Dillo release 3.1.0

+Released on 2024-05-04 + + +

Summary of changes

+ +

Since the last release 3.0.5 from 2015 a lot of things have happened to the +Dillo project. + + + + + +Here is a short timeline to put things into perspective: + +

On 2016, the main developer of the layout engine, Sebastian Geerken, + passed away.
On 2017, the development stopped.
On 2019, the last email from Jorge Arellano Cid, the lead + developer of Dillo, + was + recorded by the mailing list.
On 2022, the domain dillo.org was + lost.
On 2024, an + attempt to + resurrect the project began by Rodrigo + Arias Mallo.

+ +

This release contains a lot of changes accumulated from the 2015-2017 period, +as well as fixes and small features introduced in 2024. Here is a summary: +

Add support for floating HTML elements, which involved a big redesign.
Add support for OpenSSL, LibreSSL and mbed TLS for HTTPS, which is now + enabled by default.
Add a CI pipeline to build Dillo on Ubuntu, MacOS, FreeBSD and + Windows (via cygwin).
Add automatic HTML rendering tests.
Improve and extend the Dillo manual.

+ +

In memory of Sebastian Geerken.

+ +

Download

+ +To download the 3.1.0 release, get it from the +GitHub +release page or directly from the links below: +

dillo-3.1.0.tar.bz2 (972K) + (signature)
dillo-3.1.0.tar.gz (1.2M) + (signature)
dillo-3.1.0.zip (1.4M) + (signature)

Detailed changes

+This is the list of changes from the ChangeLog of this release: +

Patches by Sebastian Geerken: +
- Floating elements.
- Redesign of widget sizes ("GROWS").
- Applied CSS attribute 'width' to all elements, 'height' is now also + supported.
- Suport for 'min-width', 'max-width', 'min-height' and 'max-height'.
- Suport for 'display: inline-block'.
- <BUTTON>'s are now inline.
- Image aspect ratio is preserved when one dimension is specified by a + percentage value.
- New dillorc options 'adjust_min_width' and 'adjust_table_min_width'.
- Make building of test/ files more robust.
- Work on collapsing spaces: more cases supported.
- Fix crash that's possible searching for text while page still being + built.
+
Patches by corvid: +
- HTML5 character references.
- Give images lower priority when requesting resources (responsiveness).
- Reuse of connections for HTTP (disable w/ http_persistent_conns in + dillorc).
- Abort failed queries.
- HTTP Strict Transport Security (disable with http_strict_transport_security + preference in dillorc).
- Fix bug when closing popup using window manager (bug introduced in + 3.0.3).
- Block mixed content.
- Improve cookies date recognition.
- Use Mbed TLS
- Iterate through the IP addrs for a host when trying to connect().
+
Patches by Jeremy Henty: +
- Doxygen fixes.
+
Patches by corvid and Benjamin Johnson: +
- Move HTTPS from dpi into the browser, enable SNI, check more locations + for CA bundles and add --with-ca-certs-file and --with-ca-certs-dir to + configure, some improvement to security warning popups, etc. +
+
Patches by Johannes Hofmann: +
- Fix bookmarks DPI crash.
- Fix OSX compilation issue with xembed.
+
Patches by Rodrigo Arias Mallo <rodarima@gmail.com>: +
- Fix DuckDuckGo search links
- Add scroll_step option to control the mouse wheel vertical step
- Add support for OpenSSL 1.1, OpenSSL 3, mbedTLS 2 and mbedTLS 3
- Replace configure flag --enable-ssl to --enable-tls
- Enable TLS support by default for https.
- Add automatic rendering tests (only enabled with --enable-html-tests).
- Fix width calculation when using 'min-width' and 'max-width'.
- Update website URL to https://dillo-browser.github.io/
- Add ui_tab_height option to control the tab height. Default value increased + from 16 to 20 pixels to improve usability.
- Switch tabs using the mouse wheel by default. Use the new option + scroll_switches_tabs to disable the behavior.
- Fix OpenSSL handling of unexpected EOF without close notify alert.
- Expand home tilde '~' in the file plugin.
- Ignore width attribute with relative values for td and th elements.
- Enable Doxygen for C files and use Awesome Doxygen theme.
- Fix DPIs extension (.dpi.exe) in Windows systems via Cygwin.
- Add support for the <main> HTML tag.
- Fix W3C validator and remove broken WDG validator.
- Simplify bookmark DPI page style and improve readability.
- Improve the Dillo manual available from the help button.
- Improve detection of XHTML documents.
- Install desktop file with Dillo icon.
- Add version in user manual and about:splash.
+
Patches by Mark Walker: +
- Add http_force_https mode.
+

Dillo release 3.1.1

+Released on 2024-06-08 + + + +

Summary of changes

+ +

+The 3.1.1 release contains only minor bug fixes. The changes from the +previous release include: + +

Patches by Rodrigo Arias Mallo: +
- Disable TLSv1.3 in Mbed TLS 3.6.0 until it is supported (fixes build + on Alpine Linux).
- Add workaround for Cygwin and OpenSSL with + --disable-threaded-dns.
- Fix distcheck when HTML tests are enabled.
- Fix an OpenSSL bug when the server closes the connection prematurely + and SSL_get_error() returns + SSL_ERROR_ZERO_RETURN.
+
Patches by Matt Jolly: +
- Add HTML tests to the distributed tarball.
+
Patches by dogma: +
- Gracefully handle warnings from PNG images.
+

+ +

Download

+ +

+To download the 3.1.1 release, get it from the +GitHub +release page or directly from the links below: +

dillo-3.1.1.tar.bz2 (0.98M) + (signature)
dillo-3.1.1.tar.gz (1.2M) + (signature)
dillo-3.1.1.zip (1.4M) + (signature)

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