Chris Allegretta | 9faa3f1 | 2001-01-18 04:37:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | 01/17/2001 - Nano 0.9.99-pre1 is released. This is the first pre-1.0 |
| 2 | release of nano, and is also the first release since the |
| 3 | code freeze for nano 1.0. Don't expect (or request) any |
| 4 | new features between now and nano 1.0, only bugfixes, |
| 5 | optimizations and doc/translation updates. For fixes, a |
| 6 | nasty segfault when trying to insert one's home directory |
| 7 | (~), some checks for the NumLock key making the keypad |
| 8 | go awry, window size sanity checks, many autoconf fixes, |
| 9 | and support for the KDE konsole keypad layout. Have fun. |
| 10 | |
Chris Allegretta | 1699144 | 2001-01-07 22:06:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | 01/07/2001 - Nano 0.9.25 is the "Just one more feature I swear!" release. |
| 12 | It includes one new feature that Pico has had forever, a |
| 13 | built-in file browser. Since not everyone may want this |
| 14 | option, there is a --disable-browser option to the |
| 15 | configure script as well. Other changes include slightly |
| 16 | different keypad handling, and a bugfix for crashes when |
| 17 | tab completion in certain instances. Have fun and Happy |
| 18 | New Year! |
| 19 | |
Chris Allegretta | 66149e7 | 2000-12-19 02:51:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | 12/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.24 is released. This versions contains the last of |
| 21 | the security fixes for writing files, as well as for a |
| 22 | nasty segfault when nano is unable to open a file for |
| 23 | reading, among other fixes. Nano also now cowardly |
| 24 | refuses to open device files, to stop silly things like |
| 25 | trying to open /dev/zero. New features include being |
| 26 | Able to use Meta-Meta-<key> as Control-<key>, better |
| 27 | HURD support, and some new flags have been added for Pico |
| 28 | compatibility. Upgrading to this version is highly |
| 29 | recommended. |
| 30 | |
Chris Allegretta | 8816760 | 2000-12-09 00:07:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | 12/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.23 is the "race conditions bite" release. The |
| 32 | main reason for this release is the less-than-optimal |
| 33 | fix for the security issue in nano with following symbolic |
| 34 | links. Hopefully this will fix the probelm permanently. |
| 35 | The --nofollow option also works again for those who |
| 36 | are real security nuts. There are also some display and |
| 37 | search fixes, and the --disable-spell function was renamed |
| 38 | to --disable-speller to be in line with nano and pico's |
| 39 | "speller" term. |
| 40 | |
Chris Allegretta | ac139dd | 2000-12-02 21:31:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | 12/02/2000 - Nano 0.9.22 is released, with many more changes and |
| 42 | additions than imaginable. The most important change is |
| 43 | a fix for unsafe handling of symbolic links which could |
| 44 | lead to symlink attacks if nano were to exit because |
| 45 | of an error or signal. Also there are better checks when |
| 46 | saving files. |
| 47 | As for new features, username tab completion is |
| 48 | now working well, the internal spell checker code has been |
| 49 | tweaked, you can now unjustify if you don't like how the |
| 50 | justify formatted your text, and there are more |
| 51 | options for configure, including --disable-spell and |
Chris Allegretta | 9ee2a0d | 2000-12-02 21:50:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | --disable-justify and --enable-extra (for those who like |
| 53 | surprises). All in all, a whole lot of changes in |
Chris Allegretta | ac139dd | 2000-12-02 21:31:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | a little over a week. |
| 55 | |
Chris Allegretta | 71366cd | 2000-11-23 21:04:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | 11/23/2000 - Happy Thanksgiving! Nano 0.9.21 is our "last version was |
| 57 | a big turkey" release. It fixes several bugs introduced |
| 58 | by the previous version, as well as a few long- |
| 59 | standing display bugs. All 0.9.20 users are strongly |
| 60 | encouraged to upgrade to this release. |
| 61 | |
| 62 | 11/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.20 is finally out the door. Probably the biggest |
Chris Allegretta | 44b52ca | 2000-11-18 16:46:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | change is the brand new way nano displays previous search |
| 64 | and replace strings (they are now editable!) This is a |
| 65 | break from Pico's (inconsistent) interface, so if you |
| 66 | don't like the new way, "Pico" mode (-p on the command |
| 67 | line or Meta-P within nano) still works the "old" |
| 68 | way. |
| 69 | Other new features include being able to deal with |
| 70 | search strings of any length, a new internal spell feature |
| 71 | (courtesy of Mr. Rocco Corsi) and tab completion when |
| 72 | reading in or writing out files! There's also the usual |
| 73 | billion or so bug fixes. Feedback on this release is |
| 74 | welcome because so much much has changed, especially with |
| 75 | the previous string display in search and replace. Email |
| 76 | -> nano@nano-editor.org <-. If you like something, don't |
| 77 | like something, or just want to order a pizza, let us know! |
| 78 | |
Chris Allegretta | 07e97d6 | 2000-10-03 01:52:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | 10/02/2000 - Nano 0.9.19 is the "Chris is getting married in less than |
| 80 | a week and needs a distraction" release. There are only |
| 81 | a few actual code changes, mainly portability and compiler |
| 82 | warning fixes. Nano now also supports PDCurses, which |
| 83 | enables easily-built nano executables for Windows NT |
| 84 | and 95/98 for the brave. The official nano site has |
| 85 | changed (again) as well, check out www.nano-editor.org for |
| 86 | all the latest nano schtuff. |
| 87 | |
Chris Allegretta | 629edad | 2000-09-19 00:27:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 88 | 09/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.18 is unleashed. It has some new keyboard |
| 89 | handling code, cygwin support out of the box, and |
| 90 | a more portable handler for the NOHELP toggle. There |
| 91 | is also a fix for a somewhat serious bug whereby trying |
| 92 | to insert a directory instead of a normal file would |
| 93 | destroy the contents of the editor. A must-see. Four |
| 94 | stars. |
| 95 | |
Chris Allegretta | 423cbfd | 2000-09-04 16:21:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | 09/04/2000 - Nano 0.9.17, the Labor Day release, is released after a |
| 97 | quiet spell (almost an entire month since last release!) |
| 98 | New features include better (not yet perfect) binary |
| 99 | display support and toggle support for most of the program |
| 100 | flags (M-c, M-i, M-z, M-x, M-p, M-w, M-m, M-k and M-e for |
| 101 | -c, -i, -x, -p, -w, -k, and -R). |
| 102 | |
Chris Allegretta | ba96f7a | 2000-08-09 21:38:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | 08/09/2000 - Nano 0.9.16, after some struggling, is release. This release |
| 104 | should fix a few of the holes that 0.9.15 dug. The |
| 105 | "cutting text on the first line" bug is fixed, as is the |
| 106 | "cutting text on the last line" bug. Nice symmetry there |
| 107 | huh? Also the --tabsize argument should now work as well |
| 108 | as by using -T. |
| 109 | |
Chris Allegretta | 0bf4e14 | 2000-08-04 02:42:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | 08/03/2000 - Nano 0.9.15 is the "I cant think of a release description" |
| 111 | release. There are the usual gala of display bugfixes, |
| 112 | a for the the nasty bug in -k mode that could create a |
| 113 | loop in the file being edited, and some other code |
| 114 | cleanup. Also, the -T option should now work regardless |
| 115 | of the curses library used. Yay. |
| 116 | |
Chris Allegretta | a1a55c7 | 2000-07-28 00:36:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | 07/27/2000 - Nano 0.9.14 is officially the "13 is so unlucky it should |
| 118 | be skipped as a version number" release. One typo |
| 119 | caused unending problems (calling nano with either -t or |
| 120 | -k caused both flags to be used). The -k code is also now |
| 121 | closer in functionality to Pico's -k mode, please |
| 122 | note that this code is not finished yet. Working on this |
| 123 | code has made me realize that there is not enough |
| 124 | abstraction in the code, and I will be working on that |
| 125 | for the next release. Until then, have fun with this |
| 126 | version. |
| 127 | |
Chris Allegretta | edebbe6 | 2000-07-23 16:45:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | 07/23/2000 - Nano 0.9.13 has a few new bits and bobs, most notably the |
Chris Allegretta | 231d3d6 | 2000-07-22 19:33:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 129 | -k option from Pico (cut to end of line). The majority |
| 130 | of changes in this release are bugfixes however, including |
| 131 | the usual display fixes and fixes for writing to symbolic |
| 132 | links and un-writeable files. Barring any other major |
| 133 | changes, this should be the feature set for nano 1.0, |
| 134 | whenever it might be released =-) |
| 135 | |
Chris Allegretta | e955dae | 2000-07-07 22:24:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | 07/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.12 (The "lucky day" release) is bursting with new |
| 137 | features, bug fixes, and yummy fruit flavor. For |
| 138 | changes, the alternate replace keystroke ^W^T is now |
| 139 | ^W^R to be compatible with later version of Pico. |
| 140 | ^W^T is now goto line, again for Pico compatibility. |
| 141 | As for new features, the wonderful/hated magic line |
| 142 | code has returned with a vengeance! Also, regular |
| 143 | expression searches and replaces have been incorporated |
| 144 | via the -R flag. And of course there are the usual |
| 145 | helping of display and other bug fixes to top it all |
| 146 | off. |
| 147 | |
Chris Allegretta | 4da1fc6 | 2000-06-21 03:00:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | 06/20/2000 - Nano 0.9.11 presents drastic rewrites of the most buggy |
Chris Allegretta | 3798588 | 2000-06-20 00:39:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 149 | routines in the program, specifically the wrapping code |
| 150 | and almost all of the display routines. There are many |
| 151 | improvements and bugfixes to the display subsystem in |
| 152 | general, but there may be bugs lurking yet. Also, after |
| 153 | many MANY requests, there is now an option to set the |
| 154 | displayed tab width (-T, --tabsize). Note that |
| 155 | this function just changes the way tabs LOOK in the |
| 156 | editor, the tabs you input are still real tabs of normal |
| 157 | width (usually 8 characters); nano just makes them look |
Chris Allegretta | 4da1fc6 | 2000-06-21 03:00:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 158 | smaller or bigger whlie in the editor. New in the |
| 159 | translation department is an indonesian translation (id). |
Chris Allegretta | 3798588 | 2000-06-20 00:39:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 160 | |
Chris Allegretta | 2b26e0a | 2000-06-07 04:02:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 161 | 06/06/2000 - Nano 0.9.10 is primarily a bugfix for the loss of SIGINT when |
| 162 | using "run and terminate" flags (for example, --help). |
| 163 | There are also some minor documentation updates. This |
| 164 | version of nano is the most stable in quite some time, and |
| 165 | is likely to be the most stable for awhile. Users are |
| 166 | encouraged to upgrade to this version. |
| 167 | |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | 05/31/2000 - Nano 0.9.9 introduces much better working i18n support, |
| 169 | more portability, and a ton of bugfixes. While |
| 170 | nano is not likely anywhere near 1.0 in terms of |
| 171 | code quality, it gets a quantum leap closer with this |
| 172 | release. |
| 173 | |
| 174 | 05/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.8 (the 'what broke now?' release) should fix |
| 175 | the resize crash people have been experiencing. It also |
| 176 | offers a new input method that should allow nano to do |
| 177 | things the right way (like ^S, ^Q, custom suspend keys) |
| 178 | and hopefully wont break with non-US keyboards. There |
| 179 | are also the obligatory display fixes and speedups. Have |
| 180 | fun with it. |
| 181 | |
| 182 | 05/14/2000 - Nano 0.9.7 (the Mother's Day release) continues in the long |
| 183 | line of display fixes, and also fixes the broken symlink |
| 184 | behavior (i.e. symlinks weren't being followed by |
| 185 | default). Hopefully all major bugs can be worked out soon |
| 186 | and we can have a 1.0 release before the end of the year, |
| 187 | but who knows. |
| 188 | |
| 189 | 05/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.6 cleans up a lot of the display bugs that 0.9.5 |
| 190 | uncovered. There are improvements (and some remaining |
| 191 | segfaults) in the wrapping code, and even more |
| 192 | display optimizations. I would still say 0.9.4 or 0.9.2 |
| 193 | are the most stable versions of nano to date, but this one |
| 194 | may not be too bad =-) |
| 195 | |
| 196 | 05/01/2000 - Nano 0.9.5 attempts to speed up the display of text |
| 197 | to be at least somewhat reasonable. Much |
| 198 | code profiling has been done to reduce the |
| 199 | rediculous number of redundant display updates. This |
| 200 | will probably expose a lot of bugs that can then be |
| 201 | fixed, so this release is probably not for the faint |
| 202 | of heart. For anyone curious, I would call nano 0.9.2 |
| 203 | the most stable version recently, so use that if you're |
| 204 | not particularly concerned with being on the bleeding |
| 205 | edge. |
| 206 | |
| 207 | 04/25/2000 - Nano 0.9.4 fixes some problems in 0.9.3 with the last |
| 208 | line code and related segfaults. It also now has |
| 209 | much better handling for 8-bit characters. The |
| 210 | --enable-tiny code also produces a smaller executable. |
| 211 | |
| 212 | 04/19/2000 - Nano 0.9.3 is officially the "Micro$oft" release. It |
| 213 | underscores the recent problem of bugfixes introducing |
| 214 | more bugs than they fix. The most important change |
| 215 | to this version of nano is the removal of the "magic |
| 216 | line". You will no longer see a blank line at the end of |
| 217 | the file. If you want a new line at the end of your file, |
| 218 | you'll have to hit enter to get one. |
| 219 | |
| 220 | NOTE: THIS BREAKS COMPATIBILITY WITH PICO. Unfortunately, |
| 221 | this feature has been causing many many problems with nano |
| 222 | so it is being removed for the time being, and perhaps |
| 223 | indefinitely. |
| 224 | |
| 225 | Other new stuff includes a --emable-tiny option to make |
| 226 | nano ultra small (disabling i18n, detailed help and the |
| 227 | marker and mouse code), and --with-slang to use the |
| 228 | slang libraries instead of ncurses. |
| 229 | |
| 230 | 04/15/2000 - Nano 0.9.2 just fixes the serious segfault problem if |
| 231 | nano is invoked any way other than using the absolute |
| 232 | path. The bug was in the new code for checking whether |
| 233 | nano is invoked as pico. |
| 234 | |
| 235 | 04/14/2000 - 0.9.1 has some more Pico compatibility built-in. The |
| 236 | option to switch to/from Search and Search/Replace |
| 237 | (^T) is now available, and nano now displays the |
| 238 | more Pico-like shortcut list when invoked as 'pico' |
| 239 | (i.e. if pico is a symlink to nano). There is an |
| 240 | important change to the handling of symbolic links |
| 241 | as well. Now, nano does the "correct" thing and |
| 242 | automatically writes to the object of the symlink, |
| 243 | rather than replace the symlink with the updated file. |
| 244 | This behavior is still available with the --nofollow |
| 245 | or -l flags. |
| 246 | Other new things include a fix for the infamous |
| 247 | "recursive replace" bug, and more bugfixes in the wrapping |
| 248 | code. |
| 249 | |
| 250 | 04/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.0 has some updates, new language support and |
| 251 | a much better refresh setup (It's still not great, but...) |
| 252 | There should also be more stabillity editing long lines, |
| 253 | as there was a stupid mistake in the update_line |
| 254 | call. Silly me =) |
| 255 | |
| 256 | 03/22/2000 - Nano 0.8.9 is basically just a bugfix release of 0.8.8 |
| 257 | to reflect the current stagnant status of the project. |
| 258 | Most things work, the rest doesn't doesn't work because |
| 259 | (a) I can't fix it or I would have already done so, and |
| 260 | (b) the amount of patches I'm receiving right now is quite |
| 261 | negligible. Forrunately this release marks the first |
| 262 | release since I have acquired ownership of the nano pages |
| 263 | on SourceForge. Here's hoping SF will get us some more |
| 264 | visibilitiy, translators and patches. |
| 265 | |
| 266 | 03/12/2000 - After a hiatus, I have finally moved (not unpacked though) |
| 267 | to my new home into albany. Thus I should now have more |
| 268 | time to work on nano. Nano 0.8.8, the "dear god what |
| 269 | broke this time?" release, incorporates patches for both |
| 270 | i18n and many bugfixes. It is VERY likely something broke |
| 271 | this version, and it's likely I didn't even apply the i18n |
| 272 | stuff properly, so *it* may not even work. |
| 273 | |
| 274 | I would like to announce that I'm going to need |
| 275 | translations soonish, so if you are fluent in other |
| 276 | languages than english (or even better, if your native |
| 277 | language is not english) and you would like to submit a |
| 278 | translation file to me, please feel free to do so. If you |
| 279 | do, I will list your name and email in the AUTHORS file as |
| 280 | the maintainer of the .po file, and from then on it is |
| 281 | yours to take care of and keep up to date. |
| 282 | |
| 283 | 03/01/2000 - Well, to continue my trend of going back on my previous |
| 284 | release's comments, nano 0.8.7 is released. The crashing |
| 285 | behavior was still occuring, and this most recent fix also |
| 286 | fixes some other wrapping problems, so here you go. |
| 287 | There may be another relase soon, there may not be, is |
| 288 | that vague enough? =) |
| 289 | |
| 290 | 02/25/2000 - More minor bugfixes in 0.8.6, the bizarre behavior at the end |
| 291 | of a page has ceased, thankfully. I'm also moving next |
| 292 | weekend, so don't be shocked if you don't see a new |
| 293 | version of nano next week =-) |
| 294 | |
| 295 | 02/11/2000 - Okay, here we go again. Aside from a few minor fixes and |
| 296 | some under-the-hood changes, you won't notice much |
| 297 | different in this version of nano. I haven't gotten much |
| 298 | feedback on the help feature, is it simply amazing or does |
| 299 | no one care? Write and let me know! =) |
| 300 | |
| 301 | 02/08/2000 - Nano 0.8.3 marks the first time in a long time that there has |
| 302 | been more than three days since the last release. New |
| 303 | features include an initial help mode (YAY!), hopefully |
| 304 | much more support for i18n out of the box, and a flag |
| 305 | for more Pico compatibility in the shortcut lists |
| 306 | displayed. This release also marks the new nano |
| 307 | distribution site, http://www.asty.org/nano and email |
| 308 | address nano@asty.org for bugs, etc. |
| 309 | |
| 310 | 02/02/2000 - Okay, I hate to go back on what I said in the last release, |
| 311 | but I may be changing jobs very soon. I will release |
| 312 | version 0.8.2 as is (no i18n, no help menu (yet). I |
| 313 | expect things to settle down by the end of next week, and |
| 314 | then I can try to start on the i18n support and help menu, |
| 315 | look for these new features in version 0.8.5 to 0.9.0. |
| 316 | |
| 317 | 01/28/2000 - Nano 0.8.1 marks our first official step toward |
| 318 | internationaliation (i18n) and the help system (^G). I |
| 319 | will be merging in Jordi's patches for initial i18n in the |
| 320 | next version, and will implement the help system with |
| 321 | i18n built into it shortly after that. Please don't |
| 322 | hesitate to send bug reports, as long as you're sure the |
| 323 | fault lies with nano =-). |
| 324 | |
| 325 | 01/25/2000 - Nano 0.8.0 is officially the 'let's try and be at least a |
| 326 | little portable, mmmmkay?' release. There are many |
| 327 | portability checks and fixes, many thanks to Andy Kahn for |
| 328 | his patches. I removed the broken do_spell behavior with |
| 329 | the 'spell' program, for now we only try to call 'ispell' |
| 330 | until I write a better method to handle the output of the |
| 331 | normal 'spell' command. |
| 332 | |
| 333 | 01/24/2000 - Nano 0.7.9 features many new features. Among them are a |
| 334 | new autoindent feature (-i, --autoondent), tempfile |
| 335 | flag like Pico's -t flag (-t, --tempfile), and preliminary |
| 336 | spelling program support. The spelling function tries |
| 337 | to run 'spell' and then 'ispell' in that order, but you |
| 338 | can specify another spelling program with -s or --speller. |
| 339 | |
| 340 | 01/17/00 - Nano 0.7.7 is officially the 'way too much stuff changed this |
| 341 | release' release. It's the busy time at work for me, so |
| 342 | please don't get offended if your patch doesn't get |
| 343 | included in the next immediate version of nano. I'm sure |
| 344 | all the changes in this release will cause a few bugs, so |
| 345 | 0.7.8 will primarily be about fixing those bugs. |
| 346 | |
| 347 | Things added this release include resizeability (kinda), |
| 348 | new -x and -c flags (see nano -h for help), long command |
| 349 | line flag support, and the usual array of bugfixes. |
| 350 | |
| 351 | 01/15/00 - Nano 0.7.6 is officially the 'lightning' release. It now loads |
| 352 | large files much faster than previous versions, and is |
| 353 | even much faster than Pico or vi in some rather |
| 354 | rudimentary tests. Many thanks to Adam Rogoyski for the |
| 355 | read_byte patch! |
| 356 | |
| 357 | 01/09/00 - As of this version (0.7.4), TIP has officially been renamed |
| 358 | to nano. The new homepage is at |
| 359 | http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/astyanax/nano. Please |
| 360 | update your bookmarks, tell your friends, and all that |
| 361 | jazz. |
Chris Allegretta | c87a411 | 2000-08-07 02:16:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 362 | |
| 363 | $Id$ |