NEWS 100 KB
Newer Older
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
2018.03.08 - GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a string
             (any piece of text and/or commands), permits customizing
             the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors
             those error messages by default in bright white on red,
             makes <Enter> at the bottom of the screen scroll just one
             row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a
             file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any
             cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor
             cannot move.  Further, it treats tabs fully the same as
             spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax
             names to be unquoted, and removes two deprecated options
             and six deprecated bindable function names.

14
15
16
17
18
19
20
2018.01.29 - GNU nano 2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks
             that could occur when a typed space caused the word after
             it to be pushed to the next line.  It further makes macros
             work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences,
             adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line,
             recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals,
             no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible
21
             whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing
22
23
24
25
26
27
             replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named
             pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects
             a needed color change when a line contains a start match
             but not a corresponding end match any more.  Plus some
             other small fry.

28
2018.01.02 - GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
             state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved
             somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic
             linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows
             the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames
             the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will
             now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing
             (and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words
             to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes
             <Tab> and <Shift+Tab> indent and unindent a marked region,
             allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a
             region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting
             or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes
             the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked
             (which makes for a more intuitive behavior).
43

44
2017.11.27 - GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where, when the mark
45
46
47
48
49
             is on, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked
             region.  This release further clears the "Modified" flag
             when all edits are undone, adds or updates some magic
             strings, and does not forget when the cursor was last
             at line 1, column 1.
50

51
2017.11.18 - GNU nano 2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record and
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
             replay keystrokes (M-: to start and stop recording, M-;
             to play the macro back), makes ^Q and ^S do something
             useful by default (^Q starts a backward search, and ^S
             saves the current file), changes ^W to start always a
             forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when
             more than one) in the title bar, no longer asks to press
             Enter when there are errors in an rc file, retires the
             options '--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards',
             makes indenting and unindenting undoable, will look in
             $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file and in $XDG_DATA_HOME
             for the history files, adds a history stack for executed
             commands (^R^X), does not overwrite the position-history
             file of another nano, and fixes a score of tiny bugs.
65
66


67
2017.08.27 - GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
             wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting
             more predictable by retaining relative indentations,
             allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes
             in Python to not be followed by a character, does not
             scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds
             Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and
             fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping
             and boundary-crossing tabs.  Enjoy.
76

77
2017.07.21 - GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a new feature: the ability
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
             to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace --
             instead of always at the edge of the screen.  This can
             be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks'
             together with the softwrap option.  This release further
             fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build
             failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc
             files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor'
             (please update your nanorc files before 2020).
86

87
2017.06.25 - GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from
88
89
90
91
92
93
             a suspension that was induced from the outside, allows
             negative line and column numbers on the command line,
             avoids some flickering when resizing the screen while
             in the file browser, opens files in the order they were
             mentioned on the command line, and does not pretend to
             have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT.
94

95
2017.05.21 - GNU nano 2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc
96
             man page again.
97

98
2017.05.18 - GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight
99
100
101
102
             during interactive replacing, avoids build failures on AIX
             and Solaris, fixes a crash on Solaris, speeds up backwards
             searching, improves PHP syntax highlighting, and no longer
             asks “save anyway?” when the user ^Q discards the buffer.
103

104
2017.05.04 - GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
             the ^G help texts searchable with ^W.  Apart from that,
             it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle
             of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used
             without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing
             the screen twice when switching between buffers while
             line numbers are active, and works around a coloring
             bug on musl.  Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus
             translation updates for fifteen languages.
113

114
2017.04.12 - GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
             on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when
             double-width characters on row boundaries are involved,
             shows double-width characters as ">" and "<" when split
             across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at
             the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half"
             of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of
             only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End
             go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that
             support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when
             linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open
             an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down
             in the file browser.  Don't sit on your hands.
127

128
2017.03.31 - GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
             softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from
             visual row to visual row instead of jumping between
             logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to
             the start and end of a row, and only when already
             there, then to the start and end of the logical line.
             Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead
             of always per logical line.  On an entirely different
             front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build
             on more platforms.  In short: there were many internal
             changes, not many user-visible ones (apart from the
             new softwrap navigation).  The conversion to gnulib
             was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by
             David Ramsey.
142
143


144
2017.02.23 - GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
             the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things
             when multiline regexes with identical start and end are
             involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,
             does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,
             no longer hides double-width characters at the head of
             softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at
             startup, and documents the ability to read a file from
             standard input.  Come tickle my ears.
153

154
2017.01.10 - GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly
155
156
157
158
159
160
             manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),
             sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
             more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
             softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your
             system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of
             the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches.
161

162
2016.12.28 - GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
             your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain
             newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching
             between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,
             makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a
             Linux console, is more resistant against malformations
             in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is
             typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.
             Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an
             unlocked file just after saving a new one.  That's it.
             Tastes great with thick butter.
173

174
2016.12.12 - GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature:
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
             the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default)
             a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in
             the current buffer.  Besides, this release fixes two bugs
             related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to
             use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on
             VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering
             during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override
             an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected
             region after an external spell check, and improves a few
             other tidbits.  If you should find any more bugs, please
             run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there.
186

187
2016.10.29 - GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
             ability to display line numbers beside the text.  This can
             be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line,
             or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with
             M-#.  The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the
             option 'set numbercolor'.  This release furthermore fixes
             some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict
             in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer
             as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been
             read into it.  Come and check it out!
197

198
199
2016.09.01 - GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to
             be selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys.
200
201
202
203
             Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny
             terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves
             the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces.  Not much,
             but it's time to get it out there.
204
205


206
2016.08.10 - nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
             a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very
             first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it
             holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits
             (when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug
             in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in
             a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid
             bytes when holding down both Alt keys.  Santé!
214

215
2016.07.28 - nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
             keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks
             of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which
             characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered
             word-forming.  Further, it provides feedback during Unicode
             input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which
             must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the
             window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after
             having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line
             anchor (^) just once per line.  There are also several tiny
             improvements in screen rendering and key handling.  Come get
             your hair tousled!
227

228
229
230
231
232
233
2016.06.27 - nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but
             also adds one little feature (the ability to use negative
             numbers with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the
             bottom), includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes
             three tiny bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that
             they aren't even worth mentioning).
234

235
236
237
2016.06.17 - nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs --
             and some of them not so little.  It improves moving about
             in the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
             checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with
             default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,
             shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor
             is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if
             there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes
             when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename
             on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,
             and allows to abort re-searches.  Among bunches of other
             things.  It is worth the trouble to upgrade.
247

248

249
250
251
252
253
2016.02.25 - GNU nano 2.5.3 "Alphys" is released.  This release contains
             fixes for bugs like: stray cursor positioning errors, many
             many memory leaks including during file reading, using the
             file browser, searching for multibyte characters, history
             completion, and many other places.
254
255
256
257
                 New features include the ability to trim whitespace
             from the ends of lines when justifying text, see nanorc(5)
             option justifytrim for deets.  As always thank you for your
             continued support of nano, and keep sparing.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
258

259
260
261
2016.02.12 - GNU nano 2.5.2 is carrying too many dogs.  This release
             includes several fixes for various memory leaks, position-
             history size growth, and a long standing issue with using
262
263
264
265
             nano under sudo creating root-owned files.  There are also
             the usual bevy of documentation and other miscellaneous
             fixes and touchups.  Upgrade today while supplies last,
             operators are standing by!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
266

267
2016.01.11 - GNU nano 2.5.1 "Salzburg" is released.  It includes fixes
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
             for a syntax-highlighting bug and a positionlog bug, it
             disables a time-eating multiline regex in the C syntax,
             and it adds an escape hatch to the WriteOut menu when
             --tempfile is used: the discardbuffer command, ^Q.  It
             also has translation updates for fifteen languages, and
             a small fix in the softwrap code.  So... you are heartily
             invited to upgrade.  Enjoy!
275

276
2015.12.05 - GNU nano 2.5.0 "Karma", the first release of the 2.5 series,
277
278
279
280
281
             is now available.  Please note that as of this release,
             there will no longer be separate stable and unstable
             branches.  The development team will prioritize bug fixes
             as needed, and make new releases in proportion to the
             severity of the bugs which are fixed.
282
283
284
                 This release includes all of the fixes now in 2.4.3, as
             well as color syntax highlighting improvements, undo fixes,
             and many more improvements!  Thank you for using nano!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
285

286

287
2015.11.18 - GNU nano 2.4.3 "Apocalypse" is now available for your
288
289
             downloading pleasure.  This release includes a myriad
             of fixes including several memory leaks, issues with
290
291
292
293
294
             color syntax highlighting, search/replace, file insertion
             and help menu bugs.  Many thanks to Benno Schulenberg for
             tireless efforts on the vast majority of fixes for some
             time now.  As always please report bugs via the Savannah
             page, and remember to Share and Enjoy.
295

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
296
2015.07.05 - GNU nano 2.4.2 "Portorož" is released.  This release
297
             includes several fixes, including the ability to resize
298
299
300
301
302
             when in modes other than the main editing window, proper
             displaying of invalid UTF-8 bytes, new syntax definitions
             for Elisp, Guile, and PostgreSQL, and better display of
             shortcuts in the help viewer and file browser.  Thanks
             for your patience and using nano!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
303

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
304
2015.04.14 - GNU nano 2.4.1 "Glitch Gremlin" is released.  This release
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
             includes several fixes for issues with the file browser
             menu, linter and formatter functions, spell checker,
             undo/redo with some specific marked-cutting situations,
             and some small improvements to the color syntax
             highlighting definitions.  There are also various
             documentation and code comment updates included, and
             finally, fixes for compilation on non-GNU/Linux systems
             and certain configure combinations.  Toasters!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
313

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
314
2015.03.22 - GNU nano 2.4.0 "lizf" is released.  This is the first
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
             stable release in many years, and brings together many
             new features from the 2.3 series, including:
             a fully functional undo system (now enabled by default),
             vim-compatible file locking, linter support, formatter
             support, syntax highlighting flexibility, and many fixes
             for issues reported since 2.2.  Many sincere thanks
             to all of the bug reports, patches, well wishes and
             contributions from everyone who has continued to
             support us.  Thank you for using nano!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
324
325


326
2015.02.27 - GNU nano 2.3.99pre3 "Ashley" is released.  This is likely
327
328
             to be the last release before the next major (2.4.0)
             release.  Please test it out and send us any feedback
329
330
             via Savannah (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano).
             This release includes fixes for rebinding toggles via
331
             nanorc, several memory alignment fixes, and documentation
332
333
             and build updates.  As always thank you for using nano -
             Share and Enjoy!
334

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
335
2015.02.06 - GNU nano 2.3.99pre2 "Snowblind" is released.  This release
336
337
338
339
340
             contains only fixes, including: a long-standing problem
             with cutting in nano-tiny, several memory alignment
             improvements, and issues with leftover file locks.  Please
             keep reporting bugs so we can get a happy and healthy
             2.4.0 soon.  Thanks for using nano!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
341

342
2015.01.06 - GNU nano 2.3.99pre1 "Junior" is released.  As the first
343
344
345
346
347
348
349
350
351
             2.4 release candidate there will be fewer new features
             but many bugfixes going forward.  This release contains
             new support for language reformatters like Go's gofmt
             command which takes the place of the spelling checker.
             Fixes in this release include many syntax highlighting
             fixes and improvements, and documentation formatting updates.
             As always please report bugs via the Savannah bug page for
             nano (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano), so we can
             release a super awesome and bug-free 2.4.0 soon!
352

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
353
2014.07.17 - GNU nano 2.3.6 "Columbo" is released.  This release
354
355
356
357
358
             contains a fix for installing internationalization
             files.  Also included are scattered documentation
             (in particular man page) fixes, and a few touchups
             to syntax highlighting definitions.  Oh, just one
             more thing, thanks for using nano!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
359

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
360
2014.07.11 - GNU nano 2.3.5 "lucky day" is released.  This release
361
362
363
364
365
366
367
368
369
370
             contains many visible and under-the-hood fixes for
             components such as file locking, more fixes to the
             undo system, and you no longer have to explicitly ask
             nano to have undo/redo support as it now defaults to
             being enabled.  Other notable fixes include a better
             handling of --tempfile mode, and better handling of
             command line arguments when also attempting to specify
             +<line number>.  As always, please file any bugs you
             find via https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano
             and thanks for using nano.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
371

372
2014.06.02 - GNU nano 2.3.4 won't leave you high, won't leave you dry.
373
374
375
376
377
             This release contains only a small number of fixes, but
             in particular allows nano to compile on non-UTF-8 curses
             implementations (i.e. libncursesw).  Other small fixes to
             the undo implementation and the default syntax config are
             also included.  As always, Share and Enjoy!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
378

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
379
2014.05.28 - GNU nano 2.3.3 is in its right place.  This release contains
380
381
382
383
384
385
386
387
388
389
390
391
392
393
394
             many many improvements to the core system, including
             substantial improvements to the undo/redo code, UTF-8
             handling, the configure script, and display of shortcuts
             on very wide terminals.  New features include the
             ability to write to named pipes (--noread), as well as
             linter support (see the nanorc man page for details).  Also
             included are much improved syntax highlighting code, and
             configurations for JSON, texinfo, Go, and a default syntax
             for catch-all highlighting.  Finally, nano now has the
             ability to set the color of the title bar, status bar, and
             shortcut keys (e.g. "^X") and their descriptions.  Again
             see the nanorc page for details.  There's much more, too
             much to include here, but please keep those reports and
             general feedback coming!  Thank you for helping us help
             you help us all.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
395

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
396
2013.03.22 - GNU nano 2.3.2 "Annoy your coworkers for fun and profit" is
397
398
399
400
401
402
403
             released.  This release introduces vim-style file locking
             (though not backup/restore), useful when using nano in a
             multi-editor environment.  Feedback is welcome if you run
             into any issues with this new code.  Other new features
             include additional support for word boundary checking when
             cross compiling, fixes for trying to go to an invalid
             line number, and the usual documentation tweaks.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
404

405
406
407
408
409
410
2011.05.10 - GNU nano 2.3.1 "I'm in space" is released.  This release
             includes some fixes for the new libmagic code, as well as
             a fix for improper character counts when using auto-indent.
             Also included are new syntax highlighting definitions for
             RPM spec and Lua files.  Thanks for using nano and keep
             circulating the tapes.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
411

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
412
2011.02.26 - GNU nano 2.3.0 "Septic surprise" is released.  This first
413
414
             release in the 2.3 unstable series brings several new
             features.  First, libmagic support for syntax highlighting
415
416
417
418
419
420
421
422
             has been added on top of the existing file extension and
             header support already available.  Secondly, cursor position
             can be saved between editing sessions with the -P or --poslog
             command-line flag, or via 'set poslog' in your .nanorc.  Also
             included are some fixes for compilation with g++, and better
             handling of issues writing the backup file, which should
             reduce the need for the 'set allow_insecure_backup' nanorc
             option.  Don't stop, get it get it, don't stop, get it get it.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
423

424

425
2010.11.22 - GNU nano 2.2.6 "Pimp my BBS" wants you to go to
426
427
428
429
430
431
432
433
             www.desertbus.org and donate a few bucks for the great
             Child's Play Charity!  This is just a small release to
             update a bug where restricted mode was not particularly
             restricted since key bindings were introduced.  It also
             signals the return of win32 builds which now feature
             nanorc support; please see the FAQ for details of how
             to enable it, this feature is a bit of a kludge for now.
             Remember that when all else fails, USE SPACE JUMP.
434

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
435
2010.08.05 - GNU nano 2.2.5 "Inactivity timeout" is now available.
436
437
438
439
440
441
442
443
444
             This release includes slightly less restrictive checking
             when writing files in strange environments (e.g. when
             being used out of crontab).  For very strange situations
             (such as where you cannot change the permissions on the
             file you're writing), there is a new rc file option
             'allow_insecure_backup' to be even more permissive and
             allow the write to proceed.  Also included are some
             syntax highlighting updates, and that is about it.
             Keep fighting the good fight children.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
445

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
446
2010.04.15 - GNU nano 2.2.4 is nobody's fool.  First and foremost,
447
448
449
450
451
452
453
454
455
456
457
458
459
460
461
462
             this release includes some security fixes due to
             an assessment of nano's vulnerability to symlink attacks
             on open files.  The CVEs fixed with this release are
             CVE-2010-1160 and CVE-2010-1161.  Also included are fixes
             for various crash modes when using the spell checker
             on new files in multibuffer mode (surely you've used
             that combination recently? no?) as well as a fixing
             the 'file was modified' message when saving to a
             new filename (since how would nano know?).  And
             the list would not be complete without our
             third-times-the-charm fixes to page up/down due to
             the soft wrapping code.  The lone new feature
             included is a new syntax highlighting definition for
             cmake-related files.  Please do consider upgrading to
             this release if still using the 2.0 series since
             fixes for that version are still forthcoming.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
463

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
464
2010.02.11 - GNU nano 2.2.3 "fumbling toward stability" is released.
465
466
467
468
469
470
471
472
             This release contains a fix for only one bug, but a
             rather irritating one: when paging up/down with smooth
             scrolling, the cursor position was not being preserved
             due to a bug in 2.2.2.  With such a targeted fix
             like this what could POSSIBLY go WRONG?  Hahaha.
             Enjoy and if you find new bugs, as always please
             use Savannah's bug tracker.
             http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
473

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
474
2010.01.17 - GNU nano 2.2.2 is released for you, you, you.  This
475
476
477
478
479
480
481
482
483
484
             release includes fixes for: crashes when writing
             backup files in certain conditions, improper
             screen centering when moving up/down in various
             combination of smooth scrolling and soft wrapping modes,
             a search crash on the armel arch, and issues with
             lots of keybinding customizations causing crashing
             particularly on FreeBSD.  Also included are better
             help menu entries for forward/back in the file browser,
             some man page tweaks and one assert fix.   As always,
             share and enjoy!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
485

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
486
2009.12.12 - GNU nano 2.2.1 "DLR strikes back" is open for business.
487
488
489
490
491
492
493
494
495
496
497
498
499
             This release fixes many bugs, including: missing
             keybindings for page up/down and GotoDir in the browser,
             ^P/^N in the help menu, and restoration of M-W as the
             default re-search binding.  Other fixes include several
             issues with compiler warnings and configure options, and
             documentation updates, including the nano texinfo manual,
             nano and nanorc man pages, and UPGRADE file, and some
             missing syntax highlighting entries for the sample nanorc.
             And no release would be complete without the latest round
             of 'final' soft wrapping fixes!  Finally, nano will no
             longer print a warning when attempting to insert the
             contents of a read-only file into an existing buffer.
             Enjoy and Happy Hanukkah.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
500

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
501
2009.11.30 - GNU nano 2.2.0 "Doc Brown" is released!  The culmination
502
503
504
505
506
507
508
509
510
511
512
513
514
515
516
517
518
             of almost two years of development and hot on the heels
             of nano's 10th birthday is available for all your
             editing needs!  Bugs fixed since the last release
             include several fixes for tiny mode (involving both
             the help keys and replace menu text), more 'final'
             fixes for soft wrapping, and several typo and documentation
             updates including nanorc tweaks and a new syntax
             highlighting file for makefiles.  Also included is a long
             standing fix for random crashing when using nanorc on
             FreeBSD, and nano will no longer clear the screen on
             suspend to maintain compatibility with other *nix editors.
             For those who haven't been playing along at home, please
             see the official web page for the summary of new
             features since 2.0.  Special thanks to all who have
             submitted bug reports recently in support of our new
             stable release, and apologies for all those bugs we
             didn't yet find :-) Peace to all.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
519

520

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
521
2009.11.21 - GNU nano 2.1.99pre2 is available for a special pre-Black
522
523
524
525
526
527
528
529
530
531
532
             Friday discount.  Included are some (hopefully final)
             fixes for issues with last page display caused by the
             soft wrapping code, and a fix for a long standing issue
             with hitting the Home key when going through the search
             history.  On the features front, nano will now attempt to
             retain the proper ownership and permissions when trying
             to create a .save file due to receiving a signal.  Nano
             can also now unbind keys from one or more menus via the
             'unbind' keyword.  Finally, passing --fill or --nowrap on
             the command line will now override any related .nanorc
             entries.  Speak now or forever hold your bugs!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
533

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
534
2009.11.15 - GNU nano 2.1.99pre1 "take a bow" is out there, man, it's
535
536
537
538
539
540
541
542
543
             out there all right.  This release contains mainly
             bugfixes, underscoring that we are preparing for the
             next stable series release.  Included are many fixes
             for the new soft wrapping code, compiler warning tweaks,
             and the modification time warning no longer triggers
             when saving a file as a new name.  Also include are
             some fixes for various nanorc options, and there are
             surely more bugs to find before we call the code base
             stable, so please keep those reports coming!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
544

545
546
547
548
549
550
551
552
553
554
555
556
2009.09.14 - GNU nano 2.1.11 is on very thin ice, very thin ice, very
             thin ice.  This release includes two new features: first,
             nano will check whether the current file is writable when
             it is opened, and warn if it is not on the status bar.
             Secondly, a new soft-wrapping (AKA full-line display)
             option is available, which will attempt to fully display
             the contents of lines longer than the width of the screen
             without the usual truncation and a '$' symbol at the end
             of the line.  It can be enabled via Meta-$ inside the
             editor, via the -$ or --softwrap command-line flags,
             or "set softwrap" in your .nanorc).  As always, please
             report any bugs to the nano Savannah project page
557
558
             (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano)
             Remember: data loss happens, back up your files.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
559

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
560
2009.07.28 - GNU nano 2.1.10 "Ellie" is released.  This version includes
561
562
563
564
565
566
567
568
569
             various fixes for portability including some older HP-UX
             compiler combos, various compiler warnings, and some crash
             fixes in the undo code.  On the topic of the latter item,
             the undo code is now marked as experimental since it can
             cause severe stability and memory issues, and thus now
             requires a flag (-u, --undo) in order to enable it.
             Please feel free to continue to test the undo code and
             thanks again for using nano for your text editing needs.
             Go team Nano!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
570

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
571
2009.02.16 - GNU nano 2.1.9 wonders what all that glass is doing on the
572
573
574
575
576
577
578
579
580
581
582
             floor!  This release is primarily meant as a less buggy
             version of 2.1.8, particularly for issues with the new
             sped-up syntax highlighting code.  Other fixes include
             configure-time detection of groff HTML support before
             attempting to generate the HTML version of man pages,
             and using ~ or ~username syntax in .nanorc should now
             work again.  Also, nano will now only ask for one
             acknowledgement of errors it encounters when parsing
             nanorc files, and a new flag -q (--quiet) will silence
             these messages altogether.  Give it a go, and happy
             birthday lenny!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
583

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
584
2009.02.07 - GNU nano 2.1.8 "unsafe at any speed" is released.  This
585
586
587
588
589
590
591
592
593
594
595
596
597
             release include some long overdue performance
             improvements in syntax color highlighting, the ability
             to abort running searches (useful mainly when
             editing very large files) and the ability to use nano
             like a pager for viewing standard input (i.e. "nano -").
             Additionally, there are gentoo syntax highlighting
             updates and fixes for issues with reading files
             in a directory with strange parent directory permissions.
             The key bindings code was also substantially changed
             in order to be more ISO-C compatible.  Be sure to use
             the Savannah page not only for bug reports but for any
             features you would like to see before the next stable
             series is released.  Have fun with it!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
598

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
599
2008.11.10 - GNU nano 2.1.7 "Effingham" is ready to make good on those
600
601
602
603
604
605
606
607
             campaign promises of lower bug rates and 50% more pie.
             This release includes a new check for external
             modifications when saving a file, some code and
             documentation cleanups, and more bug fixes for
             the new undo code (but we continue to welcome your bug
             reports via the Savannah bug page at
             http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano.
             Come get some.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
608

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
609
2008.10.03 - GNU nano 2.1.6 was for new features before it was against
610
611
612
613
614
615
616
617
618
619
620
621
622
623
             them.  This release includes more undo capability,
             several new syntax highlighting configurations including
             Objective C, OCaml, and Fortran, and a new capability
             to activate highlighting based on the 1st line of the
             file being edited.  Also, the new default configure
             options now include color syntax highlighting, .nanorc
             support, multibuffer and extras.  These items can still
             be disabled and are not enabled with --enable-tiny.  Bug
             fixes include better signal handling under Cygwin, and
             that's about it.  Again please remember to
             submit bug reports via Savannah at
             http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano
             as undo functions certainly need more testing.
             Bon appetit.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
624

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
625
2008.08.30 - GNU nano 2.1.5 is ready to lead on day one.  This release
626
627
628
629
630
631
632
633
634
             contains a better fix for incorrectly reported successful
             writes on full filesystems, more helpful messages when
             an internal error occurs in the undo code, and fixes for
             various combinations of configure-time options and
             compiler flags.  Also included is new support for
             changing the rc file name at configure time, and using
             GNU-style regexes for word-boundaries on systems which
             do not support them natively, as well as the ever popular
             translation updates.  Rock the tarball.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
635

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
636
2008.08.09 - GNU nano 2.1.4 "I told you so!" is released.  This release
637
638
639
640
641
642
643
644
             includes fixes for several severe issues with the new
             undo/redo code.  Also the behavior of writing files when
             using backup mode has changed as well: if writing the
             backup file fails, nano will not attempt to write the
             current file.  This should help folks who enjoy "extreme
             text editing", i.e. editing files on file systems which
             are likely to run out of space; see Savannah bug #24000.
             Have fun with it!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
645

646
2008.08.04 - GNU nano 2.1.3 "least stable version ever" is released.  This
647
648
649
650
651
652
653
654
             release includes new (and experimental) undo and redo
             functionality for most text operations.  The default
             key bindings are Meta-U for undo and Meta-E for redo, but
             these can be remapped using the new 2.1 keybinding code.
             Also included are some fixes for configuring using wide
             curses, crashing when invoking the help menu with
             certain locales, and not saving the search history when
             compiled with configure options.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
655
656

2008.04.24 - GNU nano 2.1.2 "New York City" is released.  This release
657
658
659
660
661
662
             contains fixes for binding bad keys, some
             configure-specific compilation failures, and more issues
             with the new input back end and in particular the status
             bar.  Also fixed are some long standing issues with
             compiling on AIX, and a segfault when making the terminal
             window too small.  Rest in Peace Tim and George!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
663

664
2008.04.01 - GNU nano 2.1.1 won't get fooled again.  This release contains
665
666
667
668
669
670
671
672
673
674
             fixes for the new user-rebindable keys (in particular
             bracket match which was mis-bound), and various
             problems with translations and configure-related
             compilation problems are now fixed as well.
             It also contains new syntax highlighting
             definitions for TCL, PHP, Gentoo and Debian-related
             files, and some documentation updates as well.
             Please continue to send reports with the key
             binding code to the Savannah page
             (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano).
675

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
676
2008.03.18 - GNU nano 2.1.0 "under old mismanagement" is released.
677
678
679
680
681
682
683
684
             This first release in the 2.1 development series
             introduces rebindable keys for most actions inside
             the editor.  Please see the nanorc(5) page for
             more information on configuring key bindings.  Please
             also report all keybinding bugs (crashes, missing
             menu functions) using the Savannah bug tracker URL,
             https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano and
             thanks for sticking with us!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
685

686

687
2007.12.20 - GNU nano 2.0.7 keeps its balance.  This release fixes
688
689
690
691
692
693
694
695
696
697
698
699
700
701
702
703
704
705
706
707
             several bugs, among others: a segfault and several
             cursor positioning problems when uncutting text or
             inserting files into the current buffer; a problem where
             the total number of characters would be miscalculated
             when replacing single-byte characters with multibyte
             ones; several minor issues with the statusbar prompt
             involving text display and mouse support; and several
             oddities when tab-completing in the middle of a line.
             It also improves autodetection of DOS and Mac format
             files, properly supports the mouse wheel when using a
             version of ncurses built with the --enable-ext-mouse
             option, fixes some problems under NetBSD curses, adds a
             lot of translation updates, and adds more minor
             documentation updates.  Slang curses emulation support
             has also been changed to turn off all the options that
             --enable-tiny does, as it's hopelessly broken otherwise.
             Finally, nano is now licensed under the GNU GPL version
             3 or later, and its documentation is now dual-licensed
             under the GNU GPL version 3 or later and the GNU FDL
             version 1.2 or later.  Have fun.
708

709
2007.04.26 - GNU nano 2.0.6 "that was quick" is released.  This release
710
711
712
             fixes a potential segfault after justifying text marked
             from the bottom up.  It also adds one more minor
             documentation update.  Enjoy.
713

714
2007.04.22 - GNU nano 2.0.5 braces for impact.  Among other things, this
715
716
717
718
719
720
721
722
723
724
725
726
727
             release fixes various problems (including a segfault)
             when trying to open or save a file in a directory
             beginning with "~" that isn't a home directory; fixes a
             problem where a file with no name could be saved over an
             existing filename with no warning about overwriting it;
             properly disallows opening directories or device files
             from "include" commands in nanorc files; no longer
             displays a misleading prompt when trying to save in
             restricted mode with the mark on; and properly supports
             the Cancel and Shift-Cancel keys.  It also improves
             several color syntaxes to highlight trailing whitespace,
             just as the Java syntax does, and adds yet more minor
             documentation updates.  Have fun.
728
729

2007.04.06 - GNU nano 2.0.4 heralds the dawn.  This release contains
730
731
732
             proper support for the Ctrl-[arrow key], Shift-[arrow
             key], and F13-F16 keys under Xfce's Terminal.  It also
             adds still more minor documentation updates.  Enjoy.
733

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
734
2007.01.29 - GNU nano 2.0.3 flows toward its ending.  This release
735
736
737
738
739
             contains several minor optimizations to make the
             executable a little smaller under some circumstances,
             some translation updates, improvements to the color
             syntax for Python, and still more minor documentation
             updates.  Have fun.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
740

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
741
2006.12.20 - GNU nano 2.0.2 forges ahead.  This release fixes a segfault
742
743
744
745
746
747
748
             when trying to save in a nonexistent directory; fixes
             handling of strings containing nulls at the "Write File",
             "Insert File", "Execute Command", and "Go to Directory"
             prompts; fixes several minor memory leaks; fixes two
             more potential compilation warnings; adds a few
             translation updates; and adds a few more minor
             documentation updates.  Enjoy.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
749

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
750
2006.11.20 - GNU nano 2.0.1 emerges from its cocoon.  This release
751
752
753
754
755
756
757
             contains several bugfixes: saving one file over another
             will now always warn about overwriting it, overwriting
             a file is no longer possible when saving a new file in
             restricted mode, and zero-length Unicode characters are
             now highlighted properly when nano is built without
             regular expression support.  It also adds several minor
             documentation updates.  Have fun with it.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
758

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
759
2006.11.06 - GNU nano 2.0.0 does its little dance.  This release adds
760
761
762
763
764
765
766
767
768
769
770
771
772
773
             documentation updates and a few cosmetic tweaks.
                 For those who haven't been following nano 1.3
             development, there are a ton of new features, including
             support for UTF-8, moving to a specified line and column
             instead of just a line, improved color syntax
             highlighting, inserting previously untypeable characters
             using "Verbatim Input" mode, and copying text into the
             cutbuffer without cutting it.  There are also fixes for
             some long-standing bugs, such as the "NumLock glitch"
             from nano 1.2.x, and the inability to unjustify text
             after resizing.  Finally, there are also a ton of
             translation updates and new translations, as well as new
             color syntaxes.  See the UPGRADE file for more
             information, and enjoy the new stable release.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
774

775

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
776
2006.10.25 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre3 learns to appreciate life.  This
777
778
779
780
             release fixes a bug where the screen sometimes wouldn't
             be updated properly after copying text into the
             cutbuffer, fixes a potential warning while compiling,
             and fixes a few other minor inconsistencies.  Have fun.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
781

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
782
2006.10.02 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre2 crosses the threshold.  This release
783
784
785
786
             fixes a few more bugs: cursor positioning after leaving
             the statusbar prompt has been fixed, and verbatim input
             at the statusbar prompt now properly handles newlines.
             Enjoy.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
787

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
788
2006.08.29 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre1 passes through the flames.  This
789
790
791
792
793
794
795
796
797
798
799
800
801
802
803
804
805
806
             release fixes various bugs in the last version: the
             mouse support properly ignores everything except clicks
             of the left mouse button; the statusbar is now blanked
             properly when it should be; indenting and unindenting
             operate on the current line when the mark is off; nano
             should build on Tru64, NetBSD, and other systems that
             use termcap instead of terminfo in their curses
             libraries; the built-in file browser now properly
             navigates file lists that take up only one row; the
             cursor position is now completely restored after
             inserting a file into the current buffer, and after
             inserting the output of a command into a new buffer; the
             ^X shortcut at the search prompt has been removed, as
             official Pico doesn't include it and it's too easily
             confused with Exit; the screen is updated properly after
             scrolling a line without moving the cursor; the keyboard
             input routines behave more consistently; and so on.
             Have fun with it.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
807

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
808
2006.06.26 - GNU nano 1.3.12 escapes the darkness.  This release
809
810
811
812
813
814
815
816
817
818
819
820
821
822
823
             contains the last new features that nano will have
             before 2.0: copying text into the cutbuffer without
             cutting it, indenting lines of marked text with a single
             keystroke, reworked help text that should be easier for
             new users, searching for filenames in the file browser,
             the ability to include color regexes in files separate
             from nanorc files, etc.  It also contains many bugfixes.
             Text can now be unjustified after justifying it and
             resizing the window; the screen is now cleared when
             suspending; the "default" color syntax is now handled
             properly at all times; lines of text containing tabs are
             now wrapped at the right place; double-column characters
             are now properly displayed when past the right edge of
             the screen; invalid multiline color regexes are now
             ignored; and so on.  Enjoy.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
824

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
825
2006.03.30 - GNU nano 1.3.11 awakens from its fever dream.  This release
826
827
828
829
830
831
832
833
834
835
836
837
             focuses mostly on bugfixes, which include better
             handling of the cursor at the statusbar prompt, support
             for certain combinations of Shift and keypad keys in
             both normal and --rebindkeypad mode, a fix for a minor
             display problem after some searches, a real fix for a
             long-standing segfault when displaying overly long
             lines, and a real fix for nano's not hanging up properly
             in xterm under certain circumstances.  There are also
             several new features, such as the ability to set the
             characters used as brackets when searching for matching
             brackets, and tab completion of directories at the "Go
             To Directory" prompt.  Have fun.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
838

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
839
2005.12.23 - GNU nano 1.3.10 rises to the surface.  This release
840
841
842
843
844
845
846
847
848
849
850
851
852
853
854
             contains several new features as well as fixes for
             several longstanding bugs.  The former include the
             ability to scroll up or down single lines without
             scrolling the cursor, reworked bracket searching code
             that doesn't require regular expression support,
             reworked command execution code that uses $SHELL if
             available instead of hardcoding "/bin/sh", and the
             ability to no longer add newlines to files that don't
             end in them via the -L/--nonewlines option.  The latter
             include fixes to the statusbar prompt so that mouse
             clicks work properly on it, fixes to the Yes/No/All
             prompt so that mouse clicks on it work properly when
             -O/--morespace is used, and fixes to the resize handling
             so that nano dies properly when the terminal is too
             small to display a prompt.  Enjoy.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
855

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
856
2005.10.23 - GNU nano 1.3.9 breaks through the wall.  This release
857
858
859
860
861
862
863
864
865
866
867
868
869
870
871
872
873
874
875
             includes major enhancements as well as bugfixes.  The
             enhancements include better handling of invalid UTF-8,
             expansion of the word count option to also count lines
             and characters in the file or selection, more efficient
             screen update routines, a readded -K/--rebindkeypad
             option to work around numeric keypad problems on
             terminals that don't show the usual NumLock glitch, a
             new -W/--wordbounds option to properly detect words
             containing punctuation when moving among them, and
             massive improvements to the color code such as handling
             of unspecified foreground colors, more efficient memory
             usage for color regexes, and new reserved syntaxes
             "default" and "none".  The bugfixes include fixes for
             the rewritten history code, fixes for potential line
             numbering problems on 64-bit platforms, fixes for a few
             long-standing minor display problems, a fix for erroneous
             hangups occurring while waiting for input, and a fix for
             a segfault when displaying certain overly long lines.
             Have fun with it.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
876

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
877
2005.06.30 - GNU nano 1.3.8 floats at its own level.  This release
878
879
880
881
882
883
884
885
886
887
888
889
890
891
892
893
894
             contains several new features.  Among other things, you
             can now move to a specified column number as well as
             line number within a file, file backups saved in a
             backup directory will have unique names, the search and
             replace history routines should work more consistently,
             you can get a word count by pressing Meta-D at the edit
             window, and there's a new -E/--tabstospaces option to
             convert all typed tabs to spaces (--backupdir's short
             option has been changed to -C).  In terms of bugfixes,
             this release contains fixes for minor problems with
             screen updates, UTF-8 display, and flow control; a fix
             for a segfault when displaying some lines ending with
             tabs; better handling of constant cursor position
             display; improved color parsing in the rcfile; and
             support for the "Regexp" toggle in tiny mode
             (-R/--regexp is gone, and --restricted's short option
             has been changed to -R), among other things.  Enjoy.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
895

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
896
2005.04.10 - GNU nano 1.3.7 claws its way to the top.  This release
897
898
899
900
901
902
903
904
905
906
907
908
909
             mostly contains bugfixes for the massive amount of new
             code in 1.3.6.  Among other things, nano builds with
             debug support again; going into the help browser at the
             "Read File" prompt no longer kicks you out of the prompt
             after you exit the help browser; paragraph searching no
             longer skips over certain cases of single-line
             paragraphs; the titlebar no longer cuts off some UTF-8
             strings prematurely; and the text displayed in the help
             browser is now wrapped as it was in nano 1.2.x, taking
             UTF-8 support into account.  New features include an
             --enable/disable-utf8 configure option to explicitly
             turn detection of UTF-8 support on or off, and sample
             regexes for C++ as well as C.  Have fun.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
910

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
911
2005.03.20 - GNU nano 1.3.6 "shout it from the rooftops" is released.
912
913
914
915
916
917
918
919
920
921
922
923
924
925
926
927
             This release finally includes the long-awaited support
             for UTF-8.  Other new features include the ability to
             insert UTF-8 characters using verbatim input; the
             ability to delete all text from the cursor position to
             the end of the file via ^W^X as (patched) Pico does;
             improvements to input and output so that pasted text
             displays faster, improvements to the statusbar prompt so
             that more edit window shortcuts, including verbatim
             input and previous/next word search, work in it; a new
             option to allow using the formerly always-blank second
             line of the screen as part of the edit window; and the
             ability to refresh the help browser and file browser
             windows via Ctrl-L.  Notable bug fixes include a fix for
             a segfault when using full justify, and a fix for the
             long-standing bug where nano would keep running if the
             terminal it was in died unexpectedly.  Enjoy.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
928

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
929
2004.11.22 - GNU nano 1.3.5 hurls itself forward.  New features in this
930
931
932
933
934
935
936
937
938
939
940
941
942
943
944
945
946
947
948
             release include the ability to replace only marked text
             when the mark is on, improvements to smooth scrolling so
             that it applies everywhere instead of just affecting the
             movement keys, improvements to how files are opened so
             that they are no longer displayed unnecessarily, support
             for multiple +LINE arguments in addition to multiple
             filenames on the command line, autodetection of the
             format to save a file in based on the format it was in
             when it was opened, the ability to toggle both ways
             between the "Read File" and "Execute Command" prompts
             and the "Search" and "Go to Line" prompts, and support
             for cross-compiling nano.  As for bug fixes, the
             "tabsize" nanorc option works again, mouse clicks on the
             shortcut list trigger the right shortcuts again,
             tab-completing a filename with %'s in it no longer
             causes a segfault, the internal spell checker no longer
             skips words after the cursor position when the cursor is
             in the middle of the file, and spell checking of only
             marked text now works properly.  Have fun with it.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
949

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
950
2004.08.17 - GNU nano 1.3.4 marches forth after a false start.  This
951
952
953
954
955
956
957
958
959
960
961
962
963
964
965
966
967
968
             release mainly features fixes for the bugs that crept
             into the last release.  Among other things, nano now
             compiles again with certain options, quoted justify now
             works properly on systems without regex.h, full justify
             no longer segfaults when used on a file with no
             paragraphs, previous paragraph searching works properly
             again, tab completion is properly disabled when needed
             in restricted mode, Ctrl-C is no longer disabled after
             using the alternate spell checker, the permissions of a
             newly created file now match those of nano 1.2.x again,
             and replacing all text in a file now properly updates
             the screen in all cases.  New features include sample
             regexes for patch files, improvements to the sample
             regexes for C files, and support for strings greater
             than 1023 characters and/or containing nulls in
             .nano_history.  Additionally, the full justify keystroke
             has been changed to match current Pico, and whitespace
             display mode is now turned off by default.  Enjoy.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
969

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
970
2004.06.28 - GNU nano 1.3.3 marches forth.  There are several new
971
972
973
974
975
976
977
978
979
980
981
982
983
984
985
986
987
988
989
990
             features in this release, including a restricted mode
             that provides better security than just setting an
             operating directory, the ability to justify the entire
             file at once, support for a "smart" Home key that can
             leap from the beginning of text on a line to the true
             beginning of the line (or the reverse) in one stroke,
             support for specifying an alternative spell checker in
             $SPELL, the ability to specify the characters used to
             display spaces and tabs so that they can easily be told
             apart, and the ability to specify the characters marking
             the ends of sentences as used in justification.  There
             are also several bug fixes; among other things,
             justification now keeps spaces at the ends of all but
             the last line of a paragraph as Pico does, saving a
             marked selection no longer changes the current filename
             to the filename the selection was saved under, resizing
             now works better and no longer corrupts the screen under
             slang, and the movement functions now avoid doing
             unnecessary redraws and hence work faster.  In short,
             there are a lot of new things to play with.  Enjoy.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
991

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
992
2004.03.31 - GNU nano 1.3.2 is prepared for the void.  New features in
993
994
995
996
997
998
999
1000
1001
1002
1003
             this release include the ability to spell-check only
             marked text and the ability to save all backup files in
             a specified directory instead of wherever the original
             files are.  Bug fixes include a fix for a segfault when
             replacing certain regular expressions, fixes for some
             misbehavior when doing searches, minor fixes to verbatim
             input mode and keyboard input in general, better
             handling of window resizes at certain times, and
             allowing the mark to be saved properly again when
             switching between multiple file buffers.  nano has also
             been ported to the Tandem NonStop Kernel.  Have fun.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
1004

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
1005
2004.01.09 - GNU nano 1.3.1 is outside the gates.  This release
1006
1007
1008
1009
1010
1011
1012
1013
1014
1015
1016
1017
1018
1019
1020
             features, among other things, fixes for the input
             routines to deal with some problems they had, a
             reorganized shortcut list for the help browser, minor
             Pico compatibility improvements for the file browser,
             fixes for misbehavior when replacing certain regular
             expressions, and the ability to highlight those regular
             expressions properly.  It also allows searching without
             prompting to work in view mode, adds support for glib
             2.x for those systems that need it, updates the .spec
             file for the 1.3 branch, prompts you first when you try
             to save a file under a different name, and adds a new
             verbatim input mode that acts as ^V does under vi, but
             with additional Pico compatibility (explained in the
             FAQ).  Basically, a bunch of fixes and a few new
             features for your editor of choice.  Enjoy.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
1021

David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
1022
2003.10.22 - GNU nano 1.3.0 is loosed upon the world.  This is the first
1023
1024
1025
1026
1027
1028
1029
1030
1031
1032
             release in the unstable 1.3.x series, and as such it
             includes a lot of new features, including the addition
             of a -d option for those FreeBSD users with Backspace
             keys that act like Delete keys, the ability to repeat
             the last search without prompting, the ability to search
             for the beginning or end of a paragraph, new smooth
             paging routines to go with the smooth scrolling
             routines, and various improvements to the input and
             display routines to make them behave more intuitively.
             It also includes the usual load of bugfixes.  Enjoy.
David Lawrence Ramsey's avatar
David Lawrence Ramsey committed
1033

1034

1035
2003.08.11 - GNU nano 1.2.2 is released, only four months since the
1036
1037
1038
1039
1040
1041
1042
1043
1044
             last version :-).  This release includes fixes for
             broken regex detection, search history recall, and
             keypad handling with -K.  Debugging strings are no
             longer translated and comments denote where translations
             should be as short as possible (i.e. the statusbar).
             There are new examples for syntax highlighting, and
             documentation updates and fixes.  The 1.3.0 CVS tree
             will be opening soon for all your nano desires, so stay
             tuned!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1045

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1046
2003.04.19 - Happy Easter! GNU nano 1.2.1 is released.  This release
1047
1048
1049
1050
1051
             features a new check for broken regexec()
             implementations and some variable, function and macro
             cleanups.  Fixes are included for search history,
             cutting marked text, alt keyboard mode, and the usual
             translation and documentation updates.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1052

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1053
2003.02.19 - GNU nano 1.2.0 is released.  Few changes from pre3, just
1054
1055
1056
1057
1058
1059
1060
             some doc and translation updates, and bugfixes for
             justify and file conversion.  For those of you who
             haven't kept up with the 1.1 unstable series, v1.2
             brings nanorc support, color syntax highlighting,
             multiple file buffers, search/replace history and much
             much more.  Please read the UPGRADE file for details,
             and enjoy GNU nano 1.2.0.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1061

1062

1063
2003.02.13 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre3 "The last testing version, no
1064
1065
1066
1067
1068
1069
1070
1071
1072
1073
             really!" is released.  This release includes fixes for
             wrapping (again), resizing, color syntax highlighting,
             rcfile parsing, the mouse code, more memory leaks, and
             some reversion of the code to get the user's home
             directory (nano will now again rely on $HOME).  There
             are also translation updates, a new manual page for the
             nanorc file, and an UPGRADE file detailing the changes
             since version 1.0.  Please submit reports for any bugs
             you might find to the development team
             (nano-devel@gnu.org), and enjoy nano almost-1.2.0 ;-)
1074

Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1075
2003.02.03 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre2 "bugs in my pockets, bugs in my
1076
1077
1078
1079
1080
1081
1082
1083
1084
1085
1086
1087
1088
1089
1090
1091
1092
1093
1094
             shoes" is released.  There are, not surprisingly, only
             bugfixes in this release as we move toward the stable
             1.2.0 release.  Fixes are included for translatable
             string format, subexpression replacement, constant
             cursor position, invalid search regexes, justify, screen
             state on SIGHUP and SIGTERM, cutting to end cuts with
             long lines, many file browser and operating directory
             bugs, memory and file descriptor leaks, marker code,
             spell checker, the mouse code with long lines, multiple
             buffers and non-file open errors, replacement string
             length, and a silly but serious history message crash.
             There is also a drastic improvement in CPU utilization
             for the color regex code.
                 Depending on the number of bugs found in this
             release, there may be a 1.1.99pre3 or RC1, or just a
             1.2.0 release.  Most of the major bugs seem to have been
             worked out, so if you are waiting for a good time to
             test nano before the official 1.2.0 release, this would
             be the one to use.  Happy bug hunting!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1095

1096
2003.01.17 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre1 "enough already" has been released.
1097
1098
1099
1100
1101
1102
1103
1104
1105
1106
1107
1108
1109
1110
1111
1112
1113
1114
1115
1116
1117
1118
1119
1120
1121
1122
1123
             This release is, barring bug fixes and documentation
             updates, what version 1.2.0 has looked like, feature
             wise.  There will very likely be bugs, just due the
             volume of changes made in this release.  Search and
             replace string history has been added, including an
             option to log history to ~/.nano_history (-H,
             --historylog).  Because of this, the Pico incompatible
             search/replace string behavior that used to be the
             default has been deleted.  The old "pico" flag (-p) is
             now compatible with Pico's "preserve" mode for allowing
             flow control characters; by default this version ignores
             both ^Q and ^S.  The --disable-wrapping-as-root
             configure option has been forward ported from version
             1.0.x, and a new flag to enable all extra options
             (--enable-all) has been added.  The internal spell
             checker has been improved, meaning you will now be
             prompted only once for each unique capitalization of a
             given word.
                 There have also been lots of bug fixes,
             including the "trying to insert a directory name in
             multibuffer mode bug", the ugly spell checker scrolling,
             the color code, cutting text crashes, justification,
             deleting the "magic line" via replace, and cursor
             positioning on the statusbar.  There have also been the
             usual helping of translation and documentation updates.
                 Please send all new feedback on this release
             direct to the development list (nano-devel@gnu.org).
1124

1125
2002.10.24 - GNU nano 1.1.12 "Make Jordi happy" is released.  This
1126
1127
1128
1129
1130
1131
1132
1133
1134
1135
1136
             release demonstrates that nano is starting to freeze for
             version 1.2.  New features include a Meta-Y toggle for
             syntax highlighting, pluralized i18n, and a handler for
             SIGTERM.  Nano now ignores XOFF (^S) to stop accidental
             lock-ups, and no longer references malloc.h.
                 Also included are fixes for zero-length regex
             matches, segfaults with --disable-mouse, justification,
             memory corruption with the browser, version and help
             cmdline output, and translation updates.  Aside from the
             (currently up in the air) search history behavior, the
             next version of nano should be 1.1.99pre1.  Have fun!
1137

1138
2002.10.01 - GNU nano 1.1.11 "Oddball" is released.  This release
1139
1140
1141
1142
1143
1144
1145
1146
1147
1148
1149
1150
1151
1152
1153
             features a new version of gettext, a new and improved
             syntax highlighting engine, and some updates for the
             nanorc.sample file.  The toggles for case sensitivity
             (Meta-C) and regular expressions (Meta-R) have changed
             in the search and replace prompts, multibuffer status is
             now displayed and can be toggled from the insert file
             menu, and some wrapping behavior that changed in 1.1.10
             has reverted.  The --enable-color warning was also made
             less severe, as the color syntax code has improved, and
             nano now uses extended regexes in the .nanorc file.
                 Also included are fixes for various memory
             leaks, the operating directory option, username tab
             completion, the page_up and down arrow, go to previous
             word and next word, nanorc parser and line wrapping
             code.  Have fun!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1154

1155
2002.07.25 - At long last!  GNU nano 1.1.10 "What didn't we break?" is
1156
1157
1158
1159
1160
1161
1162
1163
1164
1165
1166
1167
             released.  This version of GNU nano features version
             0.11.2 of gettext, building with automake 1.6, some new
             code for displaying control characters, browser
             improvements, a new backup file option (-B, --backup), a
             new option to ignore rc files (-I, --ignorercfiles),
             compatibility with -pedantic, handling null characters
             before EOF, a slightly sportier nanorc.sample and more.
                 Fixes are included for justification,
             the reading and writing file routines, resizing and fill
             length, millions of memory leaks, the usage screen was
             updated, and the --quotestr and --regexp really work
             now ;-)  Enjoy :)
1168

1169
2002.05.12 - GNU nano 1.1.9 is released, happy Mother's Day!  This
1170
1171
1172
1173
1174
1175
1176
1177
1178
1179
1180
1181
1182
             release includes many new features, including a prepend
             mode (^O,M-P), a new "syntax" command in the .nanorc to
             allow multiple syntax highlighting types, and a new -Y,
             --syntax flag to set a specific one if there's no
             filename regex to match it against (i.e. w/mutt).  The
             ^space and M-space keys will now show up in the help
             menu, which itself has been tweaked a bit, and many more
             configure options should now cooperate (like the odd
             pairing of --enable-tiny and --enable-multibuffer).  The
             marker should now work when using multiple buffers, and
             the huge memory leak in color syntax highlighting has
             been fixed.  A lot of new stuff for everyone's favorite
             text editor ;)  Have fun!
1183

1184
2002.03.30 - GNU nano 1.1.8 is released.  New features include an
1185
1186
1187
1188
1189
1190
1191
1192
             "Insert Output of External Command", ^R^X, and a .spec
             file is now included in the distribution.  There are
             cleanups in the usage code, fixes for regex parsing, the
             file browser, the NO_CONVERT auto-detect, indented
             justification, the internal spell checker, and a serious
             bug where reading a file of 0 lines would hang nano.
             Also, the "show position" code now shows the starting
             column as 1 instead of 0.  Have fun!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1193

1194
2002.03.05 - GNU nano 1.1.7 "let's change everything and see what breaks"
1195
1196
1197
1198
1199
1200
1201
1202
1203
1204
1205
1206
1207
1208
1209
1210
1211
             is released.  New features include the new flags
             -N, --noconvert (to stop any file format conversion) and
             -Q, --quotestr (for the new quoted text justification),
             a new tempnam() implementation to avoid silly warnings,
             DOS and Mac file options in the Write File dialog,
             multiple save files (file.1) for abnormal exits,
             ^C now showing column as well as character position, and
             multibuffer allowing duplicate files, even unnamed ones.
             Also, the static shortcut and toggle lengths are history,
             nano now reads SYSCONFDIR/nanorc if rc file support is
             enabled, and nano is now built with (and for rebuilding
             requires) autoconf 2.5.
                 This release also includes fixes for some memory
             leaks, detecting DOS and Mac file format, justification,
             suspending keys, search & replace under various
             conditions, variable width for shortcuts, and the usual
             ton of translation updates.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1212

1213
2002.01.25 - GNU nano 1.1.6 is released.  Lots of new features in this
1214
1215
1216
1217
1218
1219
1220
1221
1222
1223
1224
1225
1226
1227
1228
             release.  New Meta-keys were added as alternates for
             control sequences: Meta-A for the marker key (^^), and
             Meta-G for the 'goto dir' key in the file browser (^_).
             The color syntax highlighting now supports multiple
             lines via start="regex" end="regex" syntax, and the
             .nanorc regex format itself has changed.  Also, the
             gettext code was upgraded to version 0.10.40, and nano
             will now display a message if only occurrence of a given
             search exists.
                 For bugfixes, there are fixes for spelling,
             stray newlines in the usage() function, suspend issues
             with tcsh, auto-indent and wrapping clashes, ugly code
             in rcfile.c, global variable compatibility with AIX.
             There are also oodles of translation updates.  Have fun
             with it.
1229

1230
2002.01.05 - GNU nano 1.1.5 is out.  The main new feature in this
1231
1232
1233
1234
1235
1236
1237
1238
1239
1240
1241
1242
             release is the changed behavior of the keypad.  Nano now
             does the Right Thing and used keypad() by default.  If
             you wish to use the keypad arrow keys in certain
             terminals, you may use the -K or --keypad flag to use
             the old behavior.  Users of other OSes should see better
             handling of their non-keypad keys in this release.
             Other changes include more Hurd fixes, fixes parsing
             the .nanorc, display fixes for the color syntax
             highlighting, gettext stabilization and many translation
             updates.  This is almost like a stable release, much
             like in the 0.9.x series when every other release was
             the most stable one :)  Have fun!
1243

1244
2001.12.11 - GNU nano 1.1.4 is released.  This release contains
1245
1246
1247
1248
1249
1250
1251
             rudimentary color syntax support (but it's still
             broken), compatibility fixes for the Hurd and FreeBSD,
             spell checker and wrapping fixes, and more.  It seems
             that the amount of interest in the code is inversely
             proportional to the amount of time since last release,
             so it's time to show the world all the changes since
             1.1.3 ;)  Have fun with it!
1252

1253
2001.10.26 - GNU nano 1.1.3 is released.  As far as new features go,
1254
1255
1256
1257
1258
1259
1260
1261
1262
1263
1264
1265
1266
1267
1268
1269
1270
1271
1272
1273
1274
             the help system is now available for all functions in
             the editor.  Also, nano will also now print a message on
             the status bar when it automatically converts a file
             from Mac or DOS format, and trying to load a file that
             has already been loaded in multibuffer mode will now
             also cause an error message.  There is now a "goto
             previous word" which you can use by hitting Meta-Space
             Bar.
                 As for fixes, a SEVERE bug in the null_at code
             which discarded the memory address of reallocated memory
             has been fixed.  This is probably the biggest bug fix in
             well over the last year of development.  There are also
             some display fixes for when the screen shouldn't center
             itself on cut or uncut text.  Also, the comments in the
             header files incorrectly said that nano was distributed
             under version 1 of the GPL when the accompanying license
             was the GPLv2.
                 If you're using nano-1.1, it is highly
             recommended you upgrade to this release.  If using 1.0,
             wait for version 1.0.6 which should be available early
             next week.  Enjoy!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1275

1276
2001.10.03 - GNU nano 1.1.2 is out there.  Many new features in this
1277
1278
1279
1280
1281
1282
1283
1284
1285
1286
1287
1288
             release, including support for auto-converting from DOS
             and Mac formatted files, as well as toggles for writing
             out files in these formats.  Pico's -o flag has been
             implemented, as has some new smooth scrolling code
             (which can be used in place of the default jerky
             scrolling behavior).  Also, there is now a "find
             matching bracket/brace/etc" feature (Meta-]).  The
             .nanorc file now accepts setting the tabsize, and the
             help text at the bottom of the editor is now better
             spaced out in the search/replace prompts.  There are
             also the usual helping of bugfixes, translation updates
             and, surely a bug or two.  You better get ready!
1289

1290
2001.07.28 - GNU nano 1.1.1 is released.  Our second 1.1 unstable
1291
1292
1293
1294
1295
1296
1297
1298
1299
1300
             release features many bugfixes from the initial release,
             in particular fixes for the multibuffer code, and
             various compiler macro fixes.  The shortcut lists for
             the search and replace prompts are a little more logical
             (with cancel the last option again), and the included
             gettext was re-downgraded to 0.10.35 due to problems on
             the PPC platform.  GNU nano now includes its own aclocal
             macros in the m4/ directory to allow rebuilding the
             configure script to work on platforms regardless of
             their gettext version.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1301

1302
2001.07.15 - GNU nano 1.1.0 is released.  This is the first release
1303
1304
1305
1306
1307
1308
1309
1310
1311
1312
             in the 1.1.x unstable series of GNU nano.  It
             incorporates all changes up to the 1.0.3 release, and
             also includes many many new features, including
             appending to as well as overwriting files, writing
             marked text to a separate file, dynamic wrap length,
             lots more compatibility with Pico, and new optional
             features like .nanorc file support and multiple file
             buffers!  All in all, plenty of new stuff that's sure to
             introduce lots of bugs ;-)  Have fun with it, but be
             careful, unstable means unstable.
1313

1314

1315
2001.07.01 - GNU nano 1.0.3 is the "mutt" release.  This release
1316
1317
1318
1319
1320
1321
1322
1323
1324
             features oodles of bug fixes with cutting text,
             especially with the -k (cut to end) option.  There is
             also a new suspend handler which should make nano play
             better with mutt (the code for which came from mutt
             itself; many many thanks to Jordi Mallach and Tom Lear
             for working late into the night fixing this).  Nano now
             also features mutt's case insensitive string compare
             function for more speed and less memory usage.  Two new
             translations are included, Ukrainian and Russian.
1325

1326
2001.05.12 - GNU nano 1.0.2 is the "just the bugfixes ma'am" release.
1327
1328
1329
1330
1331
1332
1333
1334
             The most noticeable fixes are for display errors using
             page up/down with the marker code, and view mode (-v)
             not stopping the replace function.  Other fixes include
             being able to use the arrow keys while holding down the
             ctrl key in certain TERMs, and there are many
             documentation updates and spelling tweaks.  We also have
             a new Galician translation (provided by Jacobo Tarrío).
             Have fun with it!
1335

1336
2001.04.06 - GNU nano 1.0.1 is out there.  The only new feature is a
1337
1338
1339
1340
1341
1342
1343
             configure option for those who want to disable all word
             wrapping from nano, --disable-wrapping.  Bug fixes this
             release include some bugs with autoconf and i18n, and
             several fixes in the file browser including a segfault
             on Solaris, symlinks to directories now work properly,
             and nano now sorts files case insensitively like Pilot.
             Have fun with it.
1344

1345
2001.03.22 - GNU Nano 1.0 is released!  The autoindent wrapping bug
1346
1347
1348
1349
1350
1351
1352
1353
             has been fixed, as well as a strange bug when using Pico
             mode and regex search.  There have also been some minor
             spelling and documentation updates.  As stated on the
             website, there are currently no known bugs with nano,
             but some will pop up eventually and they will be
             addressed in subsequent releases.  We hope you enjoy
             this first stable release of nano, and as always,
             feedback is welcome!  <nano@nano-editor.org>
1354
1355
1356


2001.02.19 - Nano 0.9.99pre3 brings a lot of changes!  The most important
1357
1358
1359
1360
1361
1362
1363
1364
1365
1366
             being that nano is now officially a GNU program.  Some
             changes have been made for GNU compatibility (like in the
             default list of shortcuts: "^G Get Help" is now listed
             and "^_ Goto Line" is not).  The Yes/No/All keys have
             finally been internationalized also.  All in all, quite
             a few changes, considering nano is supposed to be in
             a code freeze.  But there are the usual helping of
             bugfixes, a nasty bug when cutting text in -k mode and
             some compatibility issues with older ncurses libraries
             have also been fixed.  All in all, a lot to see.
1367

1368
2001.01.31 - Nano 0.9.99pre2 is released.  Not surprisingly, all that is
1369
1370
1371
1372
1373
1374
1375
1376
1377
1378
             new is bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes.  There were a few
             cleanups in unneeded global variables and duplicate
             functions, but most is just fixing.  Specifically, there
             is now a preliminary (read: needs testing) fix for
             resizing the editor in any mode other than normal edit
             mode.  Other fixes include some more tab completion
             segfaults, and a silly segfault that occurred when
             successfully writing a file on the 2nd try (i.e. after
             an initial write error).  Slowly but surely, on toward
             1.0 we travel.
1379

1380
2001.01.17 - Nano 0.9.99pre1 is released.  This is the first pre-1.0
1381
1382
1383
1384
1385
1386
1387
1388
1389
             release of nano, and is also the first release since the
             code freeze for nano 1.0.  Don't expect (or request) any
             new features between now and nano 1.0, only bugfixes,
             optimizations and doc/translation updates.  For fixes, a
             nasty segfault when trying to insert one's home
             directory (~), some checks for the NumLock key making
             the keypad go awry, window size sanity checks, many
             autoconf fixes, and support for the KDE Konsole keypad
             layout.  Have fun.
1390

1391
2001.01.07 - Nano 0.9.25 is the "Just one more feature I swear!"
1392
1393
1394
1395
1396
1397
1398
             release.  It includes one new feature that Pico has had
             forever, a built-in file browser.  Since not everyone
             may want this option, there is a --disable-browser
             option to the configure script as well.  Other changes
             include slightly different keypad handling, and a bugfix
             for crashes when tab completion in certain instances.
             Have fun and Happy New Year!
1399

1400
2000.12.18 - Nano 0.9.24 is released.  This version contains the last of
1401
1402
1403
1404
1405
1406
1407
1408
1409
             the security fixes for writing files, as well as for a
             nasty segfault when nano is unable to open a file for
             reading, among other fixes.  Nano also now cowardly
             refuses to open device files, to stop silly things like
             trying to open /dev/zero.  New features include being
             Able to use Meta-Meta-<key> as Control-<key>, better
             HURD support, and some new flags have been added for
             Pico compatibility.  Upgrading to this version is highly
             recommended.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1410

1411
2000.12.08 - Nano 0.9.23 is the "race conditions bite" release.  The
1412
1413
1414
1415
1416
1417
1418
1419
             main reason for this release is the less-than-optimal
             fix for the security issue in nano with following
             symbolic links.  Hopefully this will fix the problem
             permanently.  The --nofollow option also works again for
             those who are real security nuts.  There are also some
             display and search fixes, and the --disable-spell
             function was renamed to --disable-speller to be in line
             with nano and Pico's "speller" term.
1420

1421
2000.12.02 - Nano 0.9.22 is released, with many more changes and
1422
1423
1424
1425
1426
1427
1428
1429
1430
1431
1432
1433
1434
             additions than imaginable.  The most important change is
             a fix for unsafe handling of symbolic links which could
             lead to symlink attacks if nano were to exit because of
             an error or signal.  Also there are better checks when
             saving files.
                 As for new features, username tab completion is now
             working well, the internal spell checker code has been
             tweaked, you can now unjustify if you don't like how the
             justify formatted your text, and there are more options
             for configure, including --disable-spell and
             --disable-justify and --enable-extra (for those who like
             surprises).  All in all, a whole lot of changes in a
             little over a week.
1435

1436
2000.11.23 - Happy Thanksgiving!  Nano 0.9.21 is our "last version was
1437
1438
1439
1440
             a big turkey" release.  It fixes several bugs introduced
             by the previous version, as well as a few long- standing
             display bugs.  All 0.9.20 users are strongly encouraged
             to upgrade to this release.
1441

1442
2000.11.18 - Nano 0.9.20 is finally out the door.  Probably the biggest
1443
1444
1445
1446
1447
1448
1449
1450
1451
1452
1453
1454
1455
1456
1457
1458
             change is the brand new way nano displays previous
             search and replace strings (they are now editable!)
             This is a break from Pico's (inconsistent) interface, so
             if you don't like the new way, "Pico" mode (-p on the
             command line or Meta-P within nano) still works the
             "old" way.
                 Other new features include being able to deal with
             search strings of any length, a new internal spell
             feature (courtesy of Mr. Rocco Corsi) and tab completion
             when reading in or writing out files!  There's also the
             usual billion or so bug fixes.  Feedback on this release
             is welcome because so much has changed, especially with
             the previous string display in search and replace.
             Email -> nano@nano-editor.org <-.  If you like
             something, don't like something, or just want to order a
             pizza, let us know!
1459

1460
2000.10.02 - Nano 0.9.19 is the "Chris is getting married in less than
1461
1462
1463
1464
1465
1466
1467
             a week and needs a distraction" release.  There are only
             a few actual code changes, mainly portability and
             compiler warning fixes.  Nano now also supports
             PDCurses, which enables easily-built nano executables
             for Windows NT and 95/98 for the brave.  The official
             nano site has changed (again) as well, check out
             www.nano-editor.org for all the latest nano schtuff.
1468

1469
2000.09.18 - Nano 0.9.18 is unleashed.  It has some new keyboard
1470
1471
1472
1473
1474
             handling code, Cygwin support out of the box, and a more
             portable handler for the NOHELP toggle.  There is also a
             fix for a somewhat serious bug whereby trying to insert
             a directory instead of a normal file would destroy the
             contents of the editor.  A must-see.  Four stars.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1475

1476
2000.09.04 - Nano 0.9.17, the Labor Day release, is released after a
1477
1478
1479
1480
1481
             quiet spell (almost an entire month since last release!)
             New features include better (not yet perfect) binary
             display support and toggle support for most of the
             program flags (M-c, M-i, M-z, M-x, M-p, M-w, M-m, M-k
             and M-e for -c, -i, -z, -x, -p, -w, -m, -k, and -R).
1482

1483
2000.08.09 - Nano 0.9.16, after some struggling, is released.  This
1484
1485
1486
1487
1488
             release should fix a few of the holes that 0.9.15 dug.
             The "cutting text on the first line" bug is fixed, as is
             the "cutting text on the last line" bug.  Nice symmetry
             there huh?  Also the --tabsize argument should now work
             as well as by using -T.
1489

1490
2000.08.03 - Nano 0.9.15 is the "I can't think of a release description"
1491
1492
1493
1494
1495
             release.  There are the usual gala of display bugfixes,
             a fix for the nasty bug in -k mode that could create
             a loop in the file being edited, and some other code
             cleanup.  Also, the -T option should now work regardless
             of the curses library used.  Yay.
1496

1497
2000.07.27 - Nano 0.9.14 is officially the "13 is so unlucky it should
1498
1499
1500
1501
1502
1503
1504
1505
1506
             be skipped as a version number" release.  One typo
             caused unending problems (calling nano with either -t or
             -k caused both flags to be used).  The -k code is also
             now closer in functionality to Pico's -k mode; please
             note that this code is not finished yet.  Working on
             this code has made me realize that there is not enough
             abstraction in the code, and I will be working on that
             for the next release.  Until then, have fun with this
             version.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1507

1508
2000.07.23 - Nano 0.9.13 has a few new bits and bobs, most notably the
1509
1510
1511
1512
1513
1514
             -k option from Pico (cut to end of line).  The majority
             of changes in this release are bugfixes, however,
             including the usual display fixes and fixes for writing
             to symbolic links and unwritable files.  Barring any
             other major changes, this should be the feature set for
             nano 1.0, whenever it might be released =-)
1515

1516
2000.07.07 - Nano 0.9.12 (the "lucky day" release) is bursting with
1517
1518
1519
1520
1521
1522
1523
1524
1525
             new features, bug fixes, and yummy fruit flavor.  For
             changes, the alternate replace keystroke ^W^T is now
             ^W^R to be compatible with later versions of Pico.  ^W^T
             is now goto line, again for Pico compatibility.  As for
             new features, the wonderful/hated magic line code has
             returned with a vengeance!  Also, regular expression
             searches and replaces have been incorporated via the -R
             flag.  And, of course, there are the usual helping of
             display and other bug fixes to top it all off.
1526

1527
2000.06.20 - Nano 0.9.11 presents drastic rewrites of the most buggy
1528
1529
1530
1531
1532
1533
1534
1535
1536
1537
1538
1539
             routines in the program, specifically the wrapping code
             and almost all of the display routines.  There are many
             improvements and bugfixes to the display subsystem in
             general, but there may be bugs lurking yet.  Also, after
             many MANY requests, there is now an option to set the
             displayed tab width (-T, --tabsize).  Note that this
             function just changes the way tabs LOOK in the editor,
             the tabs you input are still real tabs of normal width
             (usually 8 characters); nano just makes them look
             smaller or bigger while in the editor.  New in the
             translation department is an Indonesian translation
             (id).
1540

1541
2000.06.06 - Nano 0.9.10 is primarily a bugfix for the loss of SIGINT
1542
1543
1544
1545
1546
1547
             when using "run and terminate" flags (for example,
             --help).  There are also some minor documentation
             updates.  This version of nano is the most stable in
             quite some time, and is likely to be the most stable for
             awhile.  Users are encouraged to upgrade to this
             version.
1548

1549
2000.05.31 - Nano 0.9.9 introduces much better working i18n support,
1550
1551
1552
             more portability, and a ton of bugfixes.  While nano is
             not likely anywhere near 1.0 in terms of code quality,
             it gets a quantum leap closer with this release.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1553

1554
2000.05.18 - Nano 0.9.8 (the 'what broke now?' release) should fix
1555
1556
1557
1558
1559
1560
             the resize crash people have been experiencing.  It also
             offers a new input method that should allow nano to do
             things the right way (like ^S, ^Q, custom suspend keys)
             and hopefully won't break with non-US keyboards.  There
             are also the obligatory display fixes and speedups.
             Have fun with it.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1561

1562
2000.05.14 - Nano 0.9.7 (the Mother's Day release) continues in the long
1563
1564
1565
1566
1567
             line of display fixes, and also fixes the broken symlink
             behavior (i.e. symlinks weren't being followed by
             default).  Hopefully all major bugs can be worked out
             soon and we can have a 1.0 release before the end of the
             year, but who knows.
1568

1569
2000.05.08 - Nano 0.9.6 cleans up a lot of the display bugs that 0.9.5
1570
1571
1572
1573
1574
             uncovered.  There are improvements (and some remaining
             segfaults) in the wrapping code, and even more display
             optimizations.  I would still say 0.9.4 or 0.9.2 are the
             most stable versions of nano to date, but this one may
             not be too bad =-)
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1575

1576
2000.05.01 - Nano 0.9.5 attempts to speed up the display of text
1577
1578
1579
1580
1581
1582
1583
1584
             to be at least somewhat reasonable.  Much code profiling
             has been done to reduce the ridiculous number of
             redundant display updates.  This will probably expose a
             lot of bugs that can then be fixed, so this release is
             probably not for the faint of heart.  For anyone
             curious, I would call nano 0.9.2 the most stable version
             recently, so use that if you're not particularly
             concerned with being on the bleeding edge.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1585

1586
2000.04.25 - Nano 0.9.4 fixes some problems in 0.9.3 with the last
1587
1588
1589
             line code and related segfaults.  It also now has much
             better handling for 8-bit characters.  The --enable-tiny
             code also produces a smaller executable.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1590

1591
2000.04.19 - Nano 0.9.3 is officially the "Micro$oft" release.  It
1592
1593
1594
1595
1596
1597
1598
1599
1600
1601
1602
1603
1604
1605
1606
1607
             underscores the recent problem of bugfixes introducing
             more bugs than they fix.  The most important change to
             this version of nano is the removal of the "magic line".
             You will no longer see a blank line at the end of the
             file.  If you want a new line at the end of your file,
             you'll have to hit enter to get one.

             NOTE: THIS BREAKS COMPATIBILITY WITH PICO.
             Unfortunately, this feature has been causing many many
             problems with nano so it is being removed for the time
             being, and perhaps indefinitely.

             Other new stuff includes an --enable-tiny option to make
             nano ultra small (disabling i18n, detailed help and the
             marker and mouse code), and --with-slang to use the
             slang libraries instead of ncurses.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1608

1609
2000.04.15 - Nano 0.9.2 just fixes the serious segfault problem if
1610
1611
1612
             nano is invoked any way other than using the absolute
             path.  The bug was in the new code for checking whether
             nano is invoked as 'pico'.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1613

1614
2000.04.14 - Nano 0.9.1 has some more Pico compatibility built-in.  The
1615
1616
1617
1618
1619
1620
1621
1622
1623
1624
1625
1626
             option to switch to/from Search and Search/Replace (^T)
             is now available, and nano now displays the more
             Pico-like shortcut list when invoked as 'pico' (i.e. if
             'pico' is a symlink to nano).  There is an important
             change to the handling of symbolic links as well.  Now,
             nano does the "correct" thing and automatically writes
             to the object of the symlink, rather than replace the
             symlink with the updated file.  This behavior is still
             available with the --nofollow or -l flags.
                 Other new things include a fix for the infamous
             "recursive replace" bug, and more bugfixes in the
             wrapping code.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1627

1628
2000.04.07 - Nano 0.9.0 has some updates, new language support and
1629
1630
1631
1632
             a much better refresh setup (It's still not great,
             but...)  There should also be more stability editing
             long lines, as there was a stupid mistake in the
             update_line call.  Silly me =)
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1633

1634
2000.03.22 - Nano 0.8.9 is basically just a bugfix release of 0.8.8
1635
1636
1637
1638
1639
1640
1641
1642
             to reflect the current stagnant status of the project.
             Most things work, the rest doesn't doesn't work because
             (a) I can't fix it or I would have already done so, and
             (b) the amount of patches I'm receiving right now is
             quite negligible.  Fortunately, this release marks the
             first release since I have acquired ownership of the
             nano pages on SourceForge.  Here's hoping SF will get us
             some more visibility, translators and patches.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1643

1644
2000.03.12 - After a hiatus, I have finally moved (not unpacked though)
1645
1646
1647
1648
1649
1650
1651
1652
1653
1654
1655
1656
1657
1658
1659
             to my new home into Albany.  Thus I should now have more
             time to work on nano.  Nano 0.8.8, the "dear god what
             broke this time?" release, incorporates patches for both
             i18n and many bugfixes.  It is VERY likely something
             broke this version, and it's likely I didn't even apply
             the i18n stuff properly, so *it* may not even work.

             I would like to announce that I'm going to need
             translations soonish, so if you are fluent in other
             languages than English (or even better, if your native
             language is not English) and you would like to submit a
             translation file to me, please feel free to do so.  If
             you do, I will list your name and email in the AUTHORS
             file as the maintainer of the .po file, and from then on
             it is yours to take care of and keep up to date.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1660

1661
2000.03.01 - Well, to continue my trend of going back on my previous
1662
1663
1664
1665
1666
             release's comments, nano 0.8.7 is released.  The
             crashing behavior was still occurring, and this most
             recent fix also fixes some other wrapping problems, so
             here you go.  There may be another release soon, there
             may not be, is that vague enough? =)
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1667

1668
2000.02.25 - More minor bugfixes in 0.8.6, the bizarre behavior at the
1669
1670
1671
             end of a page has ceased, thankfully.  I'm also moving
             next weekend, so don't be shocked if you don't see a new
             version of nano next week  =-)
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1672

1673
2000.02.11 - Okay, here we go again.  Aside from a few minor fixes and
1674
1675
1676
1677
             some under-the-hood changes, you won't notice much
             different in this version of nano.  I haven't gotten
             much feedback on the help feature, is it simply amazing
             or does no one care?  Write and let me know! =)
1678

1679
2000.02.08 - Nano 0.8.3 marks the first time in a long time that there
1680
1681
1682
1683
1684
1685
1686
             has been more than three days since the last release.
             New features include an initial help mode (YAY!),
             hopefully much more support for i18n out of the box, and
             a flag for more Pico compatibility in the shortcut lists
             displayed.  This release also marks the new nano
             distribution site, http://www.asty.org/nano and email
             address nano@asty.org for bugs, etc.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1687

1688
2000.02.02 - Okay, I hate to go back on what I said in the last release,
1689
1690
1691
1692
1693
1694
             but I may be changing jobs very soon.  I will release
             version 0.8.2 as is (no i18n, no help menu (yet)).  I
             expect things to settle down by the end of next week,
             and then I can try to start on the i18n support and help
             menu; look for these new features in version 0.8.5 to
             0.9.0.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1695

1696
2000.01.28 - Nano 0.8.1 marks our first official step toward
1697
1698
1699
1700
1701
1702
             internationalization (i18n) and the help system (^G).  I
             will be merging in Jordi's patches for initial i18n in
             the next version, and will implement the help system
             with i18n built into it shortly after that.  Please
             don't hesitate to send bug reports, as long as you're
             sure the fault lies with nano =-).
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1703

1704
2000.01.25 - Nano 0.8.0 is officially the 'let's try and be at least a
1705
1706
1707
1708
1709
1710
             little portable, mmmmkay?' release.  There are many
             portability checks and fixes; many thanks to Andy Kahn
             for his patches.  I removed the broken do_spell behavior
             with the 'spell' program; for now, we only try to call
             'ispell' until I write a better method to handle the
             output of the normal 'spell' command.
1711

1712
2000.01.24 - Nano 0.7.9 features many new features.  Among them are a
1713
1714
1715
1716
1717
1718
             new autoindent feature (-i, --autoindent), tempfile flag
             like Pico's -t flag (-t, --tempfile), and preliminary
             spelling program support.  The spelling function tries
             to run 'spell' and then 'ispell' in that order, but you
             can specify another spelling program with -s or
             --speller.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1719

1720
2000.01.17 - Nano 0.7.7 is officially the 'way too much stuff changed this
1721
1722
1723
1724
1725
1726
             release' release.  It's the busy time at work for me, so
             please don't get offended if your patch doesn't get
             included in the next immediate version of nano.  I'm
             sure all the changes in this release will cause a few
             bugs, so 0.7.8 will primarily be about fixing those
             bugs.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1727

1728
1729
1730
             Things added this release include resizability (kinda),
             new -x and -c flags (see nano -h for help), long command
             line flag support, and the usual array of bugfixes.
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1731

1732
2000.01.15 - Nano 0.7.6 is officially the 'lightning' release.  It now
1733
1734
1735
1736
             loads large files much faster than previous versions,
             and is even much faster than Pico or vi in some rather
             rudimentary tests.  Many thanks to Adam Rogoyski for the
             read_byte patch!
Chris Allegretta's avatar
Chris Allegretta committed
1737

1738
2000.01.09 - As of this version (0.7.4), TIP has officially been renamed
1739
1740
1741
1742
             to nano.  The new homepage is at
             http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/astyanax/nano.  Please
             update your bookmarks, tell your friends, and all that
             jazz.