1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.25 2017/07/20 16:23:56 schwarze Exp $
3 This file lists the most important changes in the mandoc.bsd.lv distribution.
5 Changes in version 1.14.2, released on July XXX, 2017
7 --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
8 * New mdoc(7) -Tmarkdown output mode.
9 * For -Thtml, implement internal hyperlinks pointing to authoritative
10 definitions of various syntax elements, similar to the ctags(1)-like
11 less(1) :t internal searching in terminal mode.
12 * Provide a superset of the functionality of the former mdoclint(1)
13 utility and a new -Wstyle message level with several new messages,
14 including validity checking of .Xr cross references.
15 * tbl(7): Implement automatic line breaking inside individual table
16 cells, and several other formatting improvements.
17 * eqn(7): Complete rewrite of the lexer, resulting in several bugfixes.
18 * Continue parser unification, in particular allowing generation
19 of syntax tree nodes on the roff(7) level, allowing implementation
20 of many additional roff requests.
21 --- REMOVED FUNCTIONALITY ---
22 * Delete the manpage(1) utility. It was never enabled in any release.
23 * Delete the -Txhtml command line option. It has been an obsolete
24 alias for the -Thtml output mode for more than two years.
25 --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
26 * -Tlint now puts parser messages on stdout instead of stderr,
27 making commands like "man -l -Tlint *.1" useful.
28 * mdoc(7): Various .Lk formatting improvements.
29 * mdoc(7) -Thtml: Better CSS for .Bl lists.
30 * man(7): Implement the .MT/.ME block macro (mailto hyperlink).
31 * man(7): Implement the .DT macro (restore default tab positions).
32 * man(7): Improved support for manuals generated with reStructuredText
33 by partial support for the \n[an-margin] number register.
34 * man(7) -Thtml: Support deep linking to .SH and .SS headers.
35 * tbl(7): Implement the "allbox" table option.
36 * tbl(7): Implement the column spacing and the 'w' (minimum column
37 width) layout modifiers.
38 * tbl(7): Significant improvements of the manual page.
39 * eqn(7): Much improved font selection, including recognition of
40 well-known function names, and a few other formatting improvements.
41 * eqn(7) -Thtml: Use <mn> and <mo> in addition to <mi>.
42 * roff(7): Implement the .ce (centering), .mc (margin character),
43 .rj (right justify), .ta (define tab stops), .ti (temporary indent),
44 .als (macro alias), .ec and .eo (escape character control),
45 .po (page offset), and .rn (macro rename) requests.
46 * roff(7) .am: Implement appending to mdoc(7) and man(7) macros.
47 * roff(7): implement the \h (horizontol motion), \l (horizontal
48 line drawing), and \p (break output line) escape sequences,
49 and also several additional character escape sequences.
50 * roff(7): Implement the 'd' conditional (macro or string defined).
51 * man.cgi(8) now uses pledge(2), too.
52 * regress.pl(1): simpler user interface, better summary output,
53 simpler code, and no more recursion.
55 * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for the implementation of .MT/.ME,
56 reports of many bugs and missing features, and suggestions
57 for a number of feature and documentation improvements.
58 * Sebastien Marie (OpenBSD) for two source code patches and
59 for some useful discussions.
60 * Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for several bug reports from afl(1)
61 and several more from static analysis tools.
62 * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for several bug reports, most from afl(1).
63 * Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for many useful discussions about a
64 wide variety of topics, lots of continuous testing, a number of
65 bug reports, and some suggestions for messages and documentation.
66 * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for lots of help while migrating
67 mdoclint(1) functionality to mandoc -Tlint, and for suggesting
68 several useful new messages.
69 * Reyk Floeter (OpenBSD) and Vsevolod Stakhov (FreeBSD) for
70 suggesting a markdown output mode.
71 * Thomas Guettler for suggesting -Thtml internal hyperlinks.
72 * Anton Lindqvist and TJ Townsend (both OpenBSD) and Jan Stary
73 for multiple bug reports.
74 * Martin Natano and Theo de Raadt (both OpenBSD),
75 Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux), Andreas Voegele, Gabriel Guzman,
76 Gonzalo Tornaria, Markus Waldeck, and Raf Czlonka for bug reports.
77 * Antoine Jacoutot (OpenBSD), Michael Stapelberg (Debian),
78 and Steffen Nurpmeso for suggesting feature improvements.
79 * Dag-Erling Smoergrav (FreeBSD) and Yuri Pankov (Illumos)
80 for inspiring new warning messages.
81 * Ted Unangst and Marc Espie (OpenBSD) for providing useful ideas.
82 * Carsten Kunze (Heirloom roff) for help keeping mandoc and groff
83 compatible and for committing some of my patches to groff.
85 Changes in version 1.14.1, released on February 21, 2017
87 --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
88 * apropos(1): Reimplement complete semantic search functionality
89 without the dependency on SQLite3, using only POSIX APIs.
90 This comes with a completely new mandoc.db(5) file format.
91 * man(1): Support more than one tag entry for the same search term,
92 plus some minor improvements to the less(1) :t support.
93 * -Thtml: Use real macro names for CSS classes.
94 Systematic cleanup of and many improvements to mandoc.css.
95 * -Thtml: Produce human readable HTML code by using indentation
96 and better line breaks. Improve various HTML elements,
97 and trim several useless ones.
98 * New catman(8) utility, still somewhat experimental.
99 * Now includes a portable version of the OpenBSD mandoc regression
100 suite, see regress/regress.pl.1 for details.
101 --- REMOVED FUNCTIONALITY ---
102 * Operating systems that don't provide mmap(3) are no longer supported.
103 * Drop support for manpath(1). Even if your system has manpath(1),
104 it is simpler to use MANPATH_DEFAULT in configure.local for
105 operating system defaults, man.conf(5) for machine-specific
106 modifications, and ${MANPATH}, -m, and -M for user preferences
107 than to bother with the complexity of manpath(1).
108 * makewhatis(8) -p: No longer warn about missing MLINKS since these
109 are no longer needed for anything.
110 --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
111 * mdoc(7): Warn about invalid punctuation and content below NAME.
112 * mdoc(7): Warn about .Xr lacking the second argument (section).
113 * mdoc(7): Warn about violations of the rule "new sentence, new line".
114 * roff(7): Warn about trailing whitespace at the end of comments.
115 * mdoc(7): Improve rendering of double quotes.
116 * mdoc(7): Always do text production in the validator, never in the
117 formatters. Cleaner, simpler, shorter, helps NetBSD apropos(1)
118 and also makes -Ttree output more useful.
119 * -Ttree: Show metadata and some additional node flags.
120 New -Onoval output option to show the unvalidated tree.
121 --- RELIABILITY BUGFIXES ---
122 * man(1): Make "man -l" work with standard input from a pipe or file,
123 as long as standard output is a terminal.
124 * man(7): Fix out of bounds read access if a text node immediately
125 preceded the first .SH header.
126 * mdoc(7): Fix out of bounds read access for .Bl without a type
128 * mdoc(7): Fix out of bounds read access for .Bl -column starting
129 with a tab character instead of a child .It macro.
130 * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption leading to segfaults caused
131 by stray block end macros in nested blocks of mismatching type.
132 * man(1): Fix NULL dereference when the first of multiple pages
133 shown was preformatted.
134 * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption leading to NULL dereference
135 caused by partial implicit macros inside .Bl -column table cells.
136 * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption leading to NULL dereference
137 for macro sequences like .Bl .Bl .It Bo .El .It.
138 * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption leading to NULL dereference
139 caused by .Ta following a nested .Bl -column breaking another block.
140 * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption sometimes leading to NULL
141 dereference caused by indirectly broken .Nd or .Nm blocks.
142 * mdoc(7) -Thtml: Fix a NULL dereference for .Bl -column with 0 columns.
143 * mdoc(7): Fix NULL dereference in some specific cases of a
144 block-end macro calling another block-end macro.
145 * mdoc(7): Fix NULL dereference if the only child of the head
146 of the first .Sh was an empty in-line macro.
147 * eqn(7): Fix NULL dereference in the terminal formatter
148 for empty matrices and empty square roots.
149 * mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure for a .Bd without a type that
150 breaks another block.
151 * mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure that happened for some .Bl -column
152 lists containing a column width of "-4n", "-3n", or "-2n".
153 * mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure caused by .Bl -column without .It
154 but containing eqn(7) or tbl(7) code.
155 * roff(7): Fix an assertion failure caused by \z\[u00FF] with -Tps/-Tpdf.
156 * roff(7): Fix an assertion failures caused by whitespace inside \o''
157 (overstrike) sequences.
158 * -Thtml: Fix an assertion failure caused by -Oman or -Oincludes of
160 --- PORTABILITY IMPROVEMENTS ---
161 * man(1): Do not mix stdio narrow and wide stream orientation
162 on stdout, which could cause output corruption on glibc.
163 * mandoc(1): Autodetect a suitable locale for -Tutf8 mode.
164 * ./configure: Autodetect whether PATH_MAX and O_DIRECTORY are defined.
165 * ./configure: Autodetect if nanosleep(3) needs -lrt.
166 * ./configure: Provide an ${LN} configuration variable.
167 * ./configure: Put compiler arguments that may contain -l at the end.
168 --- MINOR BUGFIXES ---
169 * mdoc(7): Fix SYNOPSIS output if the first child of .Nm is a macro.
170 * mdoc(7) -Thtml: Improve formatting of .Bl -tag with short tags.
171 * man(7) -Thtml: Preserve whitespace in .nf (nofill) mode.
172 * mandoc(1): Error out on invalid output options on the command line.
173 --- STRUCTURAL CHANGES, no functional change ---
174 * Redesign part of the mandoc_html(3) interfaces, making them much
175 easier to use and reducing the amount of code by a few hundred lines.
177 * Michael Stapelberg (Debian) for designing the new mandocd(8)
178 and parts of the new catman(8), for release testing, and for a
179 number of patches and bug reports.
180 * Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD) for profiling the new makewhatis(8)
181 implementation and suggesting an algorithmic improvement which
182 more than doubled performance, and for a few bug reports.
183 * Ed Maste (FreeBSD) for an important patch improving reproducibility
184 of builds in makewhatis(8), and for a few bug reports.
185 * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for almost twenty important bug reports,
186 most of them found by systematic afl(1) fuzzing.
187 * Benny Lofgren, David Dahlberg, and in particular Vadim Zhukov
188 for crucial help in getting .Bl -tag CSS formatting fixed.
189 * Svyatoslav Mishyn (Crux Linux) for an initial version of the
190 patch to autodetect a suitable locale for -Tutf8 mode
191 and for release testing.
192 * Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for multiple useful discussions
193 and a number of bug reports.
194 * Sevan Janiyan (NetBSD) for extensive release testing and multiple
196 * Thomas Klausner and Christos Zoulas (NetBSD), Yuri Pankov (illumos),
197 and Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for release testing and bug reports.
198 * Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD) for release testing.
199 * Alexander Bluhm, Andrew Fresh, Antoine Jacoutot, Antony Bentley,
200 Christian Weisgerber, Jonathan Gray, Marc Espie, Martijn van Duren,
201 Stuart Henderson, Ted Unangst, Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD), Abhinav
202 Upadhyay, Kamil Rytarowski (NetBSD), Aaron M. Ucko, Bdale Garbee,
203 Reiner Herrmann, Shane Kerr (Debian), Daniel Sabogal (Alpine Linux),
204 Carsten Kunze (Heirloom roff), Kristaps Dzonsons (bsd.lv),
205 Anton Lindqvist, Jan Stary, Jeremy A. Mates, Mark Patruck,
206 Pavan Maddamsetti, Sean Levy <attila@stalphonsos.com>, and
207 Tiago Silva for bug reports.
208 * Brent Cook, Marc Espie, Philip Guenther, Todd Miller (OpenBSD)
209 and Markus Waldeck for useful discussions.
210 * And as usual, OpenCSW for providing me with a Solaris 9/10/11
213 Changes in version 1.13.4, released on July 14, 2016
215 --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
216 * man.conf(5): Design and implement a simpler configuration file format.
217 * man(1): Leverage less(1) -T and :t in a way resembling ctags(1)
218 to jump to the definitions of various terms inside manual pages.
219 * soelim(1): New implementation by Baptiste Daroussin.
220 * privilege limitation: Use OpenBSD pledge(2) or OS X sandbox_init(3)
222 * man.cgi(8): Support short URIs like http://man.openbsd.org/mdoc .
223 * mandoc.css: Use one unified stylesheet rather than three different ones.
224 --- MAJOR FUNCTIONALLY RELEVANT BUGFIXES ---
225 * mdoc(7): Fix multiple aspects of SYNOPSIS .Nm formatting.
226 * man(1): Fix process group handling, avoiding unclean shutdowns.
227 --- PORTABILITY IMPROVEMENTS ---
228 * Correctly use the ohash(3) compatibility implementation
229 even when building without SQLite support.
230 * Add compat glue for building on Solaris 9 and 10.
231 * Let ./configure select a supported RE syntax for word boundaries.
232 * Support LDFLAGS, to be used for example for hardening options.
233 * Avoid mixing putchar(3) and putwchar(3) on the same file descriptor,
234 it resulted in output corruption on some platforms.
235 * Avoid reusing va_lists, use va_copy(3) for better portability.
236 * Do not hardcode the path to the more(1) program.
237 --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
238 * roff(7): Implement \n(.$ (number of macro arguments).
239 * roff(7): Fully implement \z (do not advance cursor).
240 * roff(7): Implement the `r' conditional (register exists).
241 * roff(7): Implement \\$* (interpolate all arguments).
242 * roff(7): Parse and ignore \, and \/ (italic corrections).
243 * When there is no -m, no -M, no MANPATH and no /etc/man.conf,
244 fall back to /usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man.
245 * man(1): Give manuals in purely numerical sections priority over
246 manuals of the same name in sections with an alphabetical suffix.
247 * man.cgi(8): Support "header.html" and "footer.html".
248 * man.cgi(8): Set the "autofocus" attribute on the query text box.
249 * man.cgi(8): Simplify the search form, drop two useless buttons.
250 * man.cgi(8): Delete the pseudo-manpath "mandoc", assume that
251 apropos(1) and man.cgi(8) are installed in the default manpath.
252 --- RELIABILITY BUGFIXES ---
253 * mdoc(7): Avoid a use after free and an assertion failure when nodes
254 are deleted during validation.
255 * mdoc(7): Avoid a NULL pointer access when .Bd has no arguments.
256 * mdoc(7): Avoid a NULL pointer access triggered by mismatching end macros.
257 * mdoc(7): Avoid an assertion when .Fo has no argument.
258 * mdoc(7): Avoid an assertion when .Ta<tab> occurs in .Bl -column.
259 * mdoc(7): Avoid an assertion when a body gets broken and has a tail.
260 * roff(7): Avoid an assertion caused by blanks inside \o.
261 * roff(7): Make .so links to gziped manuals work without mandoc.db(5).
262 * tbl(7): Avoid a use after free when the last line of a layout is empty.
263 * eqn(7): Avoid an infinite loop caused by recursive "define".
264 * makewhatis(8): Avoid a segfault caused by unusual directory structures.
265 * Fix handling of leading, trailing, and double colons in MANPATH and -m.
266 --- MINOR BUGFIXES ---
267 * mdoc(7): Put arguments to end macros of broken partial explicit blocks
268 inside the breaking block.
269 * mdoc(7): Let .Dv force normal font.
270 * mdoc(7): Make trailing whitespace significant in .Bl -tag widths.
271 * mdoc(7): Fix macro interpretation around tabs in .Bl -column.
272 * man(7): Use the default width for .RS without arguments.
273 * man(7): On a new RS nesting level, the saved width starts from
274 the default width, not from the saved width of the previous level.
275 * man(7): Allow .PD in next-line scope.
276 * man(7): Improve handling of empty .HP.
277 * man(7): Improve formatting of .br and .sp inside .HP.
278 * man(7): Do not mistreat empty arguments to font alternating
279 macros as vertical spacing requests.
280 * man(7): Allow fill mode changes in tagged paragraph next-line scope.
281 * man(7): Fix minor bugs in block rewinding and simplify the related code.
282 * man(7): Add missing line breaks before subsection headers.
283 * man(7): Give section and subsection headers hanging indentation.
284 * man(7): Make trailing whitespace significant in .TP widths.
285 * roff(7): Don't allow breaking the output line after hyphens
286 that immediately follow escape sequences.
287 * roff(7): Ignore blank characters at the beginning of conditional blocks.
288 * roff(7): Escape breakable hyphens only after handling input line traps.
289 * roff(7): Reject \[uD800] to \[uDFFF] (surrogates) in the parser.
290 * tbl(7): Allow more than one data field after T} on the same input line.
291 * terminal output: Apply bold and italic to non-ASCII Unicode codepoints.
292 * terminal output: Improve rounding rules for horizontal scaling widths.
293 * HTML output: Render ASCII_NBRSP as " ", not "-".
294 * man(1): Do not match the first part of a name if it continues with a dot.
295 * man(1): Keep working even if the current directory is unusable.
296 * man(1): Better error message when $PAGER is invalid.
297 * makewhatis(8): Improve handling of .Va and .Vt macros.
298 * apropos(1): Print "nothing appropriate" to stderr when appropriate.
299 * apropos(1): Abort with a useful error message when elementary
300 database operations like preparing queries or binding variables fail.
301 --- STRUCTURAL CHANGES, no functional change ---
302 * mdoc(7) and man(7): Unified data structures struct roff_node etc.
303 * mdoc(7) and man(7): Unified node handling library in roff.c.
304 * mdoc(7) and man(7): Seperate validation phase from parsing.
305 * roff(7): Major character table cleanup.
306 * Link with libz rather than forking gunzip(1).
308 * Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD) for the new soelim(1)
309 and for release testing.
310 * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for unifying mandoc.css, two nice
311 patches for man.cgi(8), some documentation patches, some bug
312 reports, and various useful discussions.
313 * Todd Miller (OpenBSD) for lots of help with process group and
314 signal handling, a few patches, some bug reports and some useful
316 * Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for yet more testing with afl(1)
317 again resulting in more than half a dozen important bug reports.
318 * Svyatoslav Mishyn (Crux Linux) for some patches, several bug
319 reports, and extensive release testing.
320 * Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for a number of compatibility
321 patches and suggestions and several bug reports.
322 * Christos Zoulas (NetBSD) for a bug fix patch and some useful
323 suggestions for cleanup.
324 * Florian Obser (OpenBSD) for a bugfix patch and some bug reports.
325 * Sevan Janiyan for help with Solaris compatibility and release
326 testing on many platforms.
327 * Jan Holzhueter and OpenCSW in general for help with Solaris
328 compatibility, and for providing me with a Solaris 9/10/11 testing
330 * Michael McConville (OpenBSD) for some simple cleanup patches.
331 * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for some bug reports and release testing.
332 * Christian Weisgerber, Dmitrij Czarkoff, Igor Sobrado,
333 Ken Westerback, Marc Espie, Mike Belopuhov, Rafael Neves,
334 Ted Unangst, Tim van der Molen, Theo Buehler, Theo de Raadt
335 (OpenBSD), Kurt Jaeger, Dag Erling Smoergrav (FreeBSD),
336 Joerg Sonnenberger (NetBSD), Carsten Kunze (Heirloom troff),
337 Daniel Levai, Fabian Raetz, Jan Stary, Jean-Yves Migeon,
338 Lorenzo Beretta, Markus Waldeck, Maxim Belooussov, Michael Reed,
339 Peter Bray, and Serguey Parkhomovsky for bug reports and feature
341 * Alexander Hall, Andrew Fresh, Antoine Jacoutot, Doug Hogan,
342 Jason McIntyre, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse, Kent Spillner,
343 Nicholas Marriott, Peter Hessler, Sebastien Marie, Stefan Sperling,
344 and Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) for helpful discussions and feedback.
346 Changes in version 1.13.3, released on March 13, 2015
348 --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
349 * When a manual is missing from an outdated database, let man(1)
350 show it anyway, using a KISS file system lookup as a fallback.
351 * Use this to always provide man(1), even without database support.
352 * Fatal errors no longer exist. If a file can be opened, mandoc
353 will produce some output; at worst, the output may be almost empty.
354 * New -Wunsupp message level.
355 --- POTENTIONALLY SECURITY RELEVANT BUGFIXES ---
356 * Fix a potential write buffer overrun on incomplete string conditionals.
357 http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/roff.c#rev1.241
358 * Fix a potential write buffer overrun on backslash at EOF in a conditional.
359 http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/roff.c#rev1.247
360 * Fix a use after free sometimes hit when validation deletes a block.
361 http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/mdoc_macro.c#rev1.180
362 --- MAJOR FUNCTIONALLY RELEVANT BUGFIXES ---
363 * Let man(1) show manuals for the current architecture by default,
364 and support the MACHINE environment variable.
365 * Fix the man(1) and apropos(1) -m option, it didn't work at all.
366 * Do not spawn a pager when there is no output.
367 * In makewhatis(8), fix detection of hardlinked manuals on platforms
368 having padding in struct inodev (typically 64bit platforms).
369 --- PORTABILITY IMPROVEMENTS ---
370 * Ignore O_CLOEXEC when the operating system doesn't provide it.
371 * Avoid forward reference to enum type which violates ISO C99.
372 * Support homebrew-style linking on Mac OS X.
373 --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
374 * lookup: Accept digit+letter and "n" as section names in man(1),
375 and consistently handle digit+letter in file name extensions.
376 * lookup: Speed up -s/-S by using the "mlinks" rather than the "keys" table.
377 * output: Insert horizontal lines between formatted manual pages.
378 * input: New stricter and more resilient UTF-8 parser.
379 * mdoc(7): Refactor block rewinding for simpler and more robust parsing.
380 * man(7): Use the -Ios option when .TH has less than four arguments.
381 * tbl(7): Implement the "center" option.
382 * tbl(7): New option and format parsers, improved in many respects.
383 * roff(7): Basic implementation of the \o escape sequence (overstrike),
384 and improved rendering of overstrikes in PostScript and PDF output.
385 * Message improvements, in particular for, but not restricted to,
386 eqn(7), tbl(7), and wrong numbers of arguments in mdoc(7) and man(7),
387 in various cases also improving output generated by invalid input.
388 * Delete the -V option. It serves no purpose but keeps confusing people.
389 * gmdiff: Minimal support for Heirloom roff.
390 --- RELIABILITY BUGFIXES ---
391 * tbl(7): Fix a read buffer overrun on 'f' at EOL in a layout.
392 * roff(7): Fix a read buffer overrun on incomplete numerical conditions.
393 * mdoc(7): Fix a NULL pointer access on .Nd followed by an explicit block.
394 * mdoc(7): Fix a NULL pointer access on .It Xo without .Xc.
395 * mdoc(7): Fix a NULL pointer access on .Eo without a tail.
396 * mdoc(7): Fix a NULL pointer access in the validation of empty .St macros.
397 * man(7)/tbl(7): Fix a NULL pointer access on .TS right after .TP.
398 * tbl(7): Fix a NULL pointer access on layout lines without any cells.
399 * eqn(7): Fix NULL pointer accesses in the terminal formatter.
400 * roff(7): Fix a NULL pointer access on trailing \s-/\s+ without an argument.
401 * gz: Fix a potential NULL pointer access after waitpid() failure.
402 * roff(7): Don't let the modulo operator divide by zero.
403 * input: Fix an assertion failure on certain invalid UTF-8 input.
404 * terminal output: Allow arbitrary depth of the font stack (assertion fix).
405 * mdoc(7): Fix assertion failures and endless loops on invalid block closing.
406 * mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure on .Bl .Sm not followed by .It.
407 * mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure on .Bl -column ... .El .Ta.
408 * tbl(7): Fix assertion failures by macros inside table data,
409 but do not throw away the macro arguments.
410 * Prevent certain kinds of unreasonable input from producing excessive
411 output, in one case caused by unsigned integer underflow.
412 * Fix a potential memory leak in makewhatis(8) on very long filenames.
413 --- MINOR BUGFIXES ---
414 * mdoc(7): Fix parsing of badly nested blocks with multiple identical blocks.
415 * mdoc(7): Support negative indentations for displays and lists.
416 * mdoc(7): Don't mistreat negative .sp arguments as large positive ones.
417 * mdoc(7): Some spacing fixes for .Eo/.Ec.
418 * man(7): Support negative horizontal widths.
419 * man(7): Do not print out invalid .IP arguments.
420 * man(7): Correctly handle scaling units after .PD.
421 * man(7): Support .RE with an argument.
422 * man(7): Fix restoring indentation after .RS with large negative arguments.
423 * tbl(7): Prevent tables from breaking the filling of preceding text.
424 * tbl(7): Fix vertical spacing at the beginning of tables.
425 * tbl(7): Parser and formatter fixes for line drawing and font modifiers.
426 * tbl(7): Correct handling of blank data lines.
427 * eqn(7): Add sometimes missing whitespace before equation output.
428 * roff(7): Fix vertical scaling, most of it was wrong.
429 * roff(7): Slightly improve \w width measurements.
430 * roff(7): Accept the historic aliases \s10 to \s39 for \s(10 to \s(39.
431 * roff(7): Correctly escape quotes when expanding macro arguments.
432 * roff(7): Correctly handle scaling units in numerical expressions,
433 and some other improvements to the parsing of numerical expressions.
434 * roff(7): Three minor fixes with respect to evaluation of conditionals.
435 * roff(7): Let .it accept numerical expressions, not just constants.
436 * mandoc_char(7): Correct some character names and renderings.
437 * If earlier files set a non-zero exit status, never reset it to zero.
439 * Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for yet more testing with afl (the American
440 Fuzzy Lop security fuzzer), again resulting in many bug reports.
441 * Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) for suggesting the main new feature (man(1) file
442 system lookup) and for reporting an important bug (pager without output).
443 * Theo Buehler for an important bug report (-s/-S slowness)
444 and for proposing a nice new feature (lines between pages).
445 * Jason McIntyre for an important bug report (hardlink detection)
446 and multiple documentation patches.
447 * Pascal Stumpf (OpenBSD) and Alessandro de Laurenzis for
448 important bug reports (architecture and man -m, respectively).
449 * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for proposing a new feature (man(7) -Ios),
450 a bug report, and release testing.
451 * Anthony Bentley, Daniel Dickman, Ted Unangst (OpenBSD) and
452 Kristaps Dzonsons (bsd.lv) for source code patches and bug reports.
453 * Christian Weisgerber (OpenBSD) for more than half a dozen bug reports.
454 * Carsten Kunze (Heirloom troff) for bug reports and release testing.
455 * Antoine Jacoutot (OpenBSD) for release testing.
456 * Alexis Hildebrandt (Homebrew), Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD),
457 Jonathan Perkin (SmartOS), Pedro Giffuni (FreeBSD), Svyatoslav
458 Mishyn (Crux Linux), Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD), Jan Stary, Patrick
459 Keshishian, Sebastien Marie, and Steffen Nurpmeso for bug reports.
461 Changes in version 1.13.2, released on December 13, 2014
463 --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
464 * Include an implementation of man(1), the manual page viewer.
465 * Unified set of command line option, each one supported by all
466 command names, including new options -a (format all), -c (no
467 pager), -h (synopsis only), and -w (list filenames).
468 * Support the MANPAGER and PAGER environment variables.
469 * Support gzip'ed manuals by the whole toolset, even as .so targets.
470 * Support UTF-8 and Latin-1 input by the whole toolset, delete preconv(1).
471 * Switch the default output mode from -Tascii to -Tlocale.
472 * Improve -Tascii output for Unicode escape sequences.
473 * Let the -Thtml output mode produce polyglot HTML5.
474 * Many improvements for eqn(7), in particular in-line equations,
475 MathML output in -Thtml mode, and much improved terminal formatting.
476 --- PORTABILITY IMPROVEMENTS ---
477 * Change the build sequence to the usual ./configure; make; make install.
478 * Support ./configure.local for build customizations.
479 * Autodetect wchar, sqlite3, and manpath support.
480 * Provide a fallback version of fts(3) for systems lacking it.
481 * Support choosing alternative binary and manual names.
482 --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
483 * Rudimentary implementation of the e, x, and z tbl(7) layout
484 modifiers to equalize, maximize, and ignore the width of columns.
485 * Implement font modifiers in tbl(7) layouts.
486 * Allow comma-separated options in the tbl(7) options line.
487 * Parse and ignore the .pl (page length) roff(7) request.
488 * Implement .An -[no]split for the mdoc(7) -Thtml output mode.
489 * Support bold italic font in PostScript and PDF output.
490 * Warn about commas in function arguments and parentheses in function names.
491 * Warn about botched .Xr ordering and punctuation below SEE ALSO.
492 * Warn about AUTHORS sections without .An macros.
493 * Warn about attempts to call non-callable macros.
494 * New developer documentation manual page mandoc_headers(3).
496 * Fix read buffer overrun sometimes triggered by trailing whitespace.
497 * Fix read buffer overrun triggered by certain invalid \H sequences.
498 * Fix NULL pointer access triggered by .Bl without any arguments.
499 * Fix NULL pointer access triggered by .It Nm Fo without .Fc.
500 * Fix NULL pointer access triggered by .Sh Xo .Sh without .Xc.
501 * Fix NULL pointer access triggered by missing .Nm.
502 * Fix an assertion triggered by .It right after .El.
503 * Fix an assertion triggered by .Ec without preceding .Eo.
504 * Fix an assertion triggered by .Sm or .Db with multiple arguments.
505 * Fix assertion failures triggered by very large width arguments.
506 * Fix a division by zero in the roff(7) parser.
507 * Prevent negative arguments to .ll from causing integer underflow.
508 * Correctly autodetect source format even when .Dd is preceded by .ll.
509 * Multiple fixes with respect to .Bd and .Bl -offset and -width.
510 * Many bugfixes with respect to scaling units.
511 * Multiple fixes with respect to delimiter handling by in-line macros.
512 * Multiple fixes with respect to .Pf.
513 * Make \c work properly in no-fill mode.
514 * Stricter syntax checking of Unicode character names.
516 * Kristaps Dzonsons for rewriting the eqn(7) parser, implementing
517 HTML5 and MathML output, and various other code contributions.
518 * Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for extensive testing with afl (the
519 American Fuzzy Lop security fuzzer) resulting in many bug reports.
520 * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD), Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD), Daniel
521 Dickman, Doug Hogan, Jason McIntyre, Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD),
522 and Martin Natano for source code patches.
523 * Carsten Kunze (Heirloom troff), Daniel Levai (Slackware),
524 Garrett D'Amore (illumos), Giovanni Becchis, Matthew Dempsky,
525 Stuart Henderson, Ted Unangst, Todd Miller (OpenBSD), Thomas
526 Klausner (NetBSD), Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD), Justin Haynes,
527 Marcus Merighi, Sebastien Marie, Steffen Nurpmeso and Theo Buehler
530 Changes in version 1.13.1, released on August 10, 2014
532 --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
533 * A complete apropos(1)/makewhatis(8)/man.cgi(8) suite
534 based on SQLite3 is now included.
535 * The roff(7) parser now provides an almost complete implementation
536 of numerical expressions.
537 * Warning and error messages have been improved in many ways.
538 Almost all fatal errors were downgraded to normal errors and some
539 even to warnings. Almost all messages now mention the macro where
540 the issue is detected and many indicate the workaround employed.
541 The mandoc(1) manual now includes a list explaining all messages.
542 --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
543 * The roff(7) parser now supports the .ami (append to macro with
544 indirectly specified name), .as (append to user-defined
545 string), .dei (define macro with indirectly specified name),
546 .ll (line length), and .rr (remove register) requests.
547 * The roff(7) parser now supports string comparison and numerical
548 conditionals in the .if and .ie requests.
549 * The roff parser now fully supports the \B (validate numerical
550 expression) and partially supports the \w (measure text width)
552 * The terminal formatter now supports the \: (optional line break)
554 * The roff parser now supports expansion of user-defined strings
555 involving indirect references.
556 * The roff(7) parser now handles some pre-defined read-only
557 number registers that occur in the pod2man(1) preamble.
558 * For backward compatibility, the mdoc(7) parser and formatters
559 now support the obsolete macros .En, .Es, .Fr, and .Ot.
560 * The mdoc(7) formatter non partially supports .Bd -centered.
561 * tbl(7) now handles leading and trailing vertical lines.
562 * The build system now provides fallback versions of strcasestr(3)
563 and strsep(3) for systems lacking them.
564 * The mdoc(7) manual now explains how various standards
565 supported by the .St macro are related to each other.
567 * In the roff(7) parser, several bugs were fixed with respect
568 to closing conditional blocks on macro lines.
569 * Parsing of roff(7) identifiers and escape sequences was improved
570 in multiple respects.
571 * In the mdoc(7) parser, the handling of defective document
572 prologues was improved in multiple ways.
573 * The mdoc(7) parser no longer skips content before the first section
574 header, and it no longer deletes non-.% content from .Rs blocks.
575 * In the mdoc(7) parser, a crash was fixed related to weird .Sh headers.
576 * In the mdoc(7) parser, handling of .Sm with missing or invalid
577 arguments was corrected.
578 * In the mdoc(7) parser, trailing punctuation at the end of partial
579 implicit macros no longer triggers end-of-sentence spacing.
580 * In the terminal formatter, two crashes were fixed: one triggered by
581 excessive indentation and another by excessively long .Nm arguments.
582 * In the terminal formatter, a floating point rounding bug was
583 fixed that sometimes caused an off-by-one error in indentation.
584 * In the UTF-8 formatter, rendering of accents, breakable hyphens,
585 and non-breakable spaces was corrected.
586 * In the HTML formatter, encoding of special characters was
587 corrected in multiple respects.
588 * In the mdoc(7) formatter, rendering of .Ex and .Rv was
589 improved for various edge cases.
590 * In the mdoc(7) formatter, handling of empty .Bl -inset item
592 * In the man(7) formatter, some bugs were fixed with respect
593 to same-line detection in the context of .TP and .nf macros,
594 and the indentation of .IP and .TP blocks was improved.
595 * The mandoc(3) library no longer prints to stderr.
597 Abhinav Upadhyay (NetBSD), Andreas Voegele, Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD),
598 Christian Weisgerber (OpenBSD), Havard Eidnes (NetBSD), Jan Stary,
599 Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD), Jeremie Courreges-Anglas (OpenBSD),
600 Joerg Sonnenberger (NetBSD), Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado (OpenBSD),
601 Marc Espie (OpenBSD), Matthias Scheler (NetBSD), Pascal Stumpf (OpenBSD),
602 Paul Onyschuk (Alpine Linux), Sebastien Marie, Steffen Nurpmeso,
603 Stuart Henderson (OpenBSD), Ted Unangst (OpenBSD), Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD),
604 Thomas Klausner (NetBSD), and Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD)
605 for reporting bugs and missing features.
607 Changes in version 1.12.3, released on December 31, 2013
609 * In the mdoc(7) SYNOPSIS, line breaks and hanging indentation
610 now work correctly for .Fo/.Fa/.Fc and .Fn blocks.
611 Thanks to Franco Fichtner for doing part of the work.
612 * The mdoc(7) .Bk macro got some addititonal bugfixes.
613 * In mdoc(7) macro arguments, double quotes can now be quoted
614 by doubling them, just like in man(7).
615 Thanks to Tsugutomo ENAMI for the patch.
616 * At the end of man(7) macro lines, end-of-sentence spacing
617 now works. Thanks to Franco Fichtner for the patch.
618 * For backward compatibility, the man(7) parser now supports the
619 man-ext .UR/.UE (uniform resource identifier) block macros.
620 * The man(7) parser now handles closing blocks that are not open
622 * The man(7) parser now ignores blank lines right after .SH and .SS.
623 * In the man(7) formatter, reset indentation when leaving a block,
624 not just when entering the next one.
625 * The roff(7) .nr request now supports incrementing and decrementing
626 number registers and stops parsing the number right before the
627 first non-digit character.
628 * The roff(7) parser now supports the alternative escape sequence
629 syntax \C'uXXXX' for Unicode characters.
630 * The roff(7) parser now parses and ignores the .fam (font family)
631 and .hw (hyphenation points) requests and the \d and \u escape
633 * The roff(7) manual got a new ESCAPE SEQUENCE REFERENCE.
635 Changes in version 1.12.2, released on Oktober 5, 2013
637 * The mdoc(7) to man(7) converter, to be called as mandoc -Tman,
638 is now fully functional.
639 * The mandoc(1) utility now supports the -Ios (default operating system)
640 input option, and the -Tutf8 output mode now actually works.
641 * The mandocdb(8) utility no longer truncates existing databases when
642 starting to build new ones, but only replaces them when the build
644 * The man(7) parser now supports the PD macro (paragraph distance),
645 and (for GNU man-ext compatibility only) EX (example block) and EE
646 (example end). Plus several bugfixes regarding indentation, line
647 breaks, and vertical spacing, and regarding RS following TP.
648 * The roff(7) parser now supports the \f(BI (bold+italic) font escape,
649 the \z (zero cursor advance) escape and the cc (change control
650 character) and it (input line trap) requests. Plus bugfixes regarding
651 the \t (tab) escape, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests.
652 * In mdoc(7), several bugs were fixed related to UTF-8 output of quoting
653 enclosures, delimiter handling, list indentation and horizontal and
654 vertical spacing, formatting of the Lk, %U, and %C macros, plus some
655 bugfixes related to the handling of syntax errors like badly nested
656 font blocks, stray Ta macros outside column lists, unterminated It Xo
657 blocks, and non-text children of Nm blocks.
658 * In tbl(7), the width of horizontal spans and the vertical spacing
659 around tables was corrected, and in man(7) files, a crash was fixed
660 that was triggered by some particular unclosed T{ macros.
661 * For mandoc developers, we now provide a tbl(3) library manual and
662 gmdiff, a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output
664 * Provide this NEWS file.
666 Changes in version 1.12.1, released on March 23, 2012
668 * Significant work on apropos(1) and mandocdb(8). These tools are now
669 much more robust. A whatis(1) implementation is now handled as an
670 apropos(1) mode. These tools are also able to minimally handle
671 pre-formatted pages, that is, those already formatted by another
672 utility such as GNU troff.
673 * The man.cgi(7) script is also now available for wider testing.
674 It interfaces with mandocdb(8) manuals cached by catman(8).
675 HTML output is generated on-the-fly by libmandoc or internal
676 methods to convert pre-formatted pages.
677 * The mailing list archive for the discuss and tech lists are being
678 hosted by Gmane at gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user and
679 gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel, respectively.
681 Changes in version 1.12.0, released on October 8, 2011
683 * This version features a new, work-in-progress mandoc(1) output mode:
684 -Tman. This mode allows a system maintainer to distribute man(7)
685 media for older systems that may not natively support mdoc(7), such
686 as old Solaris systems.
687 * The -Ofragment option was added to mandoc(1)'s -Thtml and -Txhtml modes.
688 * While adding features, an apropos(1) utility has been merged from the
689 mandoc-tools sandbox. This interfaces with mandocdb(8) for semantic
690 search of manual content. apropos(1) is different from the traditional
691 apropos primarily in allowing keyword search (such as for functions,
692 utilities, etc.) and regular expressions. Note that the calling
693 syntax for apropos is likely to change as it settles down.
694 * In documentation news, the mdoc(7) and man(7) manuals have been
695 made considerably more readable by adding MACRO OVERVIEW sections, by
696 moving the gory details of the LANGUAGE SYNTAX to the roff(7) manual,
697 and by moving the very technical MACRO SYNTAX sections down to the
699 * Furthermore, for tbl(7), the -Tascii mode horizontal spacing of tables
700 was rewritten completely. It is now compatible with groff(1), both
701 with and without frames and rulers.
702 * Nesting of indented blocks is now supported in man(7), and several
703 bugs were fixed regarding indentation and alignment.
704 * The page headers in mdoc(7) are now nicer for very long titles.
706 Changes in version 1.11.7, released on September 2, 2011
708 * Added demandoc(1) utility for stripping away macros and escapes.
709 This replaces the historical deroff(1) utility.
710 * Also improved the mdoc(7) and man(7) manuals.
712 Changes in version 1.11.6, released on August 16, 2011
714 * Handling of tr macro in roff(7) implemented. This makes Perl
715 documentation much more readable. Hyphenation is also now enabled in
716 man(7) format documents. Many other general improvements have been
719 Changes in version 1.11.5, released on July 24, 2011
721 * Significant eqn(7) improvements. mdocml can now parse arbitrary eqn
722 input (although few GNU extensions are accepted, nor is mixing
723 low-level roff with eqn). See the eqn(7) manual for details.
724 For the time being, equations are rendered as simple in-line text.
725 The equation parser satisfies the language specified in the
726 Second Edition User's Guide:
727 http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/eqn/eqn2e.ps
729 Changes in version 1.11.4, released on July 12, 2011
731 * Bug-fixes and clean-ups across all systems, especially in mandocdb(8)
732 and the man(7) parser. This release was significantly assisted by
733 participants in OpenBSD's c2k11. Thanks!
735 Changes in version 1.11.3, released on May 26, 2011
737 * Introduce locale-encoding of output with the -Tlocale output option and
738 Unicode escaped-character input. See mandoc(1) and mandoc_char(7),
739 respectively, for details. This allows for non-ASCII characters (e.g.,
740 \[u5000]) to be rendered in the locale's encoding, if said environment
741 supports wide-character encoding (if it does not, -Tascii is used
742 instead). Locale support can be turned off at compile time by removing
743 -DUSE_WCHAR in the Makefile, in which case -Tlocale is always a synonym
745 * Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may
746 be on-the-fly recoded into mandoc(1) input by using the newly-added
747 preconv(1) utility. Note: in the future, this feature may be
748 integrated into mandoc(1).
750 Changes in version 1.11.2, released on May 12, 2011
752 * Corrected some installation issues in version 1.11.1.
753 * Further migration to libmandoc.
754 * Initial public release (this utility is very much under development)
755 of mandocdb(8). This utility produces keyword databases of manual
756 content, which features semantic querying of manual content.
758 Changes in version 1.11.1, released on April 4, 2011
760 * The earlier libroff, libmdoc, and libman soup have been merged into
761 a single library, libmandoc, which manages all aspects of parsing
762 real manuals, from line-handling to tbl(7) parsing.
763 * As usual, many general fixes and improvements have also occurred.
764 In particular, a great deal of redundancy and superfluous code has
765 been removed with the merging of the backend libraries.
766 * see also the changes in 1.10.10
768 Changes in version 1.10.10, March 20, 2011, NOT released
770 * Initial eqn(7) functionality is in place. For the time being,
771 this is limited to the recognition of equation blocks;
772 future version of mdocml will expand upon this framework.
774 Changes in version 1.10.9, released on January 7, 2011
776 * Many back-end fixes have been implemented: argument handling (quoting),
777 man(7) improvements, error/warning classes, and many more.
778 * Initial tbl(7) functionality (see the "TS", "TE", and "T&" macros in
779 the roff(7) manual) has been merged from tbl.bsd.lv. Output is still
780 minimal, especially for -Thtml and -Txhtml, but manages to at least
781 display data. This means that mandoc(1) now has built-in support
782 for two troff preprocessors via libroff: soelim(1) and tbl(1).
784 Changes in version 1.10.8, released on December 24, 2010
786 * Overhauled the -Thtml and -Txhtml output modes. They now display
787 readable output in arbitrary browsers, including text-based ones like
788 lynx(1). See HTML and XHTML manuals in the DOCUMENTATION section
789 for examples. Attention: available style-sheet classes have been
790 considerably changed! See the example.style.css file for details.
791 Lastly, libmdoc and libman have been cleaned up and reduced in size
793 * see also the changes in 1.10.7
795 Changes in version 1.10.7, December 6, 2010, NOT released
797 Significant improvements merged from OpenBSD downstream, including:
798 * many new roff(7) components,
799 * in-line implementation of troff's soelim(1),
800 * broken-block handling,
801 * overhauled error classifications, and
802 * cleaned up handling of error conditions.
804 Changes in version 1.10.6, released on September 27, 2010
806 * Calling conventions for mandoc(1) have changed: -W improved and -f
808 * Non-ASCII characters are also now uniformly discarded.
809 * Lots of documentation improvements.
810 * Many incremental fixes accomodating for groff's more interesting
812 * Lastly, pod2man(1) preambles are now fully accepted after some
813 considerable roff(7) and special character support.
815 Changes in version 1.10.5, released on July 27, 2010
817 * Primarily a bug-fix and polish release, but including -Tpdf support
818 in mandoc(1) by way of "Summer of Code". Highlights:
819 * fix "Sm" and "Bd" handling
820 * fix end-of-sentence handling for embedded sentences
821 * polish man(7) documentation
822 * document all mdoc(7) macros
823 * polish mandoc(1) -Tps output
824 * lots of internal clean-ups in character escapes
825 * un-break literal contexts in man(7) documents
826 * improve -Thtml output for -man
827 * add mandoc(1) -Tpdf support
829 Changes in version 1.10.4, released on July 12, 2010
831 * Lots of features developed during both "Summer of Code" and the
832 OpenBSD c2k10 hackathon:
833 * minimal "ds" roff(7) symbols are supported
834 * beautified SYNOPSIS section output
835 * acceptance of scope-block breakage in mdoc(7)
836 * clarify error message status
837 * many minor bug-fixes and formatting issues resolved
838 * see also changes in 1.10.3
840 Changes in version 1.10.3, June 29, 2010, NOT released
842 * variable font-width and paper-size support in mandoc(1) -Tps output
843 * "Bk" mdoc(7) support
845 Changes in version 1.10.2, released on June 19, 2010
847 * Small release featuring text-decoration in -Tps output,
848 a few minor relaxations of errors, and some optimisations.
850 Changes in version 1.10.1, released on June 7, 2010
852 * This primarily focusses on the "Bl" and "It" macros described in
853 mdoc(7). Multi-line column support is now fully compatible with groff,
854 as are implicit list entries for columns.
855 * Removed manuals(7) in favour of http://manpages.bsd.lv.
856 * The way we handle the SYNOPSIS section (see the SYNOPSIS documentation
857 in MANUAL STRUCTURE) has also been considerably simplified compared
859 * Furthermore, the -Owidth=width output option has been added to -Tascii,
861 * Lastly, initial PostScript output has been added with the -Tps option
862 to mandoc(1). It's brutally simple at the moment: fixed-font, with no
865 Changes in version 1.10.0, released on May 29, 2010
867 * Release consisting of the results from the m2k10 hackathon and up-merge
868 from OpenBSD. This requires a significant note of thanks to Ingo
869 Schwarze (OpenBSD) and Joerg Sonnenberger (NetBSD) for their hard work,
870 and again to Joerg for hosting m2k10. Highlights (mostly cribbed from
871 Ingo's m2k10 report) follow in no particular order:
872 * a libroff preprocessor in front of libmdoc and libman stripping out
873 roff(7) instructions;
874 * end-of-sentence (EOS) detection in free-form and macro lines;
875 * correct handling of tab-separated columnar lists in mdoc(7);
876 * improved main calling routines to optionally use mmap(3) for better
878 * cleaned up exiting when invoked as -Tlint or over multiple files
880 * error and warning message handling re-written to be unified for
881 libroff, libmdoc, and libman;
882 * handling of badly-nested explicit-scoped macros;
883 * improved free-form text parsing in libman and libmdoc;
884 * significant GNU troff compatibility improvements in -Tascii,
885 largely in terms of spacing;
886 * a regression framework for making sure the many fragilities of GNU
887 troff aren't trampled in subsequent work;
888 * support for -Tascii breaking at hyphens encountered in free-form text;
889 * and many more minor fixes and improvements
891 Changes in version 1.9.25, released on May 13, 2010
893 * Fixed handling of "\*(Ba" escape.
894 * Backed out -fno-ign-chars (pointless complexity).
895 * Fixed erroneous breaking of literal lines.
896 * Fixed SYNOPSIS breaking lines before non-initial macros.
897 * Changed default section ordering.
898 * Most importantly, the framework for end-of-sentence double-spacing is
899 in place, now implemented for the "end-of-sentence, end-of-line" rule.
900 * This is a stable roll-back point before the mandoc hackathon in Rostock!
902 Changes in version 1.9.24, released on May 9, 2010
904 * Rolled back break-at-hyphen.
905 * -DUGLY is now the default (no feature splits!).
906 * Free-form text is not de-chunked any more: lines are passed
907 whole-sale into the front-end, including whitespace.
908 * Added mailing lists.
910 Changes in version 1.9.23, released on April 7, 2010
912 * mdocml has been linked to the OpenBSD build.
913 * This version incorporates many small changes, mostly from patches
914 by OpenBSD, allowing crufty manuals to slip by with warnings instead
916 * Some subtle semantic issues, such as punctuation scope, have also
918 * Lastly, some issues with -Thtml have been fixed, which prompted an
919 update to the online manual pages style layout.
921 Changes in version 1.9.22, released on March 31, 2010
923 * Adjusted merge of the significant work by Ingo Schwarze
924 in getting "Xo" blocks (block full implicit, e.g., "It"
925 for non-columnar lists) to work properly. This isn't
926 enabled by default: you must specify -DUGLY as a compiler
927 flag (see the Makefile for details).
929 Changes in version 1.9.20, released on March 30, 2010
931 * More efforts to get roff instructions in man(7) documents under
932 control. Note that roff instructions embedded in line-scoped,
933 next-line macros (e.g. "B") are not supported.
934 * Leading punctuation for mdoc(7) macros, such as "Fl ( ( a",
935 are now correctly handled.
937 Changes in version 1.9.18, released on March 27, 2010
939 * Many fixes (largely pertaining to scope)
940 and improvements (e.g., handling of apostrophe-control macros,
941 which fixes the strange "BR" seen in some macro output)
942 to handling roff instructions in man(7) documents.
944 Changes in version 1.9.17, released on March 25, 2010
946 * Accept perlpod(1) standard preamble.
947 * Also accept (and discard) "de", "dei", "am", "ami", and "ig"
950 Changes in version 1.9.16, released on March 22, 2010
952 * Inspired by patches and bug reports by Ingo Schwarze,
953 allowed man(7) to accept non-printing elements to be nested
954 within next-line scopes, such as "br" within "B" or "TH",
956 * Longsoon architecture also noted and Makefile cleaned up.
958 Changes in version 1.9.15, released on February 18, 2010
960 * Moved to our new BSD.lv home.
961 * XHTML is now an acceptable output mode for mandoc(1);
962 * "Xr" made more compatible with groff;
963 * "Vt" fixed when invoked in SYNOPSIS;
964 * "\\" escape removed;
965 * end-of-line white-space detected for all lines;
966 * subtle bug fixed in list display for some modes;
967 * compatibility layer checked in for compilation in diverse
969 * and column lengths handled correctly.
971 For older releases, see the ChangeLog files
972 in http://mandoc.bsd.lv/snapshots/ .