Hello, I am pleased to announce 0.10.0 -- codenamed Thelma -- and the begining of the new stable 0.10 releases. Begining, because it didn't quite get the finishing touches it deserves, and stable since it should be mostly smaller glitches that needs attention. If you didn't follow the development of what has become 0.10.0 now is the time to upgrade. I hope you will like the result and that you will help to further stablelize 0.10 by reporting any problems you may find. First, let's look at the changes since rc3, noting that the complete changelog is available in the package. Updates: - The example Perl hooks file was improved and now features amongst other things a random URI generator. - LEDs (state indicating panel) are now compiled in by default. - The (unmaintained) leet.po file was dropped. Bugfixes: - Fix a form parsing bug introduced in cleanups related to ECMAScript document.forms support. - Fix namespace clashes with Windows headers. In retrospect, the past year has brought a lot of changes upon the project; both in the code and on the project in general. In the code, many exciting things was introduced during the development of 0.10. To name a few you will find simple CSS and ECMAScript support, plain-text mark-up and HTML source high-lighting. Also a lot of work has gone into improving the user interface so that navigation using cursor routing is now possible and editing of text-input form-fields optionally can be made modal so that they do not steal input when scrolling documents. The networking was enhanced with support for internationalized domain names and new protocols like gopher. Finally, the build system was upgraded to be more configurable and new documentation was written. There has been a total of 5467 commits in the 0.10 branch, which doesn't top the 0.9 branch but again I think 0.9 had more cleanups and splitups. The commit statistics for the 0.10 branch: jonas Jonas Fonseca 2717 commits 49.6% zas Laurent Monin 1133 commits 20.7% pasky Petr Baudis 975 commits 17.8% miciah Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters 515 commits 9.4% witekfl Witold Filipczyk 101 commits 1.8% vinnui Varga Balázs 11 commits 0.2% fabio Fabio Bonelli 11 commits 0.2% samek Peter Samek 2 commits 0.0% kuser Karsten Schölzel 2 commits 0.0% During the last year pasky handed over the maintainership to me. The main motivation was to free up time to do more hacking. I think this has worked out pretty well since he has been introducing the first taste of ECMAScript. There are unfortunately also some gaps left behind by this maintainer-change that I hope we can figure out as we go along. This leads me to write a few words about what I think the new year will bring. I have plans to add support for BitTorrent as part of a project at my school and also look forward to RSS feeds (live bookmarks) becoming a reality. The latter will make the slowly evolving DOM implementation more useful. Hopefully form handling will also be improved (bug 4); the ground work has already been done. The port for MingW looks already promising so I maybe that will mature and make it in. I plan to put together a roadmap during the next couple of months; it was a great help during 0.9 and keeps the focus. This is all of my late night Christmas Eve ramblings from the thawing northern Jutland initially dedicated to the announcement of 0.10.0. Thanks to all users and developers for an amazing year. Hope to meet you in #elinks at FreeNode (http://freenode.net/). -- Jonas Fonseca
