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-2021 April 29 - <b>GNU nano 5.7</b> "Toți ceilalți arau câmpurile"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2021 March 3 - <b>GNU nano 5.6.1</b> "Geelgors"
+2021 March 3 - <b>GNU nano 5.6.1</b> <i>"Geelgors"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>Search matches are properly colorized in softwrap mode too.</li>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2021 February 24 - <b>GNU nano 5.6</b> "Wielewaal"
+2021 February 24 - <b>GNU nano 5.6</b> <i>"Wielewaal"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>A search match gets highlighted (in black on yellow by default),<br>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2021 January 14 - <b>GNU nano 5.5</b> "Rebecca"
+2021 January 14 - <b>GNU nano 5.5</b> <i>"Rebecca"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>Option 'set minibar' makes nano suppress the title bar and instead<br>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 December 2 - <b>GNU nano 5.4</b> "Terre des hommes"
+2020 December 2 - <b>GNU nano 5.4</b> <i>"Terre des hommes"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>Moving the cursor now skips over combining characters (and<br>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 October 7 - <b>GNU nano 5.3</b> "Revolution!"
+2020 October 7 - <b>GNU nano 5.3</b> <i>"Revolution!"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>Option 'set stateflags' makes nano show the state of auto-indenting,<br>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 August 24 - <b>GNU nano 5.2</b> "Ranrapalca"
+2020 August 24 - <b>GNU nano 5.2</b> <i>"Ranrapalca"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>Making certain replacements after a large paste does not crash.</li>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 August 12 - <b>GNU nano 5.1</b> "Cantabria"
+2020 August 12 - <b>GNU nano 5.1</b> <i>"Cantabria"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li><tt>M-Bsp</tt> (Alt+Backspace) deletes a word backwards, like in Bash.</li>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 July 29 - <b>GNU nano 5.0</b> "Among the fields of barley"
+2020 July 29 - <b>GNU nano 5.0</b> <i>"Among the fields of barley"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>With <tt>--indicator</tt> (or <tt>-q</tt> or 'set indicator') nano will show a kind<br>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 May 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.3</b> "Almendras"
+2020 May 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.3</b> <i>"Almendras"</i>
<br><br>
<table><tr><td>
One more bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a crash when<br>
</td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 April 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.2</b> "Mali Lošinj"
+2020 April 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.2</b> <i>"Mali Lošinj"</i>
<br><br>
<table><tr><td>
Another bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a likely crash<br>
</td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 March 31 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.1</b> "Sapperdeflap"
+2020 March 31 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.1</b> <i>"Sapperdeflap"</i>
<br><br>
<table><tr><td>
Two bugs introduced in version 4.9 are fixed: the cursor<br>
</td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.9</b> "die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"
+2020 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.9</b> <i>"die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>When justifying a selection, the new paragraph and the<br>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 February 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.8</b> "Jaška"
+2020 February 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.8</b> <i>"Jaška"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>When something is pasted into nano, auto-indentation is suppressed,<br>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 December 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.7</b> "Havikskruid"
+2019 December 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.7</b> <i>"Havikskruid"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>A <Tab> will indent a marked region only when mark and cursor are<br>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 November 29 - <b>GNU nano 4.6</b> "And don't you eat that yellow snow"
+2019 November 29 - <b>GNU nano 4.6</b> <i>"And don't you eat that yellow snow"</i>
<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>
+ 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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 October 4 - <b>GNU nano 4.5</b> "Košice"
+2019 October 4 - <b>GNU nano 4.5</b> <i>"Košice"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>The new 'tabgives' command allows you to specify per syntax what<br>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag"
+2019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> <i>"Hagelslag"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>At startup, the cursor can be put on the first or last occurrence<br>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> "Musa Kart"
+2019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> <i>"Musa Kart"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"
+2019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> <i>"Tax the rich, pay the teachers"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell' is missing.</li>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> "Qué corchos será eso?"
+2019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> <i>"Qué corchos será eso?"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the<br>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> "Thy Rope of Sands"
+2019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> <i>"Thy Rope of Sands"</i>
<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.</li>
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