1 Version 1.49 February 14, 2022
3 * Use @samp{} around the option in the menu description for "--help
4 recommendations" to avoid rendering the -- as endash.
5 * Don't translate @documentencoding.
6 * Fall back to forking iconv for encodings which are not supported by
9 Version 1.48 February 6, 2021
11 * Add Serbian, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese (simplified)
12 translations of info documentation.
13 * Add Tamil and Chinese (simplified) translations.
14 * Move table of contents to the top of the texi file so that it appears
15 in the correct location in the html page.
16 * Use the package name and version as the default for --source (was
18 * Support packages in version strings without the GNU or Free prefix.
19 * Allow an optional second dash to separate the package name from the
20 version for multi-word packages: "program - package name - version".
21 * Suppress creation of an empty pkglibdir when nls is disabled.
22 * Fix ordering of "other" sections in manual page.
23 * Use POSIX compliant TZ when setting UTC (thanks to Paul Eggert).
25 Version 1.47 June 9, 2015
27 * Set document language for localised info pages.
28 * Add French and Spanish translations of info documentation.
29 * Add Spanish and Danish translations.
30 * Add support for reproducible builds by using $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as the
31 date for the generated pages.
33 Version 1.46 July 7, 2014
35 * Add German, Ukranian and Polish translations of info documentation.
36 * Add Hungarian and Norwegian Bokmaal translations.
38 Version 1.45 March 24, 2014
40 * Add recognition of explicit section headings indicated with *Heading*.
41 * Improve handling of tagged paragraphs when body is on a following line.
42 * Add escapes to adjust spacing of italic text at roman/italic boundaries.
44 Version 1.44 February 2, 2014
46 * Parse option lines in the header section of include files using shell word
47 splitting which allows quoting of multiple words and backslash-escaping of
50 Version 1.43 Jun 4, 2013
52 * Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to
53 generated output for a section.
55 Version 1.42 May 28, 2013
57 * Consistently strip path and/or libtool `lt-' prefix from program
60 Version 1.41 December 31, 2012
62 * Set filenames in italics.
63 * Suppress option/filename handling in EXAMPLES section.
64 * Add Croatian translation.
65 * Add Serbian translation.
67 Version 1.40 May 28, 2011
69 * Update texinfo docs.
70 * Document --libtool option.
71 * Allow date format to be localised.
72 * Add Japanese translation.
74 Version 1.39 March 8, 2011
76 * Add --libtool option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs.
77 * Add Ukranian translation.
78 * Add Esperanto translation.
80 Version 1.38 April 26, 2010
82 * Support ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections.
83 * Move all translated text into .po files (previously .h2m include
84 files were handled seperately).
85 * Submit package to the Translation Project (translationproject.org).
86 * Add Vietnamese translation.
87 * Add some comments for translators.
89 Version 1.37 November 14, 2009
92 * Add --version-string option.
93 * Add --no-discard-stderr option.
94 * Add line breaks into bug reporting section.
95 * Add Brazilian Portuguese and German translations.
96 * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
97 * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.
99 Version 1.36 October 17, 2005
101 * Add default territory to --locale option.
102 * Add Finnish translations.
104 Version 1.35 November 25, 2004
106 * Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
109 Version 1.34 November 20, 2004
111 * Escape all unescaped hyphens in output.
112 * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
113 * Fix info section in SEE ALSO to use $program rather than
114 $info_page when referring to the program.
116 Version 1.33 July 18, 2003
118 * Add Polish translations.
119 * Support for localised "Usage:" output.
120 * configure: add --disable-nls option; verify gettext support.
122 Version 1.32 July 10, 2003
124 * Set modification time on generated help2man script so that generation
125 of man pages is dependent only on changes to the source help2man.PL
128 Version 1.31 July 9, 2003
130 * Check for errors writing to output page.
132 Version 1.30 July 9, 2003
134 * Support for localised manual pages has been added (--locale option).
136 Version 1.29 September 7, 2002
138 * Change info category to "GNU programming support".
140 Version 1.28 June 4, 2002
142 * Add --info-page option.
144 Version 1.27 March 19, 2002
146 * Allow short and long options to be separated by multiple spaces
149 Version 1.26 March 9, 2002
151 * Documentation updates giving suggested --help output.
153 Version 1.25 December 3, 2001
155 * New --source and --manual options to allow the page headers and
156 footers to be specified.
158 * New --help-option and --version-option options to cater for programs
159 which don't support the standard --help and --version.
161 Version 1.24 December 22, 2000
163 * Allow options to be specified in the initial block of include files.
165 Version 1.23 October 31, 2000
167 * Escape leading apostrophes.
169 Version 1.022 July 7, 2000
171 * help2man is now officially a GNU program. Add bug reporting
172 address and `GNU' prefix.
174 * configure now checks for `perl5' as well as `perl'.
176 Version 1.021 April 16, 2000
178 * Create directories if required (Makefile).
180 Version 1.020 December 30, 1999
182 * Remove directory from command name(s) in synopsis.
184 Version 1.019 November 3, 1999
186 * Sadly, 2+ spaces *are* required to unambiguously separate options
189 Version 1.018 November 1, 1999
191 * Recognise additional synopsis lines without requiring `or:' prefix.
192 * Adjust option tagged paragraph matching so that the first option
193 argument does not require an `='.
195 Version 1.017 October 27, 1999
197 * Allow --include to be used multiple times.
198 * Include files may now contain `/pattern/' which will append the text
199 following to any paragraph which matches the pattern.
201 Version 1.016 October 25, 1999
203 * Handle indenting/continuation of things which look like options
204 separately. This removes the requirement for 2+ spaces between
205 option and description, allows the description to occur on the line
206 below the option and relaxes the indent matching rules for continued