The NetSurf developers are happy to announce the immediate availability of NetSurf 2.5. This release contains many bug fixes and improvements.

It is available to download from http://www.netsurf-browser.org/




Here is a change log detailing the important changes in this release:

Core / All
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* Fetch improvements.
* Fix fetching from https sites with http authentication.
* Handle http authentication with no realm.
* Cookie handling improvements.
* Improved support for {min|max}-{width|height} CSS properties.
* HTML redraw optimisations.
* Improved mouse tracking over browser windows.
* Browser window status bar update rationalisation.
* Better handling of memory exhaustion.
* Made text export more robust.
* Fix relative positioning of floats.
* Align baselines of text on a line.
* HTML layout optimisations.
* Fixed HTML based box alignment behaviour.
* Sorted out default table borders.
* Updated Italian translation.
* Updated German translation.
* Allow any name for frame targets.
* Allow sending of referer when moving from http hosts to https.
* Improved stability.
* Simplified plotter API.
* Fixed memory leak in imagemap handler.
* Optimised debug rendering of box model outlines.
* Activity is indicated by 'progress' pointer.
* Ensure debug rendering outlines are plotted on top of other content.
* Now using LibCSS for CSS parsing and selection.
* Many CSS related bugs fixed.
* Rewritten cache and internal content handling.
* Fixes for file: URL handling.
* Don't try to access file: URLs through the configured proxy.
* Core widget for handling SELECT element menus.
* Core scrollbar widget used for CSS overflow and SELECT menu widget.
* Very basic quirks mode support.
* Cleaned up how the initial rendering of a content occurs.
* Command line argument handling and initialisation cleanup.
* Clearer build configuration messages.
* Favicon retrieval.
* Full page saves, including CSS and image files.
* PDF export disabled.
* Search-as-you-type page search support.

* Hubbub library (HTML parser):
+ Fixed locale problem.
+ Various improvements.

* LibCSS library (CSS parser and selection engine):
+ First release.

* LibNSBMP library (NetSurf BMP decoder):
+ Fix ICO decoding on big-endian platforms.
+ Improve inverse height calculation.

* LibNSGIF library (NetSurf GIF decoder):
+ Improve Palette entry handling.

* LibParserUtils library (parser building utility functions):
+ Fixed charset problem.
+ Various improvements.

* LibSVGTiny library (SVG support):
+ Colour component ordering fix.
+ Support arcs in paths.
+ Improve circle element handling.
+ Add ellipse element support.
+ Improve stroke width rounding.

* LibWapcaplet library (String internment):
+ First release.

RISC OS-specific
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* Theme code cleanup.
* Fix possible HTTP autentication crash.
* Fix potential problem with URL completion.
* Better handling of WIMP errors.
* Fixed memory leak in path plotting. (Used for SVG display.)
* Improve launching of URIs NetSurf doesn't handle.
* New guide to building NetSurf on RISC OS.
* Simplified native build process for NetSurf and libraries.
* Multitasking behaviour changed to be kinder to other apps.
* Fixed problem loading content served locally from WebJames.
* Improved stability.
* Save complete now implemented in the core.
* Find text moved to core and crash bug fixed.

* RUfl library (RISC OS Unicode support):
+ Fixed font scan crash.
+ Faster font scanning with FontManager 3.64 or later.

GTK-specific
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* Give drawing area input focus on click.
* Added local history toolbar button.
* Improve dot and dash line patterns.
* Made throbber loading more robust.
* Improved tab handling.
* Improved status bar control.
* Faster plotting of clipped and scaled images for smooth scrolling.
* Favicon display.
* Added view source code feature.
* Added search box on toolbar.
* Theme handling.
* Toolbar customisation.
* Context sensitive menu updated.
* Improved menu structure.
* Updated for compatibility with latest GTK versions.

BeOS/Haiku-specific
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* Complete save support.

AmigaOS-specific
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* Faster and more robust page plotting.
* Better clipping of plot actions.
* Smoother scrolling.
* Improved handling of tabs.
* Added UI for SSL certificate inspection.
* Improved stability.
* Better font handling.
* Added a preferences GUI.
* Better pointer handling.
* Better handling of bitmap alpha channels.
* Improved status bar.
* Added scale support.
* Improved mouse click handling.
* Keyboard shortcuts added.
* Added search bar.
* Added HelpHints.
* Theme and icon improvements.
* Handle more exotic formats dropped on text boxes, using DataTypes.
* Favicon display.
* Added search box on toolbar.

Framebuffer-specific
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* Framebuffer handling abstracted into libnsfb library.
* Fixed throbber to show inactivity correctly.
* Improved handling of text entry into URL bar.
* Fixed redraw issues while scrolled from top and while scrolling.
* Fixed redraw issues with animated GIFs and text areas.
* Improved mouse handling.
* Fixed zero size iframe crash.
* Added full range of pointer sprites.
* Better keyboard input handling.
* Fix continual reload on pages with meta refresh.
* Improve look and placement of toolbar, icons and scrollbars.
* Internal font changed. Includes more glyphs and bold/italic.
* Improved stability.

* LibNSFB library (NetSurf Framebuffer):
+ New library.

Windows-specific
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* New front end, considered pre-alpha.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and
documentation enhancements.


About NetSurf
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NetSurf is an Open Source web browser for RISC OS, Linux and other
Unix-like platforms, and AmigaOS 4. For further information, please see
the website at http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

The NetSurf Developers