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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-12-09 12:05:44 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-12-09 12:05:44 +0000
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more release preparations
-rw-r--r--INSTALL11
-rw-r--r--NEWS71
2 files changed, 77 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index db1f7836..aa97be74 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.7 2014/12/09 09:19:13 schwarze Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.8 2014/12/09 12:05:44 schwarze Exp $
About mdocml, the portable mandoc distribution
----------------------------------------------
@@ -155,11 +155,11 @@ Deployment requires the following steps:
1. Build and install mandoc as described above in steps 2 to 5
below "Installation".
-2. If you system uses manpath(1), make sure it is configured
+2. If your system uses manpath(1), make sure it is configured
correctly, in particular, it returns all directory trees where
manual pages are installed. If your system uses man.conf(5), make
-sure it contains a "_whatdb" for each directory tree, and the order
-of these lines meets your wishes.
+sure it contains a "_whatdb" line for each directory tree, and the
+order of these lines meets your wishes.
3. Run the command "sudo makewhatis" to build mandoc.db(5) databases
in all the directory trees configured in step 2.
@@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ At this point, your new man(1), apropos(1), and whatis(1) should work.
Otherwise, please look at <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/contact.html>, both
for help and to have these instructions improved.
+Whenever installing new manual pages, re-run makewhatis(8) to update
+the databases, or man(1) will not find the new pages.
+
Deployment using your system's native man(1) viewer
---------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f47a807d..f9499f5a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,76 @@
-$Id: NEWS,v 1.6 2014/08/11 01:39:00 schwarze Exp $
+$Id: NEWS,v 1.7 2014/12/09 12:05:44 schwarze Exp $
This file lists the most important changes in the mdocml.bsd.lv distribution.
+Changes in version 1.13.2, released on December XXX, 2014
+
+ --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
+ * Include an implementation of man(1), the manual page viewer.
+ * Unified set of command line option, each one supported by all
+ command names, including new options -a (format all), -c (no
+ pager), -h (synopsis only), and -w (list filenames).
+ * Support the MANPAGER and PAGER environment variables.
+ * Support gzip'ed manuals by the whole toolset, even as .so targets.
+ * Support UTF-8 and Latin-1 input by the whole toolset, delete preconv(1).
+ * Switch the default output mode from -Tascii to -Tlocale.
+ * Improve -Tascii output for Unicode escape sequences.
+ * Let the -Thtml output mode produce polyglot HTML5.
+ * Many improvements for eqn(7), in particular in-line equations,
+ MathML output in -Thtml mode, and much improved terminal formatting.
+ --- PORTABILITY IMPROVEMENTS ---
+ * Change the build sequence to the usual ./configure; make; make install.
+ * Support ./configure.local for build customizations.
+ * Autodetect wchar, sqlite3, and manpath support.
+ * Provide a fallback version of fts(3) for systems lacking it.
+ * Support choosing alternative binary and manual names.
+ --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
+ * Rudimentary implementation of the e, x, and z tbl(7) layout
+ modifiers to equalize, maximize, and ignore the width of columns.
+ * Implement font modifiers in tbl(7) layouts.
+ * Allow comma-separated options in the tbl(7) options line.
+ * Parse and ignore the .pl (page length) roff(7) request.
+ * Implement .An -[no]split for the mdoc(7) -Thtml output mode.
+ * Support bold italic font in PostScript and PDF output.
+ * Warn about commas in function arguments and parentheses in function names.
+ * Warn about botched .Xr ordering and punctuation below SEE ALSO.
+ * Warn about AUTHORS sections without .An macros.
+ * Warn about attempts to call non-callable macros.
+ * New developer documentation manual page mandoc_headers(3).
+ --- BUGFIXES ---
+ * Fix read buffer overrun sometimes triggered by trailing whitespace.
+ * Fix read buffer overrun triggered by certain invalid \H sequences.
+ * Fix NULL pointer access triggered by .Bl without any arguments.
+ * Fix NULL pointer access triggered by .It Nm Fo without .Fc.
+ * Fix NULL pointer access triggered by .Sh Xo .Sh without .Xc.
+ * Fix NULL pointer access triggered by missing .Nm.
+ * Fix an assertion triggered by .It right after .El.
+ * Fix an assertion triggered by .Ec without preceding .Eo.
+ * Fix an assertion triggered by .Sm or .Db with multiple arguments.
+ * Fix assertion failures triggered by very large width arguments.
+ * Fix a division by zero in the roff(7) parser.
+ * Prevent negative arguments to .ll from causing integer underflow.
+ * Correctly autodetect source format even when .Dd is preceded by .ll.
+ * Multiple fixes with respect to .Bd and .Bl -offset and -width.
+ * Many bugfixes with respect to scaling units.
+ * Multiple fixes with respect to delimiter handling by in-line macros.
+ * Multiple fixes with respect to .Pf.
+ * Make \c work properly in no-fill mode.
+ * Stricter syntax checking of Unicode character names.
+ --- THANKS TO ---
+ * Kristaps Dzonsons for rewriting the eqn(7) parser, implementing
+ HTML5 and MathML output, and various other code contributions.
+ * Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for extensive testing with afl (the
+ American Fuzzy Lop security fuzzer) resulting in many bug reports.
+ * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD), Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD), Daniel
+ Dickman, Doug Hogan, Jason McIntyre, Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD),
+ and Martin Natano for source code patches.
+ * Carsten Kunze (Heirloom troff), Daniel Levai (Slackware),
+ Garrett D'Amore (illumos), Giovanni Becchis, Matthew Dempsky,
+ Stuart Henderson, Ted Unangst, Todd Miller (OpenBSD), Thomas
+ Klausner (NetBSD), Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD), Justin Haynes,
+ Marcus Merighi, Sebastien Marie, Steffen Nurpmeso and Theo Buehler
+ for bug reports.
+
Changes in version 1.13.1, released on August 10, 2014
--- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---