Hi,
Since someone indicated that lynx had not been updated since 2021, I
wanted to share the below.
Was updated this week.
Karen
On Wed, 27 May 2026, Thomas Dickey wrote:
The current version of lynx is 2.9.3
It's available at
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/
https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/
Development & patches:
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/index.html
(I'll update the win32 installers page "soon")
Files:
https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/patches/lynx2.9.3.patch.gz
https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/patches/lynx2.9.3.patch.gz.asc
https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.3.tar.bz2
https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.3.tar.bz2.asc
https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.3.tar.gz
https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.3.tar.gz.asc
https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.3.zip
2026-05-26 (2.9.3)
* correct position of whereis highlighting in wrapped lines, e.g., in source
view (report by Rajeev V Pillai) -TD
* add option -fail_on_alert (WaitronCharm)
* review manpage, adding default values for most boolean options -TD
* implement formaction attribute for button and input tags in forms (report by
Henning Haeske) -TD
* add a null pointer check to MakeFormAction (Debian #1119084) -TD
* do not report the case of a SELECT tag not within a FORM as Bad HTML (report
by Jindrich Kolorenc) -TD
* update wcwidth from xterm -TD
* fix some inconsistencies in display of zero-width Unicode values (report by
Russell Bell) -TD
* change ifdef's for configuring compression encodings to require both the
library and the related command-line tool to ensure that Accept-Encoding
will work consistently for downloads (report by Riku Virtanen) -TD
* increase the limit for color-style changes per line to work with pages such
as https://nano-editor.org/ (report by Rajeev V Pillai) -TD
* add configure option --with-man2html, to help with generating html file from
the manpage -TD
* modify --enable-locale-charset option to be enabled by default for ncurses,
and change the compiled-in default for the corresponding option to true,
for ncurses -TD
* change default for --enable-wcwidth-support to enabled if built with wide
character ncurses -TD
* document link rel="author" in user's guide, use instead of link rev="made" in
samples and documentation, cf: 2.8.7dev.11 -TD
* use plink.sh script to trim unnecessary libraries when linking -TD
* remove redundant configure macros -TD
* remove --enable-gnutls-compat configure option -TD
* remove --with-nss-compat configure option -TD
see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Nss_compat_ossl
* modify HTTPS connection to retry with different versions of SSL and TLS
(patch by Nate Choe)
* spelling fixes (Eric Lindblad)
* fix typos in user guide (patch by David Apps)
* correct parsing of named-entity, accepting ".", ":", "_", "-" -TD
* update src/chrtrans/entities.h using https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/
(report by Brian Inglis) -TD
* review/update copyright/licenses for test-package.
* add conditional macros for LY_TEST_FMTS to help check for format mismatch -TD
* correct sprintf-format used for gopher telnet connections -Ben Collver
* fix stricter gcc15 warnings -TD
* update config.guess (2024-07-28), config.sub (2024-06-03)
* update nl.po, add ka.po, kab.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx
* add support for zstd encoding / compression (patch by Steffen Nurpmeso).
* changes to configure script:
+ improve file-globbing checks, e.g., for MingW
+ add option --enable-arc4random, normally enabled, to accommodate mawk's
use of the CF_SRAND macro -TD
+ AM_WITH_NLS - don't define IGNOTE_MSGFMT_HACK on the command-line because
that goes into the ".pc" and "*-config" files. Replace this by a check
which can define HAVE__NL_MSG_CAT_CNTR, which is more informative -- should
only occur with GNU gettext -TD
+ CF_BUILD_CC - revert build-fix for PDCurses, because it interferes with
other scripts -TD
+ CF_CURSES_FUNCS - modify to work with autoheader (Debian #1071581)
+ CF__INTL_BODY - replace ifdef for _nc_msg_cat_cntr -TD
* update Debian test-package for renamed test-package of ncurses -TD
* modify mailcap "test=" handling to redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null
(Debian #1072504) -TD
* implement "%t" substitution for mailcap -TD
* improve configure check for SOCKS library -TD
--
Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
https://invisible-island.net
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