05/31/2000 - Nano 0.9.9 introduces much better working i18n support, more portability, and a ton of bugfixes. While nano is not likely anywhere near 1.0 in terms of code quality, it gets a quantum leap closer with this release. 05/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.8 (the 'what broke now?' release) should fix the resize crash people have been experiencing. It also offers a new input method that should allow nano to do things the right way (like ^S, ^Q, custom suspend keys) and hopefully wont break with non-US keyboards. There are also the obligatory display fixes and speedups. Have fun with it. 05/14/2000 - Nano 0.9.7 (the Mother's Day release) continues in the long line of display fixes, and also fixes the broken symlink behavior (i.e. symlinks weren't being followed by default). Hopefully all major bugs can be worked out soon and we can have a 1.0 release before the end of the year, but who knows. 05/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.6 cleans up a lot of the display bugs that 0.9.5 uncovered. There are improvements (and some remaining segfaults) in the wrapping code, and even more display optimizations. I would still say 0.9.4 or 0.9.2 are the most stable versions of nano to date, but this one may not be too bad =-) 05/01/2000 - Nano 0.9.5 attempts to speed up the display of text to be at least somewhat reasonable. Much code profiling has been done to reduce the rediculous number of redundant display updates. This will probably expose a lot of bugs that can then be fixed, so this release is probably not for the faint of heart. For anyone curious, I would call nano 0.9.2 the most stable version recently, so use that if you're not particularly concerned with being on the bleeding edge. 04/25/2000 - Nano 0.9.4 fixes some problems in 0.9.3 with the last line code and related segfaults. It also now has much better handling for 8-bit characters. The --enable-tiny code also produces a smaller executable. 04/19/2000 - Nano 0.9.3 is officially the "Micro$oft" release. It underscores the recent problem of bugfixes introducing more bugs than they fix. The most important change to this version of nano is the removal of the "magic line". You will no longer see a blank line at the end of the file. If you want a new line at the end of your file, you'll have to hit enter to get one. NOTE: THIS BREAKS COMPATIBILITY WITH PICO. Unfortunately, this feature has been causing many many problems with nano so it is being removed for the time being, and perhaps indefinitely. Other new stuff includes a --emable-tiny option to make nano ultra small (disabling i18n, detailed help and the marker and mouse code), and --with-slang to use the slang libraries instead of ncurses. 04/15/2000 - Nano 0.9.2 just fixes the serious segfault problem if nano is invoked any way other than using the absolute path. The bug was in the new code for checking whether nano is invoked as pico. 04/14/2000 - 0.9.1 has some more Pico compatibility built-in. The option to switch to/from Search and Search/Replace (^T) is now available, and nano now displays the more Pico-like shortcut list when invoked as 'pico' (i.e. if pico is a symlink to nano). There is an important change to the handling of symbolic links as well. Now, nano does the "correct" thing and automatically writes to the object of the symlink, rather than replace the symlink with the updated file. This behavior is still available with the --nofollow or -l flags. Other new things include a fix for the infamous "recursive replace" bug, and more bugfixes in the wrapping code. 04/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.0 has some updates, new language support and a much better refresh setup (It's still not great, but...) There should also be more stabillity editing long lines, as there was a stupid mistake in the update_line call. Silly me =) 03/22/2000 - Nano 0.8.9 is basically just a bugfix release of 0.8.8 to reflect the current stagnant status of the project. Most things work, the rest doesn't doesn't work because (a) I can't fix it or I would have already done so, and (b) the amount of patches I'm receiving right now is quite negligible. Forrunately this release marks the first release since I have acquired ownership of the nano pages on SourceForge. Here's hoping SF will get us some more visibilitiy, translators and patches. 03/12/2000 - After a hiatus, I have finally moved (not unpacked though) to my new home into albany. Thus I should now have more time to work on nano. Nano 0.8.8, the "dear god what broke this time?" release, incorporates patches for both i18n and many bugfixes. It is VERY likely something broke this version, and it's likely I didn't even apply the i18n stuff properly, so *it* may not even work. I would like to announce that I'm going to need translations soonish, so if you are fluent in other languages than english (or even better, if your native language is not english) and you would like to submit a translation file to me, please feel free to do so. If you do, I will list your name and email in the AUTHORS file as the maintainer of the .po file, and from then on it is yours to take care of and keep up to date. 03/01/2000 - Well, to continue my trend of going back on my previous release's comments, nano 0.8.7 is released. The crashing behavior was still occuring, and this most recent fix also fixes some other wrapping problems, so here you go. There may be another relase soon, there may not be, is that vague enough? =) 02/25/2000 - More minor bugfixes in 0.8.6, the bizarre behavior at the end of a page has ceased, thankfully. I'm also moving next weekend, so don't be shocked if you don't see a new version of nano next week =-) 02/11/2000 - Okay, here we go again. Aside from a few minor fixes and some under-the-hood changes, you won't notice much different in this version of nano. I haven't gotten much feedback on the help feature, is it simply amazing or does no one care? Write and let me know! =) 02/08/2000 - Nano 0.8.3 marks the first time in a long time that there has been more than three days since the last release. New features include an initial help mode (YAY!), hopefully much more support for i18n out of the box, and a flag for more Pico compatibility in the shortcut lists displayed. This release also marks the new nano distribution site, http://www.asty.org/nano and email address nano@asty.org for bugs, etc. 02/02/2000 - Okay, I hate to go back on what I said in the last release, but I may be changing jobs very soon. I will release version 0.8.2 as is (no i18n, no help menu (yet). I expect things to settle down by the end of next week, and then I can try to start on the i18n support and help menu, look for these new features in version 0.8.5 to 0.9.0. 01/28/2000 - Nano 0.8.1 marks our first official step toward internationaliation (i18n) and the help system (^G). I will be merging in Jordi's patches for initial i18n in the next version, and will implement the help system with i18n built into it shortly after that. Please don't hesitate to send bug reports, as long as you're sure the fault lies with nano =-). 01/25/2000 - Nano 0.8.0 is officially the 'let's try and be at least a little portable, mmmmkay?' release. There are many portability checks and fixes, many thanks to Andy Kahn for his patches. I removed the broken do_spell behavior with the 'spell' program, for now we only try to call 'ispell' until I write a better method to handle the output of the normal 'spell' command. 01/24/2000 - Nano 0.7.9 features many new features. Among them are a new autoindent feature (-i, --autoondent), tempfile flag like Pico's -t flag (-t, --tempfile), and preliminary spelling program support. The spelling function tries to run 'spell' and then 'ispell' in that order, but you can specify another spelling program with -s or --speller. 01/17/00 - Nano 0.7.7 is officially the 'way too much stuff changed this release' release. It's the busy time at work for me, so please don't get offended if your patch doesn't get included in the next immediate version of nano. I'm sure all the changes in this release will cause a few bugs, so 0.7.8 will primarily be about fixing those bugs. Things added this release include resizeability (kinda), new -x and -c flags (see nano -h for help), long command line flag support, and the usual array of bugfixes. 01/15/00 - Nano 0.7.6 is officially the 'lightning' release. It now loads large files much faster than previous versions, and is even much faster than Pico or vi in some rather rudimentary tests. Many thanks to Adam Rogoyski for the read_byte patch! 01/09/00 - As of this version (0.7.4), TIP has officially been renamed to nano. The new homepage is at http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/astyanax/nano. Please update your bookmarks, tell your friends, and all that jazz.