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+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"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>Making certain replacements after a large paste does not crash.</li>
+<li>Hitting a toggle at the Search prompt does not clear the answer.</li>
+<li>Using <tt>--positionlog</tt> does not complain at the first start.</li>
+<li>A macro containing a Search command will not sometimes fail.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 August 12 - <b>GNU nano 5.1</b> "Cantabria"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li><tt>M-Bsp</tt> (Alt+Backspace) deletes a word backwards, like in Bash.</li>
+<li><tt>M-[</tt> has become bindable. (Be careful, though: as it is the<br>
+ starting combination of many escape sequences, avoid gluing<br>
+ it together with other keystrokes, like in a macro.)</li>
+<li>With <tt>--indicator</tt> and <tt>--softwrap</tt>, the first keystroke in an<br>
+ empty buffer does not crash.</li>
+<li>Invoking the formatter while text is marked does not crash.</li>
+<li>In UTF-8 locales, an anchor is shown as a diamond.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 July 29 - <b>GNU nano 5.0</b> "Among the fields of barley"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>With <tt>--indicator</tt> (or <tt>-q</tt> or 'set indicator') nano will show a kind<br>
+ of scrollbar on the righthand side of the screen to indicate where<br>
+ in the buffer the viewport is located and how much it covers.</li>
+<li>With <Alt+Insert> any line can be "tagged" with an anchor, and<br>
+ <Alt+PageUp> and <Alt+PageDown> will jump to the nearest anchor.<br>
+ When using line numbers, an anchor is shown as "+" in the margin.</li>
+<li>The Execute Command prompt is now directly accessible from the<br>
+ main menu (with <tt>^T</tt>, replacing the Spell Checker). The Linter,<br>
+ Formatter, Spell Checker, Full Justification, Suspension, and<br>
+ Cut-Till-End functions are available in this menu too.</li>
+<li>On terminals that support at least 256 colors, nine new color<br>
+ names are available: pink, purple, mauve, lagoon, mint, lime,<br>
+ peach, orange, and latte. These do not have lighter versions.</li>
+<li>For the color names red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta,<br>
+ white, and black, the prefix 'light' gives a brighter color.<br>
+ Prefix 'bright' is deprecated, as it means both bold AND light.</li>
+<li>All color names can be preceded with "bold," and/or "italic,"<br>
+ (in that order) to get a bold and/or italic typeface.</li>
+<li>With <tt>--bookstyle</tt> (or <tt>-O</tt> or 'set bookstyle') nano considers any<br>
+ line that begins with whitespace as the start of a paragraph.</li>
+<li>Refreshing the screen with <tt>^L</tt> now works in every menu.</li>
+<li>In the main menu, <tt>^L</tt> also centers the line with the cursor.</li>
+<li>Toggling the help lines with <tt>M-X</tt> now works in all menus except<br>
+ in the help viewer and the linter.</li>
+<li>At a filename prompt, the first <Tab> lists the possibilities,<br>
+ and these are listed near the bottom instead of near the top.</li>
+<li>Bindable function 'curpos' has been renamed to 'location'.</li>
+<li>Long option <tt>--tempfile</tt> has been renamed to <tt>--saveonexit</tt>.</li>
+<li>Short option <tt>-S</tt> is now a synonym of <tt>--softwrap</tt>.</li>
+<li>The New Buffer toggle (<tt>M-F</tt>) has become non-persistent. Options<br>
+ <tt>--multibuffer</tt> and 'set multibuffer' still make it default to on.</li>
+<li>Backup files will retain their group ownership (when possible).</li>
+<li>Data is synced to disk before "... lines written" is shown.</li>
+<li>The raw escape sequences for <tt>F13</tt> to <tt>F16</tt> are no longer recognized.</li>
+<li>Distro-specific syntaxes, and syntaxes of less common languages,<br>
+ have been moved down to subdirectory syntax/extra/. The affected<br>
+ distros and others may wish to move wanted syntaxes one level up.</li>
+<li>Syntaxes for Markdown, Haskell, and Ada were added.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 May 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.3</b> "Almendras"
+<br><br>
+<table><tr><td>
+ One more bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a crash when<br>
+ the terminal screen is resized while at a lock-file prompt.
+</td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 April 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.2</b> "Mali Lošinj"
+<br><br>
+<table><tr><td>
+ Another bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a likely crash<br>
+ after undoing an <Enter> at the end of leading whitespace.
+</td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 March 31 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.1</b> "Sapperdeflap"
+<br><br>
+<table><tr><td>
+ Two bugs introduced in version 4.9 are fixed: the cursor<br>
+ getting misplaced when undoing line cuts, and filtering<br>
+ of the whole buffer to a new buffer not working.
+</td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.9</b> "die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>When justifying a selection, the new paragraph and the<br>
+ succeeding one get the appropriate first-line indent.</li>
+<li>Trying to justify an empty selection does not crash.</li>
+<li>Redoing the insertion of an empty file does not crash.</li>
+<li>On the BSDs and macOS, <tt>^H</tt> has become rebindable again<br>
+ (in most terminal emulators, not on the console).</li>
+<li>DOS line endings in nanorc files are accepted.</li>
+<li>Option <tt>--suspend</tt> / 'set suspend' has been renamed to<br>
+ the more logical <tt>--suspendable</tt> / 'set suspendable'.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 February 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.8</b> "Jaška"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>When something is pasted into nano, auto-indentation is suppressed,<br>
+ and the paste can be undone as a whole with a single <tt>M-U</tt>.</li>
+<li>When a lock file is encountered during startup, pressing <tt>^C</tt>/Cancel<br>
+ quits nano. (Pressing 'No' just skips the file and continues.)</li>
+<li>Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with 'bind Sh-M-letter'.<br>
+ Making any such binding dismisses the default behavior of ignoring<br>
+ Shift for all Meta+letter keystrokes.</li>
+<li>The configuration option <tt>--with-slang</tt> (to be avoided when possible)<br>
+ can now be used only together with <tt>--enable-tiny</tt>.</li>
+<li>A custom nanorc file can be specified on the command line, with<br>
+ <tt>-f filename</tt> or <tt>--rcfile=filename</tt>.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2019 December 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.7</b> "Havikskruid"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>A <Tab> will indent a marked region only when mark and cursor are<br>
+ on different lines.</li>
+<li>Two indentations (any mix of tabs and spaces) are considered the<br>
+ same when they look the same (that is: indent to the same level).</li>
+<li>When using <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> or <tt>^J</tt>, a line will never be broken in<br>
+ its leading whitespace or quoting.</li>
+<li>The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2019 November 29 - <b>GNU nano 4.6</b> "And don't you eat that yellow snow"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The 'formatter' command has returned, bound by default to <tt>M-F</tt>.<br>
+ 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>
+<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>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2019 October 4 - <b>GNU nano 4.5</b> "Košice"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The new 'tabgives' command allows you to specify per syntax what<br>
+ the <Tab> key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...</li>
+<li>The output of <tt>--help</tt> is properly aligned again for all languages.</li>
+<li><Tab> will indent a marked region also when <tt>M-}</tt> has been rebound.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
2019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag"
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
of a string by preceding the filename with <tt>+/string</tt> or <tt>+?string</tt>.</li>
<li>When automatic hard-wrapping occurs (<tt>--breaklonglines</tt>), any leading<br>
quoting characters will be automatically copied to the new line.</li>
-<li>M-6 works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.</li>
+<li><tt>M-6</tt> works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.</li>
</ul></td></tr></table>
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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>
2019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> "Qué corchos será eso?"
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-<li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the</li>
+<li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the<br>
end of a buffer, to produce valid POSIX text files by default, but<br>
- also to get back the easy adding of text at the bottom.<br>
+ also to get back the easy adding of text at the bottom.</li>
<li>The now unneeded option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) has been removed.</li>
<li>Syntax files are read in alphabetical order when globbing, so that<br>
the precedence of syntaxes becomes predictable.</li>
(when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug
in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in
a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid
-bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé!
+bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé!
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