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 This file lists the most important changes in the mandoc.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  Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August XXX, 2018
   
     --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---      --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * In ASCII output, render mathematical symbols and greek letters
      as transliterations conveying the characters' meanings rather
      than trying to imitate their shape.  Consequently, such characters
      can now be used in portable manual pages.  All the same, please
      limit their use to contexts where they really matter, for example
      when showing complicated mathematical formulae.
    * First steps towards better support for small screens in HTML
      output (responsive design): avoid most style= attributes, in
      particular all hard-coded indentations and column widths, and
      provide a better mandoc.css style sheet with a @media query,
      using em units throughout, and avoiding redundancy in selectors.
    * Better HTML output with some more fitting HTML elements, eliminating
      needless class= attributes, and avoiding various HTML syntax errors
      (element nesting, URL-fragment syntax, duplicate id= attributes).
       --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * When a man(1) argument contains a slash, imply -l like in man-db.
    * Use TIOCGWINSZ to reduce the default -Owidth and -Oindent during
      interactive use on terminals narrower than 79 columns.
    * Generated PostScript files are now more than 50% smaller.
    * Terminal rendering of eqn(7) is improved in several respects.
    * Simplified and nicer output from the mdoc(7) .Lk macro, formatting
      all links in-line, even long ones.
    * roff(7) \n+ and \n- numerical register auto-increment and -decrement
    * roff(7) .nr optional third argument (auto-increment step size)
    * Autodetect in ./configure whether the compiler can use -W and -static,
      allowing to build on Solaris 10 and 11 without any configure.local.
       --- RELIABILITY BUGFIXES ---
    * Only activate UTF-8 output when the user really selected UTF-8,
      not some other multibyte character encoding.
    * Prevent excessive .ll arguments from generating infinite output.
    * Avoid an assertion failure in certain .Bl -column lists.
    * Avoid a NULL pointer access on deroff() failure after '.SS ""'.
    * Fix a segfault that could be triggered by two invalid .Dt macros.
    * Fix two syntax errors in generated PDF files.
    * Properly state the page size in generated PostScript files.
    * Close a memory leak caused by missing gzclose(3).
    * Fix misformatting of man(7) documents lacking .SH macros
      in PostScript and PDF output.
    * And many minor bugfixes.
       --- THANKS TO ---
    * Marc Espie (OpenBSD) for implementing the size reduction of
      PostScript files, one additional patch for code simplification,
      and two bug reports.
    * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for a bugfix patch,
      and Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) for checking it.
    * John Gardner for more than a dozen suggestions regarding HTML output.
    * Mike Williams for teaching me how to use %%DocumentMedia and
      setpagedevice in PostScript files.
    * Werner Lemberg (groff) for feedback on mdoc(7) language changes.
    * Colin Watson (man-db) for feedback on man-db semantics.
    * Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for lots of feedback and suggestions
      on diagnostic messages and on the documentation.
    * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for suggesting two new style messages,
      one new feature, and for two bug reports.
    * Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for suggesting a new style message,
      four bug reports, and release testing.
    * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for reporting multiple bugs and missing
      features.
    * Paul Irofti (OpenBSD) and Nate Bargmann for suggesting new features.
    * Christian Weisgerber, Jonathan Gray, Stuart Henderson, Ted Unangst
      (OpenBSD), Takeshi Nakayama (NetBSD), Michael Stapelberg (Debian),
      Anton Lazarov, Jakub Klinkovsky, Jan Stary, Jesper Wallin,
      Will Backmam, and Wolfgang Mueller for bug reports.
    * Sevan Janiyan (NetBSD) for additions to lib.in.
    * George Brown for suggesting code simplifications.
    * David Coppa, Igor Sobrado (OpenBSD), and Alexander Kuleshov
      for documentation improvements.
    * Laura Morales and Raf Czlonka for questions resulting in better
      documentation.
   
   Changes in version 1.14.3, released on August 5, 2017
   
       --- BUG FIXES ---
    * man(7): Do not crash with out-of-bounds read access to a constant
      array if .sp or a blank line immediately precedes .SS or .SH.
    * mdoc(7): Do not crash with out-of-bounds read access to a constant
      array if .sp or a blank line precede the first .Sh macro.
    * tbl(7): Ignore explicitly specified negative column widths rather than
      wrapping around to huge numbers and risking memory exhaustion.
    * man(1): No longer use names that only occur in the SYNOPSIS section.
      Gets rid of some surprising behaviour and bogus warnings.
       --- THANKS TO ---
      Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux), Markus Waldeck (Debian),
      Peter Bui (nd.edu), and Yuri Pankov (illumos) for bug reports.
   
   Changes in version 1.14.2, released on July 28, 2017
   
       --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
  * New mdoc(7) -Tmarkdown output mode.   * New mdoc(7) -Tmarkdown output mode.
  * For -Thtml, implement internal hyperlinks pointing to authoritative   * For -Thtml, implement internal hyperlinks pointing to authoritative
    definitions of various syntax elements, similar to the ctags(1)-like     definitions of various syntax elements, similar to the ctags(1)-like
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  * Delete the -Txhtml command line option.  It has been an obsolete   * Delete the -Txhtml command line option.  It has been an obsolete
    alias for the -Thtml output mode for more than two years.     alias for the -Thtml output mode for more than two years.
     --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---      --- 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): 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 .MT/.ME block macro (mailto hyperlink).
  * man(7): Implement the .DT macro (restore default tab positions).   * man(7): Implement the .DT macro (restore default tab positions).
  * man(7): Improved support for manuals generated with reStructuredText   * man(7): Improved support for manuals generated with reStructuredText
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    and also several additional character escape sequences.     and also several additional character escape sequences.
  * roff(7): Implement the 'd' conditional (macro or string defined).   * roff(7): Implement the 'd' conditional (macro or string defined).
  * man.cgi(8) now uses pledge(2), too.   * 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 ---      --- THANKS TO ---
  * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for the implementation of .MT/.ME,   * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for the implementation of .MT/.ME,
    reports of many bugs and missing features, and suggestions     reports of many bugs and missing features, and suggestions
    for a number of feature and documentation improvements.     for a number of feature and documentation improvements.
  * Sebastien Marie (OpenBSD) for two source code patches and   * Sebastien Marie (OpenBSD) for two source code patches and
    for some useful discussions.     for some useful discussions.
    * Florian Obser (OpenBSD) for a bugfix patch and a bug report.
  * Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for several bug reports from afl(1)   * Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for several bug reports from afl(1)
    and several more from static analysis tools.     and several more from static analysis tools.
  * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for several bug reports, most from afl(1).   * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for several bug reports, most from afl(1).
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    wide variety of topics, lots of continuous testing, a number of     wide variety of topics, lots of continuous testing, a number of
    bug reports, and some suggestions for messages and documentation.     bug reports, and some suggestions for messages and documentation.
  * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for lots of help while migrating   * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for lots of help while migrating
    mdoclint(1) functionality to mandoc -Tlint, and for suggesting     mdoclint(1) functionality to mandoc -Tlint, for suggesting
    several useful new messages.     several useful new messages, and for release testing.
  * Reyk Floeter (OpenBSD) and Vsevolod Stakhov (FreeBSD) for   * Reyk Floeter (OpenBSD) and Vsevolod Stakhov (FreeBSD) for
    suggesting a markdown output mode.     suggesting a markdown output mode.
  * Thomas Guettler for suggesting -Thtml internal hyperlinks.   * Thomas Guettler for suggesting -Thtml internal hyperlinks.
  * Anton Lindqvist (OpenBSD) and Jan Stary for multiple bug reports.   * Yuri Pankov (Illumos) for inspiring new warning messages and
  * Martin Natano, Theo de Raadt, T. J. Townsend (all OpenBSD),     for extensive release testing.
    Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux), Andreas Voegele, Gabriel Guzman,   * Anton Lindqvist and TJ Townsend (both OpenBSD) and Jan Stary
    Gonzalo Tornaria, Markus Waldeck, and Raf Czlonka for bug reports.     for multiple bug reports.
  * Antoine Jacoutot (OpenBSD) and Michael Stapelberg (Debian)   * Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for bug reports and release testing.
    for suggesting feature improvements.   * Michael Stapelberg (Debian) for suggesting feature improvements
  * Dag-Erling Smoergrav (FreeBSD) and Yuri Pankov (Illumos)     and for release testing.
    for inspiring new warning messages.   * Martin Natano and Theo de Raadt (both OpenBSD), Andreas Voegele,
  * Ted Unangst (OpenBSD) for providing quite a few useful ideas.     Gabriel Guzman, Gonzalo Tornaria, Markus Waldeck, and Raf Czlonka
      for bug reports.
    * Antoine Jacoutot (OpenBSD) and Steffen Nurpmeso for suggesting
      feature improvements.
    * Dag-Erling Smoergrav (FreeBSD) for inspiring new warning messages.
    * Ted Unangst and Marc Espie (OpenBSD) for providing useful ideas.
    * Svyatoslav Mishyn (Crux Linux) for release testing.
  * Carsten Kunze (Heirloom roff) for help keeping mandoc and groff   * Carsten Kunze (Heirloom roff) for help keeping mandoc and groff
    compatible and for committing some of my patches to groff.     compatible and for committing some of my patches to groff.
   
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