- version update to 2.9.0
2024-01-15 (2.9.0)
* change version of OpenSSL used in Windows installers to 3.x and 1.1.1x,
for new/old respectively -TD
* fixes for UBSAN/ASAN issues with clang on Windows -GV
* modify install-doc rule to use relative path for symbolic links -TD
* add support for gopher's hURL functionality (patch by Viatrix).
* allow ^G interrupt to end read from a stalled connection without exiting
Lynx (Debian #1033423) -TD
* allow the ^S keymap to be disabled in the configuration file, e.g.,
KEYMAP:^S:UNMAPPED
(report by TG) -TD
* repair docs/OS-390.announce and docs/README.jp -TD
* make the test-files non-empty, to appease some packaging tools -TD
* check for getpwuid(), use in preference to deprecated cuserid() -TD
* modify curses initialization to permit ^S built-in keymap to work without
needing external stty changes -TD
* correct ifdef for LYmsec_delay() (report by Alexander Arkhipov) -TD
* add a NUL after "/" in the SGML parser when the next character is ">", to
make PRETTYSRC view display correctly (report by "Dima") -TD
* trim some obsolete style code for NeXT -TD
* improve responsiveness with respect to SIGWINCH (report by Mark Zaharov) -TD
* improve check for MAX_URI_SIZE -TD
* improve check for UTF-8 character encoding in XML Text Declaration (report by
Lennart Jablonka) -TD
* fix for decoding utf-8 in CDATA sections (patch by Hiltjo Posthuma)
* treat HTTP 308 permanently redirected the same as HTTP 301 permanently moved
(Debian #1041686).
* formatting fixes for manpage (Debian #1037353).
* change defaults in configure script to use compression -TD