The NetSurf developers are happy to announce NetSurf 2.9. This release contains many bug fixes and improvements.
It is available to download from http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ Binaries are available now for RISC OS, AmigaOS 4 and Atari systems. We plan to make binaries for other platforms available soon. NetSurf 2.9 contains many improvements over the previous release. The most significant changes are new multi-tasking behaviour, optimised URL handling, fetcher optimisations, cache optimisations, and faster CSS selection. A more detailed and complete list of changes is given below. Core / All ---------- * Improved internal management of simultaneously occurring operations. * Rewritten and streamlined URL handling. * Improved handling of frames and iframes. * Improved handling of min/max-width on replaced elements. * Simplified layout object dimension calculations. * Reduced memory usage in the fetch layer. * Disabled extraneous fetch debug code when built without debugging. * Optimised fetchers. * Updated MIME sniff handling in accordance with evolution of spec. * Optimised cache layer. * Enabled yield and resumption of box tree construction. * Improved resource handling. * Added new support for favicons. * Increased default memory cache size. * Added about:imagecache status page. * Optimised URL fragment handling. * Made meta refresh handling more robust. * Various minor table layout fixes. * Cleaned up fetch callback API. * New hotlist entries can be inserted into defined or selected folder. * Enabled resizing of textarea widget. * Fixed cookie expiration. * Improved handling of CSS overflow scrollbars. * Fixed caret position after deleting selection in textarea widget. * Enabled mouse wheel scrolling of frames and other scrollable content. * Improved handling of file drops, e.g. for HTML form file submission. * Added the beginnings of a gstreamer binding. * Fixed some content cache layer issues. * Improved handling of deletion of nodes from treeviews. * Added options to disable fetching of images. * Simplified redraw API rendering options. * Improved support for drag operations. * Hubbub library (HTML parser): + Fixed xmlns attribute handling. * LibCSS library (CSS parser and selection engine): + Avoid interning standard strings for every stylesheet, style tag and style attribute. + Made significant optimisations to style selection. + Fixed case where font-family is unspecified in input CSS. + Added some support for @font-face. + Fixed !important on opacity property. + Added support for parsing CSS3 Multi-column layout properties. RISC OS ------- * Removed unused and broken plugin handler. * Removed normalisation of user input URLs. * Added support for external hotlist utilities. * Improved signal handling. * Improved keyboard input handling. * Various fixes. * Fixed Drawfile export not to show interactive features. * Improved scroll event handling. GTK-specific ------------ * Improved resource handling. * Cleaned up handling of tabs. * Made tab bar position configurable. * Updated plotters to use Cairo surfaces throughout. * Enabled search-as-you-type of page content. * Fixed ~/.netsurf directory permissions. AmigaOS-specific ---------------- * Improved mouse handling. * Improved multi-tasking behaviour. * Increased keyboard scroll speed. * Better MIME type handling. * Improved contextual menu handling. * Enabled context menu for frames. * Enabled context menu for plain text contents. * Improved aspect ratio handling. * Consolidated user file operations. * Fixed scrolling issues. * Improved resource handling. * Improved tab bar handling. * Improved drag handling. * Improved font handling. * Improved clipboard support. Mac OS X-specific ----------------- * Fixed build. Atari-specific -------------- * Added context menu. * View source support. * Use favicon when iconified. * Removed unneeded frames handling code. * Fixed rectangle plotter. * Simplified status bar. * Improved download window. * Improved URL bar. * Fixed conversion from local encoding to UTF-8. * Improved scheduler. * Added save page support. * Added settings dialogue. * Enabled view source feature. * Added support for 8-bit displays. Framebuffer-specific -------------------- * Reduced excessive logging. * Implemented RAM surfaces, instead of direct blitting. * Fixed VNC surface. * Enabled thumbnailing in local history view. Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements. -- Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
