of changes in this release are bugfixes however, including |
| the usual display fixes and fixes for writing to symbolic |
| links and un-writeable files. Barring any other major |
| changes, this should be the feature set for nano 1.0, |
| whenever it might be released =-) |
| |
| 07/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.12 (The "lucky day" release) is bursting with new |
| features, bug fixes, and yummy fruit flavor. For |
| changes, the alternate replace keystroke ^W^T is now |
| ^W^R to be compatible with later version of Pico. |
| ^W^T is now goto line, again for Pico compatibility. |
| As for new features, the wonderful/hated magic line |
| code has returned with a vengeance! Also, regular |
| expression searches and replaces have been incorporated |
| via the -R flag. And of course there are the usual |
| helping of display and other bug fixes to top it all |
| off. |
| |
| 06/20/2000 - Nano 0.9.11 presents drastic rewrites of the most buggy |
| routines in the program, specifically the wrapping code |
| and almost all of the display routines. There are many |
| improvements and bugfixes to the display subsystem in |
| general, but there may be bugs lurking yet. Also, after |
| many MANY requests, there is now an option to set the |
| displayed tab width (-T, --tabsize). Note that |
| this function just changes the way tabs LOOK in the |
| editor, the tabs you input are still real tabs of normal |
| width (usually 8 characters); nano just makes them look |
| smaller or bigger whlie in the editor. New in the |
| translation department is an indonesian translation (id). |
| |
| 06/06/2000 - Nano 0.9.10 is primarily a bugfix for the loss of SIGINT when |
| using "run and terminate" flags (for example, --help). |
| There are also some minor documentation updates. This |
| version of nano is the most stable in quite some time, and |
| is likely to be the most stable for awhile. Users are |
| encouraged to upgrade to this version. |
| |
| 05/31/2000 - Nano 0.9.9 introduces much better working i18n support, |
| more portability, and a ton of bugfixes. While |
| nano is not likely anywhere near 1.0 in terms of |
| code quality, it gets a quantum leap closer with this |
| release. |
| |
| 05/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.8 (the 'what broke now?' release) should fix |
| the resize crash people have been experiencing. It also |
| offers a new input method that should allow nano to do |
| things the right way (like ^S, ^Q, custom suspend keys) |
| and hopefully wont break with non-US keyboards. There |
| are also the obligatory display fixes and speedups. Have |
| fun with it. |
| |
| 05/14/2000 - Nano 0.9.7 (the Mother's Day release) continues in the long |
| line of display fixes, and also fixes the broken symlink |
| behavior (i.e. symlinks weren't being followed by |
| default). Hopefully all major bugs can be worked out soon |
| and we can have a 1.0 release before the end of the year, |
| but who knows. |
| |
| 05/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.6 cleans up a lot of the display bugs that 0.9.5 |
| uncovered. There are improvements (and some remaining |
| segfaults) in the wrapping code, and even more |
| display optimizations. I would still say 0.9.4 or 0.9.2 |
| are the most stable versions of nano to date, but this one |
| may not be too bad =-) |
| |
| 05/01/2000 - Nano 0.9.5 attempts to speed up the display of text |
| to be at least somewhat reasonable. Much |
| code profiling has been done to reduce the |
| rediculous number of redundant display updates. This |
| will probably expose a lot of bugs that can then be |
| fixed, so this release is probably not for the faint |
| of heart. For anyone curious, I would call nano 0.9.2 |
| the most stable version recently, so use that if you're |
| not particularly concerned with being on the bleeding |
| edge. |
| |
| 04/25/2000 - Nano 0.9.4 fixes some problems in 0.9.3 with the last |
| line code and related segfaults. It also now has |
| much better handling for 8-bit characters. The |
| --enable-tiny code also produces a smaller executable. |
| |
| 04/19/2000 - Nano 0.9.3 is officially the "Micro$oft" release. It |
| underscores the recent problem of bugfixes introducing |
| more bugs than they fix. The most important change |
| to this version of nano is the removal of the "magic |
| line". You will no longer see a blank line at the end of |
| the file. If you want a new line at the end of your file, |
| you'll have to hit enter to get one. |
| |
| NOTE: THIS BREAKS COMPATIBILITY WITH PICO. Unfortunately, |
| this feature has been causing many many problems with nano |
| so it is being removed for the time being, and perhaps |
| indefinitely. |
| |
| Other new stuff includes a --emable-tiny option to make |
| nano ultra small (disabling i18n, detailed help and the |
| marker and mouse code), and --with-slang to use the |
| slang libraries instead of ncurses. |
| |
| 04/15/2000 - Nano 0.9.2 just fixes the serious segfault problem if |
| nano is invoked any way other than using the absolute |
| path. The bug was in the new code for checking whether |
| nano is invoked as pico. |
| |
| 04/14/2000 - 0.9.1 has some more Pico compatibility built-in. The |
| option to switch to/from Search and Search/Replace |
| (^T) is now available, and nano now displays the |
| more Pico-like shortcut list when invoked as 'pico' |
| (i.e. if pico is a symlink to nano). There is an |
| important change to the handling of symbolic links |
| as well. Now, nano does the "correct" thing and |
| automatically writes to the object of the symlink, |
| rather than replace the symlink with the updated file. |
| This behavior is still available with the --nofollow |
| or -l flags. |
| Other new things include a fix for the infamous |
| "recursive replace" bug, and more bugfixes in the wrapping |
| code. |
| |
| 04/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.0 has some updates, new language support and |
| a much better refresh setup (It's still not great, but...) |
| There should also be more stabillity editing long lines, |
| as there was a stupid mistake in the update_line |
| call. Silly me =) |
| |
| 03/22/2000 - Nano 0.8.9 is basically just a bugfix release of 0.8.8 |
| to reflect the current stagnant status of the project. |
| Most things work, the rest doesn't doesn't work because |
| (a) I can't fix it or I would have already done so, and |
| (b) the amount of patches I'm receiving right now is quite |
| negligible. Forrunately this release marks the first |
| release since I have acquired ownership of the nano pages |
| on SourceForge. Here's hoping SF will get us some more |
| visibilitiy, translators and patches. |
| |
| 03/12/2000 - After a hiatus, I have finally moved (not unpacked though) |
| to my new home into albany. Thus I should now have more |
| time to work on nano. Nano 0.8.8, the "dear god what |
| broke this time?" release, incorporates patches for both |
| i18n and many bugfixes. It is VERY likely something broke |
| this version, and it's likely I didn't even apply the i18n |
| stuff properly, so *it* may not even work. |
| |
| I would like to announce that I'm going to need |
| translations soonish, so if you are fluent in other |
| languages than english (or even better, if your native |
| language is not english) and you would like to submit a |
| translation file to me, please feel free to do so. If you |
| do, I will list your name and email in the AUTHORS file as |
| the maintainer of the .po file, and from then on it is |
| yours to take care of and keep up to date. |
| |
| 03/01/2000 - Well, to continue my trend of going back on my previous |
| release's comments, nano 0.8.7 is released. The crashing |
| behavior was still occuring, and this most recent fix also |
| fixes some other wrapping problems, so here you go. |
| There may be another relase soon, there may not be, is |
| that vague enough? =) |
| |
| 02/25/2000 - More minor bugfixes in 0.8.6, the bizarre behavior at the end |
| of a page has ceased, thankfully. I'm also moving next |
| weekend, so don't be shocked if you don't see a new |
| version of nano next week =-) |
| |
| 02/11/2000 - Okay, here we go again. Aside from a few minor fixes and |
| some under-the-hood changes, you won't notice much |
| different in this version of nano. I haven't gotten much |
| feedback on the help feature, is it simply amazing or does |
| no one care? Write and let me know! =) |
| |
| 02/08/2000 - Nano 0.8.3 marks the first time in a long time that there has |
| been more than three days since the last release. New |
| features include an initial help mode (YAY!), hopefully |
| much more support for i18n out of the box, and a flag |
| for more Pico compatibility in the shortcut lists |
| displayed. This release also marks the new nano |
| distribution site, http://www.asty.org/nano and email |
| address nano@asty.org for bugs, etc. |
| |
| 02/02/2000 - Okay, I hate to go back on what I said in the last release, |
| but I may be changing jobs very soon. I will release |
| version 0.8.2 as is (no i18n, no help menu (yet). I |
| expect things to settle down by the end of next week, and |
| then I can try to start on the i18n support and help menu, |
| look for these new features in version 0.8.5 to 0.9.0. |
| |
| 01/28/2000 - Nano 0.8.1 marks our first official step toward |
| internationaliation (i18n) and the help system (^G). I |
| will be merging in Jordi's patches for initial i18n in the |
| next version, and will implement the help system with |
| i18n built into it shortly after that. Please don't |
| hesitate to send bug reports, as long as you're sure the |
| fault lies with nano =-). |
| |
| 01/25/2000 - Nano 0.8.0 is officially the 'let's try and be at least a |
| little portable, mmmmkay?' release. There are many |
| portability checks and fixes, many thanks to Andy Kahn for |
| his patches. I removed the broken do_spell behavior with |
| the 'spell' program, for now we only try to call 'ispell' |
| until I write a better method to handle the output of the |
| normal 'spell' command. |
| |
| 01/24/2000 - Nano 0.7.9 features many new features. Among them are a |
| new autoindent feature (-i, --autoondent), tempfile |
| flag like Pico's -t flag (-t, --tempfile), and preliminary |
| spelling program support. The spelling function tries |
| to run 'spell' and then 'ispell' in that order, but you |
| can specify another spelling program with -s or --speller. |
| |
| 01/17/00 - Nano 0.7.7 is officially the 'way too much stuff changed this |
| release' release. It's the busy time at work for me, so |
| please don't get offended if your patch doesn't get |
| included in the next immediate version of nano. I'm sure |
| all the changes in this release will cause a few bugs, so |
| 0.7.8 will primarily be about fixing those bugs. |
| |
| Things added this release include resizeability (kinda), |
| new -x and -c flags (see nano -h for help), long command |
| line flag support, and the usual array of bugfixes. |
| |
| 01/15/00 - Nano 0.7.6 is officially the 'lightning' release. It now loads |
| large files much faster than previous versions, and is |
| even much faster than Pico or vi in some rather |
| rudimentary tests. Many thanks to Adam Rogoyski for the |
| read_byte patch! |
| |
| 01/09/00 - As of this version (0.7.4), TIP has officially been renamed |
| to nano. The new homepage is at |
| http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/astyanax/nano. Please |
| update your bookmarks, tell your friends, and all that |
| jazz. |
| |
| $Id$ |