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+2021 December 15 - <b>GNU nano 6.0</b> "Humor heeft ook zijn leuke kanten"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>Option <tt>--zero</tt> hides the title bar, status bar and help lines, and<br>
+ uses all rows of the terminal as editing area. The title bar and<br>
+ status bar can be toggled with <tt>M-Z</tt>.</li>
+<li>Colors can now be specified also as three-digit hexadecimal numbers,<br>
+ in the format <tt>#rgb</tt>. This picks from the 216 index colors (that most<br>
+ terminals know) the color that is nearest to the given values.</li>
+<li>For users who dislike numbers, there are fourteen new color names:<br>
+ rosy, beet, plum, sea, sky, slate, teal, sage, brown, ocher, sand,<br>
+ tawny, brick, and crimson.</li>
+<li>Suspension is enabled by default, invokable with <tt>^T^Z</tt>. The options<br>
+ <tt>-z</tt>, <tt>--suspendable</tt>, and 'set suspendable' are obsolete and ignored.<br>
+ (In case you want to be able to suspend nano with a single keystroke,<br>
+ you can put 'bind ^Z suspend main' in your nanorc.)</li>
+<li>When automatic hard-wrapping is in effect, pasting just a few words<br>
+ (without a line break) will now hard-wrap the line when needed.</li>
+<li>Toggling Append or Prepend clears the current filename.</li>
+<li>The word count as shown by <tt>M-D</tt> is now affected by option --wordbounds;<br>
+ with it, nano counts words as 'wc' does; without it (the new default),<br>
+ words are counted in a more human way: seeing punctuation as space.</li>
+<li>The YAML syntax file is now actually included in the tarball.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+
+2021 October 6 - <b>GNU nano 5.9</b> "El manicomio ha decidido: mañana sol!"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The extension of a filename is added to the name of a corresponding<br>
+ temporary file, so that spell checking a C file, for example, will check<br>
+ only the comments and strings (when using 'aspell').</li>
+<li>The process number is added to the name of an emergency save file,<br>
+ so that when multiple nanos die they will not fight over a filename.</li>
+<li>Undoing a cutting operation will restore an anchor that was located<br>
+ in the cut area to its original line.</li>
+<li>When using <tt>--locking</tt>, saving a new buffer will create a lock file.</li>
+<li>Syntax highlighting for YAML files has been added.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2021 June 15 - <b>GNU nano 5.8</b> "Why is it necessary to be special?"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>After a search, the spotlighting is dropped after 1.5 seconds (0.8<br>
+ seconds with <tt>--quick</tt>) to avoid the idea that the text is selected.</li>
+<li>A <tt>+</tt> and a space before a filename on the command line will put<br>
+ the cursor at the end of the corresponding buffer.</li>
+<li>Linter messages no longer include filename and line/column numbers.</li>
+<li>Color name "grey" or "gray" can be used instead of "lightblack".</li>
+<li>The color of the minibar can be chosen with 'set minicolor'.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2021 April 29 - <b>GNU nano 5.7</b> "Toți ceilalți arau câmpurile"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The output of <tt>--constantshow</tt> (without <tt>--minibar</tt>) is more stable.</li>
+<li>When opening multiple buffers and there is an error message, this<br>
+ message is shown again upon first switch to the relevant buffer.</li>
+<li>The position and size of the indicator now follow actual lines,<br>
+ instead of visual lines when in softwrap mode, meaning that the<br>
+ size of the indicator can change when scrolling in softwrap mode.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2021 March 3 - <b>GNU nano 5.6.1</b> "Geelgors"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>Search matches are properly colorized in softwrap mode too.</li>
+<li>Option 'highlightcolor' has been renamed to 'spotlightcolor'.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2021 February 24 - <b>GNU nano 5.6</b> "Wielewaal"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>A search match gets highlighted (in black on yellow by default),<br>
+ in addition to placing the cursor at the start of the match.<br>
+ The color combination can be changed with 'set highlightcolor'.<br>
+ By default the cursor is hidden until the next keystroke, but<br>
+ it can be forced on with <tt>--showcursor</tt> / 'set showcursor'.</li>
+<li>Option <tt>--markmatch</tt> / 'set markmatch' has been removed.</li>
+<li>Cursor position and character code are displayed in the minibar<br>
+ only when option <tt>--constantshow</tt> / 'set constantshow' is used,<br>
+ and their display can be toggled with <tt>M-C</tt>.</li>
+<li>The state flags are displayed in the minibar only when option<br>
+ <tt>--stateflags</tt> / 'set stateflags' is used.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2021 January 14 - <b>GNU nano 5.5</b> "Rebecca"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>Option 'set minibar' makes nano suppress the title bar and instead<br>
+ show a bar with basic editing information at the bottom: file name<br>
+ (plus an asterisk when the buffer is modified), the cursor position<br>
+ (line,column), the character under the cursor (U+xxxx), the flags<br>
+ that <tt>--stateflags</tt> normally shows, plus the percentage of the buffer<br>
+ that is above the cursor.</li>
+<li>With 'set promptcolor' the color combination of the prompt bar can<br>
+ be changed, to allow contrasting it with the mini bar (which always<br>
+ has the same color as the title bar).</li>
+<li>Option 'set markmatch' highlights the result of a successful search<br>
+ by putting the mark at the end of the match, making the match more<br>
+ visible. It also suppresses the cursor until the next keystroke.<br>
+ (If you dislike the hiding of the cursor, use 'set showcursor'.)</li>
+<li>The bindable toggle 'nowrap' has been renamed to 'breaklonglines',<br>
+ to match the corresponding option, like for all other toggles.</li>
+<li>Support for Slang has been removed.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 December 2 - <b>GNU nano 5.4</b> "Terre des hommes"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>Moving the cursor now skips over combining characters (and<br>
+ other zero-width characters). Deleting a character deletes<br>
+ also any succeeding zero-width characters, but backspacing<br>
+ deletes just one character at a time.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 October 7 - <b>GNU nano 5.3</b> "Revolution!"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>Option 'set stateflags' makes nano show the state of auto-indenting,<br>
+ the mark, hard-wrapping, macro recording, and soft-wrapping in the<br>
+ title bar. The flags take the place of "Modified", and a modified<br>
+ buffer is instead indicated by an asterisk (*) after its name.</li>
+<li>Nano no longer by default tries using libmagic to determine the type<br>
+ of a file (when neither filename nor first line gave a clue), because<br>
+ in most cases it is a waste of time. It requires using the option<br>
+ <tt>--magic</tt> or <tt>-!</tt> or 'set magic' to make nano try libmagic.</li>
+<li>The color of the indicator can be changed with 'set scrollercolor'.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
2020 August 24 - <b>GNU nano 5.2</b> "Ranrapalca"
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It allows running a syntax-specific command on the contents of<br>
the buffer.</li>
<li><tt>^T</tt> will try to run 'hunspell' before 'spell', because it checks<br>
- spellling for the locale's language and understands UTF-8.</li>
+ spelling for the locale's language and understands UTF-8.</li>
<li>Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano<br>
down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.</li>
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<li>The ability to read from and write to a FIFO has been regained.</li>
+<li>Opening a file no longer triggers an inotify CLOSE_WRITE event.</li>
<li>Startup time is reduced by fully parsing a syntax only when needed.</li>
<li>Asking for help (<tt>^G</tt>) when using <tt>--operatingdir</tt> does not crash.</li>
<li>The reading of a huge or slow file can be stopped with <tt>^C</tt>.</li>
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