lynx-2.9.3

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

2026-05-26 (2.9.3)

• correct position of whereis highlighting in wrapped lines, e.g., in source view
• add option -fail_on_alert
• review manpage, adding default values for most boolean options
• implement formaction attribute for button and input tags in forms
• add a null pointer check to MakeFormAction
• do not report the case of a SELECT tag not within a FORM as Bad HTML
• update wcwidth from xterm
• fix some inconsistencies in display of zero-width Unicode values
• change ifdef's for configuring compression encodings to require both the library and the related command-line tool to ensure that Accept-Encoding will work consistently for downloads
• increase the limit for color-style changes per line to work with pages such as ​https://nano-editor.org/
• add configure option --with-man2html, to help with generating html file from the manpage
• modify --enable-locale-charset option to be enabled by default for ncurses, and change the compiled-in default for the corresponding option to true, for ncurses
• change default for --enable-wcwidth-support to enabled if built with wide character ncurses
• document link rel="author" in user's guide, use instead of link rev="made" in samples and documentation, cf: 2.8.7dev.11
• use plink.sh script to trim unnecessary libraries when linking
• remove redundant configure macros
• remove --enable-gnutls-compat configure option
• remove --with-nss-compat configure option see ​https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Nss_compat_ossl
• modify HTTPS connection to retry with different versions of SSL and TLS
• spelling fixes (Eric Lindblad)
• fix typos in user guide
• correct parsing of named-entity, accepting ".", ":", "_", "-"
• update src/chrtrans/entities.h using ​https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/
• review/update copyright/licenses for test-package.
• add conditional macros for LY_TEST_FMTS to help check for format mismatch
• correct sprintf-format used for gopher telnet connections
• fix stricter gcc15 warnings
• update config.guess (2024-07-28), config.sub (2024-06-03)
• update nl.po, add ka.po, kab.po from ​http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx
• add support for zstd encoding / compression
• changes to configure script:
  • improve file-globbing checks, e.g., for MingW
  • add option --enable-arc4random, normally enabled, to accommodate mawk's use of the CF_SRAND macro
  • AM_WITH_NLS - don't define IGNOTE_MSGFMT_HACK on the command-line because that goes into the ".pc" and "*-config" files. Replace this by a check which can define HAVENL_MSG_CAT_CNTR, which is more informative -- should only occur with GNU gettext
  • CF_BUILD_CC - revert build-fix for PDCurses, because it interferes with other scripts
  • CF_CURSES_FUNCS - modify to work with autoheader
  • CFINTL_BODY - replace ifdef for _nc_msg_cat_cntr
• update Debian test-package for renamed test-package of ncurses
• modify mailcap "test=" handling to redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null
• implement "%t" substitution for mailcap
• improve configure check for SOCKS library

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 076cb4248a.