NetSurf 1.1 Released
Rob Kendrick
I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of NetSurf 1.1, which
is a bug fix and security release to NetSurf 1.0, which was released at
the Wakefield Show this year. It is available for download from our
website, at http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
Here is a change log detailing the important changes in this release:
Core / All
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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. Thanks to everybody involved in
this release!
B.
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