+2024 May 1 - <b>GNU nano 8.0</b> <i>"Grus grus"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>By default <tt>^F</tt> is bound to starting a forward search, and <tt>^B</tt> to<br>
+ starting a backward search, while <tt>M-F</tt> and <tt>M-B</tt> repeat the search<br>
+ in the corresponding direction. (See the documentation if you<br>
+ want the old bindings back.)</li>
+<li>Command-line option <tt>--modernbindings</tt> (<tt>-/</tt>) makes <tt>^Q</tt> quit, <tt>^X</tt> cut,<br>
+ <tt>^C</tt> copy, <tt>^V</tt> paste, <tt>^Z</tt> undo, <tt>^Y</tt> redo, <tt>^O</tt> open a file, <tt>^W</tt> write a file,<br>
+ <tt>^R</tt> replace, <tt>^G</tt> find again, <tt>^D</tt> find again backwards, <tt>^A</tt> set the mark,<br>
+ <tt>^T</tt> jump to a line, <tt>^P</tt> show the position, and <tt>^E</tt> execute.</li>
+<li>Above modern bindings are activated also when the name of<br>
+ nano's executable (or a symlink to it) starts with the letter "e".</li>
+<li>To open a file at a certain line number, one can now use also<br>
+ <tt>nano filename:number</tt>, besides <tt>nano +number filename</tt>.</li>
+<li><Alt+Home> and <Alt+End> put the cursor on the first and last<br>
+ row in the viewport, while retaining the horizontal position.</li>
+<li>When the three digits in an #RGB color code are all the same,<br>
+ the code is mapped to the xterm grey scale, giving access to<br>
+ fourteen levels of grey instead of just four.</li>
+<li>For easier access, <tt>M-"</tt> is bound to placing/removing an anchor,<br>
+ and <tt>M-'</tt> to jumping to the next anchor.</li>
+<li>Whenever an error occurs, the keystroke buffer is cleared, thus<br>
+ stopping the execution of a macro or a string bind.</li>
+<li>The mousewheel scrolls the viewport instead of moving the cursor.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+
+2023 January 18 - <b>GNU nano 7.2</b> <i>"Boer doe mij 't hekke lös!"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li><Shift+Insert> is prevented from pasting in view mode.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2022 December 14 - <b>GNU nano 7.1</b> <i>"And the devices shall be made of wood"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>When <tt>--autoindent</tt> and <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> are combined, pressing<br>
+ <Enter> at a specific position no longer eats characters.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2022 November 15 - <b>GNU nano 7.0</b> <i>"Una existencia simple bajo el sol"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>String binds may contain bindable function names between braces.<br>
+ For example, to move the current line down to after the next one:<br>
+ <tt>bind ^D "{cut}{down}{paste}{up}" main</tt>. Of course, braced function<br>
+ names may be mixed with literal text. If an existing string bind<br>
+ contains a literal <tt>{</tt>, replace it with <tt>{{}</tt>.</li>
+<li>Unicode codes can be entered (via <tt>M-V</tt>) without leading zeroes,<br>
+ by finishing short codes with <Space> or <Enter>.</li>
+<li>Word completion (<tt>^]</tt>) looks for candidates in all open buffers.</li>
+<li>No regular expression matches the final empty line any more.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+
+2022 August 2 - <b>GNU nano 6.4</b> <i>"Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The file browser does not crash when moving up to the root folder.</li>
+<li>Softwrapping very long lines is done more efficiently.</li>
+<li>Invoking the formatter does not blink the screen.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2022 April 28 - <b>GNU nano 6.3</b> <i>"Wat zullen we drinken? Wat een dorst!"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>For multiline regexes, text is now colored as soon as a start match<br>
+ is found, also when there is no end match at all.</li>
+<li>The colorizing of any line is stopped after two thousand bytes,<br>
+ to avoid frustrating delays.</li>
+<li>When environment variable <tt>NO_COLOR</tt> is set, the two default colors<br>
+ (yellow for the spotlight, red for error messages) are suppressed<br>
+ when no interface colors are specified in a nanorc file.</li>
+<li>Full justification and piping the whole buffer through a command<br>
+ now keep the cursor at the same line number.</li>
+<li>Utility <tt>xsel</tt> can be used to copy a marked region to the system's<br>
+ clipboard. See <tt>doc/sample.nanorc</tt> for an example.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2022 February 18 - <b>GNU nano 6.2</b> <i>"Kamperfoelie"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The file browser clears the prompt bar also when using <tt>--minibar</tt>.</li>
+<li>Linting now works also with a newer 'pyflakes'.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2022 February 9 - <b>GNU nano 6.1</b> <i>"Rețelele de socializare sunt ca un frigider"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The behavior of <tt>^K</tt> at a prompt has been enhanced: when there<br>
+ is text after the cursor, just this text is erased. (In the usual<br>
+ situation, however, when the cursor is at the end of the answer,<br>
+ the behavior is as before: the whole answer is erased.)</li>
+<li>At a prompt, <tt>M-6</tt> copies the current answer into the cutbuffer.</li>
+<li>Large external pastes into nano are handled more quickly.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2021 December 15 - <b>GNU nano 6.0</b> <i>"Humor heeft ook zijn leuke kanten"</i>
+<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> <i>"El manicomio ha decidido: mañana sol!"</i>
+<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> <i>"Why is it necessary to be special?"</i>
+<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> <i>"Toți ceilalți arau câmpurile"</i>
+<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> <i>"Geelgors"</i>