Update Info

openSUSE-2024-57


Recommended update for lynx


Type: recommended
Severity: moderate
Issued: 2024-02-24
Description:
This update for lynx fixes the following issues:

lynx was updated to 2.9.0 [boo#1220026]

2024-01-15 (2.9.0)

  * fixes for UBSAN/ASAN issues with clang on Windows -GV
  * modify install-doc rule to use relative path for symbolic links -TD
  * add support for gopher's hURL functionality (patch by Viatrix).
  * allow ^G interrupt to end read from a stalled connection without exiting
    Lynx (Debian #1033423) -TD
  * allow the ^S keymap to be disabled in the configuration file, e.g.,
      KEYMAP:^S:UNMAPPED
    (report by TG) -TD
  * repair docs/OS-390.announce and docs/README.jp -TD
  * make the test-files non-empty, to appease some packaging tools -TD
  * check for getpwuid(), use in preference to deprecated cuserid() -TD
  * modify curses initialization to permit ^S built-in keymap to work without
    needing external stty changes -TD
  * correct ifdef for LYmsec_delay() (report by Alexander Arkhipov) -TD
  * add a NUL after "/" in the SGML parser when the next character is ">", to
    make PRETTYSRC view display correctly (report by "Dima") -TD
  * trim some obsolete style code for NeXT -TD
  * improve responsiveness with respect to SIGWINCH (report by Mark Zaharov) -TD
  * improve check for MAX_URI_SIZE -TD
  * improve check for UTF-8 character encoding in XML Text Declaration (report by
    Lennart Jablonka) -TD
  * fix for decoding utf-8 in CDATA sections (patch by Hiltjo Posthuma)
  * treat HTTP 308 permanently redirected the same as HTTP 301 permanently moved
    (Debian #1041686).
  * formatting fixes for manpage (Debian #1037353).
  * change defaults in configure script to use compression -TD
  * modify HTChunkPutb2() to avoid passing a zero-size or null pointer to
    memcpy() -TD
  * correct loop in fill_addrinfo() which adds sizes of struct addrinfo's found
    in getaddrinfo() call; the 2.8.8dev.15 change did not update the pointer to
    the struct addrinfo's (Redhat #2185402) -TD
  * modify configure script to reduce implicit-function warnings -TD
  * add viewport meta-tag to documentation/test files -TD
  * update config.guess (2023-08-22), config.sub (2023-09-15)
  * update ro.po from
      http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx
  2023-01-08 (2.9.0dev.12)
  * add a rewind() call before reading existing bookmark file opened for append
    with read/write, to ensure that the file-position is at the beginning of the
    file (report by Klatt Volkmar) -TD
  * improve compiler-warnings in configure script checks -TD
  * fix a few ifdef'ing problems (prompted by discussion with Klatt Volkmar) -TD
  * fix spelling errors found with codespell (report by Jens Schleusener) -TD
  * update eo.po from
      http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx
  2022-12-28 (2.9.0dev.11)
  * update ncurses/lynx homepage URLs to deprecate ftp -TD
  * modify configure script to reduce implicit-function warnings (report by
    Florian Weimer) -TD
  * update configure script to work around regression in grep 3.8 -TD
  * add some consistency-checks to dtd_util to make it easier to use -TD
  * improve formatting of bookmark file, e.g., to fix warnings by tidy -TD
  * correct workaround for asan2 report of overlapping strcpy (report by KH) -TD
  * amend fix for Debian #738121; URL-encoded "?" in HTFile.c corresponds to an
    actual "?" in a file path (report by TG) -TD
  * before calling delscreen, delete the private working windows in case delwin
    invalidates those (Debian #1015756) -TD
  * add presentation type for xhtml, related state information to better handle
    things such as "<script src=foo />" -Shlomi Fish, TD
  * improve line-breaks and whitespace for Japanese characters -KH
    + permit line breaks after any Japanese character (enabled by
      --enable-wcwidth-support configuration and only called on last byte of
      multibyte UTF-8 sequence)
    + avoid adding spaces when joining lines after Japanese characters.
  * add new "Minimal" user mode, to minimize on-screen help/status.
    Eliminates the URL on the bottom line, the forward/backward indicator in the
    upper left, and most status-line messages - Paul G Fox
  * add PREVENT_KEYBOARD_WRAPAROUND symbol to userdefs.h
    Undefing this will allow cursor to wrap from bottom to/from top, when there's
    more content than a single page.  (It can already wrap when the content
    already fits on a page.) - Paul G Fox
  * modify NSL-fork to call freeaddrinfo only if getaddrinfo returns successfully
    (patch by Rajeev V Pillai)
  * add ".br", ".lz", ".lzip", and ".xz" to binary-suffixes list -TD
  * changes for using brotli stream decompression -TD
  * changes for working with SOCKS5 on Windows 10 -GV, -TD
  * fix a few coverity and clang warnings -TD
  * add a null-pointer check in StrAllocVsprintf() to work with existing SOCKS5
    configuration (report/patch by Gisle Vanem).
  * change capitalization of "Content-type" sent to the remote server to work
    around "HeavyThing" server which does not follow RFC 2616 in treating field
    name as case insensitive (report/patch by Sylvain Bertrand)
  * improved several configure macros:
    AM_WITH_NLS, CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_BUILD_CC, CF_CHECK_EXTERN_DATA,
    CF_DISABLE_ECHO, CF_FIX_WARNINGS, CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_MATH_LIB,
    CF_NCURSES_CONFIG, CF_NCURSES_LIBS, CF_PKG_CONFIG, CF_PROG_LINT,
    CF_SIZECHANGE, CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE, CF_WITH_PATH, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE


              

Packages


  • lynx-2.9.0-bp155.2.3.1