2018.06.02 - GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the

             buffer (or the marked region) through an external command

             (^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is

             better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to

             justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding

             of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback

             about the number of lines written also when prepending or

             appending, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter.

2018.05.15 - GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option '--afterends'

             for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word

             ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for

             the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed

             buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the

             until-now missing bindable function 'linenumbers', and

             renames the toggles 'constupdate' to 'constantshow' and

             'cuttoend' to 'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the

             corresponding options -- adjust your nanorc files soon.

2018.04.27 - GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion,

             makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity

             of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes

             for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session

             go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline

             after an external spell check of a selected region, always

             accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in

             any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs.

2018.03.29 - GNU nano 2.9.5 "Kiša pada" changes the way the Scroll-Up

             and Scroll-Down commands work (M-- and M-+): instead of

             keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now

             keep the cursor in the same text position (if possible).

             This version further adds a new color name, "normal",

             which gives the default foreground or background color,

             which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous

             painting by earlier syntax regexes.  Bug fixes include:

             a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted

             mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a

             slight miswrapping of help texts when --linenumbers was

             used, and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in

             file names.

2018.03.08 - GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a string

             (any piece of text and/or commands), permits customizing

             the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors

             those error messages by default in bright white on red,

             makes <Enter> at the bottom of the screen scroll just one

             row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a

             file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any

             cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor

             cannot move.  Further, it treats tabs fully the same as

             spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax

             names to be unquoted, and removes two deprecated options

             and six deprecated bindable function names.

2018.01.29 - GNU nano 2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks

             that could occur when a typed space caused the word after

             it to be pushed to the next line.  It further makes macros

             work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences,

             adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line,

             recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals,

             no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible

             whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing

             replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named

             pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects

             a needed color change when a line contains a start match

             but not a corresponding end match any more.  Plus some

             other small fry.

2018.01.02 - GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified

             state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved

             somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic

             linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows

             the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames

             the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will

             now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing

             (and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words

             to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes

             <Tab> and <Shift+Tab> indent and unindent a marked region,

             allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a

             region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting

             or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes

             the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked

             (which makes for a more intuitive behavior).

2017.11.27 - GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where, when the mark

             is on, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked

             region.  This release further clears the "Modified" flag

             when all edits are undone, adds or updates some magic

             strings, and does not forget when the cursor was last

             at line 1, column 1.

2017.11.18 - GNU nano 2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record and

             replay keystrokes (M-: to start and stop recording, M-;

             to play the macro back), makes ^Q and ^S do something

             useful by default (^Q starts a backward search, and ^S

             saves the current file), changes ^W to start always a

             forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when

             more than one) in the title bar, no longer asks to press

             Enter when there are errors in an rc file, retires the

             options '--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards',

             makes indenting and unindenting undoable, will look in

             $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file and in $XDG_DATA_HOME

             for the history files, adds a history stack for executed

             commands (^R^X), does not overwrite the position-history

             file of another nano, and fixes a score of tiny bugs.

2017.08.27 - GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are

             wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting

             more predictable by retaining relative indentations,

             allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes

             in Python to not be followed by a character, does not

             scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds

             Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and

             fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping

             and boundary-crossing tabs.  Enjoy.

2017.07.21 - GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a new feature: the ability

             to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace --

             instead of always at the edge of the screen.  This can

             be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks'

             together with the softwrap option.  This release further

             fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build

             failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc

             files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor'

             (please update your nanorc files before 2020).

2017.06.25 - GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from

             a suspension that was induced from the outside, allows

             negative line and column numbers on the command line,

             avoids some flickering when resizing the screen while

             in the file browser, opens files in the order they were

             mentioned on the command line, and does not pretend to

             have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT.

2017.05.21 - GNU nano 2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc

             man page again.

2017.05.18 - GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight

             during interactive replacing, avoids build failures on AIX

             and Solaris, fixes a crash on Solaris, speeds up backwards

             searching, improves PHP syntax highlighting, and no longer

             asks “save anyway?” when the user ^Q discards the buffer.

2017.05.04 - GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes

             the ^G help texts searchable with ^W.  Apart from that,

             it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle

             of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used

             without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing

             the screen twice when switching between buffers while

             line numbers are active, and works around a coloring

             bug on musl.  Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus

             translation updates for fifteen languages.

2017.04.12 - GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and

             on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when

             double-width characters on row boundaries are involved,

             shows double-width characters as ">" and "<" when split

             across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at

             the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half"

             of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of

             only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End

             go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that

             support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when

             linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open

             an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down

             in the file browser.  Don't sit on your hands.

2017.03.31 - GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in

             softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from

             visual row to visual row instead of jumping between

             logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to

             the start and end of a row, and only when already

             there, then to the start and end of the logical line.

             Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead

             of always per logical line.  On an entirely different

             front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build

             on more platforms.  In short: there were many internal

             changes, not many user-visible ones (apart from the

             new softwrap navigation).  The conversion to gnulib

             was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by

             David Ramsey.

2017.02.23 - GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace

             the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things

             when multiline regexes with identical start and end are

             involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,

             does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,

             no longer hides double-width characters at the head of

             softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at

             startup, and documents the ability to read a file from

             standard input.  Come tickle my ears.

2017.01.10 - GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly

             manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),

             sets the preferred x position for vertical movements

             more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in

             softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your

             system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of

             the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches.

2016.12.28 - GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:

             your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain

             newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching

             between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,

             makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a

             Linux console, is more resistant against malformations

             in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is

             typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.

             Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an

             unlocked file just after saving a new one.  That's it.

             Tastes great with thick butter.

2016.12.12 - GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature:

             the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default)

             a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in

             the current buffer.  Besides, this release fixes two bugs

             related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to

             use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on

             VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering

             during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override

             an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected

             region after an external spell check, and improves a few

             other tidbits.  If you should find any more bugs, please

             run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there.

2016.10.29 - GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the

             ability to display line numbers beside the text.  This can

             be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line,

             or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with

             M-#.  The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the

             option 'set numbercolor'.  This release furthermore fixes

             some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict

             in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer

             as modified when the output of a command (^R^X) has been

             read into it.  Come and check it out!

2016.09.01 - GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to

             be selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys.

             Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny

             terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves

             the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces.  Not much,

             but it's time to get it out there.

2016.08.10 - nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on

             a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very

             first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it

             holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits

             (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!

2016.07.28 - nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the

             keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks

             of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which

             characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered

             word-forming.  Further, it provides feedback during Unicode

             input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which

             must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the

             window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after

             having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line

             anchor (^) just once per line.  There are also several tiny

             improvements in screen rendering and key handling.  Come get

             your hair tousled!

2016.06.27 - nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but

             also adds one little feature (the ability to use negative

             numbers with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the

             bottom), includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes

             three tiny bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that

             they aren't even worth mentioning).

2016.06.17 - nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs --

             and some of them not so little.  It improves moving about

             in the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell

             checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with

             default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,

             shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor

             is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if

             there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes

             when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename

             on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,

             and allows to abort re-searches.  Among bunches of other

             things.  It is worth the trouble to upgrade.

2016.02.25 - GNU nano 2.5.3 "Alphys" is released.  This release contains

             fixes for bugs like: stray cursor positioning errors, many

             many memory leaks including during file reading, using the

             file browser, searching for multibyte characters, history

             completion, and many other places.

                 New features include the ability to trim whitespace

             from the ends of lines when justifying text, see nanorc(5)

             option justifytrim for deets.  As always thank you for your

             continued support of nano, and keep sparing.

2016.02.12 - GNU nano 2.5.2 is carrying too many dogs.  This release

             includes several fixes for various memory leaks, position-

             history size growth, and a long standing issue with using

             nano under sudo creating root-owned files.  There are also

             the usual bevy of documentation and other miscellaneous

             fixes and touchups.  Upgrade today while supplies last,

             operators are standing by!

2016.01.11 - GNU nano 2.5.1 "Salzburg" is released.  It includes fixes

             for a syntax-highlighting bug and a positionlog bug, it

             disables a time-eating multiline regex in the C syntax,

             and it adds an escape hatch to the WriteOut menu when

             --tempfile is used: the discardbuffer command, ^Q.  It

             also has translation updates for fifteen languages, and

             a small fix in the softwrap code.  So... you are heartily

             invited to upgrade.  Enjoy!

2015.12.05 - GNU nano 2.5.0 "Karma", the first release of the 2.5 series,

             is now available.  Please note that as of this release,

             there will no longer be separate stable and unstable

             branches.  The development team will prioritize bug fixes

             as needed, and make new releases in proportion to the

             severity of the bugs which are fixed.

                 This release includes all of the fixes now in 2.4.3, as

             well as color syntax highlighting improvements, undo fixes,

             and many more improvements!  Thank you for using nano!

2015.11.18 - GNU nano 2.4.3 "Apocalypse" is now available for your

             downloading pleasure.  This release includes a myriad

             of fixes including several memory leaks, issues with

             color syntax highlighting, search/replace, file insertion

             and help menu bugs.  Many thanks to Benno Schulenberg for

             tireless efforts on the vast majority of fixes for some

             time now.  As always please report bugs via the Savannah

             page, and remember to Share and Enjoy.

2015.07.05 - GNU nano 2.4.2 "Portorož" is released.  This release

             includes several fixes, including the ability to resize

             when in modes other than the main editing window, proper

             displaying of invalid UTF-8 bytes, new syntax definitions

             for Elisp, Guile, and PostgreSQL, and better display of

             shortcuts in the help viewer and file browser.  Thanks

             for your patience and using nano!

2015.04.14 - GNU nano 2.4.1 "Glitch Gremlin" is released.  This release

             includes several fixes for issues with the file browser

             menu, linter and formatter functions, spell checker,

             undo/redo with some specific marked-cutting situations,

             and some small improvements to the color syntax

             highlighting definitions.  There are also various

             documentation and code comment updates included, and

             finally, fixes for compilation on non-GNU/Linux systems

             and certain configure combinations.  Toasters!

2015.03.22 - GNU nano 2.4.0 "lizf" is released.  This is the first

             stable release in many years, and brings together many

             new features from the 2.3 series, including:

             a fully functional undo system (now enabled by default),

             vim-compatible file locking, linter support, formatter

             support, syntax highlighting flexibility, and many fixes

             for issues reported since 2.2.  Many sincere thanks

             to all of the bug reports, patches, well wishes and

             contributions from everyone who has continued to

             support us.  Thank you for using nano!

2015.02.27 - GNU nano 2.3.99pre3 "Ashley" is released.  This is likely

             to be the last release before the next major (2.4.0)

             release.  Please test it out and send us any feedback

             via Savannah (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano).

             This release includes fixes for rebinding toggles via

             nanorc, several memory alignment fixes, and documentation

             and build updates.  As always thank you for using nano -

             Share and Enjoy!

2015.02.06 - GNU nano 2.3.99pre2 "Snowblind" is released.  This release

             contains only fixes, including: a long-standing problem

             with cutting in nano-tiny, several memory alignment

             improvements, and issues with leftover file locks.  Please

             keep reporting bugs so we can get a happy and healthy

             2.4.0 soon.  Thanks for using nano!

2015.01.06 - GNU nano 2.3.99pre1 "Junior" is released.  As the first

             2.4 release candidate there will be fewer new features

             but many bugfixes going forward.  This release contains

             new support for language reformatters like Go's gofmt

             command which takes the place of the spelling checker.

             Fixes in this release include many syntax highlighting

             fixes and improvements, and documentation formatting updates.

             As always please report bugs via the Savannah bug page for

             nano (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano), so we can

             release a super awesome and bug-free 2.4.0 soon!

2014.07.17 - GNU nano 2.3.6 "Columbo" is released.  This release

             contains a fix for installing internationalization

             files.  Also included are scattered documentation

             (in particular man page) fixes, and a few touchups

             to syntax highlighting definitions.  Oh, just one

             more thing, thanks for using nano!

2014.07.11 - GNU nano 2.3.5 "lucky day" is released.  This release

             contains many visible and under-the-hood fixes for

             components such as file locking, more fixes to the

             undo system, and you no longer have to explicitly ask

             nano to have undo/redo support as it now defaults to

             being enabled.  Other notable fixes include a better

             handling of --tempfile mode, and better handling of

             command line arguments when also attempting to specify

             +<line number>.  As always, please file any bugs you

             find via https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano

             and thanks for using nano.

2014.06.02 - GNU nano 2.3.4 won't leave you high, won't leave you dry.

             This release contains only a small number of fixes, but

             in particular allows nano to compile on non-UTF-8 curses

             implementations (i.e. libncursesw).  Other small fixes to

             the undo implementation and the default syntax config are

             also included.  As always, Share and Enjoy!

2014.05.28 - GNU nano 2.3.3 is in its right place.  This release contains

             many many improvements to the core system, including

             substantial improvements to the undo/redo code, UTF-8

             handling, the configure script, and display of shortcuts

             on very wide terminals.  New features include the

             ability to write to named pipes (--noread), as well as

             linter support (see the nanorc man page for details).  Also

             included are much improved syntax highlighting code, and

             configurations for JSON, texinfo, Go, and a default syntax

             for catch-all highlighting.  Finally, nano now has the

             ability to set the color of the title bar, status bar, and

             shortcut keys (e.g. "^X") and their descriptions.  Again

             see the nanorc page for details.  There's much more, too

             much to include here, but please keep those reports and

             general feedback coming!  Thank you for helping us help

             you help us all.

2013.03.22 - GNU nano 2.3.2 "Annoy your coworkers for fun and profit" is

             released.  This release introduces vim-style file locking

             (though not backup/restore), useful when using nano in a

             multi-editor environment.  Feedback is welcome if you run

             into any issues with this new code.  Other new features

             include additional support for word boundary checking when

             cross compiling, fixes for trying to go to an invalid

             line number, and the usual documentation tweaks.

2011.05.10 - GNU nano 2.3.1 "I'm in space" is released.  This release

             includes some fixes for the new libmagic code, as well as

             a fix for improper character counts when using auto-indent.

             Also included are new syntax highlighting definitions for

             RPM spec and Lua files.  Thanks for using nano and keep

             circulating the tapes.

2011.02.26 - GNU nano 2.3.0 "Septic surprise" is released.  This first

             release in the 2.3 unstable series brings several new

             features.  First, libmagic support for syntax highlighting

             has been added on top of the existing file extension and

             header support already available.  Secondly, cursor position

             can be saved between editing sessions with the -P or --poslog

             command-line flag, or via 'set poslog' in your .nanorc.  Also

             included are some fixes for compilation with g++, and better

             handling of issues writing the backup file, which should

             reduce the need for the 'set allow_insecure_backup' nanorc

             option.  Don't stop, get it get it, don't stop, get it get it.

2010.11.22 - GNU nano 2.2.6 "Pimp my BBS" wants you to go to

             www.desertbus.org and donate a few bucks for the great

             Child's Play Charity!  This is just a small release to

             update a bug where restricted mode was not particularly

             restricted since key bindings were introduced.  It also

             signals the return of win32 builds which now feature

             nanorc support; please see the FAQ for details of how

             to enable it, this feature is a bit of a kludge for now.

             Remember that when all else fails, USE SPACE JUMP.

2010.08.05 - GNU nano 2.2.5 "Inactivity timeout" is now available.

             This release includes slightly less restrictive checking

             when writing files in strange environments (e.g. when

             being used out of crontab).  For very strange situations

             (such as where you cannot change the permissions on the

             file you're writing), there is a new rc file option

             'allow_insecure_backup' to be even more permissive and

             allow the write to proceed.  Also included are some

             syntax highlighting updates, and that is about it.

             Keep fighting the good fight children.

2010.04.15 - GNU nano 2.2.4 is nobody's fool.  First and foremost,

             this release includes some security fixes due to

             an assessment of nano's vulnerability to symlink attacks

             on open files.  The CVEs fixed with this release are

             CVE-2010-1160 and CVE-2010-1161.  Also included are fixes

             for various crash modes when using the spell checker

             on new files in multibuffer mode (surely you've used

             that combination recently? no?) as well as a fixing

             the 'file was modified' message when saving to a

             new filename (since how would nano know?).  And

             the list would not be complete without our

             third-times-the-charm fixes to page up/down due to

             the soft wrapping code.  The lone new feature

             included is a new syntax highlighting definition for

             cmake-related files.  Please do consider upgrading to

             this release if still using the 2.0 series since

             fixes for that version are still forthcoming.

2010.02.11 - GNU nano 2.2.3 "fumbling toward stability" is released.

             This release contains a fix for only one bug, but a

             rather irritating one: when paging up/down with smooth

             scrolling, the cursor position was not being preserved

             due to a bug in 2.2.2.  With such a targeted fix

             like this what could POSSIBLY go WRONG?  Hahaha.

             Enjoy and if you find new bugs, as always please

             use Savannah's bug tracker.

             http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano

2010.01.17 - GNU nano 2.2.2 is released for you, you, you.  This

             release includes fixes for: crashes when writing

             backup files in certain conditions, improper

             screen centering when moving up/down in various

             combination of smooth scrolling and soft wrapping modes,

             a search crash on the armel arch, and issues with

             lots of keybinding customizations causing crashing

             particularly on FreeBSD.  Also included are better

             help menu entries for forward/back in the file browser,

             some man page tweaks and one assert fix.   As always,

             share and enjoy!

2009.12.12 - GNU nano 2.2.1 "DLR strikes back" is open for business.

             This release fixes many bugs, including: missing

             keybindings for page up/down and GotoDir in the browser,

             ^P/^N in the help menu, and restoration of M-W as the

             default re-search binding.  Other fixes include several

             issues with compiler warnings and configure options, and

             documentation updates, including the nano texinfo manual,

             nano and nanorc man pages, and UPGRADE file, and some

             missing syntax highlighting entries for the sample nanorc.

             And no release would be complete without the latest round

             of 'final' soft wrapping fixes!  Finally, nano will no

             longer print a warning when attempting to insert the

             contents of a read-only file into an existing buffer.

             Enjoy and Happy Hanukkah.

2009.11.30 - GNU nano 2.2.0 "Doc Brown" is released!  The culmination

             of almost two years of development and hot on the heels

             of nano's 10th birthday is available for all your

             editing needs!  Bugs fixed since the last release

             include several fixes for tiny mode (involving both

             the help keys and replace menu text), more 'final'

             fixes for soft wrapping, and several typo and documentation

             updates including nanorc tweaks and a new syntax

             highlighting file for makefiles.  Also included is a long

             standing fix for random crashing when using nanorc on

             FreeBSD, and nano will no longer clear the screen on

             suspend to maintain compatibility with other *nix editors.

             For those who haven't been playing along at home, please

             see the official web page for the summary of new

             features since 2.0.  Special thanks to all who have

             submitted bug reports recently in support of our new

             stable release, and apologies for all those bugs we

             didn't yet find :-) Peace to all.

2009.11.21 - GNU nano 2.1.99pre2 is available for a special pre-Black

             Friday discount.  Included are some (hopefully final)

             fixes for issues with last page display caused by the

             soft wrapping code, and a fix for a long standing issue

             with hitting the Home key when going through the search

             history.  On the features front, nano will now attempt to

             retain the proper ownership and permissions when trying

             to create a .save file due to receiving a signal.  Nano

             can now also unbind keys from one or more menus via the

             'unbind' keyword.  Finally, passing --fill or --nowrap on

             the command line will now override any related .nanorc

             entries.  Speak now or forever hold your bugs!

2009.11.15 - GNU nano 2.1.99pre1 "take a bow" is out there, man, it's

             out there all right.  This release contains mainly

             bugfixes, underscoring that we are preparing for the

             next stable series release.  Included are many fixes

             for the new soft wrapping code, compiler warning tweaks,

             and the modification time warning no longer triggers

             when saving a file as a new name.  Also include are

             some fixes for various nanorc options, and there are

             surely more bugs to find before we call the code base

             stable, so please keep those reports coming!

2009.09.14 - GNU nano 2.1.11 is on very thin ice, very thin ice, very

             thin ice.  This release includes two new features: first,

             nano will check whether the current file is writable when

             it is opened, and warn if it is not on the status bar.

             Secondly, a new soft-wrapping (AKA full-line display)

             option is available, which will attempt to fully display

             the contents of lines longer than the width of the screen

             without the usual truncation and a '$' symbol at the end

             of the line.  It can be enabled via Meta-$ inside the

             editor, via the -$ or --softwrap command-line flags,

             or "set softwrap" in your .nanorc).  As always, please

             report any bugs to the nano Savannah project page

             (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano)

             Remember: data loss happens, back up your files.

2009.07.28 - GNU nano 2.1.10 "Ellie" is released.  This version includes

             various fixes for portability including some older HP-UX

             compiler combos, various compiler warnings, and some crash

             fixes in the undo code.  On the topic of the latter item,

             the undo code is now marked as experimental since it can

             cause severe stability and memory issues, and thus now

             requires a flag (-u, --undo) in order to enable it.

             Please feel free to continue to test the undo code and

             thanks again for using nano for your text editing needs.

             Go team Nano!

2009.02.16 - GNU nano 2.1.9 wonders what all that glass is doing on the

             floor!  This release is primarily meant as a less buggy

             version of 2.1.8, particularly for issues with the new

             sped-up syntax highlighting code.  Other fixes include

             configure-time detection of groff HTML support before

             attempting to generate the HTML version of man pages,

             and using ~ or ~username syntax in .nanorc should now

             work again.  Also, nano will now only ask for one

             acknowledgement of errors it encounters when parsing

             nanorc files, and a new flag -q (--quiet) will silence

             these messages altogether.  Give it a go, and happy

             birthday lenny!

2009.02.07 - GNU nano 2.1.8 "unsafe at any speed" is released.  This

             release include some long overdue performance

             improvements in syntax color highlighting, the ability

             to abort running searches (useful mainly when

             editing very large files) and the ability to use nano

             like a pager for viewing standard input (i.e. "nano -").

             Additionally, there are gentoo syntax highlighting

             updates and fixes for issues with reading files

             in a directory with strange parent directory permissions.

             The key bindings code was also substantially changed

             in order to be more ISO-C compatible.  Be sure to use

             the Savannah page not only for bug reports but for any

             features you would like to see before the next stable

             series is released.  Have fun with it!

2008.11.10 - GNU nano 2.1.7 "Effingham" is ready to make good on those

             campaign promises of lower bug rates and 50% more pie.

             This release includes a new check for external

             modifications when saving a file, some code and

             documentation cleanups, and more bug fixes for

             the new undo code (but we continue to welcome

             your bug reports via the Savannah bug page at

             http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano).

             Come get some.

2008.10.03 - GNU nano 2.1.6 was for new features before it was against

             them.  This release includes more undo capability,

             several new syntax highlighting configurations including

             Objective C, OCaml, and Fortran, and a new capability

             to activate highlighting based on the 1st line of the

             file being edited.  Also, the new default configure

             options now include color syntax highlighting, .nanorc

             support, multibuffer and extras.  These items can still

             be disabled and are not enabled with --enable-tiny.  Bug

             fixes include better signal handling under Cygwin, and

             that's about it.  Again please remember to

             submit bug reports via Savannah at

             http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano

             as undo functions certainly need more testing.

             Bon appetit.

2008.08.30 - GNU nano 2.1.5 is ready to lead on day one.  This release

             contains a better fix for incorrectly reported successful

             writes on full filesystems, more helpful messages when

             an internal error occurs in the undo code, and fixes for

             various combinations of configure-time options and

             compiler flags.  Also included is new support for

             changing the rc file name at configure time, and using

             GNU-style regexes for word-boundaries on systems which

             do not support them natively, as well as the ever popular

             translation updates.  Rock the tarball.

2008.08.09 - GNU nano 2.1.4 "I told you so!" is released.  This release

             includes fixes for several severe issues with the new

             undo/redo code.  Also the behavior of writing files when

             using backup mode has changed as well: if writing the

             backup file fails, nano will not attempt to write the

             current file.  This should help folks who enjoy "extreme

             text editing", i.e. editing files on file systems which

             are likely to run out of space; see Savannah bug #24000.

             Have fun with it!

2008.08.04 - GNU nano 2.1.3 "least stable version ever" is released.  This

             release includes new (and experimental) undo and redo

             functionality for most text operations.  The default

             key bindings are Meta-U for undo and Meta-E for redo, but

             these can be remapped using the new 2.1 keybinding code.

             Also included are some fixes for configuring using wide

             curses, crashing when invoking the help menu with

             certain locales, and not saving the search history when

             compiled with configure options.

2008.04.24 - GNU nano 2.1.2 "New York City" is released.  This release

             contains fixes for binding bad keys, some

             configure-specific compilation failures, and more issues

             with the new input back end and in particular the status

             bar.  Also fixed are some long standing issues with

             compiling on AIX, and a segfault when making the terminal

             window too small.  Rest in Peace Tim and George!

2008.04.01 - GNU nano 2.1.1 won't get fooled again.  This release contains

             fixes for the new user-rebindable keys (in particular

             bracket match which was mis-bound), and various

             problems with translations and configure-related

             compilation problems are now fixed as well.

             It also contains new syntax highlighting

             definitions for TCL, PHP, Gentoo and Debian-related

             files, and some documentation updates as well.

             Please continue to send reports with the key

             binding code to the Savannah page

             (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano).

2008.03.18 - GNU nano 2.1.0 "under old mismanagement" is released.

             This first release in the 2.1 development series

             introduces rebindable keys for most actions inside

             the editor.  Please see the nanorc(5) page for

             more information on configuring key bindings.  Please

             also report all keybinding bugs (crashes, missing

             menu functions) using the Savannah bug tracker URL,

             https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano and

             thanks for sticking with us!

2007.12.20 - GNU nano 2.0.7 keeps its balance.  This release fixes

             several bugs, among others: a segfault and several

             cursor positioning problems when uncutting text or

             inserting files into the current buffer; a problem where

             the total number of characters would be miscalculated

             when replacing single-byte characters with multibyte

             ones; several minor issues with the statusbar prompt

             involving text display and mouse support; and several

             oddities when tab-completing in the middle of a line.

             It also improves autodetection of DOS and Mac format

             files, properly supports the mouse wheel when using a

             version of ncurses built with the --enable-ext-mouse

             option, fixes some problems under NetBSD curses, adds a

             lot of translation updates, and adds more minor

             documentation updates.  Slang curses emulation support

             has also been changed to turn off all the options that

             --enable-tiny does, as it's hopelessly broken otherwise.

             Finally, nano is now licensed under the GNU GPL version

             3 or later, and its documentation is now dual-licensed

             under the GNU GPL version 3 or later and the GNU FDL

             version 1.2 or later.  Have fun.

2007.04.26 - GNU nano 2.0.6 "that was quick" is released.  This release

             fixes a potential segfault after justifying text marked

             from the bottom up.  It also adds one more minor

             documentation update.  Enjoy.

2007.04.22 - GNU nano 2.0.5 braces for impact.  Among other things, this

             release fixes various problems (including a segfault)

             when trying to open or save a file in a directory

             beginning with "~" that isn't a home directory; fixes a

             problem where a file with no name could be saved over an

             existing filename with no warning about overwriting it;

             properly disallows opening directories or device files

             from "include" commands in nanorc files; no longer

             displays a misleading prompt when trying to save in

             restricted mode with the mark on; and properly supports

             the Cancel and Shift-Cancel keys.  It also improves

             several color syntaxes to highlight trailing whitespace,

             just as the Java syntax does, and adds yet more minor

             documentation updates.  Have fun.

2007.04.06 - GNU nano 2.0.4 heralds the dawn.  This release contains

             proper support for the Ctrl-[arrow key], Shift-[arrow

             key], and F13-F16 keys under Xfce's Terminal.  It also

             adds still more minor documentation updates.  Enjoy.

2007.01.29 - GNU nano 2.0.3 flows toward its ending.  This release

             contains several minor optimizations to make the

             executable a little smaller under some circumstances,

             some translation updates, improvements to the color

             syntax for Python, and still more minor documentation

             updates.  Have fun.

2006.12.20 - GNU nano 2.0.2 forges ahead.  This release fixes a segfault

             when trying to save in a nonexistent directory; fixes

             handling of strings containing nulls at the "Write File",

             "Insert File", "Execute Command", and "Go to Directory"

             prompts; fixes several minor memory leaks; fixes two

             more potential compilation warnings; adds a few

             translation updates; and adds a few more minor

             documentation updates.  Enjoy.

2006.11.20 - GNU nano 2.0.1 emerges from its cocoon.  This release

             contains several bugfixes: saving one file over another

             will now always warn about overwriting it, overwriting

             a file is no longer possible when saving a new file in

             restricted mode, and zero-length Unicode characters are

             now highlighted properly when nano is built without

             regular expression support.  It also adds several minor

             documentation updates.  Have fun with it.

2006.11.06 - GNU nano 2.0.0 does its little dance.  This release adds

             documentation updates and a few cosmetic tweaks.

                 For those who haven't been following nano 1.3

             development, there are a ton of new features, including

             support for UTF-8, moving to a specified line and column

             instead of just a line, improved color syntax

             highlighting, inserting previously untypeable characters

             using "Verbatim Input" mode, and copying text into the

             cutbuffer without cutting it.  There are also fixes for

             some long-standing bugs, such as the "NumLock glitch"

             from nano 1.2.x, and the inability to unjustify text

             after resizing.  Finally, there are also a ton of

             translation updates and new translations, as well as new

             color syntaxes.  See the UPGRADE file for more

             information, and enjoy the new stable release.

2006.10.25 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre3 learns to appreciate life.  This

             release fixes a bug where the screen sometimes wouldn't

             be updated properly after copying text into the

             cutbuffer, fixes a potential warning while compiling,

             and fixes a few other minor inconsistencies.  Have fun.

2006.10.02 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre2 crosses the threshold.  This release

             fixes a few more bugs: cursor positioning after leaving

             the statusbar prompt has been fixed, and verbatim input

             at the statusbar prompt now properly handles newlines.

             Enjoy.

2006.08.29 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre1 passes through the flames.  This

             release fixes various bugs in the last version: the

             mouse support properly ignores everything except clicks

             of the left mouse button; the statusbar is now blanked

             properly when it should be; indenting and unindenting

             operate on the current line when the mark is off; nano

             should build on Tru64, NetBSD, and other systems that

             use termcap instead of terminfo in their curses

             libraries; the built-in file browser now properly

             navigates file lists that take up only one row; the

             cursor position is now completely restored after

             inserting a file into the current buffer, and after

             inserting the output of a command into a new buffer; the

             ^X shortcut at the search prompt has been removed, as

             official Pico doesn't include it and it's too easily

             confused with Exit; the screen is updated properly after

             scrolling a line without moving the cursor; the keyboard

             input routines behave more consistently; and so on.

             Have fun with it.

2006.06.26 - GNU nano 1.3.12 escapes the darkness.  This release

             contains the last new features that nano will have

             before 2.0: copying text into the cutbuffer without

             cutting it, indenting lines of marked text with a single

             keystroke, reworked help text that should be easier for

             new users, searching for filenames in the file browser,

             the ability to include color regexes in files separate

             from nanorc files, etc.  It also contains many bugfixes.

             Text can now be unjustified after justifying it and

             resizing the window; the screen is now cleared when

             suspending; the "default" color syntax is now handled

             properly at all times; lines of text containing tabs are

             now wrapped at the right place; double-column characters

             are now properly displayed when past the right edge of

             the screen; invalid multiline color regexes are now

             ignored; and so on.  Enjoy.

2006.03.30 - GNU nano 1.3.11 awakens from its fever dream.  This release

             focuses mostly on bugfixes, which include better

             handling of the cursor at the statusbar prompt, support

             for certain combinations of Shift and keypad keys in

             both normal and --rebindkeypad mode, a fix for a minor

             display problem after some searches, a real fix for a

             long-standing segfault when displaying overly long

             lines, and a real fix for nano's not hanging up properly

             in xterm under certain circumstances.  There are also

             several new features, such as the ability to set the

             characters used as brackets when searching for matching

             brackets, and tab completion of directories at the "Go

             To Directory" prompt.  Have fun.