# Offpunk History

## 2.8 - November 13th 2025
- New option "images_size" to use with "set" (idea by aelius)
- Automatically use newly created certificates in Gemini (by JMCS)
- Fix a rare crash when listing urls in a non-existant page
- ansicat: Trying to get render preformatted text correctly in HTML
- ansicat: html <code> should be inline, not a separate block like <pre>
- ansicat: <abbr> is rendered as <code>
- fix "up" not working correctly on gopher (thanks JMCS)
- gopher: implement support for item type 7 (by JMCS)
- fix out of range index on page without links (by Alexander W. Jans)
- User-agent now includes URL to avoid blocking (suggested by cks)
- Adding gemtext rendering to message/rfc822 files 
- ansicat: support for <base> in html rendering
- gopher: consider .xml files as feeds (by JMCS)
- gopher: detect image types in gopher to open them internally (by JMCS)
- "reload" now delete cached rendering, online and offline
- ansicat: remove soft-hyphens when rendering any content

## 2.7.1 - April 9th 2025 - The "2.7 was not (completely) a joke" release
See 2.7 changelog. This was "real" release ;-)
- Reverted the tutorial back to Offpunk. The name was a joke but the rest of the release is real.
- added "application/xhtml+xml" mimetype to be rendered as html
- according to html spec, <pre> content should be parsed as HTML.

## 2.7 - April 1st 2025 - XKCDpunk release
APRIL FOOL: Offpunk is now renamed to XKCDpunk. See
https://ploum.net/2025-04-01-xkcdpunk.html
- Introducing command "xkcd" to display a given xkcd comic.
- (April fool) Switching website from offpunk.net to xkcdpunk.net
- blocklist: marked x.com, twitter.com and youtube.com as blocked to save bandwith until we have a viable option to use them with offpunk. We plan to block everything but xkcd.com.
CHANGES:
- "shell" (or "!") now works even without content (so you can run it on startup)
- offpunk: improved "version" to help debugging on the mailing-list
FIXES:
- "reload" on a too large content will actually fetch it
- Consider mimetype "message/news" as "gemtext" because file is sometimes confused. (reported by JMCS)
- ignore annoying warnings for LibreSSL users (by Anna cyberTailor)
- ansicat: workaround what seems to be a BS4 bug where elements after a <br/> were ignored
- offpunk: be more explicit about how to unblock a blocked URL
- ansicat: if a file identified as html starts with "<rss ", then it is a XML, not HTML
- fix a long-standing bug where "find" could not be used in lists
- restored "wikipedia" command by using gemi.dev
- netcache now truncate path which are too long (>260 char) instead of raising an useless error

## 2.6 - February 24th 2025
FOR PACKAGERS: dependency to python-pil (or pillow) has been dropped
- NEW BEHAVIOUR: not rendered ressources (like PDF) are not opened automatically.
The user is prompted to type "open" to see the ressource. This allows the ressource
to be part of history, be bookmarked, etc…
Offpunk:
- new "--command" command-line argument to immediately launch one or multiple commands
- "add" now accepts link number as a second argument (suggested by JMCS)
- "url" now accepts link number as an argument (suggested by JMCS)
- "url" can be piped to any shell command: "url|" or "url 121|" (suggestion of Stephen)
Ansicat and rendering:
- new "preformat_wrap" option available to wrap even <pre>
- PlainText rendering has been vastly improved with wrap, margin and link detection
- fix wrong wraping in gophermap (patch by JMCS)
Opnk and opening files:
note: "opnk" will be renamed "openk" in 3.0
- "opnk" now supports following link like in "opnk $URL XX" where XX is a link number.
- "opnk" is now reading the offpunrc file to use predefined handlers
- "handler" with now automatically add "%s" at the end of the command if not present
- "handler" now supports file exension or full mimetype
Deprecation and removal:
- removed support for chafa < 1.10, as announced in 2.4. python-pil is not used anymore. 
- removed the "cat" command as it has no purpose (you can use "!cat" instead) and there was a potential crash (reported by Stephen)
- new "feed" command to replace the "view feed" (which is deprecated)

## 2.5 - January 30th 2025
- "abbrevs" has been replaced by "alias"
- "alias" now allows custom command to be aliased
- PEP8-ification by Vincent Jousse
- changing "datetime.UTC" to "datetime.timezone.utc" for retrocompatibility with python < 3.11
- checking if "grep" supports "--color=auto" to supports OpenBSD (reported by Dylan D’Silva)

## 2.4 - November 21st 2024
NEW WEBSITE: Official homepage is now https://offpunk.net (or gemini://offpunk.net). Sources are in the /tutorial/ folder and contributions are welcome.
NEW FEATURE: This release includes work by Bert Livens to add gemini client-side certificates (see "help certs"). This means you can browse gemini capsule while being identified (such as astrobotany)
- Deprecation warning if using Chafa < 1.10
- introducing the "tutorial" command (which is only a link to offpunk.net for now)
- netcache: use client-certificate when going to a url like gemini://username@site.net (by Bert Livens)
- offpunk/netcache: added the "cert" command to list and create client certificates (Bert Livens)
- "open" now accept integer as parameters to open links (suggested by Matthieu Rakotojaona)
- fix cache not being properly accessed when server redirect to same host with standard port (gemini.ucant.org)
- fix crash when expired certificate due to not_valid_after deprecation
- fix crash in netcache when a port cannot be parsed in the URL
- fix parameter "interactive=False" not being sent to gemini redirections
- fix problem with non-integer version of less (Patch by Peter Cock)
- Gopher: hide lines starting with TAB (drkhsh.at), reported by Dylan D’Silva

## 2.3 - June 29th 2024
- Wayland clipboard support through wl-clipboard (new suggested dependency)
- Xclip clipboard support (in case xsel is missing)
- offpunk/netcache: fix IPv6 as an URL (bug #40)
- ansicat: display empty files (instead of opening them with xdg-open)
- fix escape sequence warning in python 3.12 (by Étienne Mollier) (Debian #1064209)
- ansicat : fix crash when feedparser is crashing on bad RSS
- netcache: fix spartan protocol error
- opnk: fix a crash when caching returns None
- ansicat: remove the treshold argument when launching chafa (strange artifacts with new version)
- netcache: moved the certificate cache to the filesystem instead of a database (by Bert Livens)

## 2.2 - February 13th 2024
- cache folder is now configurable through $OFFPUNK_CACHE_PATH environment variable (by prx)
- offpunk: adding an URL to a list now update the view mode if url already present
- netcache: solve an infinite gemini loop with code 6X (see also bug #31)
- ansicat: added support for <video> HTML-element
- ansicat: if chafa fails to load an image, fallback to timg if available
- offpunk: add list autocompletion to "tour"
- offpunk: removed "blackbox", which has not been used nor maintained
- offpunk: "gus" was broken, it is functionnal again
- opnk/offpunk: more informative prompt in less
- ansicat: added support for HTML description elements <dt> and <dd> (by Bert Livens)
- opnk: added "--mode" command-line argument (bug #39)
- offpunk: support for "preformatted" theming (bug #38)
- opnk/netcache: added "--cache-validity" command-line argument (bug #37)
- ansicat: consider files as XML, not SVG, if they don’t have .svg extension
- offpunk: fix "view link" crashing with link to empty files

## 2.1 - December 15th 2023
- freshly updated gemtext/rss links are highlighted ("new_link" theme option)
- offpunk : new "copy title" and "copy link" function
- offpunk : new "view XX" feature where XX is a number to view information about a link
- ansicat: added "--mode" option
- redirections are now reflected in links and the cache (bug #28)
- ansicat: avoid a crash when urllib.parse.urljoin fails
- offpunk: Fix a crash when gus is called without parameters (Von Hohenheiden)
- ansicat: fixed a crash when parsing wrong hidden_url in gemini (bug #32)
- offpunk: offpunk --version doesn’t create the cache anymore (bug #27)
- ansicat: fix a crash with HTML without title (bug #33)
- netcache: gemini socket code can crash when IPv6 is disabled (mailing-list)

## 2.0 - November 16th 2023
Changes since 1.10
- IMPORTANT: Licence has been changed to AGPL for ideological reasons
- IMPORTANT: Contact adress has been changed to offpunk2 on the same domain (because of spam)
- IMPORTANT: code has been splitted into several differents files.
- IMPORTANT: migrating from flit to hatchling (patch by Jean Abou Samra)
Major features:
- New command-line tool: "netcache" 
- New command-line tool: "ansicat"
- New command-line tool: "opnk"
- "theme" command allows customization of the colours
- "--config-file" allows to start offpunk with custom config (#16)
- "view source" to view the source code of a page
- introduced the "default_protocol" options (default to gemini)
Improvments:
- Reading position is saved in less for the whole session
- Rendering is cached for the session, allowing faster browsing of a page already visited
- "redirect" supports domains starting with "*" to also block all subdomins
- "--images-mode" allow to choose at startup which images should be dowloaded (none,readable,full)
- Support for embedded multi-format rendering (such as RSS feeds with html elements)
- The cache is now automatically upgraded if needed (see .version in your cache)
- Images of html files are now downloaded with the html (slower sync but better reading experience)
- "--sync" can optionnaly take some lists as arguments, in order to make for specific sync
- initial tentative to support podcasts in RSS/Atom feeds
Other notable changes from 1.X:
- "accept_bad_ssl_certificates" now more agressive for http and really accepts them all
- Gopher-only: we don’t support naming a page after the name of the incoming link
- Gemini-only: support for client generated certificates has been removed
- "file" is now marked as a dependency (thank Guillaume Loret)

## 2.0 (beta3 - final 2.0) - Released as 2.0
Changes since beta2:
- bug #25 : makes python-requests optional again
- --disable-http had no effect: reimplemented
- introduced the "default_protocol" options (default to gemini) to enter URLs without the :// part (fixes bug #21)

## 2.0-beta2 - November 8th 2023
Changes since beta1
- IMPORTANT: migrating from flit to hatchling (patch by Jean Abou Samra)
- "--sync" can optionnaly take some lists as arguments, in order to make for specific sync
- "view source" to view the source code of a page
- initial tentative to support podcasts in RSS/Atom feeds
- new PlaintextRenderer which display .txt files without any margin/color/linebreaks
- default URL blocked list is now its own file to make contributions easier
- prompt color is now part of the theme
- improves handling of base64 images
- fixes gophermap being considered as gemtext files 
- fixes opening mailto links
- fixes existing non-html ressources marked a to_fetch even when not needed (simple and/or confusion)
- fixes a crash with RSS feeds without <link> element
- fixes a crash with data:image/svg+xml links
- fixes a bug in HTML renderer where some hX element were not closed properly
- fixes input in Gemini while online
- fixes a crash with invalid URL
- fixes a crash while parsing invalid dates in RSS
- fixes hang/crash when meeting the ";" itemtype in gopher
- attempt at hiding XMLparsedAsHTMLWarning from BS4 library
- chafa now used by default everywhere if version > 1.10
- ignoring encoding error in ansicat

## 2.0-beta1 - September 05th 2023
This is an an experimental release. Bug reports and feedbacks are welcome on the offpunk-devel list.
- WARNING: pyproject.toml has not been updated and is currently non-functional. Help needed!
- IMPORTANT: Licence has been changed to AGPL for ideological reasons
- IMPORTANT: Contact adress has been changed to offpunk2 on the same domain (because of spam)
- IMPORTANT: code has been splitted into 7 differents files. Installation/packaging should be adapted.
Major features:
- New command-line tool: "netcache"
- New command-line tool: "ansicat"
- New command-line tool: "opnk"
- "theme" command allows customization of the colours
- "--config-file" allows to start offpunk with custom config (#16)
Improvments:
- Reading position is saved for the whole session
- Rendering is cached for the session, allowing faster browsing of a page already visited
- "redirect" supports domains starting with "*" to also block all subdomins
- "--images-mode" allow to choose at startup which images should be dowloaded (none,readable,full)
- Support for multi-format rendering (such as RSS feeds with html elements)
- The cache is now automatically upgraded if needed (see .version in your cache)
Other changes from 1.X:
- Images of html files are now downloaded with the html (slower sync but better reading experience)
- URL do not default anymore to "gemini://" if not protocol are indicated. (ongoing discussion in #21)
- "accept_bad_ssl_certificates" now more agressive for http and really accepts them all
- Gopher-only: we don’t support naming a page after the name of the incoming link
- Gemini-only: support for client generated certificates has been removed
- "file" is now marked as a dependency (thank Guillaume Loret)

## 1.10 - July 31st 2023
- IMPORTANT : new optional dependency : python-chardet
- IMPORTANT : Gopher directory index filename changed from "index.txt" to "gophermap". To update the cache to the new format run the `migrate-offpunk-cache` script (Sotiris Papatheodorou)
- "set accept_bad_ssl_certificates True" now also used for Gemini expired certificates
- Add missing chardet module (Sotiris Papatheodorou)
- Fix merging dictionaries with common keys (Sotiris Papatheodorou)
- Fix Gopher requests (rewrite URL parsing code per RFC 4266)

## 1.9.2 - March 13th 2023
- Switch from setup.py to flit (Anna cybertailor Vyalkova)
- Bump requirements to python >= 3.7 (Anna cybertailor Vyalkova)

## 1.9.1 - March 8th 2023
- Fixed crash with archive without GI (thanks Étienne Mollier)

## 1.9 - March 8th 2023
This is a bug-fixing release.
- We now have a man page thanks to phoebos!
- ".." as abbreviation to "up" (by Sotiris Papatheodorou)
- Fix support for UTF-8 domains in Gemini (Maeve Sproule, fixes #5)
- Assume UTF-8 when the header answer with an unknown encoding
- Default handlers have been removed (not everybody use feh and zathura)
- Fix a crash when subscribing without GI (reported by sodimel on linuxfr)
- Fix a crash when trying to access a link without GI (Ben Winston)
- Fix a crash when rss items don’t have a title (eg: Mastodon rss)
- Fix a crash with badly formatted links in gopher ( #7 by xiu) 
- Fix a crash were some HTML content is seen a bytes instead of a string
- Fix a crash when displaying embedded CDATA html in feed. But #10 is still open.
- Fix error handling assuming that requests is installed
- Ugly fix for a rare certificate bug (fix #11)
- Improve compatibility with python prior 3.9 by replacing a dict union

## 1.8 - December 11th 2022
- Official URL is now https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/
- SECURITY: Avoid passing improperly-escaped paths to shell (fixes notabug #9) (by Maeve Sproule)
- Add support for the finger protocol (by Sotiris Papatheodorou)
- "restricted" mode has been removed because unmaintained (code cleanup)
- "set accept_bad_ssl_certificates True" allows to lower HTTPS SSL requirements (also with --assume-yes) 
- Accept "localhost" as a valid URL
- Better feedback when --sync an URL which is streaming
- Removed cgi dependency (soon deprecated)
- Fix: crash with some svg data:image (which are now ignored)
- Fix images from "full" mode not being downloaded
- Fix a crash when ls on empty page (thanks Marty Oehme)
- Fix: A variable was not initialised without python-cryptography
- Fix: "cp raw" was not accessing the temp_file correctly
- Fix: ANSI handling off arrows in readline (by Ben Winston)

## 1.7.1 - November 15th 2022
- Correcting a stupid crash in search (thanks kelbot for the report)

## 1.7 - November 15th 2022
- New "search" command which uses kennedy.gemi.dev by default.
- New "wikipedia" command, which uses vault.transjovian.org by default.
- Aliases "wen", "wfr" and "wes" for Wikipedia in English, French and Spanish.
- Autocompletion for the list/add/move commands (that’s incredibly useful!)
- If a link is found in plain text in a gopher/gemini page, it is now
  added to the list of links for that page. Useful for gopher.
- Create system lists when needed to avoid failure on clean system
- Solve a crash when parsing wrong URL (related to bug #9 )
- Solve a crash when loading webpages with empty links
- Solve a crash when trying to load a wrong URL into tour
=> gemini://ploum.be/2022-11-15-offpunk17-sourcehut.gmi

## 1.6 - October 12th 2022
- Support for base64 encoded pictures in HTML pages (opening them full screen only works offline)
- A list can be added to a tour with "tour $LIST_NAME".
- Check for timg > 1.3.2 to avoid dealing with old versions (bug reported by Valvin)
- Redirect are now honoured also when --sync (bug #15, thanks kelbot)
- RSS feeds are now automatically downloaded with a webpage (bug #14)
- Solved the bug where an invalid URL would break correspondance between url and numbers
- Considers .xml files as feed by default to avoid false-detection as SVG
- Replaced default libreddit.com redirection to teddit.net (bug #12 by kelbot)
- The "beta" option has been removed as it is not used (update your config if needed)

## 1.5 - August 4th 2022
- Removed optional dependency to ripgrep. "grep --color=auto" is good enough.
- "open url" to open current URL in a browser with xdg-open
- "redirect" now replaces "set redirects" to improve discoverability
- "redirect" now allows urls to be blocked. By default, facebook.com and google-analytics.com are blocked
- Fixed a bug when trying to download base64 image
=> gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-08-04-offpunk15.gmi

## 1.4 - April 25th 2022
- Making python-readability optional
- Removing "next" and "previous" which are quite confusing and not obvious
- Archiving now works regardless of the view you are in.
- Fixing a crash when accessing an empty html page
- Not trying to display non-image files to avoid errors. (this requires "file")

## 1.3 - April 2th 2022
- Removed dependency to python-magic. File is now used directly (and should be on every system).
- Removed dependency to python-editor. If no $VISUAL or $EDITOR, please use "set editor" in Offpunk.
- Images are now downloaded before displaying an HTML page (can be disabled with "set download_images_first False")
- Introduced "set redirects" which redirects twitter,youtube,medium,reddit to alternative frontends.
- New behaviour for "find" (or "/") which is to grep through current page (ripgrep used if detected)
- Default width set to 80 as many gopherholes and gemini capsules have it hardcoded
- Streaming URL without valid content-length are now closed after 5Mo of download (thanks to Eoin Carney for reporting the issue)
- Gif animations are now displayed once when viewed (instead of a still frame).
- Restored some AV-98 certificate validation code that was lost I don’t know how.
- Improved clarity of dependencies in "version"
- Fixed a crash when the cache is already a dir inside a dir.
- Fixed a crash when manually entering an unknown gopher URL while offline
- Fixed an error with older less version
- Fixed bookmarks not being automatically created at first "add"
- Call to shell commands has been refactorised to improve compatibility with python 3.6 (with testing from Pelle Nilsson)
- requirements.txt has been contributed by Toby Kurien. Thanks!
=> gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-04-02-offpunk13.gmi

## 1.2 - March 24th 2022
Very experimental release:
- Completely rewritten the HMTL, Gemtext and Gopher renderer. Tests needed!
- Removed dependancy to ansiwrap. We don’t use it anymore (which is an important achievement)
- Lists are now accessed via the protocol "list://".
- "view full" can now be bookmarked/synchronized as a separate entity.
- "view normal" introduced to get back to the normal view.
Small improvements:
- Limit width of --sync output
- Solved list names becoming very long in the history
- Fixed a crash when trying to save a folder
=> gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-03-24-ansi_html.gmi

## 1.1 - March 18th 2022
- Perfect rendering of pictures with chafa 1.8+ and compatible terminal (Kitty)
- timg is supported as an alternative to chafa (with a little glitch)
- "cp cache" put the path of the cached content in clipboard
- "cp url X" will copy the URL of link X (suggested by Eoin Carney)
- "fold" has been removed as it doesn’t work well and can be replaced with "!fold".
- Improved clipboard URL detection an fixed crash when binary in clipboard
- HTML: renderering of <pre> has been improved
- HTML: links in titles were previously missed
- Fixed crash when chafa is not installed (Thanks Xavier Hinault for the report)
- Fixed crash when python-readability not installed (Thanks Nic for the report)
- Fixed some gif not being displayed
- Fixed some URL being wronlgy interpreted as IPv6

## 1.0 - March 14th 2022
- Default width is now the standard 72
- Content and pictures now centered for more elegant reading
- "less" has been renamed "view"
- "view feed" and "view feeds" to see the first/all feeds on a HTML page
- "view full" has been improved by dropping inline CSS and JS.
- "up" can now take integer as argument to go up multiple steps.
- Fixed a crash when accessing links in list (thanks Matthieu Talbot for the report)
- Fixed a crash in "info" due to a typo in a variable name rarely accessed.
- Removed dependancy to python-xdg by implementing the logic (which saved lines of code!)
- python-pil is only needed if chafa < 1.10
=> gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-03-14-offpunk_and_cyberpunk.gmi

## 0.9 - March 05th 2022
- Initial Spartan protocol support
- Http links with content above 20Mo are not downloaded during sync (except when explicitely requested)
- Improving subscriptions with more feedback and better detection
- Avoid deprecated SSL methods (thanks Phoebos for the report)
- Links in to_fetch are fetched, no matter the cache
- Fixed multiple crashes
=> gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-03-05-offpunk09.gmi

## 0.4 - Feb 21st 2022
UPGRADE: Users who subscribed to pages before 0.4 should run once the command "list subscribe subscribed". Without that, the subscribed list will be seen as a normal list by sync.
- New list command : "list freeze" and "list suscribe"
- Pictures are now displayed directely in terminal (suggested by kelbot)
- "open" command to open current page/image/file with external handler.
- "set width XX" now works to set the max width. If smaller, terminal width is used (thanks kelbot for reporting the bug)
- RSS feeds are now rendered as Gemlogs to improve consistency while browsing
- "subscribe" will detect feeds in html pages if any
- "less" will restore previous position in a page (requires less 572+)
- Improved syncing performances and multiple bug/crash fixes.
- "version" will now display info about your system installation
- "info" command will display technical information about current page
- "sync" allows you to do the sync from within Offpunk
=> gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-02-21-offpunk04.gmi

## 0.3 - Feb 11th 2022
New Features:
- Gopher supported natively (early version, might have many bugs)
- support for RSS and Atom feed (you can subscribe to them)
- "less full" allows to see the full html page instead of only the article view
 	(also works with feeds to see descriptions of each post instead of a simple list)
- Option --depth to customize your sync. Be warned, more than 1 is crazy.
- Option --disable-http to allows deep syncing of gemini-only ressources
- Vastly improved HTML rendering with support for images (you need the binary "chafa" on your system)
Other Small Improvements:
- Disabled https_everywhere by default (caching problems and some websites not supporting it)
- Modified --sync logic to make it more intuitive (thanks Bjorn Westergard)
- Caching more problems to avoid refetch
- Offpunk has now an User-Agent when http browsing to avoid being blocked as a bot
- Changed XDG logic to improve compatibility (thanks Klaus Alexander)
=> gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-02-11-offpunk03.gmi

## 0.2 - Jan 31st 2022
- config directories have been moved to follow the XDG specifications
- support for http, https and mailto links (https_everywhere is enabled by default, see "set" command)
- support for HTML pages, rendered as articles
- Mutiple bookmarks lists and management of them through commands list, add, archive, move
- Subscriptions have been moved to a separate list with the subscribe command
- History is persistent and saved to disk
- Copy command allows to copy content or url into buffer
- Search as been renamed find, in the hope of implementing a real search in the future
- --fetch-later allows to mark a content to be fetched from other software.
- --assume-yes allows to choose the default answer to certificates warnings during --sync.
=> gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-01-31-offpunk02.gmi Announcing Offpunk 0.2

## 0.1 - Jan 3rd 2022
- initial release as an independant software from AV-98 (thanks solderpunk)
- Including contributions published by Bjorn on Notabug (thanks ew0k)
- less used by default for all content with custom options
- online/offline mode
- content is cached for offline use
- bookmarks are cached and subscribed through the --sync option
- tour is persistent and saved to disk
- reload while offline mark the content to be fetched during next --sync
=> gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-01-03-offpunk.gmi Announce of Offpunk 0.1