ChangeLog.md

Change Log

NetSurf 3.11

Core / All platforms

• HTML: Fixed failure to reflow SVGs if fetched and ready before layout.

• HTML: Support for display: flex layout.

• HTML: Improved minimum/maximum sizes in box layout.

• HTML: Improved handling of percentages.

• HTML: Minor cleaning up of layout code.

• HTML: Use new LibCSS API for unit conversion.

• HTML: Improved ordered list handling.

• CSS: Updated selection callbacks to latest LibDOM API.

• Options: Added core option to disable CSS.

• Options: Added core option to prefer dark mode.

• Options: Improved user choices file processing.

• Bitmap: Opaque testing now implemented in core.

• Bitmap: Added core support for premultiplied-alpha.

• Bitmap: Format logged on startup.

• Bitmap: Added support for pixel colour component order configuration.

• Bitmap: Added colour component order conversion functions.

• Bitmap: Generally more optimal on all platforms for all image formats.

• Image: JPEGXL image handler.

• Image: Compatibility with latest rSVG version.

• Image: Improved handling for broken GIF images.

• Image: Updated to new LibNSGIF API.

• Image: Updated all image format handlers to use new core bitmap capabilities.

• Fetch: Updated to new libcurl API.

• Fetch: Disabled TLS1.0 and TLS1.1.

• Fetch: Improved handling of bad SSL connections.

• Fetch: Change to libcurl to optimise HTTPS connections (upstreamed).

• Local history: More robust rendering.

• Resources: Updated certificate bundle.

• JavaScript: Minor updates to DOM bindings.

• JavaScript: Updated to Duktape 2.7.0 release.

• JavaScript: Console: Don't log through closed window.

• Utility: Cleaned up UTF8 handling.

• Utility: Improved recursive directory removal.

• Utility: Add support for xx_YY format language codes.

• CI: Various improvements to build automation and testing.

• General: Various warning fixes.

• General: Aligned UserAgent with compatibility spec.

• Documentation: Updated URLs to https.

• Documentation: Added front-end development guide.

• Text areas: Clear selection on word left/right.

• Buildsystem: Fixed handling of removed header files.

• Disc cache: Minor fixes.

• Debug: Added generated charts to image cache stats page.

• Debug: Added descendant bounding boxes to HTML box tree dumps.

• Built in: Cleaned up generated about: pages.

• LibParserUtils library ?.?.? (parser building utility functions):

  • Optimised consuming from buffer.
  • Optimised endian detection.
  • Added new API to append vector to buffer.

• Hubbub library ?.?.? (HTML parser):

  • Massively optimised element type detection using perfect hash.
  • Optimised and updated performance tester.
  • Fixed bitrot in tests.
  • Improved example client code.
  • Buildsystem improvements.

• LibCSS library ?.?.? (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Added support for SVG fill-opacity property.
  • Added support for SVG stroke-opacity property.
  • Added support for CSS property wide revert value.
  • Added support for CSS property wide unset value.
  • Added support for CSS property wide initial value.
  • Added support for CSS position property sticky value.
  • Added support for CSS display property "grid" values.
  • Added support for prefers-color-scheme media query.
  • Added new public API for CSS unit conversion.
  • Added support for predefined counter styles.
  • Optimised media query handling.
  • Made selection code generator deterministic.
  • Various selection code generator improvements.
  • Squashed leak of system font names.
  • Improved internal handling of property units.
  • Improved internal string map.
  • Minor buildsystem improvements.
  • Improved example code.
  • Added new tests.

• LibDOM library ?.?.? (Document Object Model):

  • Fixed XML parser error handling.
  • Fixed XML parser empty document handling.
  • Added DOMTokenList implementation.
  • Added DOM tree walking function.
  • Improved example code.
  • Fixed HTML Element int32 attribute getter to handle signed values.
  • Various stability improvements.
  • Buildsystem improvements.

• LibNSGIF library 1.0.0 (GIF support):

  • Complete rewrite.
  • New API that doesn't expose internal state.
  • Much better handling of bad or broken GIFs.
  • Support for decoding to client's choice of pixel colour component order.
  • Many fixes.
  • Faster decoding.
  • Updated documentation.

• LibSVGTiny library ?.?.? (SVG support):

  • Fixed X11 example utility build.
  • Implemented path arc correctly.
  • Updated documentation.

RISC OS-Specific

• Removed last vestiges of plugin support.

• Added Choices option to disable CSS.

• Updated licence information.

• Updated links to use https in documentation.

• Fixed broken links in documentation.

• Support for building with arm-riscos-gnueabi toolchain.

• Updated bundled resources.

• Improved bitmap rendering.

• Fixed EX0 EY0 "high DPI" rendering.

• Text selection support in URL bar (RO5.28 onwards).

• Dragging favicon saves whole URL.

• Updated to new RUfl API.

• Fixed font scanning on startup behaviour.

• Unified redraw code for browser windows and other core-rendered windows.

• Fixed auto-scroll crash when pointer leaves core window.

• Allow drag and drop loading of WEBP image format.

• RUfl library ?.?.? (RISC OS Unicode support):

  • Added astral character support.
  • RUfl_cache version now in filename.
  • Support for multiple versions of RUfl_cache coexisting.
  • Substitution table reworked for astral characters and heavily optimised.
  • Render 6-digit replacements for codepoints outside Basic Multilingual Plane.
  • Refactoring and many code improvements.
  • Support for UCS-aware Encoding files.
  • Various API changes.
  • Detect overlong and invalid UTF-8 sequences.
  • Improved compatibility with different Font Manager versions.
  • Fixed menu building to cope with system with no fonts.
  • Ignore UCS fonts if using a non-UCS Font Manager.
  • Remove assumption that pointers are 32-bit.
  • Added test infrastructure and many tests.
  • Buildsystem improvements.

GTK-Specific

• Cleaned up initialisation.
• Various build warning fixes.
• Fixed crash when destroying scaffolding.
• Don't create zero-sized bitmaps.
• Configure core to use Cairo's bitmap format.
• Added support for cursor word left/right key bindings.
• Added support for delete word left/right key bindings.
• Added back/forward mouse button processing.
• Fixed path plotter.
• Made UI resources more consistent.

Amiga-Specific

• Added page theme option.
• Improved bitmap handling.
• Improved and optimised Unicode handling.
• Stability improvements.

Windows-Specific

• Buildsystem: Use pkg-config.
• Support Ctrl+A in address bar.

Framebuffer-Specific

• Minor internal font fixes.
• Improved documentation.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 3.10

Core / All platforms

• Improved handling of NetSurf generated queries and errors, including:

  • Timeouts.
  • Authentication requests.
  • Certificate problems.

• Created consistent visual style for NetSurf Core generated content.

• HTML layout fix for {min|max}-width on replaced elements.

• Improved keyboard navigation.

• Improved local history with keyboard navigation and improved display.

• Fixed mouse interaction issue when entire document had visibility:hidden.

• Refactoring of the browser window handling.

• Refactoring of the HTML content handler.

• Refactoring of SSL certificate handling.

• Refactoring of HTML, text search and selection code.

• Many improvements to JavaScript robustness.

• Many new and improved Duktape JavaScript bindings.

• Improved core/front end interface for content scaling.

• Much improved content caching, both in memory and disc caching.

• Added a generic hashmap, used by the disc cache code.

• Fetcher improvements for robustness and performance.

• Updated JavaScript engine to Duktape 2.4.0.

• Improved handling of aborted fetches.

• Improved integration testing with framework built around monkey front end.

• Improvements to monkey front end to make testing more extensive and reliable.

• Minor HTML form improvements.

• Minor HTML handler optimisations.

• Fixes to HTML handler for robustness.

• Refactoring generation of about: pages.

• Fixed save complete not to save multiple copies of the same files.

• Change how animated GIFs are rate-limited to be in line with other browsers.

• Added a page info core window.

• Clamping screen DPI to a sensible range.

• Initial work towards supporting HTML5 canvas element.

• Various treeview fixes.

• Hubbub library 0.3.7 (HTML parser):

  • Minor code quality improvements.
  • Fixes for some HTML5 element handling.

• LibCSS library 0.9.1 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Fixed a problem in the parsing of invalid media blocks.
  • Minor code quality improvements.

• LibDOM library 0.4.1 (Document Object Model):

  • Improved HTML TextArea element handling.
  • Fix SubtreeModified event to be fired after updating attribute values.
  • Support finalising the namespace strings.
  • Basic support for keypress events.
  • Improvements to event dispatch event lifetime handling.
  • Support for InnerHTML.
  • Added support for HTMLCanvasElement.
  • Minor code quality improvements.
  • Fixed HTMLElement property setters.
  • Fixed HTMLTitleElement text getter/setter.

• LibNSBMP library 0.1.6 (BMP support):

  • Minor code quality improvements.

• LibNSLog library 0.1.3 (Filterable logging):

  • Added support for short log level names.

• LibWapcaplet library 0.4.3 (String internment):

  • Free global context if no strings leak.
  • Enabled build with toolchains that don't support statement expressions.

RISC OS-specific

• Added Page Info url bar icon and window.
• Updated to improved core content scaling interface.
• Add support for scrolling core windows in response to core requests.
• Removed login window because it's now handled by the core.
• Fixed use after free in dialog handling.
• Fixed cookie window re-opening bug.

GTK-specific

• Huge reworking of the browser interface to be more modern.
  • Particularly toolbar and menu code.
• Default buildsystem target changed from gtk2 to gtk3.
• Added Page Info icon.
• Use Curl's default path for the ca-bundle.
• Updated to improved core content scaling interface.
• Run scheduler before fetching file descriptor set.
• Add support for scrolling core windows in response to core requests.
• Removed login window because it's now handled by the core.
• Moved favicon from URL entry widget to tab.
• Improved cursor focus handling.

AmigaOS-specific

• Added Page Info icon and window.
• Updated to improved core content scaling interface.
• Add support for scrolling core windows in response to core requests.
• Allow running JavaScript from ARexx.
• Removed login window because it's now handled by the core.

Windows-specific

• Added Page Info icon.
• Improved Unicode handling.
• Add support for scrolling core windows in response to core requests.
• Removed login window because it's now handled by the core.
• Improved command line handling.
• Improved error reporting.

Haiku-specific

• Run scheduler before fetching file descriptor set.

Atari-specific

• Removed login window because it's now handled by the core.

Framebuffer-specific

• Add support for scrolling core windows in response to core requests.

• Added keyboard controls for scaling.

• Added some glyphs to the internal font.

• Can now enumerate available backend surfaces.

• LibNSFB library 0.2.2 (NetSurf Framebuffer):

  • Optimisation to pixel/colour conversion.
  • Added backend surface enumerator.
  • Minor code quality improvements.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 3.9

Core / All platforms

• Buildsystem improvements.

• Improved URL query string handling.

• Improved form submission code.

• Improved error handling in HTML box construction.

• Much improved testing, with automated test frontend.

• Improved treeview rendering.

• Improved HTML content handling of viewport dimensions.

• Improved debug logging of JavaScript handling.

• Added support for Webp image format.

• Fixed SVG stroke width plotting.

• Lots of new JavaScript bindings.

• Support for script insertion after beginning conversion.

• Added support for CSS media queries.

• Various JavaScript related fixes.

• Window is now supported as a JavaScript event target.

• Support for nodeList indexing in JavaScript handler.

• Allowed front ends to execute JavaScript scripts.

• Optimised data URL handling.

• Improved support for logging to JavaScript console.

• Squashed several leaks.

• CSS pixel support: Better rendering on high DPI screens.

• Made curl fetcher use the standard NetSurf logging API.

• Fixed incremental redraw, while fetching HTML images.

• Improved HTTP header Cache-Control parsing.

• Cleaned up handling of aborted fetches and loading content.

• Improvements to generated JavaScript bindings.

• Hubbub library 0.3.6 (HTML parser):

  • Fix for script insertion during parse.

• LibCSS library 0.9.0 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Added support for parsing CSS Media Queries Level 4.
  • API for adding sheets to a selection context now takes a Media string.
  • The selection API now allows the client to describe the media that is being selected for.
  • Selection now honours width/height feature queries.
  • Removed the uncommon property extension blocks in computed style data. This simplfies the code and fixes a subtle bug in the cascade/composition handling.
  • Fixed leak where rules had over 256 selectors.

• LibDOM library 0.4.0 (Document Object Model):

  • Removed dom_string implementation details from public header.

• LibDOM library 0.3.4 (Document Object Model):

  • Fixed a few places where public API didn't ref the objects it returned.
  • Fixes to the test generator.
  • Initial support for SCRIPT element flags.
  • Added dom_node_contains() call.
  • Fixed leaks in DOM node set text context.

• LibNSPSL library 0.1.3 (Public suffix list):

  • Updated public suffix list.

GTK-specific

• Fixed HTTP authentication dialogue NULL dereference.

AmigaOS-specific

• Improved logging.
• Better handling of local charset.
• Improved the sheduler.
• Removed RISC OS ,type extensions from resource files.
• Support building against AmiSSL instead of OpenSSL.
• Squashed many build warnings.
• Tidied up gui_window handling.
• Fixed SimpleRefresh mode and made it default.

Windows-specific

• Added clipboard support.
• Fixed keyboard input.

Haiku-specific

• Fixed package version.

Atari-specific

• Buildsystem: Fixed binary stripping.

Framebuffer-specific

• Improved buildsystem.
• Support for internationalized UI resources.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 3.8

Core / All platforms

• Updated to be compatible with latest LibCSS.

• Updated Duktape to version 2.3.0.

• Added support for new CSS units.

• Fixed resource cleanup in the backing store.

• Added support for CMYK/YCCK JPEGs.

• Replaced tables are now treated as blocks.

• Improved percentage max-width handling.

• Improved browser history handling to be more robust.

• Buildsystem dependency improvements.

• Improved handling of messages and bundled resources.

• Added support for HTTP Strict Transport Security.

• Enabled TLS session tickets.

• Restricted the HTTPS ciphersuites allowed.

• Reorganised source code for HTML and text handling.

• Improved plotter API consistency and completeness.

• Enabled front ends to get current URL with fragment IDs.

• Fixed rendering glitch in treeviews.

• Fixed dragging to current selection in treeviews.

• Allowed building with address sanitiser.

• Suppressed fetch poll logging.

• Suppressed logging of data: URLs.

• Refactored HTTP header processing in llcache.

• Revised front end API for HTTP authentication.

• Display application/json as text, instead of download.

• Fixed JavaScript related CSS crash.

• Hubbub library 0.3.5 (HTML parser):

  • Squashed leaks in tests.

• LibCSS library 0.8.0 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Added support for CSS flexbox properties.
  • Added support for new CSS units.
  • Auto-generated source code for computed style handling.
  • Squashed some undefined behaviour issues.
  • Unified some duplicated media handling code.

• LibDOM library 0.3.3 (Document Object Model):

  • Fixed some resource leaks.
  • Fixed some flawed error handling.
  • Fixed some tests.

• LibNSGIF library 0.2.1 (GIF support):

  • Tiny optimisation to LZW decoding.
  • Cleaned up test suite.

• LibNSBMP library 0.1.5 (BMP support):

  • Fixed a few issues caught by address sanitiser and undefined behaviour sanitiser.

• LibSVGTiny library 0.1.7 (SVG support):

  • Fixed a few issues caught by address sanitiser and undefined behaviour sanitiser.

• LibNSPSL library 0.1.3 (Public suffix list):

  • Updated public suffix list to current edition.

• LibNSLog library 0.1.2 (Filterable logging):

  • Tweaks to suppress warnings on openbsd.

RISC OS-specific

• Improved iconsprite selection based on alpha support.
• Translate resource paths.
• Drag saving the URL bar now includes fragment IDs.

GTK-specific

• Fixed bugs in toolbar configuration.
• Improved accelerator (keyboard shortcut) handling.

AmigaOS-specific

• Removed Iconify gadget for OS3.
• Fixed radio button labels on OS3.
• Fixed switch from public screen to own screen.
• Minor optimisations.
• Fixed HTTP authentication login window resource ownership.
• Improved Unicode handling in HTTP authentication login window.
• Close HTTP authentication login window on quit.

Windows-specific

• Fixed image scaling crash.
• Added support for HTTP authentication.

Framebuffer-specific

• Added support for HOME and END keys.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 3.7

Core / All platforms

• CSS computed styles shared globaly between elements.

• Fixed OpenSSL 1.1.0 X509 certificate handling.

• Updated for compatibility with upstream libutf8proc.

• Updated JS engine to Duktape 2.1.0.

• Improved treeview robustness.

• Local history uses system colours.

• Made local history use corewindow interface.

• Simplified local history code.

• Added EventListener support to Duktape binding.

• Added EventTarget JavaScript binding.

• Improved plotter API.

• Simplified HTML border plotting.

• Make disabled form elements read-only.

• Improved URLdb.

• Improved tests.

• Fixed bug in content state machine for HTML contents.

• Fixed issue in parsing of file urls.

• Split out ASCII locale-safe handling used in parsers.

• Made libcurl build-time optional.

• Hotlist saved on change, rather than at exit.

• Improved handling of display:table applied to :after.

• Added support for CSS3 box-sizing to HTML layout.

• Improved handling of margins where constrained by {min|max}-width.

• Cleaned up content message broadcasts.

• Logging now run-time filterable using LibNSLog.

• Added search feature to treeviews.

• Browser history now remembers page scroll offsets.

• Hubbub library 0.3.4 (HTML parser):

  • Support falling back to space-separated charset.

• LibCSS library 0.7.0 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Computed styles can now be shared between elements.
    • Computed styles interned, so only unique computed styles reside in memory. This means multiple pages/tabs/windows can share computed style data.
    • Where possible, we now bypass CSS selection, and simply take a reference to another element in the DOM's style, if we're sure it will be the same.
  • Added support for the CSS3 box-sizing property.
  • Fixed invalid read when removing sheet from selection context.
  • Fixed example / demo app build.

• LibDOM library 0.3.2 (Document Object Model):

  • Add support for checking if an event is in dispatch.
  • Add is_initialised flag to events.
  • Add getter/setter for event_target is_trusted.
  • Simplified API for removing all instances of a listener.

• LibNSGIF library 0.2.0 (GIF support):

  • Complete rewrite of LZW decompression is more optimal and robust.
  • Stability fixes.

• LibSVGTiny library 0.1.6 (SVG support):

  • Buildsystem improvements.
  • Fixed bug in parsing of multiple lineto commands.

• LibNSPSL library 0.1.2 (Public suffix list):

  • Updated public suffix list.

• LibNSLog library 0.1.0 (Filterable logging):

  • First release.

RISC OS-specific

• Improved quit/exit behaviour.
• Moved treeviews to use the corewindow interface.
• Moved local history to use the core window interface.
• Updated to new plotter API.

GTK-specific

• Moved treeviews to use the corewindow interface.
• Moved local history to use the core window interface.
• Fixed Hotlist finalisation on exit.
• Updated to new plotter API.
• Improved text display and DPI handling.
• Optimised tiled bitmap rendering.

AmigaOS-specific

• Improved memory handling.
• Reduced frequency of diskfont open/close.
• Improved splash screen robustness.
• Improved quit/exit behaviour.
• Moved treeviews to use the corewindow interface.
• Moved local history to use the core window interface.
• Improved redrawing.
• Improved menus.
• Updated to new plotter API.
• Reduced use of globals.
• Improved use of notifications.
• Improved AmigaOS3 compatibility.

Haiku-specific

• View source in user's preferred editor.
• Reworked menu accelerator handling.
• Fixed popup menu.
• Updated to new plotter API.

Atari-specific

• Updated to new plotter API.
• Don't package the ca-bundle twice.

Framebuffer-specific

• Fixed font handling return types.
• Moved local history to use the core window interface.
• Updated to new plotter API.

Windows-specific

• Fixed font handling return types.
• Fixed Windows installer generation.
• Updated to new plotter API.
• Moved local history to use the core window interface.
• Fixed text handling.
• Fixed redraw bug on resize.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 3.6

Core / All platforms

• Build system improvements.

• Internal code reorganisation.

• Improved time handling.

• Removed use of warn_user.

• Updated Duktape JavaScript engine to version 1.5.1.

• Removed old spidermonkey build options.

• Fixed certificate chain handling.

• Improved URL (un)escape code.

• Added unit tests.

• Allowed build without libcurl and openssl (lacks http(s) support).

• Added parser for HTTP date time strings.

• Simplified treeview initialisation and finalisation.

• Added treeview font size user option.

• Improved locale handling, by using with ascii-only parsing routines.

• Fixed blocking of supercookies, and updated public suffix list.

• Improved User Agent default CSS.

• LibWapcaplet library 0.4.0 (String internment):

  • Added function to get caseless hash value.

• LibSVGTiny library 0.1.5 (SVG support):

  • Added tests.
  • Improved handling of bad SVGs.
  • Improved linear gradient handling.

• LibNSGIF library 0.1.4 (GIF support):

  • Improved tests.

• LibNSBMP library 0.1.4 (BMP support):

  • Improved tests.
  • Improved documentation.
  • Fixed RLE decoding.
  • Improved handling of bad BMPs.
  • Improved BMP alpha channel handling.
  • Fixed row padding handling.

• LibDOM library 0.3.1 (Document Object Model):

  • Fixed DOM tree walking routine.
  • Fixed Expat parser binding.

• LibCSS library 0.6.1 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Minor fixes.
  • Updated to use libwapcaplet caseless hash value API.

• LibNSPSL library 0.1.0 (Public suffix list):

  • First release.

GTK-specific

• Fixed TLS certificate viewer, with multiple queries.
• Switched to corewindow API for treeviews for improved robustness.
• Fixed About dialogue licence and credits buttons.
• Fixed MIME types of local BMP files.

AmigaOS-specific

• Make use of guigfx library for improved image display.
• Fixed websearch crash.
• Code cleanup.
• Improve character encoding conversion.
• Improved search engine list.
• Improvements to aid compiler optimisation.
• Improved scheduler.
• Improved tab handling, when launching URLs with existing NeSurf instance.
• Improved AmigaOS3 support.

Framebuffer-specific

• LibNSFB library 0.1.5 (NetSurf Framebuffer):
  • Minor buildsystem changes.

Haiku-specific

• Support http(s) schemes URI schemes in the .desktop.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 3.5

Core / All platforms

• Fixed URL parsing to avoid locale-specific character handling.
• Improved documentation of font APIs.

RISC OS-specific

• Improved !Boot and !System distributions.
• Updated distributed SharedUnixLibrary.
• Improved relocatable module checks.

GTK-specific

• Fixed resource handling.
• Removed theme handling code.
• Cleaned up 401 login window.

AmigaOS-specific

• Fixed bug that caused NetSurf to fail to exit.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 3.4

Core / All platforms

• Simplified web page thumbnailing interface between core and front ends.

• Buildsystem improvements.

• Added prefix to key codes to avoid namespace conflict with ncurses.

• Fixed URL hash not to contain the URL fragment.

• Removed outdated RISC OS cross-compilation instructions.

• Improved disc cache indexing and element layout.

• Improved disc cache performance for small files.

• Moved bitmap operations to use new operation table pattern.

• Improved bitmap rendering.

• Removed support for webp image format.

• Fixed freeing of form controls.

• Minor code cleanup in handling of relative positioning.

• Added scaled content redraw interface.

• Updated default user agent CSS to support HTML5 block level elements.

• Fixed PNG handling in low memory situations.

• Automatically disable the disc cache if the disc is too slow.

• Improved LOG macro.

• Improved build-time generation of internationalised messages.

• Allowed verbose logging to be redirected to a file.

• Reduced overhead of logging.

• Moved message loading from core out to front ends.

• Improved error reporting.

• Fixed a URL parsing bug.

• Improved URL parsing tests.

• Added code coverage reporting for tests.

• Improved test coverage.

• Updated IDL specs.

• Optional UTF-8 rendering of URLs.

• Migrated to Duktape JavaScript engine. Using Duktape 1.4.0.

• Fixed ALIGN attribute on TABLE elements.

• Fixed percentage calculation to avoid arithmetic overflow.

• Fixed JavaScript instanceof.

• Fixed asynchronous JavaScript scripts.

• Much improved JavaScript engine bindings.

• Fixed leak of frame scrollbar data.

• Fixed leak of frameset DOM documents.

• Added initial support for JavaScript events.

• Fixed overflow-{x|y} property handling.

• Improved option handling.

• Fixed mouse handling to consider the root element's box.

• Added support for auto-retrying timed-out cURL fetches.

• Fixed mime sniffing when fetcher completes with no data.

• Don't try to look up mailto URLs in database, as they aren't stored.

• Optimised HTML layout of floats.

• Fixed HTML layout bug relating to position of floats.

• Fixed bug when user toggled javascript_enabled setting during page load.

• Slight optimisation of DOM node inserted handling.

• Introduced 10s script execution timeout.

• Used new LibCSS API to optimise handling of HTML presentational hints.

• Removed logging during browser window resize.

• Improved cache logging.

• Fixed to avoid generating pseudo elements for HTML replaced elements.

• Simplified status bar updating while fetching HTML contents.

• Fixed bug in accounting of objects being used by HTML contents.

• Stopped GIF animations for when GIF has no users.

• Hubbub library 0.3.3 (HTML parser):

  • Fixed paths for Haiku.
  • Minor buildsystem changes.
  • Updated name of JSON library used for tests.
  • Added doxygen code documentation generation support.
  • Fixed doxygen warnings.

• LibCSS library 0.6.0 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Fixed paths for Haiku.
  • Minor buildsystem changes.
  • Added doxygen code documentation generation support.
  • Minor improvements to tests.
  • Added "96" to useful fixed point values in fpmath header.
  • Slight simplification of initial computed style setup.
  • Changed how presentational hints are handled to be more optimal.

• LibDOM library 0.3.0 (Document Object Model):

  • Fixed paths for Haiku.
  • Minor buildsystem changes.
  • Added doxygen code documentation generation support.
  • Improved tests.
  • Fixed event listener removal.
  • Removed unused document argument from event layer API.
  • Improved HTML Element specialisation APIs to better match IDL.
  • Added a _FINISHED event action callback.
  • Handle cleanup during event target gathering.
  • Ensured HTML element attributes are lower cased.
  • Added asynchronous property to script element.
  • Fix event handling not to capture and bubble on event target.
  • Added support for Event.eventPhase.
  • Fixed event target listener destruction.
  • Fixed HTMLDocument's vtable, so .textContent will work.
  • Fixed handling of document base URI.
  • Improved and optimised handling of HTMLElement specialisations.
  • Fixed copy constructors for HTMLElement and its specialisations.
  • Optimised DOM string upper/lower-case conversion.
  • Optimised event dispatch.
  • Provided public API for efficient identification of HTML elements.

• LibNSBMP library 0.1.3 (NetSurf BMP decoder):

  • Fixed paths for Haiku.
  • Minor buildsystem changes.
  • Added BMP decode test suite.
  • Added ICO decode test suite.
  • Fixed calculation in RLE decoding. (CVE-2015-7508)
  • Improved input data range check for RLE4 absolute mode.
  • Added range check to colour table accesses. (CVE-2015-7507)

• LibNSGIF library 0.1.3 (NetSurf GIF decoder):

  • Fixed paths for Haiku.
  • Minor buildsystem changes.
  • Added basic decode test.
  • Improved checks for buffer exhaustion.
  • Ensured LZW decode stack does not overflow. (CVE-2015-7505)
  • Ensured LZW code is valid before use. (CVE-2015-7506)

• LibParserUtils library 0.2.3 (parser building utility functions):

  • Fixed paths for Haiku.
  • Minor buildsystem changes.

• LibSVGTiny library 0.1.4 (SVG support):

  • Fixed paths for Haiku.
  • Minor buildsystem changes.
  • Fixed path buffer length allocation issue.
  • Added test files.

• LibWapcaplet library 0.3.0 (String internment):

  • Fixed paths for Haiku.
  • Minor buildsystem changes.
  • Added assertions to interface macros.
  • Updated tests.
  • Added doxygen code documentation generation support.
  • Fixed doxygen warnings.
  • Added function to return lower-cased strings.

RISC OS-specific

• Improved full-save output to retain their creation date on copy.
• Fixed closure of menu when asked for clipboard data.
• Updated bundled Shared Unix Library support module to 1.12.
• Fixed object info crash that occurred with NULL URLs.
• Doxygen generated code documentation fixes and improvements.
• Many minor cleanups.
• Converted to bitmap operations table.
• Set the default disc cache size to zero (off).
• Squashed a memory leak in path handling.
• Improved menu keyboard-shortcuts.
• Prevent sprite export when image can't be converted.
• Fixed rendering in 4k and 64k colour modes.
• Increased size of download window.
• Fixed page-search ignoring case sensitivity.
• Fixed lingering pointer shape on window close bug.

GTK-specific

• Extended GTK 2/3 compatibility layer for changes in recent GTK 3 releases.
• Fixed warnings in about dialogue construction.
• Many minor UI changes and improvements.
• Cleaned up header usage.
• Converted to bitmap operations table.
• Improved view source behaviour.
• Memory leak fixes.
• Use of GResource to improve building of image resources.
• Made path to resources more robust.
• Removed GTK-specific default CSS file.
• Allow resources to be built into the binary, rather than loaded from disc.
• Improve URL bar completion to navigate on selection.
• Show default favicon on window creation.
• Add option to show IDN decoded URLs.
• Improved the man page.
• Tidied up themes code.
• Fixed memory leaking of Pango layouts when rendering text.

AmigaOS-specific

• Fixed screen depth check for friend bitmaps.
• Made use of friend bitmaps optional.
• Removed asynchronous backing store code.
• Allowed URL completion to pick up non-visited URLs.
• Converted to bitmap operations table.
• Improved rendering.
• Improved plotted robustness.
• Improved menus.
• Improved file extension handling when saving.
• Cache pre-scaled versions of favicons.
• Added support for UTF-16 surrogates. Enables emoji rendering.
• Improved AmigaOS 3 support.
• Improved font handling.
• Show IDN decoded URLs, subject to local charset restrictions.
• Added new keyboard shortcuts.
• Improved hotlist toolbar look.
• Optimised font lookups.
• Allowed specifying of user directory locations on command line.
• Further improvements to AmigaOS 3 support.
• Improved font engine selection.
• Fixed build warnings.

Mac OS X-specific

• Updated for building with SDK 10.10.
• Various clean-ups.

Haiku-specific

• Converted to bitmap operations table.
• Fixed 64-bit builds.
• Improved build instructions.
• Use core menu widget for SELECT form entry.
• Disabled replicant dragger.
• Improved about dialogue box.
• Improved menus.
• Embedded language resources in executable.
• Added cookie management support.
• Added web search bar.

Atari-specific

• Converted to bitmap operations table.
• Cleaned up inconsistency of source code line endings.
• Enabled JavaScript-capable builds.

Framebuffer-specific

• Reduced amount of verbose logging.

• Converted to bitmap operations table.

• Added glyphs to built-in bitmap font.

• LibNSFB library 0.1.4 (NetSurf Framebuffer):

  • Minor buildsystem changes.
  • Added checks to ensure non-zero size framebuffer.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 3.3

Core / All platforms

• Rewrote html mouse pointer handling to reduce stack usage.

• Improved portability of the curl binding.

• Fixed relative URLs in inline CSS to resolve with respect to base URL.

• Improved debug box tree dump.

• Fixed textarea rendering glitches.

• Fixed textarea scrollbar behaviour.

• Removed support for all SSL versions due to vulnerabilities.

• Protect against inappropriate encryption protocol downgrades.

• Many changes to sanitise interface between core and front ends.

• Front ends can use their own main loop instead of polling core.

• Fixed bad background image URLs causing page load to abort.

• Improved buildsystem handling of warning flags.

• Improved HTML form handling.

• Improved the disc cache.

• Improved the hotlist/bookmarks loading and saving.

• Improved error handling.

• Added copy-to-clipboard of selected hotlist & history entries.

• All die calls removed; errors now passed to front ends.

• Rationalised URL handling functionality.

• Added API for front ends to set DPI.

• Added simple map access a about:maps.

• Improved documentation for cross-compiling.

• Many minor improvements and fixes.

• Hubbub library 0.3.1 (HTML parser):

  • Updated buildsystem.
  • Minor code tidying.

• LibCSS library 0.5.0 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Added selection support for CSS3 column-count property.
  • Added selection support for CSS3 column-fill property.
  • Added selection support for CSS3 column-gap property.
  • Added selection support for CSS3 column-rule-color property.
  • Added selection support for CSS3 column-rule-style property.
  • Added selection support for CSS3 column-rule-width property.
  • Added selection support for CSS3 column-span property.
  • Added selection support for CSS3 column-width property.
  • Added selection support for CSS3 break-after property.
  • Added selection support for CSS3 break-before property.
  • Added selection support for CSS3 break-inside property.
  • Improved and fixed absolute value conversion of computed styles.
  • Minor optimisations.
  • Updated buildsystem.
  • Improved selection tests.
  • Code tidying.
  • Many minor improvements and fixes.

• LibDOM library 0.1.2 (Document Object Model):

  • Updated buildsystem.
  • Minor fixes and improvements.

• LibNSBMP library 0.1.2 (NetSurf BMP decoder):

  • Minor code tidying.
  • Updated buildsystem.

• LibNSGIF library 0.1.2 (NetSurf GIF decoder):

  • Updated buildsystem.

• LibParserUtils library 0.2.1 (parser building utility functions):

  • Updated buildsystem.

• LibSVGTiny library 0.1.3 (SVG support):

  • Fix for relative move commands after path close.
  • Fix parsing of whitespace in transform operators.
  • Fix for path generation overrunning allocated storage.
  • Updated buildsystem.

• LibWapcaplet library 0.2.2 (String internment):

  • Updated buildsystem.

RISC OS-specific

• Updated to use new core interface.
• Cleaned up the bundled !Cache distribution.
• Divorced from core-internal browser window data structure.
• Fixed user-launched fetches to be verifiable.
• Minor code tidying.

GTK-specific

• Updated to use new core interface.
• Updated to use own main loop.
• Fixed thumbnailing issue.
• Added man page and XDG file..
• Divorced from core-internal browser window data structure.
• Various minor fixes and improvements.

AmigaOS-specific

• Updated to use new core interface.
• Improved filenames in save requesters.
• Improved kiosk window handling.
• Improved browser window scrollbar behaviour.
• Improved library handling.
• Divorced from core-internal browser window data structure.
• Many minor fixes and improvements.
• Simplified handing of core browser windows and tab management.
• Improved initialisation, and main loop.
• Rewritten scheduler.
• Improved Style Guide compliance.
• Added YouTube video helper script.
• Removed obsolete GetVideo support.
• Write to the disc cache asynchronously.
• Added preliminary support for AmigaOS 3.
• Code tidying.

BeOS/Haiku-specific

• Updated to use new core interface.
• Divorced from core-internal browser window data structure.
• Fixed resource fetcher.

Atari-specific

• Updated to use new core interface.
• Divorced from core-internal browser window data structure.
• Fixed handling of local paths.
• Added support for disc cache.
• Code tidying.
• Many minor fixes and improvements.

Framebuffer-specific

• Updated to use new core interface.

• Divorced from core-internal browser window data structure.

• Renamed internal font to "ns-sans".

• Added man page.

• Updated to use own main loop.

• Improved command line option handling.

• LibNSFB 0.1.2 library (NetSurf Framebuffer):

  • Fixed build of wayland surface.
  • Updated buildsystem.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 3.2

Core / All platforms

• Improved building on OpenBSD.

• Improved interface between front ends and core.

• Improved internal URL handling.

• Cleaned up many internal interfaces.

• Added support for disc caching.

• Fixed treeview selection issue.

• Fixed line breaking of plain text with multi-byte sequences.

• Improved out-of-memory handling.

• Added support for overflow-x and overflow-y CSS3 properties.

• Improved web search feature.

• Improved internal task scheduling.

• Improved support for Unicode URLs.

• Fixed issue relating to CSS imports.

• Improved debug dumping of box trees.

• Fixed SSL certificate viewer lifetimes bug.

• Fixed HTML ordered list numbering issue.

• Fixed DOM tree debug dump.

• Fixed handling of malformed URLs.

• Fixed text selection.

• LibCSS library 0.4.0 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Added support for CSS3 overflow-x and overflow-y properties.
  • Fix to !important handling with play-during property.
  • Improved test coverage.

• LibDOM library 0.1.1 (Document Object Model):

  • Implemented many missing specialisations of HTMLElement.

RISC OS-specific

• Fix for toolbar width calculation.
• Code clean-ups.
• Added option to use disc cache.

GTK-specific

• Improved configuration handling.
• Improved command line usage.
• Enabled disc caching.
• Improved context menu.
• Fixed gdkpixbuf usage issue.
• Improved view source, and debug features.
• Improved main menu.
• Improved developer options.
• Added options to open view source, etc, in new window, tab, or editor.
• Many code clean-ups.
• Internationalisation fixes.

AmigaOS-specific

• Removed Cairo.
• Improved installer script.
• Enabled disc caching.
• Improved line splitting behaviour for text wrap.
• Improved web search.
• Improved hotlist menu.
• Improved task scheduler.
• Wait for network activity, rather than polling for it.
• Improved throbber operation.
• Fixed tab bar update failure issue.
• Improved favicon handling.

BeOS/Haiku-specific

• Various fixes.

Atari-specific

• Made several little bug fixes.

Framebuffer-specific

• Added Unicode support to internal font.

• Added codepoint rendering to internal font, for missing glyphs.

• Added scaled glyph rendering to internal font.

• Added support for window resizing, were underlying surface supports it.

• LibNSFB library 0.1.2 (NetSurf Framebuffer):

  • Made SDL surface resizeable.
  • Fixed rendering for 1bpp glyphs with greater than 1 byte width.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 3.1

Core / All platforms

• Optimised UTF-8 conversion.

• Optimised URL database lookups.

• Added support for visited link rendering.

• Made better use of DOM events to optimise load times.

• Improved handling of user options.

• Improved about:config page.

• Faster application startup time.

• Fixed rendering of animated background images.

• Rewritten treeview implementation with improved look and behaviour.

• Rewritten hotlist (bookmarks, favourites) with new treeview.

• Rewritten global history with new treeview.

• Rewritten cookie manager with new treeview.

• Added multi-level undo and redo support to textareas.

• Hotlist has special directory for new 'unsorted' entries.

• Improved file:// directory listings.

• Faster CSS selection achieved by updating to new LibCSS version.

• Improved support for min-height and max-height CSS properties.

• Removed support for MNG and JNG images.

• Launch image fetches during HTML parsing.

• Improved support for file upload form element.

• Enabled TLS 1.2 support again.

• Fixed various issues with HTML forms by using the DOM properly.

• Make better use of string interning.

• Simplified favicon handling.

• Fixed fetch handle caching with modern libcurl versions.

• Simplified local history programmer interface.

• Improved handling of invalid HTML.

• Improved handling of browser tabs.

• Various fixes and improvements to URL handling.

• Fixed textarea selection redraw.

• Improved separation of core and platform-specific code.

• Improved content caching.

• Improved build documentation.

• Improved display of single-line form text inputs.

• Various fixes to table layout and rendering.

• Hubbub library 0.3.0 (HTML parser):

  • Updated to use latest LibParserUtils.
  • Removed client allocation function.
  • Added support for multilib.

• LibCSS library 0.3.0 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Added support for the writing-mode property.
  • Significantly optimised selection performance.
  • Made many fixes and internal clean-ups.
  • Added support for multilib.

• LibDOM library 0.1.0 (Document Object Model):

  • Fixed node comparison.
  • Made many fixes and internal clean-ups.
  • Updated Hubbub binding for latest Hubbub.
  • Added support for multilib.
  • Added HR specialisation of HTMLElement.

• LibNSBMP library 0.1.1 (NetSurf BMP decoder):

  • Added support for multilib.

• LibNSGIF library 0.1.1 (NetSurf GIF decoder):

  • Added support for multilib.

• LibParserUtils library 0.2.0 (parser building utility functions):

  • Removed client allocation function.
  • Added support for multilib.
  • Minor fixes and clean-ups.

• LibROSprite library 0.1.1 (RISC OS Sprite support for non-RO platforms):

  • Added support for multilib.

• LibSVGTiny library 0.1.1 (SVG support):

  • Several minor fixes.
  • Added support for multilib.

• LibWapcaplet library 0.2.1 (String internment):

  • Added support for multilib.

RISC OS-specific

• Improved mouse handling.
• Added F8 and F9 key shortcuts for textarea undo and redo.
• Optimised rendering of treeview windows.
• Added hotlist indicator to URL bar.
• Improved handling of long URLs in URL bar.
• Improved menu handling.
• Reduced dependency on core's implementation details.

GTK-specific

• Fixed scroll wheel step size.
• Improved GTK-3 compatibility.
• Fixed red/blue swapping with animated gifs.
• Added new tab button to tab bar.
• Improved window/tab closing.
• Added key shortcuts for textarea undo and redo.
• Improved save source.
• Added support for file upload form element.
• Reduced dependency on core's implementation details.
• Fixed alpha channel handling
• Fixed endian issues in bitmap handling.
• Improved support for keyboard input of non-latin letters.
• Improvement of text caret rendering.

AmigaOS-specific

• Added key shortcuts for textarea undo and redo.
• Use OS mouse pointers.
• Improved hotlist menu.
• Added favourites/hotlist indicator to URL bar.
• Reduced dependency on core's implementation details.
• Added support for AmigaGuide help system.
• Improved behaviour on quit.
• Improved download handling.
• Improved URL handling.

BeOS/Haiku-specific

• Improved embedding of resource files.
• Improved About dialogue box.
• Fixed CSS system colour setting.
• Updated to account for change in atomic_add() in Haiku.
• Reduced dependency on core's implementation details.

Windows-specific

• Reduced dependency on core's implementation details.

Atari-specific

• Added SSL certificate inspection window.
• Added About dialogue box.
• Added support for scaling web pages.
• Improved rendering.
• Reduced dependency on core's implementation details.

Framebuffer-specific

• Added key shortcuts for textarea undo and redo.

• Use libnsfb for tiled bitmap rendering.

• Reduced dependency on core's implementation details.

• LibNSFB library 0.1.1 (NetSurf Framebuffer):

  • Fixed various memory leaks.
  • Added tiled bitmap rendering support.
  • Improved dithering.
  • Added support for multilib.
  • Allowed building for Win32.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 3.0

Core / All platforms

• Internal restructuring to separate different components.

• Improved drag handling.

• Added support for User CSS file.

• Fixed compressed Messages loading.

• Updated translations.

• Improved internal options handling.

• Improved build documentation.

• Moved to using LibDOM for our document object model.

• Removed LibXML dependency.

• Merged messages files into single resource.

• Improved about:imagecache debug feature.

• Use system colours for treeview.

• Use system colours for scrollbar widget.

• Improved content cache.

• Added support for DoNotTrack header.

• Added early and primitive JavaScript support. (Disabled by default.)

• Textarea widget now supports double/triple click selections.

• Moved welcome page to local about: URL scheme.

• Improved text selection handling.

• Simplified interface for dealing with clipboard cut/copy/paste.

• Optimised file: fetcher where mmap is available.

• Allowed contents to request scrolls.

• Improved frames resizing.

• Internal restructuring of content communication with window.

• New system for obtaining debug dump from core browser window.

• Build system uses ccache where available.

• Improved handling of CSS white-space property.

• Avoid conversion of spaces to hard spaces.

• Reduced usage of talloc to box tree.

• Improved URL utility functions.

• Brought internal URL database into line with other URl handling.

• Improved title bar display for standalone image viewing.

• Try to downgrade TLS version support if server can't cope.

• Fix for layout issue involving floats with negative margins.

• Reduced overhead of debug logging.

• Don't abort HTML redraw when bad image fails to convert.

• Added support for CSS clip property.

• Improved error reporting.

• Added support for httponly cookies.

• Overhauled core textarea widget.

• Use textarea widget for HTML form text, password and textarea input.

• Improved caret and focus handling.

• Removed CPU architecture from user agent string.

• Changed text selection highlight colouring.

• Remove limitation of HTML line breaking handling that required space.

• Allowed CSS to be fetched/parsed in parallel with HTML document.

• Added support for readonly attribute on textareas and text inputs.

• Fixed text clipping issue.

• Hubbub library 0.2.0 (HTML parser):

  • Added script support.
  • Fixed handling of encoding change.
  • Updated to use new core buildsystem.

• LibCSS library 0.2.0 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Updated example code.
  • Added support for CSS widows and orphans properties.
  • Minor selection optimisations.
  • Several minor fixes.
  • Updated to use new core buildsystem.

• LibDOM library 0.0.1 (Document Object Model):

  • First release.

• LibNSBMP library 0.1.0 (NetSurf BMP decoder):

  • Removed suspend/invalidate stuff from API.
  • Updated to use new core buildsystem.

• LibNSGIF library 0.1.0 (NetSurf GIF decoder):

  • Updated to use new core buildsystem.

• LibParserUtils library 0.1.2 (parser building utility functions):

  • Fixed input insertion.
  • Updated to use new core buildsystem.

• LibROSprite library 0.1.0 (RISC OS Sprite support for non-RO platforms):

  • Minor improvement.
  • Updated to use new core buildsystem.

• LibSVGTiny library 0.1.0 (SVG support):

  • Ported from LibXML to LibDOM.
  • Minor fixes.
  • Updated to use new core buildsystem.

• LibWapcaplet library 0.2.0 (String internment):

  • Optimised to reduce function call overheads.
  • Updated to use new core buildsystem.

RISC OS-specific

• Documentation menu options now launch online documentation.
• Added option to enable/disable JavaScript.
• Added distribution Zip file build target.
• Updated buildsystem to squeeze !RunImage.
• Now require v0.13 or higher of the CryptRand module.
• Added logging switch to !NetSurf.!Run.
• Consult internal mimemap table before consulting MimeMap module.
• Improve line wrap handling.
• Made clipboard use UTF-8 internally.
• Now require v0.12 or higher of the Iconv module.
• Pass double and triple clicks to the core.
• Fixed ctrl+{left|right|up|down} keys.

GTK-specific

• Added URL launcher for NetSurf.
• Added support for building with GTK3.
• Fixed rendering of tiled background images.
• Fixed scrollwheel support.
• Fixed OpenBSD compatibility.
• Rewritten preferences handling.
• Added clipboard keyboard shortcuts for cut/copy/paste.
• Enabled support for line breaking on non-space characters.
• Improved localisation.

AmigaOS-specific

• Disabled print support.
• Tiled redraw improvement.
• Fixed fast scrolling.
• Updated default favicon.
• Improved status bar.
• Made DataTypes picture handler use the core image cache.
• Improved font width measuring.
• Improved position in rendered string handling.
• Improved line splitting handling.
• Allow another font to be used if current font lacks required glyph.
• Fixed download window's handling of aborted/stalled downloads.
• Added option to enable/disable JavaScript.
• Support for less than 16bpp screen modes.
• Optimisation for opaque bitmap plotting.
• Removed p96 dependency.
• Install target now produces an archive for distribution.
• Added hotlist toolbar.
• Improved tabbed browsing.
• Added basic context sensitive help.
• Made various redraw optimisations.

BeOS/Haiku-specific

• Made multiple toolbars share single icon instance.
• Optimised text rendering slightly.
• Added download window.
• Fixed off-by-one in caret placement and text selection.

Windows-specific

• Install target creates an installer.

Atari-specific

• Improved download window behaviour.
• Improved plotters.
• Optimised redraw areas.
• Simplified keyboard shortcut handling.
• Added native bitmap buffer for faster rendering.
• Improved toolbar.
• Improved URL bar.
• Enabled paste into URL bar.
• Faster rendering of opaque bitmaps.
• Faster freetype text rendering.
• Improved context menu.
• Added global history window.
• Improved text selection and caret placement.
• Improved font handling.
• Removed windom dependency.

Framebuffer-specific

• Removed unnecessary redraw when not scrolling.

• Optimised scrolling.

• Reduced lag in handling mouse actions and movements.

• Improved scrollbar behaviour.

• Added text caret for URL bar and HTML forms.

• Improved URL bar editing.

• Optimised text widget redraw.

• Improved text selection and caret placement.

• Enable mouse pointers with offset 'hot-spots'.

• Improved key handling.

• Added support for drags.

• Added simple internal clipboard (cut/copy/paste) support.

• Added on-screen-keyboard (OSK) icon.

• Turned on Quit button by default.

• Improved system colours.

• Improved window width/height option handling.

• LibNSFB library 0.1.0 (NetSurf Framebuffer):

  • Fixed X surface build.
  • Fixed 1bpp bitmap rendering. (Fixes internal font clipping.)
  • Improved 8bpp palette.
  • Optimised paletted rendering.
  • Added error diffusion support to bitmap plotter.
  • Added support for surfaces with BGR component ordering.
  • Added Wayland surface handler.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 2.9

Core / All platforms

• Improved internal management of simultaneously occurring operations.

• Rewritten and streamlined URL handling.

• Improved handling of frames and iframes.

• Improved handling of min/max-width on replaced elements.

• Simplified layout object dimension calculations.

• Reduced memory usage in the fetch layer.

• Disabled extraneous fetch debug code when built without debugging.

• Optimised fetchers.

• Updated MIME sniff handling in accordance with evolution of spec.

• Optimised cache layer.

• Enabled yield and resumption of box tree construction.

• Improved resource handling.

• Added new support for favicons.

• Increased default memory cache size.

• Added about:imagecache status page.

• Optimised URL fragment handling.

• Made meta refresh handling more robust.

• Various minor table layout fixes.

• Cleaned up fetch callback API.

• New hotlist entries can be inserted into defined or selected folder.

• Enabled resizing of textarea widget.

• Fixed cookie expiration.

• Improved handling of CSS overflow scrollbars.

• Fixed caret position after deleting selection in textarea widget.

• Enabled mouse wheel scrolling of frames and other scrollable content.

• Improved handling of file drops, e.g. for HTML form file submission.

• Added the beginnings of a gstreamer binding.

• Fixed some content cache layer issues.

• Improved handling of deletion of nodes from treeviews.

• Added options to disable fetching of images.

• Simplified redraw API rendering options.

• Improved support for drag operations.

• Hubbub library 0.1.2 (HTML parser):

  • Fixed xmlns attribute handling.

• LibCSS library 0.1.2 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Avoid interning standard strings for every stylesheet, style tag and style attribute.
  • Made significant optimisations to style selection.
  • Fixed case where font-family is unspecified in input CSS.
  • Added some support for @font-face.
  • Fixed !important on opacity property.
  • Added support for parsing CSS3 Multi-column layout properties.

RISC OS-specific

• Removed unused and broken plugin handler.
• Removed normalisation of user input URLs.
• Added support for external hotlist utilities.
• Improved signal handling.
• Improved keyboard input handling.
• Various fixes.
• Fixed Drawfile export not to show interactive features.
• Improved scroll event handling.

GTK-specific

• Improved resource handling.
• Cleaned up handling of tabs.
• Made tab bar position configurable.
• Updated plotters to use Cairo surfaces throughout.
• Enabled search-as-you-type of page content.
• Fixed ~/.netsurf directory permissions.

AmigaOS-specific

• Improved mouse handling.
• Improved multi-tasking behaviour.
• Increased keyboard scroll speed.
• Better MIME type handling.
• Improved contextual menu handling.
• Enabled context menu for frames.
• Enabled context menu for plain text contents.
• Improved aspect ratio handling.
• Consolidated user file operations.
• Fixed scrolling issues.
• Improved resource handling.
• Improved tab bar handling.
• Improved drag handling.
• Improved font handling.
• Improved clipboard support.

Mac OS X-specific

• Fixed build.

Atari-specific

• Added context menu.
• View source support.
• Use favicon when iconified.
• Removed unneeded frames handling code.
• Fixed rectangle plotter.
• Simplified status bar.
• Improved download window.
• Improved URL bar.
• Fixed conversion from local encoding to UTF-8.
• Improved scheduler.
• Added save page support.
• Added settings dialogue.
• Enabled view source feature.
• Added support for 8-bit displays.

Framebuffer-specific

• Reduced excessive logging.
• Implemented RAM surfaces, instead of direct blitting.
• Fixed VNC surface.
• Enabled thumbnailing in local history view.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 2.8

Core / All platforms

• Added rudimentary support for CSS :before pseudo element.

• Improved vertical layout of boxes and margin handling.

• Optimised layout engine not to calculate word widths it doesn't need.

• Optimised layout and redraw of pages as their images fetch.

• Simplified internal character in string location.

• Improved internal content management.

• Fixes to build system.

• Cleaned up image content handlers.

• Simplified internal content redraw interface.

• Simplified status bar text.

• Improved content handler initialisation.

• Improved scrollbar widget.

• Fixed direct dragging of scrollable boxes in HTML.

• Improved fetch option handling.

• Optimised treeview layout.

• Improved default cookie manager view.

• Added support for iframes.

• Added support for frames.

• Improved drag handling.

• Fixed text selection, search, and widget rendering in HTML redraw.

• Made page text search support more robust.

• Improved HTTP authentication header parsing.

• Removed plotter table global.

• Removed current browser global for redraw.

• Updated PNG handler for recent libPNGs.

• Refactored HTTP handling utilities.

• Improved handling of mouse input for text selection.

• Fixed stopping of active HTML content fetches.

• Fixed GCC 4.6 build warnings.

• Disallowed self-importing of CSS contents.

• Made download handling more robust.

• Simplified bitmap management.

• Improved handling of HTML font tag's size attribute.

• Added support for content type sniffing.

• Added an image cache, for managing decoded image reuse.

• Fixed handling of zero-length documents.

• Improved handling of memory cache sizes.

• Hubbub library 0.1.1 (HTML parser):

  • Fixed build with GCC 4.6.

• LibCSS library 0.1.1 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Improved build tree cleaning.
  • Fixed build with GCC 4.6.
  • Added support for selection of page-break properties.
  • Optimised style selection.

• LibParserUtils library 0.1.1 (parser building utility functions):

  • Changed build to require iconv by default.
  • Support Byte Order Marks in UTF16 and UTF32 streams.

RISC OS-specific

• Improved Adjust double-click handling in treeviews.
• Consolidated content handlers for ArtWorks, Draw, and Sprite.
• Removed redundant code specific to old RISC OS frame implementation.
• Removed redundant code specific to old RISC OS iframe implementation.
• Updated for new frame and iframe support in core.
• Updated to handle new interface to core redraw functionality.

GTK-specific

• Made new window open showing homepage, rather than current page.
• Fixed compatibility with latest GTK API.
• Updated to handle new interface to core redraw functionality.
• Updated for new frame and iframe support in core.

AmigaOS-specific

• Improved font handling.
• Improved text charset handling.
• Added support for user defined DPI setting.
• Improved image handlers.
• Improved MIME type handling.
• Primitive plugin content support.
• Added support for additional mouse buttons.
• Updated to handle new interface to core redraw functionality.
• Improved handling of tabs.
• Improved toolbar button availability.
• Improved download window.
• Improved context menus.
• Updated for new frame and iframe support in core.
• Added a splash screen.
• Improved support for entering exotic characters.

Mac OS X-specific

• Removed dependency on Xcode installation for MIME mappings.
• Accept URLs as arguments to binary.
• Fixed build.
• Fixed local directory listing display.
• Improved Apple image handler.
• Added view source functionality.
• Fixed crash due to broken certificate bundle path.
• Added quarantine attributes to downloaded files.
• Added NetSurf to 'Open with' menu for HTML files.
• Updated to handle new interface to core redraw functionality.
• Updated for new frame and iframe support in core.

BeOS/Haiku-specific

• Reduced debug output.
• Updated resources.
• Updated to handle new interface to core redraw functionality.
• Updated for new frame and iframe support in core.

Atari-specific

• Improved rendering.
• Implemented treeview support.
• Added Hotlist (bookmarks) feature.
• Simplified scheduler.
• Improved support for local files.
• Updated to handle new interface to core redraw functionality.
• Improved window resize accuracy.
• Ensured window title is converted to local encoding.
• Updated for new frame and iframe support in core.

Framebuffer-specific

• Improved portability.
• Updated to handle new interface to core redraw functionality.
• Fixed to handle no configured Cookies file location.
• Updated for new frame and iframe support in core.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 2.7

Core / All platforms

• Added WebP image support as build-time option.

• Made logging include timing information.

• Added treeview support.

• Added global history manager.

• Added hotlist manager.

• Added cookie manager.

• Added SSL certificate chain inspection display.

• Improved stability.

• Optimised plain text handling.

• Cleaned up build infrastructure.

• Fixed HTTP authentication issues.

• Improved cache cleanup.

• Improved detection of IP addresses in URLs.

• Fixed handling of IPv6 addresses.

• Updated rendering of local history.

• Made the cache more robust.

• Fixed building on OpenBSD.

• Optimised count of current fetches for given host.

• Added options for treeview rendering colours.

• Added partial support for CSS :after pseudo element.

• Fixed 'auto' top/bottom margins for tables.

• Improved font API documentation.

• Fixed float clearing bug.

• Fixed browser_window destruction issue.

• Added support for CSS system colours.

• Fixed colour treatment in rsvg binding.

• Improved portability.

• Fixed copying from plain text to clipboard.

• Improved core/front end interface for rendering into browser windows.

• Improved core/front end interface for rendering thumbnails.

• Optimised thumbnail rendering.

• Made rendering calls pass clipping rectangle around as pointer.

• Reduced floating point maths in the layout engine.

• Added support for about: URL scheme.

• Made cache more robust to strange server responses.

• Added about:config and about:Choices displays.

• Added about:licence and about:credits pages.

• Made knockout rendering optimisation independent of content types.

• Fixed clipping issue for HTML contents.

• Fixed overflow:auto and overflow:scroll behaviour.

• Set download filename according to Content-Disposition header.

• Added resource: URL scheme.

• Fixed poll loops for file: and data: URL scheme fetchers.

• Fixed cache control invalidation.

• Fixed text-indent layout issue.

• Fixed layout issue where clear wrongly interacted with margins.

• Improved cache performance.

• Fixed handling of objects which fail to load.

• Fixed various form submission issues.

• Parallelised fetch and conversion of imported stylesheets.

• Made content states more robust.

• Optimised layout code to reduce calls to measure strings.

• Improved layout code not to duplicate strings for text wrapping.

• Improved box structure for HTML contents.

• Optimised content message redraw requests.

• Made various cache enhancements.

• Text plot scaling handled in core.

• Handle API diversity of iconv() implementations.

• Optimise handling of child objects of an HTML content.

• Avoided stalling during early stages of fetch caused by cURL.

• Improved example of build configuration.

• Added generation of build testament for about:testament.

• Sanitised task scheduling.

• Improved debugging infrastructure.

• Fixed text/plain renderer to cope with scroll offsets.

• Added generated list of about: content at about:about.

• Allowed config. options to be set from the command line.

• Hubbub library 0.1.0 (HTML parser):

  • Added scoping for use from C++ programs.
  • Fixed example program.
  • Removed need for library initialisation and finalisation.
  • Generate entities tree at build time, rather than run time.
  • Added clang build support.

• LibCSS library 0.1.0 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Fixed destruction of bytecode for clip property.
  • Added scoping for use from C++ programs.
  • Removed need for library initialisation and finalisation.
  • Added support for CSS2 system colours.
  • Added support for CSS2 system fonts.
  • Altered external representation of colours to aarrggbb.
  • Added support for CSS3 rgba() colour specifier.
  • Added support for CSS3 'transparent' colour keyword.
  • Added support for CSS3 hsl() and hsla() colour specifiers.
  • Added support for CSS3 'currentColor' colour keyword.
  • Added support for CSS3 'opacity' property.
  • Added support for CSS3 selectors.
  • Added support for CSS3 namespaces.
  • Enabled clients to fetch imported stylesheets in parallel.
  • Made internal bytecode 64-bit safe.
  • Fixed leaking of strings.
  • Rewritten property parsers.
  • Certain property parsers auto-generated at build time.
  • Added clang build support.
  • Various portability enhancements.
  • Fixed selection for pseudo elements.
  • Added simultaneous selection for base and pseudo elements.
  • Namespaced all global symbols.
  • Updated test suite.
  • Future-proofed ABI.
  • Ensured fixed point maths saturates instead of overflowing.
  • Fixed clip property handling.
  • Fixed selection and cascade of "uncommon" CSS properties.
  • Added structure versioning for client input.

• LibNSBMP library 0.0.3 (NetSurf BMP decoder):

  • Added missing include.
  • Made more robust when handling broken ICO files.
  • Added clang build support.

• LibNSGIF library 0.0.3 (NetSurf GIF decoder):

  • Added missing include.
  • Added clang build support.

• LibParserUtils library 0.1.0 (parser building utility functions):

  • Fixed input stream encoding issue.
  • Added scoping for use from C++ programs.
  • Removed need for library initialisation and finalisation.
  • Removed need for run time provision of external Aliases file.
  • Added clang build support.
  • Namespaced all global symbols.
  • Handle API diversity of iconv() implementations.

• LibROSprite library (RISC OS Sprite support for non-RO platforms):

  • C89 compatibility.

• LibSVGTiny library (SVG support):

  • Improved parsing of stroke-width.
  • Added clang build support.
  • Various portability enhancements.

• LibWapcaplet library 0.1.1 (String internment):

  • Added scoping for use from C++ programs.
  • Removed need for library initialisation and finalisation.
  • Added clang build support.

RISC OS-specific

• Replaced hotlist with core hotlist.
• Replaced global history with core global history.
• Replaced cookie manager with core cookie manager.
• Replaced SSL cert. inspection with core SSL cert. inspection.
• Apply weighted averaging to download rate display.
• Examine extension when fetching local file of type 'Data'.
• Iconv module version 0.11 required.
• Rewritten toolbar code.
• Created simplified, self-contained gui widgets.
• Obtain download filename from the core.
• Set CSS system colours from desktop palette.
• Added menu entries to load about:licence and about:credits pages.

GTK-specific

• Replaced global history with core global history.
• Added bookmarks support, using core hotlist.
• Added cookie manager.
• Added SSL certificate inspection window.
• Support GTK >= 2.21.6.
• Improved full save implementation.
• Made drags less jerky.
• Made new tabs open to show homepage.
• Improved text wrap handling.
• Improved menu bar.
• Improved context sensitive popup menu.
• Made various thumbnailing fixes.
• Obtain download filename from the core.
• Updated to use resource: scheme for resources.
• Fixed makefie's installation target.
• Enabled tabbing between form inputs.
• Updated About NetSurf dialogue.
• Reduced overhead due to Pango when measuring text.

AmigaOS-specific

• Improved bitmap caching.
• Fixed menus in kiosk mode.
• Improved filetype handling.
• Fixed menu shortcuts.
• Replaced hotlist with core hotlist.
• Replaced global history with core global history.
• Replaced cookie manager with core cookie manager.
• Replaced SSL cert. inspection with core SSL cert. inspection.
• Improved Cairo and non-Cairo plotters.
• Added auto-scroll on selection drags beyond window boundaries.
• Improved clipboard handling.
• Improved icon usage.
• Improved stability.
• Some incomplete work towards AmigaOS 3 support.
• Disabled iframes by default.
• Set CSS system colours from the pens in the screen DrawInfo table.
• Fixed kiosk mode to always fill screen.
• Improved scheduler.
• Made new tabs open to show homepage.
• Obtain download filename from the core.
• Added history content menus to back and forward buttons.
• Bitmap rendering optimisations.
• Improved download handling.
• Runtime selection of graphics plot implementations.
• Updated About requester.
• Enabled fast scrolling for all content types.

Mac OS X-specific

• New front end.

BeOS/Haiku-specific

• Fixed Replicant instantiation.
• Set CSS system colours according to current desktop settings.

Windows-specific

• Improved sub-window creation.
• Fixed redraw bugs.
• Fixed bitmap plotting.
• Fixed thumbnailing.
• Fixed local history.
• Fixed URL bar.
• Cleaned up toolbar creation.
• Improved native build.
• Fixed CPU thrashing when idle.
• Use NetSurf icon on window decoration.
• Improved options dialogue.
• Made various 'look and feel' enhancements.

Atari-specific

• New front end.

Framebuffer-specific

• Improved toolbar.
• Improved font selection.
• Added glyph cache size configuration option.
• Made click action happen on mouse button release.
• Give browser widget input focus on startup.
• Fixed cursor leaving root widget.
• Dynamic detection of surface libraries.
• Updated to use resource: scheme for resources.
• Improved DPI handling.
• Fixed font size in text widgets.
• Added support for scaled rendering.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 2.6

Core / All platforms

• Improvements to float positioning.

• Fix absolute positioned inlines.

• Improve handling of percentage margins and paddings on floats.

• Fix several memory leaks.

• Rationalised memory allocation functions.

• Updated SSL root certificates.

• Fix handling of PNGs with zero data.

• Moved input handling into content handlers.

• Simplified browser window module.

• Fix table borders specified in em/ex units.

• Improved CSS content handling.

• Don't try to draw zero size images.

• Simplified and fixed save complete feature.

• Reduce frequency of cache clean attempts.

• Improve and optimise rendering of borders in HTML.

• Fix URL comparison issue.

• Improve object handling in HTML.

• Fix absolute positioned root element.

• Rewritten file: fetch handler for local URLs.

• Much improved directory listings for local file: paths.

• Improve handling of binary data in plain text renderer.

• Fixed cache expiry problems.

• LibCSS library 0.0.2 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • Allow stylesheets to be used in multiple contexts simultaneously.
  • Fix possible stylesheet reuse crash.

RISC OS-specific

• Increased maximum allowed value for memory cache size option.
• Update 'about' page to include licences for linked components.
• Fix layout to paper width when printing.
• Fix screen redraw after printing.
• Enable sideways print option.

GTK-specific

• Avoid potential use of NULL pointer.
• Fix for old versions of GTK.
• Improve internationalisation support.
• Improve handling of bitmap opacity.
• Fix redraw issues with non-HTML content.
• Cleaned up menu generation and handling.

BeOS/Haiku-specific

• Fix build.
• Fix mimetype acquisition for local files.
• Improve handling of bitmap opacity.
• Enable knockout rendering optimisation.
• Improved polygon plotter accuracy.
• Fix colours on copy to clipboard.

AmigaOS-specific

• Fixed menus when switching tabs.
• Improved font handling.
• Text kerning.
• Update for OS4.1 Update 2.
• Simplify building of Cairo and non-Cairo versions.
• Fixed scrollbar handling.
• Better NetSurf icon.
• Improve installer.
• Better support for ARexx commands.
• Context sensitive cut/copy/paste.
• Fix clipping for non-HTML contents.
• Option to show icon under drag saves.
• Bitmap plot optimisations.
• Now uses core fetcher for file: URLs.

Framebuffer-specific

• Framebuffer toolkit rationalised.
• Improved scrollbar support.
• Added X surface handler.
• Improved scheduling.
• Fixed redraw issues.
• Improved keypress handling.
• On screen keyboard.
• History window.
• Configurable window furniture size.
• Support for scaled bitmap plotting.
• Factored out common plot code for rendering at different bpp.
• Load and save cookies file on start and quit.
• Improve handling of bitmap opacity.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 2.5

Core / All platforms

• Fetch improvements.

• Fix fetching from https sites with http authentication.

• Handle http authentication with no realm.

• Cookie handling improvements.

• Improved support for {min|max}-{width|height} CSS properties.

• HTML redraw optimisations.

• Improved mouse tracking over browser windows.

• Browser window status bar update rationalisation.

• Better handling of memory exhaustion.

• Made text export more robust.

• Fix relative positioning of floats.

• Align baselines of text on a line.

• HTML layout optimisations.

• Fixed HTML based box alignment behaviour.

• Sorted out default table borders.

• Updated Italian translation.

• Updated German translation.

• Allow any name for frame targets.

• Allow sending of referer when moving from http hosts to https.

• Improved stability.

• Simplified plotter API.

• Fixed memory leak in imagemap handler.

• Optimised debug rendering of box model outlines.

• Activity is indicated by 'progress' pointer.

• Ensure debug rendering outlines are plotted on top of other content.

• Now using LibCSS for CSS parsing and selection.

• Many CSS related bugs fixed.

• Rewritten cache and internal content handling.

• Fixes for file: URL handling.

• Don't try to access file: URLs through the configured proxy.

• Core widget for handling SELECT element menus.

• Core scrollbar widget used for CSS overflow and SELECT menu widget.

• Very basic quirks mode support.

• Cleaned up how the initial rendering of a content occurs.

• Command line argument handling and initialisation cleanup.

• Clearer build configuration messages.

• Favicon retrieval.

• Full page saves, including CSS and image files.

• PDF export disabled.

• Search-as-you-type page search support.

• Hubbub library 0.0.2 (HTML parser):

  • Fixed locale problem.
  • Various improvements.

• LibCSS library 0.0.1 (CSS parser and selection engine):

  • First release.

• LibNSBMP library 0.0.2 (NetSurf BMP decoder):

  • Fix ICO decoding on big-endian platforms.
  • Improve inverse height calculation.

• LibNSGIF library 0.0.2 (NetSurf GIF decoder):

  • Improve Palette entry handling.

• LibParserUtils library 0.0.2 (parser building utility functions):

  • Fixed charset problem.
  • Various improvements.

• LibSVGTiny library (SVG support):

  • Colour component ordering fix.
  • Support arcs in paths.
  • Improve circle element handling.
  • Add ellipse element support.
  • Improve stroke width rounding.

• LibWapcaplet library 0.0.2 (String internment):

  • First release.

RISC OS-specific

• Theme code cleanup.

• Fix possible HTTP autentication crash.

• Fix potential problem with URL completion.

• Better handling of WIMP errors.

• Fixed memory leak in path plotting. (Used for SVG display.)

• Improve launching of URIs NetSurf doesn't handle.

• New guide to building NetSurf on RISC OS.

• Simplified native build process for NetSurf and libraries.

• Multitasking behaviour changed to be kinder to other apps.

• Fixed problem loading content served locally from WebJames.

• Improved stability.

• Save complete now implemented in the core.

• Find text moved to core and crash bug fixed.

• RUfl library (RISC OS Unicode support):

  • Fixed font scan crash.
  • Faster font scanning with FontManager 3.64 or later.

GTK-specific

• Give drawing area input focus on click.
• Added local history toolbar button.
• Improve dot and dash line patterns.
• Made throbber loading more robust.
• Improved tab handling.
• Improved status bar control.
• Faster plotting of clipped and scaled images for smooth scrolling.
• Favicon display.
• Added view source code feature.
• Added search box on toolbar.
• Theme handling.
• Toolbar customisation.
• Context sensitive menu updated.
• Improved menu structure.
• Updated for compatibility with latest GTK versions.

BeOS/Haiku-specific

• Complete save support.

AmigaOS-specific

• Faster and more robust page plotting.
• Better clipping of plot actions.
• Smoother scrolling.
• Improved handling of tabs.
• Added UI for SSL certificate inspection.
• Improved stability.
• Better font handling.
• Added a preferences GUI.
• Better pointer handling.
• Better handling of bitmap alpha channels.
• Improved status bar.
• Added scale support.
• Improved mouse click handling.
• Keyboard shortcuts added.
• Added search bar.
• Added HelpHints.
• Theme and icon improvements.
• Handle more exotic formats dropped on text boxes, using DataTypes.
• Favicon display.
• Added search box on toolbar.

Framebuffer-specific

• Framebuffer handling abstracted into libnsfb library.

• Fixed throbber to show inactivity correctly.

• Improved handling of text entry into URL bar.

• Fixed redraw issues while scrolled from top and while scrolling.

• Fixed redraw issues with animated GIFs and text areas.

• Improved mouse handling.

• Fixed zero size iframe crash.

• Added full range of pointer sprites.

• Better keyboard input handling.

• Fix continual reload on pages with meta refresh.

• Improve look and placement of toolbar, icons and scrollbars.

• Internal font changed. Includes more glyphs and bold/italic.

• Improved stability.

• LibNSFB library (NetSurf Framebuffer):

  • New library.

Windows-specific

• New front end, considered pre-alpha.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 2.1

Core / All platforms

• Fix detection of active link areas (avoids entire page being treated as a link in certain cases).
• Support height on TR.
• Fix numbering of floated list items.
• Make borders/margins/padding on form elements match other browsers.
• Updated Italian translation.
• German welcome page.
• Fix handling of percentage height on HTML and BODY.
• Partially handle percentage heights on TABLE

RISC OS-specific

• Set bit 4 of extended window flags byte.

GTK-specific

• Fix buffer overflows in options code.

BeOS/Haiku-specific

• Implement path plotter for SVG rendering.

AmigaOS-specific

• Improved packaging and installation rules.
• Speed up scrollwheel scrolling.
• Cache scaled bitmaps in memory by default.
• Support exporting of images as IFF.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 2.0

Core / All platforms

• Completely new HTML parser (Hubbub).

• SVG support. (Can be used as normal images and background images.)

• PDF export support.

• Many improvements to page layout and rendering.

• More CSS properties supported.

• Improved text selection behaviour.

• Charset fixes.

• Portability improvements.

• Configurable multi-platform build system.

• Tabbed browsing awareness.

• Corrected behaviour of backgrounds on root element.

• Many fixes related to floated content.

• More lenient meta refresh delay handling.

• Improvements to cut, copy and paste behaviour.

• Better cookie handling.

• Improved form functionality.

• Improved form control display.

• Stability fixes for handling nonsense data.

• Better handling of HTML attributes.

• Fix broken layout on systems which don't use '.' as the decimal separator.

• Fix inline height not affecting line height.

• Handle whitespace in URL bar.

• New throbber animation.

• Fixed occasional white flicker of page area during layout.

• New default homepage.

• Hubbub library 0.0.1 (HTML parser):

  • First release.

• LibParserUtils library 0.0.1 (parser building utility functions):

  • First release.

RISC OS-specific

• Restructured menu with access to more functionality.
• Remembers save / download paths.
• Improved style-guide compliance.
• Wimpslot size adjusted at build time.
• Alt+click on close icon closes all NetSurf windows.
• Escape aborts drag save.
• New object > link submenu.
• SVG to Drawfile conversion.
• Zoom/scale with shift+scrollwheel.
• Improved drawfile export.

GTK-specific

• Tabbed browsing.
• Global history.
• Download manager.
• Enhanced interface.
• Text selection.
• Print support.
• Improved context menu.
• Handle desktop DPI setting.
• Can support RISC OS Sprite bitmap format via librosprite.
• View source.
• Content language selection option.

BeOS/Haiku-specific

• First release.

AmigaOS-specific

• First release.

Framebuffer-specific

• First release.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.

NetSurf 1.2

Core / All platforms

• Overhaul documentation in line with new website.
• Many improvements to cookie handling.
• Minimum font size option is now obeyed by form elements.
• Add support for periodic reflow during fetching.
• Fixes for positioning of floated elements -- NetSurf now passes Acid1.
• Bring support for and align= in line with specification.
• Updated SSL root certificate bundle.
• Various fixes for form element default styling and interaction with CSS.
• Rewritten, more tolerant, HTTP redirect handling.
• Fix crash when tabbing into hidden form fields.
• Fix background handling on and .
• Permit <style> in .
• Relax restriction on location of @import rules.
• Improve CSS colour handling.
• Fix positioning of horizontal scrollbars within page.
• Fixes for inline-block boxes.
• Minor fixes to CSS parsing.
• NetBSD support.
• Fix GIF decoding to work correctly on big-endian processors.
• New build system and many compiler warnings fixed.

RISC OS-specific

• Fix crashes on 'images.google.com'.
• Fix intermittent crashing when clicking in URL-completion menu.
• Fix search when input is '*'.
• Fix Shift+Adjust clicks.
• Permit disabling of interactive help.

GTK-specific

• Improve form widget support.
• Improve support for core configuration options (memory cache size, proxy, etc).
• Fix unsightly flickering to white.
• Fix non-ASCII text input handling.
• Fix for caret positioning when clicking after the end of text in form inputs.

Also included are many and various smaller bug fixes, documentation enhancements and updated translations.

NetSurf 1.1

Core / All platforms

• Fix charset detection bugs, fixes #1726341 (WightLink).
• Add -v command line option to enable debugging output. (This is enabled by default in the RISC OS build via the !Run file).
• Rationalise header file includes.
• Various portability fixes to BSD and Solaris.
• Abstraction of schemes for fetchers.
• More encoding detection fixes.
• Fix cookie domain matching in unverifiable transactions.
• Fix cookie issues with 'launchpad.net'.
• Fix deadlock when fetching stylesheets.
• Fix bug where the referer header was being sent regardless.
• Fix bug where strange Accept-Language and other headers could be sent.
• Fix crash when building error page.
• Content scaling is now handled centrally, such that both GTK and RISC OS versions act in the same way.
• Licence for NetSurf changed to GPLv2 only with clause allowing linking to OpenSSL.

RISC OS-specific

• Tweak default hotlist entries to be more up-to-date.
• Fix interaction between failed drag saves and pointer tracking (including page scrolling).
• Scroll wheel support on hotlist and history windows.
• Use proper background colour for AW files using transparency.
• Fix AWRenderer clipping issue (#1756230) and improve rendering performance.

GTK-specific

• Add local file browsing MIME type guessing. Also fixes directory browsing.
• Fix destruction of windows involving frames, fixes crashes on sites such as 'news.bbc.co.uk'.
• Reduce flicker when periodically reflowing during fetch.
• Fix bug that caused 100% CPU usage on some sites with frames.
• Fix scroll-position setting, allowing anchors and back/forward positions to be set/remembered.
• Fix problems with closing windows with fetches still in progress.
• New Window menu entry now functions.
• Open File... menu entry now functions.
• Fix reentrancy issues with event scheduling.
• Support for setting the path to find CA certificates (fixes SSL sites).
• Stop referer header being sent with URLs entered in the URL bar.
• Use default homepage if homepage option is blank.
• Full screen mode now functions.
• Popup version of the main menu.
• Removal of menubar/toolbar/statusbar now functions.
• Fix corruption on some animated GIFs due to new images not being created blank.
• Fix issues with scrolling from the keyboard.
• Add simple SSL certificate verification window.

Also included are many and various smaller bug fixes, documentation enhancements and updated translations.

NetSurf 1.0

• First release.