--- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
* apropos(1): improve POSIX compliance by accepting case-insensitive
extended regular expressions by default
* new -O tag[=term] output option (open a page at the definition of a term)
* tbl(7) -T html: spanning and horizontal and vertical alignment of cells
* tbl(7) -T html: draw lines on the edges of table cells
* tbl(7) -T utf8: render lines with the Unicode box drawing characters
* mandoc is now able to handle the manual pages of the groff package.
--- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
* -T html: new option -O toc (table of contents)
* -T html: second argument to -O man to support local and remote links
* mdoc(7) .Bd -centered now fills the text contained in it
* man-ext .SY and .YS macros (synopsis block)
* man-ext .TQ macro (tagged paragraph without vertical space before it)
* tbl(7) \& explicit alignment indicator
* roff(7) .shift, .while, and .return requests
* roff(7) .char request (output glyph definition)
* roff(7) .nop request (no operation)
* roff(7) .ft request: handle the CB, CI, and CR fonts
* roff(7) .if c conditional (character available)
* roff(7) \\$@ escape sequence (insert all macro arguments, quoted)
* roff(7) \*(.T predefined string (interpolate output device name)
* roff(7) \[charNNN] escape sequence (for printable ASCII characters)
* roff(7) \# escape sequence (line continuation with comment)
--- HTML OUTPUT SYNTAX CORRECTIONS ---
* Render .br and \p as <br/>, not as an empty <div>.
* Render .Pp and .PP as <p> and automatically close it when needed.
* Stop writing empty list elements for non-compact .Bl -tag lists.
* Do not put <p> inside <a> if .UR or .MT contain .PP.
* Implement tooltips purely in CSS rather than abusing title= attributes.
--- MINOR FUNCTIONAL IMPROVEMENTS ---
* many improvements to the handling of fill and no-fill mode
* tbl(7): better column widths in the presence of horizontal spans
* several minor improvements to escape sequence handling
* several minor improvements to manual font handling
* portability: autodetect need for _GNU_SOURCE or _OPENBSD_SOURCE
* portability: autodetect whether less(1) supports the -T option
* large numbers of bugfixes of diverse kinds
--- STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS ---
* Disentangle eqn(7) and tbl(7) from other parser header files,
and clean up some parser data structures.
* Substantially simplify error and warning message infrastructure.
--- THANKS TO ---
* John Gardner for crucial help implementing tooltips in CSS.
* Alexander Bluhm, Raphael Graf, Ted Unangst (OpenBSD)
and Daniel Sabogal (Alpine Linux) for patches.
* Anthony Bentley and Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for documentation patches,
suggesting new features, bug reports, and useful discussions.
* Kyle Evans and Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD) for minor patches.
* Pali Rohar for suggesting multiple new features and for reporting
several bugs and missing features.
* Klemens Nanni (OpenBSD) for suggesting multiple new features.
* Kristaps Dzonsons (bsd.lv), Marc Espie (OpenBSD), Adam Kalisz,
and Laura Morales for suggesting new features.
* Wolfram Schneider and Yuri Pankov (FreeBSD) for reporting missing features.
* Edward Tomasz Napierala (FreeBSD) for suggesting a feature improvement.
* Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) and Sevan Janiyan (SmartOS)
for bug reports and release testing.
* Bryan Steele, Janne Johansson, Kurt Mosiejczuk, Mike Belopuhov, Theo
Buehler, Todd Miller (OpenBSD), Andreas Gustafsson, Christos Zoulas,
Robert Elz (NetBSD), Kurt Jaeger (FreeBSD), Fabio Scotoni, Kelvin
Sherlock, Mark Harris, Orestis Ioannou, Raf Czlonka, and Sean Farrell
for bug reports.
* Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD), Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux),
Matej Cepl (openSUSE), and Jan Stary (MacOS X) for release testing.
* Brian Callahan and Stuart Henderson (OpenBSD) for help
with the OpenBSD groff port.
* Bertrand Garrigues, Branden Robinson, Ralph Corderoy, and Werner
Lemberg (GNU troff) for checking groff patches.
* Scott Cheloha, Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD)
and Natanael Copa (Alpine Linux) for useful discussions.
--- 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.
christos