Core / All platforms

• HTML: Fixed failure to reflow SVGs if fetched and ready before layout.
• HTML: Support for display: flex layout.
• HTML: Improved minimum/maximum sizes in box layout.
• HTML: Improved handling of percentages.
• HTML: Minor cleaning up of layout code.
• HTML: Use new LibCSS API for unit conversion.
• HTML: Improved ordered list handling.
• CSS: Updated selection callbacks to latest LibDOM API.
• Options: Added core option to disable CSS.
• Options: Added core option to prefer dark mode.
• Options: Improved user choices file processing.
• Bitmap: Opaque testing now implemented in core.
• Bitmap: Added core support for premultiplied-alpha.
• Bitmap: Format logged on startup.
• Bitmap: Added support for pixel colour component order configuration.
• Bitmap: Added colour component order conversion functions.
• Bitmap: Generally more optimal on all platforms for all image formats.
• Image: JPEGXL image handler.
• Image: Compatibility with latest rSVG version.
• Image: Improved handling for broken GIF images.
• Image: Updated to new LibNSGIF API.
• Image: Updated all image format handlers to use new core bitmap capabilities.
• Fetch: Updated to new libcurl API.
• Fetch: Disabled TLS1.0 and TLS1.1.
• Fetch: Improved handling of bad SSL connections.
• Fetch: Change to libcurl to optimise HTTPS connections (upstreamed).
• Local history: More robust rendering.
• Resources: Updated certificate bundle.
• JavaScript: Minor updates to DOM bindings.
• JavaScript: Updated to Duktape 2.7.0 release.
• JavaScript: Console: Don't log through closed window.
• Utility: Cleaned up UTF8 handling.
• Utility: Improved recursive directory removal.
• Utility: Add support for xx_YY format language codes.
• CI: Various improvements to build automation and testing.
• General: Various warning fixes.
• General: Aligned UserAgent with compatibility spec.
• Documentation: Updated URLs to https.
• Documentation: Added front-end development guide.
• Text areas: Clear selection on word left/right.
• Buildsystem: Fixed handling of removed header files.
• Disc cache: Minor fixes.
• Debug: Added generated charts to image cache stats page.
• Debug: Added descendant bounding boxes to HTML box tree dumps.
• Built in: Cleaned up generated about: pages.
• LibParserUtils library 0.2.5 (parser building utility functions):
  • Optimised consuming from buffer.
  • Optimised endian detection.
  • Added new API to append vector to buffer.
• Hubbub library 0.3.8 (HTML parser):
  • Massively optimised element type detection using perfect hash.
  • Optimised and updated performance tester.
  • Fixed bitrot in tests.
  • Improved example client code.
  • Buildsystem improvements.
• LibCSS library 0.9.2 (CSS parser and selection engine):
  • Added support for SVG fill-opacity property.
  • Added support for SVG stroke-opacity property.
  • Added support for CSS property wide revert value.
  • Added support for CSS property wide unset value.
  • Added support for CSS property wide initial value.
  • Added support for CSS position property sticky value.
  • Added support for CSS display property "grid" values.
  • Added support for prefers-color-scheme media query.
  • Added new public API for CSS unit conversion.
  • Added support for predefined counter styles.
  • Optimised media query handling.
  • Made selection code generator deterministic.
  • Various selection code generator improvements.
  • Squashed leak of system font names.
  • Improved internal handling of property units.
  • Improved internal string map.
  • Minor buildsystem improvements.
  • Improved example code.
  • Added new tests.
• LibDOM library 0.4.2 (Document Object Model):
  • Fixed XML parser error handling.
  • Fixed XML parser empty document handling.
  • Added DOMTokenList implementation.
  • Added DOM tree walking function.
  • Improved example code.
  • Fixed HTML Element int32 attribute getter to handle signed values.
  • Various stability improvements.
  • Buildsystem improvements.
• LibNSGIF library 1.0.0 (GIF support):
  • Complete rewrite.
  • New API that doesn't expose internal state.
  • Much better handling of bad or broken GIFs.
  • Support for decoding to client's choice of pixel colour component order.
  • Many fixes.
  • Faster decoding.
  • Updated documentation.
• LibSVGTiny library 0.1.8 (SVG support):
  • Fixed X11 example utility build.
  • Implemented path arc correctly.
  • Updated documentation. RISC OS-Specific
• Removed last vestiges of plugin support.
• Added Choices option to disable CSS.
• Updated licence information.
• Updated links to use https in documentation.
• Fixed broken links in documentation.
• Support for building with arm-riscos-gnueabi toolchain.
• Updated bundled resources.
• Improved bitmap rendering.
• Fixed EX0 EY0 "high DPI" rendering.
• Text selection support in URL bar (RO5.28 onwards).
• Dragging favicon saves whole URL.
• Updated to new RUfl API.
• Fixed font scanning on startup behaviour.
• Unified redraw code for browser windows and other core-rendered windows.
• Fixed auto-scroll crash when pointer leaves core window.
• Allow drag and drop loading of WEBP image format.
• RUfl library 0.1.0 (RISC OS Unicode support):
  • Added astral character support.
  • RUfl_cache version now in filename.
  • Support for multiple versions of RUfl_cache coexisting.
  • Substitution table reworked for astral characters and heavily optimised.
  • Render 6-digit replacements for codepoints outside Basic Multilingual Plane.
  • Refactoring and many code improvements.
  • Support for UCS-aware Encoding files.
  • Various API changes.
  • Detect overlong and invalid UTF-8 sequences.
  • Improved compatibility with different Font Manager versions.
  • Fixed menu building to cope with system with no fonts.
  • Ignore UCS fonts if using a non-UCS Font Manager.
  • Remove assumption that pointers are 32-bit.
  • Added test infrastructure and many tests.
  • Buildsystem improvements. GTK-Specific
• Cleaned up initialisation.
• Various build warning fixes.
• Fixed crash when destroying scaffolding.
• Don't create zero-sized bitmaps.
• Configure core to use Cairo's bitmap format.
• Added support for cursor word left/right key bindings.
• Added support for delete word left/right key bindings.
• Added back/forward mouse button processing.
• Fixed path plotter.
• Made UI resources more consistent. Amiga-Specific
• Added page theme option.
• Improved bitmap handling.
• Improved and optimised Unicode handling.
• Stability improvements. Windows-Specific
• Buildsystem: Use pkg-config.
• Support Ctrl+A in address bar. Framebuffer-Specific
• Minor internal font fixes.
• Improved documentation. Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.