1 2011.05.10 - GNU nano 2.3.1 "I'm in space" is released. This
2 release includes some fixes for the new libmagic code, as
3 well as a fix for improper character counts when using
4 auto-indent. Also included are new syntax highlighting
5 definitions for RPM spec and lua files. Thanks for
6 using nano and keep circulating the tapes.
8 2011.02.26 - GNU nano 2.3.0 "Septic surprise" is released. This first
9 release in the 2.3 unstable series bring several new
10 features. First, libmagic support for syntax highlighting
11 has been added on top of the existing file extension
12 and header support already available. Secondly, cursor
13 position can be saved between editing sessions with
14 the -P or --poslog command line flags, or via "set poslog"
15 in your .nanorc. Also included are some fixes for
16 compilation with g++, and better handling of issues
17 writing the backup file, which should reduce the need
18 for the 'set allow_insecure_backup" nanorc option.
19 Don't stop, get it get it, don't stop, get it get it.
21 2010.08.05 - GNU nano 2.2.5 "Inactivity timeout" is now available.
22 This release includes slightly less restrictive checkng
23 when writing files in strange environments (e.g.
24 when being used out of crontab). For very strange situations
25 (such as where you cannot change the permissions on the
26 file you're writing, there is a new rc file option
27 "allow_insecure_backup" to be even more permissive and
28 allowing the write to proceed. Also included are
29 some syntax highlighting updated, and that is about it.
30 Keep fighting the good fight children.
32 2010.04.15 - GNU nano 2.2.4 is nobody's fool. First and foremost,
33 this relase includes some security fixes due to
34 an assessment of nano's vulnerability to symlink attacks
35 on open files. The CVEs fixed with this release are
36 CVE-2010-1160 and CVE-2010-1161. Also included are fixes
37 for various crash modes when using the spell checker
38 on new files in multibuffer mode (surely you've used
39 that combination recently? No?) as well as a fixing
40 the 'file was modified' message when saving to a
41 new filename (since how would nano know?). And
42 the list would not be complete without our
43 third-times-the-charm fixes to page up/down due to
44 the soft wrapping code. The lone new feature
45 included is a new syntax higlighting definition for
46 cmake-related files. Please do consider upgrading to
47 this release if still using the 2.0 series since
48 fixes for that version are still forthcoming.
51 2010.02.11 - GNU nano 2.2.3 "fumbling toward stability" is released.
52 This release contains a fix for only one bug, but a
53 rather irritating one: when paging up/down with smooth
54 scrolling, the cursor position was not being preserved
55 due to a bug in 2.2.2. With such a targeted fix
56 like this what could POSSIBLY go WRONG? Hahaha.
57 Enjoy and if you find new bugs, as always please
58 use Savannah's bug tracker.
59 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano
61 2010.01.17 - GNU nano 2.2.2 is released for you, you, you. This
62 release includes fixes for: crashed when writing
63 backup files in certain conditions, improper
64 screen centering when moving up/down in various
65 combination of smooth scrolling and soft wrapping modes,
66 a search crash on the armel arch, and issues with
67 lots of keybinding customizations causing crashing
68 particularly on FreeBSD. Also included are better
69 help menu entries for forward/back in the file browser,
70 some man page tweaks and one assert fix. As always,
73 2009.12.12 - GNU nano 2.2.1 "DLR strikes back" is open for business.
74 This release fixes many bugs, including: missing
75 keybindings for page up/down and GotoDir in the browser,
76 ^P/^N in the help menu, and restoration of M-W as the
77 default re-search binding. Other fixes include several
78 issues with compiler warnings and configure options, and
79 documentation updates, including the nano texinfo manual,
80 nano and nanorc man pages, and UPGRADE file, and some
81 missing syntax highliting entries for the saple nanorc.
82 And no release would be complete without the latest round
83 of 'final' soft wrapping fixes! Finally, nano will no
84 longer print a warning when attempting to insert the
85 contents of a read-only file into an existing buffer.
86 Enjoy and Happy Hanukkah.
89 2009.11.30 - GNU nano 2.2.0 "Doc Brown" is released! The culmination
90 of almost two years of development and hot on the heels
91 of nano's 10th birthday is available for all your
92 editing needs! Bugs fixed since the last release
93 include several fixes for tiny mode (involving both
94 the help keys and replace menu text), more 'final'
95 fixes for soft wrapping, and several typo and documentation
96 updates including nanorc tweaks and a new syntax
97 highlighting file for makefiles. Also included is a long
98 standing fix for random crashing when using nanorc on
99 FreeBSD, and nano will no longer clear the screen on
100 suspend to maintain compatibility with other *nix editors.
101 For those who haven't been playing along at home, please
102 see the official web page for the summary of new
103 features since 2.0. Special thanks to all who have
104 submitted bug reports recently in support of our new
105 stable release, and apologies for all those bugs we
106 didn't yet find :-) Peace to all.
108 2009.11.21 - GNU nano 2.1.99pre2 is available for a special pre-Black
109 Friday discount. Included are some (hopefully
110 final) fixes for issues with last page display
111 caused by the soft wrapping code, and a fix for
112 a long standing issue with hittig the home key when
113 going through the search history. On the features
114 front, nano will now attempt to retain the proper
115 ownership and permissions when trying to create a
116 .save file due to receiving a signal. Nano can also
117 now unbind keys from one or more menus via the 'unbind'
118 keyword. Finally, passing --fill or --nowrap on
119 the command line will now override any related
120 .nanorc entries. Speak now or forever hold your bugs!
122 2009.11.15 - GNU nano 2.1.99pre1 "take a bow" is out there, man, it's
123 out there all right. This release contains mainly
124 bugfixes, underscoring that we are preparing for the
125 next stable series release. Included are many fixes
126 for the new soft wrapping code, compiler warning tweaks,
127 and the modification time warning no longer triggers
128 when saving a file as a new name. Also include are
129 some fixes for various nanorc options, and there are
130 surely more bugs to find before we call the code base
131 stable, so please keep those reports coming!
133 2009.09.14 - GNU nano 2.1.11 is on very thin ice, very thin ice, very thin
134 ice. This release includes two new features: first, nano
135 will check whether the current file is writable when it
136 is opened, and warn if it is not on the status bar. Secondly,
137 a new soft-wrapping (AKA full line display) option is
138 available, which will attempt to fully display the contents
139 of lines longer than the width of the screen without the
140 usual truncation and a '$' symbol at the end of the line.
141 It can be enabled via Meta-$ inside the editor, via the
142 -$ or --softwrap command line flags, or "set softwrap"
143 in your .nanorc). As always please report any bugs to the
144 nano Savannah project page
145 (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano)
146 Remember: data loss happens, back up your files.
148 2009.07.28 - GNU nano 2.1.10 "Ellie" is released. This version includes
149 various fixes for portability including some older HP-UX
150 compiler combos, various compiler warnings, and some crash
151 fixes in the undo code. On the topic of the latter item,
152 the undo code is now marked as experimental since it can
153 cause severe stability and memory issues, and thus now
154 requires a flag (-u, --undo) in order to enable it.
155 Please feel free to continue to test the undo code and
156 thanks again for using nano for your text editing needs.
159 2009.02.16 - GNU nano 2.1.9 wonders what all that glass is doing on the
160 floor! This release is primarily meant as a less buggy
161 version of 2.1.8, particularly for issues with the new
162 sped-up syntax highlighting code. Other fixes include
163 configure-time detection of groff HTML support before
164 attempting to generate the HTML version of man pages,
165 and using ~ or ~username syntax in .nanorc should now
166 work again. Also, nano will now only ask for one
167 acknowledgement of errors it encounters when parsing
168 nanorc files, and a new flag -q (--quiet) will silence
169 these messages altogether. Give it a go, and happy
172 2009.02.07 - GNU nano 2.1.8 "unsafe at any speed" is released. This
173 release include some long overdue performance
174 improvements in syntax color highlighting, the ability
175 to abort running searches (useful mainly when
176 editing very large files) and the ability to use nano
177 like a pager for viewing standard input (i.e. "nano -").
178 Additionally, there are gentoo syntax highlighting
179 updates and fixes for issues with reading files
180 in a directory with strange parent directory permissions.
181 The key bindings code was also substantially changed
182 in order to be more ISO-C compatible. Be sure to use
183 the Savannah page not only for bug reports but for any
184 features you would like to see before the next stable
185 series is released. Have fun with it!
188 2008.11.10 - GNU nano 2.1.7 "Effingham" is ready to make good on those
189 campaign promises of lower bug rates and 50% more pie.
190 This release includes a new check for external
191 modifications when saving a file, some code and
192 documentation cleanups, and more bug fixes for
193 the new undo code (but we continue to welcome your bug
194 reports via the Savananh bug page at
195 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano.
198 2008.10.03 - GNU nano 2.1.6 was for new features before it was against
199 them. This release includes more undo capability,
200 several new syntax highlighting configurations including
201 Objective C, OCaml, and Fortran, and a new capability
202 to activate highlighting based on the 1st line of the
203 file being edited. Also, the new default configure
204 options now include color syntax highlighting, .nanorc
205 support, multibuffer and extras. These items can still
206 be disabled and are not enabled with --enable-tiny. Bug
207 fixes include better signal handling under Cygwin, and
208 that's about it. Again please remember to
209 submit bug reports via Savannah at
210 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano
211 as undo functions certainly need more testing.
214 2008.08.30 - GNU nano 2.1.5 is ready to lead on day one. This release
215 contains a better fix for incorrectly reported successful
216 writes on full filesystems, more helpful messages when
217 an internal error occurs in the undo code, and fixes for
218 various combinations of configure-time options and
219 compiler flags. Also included is new support for
220 changing the rc file name at configure time, and
221 using GNU-style regexes for word-boundaries on systems
222 which do not support them natively, as well as the ever
223 popular translation updates. Rock the tarball.
225 2008.08.09 - GNU nano 2.1.4 "I told you so!" is released. This release
226 includes fixes for several severe issues with the new
227 undo/redo code. Also the behavior of writing
228 files when using backup mode has changed as well: if writing
229 the backup file fails, nano will not attempt to write the
230 current file. This should help folks who enjoy "extreme
231 text editing" i.e. editing files on file systems which
232 are likely to run out of space; see Savannah bug 24000.
235 2008.08.04 - GNY nano 2.1.3 "least stable version ever" is released. This
236 release includes new (and experimental) undo and redo
237 functionality for most text operations. The default
238 key bindings are Meta-U for undo and Meta-E for redo, but
239 these can be remapped using the new 2.1 keybinding code.
240 Also included are some fixes for configuring using wide
241 curses, crashing when invoking the help menu with
242 certain locales, and not saving the search history when
243 compiled with configure options.
245 2008.04.24 - GNU nano 2.1.2 "New York City" is released. This release
246 contains fixes for binding bad keys, some
247 configure-specific compilation failures, and more issues
248 with the new input back end and in particular the status
249 bar. Also fixed are some long standing issues with
250 compiling on AIX, and a segfault when making the terminal
251 window too small. Rest in Peace Tim and George!
253 2008.04.01 - GNU nano 2.1.1 wont get fooled again. This release contains
254 fixes for the new user-rebindable keys (in particular
255 bracket match which was mis-bound), and various
256 problems with translations and configure-related
257 compilation problems are now fixed as well.
258 It also contains new syntax highlighting
259 definitions for TCL, PHP, Gentoo and Debian-related
260 files, and some documentation updates as well.
261 Please continue to send reports with the key
262 binding code to the Savannah page
263 (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano).
265 2008.03.18 - GNU nano 2.1.0 "under old mismanagement" is released.
266 This first release in the 2.1 development series
267 introduces rebinadble keys for most actions inside
268 the editor. Please see the nanorc(5) page for
269 more information on configuring key bindings. Please
270 also report all keybinding bugs (crashes, missing
271 menu functions) using the Savannah bug tracker URL,
272 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano and
273 thanks for sticking with us!
275 2007.12.20- GNU nano 2.0.7 keeps its balance. This release fixes
276 several bugs, among others: a segfault and several
277 cursor positioning problems when uncutting text or
278 inserting files into the current buffer; a problem where
279 the total number of characters would be miscalculated
280 when replacing single-byte characters with multibyte
281 ones; several minor issues with the statusbar prompt
282 involving text display and mouse support; and several
283 oddities when tab-completing in the middle of a line.
284 It also improves autodetection of DOS and Mac format
285 files, properly supports the mouse wheel when using a
286 version of ncurses built with the --enable-ext-mouse
287 option, fixes some problems under NetBSD curses, adds a
288 lot of translation updates, and adds more minor
289 documentation updates. Slang curses emulation support
290 has also been changed to turn off all the options that
291 --enable-tiny does, as it's hopelessly broken otherwise.
292 Finally, nano is now licensed under the GNU GPL version
293 3 or later, and its documentation is now dual-licensed
294 under the GNU GPL version 3 or later and the GNU FDL
295 version 1.2 or later. Have fun.
297 2007.04.26- GNU nano 2.0.6 "that was quick" is released. This release
298 fixes a potential segfault after justifying text marked
299 from the bottom up. It also adds one more minor
300 documentation update. Enjoy.
302 2007.04.22- GNU nano 2.0.5 braces for impact. Among other things, this
303 release fixes various problems (including a segfault)
304 when trying to open or save a file in a directory
305 beginning with "~" that isn't a home directory; fixes a
306 problem where a file with no name could be saved over an
307 existing filename with no warning about overwriting it;
308 properly disallows opening directories or device files
309 from "include" commands in nanorc files; no longer
310 displays a misleading prompt when trying to save in
311 restricted mode with the mark on; and properly supports
312 the Cancel and Shift-Cancel keys. It also improves
313 several color syntaxes to highlight trailing whitespace,
314 just as the Java syntax does, and adds yet more minor
315 documentation updates. Have fun.
317 2007.04.06 - GNU nano 2.0.4 heralds the dawn. This release contains
318 proper support for the Ctrl-[arrow key], Shift-[arrow
319 key], and F13-F16 keys under Xfce's Terminal. It also
320 adds still more minor documentation updates. Enjoy.
322 2007.01.29 - GNU nano 2.0.3 flows toward its ending. This release
323 contains several minor optimizations to make the
324 executable a little smaller under some circumstances,
325 some translation updates, improvements to the color
326 syntax for Python, and still more minor documentation
329 2006.12.20 - GNU nano 2.0.2 forges ahead. This release fixes a segfault
330 when trying to save in a nonexistent directory; fixes
331 handling of strings containing nulls at the "Write File",
332 "Insert File", "Execute Command", and "Go to Directory"
333 prompts; fixes several minor memory leaks; fixes two
334 more potential compilation warnings; adds a few
335 translation updates; and adds a few more minor
336 documentation updates. Enjoy.
338 2006.11.20 - GNU nano 2.0.1 emerges from its cocoon. This release
339 contains several bugfixes: saving one file over another
340 will now always warn about overwriting it, overwriting
341 a file is no longer possible when saving a new file in
342 restricted mode, and zero-length Unicode characters are
343 now highlighted properly when nano is built without
344 regular expression support. It also adds several minor
345 documentation updates. Have fun with it.
347 2006.11.06 - GNU nano 2.0.0 does its little dance. This release adds
348 documentation updates and a few cosmetic tweaks.
349 For those who haven't been following nano 1.3
350 development, there are a ton of new features, including
351 support for UTF-8, moving to a specified line and column
352 instead of just a line, improved color syntax
353 highlighting, inserting previously untypeable characters
354 using "Verbatim Input" mode, and copying text into the
355 cutbuffer without cutting it. There are also fixes for
356 some long-standing bugs, such as the "NumLock glitch"
357 from nano 1.2.x, and the inability to unjustify text
358 after resizing. Finally, there are also a ton of
359 translation updates and new translations, as well as new
360 color syntaxes. See the UPGRADE file for more
361 information, and enjoy the new stable release.
363 2006.10.25 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre3 learns to appreciate life. This
364 release fixes a bug where the screen sometimes wouldn't
365 be updated properly after copying text into the
366 cutbuffer, fixes a potential warning while compiling,
367 and fixes a few other minor inconsistencies. Have fun.
369 2006.10.02 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre2 crosses the threshold. This release
370 fixes a few more bugs: cursor positioning after leaving
371 the statusbar prompt has been fixed, and verbatim input
372 at the statusbar prompt now properly handles newlines.
375 2006.08.29 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre1 passes through the flames. This
376 release fixes various bugs in the last version: the
377 mouse support properly ignores everything except clicks
378 of the left mouse button; the statusbar is now blanked
379 properly when it should be; indenting and unindenting
380 operate on the current line when the mark is off; nano
381 should build on Tru64, NetBSD, and other systems that
382 use termcap instead of terminfo in their curses
383 libraries; the built-in file browser now properly
384 navigates file lists that take up only one row; the
385 cursor position is now completely restored after
386 inserting a file into the current buffer, and after
387 inserting the output of a command into a new buffer; the
388 ^X shortcut at the search prompt has been removed, as
389 official Pico doesn't include it and it's too easily
390 confused with Exit; the screen is updated properly after
391 scrolling a line without moving the cursor; the keyboard
392 input routines behave more consistently; and so on.
395 2006.06.26 - GNU nano 1.3.12 escapes the darkness. This release
396 contains the last new features that nano will have
397 before 2.0: copying text into the cutbuffer without
398 cutting it, indenting lines of marked text with a single
399 keystroke, reworked help text that should be easier for
400 new users, searching for filenames in the file browser,
401 the ability to include color regexes in files separate
402 from nanorc files, etc. It also contains many bugfixes.
403 Text can now be unjustified after justifying it and
404 resizing the window; the screen is now cleared when
405 suspending; the "default" color syntax is now handled
406 properly at all times; lines of text containing tabs are
407 now wrapped at the right place; double-column characters
408 are now properly displayed when past the right edge of
409 the screen; invalid multi-line color regexes are now
410 ignored; and so on. Enjoy.
412 2006.03.30 - GNU nano 1.3.11 awakens from its fever dream. This release
413 focuses mostly on bugfixes, which include better
414 handling of the cursor at the statusbar prompt, support
415 for certain combinations of Shift and keypad keys in
416 both normal and --rebind-keypad mode, a fix for a minor
417 display problem after some searches, a real fix for a
418 long-standing segfault when displaying overly long
419 lines, and a real fix for nano's not hanging up properly
420 in xterm under certain circumstances. There are also
421 several new features, such as the ability to set the
422 characters used as brackets when searching for matching
423 brackets, and tab completion of directories at the "Go
424 To Directory" prompt. Have fun.
426 2005.12.23 - GNU nano 1.3.10 rises to the surface. This release
427 contains several new features as well as fixes for
428 several longstanding bugs. The former include the
429 ability to scroll up or down single lines without
430 scrolling the cursor, reworked bracket searching code
431 that doesn't require regular expression support,
432 reworked command execution code that uses $SHELL if
433 available instead of hardcoding "/bin/sh", and the
434 ability to no longer add newlines to files that don't
435 end in them via the -L/--nonewlines option. The latter
436 include fixes to the statusbar prompt so that mouse
437 clicks work properly on it, fixes to the Yes/No/All
438 prompt so that mouse clicks on it work properly when
439 -O/--morespace is used, and fixes to the resize handling
440 so that nano dies properly when the terminal is too
441 small to display a prompt. Enjoy.
443 2005.10.23 - GNU nano 1.3.9 breaks through the wall. This release
444 includes major enhancements as well as bugfixes. The
445 enhancements include better handling of invalid UTF-8,
446 expansion of the word count option to also count lines
447 and characters in the file or selection, more efficient
448 screen update routines, a readded -K/--rebindkeypad
449 option to work around numeric keypad problems on
450 terminals that don't show the usual NumLock glitch, a
451 new -W/--wordbounds option to properly detect words
452 containing punctuation when moving among them, and
453 massive improvements to the color code such as handling
454 of unspecified foreground colors, more efficient memory
455 usage for color regexes, and new reserved syntaxes
456 "default" and "none". The bugfixes include fixes for
457 the rewritten history code, fixes for potential line
458 numbering problems on 64-bit platforms, fixes for a few
459 long-standing minor display problems, a fix for erroneous
460 hangups occurring while waiting for input, and a fix for
461 a segfault when displaying certain overly long lines.
464 2005.06.30 - GNU nano 1.3.8 floats at its own level. This release
465 contains several new features. Among other things, you
466 can now move to a specified column number as well as
467 line number within a file, file backups saved in a
468 backup directory will have unique names, the search and
469 replace history routines should work more consistently,
470 you can get a word count by pressing Meta-D at the edit
471 window, and there's a new -E/--tabstospaces option to
472 convert all typed tabs to spaces (--backupdir's short
473 option has been changed to -C). In terms of bugfixes,
474 this release contains fixes for minor problems with
475 screen updates, UTF-8 display, and flow control; a fix
476 for a segfault when displaying some lines ending with
477 tabs; better handling of constant cursor position
478 display; improved color parsing in the rcfile; and
479 support for the "Regexp" toggle in tiny mode
480 (-R/--regexp is gone, and --restricted's short option
481 has been changed to -R), among other things. Enjoy.
483 2005.04.10 - GNU nano 1.3.7 claws its way to the top. This release
484 mostly contains bugfixes for the massive amount of new
485 code in 1.3.6. Among other things, nano builds with
486 debug support again; going into the help browser at the
487 "Read File" prompt no longer kicks you out of the prompt
488 after you exit the help browser; paragraph searching no
489 longer skips over certain cases of single-line
490 paragraphs; the titlebar no longer cuts off some UTF-8
491 strings prematurely; and the text displayed in the help
492 browser is now wrapped as it was in nano 1.2.x, taking
493 UTF-8 support into account. New features include an
494 --enable/disable-utf8 configure option to explicitly
495 turn detection of UTF-8 support on or off, and sample
496 regexes for C++ as well as C. Have fun.
498 2005.03.20 - GNU nano 1.3.6 "shout it from the rooftops" is released.
499 This release finally includes the long-awaited support
500 for UTF-8. Other new features include the ability to
501 insert UTF-8 characters using verbatim input; the
502 ability to delete all text from the cursor position to
503 the end of the file via ^W^X as (patched) Pico does;
504 improvements to input and output so that pasted text
505 displays faster, improvements to the statusbar prompt so
506 that more edit window shortcuts, including verbatim
507 input and previous/next word search, work in it; a new
508 option to allow using the formerly always-blank second
509 line of the screen as part of the edit window; and the
510 ability to refresh the help browser and file browser
511 windows via Ctrl-L. Notable bug fixes include a fix for
512 a segfault when using full justify, and a fix for the
513 long-standing bug where nano would keep running if the
514 terminal it was in died unexpectedly. Enjoy.
516 2004.11.22 - GNU nano 1.3.5 hurls itself forward. New features in this
517 release include the ability to replace only marked text
518 when the mark is on, improvements to smooth scrolling so
519 that it applies everywhere instead of just affecting the
520 movement keys, improvements to how files are opened so
521 that they are no longer displayed unnecessarily, support
522 for multiple +LINE arguments in addition to multiple
523 filenames on the command line, autodetection of the
524 format to save a file in based on the format it was in
525 when it was opened, the ability to toggle both ways
526 between the "Read File" and "Execute Command" prompts
527 and the "Search" and "Go to Line" prompts, and support
528 for cross-compiling nano. As for bug fixes, the
529 "tabsize" nanorc option works again, mouse clicks on the
530 shortcut list trigger the right shortcuts again,
531 tab-completing a filename with %'s in it no longer
532 causes a segfault, the internal spell checker no longer
533 skips words after the cursor position when the cursor is
534 in the middle of the file, and spell checking of only
535 marked text now works properly. Have fun with it.
537 2004.08.17 - GNU nano 1.3.4 marches forth after a false start. This
538 release mainly features fixes for the bugs that crept
539 into the last release. Among other things, nano now
540 compiles again with certain options, quoted justify now
541 works properly on systems without regex.h, full justify
542 no longer segfaults when used on a file with no
543 paragraphs, previous paragraph searching works properly
544 again, tab completion is properly disabled when needed
545 in restricted mode, Ctrl-C is no longer disabled after
546 using the alternate spell checker, the permissions of a
547 newly created file now match those of nano 1.2.x again,
548 and replacing all text in a file now properly updates
549 the screen in all cases. New features include sample
550 regexes for patch files, improvements to the sample
551 regexes for C files, and support for strings greater
552 than 1023 characters and/or containing nulls in
553 .nano_history. Additionally, the full justify keystroke
554 has been changed to match current Pico, and whitespace
555 display mode is now turned off by default. Enjoy.
557 2004.06.28 - GNU nano 1.3.3 marches forth. There are several new
558 features in this release, including a restricted mode
559 that provides better security than just setting an
560 operating directory, the ability to justify the entire
561 file at once, support for a "smart" home key that can
562 leap from the beginning of text on a line to the true
563 beginning of the line (or the reverse) in one stroke,
564 support for specifying an alternative spell checker in
565 $SPELL, the ability to specify the characters used to
566 display spaces and tabs so that they can easily be told
567 apart, and the ability to specify the characters marking
568 the ends of sentences as used in justification. There
569 are also several bug fixes; among other things,
570 justification now keeps spaces at the ends of all but
571 the last line of a paragraph as Pico does, saving a
572 marked selection no longer changes the current filename
573 to the filename the selection was saved under, resizing
574 now works better and no longer corrupts the screen under
575 slang, and the movement functions now avoid doing
576 unnecessary redraws and hence work faster. In short,
577 there are a lot of new things to play with. Enjoy.
579 2004.03.31 - GNU nano 1.3.2 is prepared for the void. New features in
580 this release include the ability to spell-check only
581 marked text and the ability to save all backup files in
582 a specified directory instead of wherever the original
583 files are. Bug fixes include a fix for a segfault when
584 replacing certain regular expressions, fixes for some
585 misbehavior when doing searches, minor fixes to verbatim
586 input mode and keyboard input in general, better
587 handling of window resizes at certain times, and
588 allowing the mark to be saved properly again when
589 switching between multiple file buffers. nano has also
590 been ported to the Tandem NonStop Kernel. Have fun.
592 2004.01.09 - GNU nano 1.3.1 is outside the gates. This release
593 features, among other things, fixes for the input
594 routines to deal with some problems they had, a
595 reorganized shortcut list for the help browser, minor
596 Pico compatibility improvements for the file browser,
597 fixes for misbehavior when replacing certain regular
598 expressions, and the ability to highlight those regular
599 expressions properly. It also allows searching without
600 prompting to work in view mode, adds support for glib
601 2.x for those systems that need it, updates the .spec
602 file for the 1.3 branch, prompts you first when you try
603 to save a file under a different name, and adds a new
604 verbatim input mode that acts as ^V does under vi, but
605 with additional Pico compatibility (explained in the
606 FAQ). Basically, a bunch of fixes and a few new
607 features for your editor of choice. Enjoy.
609 2003.10.22 - GNU nano 1.3.0 is loosed upon the world. This is the first
610 release in the unstable 1.3.x series, and as such it
611 includes a lot of new features, including the addition
612 of a -d option for those FreeBSD users with Backspace
613 keys that act like Delete keys, the ability to repeat
614 the last search without prompting, the ability to search
615 for the beginning or end of a paragraph, new smooth
616 paging routines to go with the smooth scrolling
617 routines, and various improvements to the input and
618 display routines to make them behave more intuitively.
619 It also includes the usual load of bugfixes. Enjoy.
621 2003.08.11 - GNU nano 1.2.2 is released, only four months since the
622 last version :-). This release includes fixes for
623 broken regex detection, search history recall, and
624 keypad handling with -K. Debugging strings are no
625 longer translated and comments denote where translations
626 should be as short as possible (i.e. the statusbar).
627 There are new examples for syntax highlighting, and
628 documentation updates and fixes. The 1.3.0 CVS tree
629 will be opening soon for all your nano desires, so stay
632 2003.04.19 - Happy Easter! GNU nano 1.2.1 is released. This release
633 features a new check for broken regexec()
634 implementations and some variable, function and macro
635 cleanups. Fixes are included for search history,
636 cutting marked text, alt keyboard mode, and the usual
637 translation and documentation updates.
639 2003.02.19 - GNU nano 1.2.0 is released. Few changes from pre3, just
640 some doc and translation updates, and bugfixes for
641 justify and file conversion. For those of you who
642 haven't kept up with the 1.1 unstable series, v1.2
643 brings nanorc support, color syntax highlighting,
644 multiple file buffers, search/replace history and much
645 much more. Please read the UPGRADE file for details,
646 and enjoy GNU nano 1.2.0.
648 2003.02.13 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre3 "The last testing version, no
649 really!" is released. This release includes fixes for
650 wrapping (again), resizing, color syntax highlighting,
651 rcfile parsing, the mouse code, more memory leaks, and
652 some reversion of the code to get the user's home
653 directory (nano will now again rely on $HOME). There
654 are also translation updates, a new manual page for the
655 nanorc file, and an UPGRADE file detailing the changes
656 since version 1.0. Please submit reports for any bugs
657 you might find to the development team
658 (nano-devel@gnu.org), and enjoy nano almost-1.2.0 ;-)
660 2003.02.03 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre2 "bugs in my pockets, bugs in my
661 shoes" is released. There are, not surprisingly, only
662 bugfixes in this release as we move toward the stable
663 1.2.0 release. Fixes are included for translatable
664 string format, subexpression replacement, constant
665 cursor position, invalid search regexes, justify, screen
666 state on SIGHUP and SIGTERM, cutting to end cuts with
667 long lines, many file browser and operating directory
668 bugs, memory and file descriptor leaks, marker code,
669 spell checker, the mouse code with long lines, multiple
670 buffers and non-file open errors, replacement string
671 length, and a silly but serious history message crash.
672 There is also a drastic improvement in CPU utilization
673 for the color regex code.
674 Depending on the number of bugs found in this
675 release, there may be a 1.1.99pre3 or RC1, or just a
676 1.2.0 release. Most of the major bugs seem to have been
677 worked out, so if you are waiting for a good time to
678 test nano before the official 1.2.0 release, this would
679 be the one to use. Happy bug hunting!
681 2003.01.17 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre1 "enough already" has been released.
682 This release is, barring bug fixes and documentation
683 updates, what version 1.2.0 has looked like, feature
684 wise. There will very likely be bugs, just due the
685 volume of changes made in this release. Search and
686 replace string history has been added, including an
687 option to log history to ~/.nano_history (-H,
688 --historylog). Because of this, the Pico incompatible
689 search/replace string behavior that used to be the
690 default has been deleted. The old "pico" flag (-p) is
691 now compatible with Pico's "preserve" mode for allowing
692 flow control characters; by default this version ignores
693 both ^Q and ^S. The --disable-wrapping-as-root
694 configure option has been forward ported from version
695 1.0.x, and a new flag to enable all extra options
696 (--enable-all) has been added. The internal spell
697 checker has been improved, meaning you will now be
698 prompted only once for each unique capitalization of a
700 There have also been lots of bug fixes,
701 including the "trying to insert a directory name in
702 multibuffer mode bug", the ugly spell checker scrolling,
703 the color code, cutting text crashes, justification,
704 deleting the "magic line" via replace, and cursor
705 positioning on the statusbar. There have also been the
706 usual helping of translation and documentation updates.
707 Please send all new feedback on this release
708 direct to the development list (nano-devel@gnu.org).
710 10/24/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.12 "Make Jordi happy" is released. This
711 release demonstrates that nano is starting to freeze for
712 version 1.2. New features include a Meta-Y toggle for
713 syntax highlighting, pluralized i18n, and a handler for
714 SIGTERM. Nano now ignores XOFF (^S) to stop accidental
715 lock-ups, and no longer references malloc.h.
716 Also included are fixes for zero-length regex
717 matches, segfaults with --disable-mouse, justification,
718 memory corruption with the browser, version and help
719 cmdline output, and translation updates. Aside from the
720 (currently up in the air) search history behavior, the
721 next version of nano should be 1.1.99pre1. Have fun!
723 10/01/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.11 "Oddball" is released. This release
724 features a new version of gettext, a new and improved
725 syntax highlighting engine, and some updates for the
726 nanorc.sample file. The toggles for case sensitivity
727 (Meta-C) and regular expressions (Meta-R) have changed
728 in the search and replace prompts, multibuffer status is
729 now displayed and can be toggled from the insert file
730 menu, and some wrapping behavior that changed in 1.1.10
731 has reverted. The --enable-color warning was also made
732 less severe, as the color syntax code has improved, and
733 nano now uses extended regexes in the .nanorc file.
734 Also included are fixes for various memory
735 leaks, the operating directory option, username tab
736 completion, the page_up and down arrow, go to previous
737 word and next word, nanorc parser and line wrapping
740 07/25/2002 - At long last! GNU nano 1.1.10 "What didn't we break?" is
741 released. This version of GNU nano features version
742 0.11.2 of gettext, building with automake 1.6, some new
743 code for displaying control characters, browser
744 improvements, a new backup file option (-B, --backup), a
745 new option to ignore rc files (-I,--ignorercfiles),
746 compatibility with -pedantic, handling null characters
747 before EOF, a slightly sportier nanorc.sample and more.
748 Fixes are included included for justification,
749 the reading and writing file routines, resizing and fill
750 length, millions of memory leaks, the usage screen was
751 updated, and the the --quotestr and --regexp really work
754 05/12/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.9 is released, happy Mother's Day! This
755 release includes many new features, including a prepend
756 mode (^O,M-P), a new "syntax" command in the .nanorc to
757 allow multiple syntax highlighting types, and a new -Y,
758 --syntax flag to set a specific one if there's no
759 filename regex to match it against (i.e. w/mutt). The
760 ^space and M-space keys will now show up in the help
761 menu, which itself has been tweaked a bit, and many more
762 configure options should now cooperate (like the odd
763 pairing of --enable-tiny and --enable-multibuffer). The
764 marker should now work when using multiple buffers, and
765 the huge memory leak in color syntax highlighting has
766 been fixed. A lot of new stuff for everyone's favorite
767 text editor ;) Have fun!
769 03/30/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.8 is released. New features include an
770 "Insert Output of External Command", ^R^X, and a .spec
771 file is now included in the distribution. There are
772 cleanups in the usage code, fixes for regex parsing, the
773 file browser, the NO_CONVERT auto-detect, indented
774 justification, the internal spell checker, and a serious
775 bug where reading a file of 0 lines would hang nano.
776 Also, the "show position" code now shows the starting
777 column as 1 instead of 0. Have fun!
779 03/05/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.7 "lets change everything and see what breaks"
780 is released. New features include new flags
781 -N,--noconvert to stop any file format conversion and
782 -Q, --quotestr for the new quoted text justification, a
783 new tempnam() implementation to avoid silly warnings,
784 DOS and Mac file options in the Write File dialog,
785 multiple save files (file.1) for abnormal exits, ^C now
786 shows column as well as character position, and
787 multibuffer allows duplicate files, even unnamed ones.
788 Also, the static shortcut and toggle lengths are
789 history, nano now reads SYSCONFDIR/nanorc if rc file
790 support is enabled, and nano is now built with (and
791 requires for rebuilding) autoconf 2.5.
792 This release also includes fixes for some memory
793 leaks, detecting DOS and Mac file format, justification,
794 suspending keys, search & replace under various
795 conditions, variable width for shortcuts, and the usual
796 ton of translation updates.
798 01/25/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.6 is released. Lots of new features in this
799 release. New Meta-keys were added as alternates for
800 control sequences: Meta-A for the marker key (^^), and
801 Meta-G for the 'goto dir' key in the file browser (^_).
802 The color syntax highlighting now supports multiple
803 lines via start="regex" end="regex" syntax, and the
804 .nanorc regex format itself has changed. Also, the
805 gettext code was upgraded to version 0.10.40, and nano
806 will now display a message if only occurrence of a given
808 For bugfixes, there are fixes for spelling,
809 stray newlines in the usage() function, suspend issues
810 with tcsh, auto-indent and wrapping clashes, ugly code
811 in rcfile.c, global variable compatibility with AIX.
812 There are also oodles of translation updates. Have fun
815 01/05/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.5 is out. The main new feature in this
816 release is the changed behavior of the keypad. Nano now
817 does the Right Thing and used keypad() by default. If
818 you wish to use the keypad arrow keys in certain
819 terminals, you may use the -K or --keypad flag to use
820 the old behavior. Users of other OSes should see better
821 handling of their non-keypad keys in this release. Other
822 changes include more Hurd fixes, fixes parsing the
823 .nanorc, display fixes for the color syntax
824 highlighting, gettext stabilization and many translation
825 updates. This is almost like a stable release, much
826 like in the 0.9.x series when every other release was
827 the most stable one :) Have fun!
829 12/11/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.4 is released. This release contains
830 rudimentary color syntax support (but it's still
831 broken), compatibility fixes for the Hurd and FreeBSD,
832 spell checker and wrapping fixes, and more. It seems
833 that the amount of interest in the code is inversely
834 proportional to the amount of time since last release,
835 so it's time to show the world all the changes since
836 1.1.3 ;) Have fun with it!
838 10/26/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.3 is released. As far as new features go,
839 the help system is now available for all functions in
840 the editor. Also, nano will also now print a message on
841 the status bar when it automatically converts a file
842 from Mac or DOS format, and trying to load a file that
843 has already been loaded in multibuffer mode will now
844 also cause an error message. There is now a "goto
845 previous word" which you can use by hitting Meta-Space
847 As for fixes, a SEVERE bug in the null_at code
848 which discarded the memory address of reallocated memory
849 has been fixed. This is probably the biggest bug fix in
850 well over the last year of development. There are also
851 some display fixes for when the screen shouldn't center
852 itself on cut or uncut text. Also, the comments in the
853 header files incorrectly said that nano was distributed
854 under version 1 of the GPL when the accompanying license
856 If you're using nano-1.1, it is highly
857 recommended you upgrade to this release. If using 1.0,
858 wait for version 1.0.6 which should be available early
861 10/03/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.2 is out there. Many new features in this
862 release, including support for auto-converting from DOS
863 and Mac formatted files, as well as toggles for writing
864 out files in these formats. Pico's -o flag has been
865 implemented, as has some new smooth scrolling code
866 (which can be used in place of the default jerky
867 scrolling behavior). Also, there is now a "find
868 matching bracket/brace/etc" feature (Meta-]). The
869 .nanorc file now accepts setting the tabsize, and the
870 help text at the bottom of the editor is now better
871 spaced out in the search/replace prompts. There are
872 also the usual helping of bugfixes, translation updates
873 and, surely a bug or two. You better get ready!
875 07/28/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.1 is released. Our second 1.1 unstable
876 release features many bugfixes from the initial release,
877 in particular fixes for the multibuffer code, and
878 various compiler macro fixes. The shortcut lists for
879 the search and replace prompts are a little more logical
880 (with cancel the last option again), and the included
881 gettext was re-downgraded to 0.10.35 due to problems on
882 the PPC platform. GNU nano now includes its own aclocal
883 macros in the m4/ directory to allow rebuilding the
884 configure script to work on platforms regardless of
885 their gettext version.
887 07/15/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.0 is released. This is the first release
888 in the 1.1.x unstable series of GNU nano. It
889 incorporates all changes up to the 1.0.3 release, and
890 also includes many many new features, including
891 appending to as well as overwriting files, writing
892 marked text to a separate file, dynamic wrap length,
893 lots more compatibility with Pico, and new optional
894 features like .nanorc file support and multiple file
895 buffers! All in all, plenty of new stuff that's sure to
896 introduce lots of bugs ;-) Have fun with it, but be
897 careful, unstable means unstable.
899 07/01/2001 - GNU nano 1.0.3 is the "mutt" release. This release
900 features oodles of bug fixes with cutting text,
901 especially with the -k (cut to end) option. There is
902 also a new suspend handler which should make nano play
903 better with mutt (the code for which came from mutt
904 itself; many many thanks to Jordi Mallach and Tom Lear
905 for working late into the night fixing this). Nano now
906 also features mutt's case insensitive string compare
907 function for more speed and less memory usage. Two new
908 translations are included, Ukrainian and Russian.
910 05/12/2001 - GNU nano 1.0.2 is the "just the bugfixes ma'am" release.
911 The most noticeable fixes are for display errors using
912 page up/down with the marker code, and view mode (-v)
913 not stopping the replace function. Other fixes include
914 being able to use the arrow keys while holding down the
915 ctrl key in certain TERMs, and there are many
916 documentation updates and spelling tweaks. We also have
917 a new Galician translation (provided by Jacobo TarrÃo).
920 04/06/2001 - GNU nano 1.0.1 is out there. The only new feature is a
921 configure option for those who want to disable all word
922 wrapping from nano, --disable-wrapping. Bug fixes this
923 release include some bugs with autoconf and i18n, and
924 several fixes in the file browser including a segfault
925 on Solaris, symlinks to directories now work properly,
926 and nano now sorts files case insensitively like Pilot.
929 03/22/2001 - GNU Nano 1.0 is released! The autoindent wrapping bug
930 has been fixed, as well as strange bug when using Pico
931 mode and regex search. There have also been some minor
932 spelling and documentation updates. As stated on the
933 website, there are currently no known bugs with nano,
934 but some will pop up eventually and they will be
935 addressed in subsequent releases. We hope you enjoy
936 this first stable release of nano, and as always,
937 feedback is welcome! nano@nano-editor.org.
939 02/19/2001 - Nano 0.9.99pre3 brings a lot of changes! The most
940 important being that nano is now officially a GNU
941 program. Some changes have been made for GNU
942 compatibility (like the default list of shortcuts, "^G
943 Get Help" is now Listed and "^_ Goto Line" is not). The
944 Yes/No/All keys have finally been internationalized
945 also. All in all, quite a few changes, considering nano
946 is supposed to be in a code freeze. But there are the
947 usual helping of bugfixes, a nasty bug when cutting text
948 in -k mode and some compatibility issues with older
949 ncurses libraries have also been fixed. All in all, a
952 01/31/2001 - Nano 0.9.99pre2 is released. Not surprisingly, all that is
953 new is bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes. There were a few
954 cleanups in unneeded global variables and duplicate
955 functions, but most is just fixing. Specifically, there
956 is now a preliminary (read: needs testing) fix for
957 resizing the editor in any mode other than normal edit
958 mode. Other fixes include some more tab completion
959 segfaults, and an silly segfault that occurred when
960 successfully writing a file on the 2nd try (i.e. after
961 an initial write error). Slowly but surely, on toward
964 01/17/2001 - Nano 0.9.99pre1 is released. This is the first pre-1.0
965 release of nano, and is also the first release since the
966 code freeze for nano 1.0. Don't expect (or request) any
967 new features between now and nano 1.0, only bugfixes,
968 optimizations and doc/translation updates. For fixes, a
969 nasty segfault when trying to insert one's home
970 directory (~), some checks for the NumLock key making
971 the keypad go awry, window size sanity checks, many
972 autoconf fixes, and support for the KDE konsole keypad
975 01/07/2001 - Nano 0.9.25 is the "Just one more feature I swear!"
976 release. It includes one new feature that Pico has had
977 forever, a built-in file browser. Since not everyone
978 may want this option, there is a --disable-browser
979 option to the configure script as well. Other changes
980 include slightly different keypad handling, and a bugfix
981 for crashes when tab completion in certain instances.
982 Have fun and Happy New Year!
984 12/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.24 is released. This version contains the last of
985 the security fixes for writing files, as well as for a
986 nasty segfault when nano is unable to open a file for
987 reading, among other fixes. Nano also now cowardly
988 refuses to open device files, to stop silly things like
989 trying to open /dev/zero. New features include being
990 Able to use Meta-Meta-<key> as Control-<key>, better
991 HURD support, and some new flags have been added for
992 Pico compatibility. Upgrading to this version is highly
995 12/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.23 is the "race conditions bite" release. The
996 main reason for this release is the less-than-optimal
997 fix for the security issue in nano with following
998 symbolic links. Hopefully this will fix the problem
999 permanently. The --nofollow option also works again for
1000 those who are real security nuts. There are also some
1001 display and search fixes, and the --disable-spell
1002 function was renamed to --disable-speller to be in line
1003 with nano and Pico's "speller" term.
1005 12/02/2000 - Nano 0.9.22 is released, with many more changes and
1006 additions than imaginable. The most important change is
1007 a fix for unsafe handling of symbolic links which could
1008 lead to symlink attacks if nano were to exit because of
1009 an error or signal. Also there are better checks when
1011 As for new features, username tab completion is now
1012 working well, the internal spell checker code has been
1013 tweaked, you can now unjustify if you don't like how the
1014 justify formatted your text, and there are more options
1015 for configure, including --disable-spell and
1016 --disable-justify and --enable-extra (for those who like
1017 surprises). All in all, a whole lot of changes in a
1020 11/23/2000 - Happy Thanksgiving! Nano 0.9.21 is our "last version was
1021 a big turkey" release. It fixes several bugs introduced
1022 by the previous version, as well as a few long- standing
1023 display bugs. All 0.9.20 users are strongly encouraged
1024 to upgrade to this release.
1026 11/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.20 is finally out the door. Probably the biggest
1027 change is the brand new way nano displays previous
1028 search and replace strings (they are now editable!)
1029 This is a break from Pico's (inconsistent) interface, so
1030 if you don't like the new way, "Pico" mode (-p on the
1031 command line or Meta-P within nano) still works the
1033 Other new features include being able to deal with
1034 search strings of any length, a new internal spell
1035 feature (courtesy of Mr. Rocco Corsi) and tab completion
1036 when reading in or writing out files! There's also the
1037 usual billion or so bug fixes. Feedback on this release
1038 is welcome because so much has changed, especially with
1039 the previous string display in search and replace.
1040 Email -> nano@nano-editor.org <-. If you like
1041 something, don't like something, or just want to order a
1044 10/02/2000 - Nano 0.9.19 is the "Chris is getting married in less than
1045 a week and needs a distraction" release. There are only
1046 a few actual code changes, mainly portability and
1047 compiler warning fixes. Nano now also supports
1048 PDCurses, which enables easily-built nano executables
1049 for Windows NT and 95/98 for the brave. The official
1050 nano site has changed (again) as well, check out
1051 www.nano-editor.org for all the latest nano schtuff.
1053 09/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.18 is unleashed. It has some new keyboard
1054 handling code, Cygwin support out of the box, and a more
1055 portable handler for the NOHELP toggle. There is also a
1056 fix for a somewhat serious bug whereby trying to insert
1057 a directory instead of a normal file would destroy the
1058 contents of the editor. A must-see. Four stars.
1060 09/04/2000 - Nano 0.9.17, the Labor Day release, is released after a
1061 quiet spell (almost an entire month since last release!)
1062 New features include better (not yet perfect) binary
1063 display support and toggle support for most of the
1064 program flags (M-c, M-i, M-z, M-x, M-p, M-w, M-m, M-k
1065 and M-e for -c, -i, -x, -p, -w, -k, and -R).
1067 08/09/2000 - Nano 0.9.16, after some struggling, is released. This
1068 release should fix a few of the holes that 0.9.15 dug.
1069 The "cutting text on the first line" bug is fixed, as is
1070 the "cutting text on the last line" bug. Nice symmetry
1071 there huh? Also the --tabsize argument should now work
1072 as well as by using -T.
1074 08/03/2000 - Nano 0.9.15 is the "I can't think of a release description"
1075 release. There are the usual gala of display bugfixes,
1076 a fix for the the nasty bug in -k mode that could create
1077 a loop in the file being edited, and some other code
1078 cleanup. Also, the -T option should now work regardless
1079 of the curses library used. Yay.
1081 07/27/2000 - Nano 0.9.14 is officially the "13 is so unlucky it should
1082 be skipped as a version number" release. One typo
1083 caused unending problems (calling nano with either -t or
1084 -k caused both flags to be used). The -k code is also
1085 now closer in functionality to Pico's -k mode; please
1086 note that this code is not finished yet. Working on
1087 this code has made me realize that there is not enough
1088 abstraction in the code, and I will be working on that
1089 for the next release. Until then, have fun with this
1092 07/23/2000 - Nano 0.9.13 has a few new bits and bobs, most notably the
1093 -k option from Pico (cut to end of line). The majority
1094 of changes in this release are bugfixes, however,
1095 including the usual display fixes and fixes for writing
1096 to symbolic links and un-writable files. Barring any
1097 other major changes, this should be the feature set for
1098 nano 1.0, whenever it might be released =-)
1100 07/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.12 (The "lucky day" release) is bursting with new
1101 features, bug fixes, and yummy fruit flavor. For
1102 changes, the alternate replace keystroke ^W^T is now
1103 ^W^R to be compatible with later versions of Pico. ^W^T
1104 is now goto line, again for Pico compatibility. As for
1105 new features, the wonderful/hated magic line code has
1106 returned with a vengeance! Also, regular expression
1107 searches and replaces have been incorporated via the -R
1108 flag. And, of course, there are the usual helping of
1109 display and other bug fixes to top it all off.
1111 06/20/2000 - Nano 0.9.11 presents drastic rewrites of the most buggy
1112 routines in the program, specifically the wrapping code
1113 and almost all of the display routines. There are many
1114 improvements and bugfixes to the display subsystem in
1115 general, but there may be bugs lurking yet. Also, after
1116 many MANY requests, there is now an option to set the
1117 displayed tab width (-T, --tabsize). Note that this
1118 function just changes the way tabs LOOK in the editor,
1119 the tabs you input are still real tabs of normal width
1120 (usually 8 characters); nano just makes them look
1121 smaller or bigger while in the editor. New in the
1122 translation department is an Indonesian translation
1125 06/06/2000 - Nano 0.9.10 is primarily a bugfix for the loss of SIGINT
1126 when using "run and terminate" flags (for example,
1127 --help). There are also some minor documentation
1128 updates. This version of nano is the most stable in
1129 quite some time, and is likely to be the most stable for
1130 awhile. Users are encouraged to upgrade to this
1133 05/31/2000 - Nano 0.9.9 introduces much better working i18n support,
1134 more portability, and a ton of bugfixes. While nano is
1135 not likely anywhere near 1.0 in terms of code quality,
1136 it gets a quantum leap closer with this release.
1138 05/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.8 (the 'what broke now?' release) should fix
1139 the resize crash people have been experiencing. It also
1140 offers a new input method that should allow nano to do
1141 things the right way (like ^S, ^Q, custom suspend keys)
1142 and hopefully won't break with non-US keyboards. There
1143 are also the obligatory display fixes and speedups.
1146 05/14/2000 - Nano 0.9.7 (the Mother's Day release) continues in the long
1147 line of display fixes, and also fixes the broken symlink
1148 behavior (i.e. symlinks weren't being followed by
1149 default). Hopefully all major bugs can be worked out
1150 soon and we can have a 1.0 release before the end of the
1151 year, but who knows.
1153 05/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.6 cleans up a lot of the display bugs that 0.9.5
1154 uncovered. There are improvements (and some remaining
1155 segfaults) in the wrapping code, and even more display
1156 optimizations. I would still say 0.9.4 or 0.9.2 are the
1157 most stable versions of nano to date, but this one may
1160 05/01/2000 - Nano 0.9.5 attempts to speed up the display of text
1161 to be at least somewhat reasonable. Much code profiling
1162 has been done to reduce the ridiculous number of
1163 redundant display updates. This will probably expose a
1164 lot of bugs that can then be fixed, so this release is
1165 probably not for the faint of heart. For anyone
1166 curious, I would call nano 0.9.2 the most stable version
1167 recently, so use that if you're not particularly
1168 concerned with being on the bleeding edge.
1170 04/25/2000 - Nano 0.9.4 fixes some problems in 0.9.3 with the last
1171 line code and related segfaults. It also now has much
1172 better handling for 8-bit characters. The --enable-tiny
1173 code also produces a smaller executable.
1175 04/19/2000 - Nano 0.9.3 is officially the "Micro$oft" release. It
1176 underscores the recent problem of bugfixes introducing
1177 more bugs than they fix. The most important change to
1178 this version of nano is the removal of the "magic line".
1179 You will no longer see a blank line at the end of the
1180 file. If you want a new line at the end of your file,
1181 you'll have to hit enter to get one.
1183 NOTE: THIS BREAKS COMPATIBILITY WITH PICO.
1184 Unfortunately, this feature has been causing many many
1185 problems with nano so it is being removed for the time
1186 being, and perhaps indefinitely.
1188 Other new stuff includes an --enable-tiny option to make
1189 nano ultra small (disabling i18n, detailed help and the
1190 marker and mouse code), and --with-slang to use the
1191 slang libraries instead of ncurses.
1193 04/15/2000 - Nano 0.9.2 just fixes the serious segfault problem if
1194 nano is invoked any way other than using the absolute
1195 path. The bug was in the new code for checking whether
1196 nano is invoked as 'pico'.
1198 04/14/2000 - 0.9.1 has some more Pico compatibility built-in. The
1199 option to switch to/from Search and Search/Replace (^T)
1200 is now available, and nano now displays the more
1201 Pico-like shortcut list when invoked as 'pico' (i.e. if
1202 'pico' is a symlink to nano). There is an important
1203 change to the handling of symbolic links as well. Now,
1204 nano does the "correct" thing and automatically writes
1205 to the object of the symlink, rather than replace the
1206 symlink with the updated file. This behavior is still
1207 available with the --nofollow or -l flags.
1208 Other new things include a fix for the infamous
1209 "recursive replace" bug, and more bugfixes in the
1212 04/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.0 has some updates, new language support and
1213 a much better refresh setup (It's still not great,
1214 but...) There should also be more stability editing
1215 long lines, as there was a stupid mistake in the
1216 update_line call. Silly me =)
1218 03/22/2000 - Nano 0.8.9 is basically just a bugfix release of 0.8.8
1219 to reflect the current stagnant status of the project.
1220 Most things work, the rest doesn't doesn't work because
1221 (a) I can't fix it or I would have already done so, and
1222 (b) the amount of patches I'm receiving right now is
1223 quite negligible. Fortunately, this release marks the
1224 first release since I have acquired ownership of the
1225 nano pages on SourceForge. Here's hoping SF will get us
1226 some more visibility, translators and patches.
1228 03/12/2000 - After a hiatus, I have finally moved (not unpacked though)
1229 to my new home into Albany. Thus I should now have more
1230 time to work on nano. Nano 0.8.8, the "dear god what
1231 broke this time?" release, incorporates patches for both
1232 i18n and many bugfixes. It is VERY likely something
1233 broke this version, and it's likely I didn't even apply
1234 the i18n stuff properly, so *it* may not even work.
1236 I would like to announce that I'm going to need
1237 translations soonish, so if you are fluent in other
1238 languages than English (or even better, if your native
1239 language is not English) and you would like to submit a
1240 translation file to me, please feel free to do so. If
1241 you do, I will list your name and email in the AUTHORS
1242 file as the maintainer of the .po file, and from then on
1243 it is yours to take care of and keep up to date.
1245 03/01/2000 - Well, to continue my trend of going back on my previous
1246 release's comments, nano 0.8.7 is released. The
1247 crashing behavior was still occurring, and this most
1248 recent fix also fixes some other wrapping problems, so
1249 here you go. There may be another release soon, there
1250 may not be, is that vague enough? =)
1252 02/25/2000 - More minor bugfixes in 0.8.6, the bizarre behavior at the
1253 end of a page has ceased, thankfully. I'm also moving
1254 next weekend, so don't be shocked if you don't see a new
1255 version of nano next week =-)
1257 02/11/2000 - Okay, here we go again. Aside from a few minor fixes and
1258 some under-the-hood changes, you won't notice much
1259 different in this version of nano. I haven't gotten
1260 much feedback on the help feature, is it simply amazing
1261 or does no one care? Write and let me know! =)
1263 02/08/2000 - Nano 0.8.3 marks the first time in a long time that there
1264 has been more than three days since the last release.
1265 New features include an initial help mode (YAY!),
1266 hopefully much more support for i18n out of the box, and
1267 a flag for more Pico compatibility in the shortcut lists
1268 displayed. This release also marks the new nano
1269 distribution site, http://www.asty.org/nano and email
1270 address nano@asty.org for bugs, etc.
1272 02/02/2000 - Okay, I hate to go back on what I said in the last release,
1273 but I may be changing jobs very soon. I will release
1274 version 0.8.2 as is (no i18n, no help menu (yet). I
1275 expect things to settle down by the end of next week,
1276 and then I can try to start on the i18n support and help
1277 menu; look for these new features in version 0.8.5 to
1280 01/28/2000 - Nano 0.8.1 marks our first official step toward
1281 internationalization (i18n) and the help system (^G). I
1282 will be merging in Jordi's patches for initial i18n in
1283 the next version, and will implement the help system
1284 with i18n built into it shortly after that. Please
1285 don't hesitate to send bug reports, as long as you're
1286 sure the fault lies with nano =-).
1288 01/25/2000 - Nano 0.8.0 is officially the 'let's try and be at least a
1289 little portable, mmmmkay?' release. There are many
1290 portability checks and fixes; many thanks to Andy Kahn
1291 for his patches. I removed the broken do_spell behavior
1292 with the 'spell' program; for now, we only try to call
1293 'ispell' until I write a better method to handle the
1294 output of the normal 'spell' command.
1296 01/24/2000 - Nano 0.7.9 features many new features. Among them are a
1297 new autoindent feature (-i, --autoindent), tempfile flag
1298 like Pico's -t flag (-t, --tempfile), and preliminary
1299 spelling program support. The spelling function tries
1300 to run 'spell' and then 'ispell' in that order, but you
1301 can specify another spelling program with -s or
1304 01/17/00 - Nano 0.7.7 is officially the 'way too much stuff changed this
1305 release' release. It's the busy time at work for me, so
1306 please don't get offended if your patch doesn't get
1307 included in the next immediate version of nano. I'm
1308 sure all the changes in this release will cause a few
1309 bugs, so 0.7.8 will primarily be about fixing those
1312 Things added this release include resizability (kinda),
1313 new -x and -c flags (see nano -h for help), long command
1314 line flag support, and the usual array of bugfixes.
1316 01/15/00 - Nano 0.7.6 is officially the 'lightning' release. It now
1317 loads large files much faster than previous versions,
1318 and is even much faster than Pico or vi in some rather
1319 rudimentary tests. Many thanks to Adam Rogoyski for the
1322 01/09/00 - As of this version (0.7.4), TIP has officially been renamed
1323 to nano. The new homepage is at
1324 http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/astyanax/nano. Please
1325 update your bookmarks, tell your friends, and all that
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