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NetSurf 3.11 is now available to download from
https://www.netsurf-browser.org/
The biggest change to the core is improved CSS support, including
support for the “display: flex” property value, which improves the
layout of some web pages. There is also a new option in the Choices
to disable CSS.
A huge number of other changes have also been made including
new features, significant performance optimisations, stability
improvements, and other fixes.
Read more for Changelog
Change Log
==========
NetSurf 3.11
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### Core / All platforms
* HTML: Fixed failure to reflow SVGs if fetched and ready before layout.
* HTML: Support for `display: flex` layout.
* HTML: Improved minimum/maximum sizes in box layout.
* HTML: Improved handling of percentages.
* HTML: Minor cleaning up of layout code.
* HTML: Use new LibCSS API for unit conversion.
* HTML: Improved ordered list handling.
* CSS: Updated selection callbacks to latest LibDOM API.
* Options: Added core option to disable CSS.
* Options: Added core option to prefer dark mode.
* Options: Improved user choices file processing.
* Bitmap: Opaque testing now implemented in core.
* Bitmap: Added core support for premultiplied-alpha.
* Bitmap: Format logged on startup.
* Bitmap: Added support for pixel colour component order configuration.
* Bitmap: Added colour component order conversion functions.
* Bitmap: Generally more optimal on all platforms for all image formats.
* Image: JPEGXL image handler.
* Image: Compatibility with latest rSVG version.
* Image: Improved handling for broken GIF images.
* Image: Updated to new LibNSGIF API.
* Image: Updated all image format handlers to use new core bitmap capabilities.
* Fetch: Updated to new libcurl API.
* Fetch: Disabled TLS1.0 and TLS1.1.
* Fetch: Improved handling of bad SSL connections.
* Fetch: Change to libcurl to optimise HTTPS connections (upstreamed).
* Local history: More robust rendering.
* Resources: Updated certificate bundle.
* java script: Minor updates to DOM bindings.
* java script: Updated to Duktape 2.7.0 release.
* java script: Console: Don't log through closed window.
* Utility: Cleaned up UTF8 handling.
* Utility: Improved recursive directory removal.
* Utility: Add support for xx_YY format language codes.
* CI: Various improvements to build automation and testing.
* General: Various warning fixes.
* General: Aligned UserAgent with compatibility spec.
* Documentation: Updated URLs to https.
* Documentation: Added front-end development guide.
* Text areas: Clear selection on word left/right.
* Buildsystem: Fixed handling of removed header files.
* Disc cache: Minor fixes.
* Debug: Added generated charts to image cache stats page.
* Debug: Added descendant bounding boxes to HTML box tree dumps.
* Built in: Cleaned up generated `about :` pages.
* LibParserUtils library 0.2.5 (parser building utility functions):
- Optimised consuming from buffer.
- Optimised endian detection.
- Added new API to append vector to buffer.
* Hubbub library 0.3.8 (HTML parser):
- Massively optimised element type detection using perfect hash.
- Optimised and updated performance tester.
- Fixed bitrot in tests.
- Improved example client code.
- Buildsystem improvements.
* LibCSS library 0.9.2 (CSS parser and selection engine):
- Added support for SVG `fill-opacity` property.
- Added support for SVG `stroke-opacity` property.
- Added support for CSS property wide `revert` value.
- Added support for CSS property wide `unset` value.
- Added support for CSS property wide `initial` value.
- Added support for CSS `position` property `sticky` value.
- Added support for CSS `display` property "grid" values.
- Added support for `prefers-color-scheme` media query.
- Added new public API for CSS unit conversion.
- Added support for predefined counter styles.
- Optimised media query handling.
- Made selection code generator deterministic.
- Various selection code generator improvements.
- Squashed leak of system font names.
- Improved internal handling of property units.
- Improved internal string map.
- Minor buildsystem improvements.
- Improved example code.
- Added new tests.
* LibDOM library 0.4.2 (Document Object Model):
- Fixed XML parser error handling.
- Fixed XML parser empty document handling.
- Added DOMTokenList implementation.
- Added DOM tree walking function.
- Improved example code.
- Fixed HTML Element int32 attribute getter to handle signed values.
- Various stability improvements.
- Buildsystem improvements.
* LibNSGIF library 1.0.0 (GIF support):
- Complete rewrite.
- New API that doesn't expose internal state.
- Much better handling of bad or broken GIFs.
- Support for decoding to client's choice of pixel colour component order.
- Many fixes.
- Faster decoding.
- Updated documentation.
* LibSVGTiny library 0.1.8 (SVG support):
- Fixed X11 example utility build.
- Implemented path arc correctly.
- Updated documentation.
### RISC OS-Specific
* Removed last vestiges of plugin support.
* Added Choices option to disable CSS.
* Updated licence information.
* Updated links to use https in documentation.
* Fixed broken links in documentation.
* Support for building with `arm-riscos-gnueabi` toolchain.
* Updated bundled resources.
* Improved bitmap rendering.
* Fixed EX0 EY0 "high DPI" rendering.
* Text selection support in URL bar (RO5.28 onwards).
* Dragging favicon saves whole URL.
* Updated to new RUfl API.
* Fixed font scanning on startup behaviour.
* Unified redraw code for browser windows and other core-rendered windows.
* Fixed auto-scroll crash when pointer leaves core window.
* Allow drag and drop loading of WEBP image format.
* RUfl library 0.1.0 (RISC OS Unicode support):
- Added astral character support.
- RUfl_cache version now in filename.
- Support for multiple versions of RUfl_cache coexisting.
- Substitution table reworked for astral characters and heavily optimised.
- Render 6-digit replacements for codepoints outside Basic Multilingual Plane.
- Refactoring and many code improvements.
- Support for UCS-aware Encoding files.
- Various API changes.
- Detect overlong and invalid UTF-8 sequences.
- Improved compatibility with different Font Manager versions.
- Fixed menu building to cope with system with no fonts.
- Ignore UCS fonts if using a non-UCS Font Manager.
- Remove assumption that pointers are 32-bit.
- Added test infrastructure and many tests.
- Buildsystem improvements.
### GTK-Specific
* Cleaned up initialisation.
* Various build warning fixes.
* Fixed crash when destroying scaffolding.
* Don't create zero-sized bitmaps.
* Configure core to use Cairo's bitmap format.
* Added support for cursor word left/right key bindings.
* Added support for delete word left/right key bindings.
* Added back/forward mouse button processing.
* Fixed path plotter.
* Made UI resources more consistent.
### Amiga-Specific
* Added page theme option.
* Improved bitmap handling.
* Improved and optimised Unicode handling.
* Stability improvements.
### Windows-Specific
* Buildsystem: Use pkg-config.
* Support Ctrl+A in address bar.
### Framebuffer-Specific
* Minor internal font fixes.
* Improved documentation.
Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and
documentation enhancements. |
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