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 This file lists the most important changes in the mdocml.bsd.lv distribution.  This file lists the most important changes in the mandoc.bsd.lv distribution.
   
   Changes in version 1.14.2, released on July XXX, 2017
   
       --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * New mdoc(7) -Tmarkdown output mode.
    * For -Thtml, implement internal hyperlinks pointing to authoritative
      definitions of various syntax elements, similar to the ctags(1)-like
      less(1) :t internal searching in terminal mode.
    * Provide a superset of the functionality of the former mdoclint(1)
      utility and a new -Wstyle message level with several new messages,
      including validity checking of .Xr cross references.
    * tbl(7): Implement automatic line breaking inside individual table
      cells, and several other formatting improvements.
    * eqn(7): Complete rewrite of the lexer, resulting in several bugfixes.
    * Continue parser unification, in particular allowing generation
      of syntax tree nodes on the roff(7) level, allowing implementation
      of many additional roff requests.
       --- REMOVED FUNCTIONALITY ---
    * Delete the manpage(1) utility.  It was never enabled in any release.
    * Delete the -Txhtml command line option.  It has been an obsolete
      alias for the -Thtml output mode for more than two years.
       --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * -Tlint now puts parser messages on stdout instead of stderr,
      making commands like "man -l -Tlint *.1" useful.
    * mdoc(7): Various .Lk formatting improvements.
    * mdoc(7) -Thtml: Better CSS for .Bl lists.
    * man(7): Implement the .MT/.ME block macro (mailto hyperlink).
    * man(7): Implement the .DT macro (restore default tab positions).
    * man(7): Improved support for manuals generated with reStructuredText
      by partial support for the \n[an-margin] number register.
    * man(7) -Thtml: Support deep linking to .SH and .SS headers.
    * tbl(7): Implement the "allbox" table option.
    * tbl(7): Implement the column spacing and the 'w' (minimum column
      width) layout modifiers.
    * tbl(7): Significant improvements of the manual page.
    * eqn(7): Much improved font selection, including recognition of
      well-known function names, and a few other formatting improvements.
    * eqn(7) -Thtml: Use <mn> and <mo> in addition to <mi>.
    * roff(7): Implement the .ce (centering), .mc (margin character),
      .rj (right justify), .ta (define tab stops), .ti (temporary indent),
      .als (macro alias), .ec and .eo (escape character control),
      .po (page offset), and .rn (macro rename) requests.
    * roff(7) .am: Implement appending to mdoc(7) and man(7) macros.
    * roff(7): implement the \h (horizontol motion), \l (horizontal
      line drawing), and \p (break output line) escape sequences,
      and also several additional character escape sequences.
    * roff(7): Implement the 'd' conditional (macro or string defined).
    * man.cgi(8) now uses pledge(2), too.
    * regress.pl(1): simpler user interface, better summary output,
      simpler code, and no more recursion.
       --- THANKS TO ---
    * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for the implementation of .MT/.ME,
      reports of many bugs and missing features, and suggestions
      for a number of feature and documentation improvements.
    * Sebastien Marie (OpenBSD) for two source code patches and
      for some useful discussions.
    * Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for several bug reports from afl(1)
      and several more from static analysis tools.
    * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for several bug reports, most from afl(1).
    * Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for many useful discussions about a
      wide variety of topics, lots of continuous testing, a number of
      bug reports, and some suggestions for messages and documentation.
    * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for lots of help while migrating
      mdoclint(1) functionality to mandoc -Tlint, and for suggesting
      several useful new messages.
    * Reyk Floeter (OpenBSD) and Vsevolod Stakhov (FreeBSD) for
      suggesting a markdown output mode.
    * Thomas Guettler for suggesting -Thtml internal hyperlinks.
    * Anton Lindqvist and TJ Townsend (both OpenBSD) and Jan Stary
      for multiple bug reports.
    * Martin Natano and Theo de Raadt (both OpenBSD),
      Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux), Andreas Voegele, Gabriel Guzman,
      Gonzalo Tornaria, Markus Waldeck, and Raf Czlonka for bug reports.
    * Antoine Jacoutot (OpenBSD), Michael Stapelberg (Debian),
      and Steffen Nurpmeso for suggesting feature improvements.
    * Dag-Erling Smoergrav (FreeBSD) and Yuri Pankov (Illumos)
      for inspiring new warning messages.
    * Ted Unangst and Marc Espie (OpenBSD) for providing useful ideas.
    * Carsten Kunze (Heirloom roff) for help keeping mandoc and groff
      compatible and for committing some of my patches to groff.
   
   Changes in version 1.14.1, released on February 21, 2017
   
       --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * apropos(1): Reimplement complete semantic search functionality
      without the dependency on SQLite3, using only POSIX APIs.
      This comes with a completely new mandoc.db(5) file format.
    * man(1): Support more than one tag entry for the same search term,
      plus some minor improvements to the less(1) :t support.
    * -Thtml: Use real macro names for CSS classes.
      Systematic cleanup of and many improvements to mandoc.css.
    * -Thtml: Produce human readable HTML code by using indentation
      and better line breaks.  Improve various HTML elements,
      and trim several useless ones.
    * New catman(8) utility, still somewhat experimental.
    * Now includes a portable version of the OpenBSD mandoc regression
      suite, see regress/regress.pl.1 for details.
       --- REMOVED FUNCTIONALITY ---
    * Operating systems that don't provide mmap(3) are no longer supported.
    * Drop support for manpath(1).  Even if your system has manpath(1),
      it is simpler to use MANPATH_DEFAULT in configure.local for
      operating system defaults, man.conf(5) for machine-specific
      modifications, and ${MANPATH}, -m, and -M for user preferences
      than to bother with the complexity of manpath(1).
    * makewhatis(8) -p: No longer warn about missing MLINKS since these
      are no longer needed for anything.
       --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * mdoc(7): Warn about invalid punctuation and content below NAME.
    * mdoc(7): Warn about .Xr lacking the second argument (section).
    * mdoc(7): Warn about violations of the rule "new sentence, new line".
    * roff(7): Warn about trailing whitespace at the end of comments.
    * mdoc(7): Improve rendering of double quotes.
    * mdoc(7): Always do text production in the validator, never in the
      formatters.  Cleaner, simpler, shorter, helps NetBSD apropos(1)
      and also makes -Ttree output more useful.
    * -Ttree: Show metadata and some additional node flags.
      New -Onoval output option to show the unvalidated tree.
       --- RELIABILITY BUGFIXES ---
    * man(1): Make "man -l" work with standard input from a pipe or file,
      as long as standard output is a terminal.
    * man(7): Fix out of bounds read access if a text node immediately
      preceded the first .SH header.
    * mdoc(7): Fix out of bounds read access for .Bl without a type
      but with a width.
    * mdoc(7): Fix out of bounds read access for .Bl -column starting
      with a tab character instead of a child .It macro.
    * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption leading to segfaults caused
      by stray block end macros in nested blocks of mismatching type.
    * man(1): Fix NULL dereference when the first of multiple pages
      shown was preformatted.
    * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption leading to NULL dereference
      caused by partial implicit macros inside .Bl -column table cells.
    * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption leading to NULL dereference
      for macro sequences like .Bl .Bl .It Bo .El .It.
    * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption leading to NULL dereference
      caused by .Ta following a nested .Bl -column breaking another block.
    * mdoc(7): Fix syntax tree corruption sometimes leading to NULL
      dereference caused by indirectly broken .Nd or .Nm blocks.
    * mdoc(7) -Thtml: Fix a NULL dereference for .Bl -column with 0 columns.
    * mdoc(7): Fix NULL dereference in some specific cases of a
      block-end macro calling another block-end macro.
    * mdoc(7): Fix NULL dereference if the only child of the head
      of the first .Sh was an empty in-line macro.
    * eqn(7): Fix NULL dereference in the terminal formatter
      for empty matrices and empty square roots.
    * mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure for a .Bd without a type that
      breaks another block.
    * mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure that happened for some .Bl -column
      lists containing a column width of "-4n", "-3n", or "-2n".
    * mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure caused by .Bl -column without .It
      but containing eqn(7) or tbl(7) code.
    * roff(7): Fix an assertion failure caused by \z\[u00FF] with -Tps/-Tpdf.
    * roff(7): Fix an assertion failures caused by whitespace inside \o''
      (overstrike) sequences.
    * -Thtml: Fix an assertion failure caused by -Oman or -Oincludes of
      excessive length.
       --- PORTABILITY IMPROVEMENTS ---
    * man(1): Do not mix stdio narrow and wide stream orientation
      on stdout, which could cause output corruption on glibc.
    * mandoc(1): Autodetect a suitable locale for -Tutf8 mode.
    * ./configure: Autodetect whether PATH_MAX and O_DIRECTORY are defined.
    * ./configure: Autodetect if nanosleep(3) needs -lrt.
    * ./configure: Provide an ${LN} configuration variable.
    * ./configure: Put compiler arguments that may contain -l at the end.
       --- MINOR BUGFIXES ---
    * mdoc(7): Fix SYNOPSIS output if the first child of .Nm is a macro.
    * mdoc(7) -Thtml: Improve formatting of .Bl -tag with short tags.
    * man(7) -Thtml: Preserve whitespace in .nf (nofill) mode.
    * mandoc(1): Error out on invalid output options on the command line.
       --- STRUCTURAL CHANGES, no functional change ---
    * Redesign part of the mandoc_html(3) interfaces, making them much
      easier to use and reducing the amount of code by a few hundred lines.
       --- THANKS TO ---
    * Michael Stapelberg (Debian) for designing the new mandocd(8)
      and parts of the new catman(8), for release testing, and for a
      number of patches and bug reports.
    * Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD) for profiling the new makewhatis(8)
      implementation and suggesting an algorithmic improvement which
      more than doubled performance, and for a few bug reports.
    * Ed Maste (FreeBSD) for an important patch improving reproducibility
      of builds in makewhatis(8), and for a few bug reports.
    * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for almost twenty important bug reports,
      most of them found by systematic afl(1) fuzzing.
    * Benny Lofgren, David Dahlberg, and in particular Vadim Zhukov
      for crucial help in getting .Bl -tag CSS formatting fixed.
    * Svyatoslav Mishyn (Crux Linux) for an initial version of the
      patch to autodetect a suitable locale for -Tutf8 mode
      and for release testing.
    * Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for multiple useful discussions
      and a number of bug reports.
    * Sevan Janiyan (NetBSD) for extensive release testing and multiple
      bug reports.
    * Thomas Klausner and Christos Zoulas (NetBSD), Yuri Pankov (illumos),
      and Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for release testing and bug reports.
    * Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD) for release testing.
    * Alexander Bluhm, Andrew Fresh, Antoine Jacoutot, Antony Bentley,
      Christian Weisgerber, Jonathan Gray, Marc Espie, Martijn van Duren,
      Stuart Henderson, Ted Unangst, Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD), Abhinav
      Upadhyay, Kamil Rytarowski (NetBSD), Aaron M. Ucko, Bdale Garbee,
      Reiner Herrmann, Shane Kerr (Debian), Daniel Sabogal (Alpine Linux),
      Carsten Kunze (Heirloom roff), Kristaps Dzonsons (bsd.lv),
      Anton Lindqvist, Jan Stary, Jeremy A. Mates, Mark Patruck,
      Pavan Maddamsetti, Sean Levy <attila@stalphonsos.com>, and
      Tiago Silva for bug reports.
    * Brent Cook, Marc Espie, Philip Guenther, Todd Miller (OpenBSD)
      and Markus Waldeck for useful discussions.
    * And as usual, OpenCSW for providing me with a Solaris 9/10/11
      testing environment.
   
   Changes in version 1.13.4, released on July 14, 2016
   
       --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * man.conf(5): Design and implement a simpler configuration file format.
    * man(1): Leverage less(1) -T and :t in a way resembling ctags(1)
      to jump to the definitions of various terms inside manual pages.
    * soelim(1): New implementation by Baptiste Daroussin.
    * privilege limitation: Use OpenBSD pledge(2) or OS X sandbox_init(3)
      when available.
    * man.cgi(8): Support short URIs like http://man.openbsd.org/mdoc .
    * mandoc.css: Use one unified stylesheet rather than three different ones.
       --- MAJOR FUNCTIONALLY RELEVANT BUGFIXES ---
    * mdoc(7): Fix multiple aspects of SYNOPSIS .Nm formatting.
    * man(1): Fix process group handling, avoiding unclean shutdowns.
       --- PORTABILITY IMPROVEMENTS ---
    * Correctly use the ohash(3) compatibility implementation
      even when building without SQLite support.
    * Add compat glue for building on Solaris 9 and 10.
    * Let ./configure select a supported RE syntax for word boundaries.
    * Support LDFLAGS, to be used for example for hardening options.
    * Avoid mixing putchar(3) and putwchar(3) on the same file descriptor,
      it resulted in output corruption on some platforms.
    * Avoid reusing va_lists, use va_copy(3) for better portability.
    * Do not hardcode the path to the more(1) program.
       --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * roff(7): Implement \n(.$ (number of macro arguments).
    * roff(7): Fully implement \z (do not advance cursor).
    * roff(7): Implement the `r'  conditional (register exists).
    * roff(7): Implement \\$* (interpolate all arguments).
    * roff(7): Parse and ignore \, and \/ (italic corrections).
    * When there is no -m, no -M, no MANPATH and no /etc/man.conf,
      fall back to /usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man.
    * man(1): Give manuals in purely numerical sections priority over
      manuals of the same name in sections with an alphabetical suffix.
    * man.cgi(8): Support "header.html" and "footer.html".
    * man.cgi(8): Set the "autofocus" attribute on the query text box.
    * man.cgi(8): Simplify the search form, drop two useless buttons.
    * man.cgi(8): Delete the pseudo-manpath "mandoc", assume that
      apropos(1) and man.cgi(8) are installed in the default manpath.
       --- RELIABILITY BUGFIXES ---
    * mdoc(7): Avoid a use after free and an assertion failure when nodes
      are deleted during validation.
    * mdoc(7): Avoid a NULL pointer access when .Bd has no arguments.
    * mdoc(7): Avoid a NULL pointer access triggered by mismatching end macros.
    * mdoc(7): Avoid an assertion when .Fo has no argument.
    * mdoc(7): Avoid an assertion when .Ta<tab> occurs in .Bl -column.
    * mdoc(7): Avoid an assertion when a body gets broken and has a tail.
    * roff(7): Avoid an assertion caused by blanks inside \o.
    * roff(7): Make .so links to gziped manuals work without mandoc.db(5).
    * tbl(7): Avoid a use after free when the last line of a layout is empty.
    * eqn(7): Avoid an infinite loop caused by recursive "define".
    * makewhatis(8): Avoid a segfault caused by unusual directory structures.
    * Fix handling of leading, trailing, and double colons in MANPATH and -m.
       --- MINOR BUGFIXES ---
    * mdoc(7): Put arguments to end macros of broken partial explicit blocks
      inside the breaking block.
    * mdoc(7): Let .Dv force normal font.
    * mdoc(7): Make trailing whitespace significant in .Bl -tag widths.
    * mdoc(7): Fix macro interpretation around tabs in .Bl -column.
    * man(7): Use the default width for .RS without arguments.
    * man(7): On a new RS nesting level, the saved width starts from
      the default width, not from the saved width of the previous level.
    * man(7): Allow .PD in next-line scope.
    * man(7): Improve handling of empty .HP.
    * man(7): Improve formatting of .br and .sp inside .HP.
    * man(7): Do not mistreat empty arguments to font alternating
      macros as vertical spacing requests.
    * man(7): Allow fill mode changes in tagged paragraph next-line scope.
    * man(7): Fix minor bugs in block rewinding and simplify the related code.
    * man(7): Add missing line breaks before subsection headers.
    * man(7): Give section and subsection headers hanging indentation.
    * man(7): Make trailing whitespace significant in .TP widths.
    * roff(7): Don't allow breaking the output line after hyphens
      that immediately follow escape sequences.
    * roff(7): Ignore blank characters at the beginning of conditional blocks.
    * roff(7): Escape breakable hyphens only after handling input line traps.
    * roff(7): Reject \[uD800] to \[uDFFF] (surrogates) in the parser.
    * tbl(7): Allow more than one data field after T} on the same input line.
    * terminal output: Apply bold and italic to non-ASCII Unicode codepoints.
    * terminal output: Improve rounding rules for horizontal scaling widths.
    * HTML output: Render ASCII_NBRSP as "&nbsp;", not "-".
    * man(1): Do not match the first part of a name if it continues with a dot.
    * man(1): Keep working even if the current directory is unusable.
    * man(1): Better error message when $PAGER is invalid.
    * makewhatis(8): Improve handling of .Va and .Vt macros.
    * apropos(1): Print "nothing appropriate" to stderr when appropriate.
    * apropos(1): Abort with a useful error message when elementary
      database operations like preparing queries or binding variables fail.
       --- STRUCTURAL CHANGES, no functional change ---
    * mdoc(7) and man(7): Unified data structures struct roff_node etc.
    * mdoc(7) and man(7): Unified node handling library in roff.c.
    * mdoc(7) and man(7): Seperate validation phase from parsing.
    * roff(7): Major character table cleanup.
    * Link with libz rather than forking gunzip(1).
       --- THANKS TO ---
    * Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD) for the new soelim(1)
      and for release testing.
    * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for unifying mandoc.css, two nice
      patches for man.cgi(8), some documentation patches, some bug
      reports, and various useful discussions.
    * Todd Miller (OpenBSD) for lots of help with process group and
      signal handling, a few patches, some bug reports and some useful
      discussions.
    * Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for yet more testing with afl(1)
      again resulting in more than half a dozen important bug reports.
    * Svyatoslav Mishyn (Crux Linux) for some patches, several bug
      reports, and extensive release testing.
    * Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for a number of compatibility
      patches and suggestions and several bug reports.
    * Christos Zoulas (NetBSD) for a bug fix patch and some useful
      suggestions for cleanup.
    * Florian Obser (OpenBSD) for a bugfix patch and some bug reports.
    * Sevan Janiyan for help with Solaris compatibility and release
      testing on many platforms.
    * Jan Holzhueter and OpenCSW in general for help with Solaris
      compatibility, and for providing me with a Solaris 9/10/11 testing
      environment.
    * Michael McConville (OpenBSD) for some simple cleanup patches.
    * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for some bug reports and release testing.
    * Christian Weisgerber, Dmitrij Czarkoff, Igor Sobrado,
      Ken Westerback, Marc Espie, Mike Belopuhov, Rafael Neves,
      Ted Unangst, Tim van der Molen, Theo Buehler, Theo de Raadt
      (OpenBSD), Kurt Jaeger, Dag Erling Smoergrav (FreeBSD),
      Joerg Sonnenberger (NetBSD), Carsten Kunze (Heirloom troff),
      Daniel Levai, Fabian Raetz, Jan Stary, Jean-Yves Migeon,
      Lorenzo Beretta, Markus Waldeck, Maxim Belooussov, Michael Reed,
      Peter Bray, and Serguey Parkhomovsky for bug reports and feature
      suggestions.
    * Alexander Hall, Andrew Fresh, Antoine Jacoutot, Doug Hogan,
      Jason McIntyre, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse, Kent Spillner,
      Nicholas Marriott, Peter Hessler, Sebastien Marie, Stefan Sperling,
      and Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) for helpful discussions and feedback.
   
 Changes in version 1.13.3, released on March 13, 2015  Changes in version 1.13.3, released on March 13, 2015
   
     --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---      --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
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  * New -Wunsupp message level.   * New -Wunsupp message level.
     --- POTENTIONALLY SECURITY RELEVANT BUGFIXES ---      --- POTENTIONALLY SECURITY RELEVANT BUGFIXES ---
  * Fix a potential write buffer overrun on incomplete string conditionals.   * Fix a potential write buffer overrun on incomplete string conditionals.
    http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/roff.c#rev1.241     http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/roff.c#rev1.241
  * Fix a potential write buffer overrun on backslash at EOF in a conditional.   * Fix a potential write buffer overrun on backslash at EOF in a conditional.
    http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/roff.c#rev1.247     http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/roff.c#rev1.247
  * Fix a use after free sometimes hit when validation deletes a block.   * Fix a use after free sometimes hit when validation deletes a block.
    http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/mdoc_macro.c#rev1.180     http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/mdoc_macro.c#rev1.180
     --- MAJOR FUNCTIONALLY RELEVANT BUGFIXES ---      --- MAJOR FUNCTIONALLY RELEVANT BUGFIXES ---
  * Let man(1) show manuals for the current architecture by default,   * Let man(1) show manuals for the current architecture by default,
    and support the MACHINE environment variable.     and support the MACHINE environment variable.
Line 93  Changes in version 1.13.3, released on March 13, 2015
Line 434  Changes in version 1.13.3, released on March 13, 2015
  * roff(7): Three minor fixes with respect to evaluation of conditionals.   * roff(7): Three minor fixes with respect to evaluation of conditionals.
  * roff(7): Let .it accept numerical expressions, not just constants.   * roff(7): Let .it accept numerical expressions, not just constants.
  * mandoc_char(7): Correct some character names and renderings.   * mandoc_char(7): Correct some character names and renderings.
  * If earlier files set a non-zero exit status, never reset it to zero.   * If earlier files set a non-zero exit status, never reset it to zero.
     --- THANKS TO ---      --- THANKS TO ---
  * Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for yet more testing with afl (the American   * Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for yet more testing with afl (the American
    Fuzzy Lop security fuzzer), again resulting in many bug reports.     Fuzzy Lop security fuzzer), again resulting in many bug reports.
Line 628  Changes in version 1.9.15, released on February 18, 20
Line 969  Changes in version 1.9.15, released on February 18, 20
  * and column lengths handled correctly.   * and column lengths handled correctly.
   
 For older releases, see the ChangeLog files  For older releases, see the ChangeLog files
 in http://mdocml.bsd.lv/snapshots/ .  in http://mandoc.bsd.lv/snapshots/ .

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