1 Version 1.49 December 13, 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
8 * Add Korean translation of manual page.
10 Version 1.48 February 6, 2021
12 * Add Serbian, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese (simplified)
13 translations of info documentation.
14 * Add Tamil and Chinese (simplified) translations.
15 * Move table of contents to the top of the texi file so that it appears
16 in the correct location in the html page.
17 * Use the package name and version as the default for --source (was
19 * Support packages in version strings without the GNU or Free prefix.
20 * Allow an optional second dash to separate the package name from the
21 version for multi-word packages: "program - package name - version".
22 * Suppress creation of an empty pkglibdir when nls is disabled.
23 * Fix ordering of "other" sections in manual page.
24 * Use POSIX compliant TZ when setting UTC (thanks to Paul Eggert).
26 Version 1.47 June 9, 2015
28 * Set document language for localised info pages.
29 * Add French and Spanish translations of info documentation.
30 * Add Spanish and Danish translations.
31 * Add support for reproducible builds by using $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as the
32 date for the generated pages.
34 Version 1.46 July 7, 2014
36 * Add German, Ukranian and Polish translations of info documentation.
37 * Add Hungarian and Norwegian Bokmaal translations.
39 Version 1.45 March 24, 2014
41 * Add recognition of explicit section headings indicated with *Heading*.
42 * Improve handling of tagged paragraphs when body is on a following line.
43 * Add escapes to adjust spacing of italic text at roman/italic boundaries.
45 Version 1.44 February 2, 2014
47 * Parse option lines in the header section of include files using shell word
48 splitting which allows quoting of multiple words and backslash-escaping of
51 Version 1.43 Jun 4, 2013
53 * Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to
54 generated output for a section.
56 Version 1.42 May 28, 2013
58 * Consistently strip path and/or libtool `lt-' prefix from program
61 Version 1.41 December 31, 2012
63 * Set filenames in italics.
64 * Suppress option/filename handling in EXAMPLES section.
65 * Add Croatian translation.
66 * Add Serbian translation.
68 Version 1.40 May 28, 2011
70 * Update texinfo docs.
71 * Document --libtool option.
72 * Allow date format to be localised.
73 * Add Japanese translation.
75 Version 1.39 March 8, 2011
77 * Add --libtool option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs.
78 * Add Ukranian translation.
79 * Add Esperanto translation.
81 Version 1.38 April 26, 2010
83 * Support ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections.
84 * Move all translated text into .po files (previously .h2m include
85 files were handled seperately).
86 * Submit package to the Translation Project (translationproject.org).
87 * Add Vietnamese translation.
88 * Add some comments for translators.
90 Version 1.37 November 14, 2009
93 * Add --version-string option.
94 * Add --no-discard-stderr option.
95 * Add line breaks into bug reporting section.
96 * Add Brazilian Portuguese and German translations.
97 * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
98 * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.
100 Version 1.36 October 17, 2005
102 * Add default territory to --locale option.
103 * Add Finnish translations.
105 Version 1.35 November 25, 2004
107 * Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
110 Version 1.34 November 20, 2004
112 * Escape all unescaped hyphens in output.
113 * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
114 * Fix info section in SEE ALSO to use $program rather than
115 $info_page when referring to the program.
117 Version 1.33 July 18, 2003
119 * Add Polish translations.
120 * Support for localised "Usage:" output.
121 * configure: add --disable-nls option; verify gettext support.
123 Version 1.32 July 10, 2003
125 * Set modification time on generated help2man script so that generation
126 of man pages is dependent only on changes to the source help2man.PL
129 Version 1.31 July 9, 2003
131 * Check for errors writing to output page.
133 Version 1.30 July 9, 2003
135 * Support for localised manual pages has been added (--locale option).
137 Version 1.29 September 7, 2002
139 * Change info category to "GNU programming support".
141 Version 1.28 June 4, 2002
143 * Add --info-page option.
145 Version 1.27 March 19, 2002
147 * Allow short and long options to be separated by multiple spaces
150 Version 1.26 March 9, 2002
152 * Documentation updates giving suggested --help output.
154 Version 1.25 December 3, 2001
156 * New --source and --manual options to allow the page headers and
157 footers to be specified.
159 * New --help-option and --version-option options to cater for programs
160 which don't support the standard --help and --version.
162 Version 1.24 December 22, 2000
164 * Allow options to be specified in the initial block of include files.
166 Version 1.23 October 31, 2000
168 * Escape leading apostrophes.
170 Version 1.022 July 7, 2000
172 * help2man is now officially a GNU program. Add bug reporting
173 address and `GNU' prefix.
175 * configure now checks for `perl5' as well as `perl'.
177 Version 1.021 April 16, 2000
179 * Create directories if required (Makefile).
181 Version 1.020 December 30, 1999
183 * Remove directory from command name(s) in synopsis.
185 Version 1.019 November 3, 1999
187 * Sadly, 2+ spaces *are* required to unambiguously separate options
190 Version 1.018 November 1, 1999
192 * Recognise additional synopsis lines without requiring `or:' prefix.
193 * Adjust option tagged paragraph matching so that the first option
194 argument does not require an `='.
196 Version 1.017 October 27, 1999
198 * Allow --include to be used multiple times.
199 * Include files may now contain `/pattern/' which will append the text
200 following to any paragraph which matches the pattern.
202 Version 1.016 October 25, 1999
204 * Handle indenting/continuation of things which look like options
205 separately. This removes the requirement for 2+ spaces between
206 option and description, allows the description to occur on the line
207 below the option and relaxes the indent matching rules for continued