1 2010-07-08 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
3 * Added support for systems that have utmpx.h, but don't implement
6 2010-07-02 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
8 * Fixed a NULL pointer dereference that can occur when hostnames
9 do not resolve. Thanks to <vmagerya> for pointing out this problem.
11 2010-03-31 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
13 * Tweaked the build system to work better on OpenWRT. This is largely
14 thanks to very helpful bug reports, and lots of testing by Jan Jaeger.
16 2010-03-29 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
18 * Started working on support for WebSockets.
20 * Fixed some compiler warnings when compiling with -Wextra
22 * Thanks to Jan Jaeger's excellent bug report, made some changes
23 that should make it easier to build ShellInABox for OpenWRT.
25 2009-12-10 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
27 * Add .note.GNU-stack to all object files so that the generated
28 binary doesn't erroneously request an executable stack.
30 2009-12-03 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
32 * Allow retrieval of the user's default login shell from
35 * Allow the code to be built without support for the LOGIN
36 service, as calling /bin/login does not work well on Fedora.
38 2009-12-02 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
40 * Added fallback code that dynamically computes the correct commandline
41 arguments for "objcopy" if building for an otherwise unknown target
44 2009-12-01 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
46 * Added some basic sanity checks to the commit script that now makes
47 sure we at least attempt to keep copyright dates updated whenever we
50 * Added checks that the debian/changelog file is up-to-date
52 * Added debian/watch file
54 * Updated the Standards-Version in debian/control. Still need to
55 review whether we are in full compliance, though.
57 * Fixed lintian errors.
59 2009-11-29 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
61 * Preparations for packaging ShellInABox in a way that makes it
62 easy for Debian package maintainers to pick it up.
64 2009-11-25 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
66 * On browsers that support CSS transforms, enable switching between
67 80 and 132 column mode.
69 2009-11-21 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
71 * Updated manual page documenting --user-css
73 * Released version 2.10
75 2009-11-18 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
77 * Fixed some compiler warnings when using more recent versions of
80 * Tweak the handling of CTRL keys, so that some of the more unusual
81 combinations work. For historic reasons, there is an expectation that
82 CTRL-3..CTRL-8 return specific control characters. Also fixed the
83 handling of CTRL-\ which could cause problems with some browsers.
85 * Rely on the browser for capitalization. This should fix Capslock
86 behavior. Hopefully, it won't break any other keyboard features or
89 2009-08-20 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
91 * Added transparent printing support. The development of this
92 feature is sponsored by De Bortoli Wines Pty Limited and by
93 Eternity Technologies.
95 2009-08-19 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
97 * Added a ${url} parameter that can be used in the service description.
99 2009-08-11 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
101 * Added support for user selectable style sheets. Included example
102 style sheets that allow switching to white-on-black or to monochrome
103 mode from the right click context menu.
105 * Fixed the "|" key on Swedish keyboards.
107 2009-07-30 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
109 * Added the --css command line option to make incremental changes
110 to the style sheet without having to load a full replacement with
111 the --static-file option. Added an example that enables white text
112 on a black background.
114 * Added Debian specific documentation to the manual page.
116 2009-07-29 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
118 * Allow unprivileged users to run the daemon. This requires
119 calling "ssh" instead of "login".
121 2009-07-27 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
123 * Use JavaScript redirection for attaching the missing slash to
124 the URL. This should make it easier to use reverse proxies. It was
125 already possible to run shellinaboxd behind a proxy, but a lot of
126 users got the configuration wrong.
128 2009-07-08 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
130 * Optionally compress large responses, if the browser accepts
131 deflate compression. This mainly improves start up time.
133 * More fine tuning of the regular expressions that detect URLs.
134 We now allow '.' and ',' in URLs, as long as they are not at the
135 very end of the URL, where they would probably be part of the
136 enclosing sentence and not actually part of the URL.
138 2009-07-06 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
140 * Making it easier to host the terminal on non-root URLs by always
141 redirecting to a URL that includes a trailing slash.
143 * Run-time testing for availability of libpthread functions does not
144 work reliably on some platforms. So, avoid doing so on anything
145 other than Linux/i386. For all other platforms, assume that the code
146 is not linked against libpthread. For ShellInABox, this is always
147 the correct assumption. But if the code gets embedded into other
148 projects, this might have to be changed.
150 2009-07-05 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
152 * Released version 2.9
154 2009-07-04 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
156 * Refined regular expressions for finding URLs.
158 * Show new terminal size when resizing the browser.
160 * Restored compatibility with IE5 and IE6.
162 2009-07-03 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
164 * Added --linkify option. Default settings cause the terminal to
165 recognize fully qualified URLs and to make them clickable.
167 2009-06-28 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
169 * Added support for keyboards that have a dedicated "<" / ">" key.
171 2009-06-21 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
173 * Added --localhost option.
175 * Added support for building on ARM.
177 * Respect "Connection: close" for proxies that rely on pre-HTTP/1.1
180 2009-05-24 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
182 * Added SSL support for OpenBSD
184 2009-05-23 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
186 * Released version 2.8
188 2009-05-22 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
190 * Improved support for entering non-ASCII characters.
192 2009-05-20 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
194 * Fixed various issues with building on OpenBSD
196 2009-04-28 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
198 * Fixed variable expansion in service descriptions.
200 2009-04-27 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
202 * Released version 2.7
204 * Improved compatibility with some PAM configurations when running
205 as a non-privileged user.
207 * Fixed a bug that required shells to output data (e.g. a prompt)
208 before they could read the first data.
210 * Fixed a potential crash.
212 2009-04-12 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
214 * Released version 2.6
216 * The demo application is still incomplete, but starting to be
217 somewhat functional. The BASIC interpreter supports variables, and
218 can parse expressions. But it is still missing all flow-control
219 commands, making it somewhat useless for writing real programs.
221 2009-03-30 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
223 * Added initial revision of demo application.
225 * Show fatal error message even when running in "quiet" mode.
227 * Make it easier to override parameters needed by the system startup
230 2009-03-29 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
232 * Added support for chained SSL certificates
234 2009-03-23 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
236 * Added an INSTALL.Debian file with Debian-specific instructions on
237 how to build and install a package file.
239 2009-03-21 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
241 * Possible fix for IE problems with horizontal positioning of
242 cursor if the line ends in spaces.
244 * Work-around for an IE6 bug when doing HTTPS through proxies.
246 2009-03-21 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
248 * Released version 2.5
250 * More testing on older IE versions.
252 2009-03-19 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
254 * Fixed cursor positioning. Hopefully, more browsers will be happy
257 * Explicitly added no-cache headers to our responses. This might help
258 with the IE6 problems.
260 2009-03-17 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
262 * Allow root to bind to privileged port.
264 2009-03-17 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
268 * Fixed possible memory corruption, when sessions time out.
270 2009-03-16 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
272 * Fixed some compiler warnings, that newer versions of GCC issue.
274 2009-02-27 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
276 * Added fallback on old-style pty's, if /dev/pts is not mounted.
278 * Work-around for systems that don't define a "nogroup" group.
280 * Remove the dependency on fdopendir, which does not exist
283 2009-02-16 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
285 * Include VCS revision number in user-visible version string.
287 * Allow "configure" to select whether OpenSSL and PAM libraries
288 should be used at all, dynamically searched-for at run-time, or
289 linked as a regular dynamic library.
291 * Fixed various bugs that prevents ShellInABox from running on
294 2009-02-12 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
296 * Released version 2.4
298 2009-02-11 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
300 * Fixed fatal compiler warning if compiling without SSL support.
302 * Fixed cursor hiding and showing
304 * Fixed various rendering glitches reported by Phil Endecott of
305 Anyterm (http://anyterm.org) fame.
307 * Made code more portable. In particular, fixed sed scripts.
309 * Added explicit config.h file, instead of passing configuration
310 options on the compiler's command line.
312 * Fixed compilation issues on BSD systems. Code is still untested
313 and unsupported on non-Linux systems at this time.
315 2009-01-21 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
317 * Released version 2.3
319 * Fixed a show-stopper bug that broke the --cert option.
321 2009-01-21 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
323 * Released version 2.2
325 * Fixed a bug that could result in the font getting corrupted.
327 * Improved compatibility with more versions of the OpenSSL library.
328 Previously, the feature test for TLSEXT did not always work correctly,
329 resulting in compilation failures.
331 * Improved support for embedding shellinaboxd into existing web
332 services. SSL certificates can now be passed in through a file
333 handle, and port and pid numbers can be retrieved from the CGI header.
335 2009-01-08 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
337 * Released version 2.1
339 * Fixed build errors mostly related to x86_64.
341 * Added --no-beep command line option to avoid VLC plugin crashing
344 * Fixed multi-line selections in Firefox.
346 2009-01-01 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
348 * Added CGI mode for demand-loading the shellinaboxd daemon
349 from a web server. This also allows for the web server to
350 perform authentication, instead of having shellinaboxd do so.
352 * Tightened setuid-root operation to no longer allow switching
353 to arbitrary users/groups. As before, setuid-root remains a
354 non-standard configuration that is not currently recommended.
356 * Fixed session management to deal better with torn down
357 connections. Closed one bug that could have resulted in
358 permanently orphaned connections, when the browser navigated
361 2008-12-27 Markus Gutschke <markus@shellinabox.com>
363 * First public release of the version 2.0 rewrite. This is the
364 first release of ShellInABox that supports an AJAX interface
365 instead of the original Java applet.