-$Id: NEWS,v 1.24 2017/07/19 21:01:59 schwarze Exp $
+$Id: NEWS,v 1.32 2018/08/08 14:47:38 schwarze Exp $
This file lists the most important changes in the mandoc.bsd.lv distribution.
-Changes in version 1.14.2, released on July XXX, 2017
+Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August 8, 2018
+
+ --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
+ * In ASCII output, render mathematical symbols and greek letters
+ as transliterations conveying the characters' meanings rather
+ than trying to imitate their shape. Consequently, such characters
+ can now be used in portable manual pages. All the same, please
+ limit their use to contexts where they really matter, for example
+ when showing complicated mathematical formulae.
+ * First steps towards better support for small screens in HTML
+ output (responsive design): avoid most style= attributes, in
+ particular all hard-coded indentations and column widths, and
+ provide a better mandoc.css style sheet with a @media query,
+ using em units throughout, and avoiding redundancy in selectors.
+ * Better HTML output with some more fitting HTML elements, eliminating
+ needless class= attributes, and avoiding various HTML syntax errors
+ (element nesting, URL-fragment syntax, duplicate id= attributes).
+ --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
+ * When a man(1) argument contains a slash, imply -l like in man-db.
+ * Use TIOCGWINSZ to reduce the default -Owidth and -Oindent during
+ interactive use on terminals narrower than 79 columns.
+ * Generated PostScript files are now more than 50% smaller.
+ * Terminal rendering of eqn(7) is improved in several respects.
+ * Simplified and nicer output from the mdoc(7) .Lk macro, formatting
+ all links in-line, even long ones.
+ * roff(7) \n+ and \n- numerical register auto-increment and -decrement
+ * roff(7) .nr optional third argument (auto-increment step size)
+ * Autodetect in ./configure whether the compiler can use -W and -static,
+ allowing to build on Solaris 10 and 11 without any configure.local.
+ --- RELIABILITY BUGFIXES ---
+ * Only activate UTF-8 output when the user really selected UTF-8,
+ not some other multibyte character encoding.
+ * Prevent excessive .ll arguments from generating infinite output.
+ * Fix out of bounds accesses to parse buffers that could happen when
+ using renamed or user defined macros after roff(7) conditionals.
+ * Avoid an assertion failure in certain .Bl -column lists.
+ * Avoid a NULL pointer access on deroff() failure after '.SS ""'.
+ * Fix a segfault that could be triggered by two invalid .Dt macros.
+ * Fix two syntax errors in generated PDF files.
+ * Properly state the page size in generated PostScript files.
+ * Close a memory leak caused by missing gzclose(3).
+ * Fix misformatting of man(7) documents lacking .SH macros
+ in PostScript and PDF output.
+ * And many minor bugfixes.
+ --- THANKS TO ---
+ * Marc Espie (OpenBSD) for implementing the size reduction of
+ PostScript files, one additional patch for code simplification,
+ and two bug reports.
+ * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for a bugfix patch,
+ and Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) for checking it.
+ * John Gardner for more than a dozen suggestions regarding HTML output.
+ * Mike Williams for teaching me how to use %%DocumentMedia and
+ setpagedevice in PostScript files.
+ * Werner Lemberg (groff) for feedback on mdoc(7) language changes.
+ * Colin Watson (man-db) for feedback on man-db semantics.
+ * Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for lots of feedback and suggestions
+ on diagnostic messages and on the documentation.
+ * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for suggesting two new style messages
+ and one new feature, for two bug reports, and for release testing.
+ * Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for suggesting a new style message,
+ five bug reports, and release testing.
+ * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for reporting multiple bugs and missing
+ features.
+ * Paul Irofti (OpenBSD) and Nate Bargmann for suggesting new features.
+ * Michael Stapelberg (Debian) for bug reports and release testing.
+ * Christian Weisgerber, Jonathan Gray, Stuart Henderson,
+ Ted Unangst (OpenBSD), Takeshi Nakayama (NetBSD),
+ Anton Lazarov, Jakub Klinkovsky, Jan Stary, Jesper Wallin,
+ Will Backmam, and Wolfgang Mueller for bug reports.
+ * Sevan Janiyan (NetBSD) for additions to lib.in.
+ * George Brown for suggesting code simplifications.
+ * David Coppa, Igor Sobrado (OpenBSD), and Alexander Kuleshov
+ for documentation improvements.
+ * Laura Morales and Raf Czlonka for questions resulting in better
+ documentation.
+ * Yuri Pankov (illumos) for release testing.
+
+Changes in version 1.14.3, released on August 5, 2017
+
+ --- BUG FIXES ---
+ * man(7): Do not crash with out-of-bounds read access to a constant
+ array if .sp or a blank line immediately precedes .SS or .SH.
+ * mdoc(7): Do not crash with out-of-bounds read access to a constant
+ array if .sp or a blank line precede the first .Sh macro.
+ * tbl(7): Ignore explicitly specified negative column widths rather than
+ wrapping around to huge numbers and risking memory exhaustion.
+ * man(1): No longer use names that only occur in the SYNOPSIS section.
+ Gets rid of some surprising behaviour and bogus warnings.
+ --- THANKS TO ---
+ Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux), Markus Waldeck (Debian),
+ Peter Bui (nd.edu), and Yuri Pankov (illumos) for bug reports.
+
+Changes in version 1.14.2, released on July 28, 2017
--- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
* New mdoc(7) -Tmarkdown output mode.
* Delete the -Txhtml command line option. It has been an obsolete
alias for the -Thtml output mode for more than two years.
--- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
+ * -Tlint now puts parser messages on stdout instead of stderr,
+ making commands like "man -l -Tlint *.1" useful.
* mdoc(7): Various .Lk formatting improvements.
* mdoc(7) -Thtml: Better CSS for .Bl lists.
* man(7): Implement the .MT/.ME block macro (mailto hyperlink).
for a number of feature and documentation improvements.
* Sebastien Marie (OpenBSD) for two source code patches and
for some useful discussions.
+ * Florian Obser (OpenBSD) for a bugfix patch and a bug report.
* Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for several bug reports from afl(1)
and several more from static analysis tools.
* Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for several bug reports, most from afl(1).
wide variety of topics, lots of continuous testing, a number of
bug reports, and some suggestions for messages and documentation.
* Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for lots of help while migrating
- mdoclint(1) functionality to mandoc -Tlint, and for suggesting
- several useful new messages.
+ mdoclint(1) functionality to mandoc -Tlint, for suggesting
+ several useful new messages, and for release testing.
* Reyk Floeter (OpenBSD) and Vsevolod Stakhov (FreeBSD) for
suggesting a markdown output mode.
* Thomas Guettler for suggesting -Thtml internal hyperlinks.
+ * Yuri Pankov (Illumos) for inspiring new warning messages and
+ for extensive release testing.
* Anton Lindqvist and TJ Townsend (both OpenBSD) and Jan Stary
for multiple bug reports.
- * Martin Natano and Theo de Raadt (both OpenBSD),
- Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux), Andreas Voegele, Gabriel Guzman,
- Gonzalo Tornaria, Markus Waldeck, and Raf Czlonka for bug reports.
- * Antoine Jacoutot (OpenBSD), Michael Stapelberg (Debian),
- and Steffen Nurpmeso for suggesting feature improvements.
- * Dag-Erling Smoergrav (FreeBSD) and Yuri Pankov (Illumos)
- for inspiring new warning messages.
+ * Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for bug reports and release testing.
+ * Michael Stapelberg (Debian) for suggesting feature improvements
+ and for release testing.
+ * Martin Natano and Theo de Raadt (both OpenBSD), Andreas Voegele,
+ Gabriel Guzman, Gonzalo Tornaria, Markus Waldeck, and Raf Czlonka
+ for bug reports.
+ * Antoine Jacoutot (OpenBSD) and Steffen Nurpmeso for suggesting
+ feature improvements.
+ * Dag-Erling Smoergrav (FreeBSD) for inspiring new warning messages.
* Ted Unangst and Marc Espie (OpenBSD) for providing useful ideas.
+ * Svyatoslav Mishyn (Crux Linux) for release testing.
* Carsten Kunze (Heirloom roff) for help keeping mandoc and groff
compatible and for committing some of my patches to groff.
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