About:
Lynx is a fully-featured WWW client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, terminal emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other character-cell display). It will display HTML documents containing links to files on the local system, as well as files on remote systems running HTTP, HTTPS, gopher, FTP, WAIS, NNTP, finger, or cso/ph/qi servers, and services accessible via logins to telnet, tn3270, or rlogin accounts.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Changes:
This is a pre-release for 2.8.6 (the same as the development release 2.8.6dev.19). There are many bugfixes, most of which focus on the wide-character support. The color-style configuration has been enhanced, allowing it to simulate the older color configuration, so packagers need not choose between the two (color-style is now the default).

Author:
T.E.Dickey [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.54/10.00 (25 votes)

Homepage:
http://lynx.isc.org/current/
Tar/GZ:
http://lynx.isc.org/current/lynx2.8.7dev.7.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://lynx.isc.org/current/lynx2.8.7dev.7.tar.bz2
Zip:
http://lynx.isc.org/current/lynx2.8.7dev.7.zip
Changelog:
http://lynx.isc.org/current/CHANGES
RPM package:
http://fr.rpmfind.net/[..]ery=lynx&submit=Search+...&system=&arch=
Debian package:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lynx-cur.html
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/www/lynx-current

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Console (Text Based) :: Curses
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		Freely Distributable, OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.8.6	11-Oct-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	2.8.7dev.7	03-Aug-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.8.7dev.7	Minor bugfixes	03-Aug-2007 12:04
2.8.7dev.5	Minor bugfixes	18-May-2007 06:47
2.8.7dev.4	Minor bugfixes	17-Nov-2006 07:58
2.8.7dev.1	Minor feature enhancements	13-Oct-2006 08:07
2.8.6pre.5	Minor bugfixes	03-Oct-2006 00:31
2.8.6pre.4	Minor feature enhancements	19-Sep-2006 02:58
2.8.6pre.3	Minor bugfixes	11-Sep-2006 05:55
2.8.6pre.2	Minor bugfixes	04-Sep-2006 00:09
2.8.6pre.1	Minor bugfixes	01-Sep-2006 06:40
2.8.6dev.14	Minor security fixes	17-Oct-2005 23:23

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New lynx-cur packages fix several vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jun 5th 2006 10:06 Debian: New lynx packages fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, May 28th 2006 13:17 Red Hat: Updated lynx package corrects a security flaw by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sat, Nov 12th 2005 10:50 Debian: New lynx packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Oct 27th 2005 04:26

Red Hat: Updated lynx package corrects a security flaw by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Oct 18th 2005 00:01 Red Hat: Updated lynx packages fix CRLF injection vulnerability by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Feb 12th 2003 13:28 Lightweight Web Browsers by Kamil Klimkiewicz , in Category Reviews Sat, Jan 18th 2003 00:00 Debian: New lynx packages fix CRLF injection by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Dec 12th 2002 22:10

 Comments

[»] One of the good ones
by Shane Mason - Aug 31st 2004 20:57:24

It is software like projects like Lynx that make open source systems so good. They are not the most popular/flashy/catchy, but rock solid in my opinion. I used to use lynx for browsing for information, it almost made modem connections useful. Now I use it because it is powerful. Good work.

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