NetSurf 2.5 Released

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The NetSurf developers are happy to announce the immediate availability of
NetSurf 2.5. This release contains many bug fixes and improvements.

It is available to download from http://www.netsurf-browser.org/


Here is a change log detailing the important changes in this release:

  Core / All
  ----------
  
  * Fetch improvements.
  * Fix fetching from https sites with http authentication.
  * Handle http authentication with no realm.
  * Cookie handling improvements.
  * Improved support for {min|max}-{width|height} CSS properties.
  * HTML redraw optimisations.
  * Improved mouse tracking over browser windows.
  * Browser window status bar update rationalisation.
  * Better handling of memory exhaustion.
  * Made text export more robust.
  * Fix relative positioning of floats.
  * Align baselines of text on a line.
  * HTML layout optimisations.
  * Fixed HTML based box alignment behaviour.
  * Sorted out default table borders.
  * Updated Italian translation.
  * Updated German translation.
  * Allow any name for frame targets.
  * Allow sending of referer when moving from http hosts to https.
  * Improved stability.
  * Simplified plotter API.
  * Fixed memory leak in imagemap handler.
  * Optimised debug rendering of box model outlines.
  * Activity is indicated by 'progress' pointer. 
  * Ensure debug rendering outlines are plotted on top of other content.
  * Now using LibCSS for CSS parsing and selection.
  * Many CSS related bugs fixed.
  * Rewritten cache and internal content handling.
  * Fixes for file: URL handling.
  * Don't try to access file: URLs through the configured proxy.
  * Core widget for handling SELECT element menus.
  * Core scrollbar widget used for CSS overflow and SELECT menu widget.
  * Very basic quirks mode support.
  * Cleaned up how the initial rendering of a content occurs.
  * Command line argument handling and initialisation cleanup.
  * Clearer build configuration messages.
  * Favicon retrieval.
  * Full page saves, including CSS and image files.
  * PDF export disabled.
  * Search-as-you-type page search support.
  
  * Hubbub library (HTML parser):
  	+ Fixed locale problem.
  	+ Various improvements.
  
  * LibCSS library (CSS parser and selection engine):
  	+ First release.
  
  * LibNSBMP library (NetSurf BMP decoder):
  	+ Fix ICO decoding on big-endian platforms.
  	+ Improve inverse height calculation.
  
  * LibNSGIF library (NetSurf GIF decoder):
  	+ Improve Palette entry handling.
  
  * LibParserUtils library (parser building utility functions):
  	+ Fixed charset problem.
  	+ Various improvements.
  
  * LibSVGTiny library (SVG support):
  	+ Colour component ordering fix.
  	+ Support arcs in paths.
  	+ Improve circle element handling.
  	+ Add ellipse element support.
  	+ Improve stroke width rounding.
  
  * LibWapcaplet library (String internment):
  	+ First release.
  
  RISC OS-specific
  ----------------
  
  * Theme code cleanup.
  * Fix possible HTTP autentication crash.
  * Fix potential problem with URL completion.
  * Better handling of WIMP errors.
  * Fixed memory leak in path plotting. (Used for SVG display.)
  * Improve launching of URIs NetSurf doesn't handle.
  * New guide to building NetSurf on RISC OS.
  * Simplified native build process for NetSurf and libraries.
  * Multitasking behaviour changed to be kinder to other apps.
  * Fixed problem loading content served locally from WebJames.
  * Improved stability.
  * Save complete now implemented in the core.
  * Find text moved to core and crash bug fixed.
  
  * RUfl library (RISC OS Unicode support):
  	+ Fixed font scan crash.
  	+ Faster font scanning with FontManager 3.64 or later.
  
  GTK-specific
  ------------
  
  * Give drawing area input focus on click.
  * Added local history toolbar button.
  * Improve dot and dash line patterns.
  * Made throbber loading more robust.
  * Improved tab handling.
  * Improved status bar control.
  * Faster plotting of clipped and scaled images for smooth scrolling.
  * Favicon display.
  * Added view source code feature.
  * Added search box on toolbar.
  * Theme handling.
  * Toolbar customisation.
  * Context sensitive menu updated.
  * Improved menu structure.
  * Updated for compatibility with latest GTK versions.
  
  BeOS/Haiku-specific
  -------------------
  
  * Complete save support.
  
  AmigaOS-specific
  ----------------
  
  * Faster and more robust page plotting.
  * Better clipping of plot actions.
  * Smoother scrolling.
  * Improved handling of tabs.
  * Added UI for SSL certificate inspection.
  * Improved stability.
  * Better font handling.
  * Added a preferences GUI.
  * Better pointer handling.
  * Better handling of bitmap alpha channels.
  * Improved status bar.
  * Added scale support.
  * Improved mouse click handling.
  * Keyboard shortcuts added.
  * Added search bar.
  * Added HelpHints.
  * Theme and icon improvements.
  * Handle more exotic formats dropped on text boxes, using DataTypes.
  * Favicon display.
  * Added search box on toolbar.
  
  Framebuffer-specific
  --------------------
  
  * Framebuffer handling abstracted into libnsfb library.
  * Fixed throbber to show inactivity correctly.
  * Improved handling of text entry into URL bar.
  * Fixed redraw issues while scrolled from top and while scrolling.
  * Fixed redraw issues with animated GIFs and text areas.
  * Improved mouse handling.
  * Fixed zero size iframe crash.
  * Added full range of pointer sprites.
  * Better keyboard input handling.
  * Fix continual reload on pages with meta refresh.
  * Improve look and placement of toolbar, icons and scrollbars.
  * Internal font changed.  Includes more glyphs and bold/italic.
  * Improved stability.
  
  * LibNSFB library (NetSurf Framebuffer):
  	+ New library.
  
  Windows-specific
  ----------------
  
  * New front end, considered pre-alpha.
  
  Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and
  documentation enhancements.


About NetSurf
=============

NetSurf is an Open Source web browser for RISC OS, Linux and other
Unix-like platforms, and AmigaOS 4. For further information, please see
the website at http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

The NetSurf Developers

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Michael Drake (tlsa)                  http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

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