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@@ -1,7 +1,130 @@ $Id$ +************************************************************************ +* This is a backward compatibility release. +* Unless you need compatibility with the old SQLite3-based mandoc.db(5) +* database format, please use the mandoc-1.14.1 release instead: +* http://mdocml.bsd.lv/snapshots/mdocml-1.14.1.tar.gz +************************************************************************ + +The following files differ from 1.14.1: +INSTALL LICENSE NEWS +configure configure.local.example Makefile Makefile.depend +main.c mandocdb.c mansearch.h mansearch.c mansearch_const.c manpath.c read.c +test-mmap.c test-sqlite3.c test-sqlite3_errstr.c compat_sqlite3_errstr.c +mandoc.db.5 makewhatis.8 + + This file lists the most important changes in the mdocml.bsd.lv distribution. +Changes in version 1.13.5, released on February XXX, 2017 + + --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES --- + * man(1): Support more than one tag entry for the same search term, + plus some minor improvements to the less(1) :t support. + * -Thtml: Use real macro names for CSS classes. + Systematic cleanup of and many improvements to mandoc.css. + * -Thtml: Produce human readable HTML code by using indentation + and better line breaks. Improve various HTML elements, + and trim several useless ones. + * Now includes a portable version of the OpenBSD mandoc regression + suite, see regress/regress.pl.1 for details. + --- MINOR NEW FEATURES --- + * mdoc(7): Warn about invalid punctuation and content below NAME. + * mdoc(7): Warn about .Xr lacking the second argument (section). + * mdoc(7): Warn about violations of the rule "new sentence, new line". + * roff(7): Warn about trailing whitespace at the end of comments. + * mdoc(7): Improve rendering of double quotes. + * mdoc(7): Always do text production in the validator, never in the + formatters. Cleaner, simpler, shorter, helps NetBSD apropos(1) + and also makes -Ttree output more useful. + * -Ttree: Show metadata and some additional node flags. + New -Onoval output option to show the unvalidated tree. + --- RELIABILITY BUGFIXES --- + * man(1): Make "man -l" work with standard input from a pipe or file, + as long as standard output is a terminal. + * man(7): Fix out of bounds read access if a text node immediately + preceded the first .SH header. + * mdoc(7): Fix out of bounds read access for .Bl without a type + but with a width. + * mdoc(7): Fix out of bounds read access for .Bl -column starting + with a tab character instead of a child .It macro. + * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption leading to segfaults caused + by stray block end macros in nested blocks of mismatching type. + * man(1): Fix NULL dereference when the first of multiple pages + shown was preformatted. + * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption leading to NULL dereference + caused by partial implicit macros inside .Bl -column table cells. + * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption leading to NULL dereference + for macro sequences like .Bl .Bl .It Bo .El .It. + * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption leading to NULL dereference + caused by .Ta following a nested .Bl -column breaking another block. + * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption sometimes leading to NULL + dereference caused by indirectly broken .Nd or .Nm blocks. + * mdoc(7) -Thtml: Fix a NULL dereference for .Bl -column with 0 columns. + * mdoc(7): Fix NULL dereference in some specific cases of a + block-end macro calling another block-end macro. + * mdoc(7): Fix NULL dereference if the only child of the head + of the first .Sh was an empty in-line macro. + * eqn(7): Fix NULL dereference in the terminal formatter + for empty matrices and empty square roots. + * mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure for a .Bd without a type that + breaks another block. + * mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure that happened for some .Bl -column + lists containing a column width of "-4n", "-3n", or "-2n". + * mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure caused by .Bl -column without .It + but containing eqn(7) or tbl(7) code. + * roff(7): Fix an assertion failure caused by \z\[u00FF] with -Tps/-Tpdf. + * roff(7): Fix an assertion failures caused by whitespace inside \o'' + (overstrike) sequences. + * -Thtml: Fix an assertion failure caused by -Oman or -Oincludes of + excessive length. + --- PORTABILITY IMPROVEMENTS --- + * man(1): Do not mix stdio narrow and wide stream orientation + on stdout, which could cause output corruption on glibc. + * mandoc(1): Autodetect a suitable locale for -Tutf8 mode. + * ./configure: Autodetect whether PATH_MAX is defined. + * ./configure: Autodetect if nanosleep(3) needs -lrt. + * ./configure: Provide an ${LN} configuration variable. + * ./configure: Put compiler arguments that may contain -l at the end. + --- MINOR BUGFIXES --- + * mdoc(7): Fix SYNOPSIS output if the first child of .Nm is a macro. + * mdoc(7) -Thtml: Improve formatting of .Bl -tag with short tags. + * man(7) -Thtml: Preserve whitespace in .nf (nofill) mode. + * mandoc(1): Error out on invalid output options on the command line. + --- STRUCTURAL CHANGES, no functional change --- + * Redesign part of the mandoc_html(3) interfaces, making them much + easier to use and reducing the amount of code by a few hundred lines. + --- THANKS TO --- + * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for almost twenty important bug reports, + most of them found by systematic afl(1) fuzzing. + * Benny Lofgren, David Dahlberg, and in particular Vadim Zhukov + for crucial help in getting .Bl -tag CSS formatting fixed. + * Svyatoslav Mishyn (Crux Linux) for an initial version of the + patch to autodetect a suitable locale for -Tutf8 mode + and for release testing. + * Michael Stapelberg (Debian) for a number of patches and bug reports. + * Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for multiple useful discussions + and a number of bug reports. + * Sevan Janiyan (NetBSD) for extensive release testing and multiple + bug reports. + * Thomas Klausner and Christos Zoulas (NetBSD), Yuri Pankov (illumos), + and Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for release testing and bug reports. + * Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD) for release testing. + * Alexander Bluhm, Andrew Fresh, Antoine Jacoutot, Antony Bentley, + Christian Weisgerber, Jonathan Gray, Marc Espie, Martijn van Duren, + Stuart Henderson, Ted Unangst, Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD), Abhinav + Upadhyay, Kamil Rytarowski (NetBSD), Aaron M. Ucko, Bdale Garbee, + Reiner Herrmann, Shane Kerr (Debian), Daniel Sabogal (Alpine Linux), + Carsten Kunze (Heirloom roff), Kristaps Dzonsons (bsd.lv), + Anton Lindqvist, Jan Stary, Jeremy A. Mates, Mark Patruck, + Pavan Maddamsetti, Sean Levy <attila@stalphonsos.com>, and + Tiago Silva for bug reports. + * Brent Cook, Marc Espie, Philip Guenther, Todd Miller (OpenBSD) + and Markus Waldeck for useful discussions. + * And as usual, OpenCSW for providing me with a Solaris 9/10/11 + testing environment. + Changes in version 1.13.4, released on July 14, 2016 --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES --- @@ -109,7 +232,7 @@ Changes in version 1.13.4, released on July 14, 2016 again resulting in more than half a dozen important bug reports. * Svyatoslav Mishyn (Crux Linux) for some patches, several bug reports, and extensive release testing. - * Christian Neukirchen (void Linux) for a number of compatibility + * Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for a number of compatibility patches and suggestions and several bug reports. * Christos Zoulas (NetBSD) for a bug fix patch and some useful suggestions for cleanup. |