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| Name: less | Distribution: openSUSE Tumbleweed |
| Version: 676 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: 2.1 | Build date: Sun May 25 08:23:18 2025 |
| Group: Productivity/Text/Utilities | Build host: reproducible |
| Size: 385603 | Source RPM: less-676-2.1.src.rpm |
| Packager: https://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Url: https://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ | |
| Summary: Text File Browser and Pager Similar to more | |
less is a text file browser and pager similar to more. It allows backward as well as forward movement within a file. Also, less does not have to read the entire input file before starting. It is possible to start an editor at any time from within less.
BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-3.0-or-later
* Sun May 25 2025 munix9@googlemail.com
- Extend detection and preview for "Java archive data" (eg. .jar),
"Android package" (eg. .apk) and "ASCII cpio archive"
(eg. .obscpio) in lessopen.sh
- Fix rpm preprocessing: Remove escaped quotes from $TMPF_pre in
lessopen.sh
* Fri Apr 25 2025 Matej Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>
- Update to 676
* Treat -r in LESS environment variable as -R.
* Add ESC-j and ESC-k commands (github #560).
* Add --no-paste option (github #523).
* Add --no-edit-warn option (github #513).
* Add --form-feed option (github #496).
* Add ESC-b command (github #615).
* Make TAB complete option name in -- command (github #531).
* Update the file size on an attempt to go past end of file.
* Make -R able to pass through any OSC escape sequences, not
just OSC 8 (github #504).
* Setting LESS_IS_MORE=0 now disables "more" compatibility even
if invoked via a file link named "more" (github #500).
* Pass through escape sequences in prompts even if -R is not
set.
* Add LESS_SHELL_LINES to support shell prompts which use more
than one line (github #514).
* Add LESSANSIOSCALLOW to define OSC types which may be passed
through.
* Add LESSANSIOSCCHARS to define non-standard OSC intro chars.
* Add LESS_SIGUSR1 to define user signal handler (github #582).
* Add mouse and mouse6 commands to lesskey (github #569).
* Improve behavior of ^O^N and ^O^P commands.
* Fix unexpected behavior when entering a partial command
followed by a valid command (github #543).
* Fix bug when coloring prompt string with SGR sequences
(github #516).
* Fix bug when searching for text near an invalid UTF-8
sequence (github #542).
* Fix display bug when file contains ESC followed by NUL
(github #550).
* Fix bug when using +:n +:p +:x or +:d on the command line
(github #552).
* Fix bug with --no-number-headers when header is not at start
of file (github #566).
* Fix bug where lesstest fails if window is resized (github
[#570]).
* Fix bug using "configure --with-secure=no" (github #584).
* Fix bug using multibyte command chars (github #595).
* Fix auto_wrap setting on Windows (github #497).
* Fix two bugs using ^S search modifier (github #605).
* Fix bug searching for UTF-8 strings with the PCRE2 library
(github #610).
* Fix bug highlighting OSC 8 links when opening a new file.
- Remove upstreamed reproducible.patch
* Sun Dec 15 2024 Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
- Update to 668
* Fix crash when using --header on command line
* Fix possible crash when scrolling left/right or toggling -S
* Fix bug when using #stop in a lesskey file
* Fix bug when using --shift or --match-shift on command line with a parameter starting with '.'
* Fix bug in R command when file size changes
* Fix bug using --header when file does not fill screen
* Fix ^X bug when output is not a terminal
* Fix bug where ^Z is not handled immediately
* Fix bug where first byte from a LESSOPEN filter is deleted if it is greater than 0x7F
* Fix uninitialized variable in edit_ifile
* Fix incorrect handling of UTF-8 chars in prompts
- Add reproducible.patch to override build date (boo#1047218)
* Mon Oct 21 2024 Antonio Feijoo <antonio.feijoo@suse.com>
- Change preprocessor dependencies from Requires to Recommends. It's disabled by
default and they are not necessary for less.
* Fri Jul 12 2024 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- Update to 661:
* fix crash - buffer overflow by one in fexpand
* fix free(): double free detected in tcache 2
* fix segmentation fault on line-num-width & -N
* Mon May 27 2024 Danilo Spinella <danilo.spinella@suse.com>
- Update to 656:
* Add ^O^N, ^O^P, ^O^L and ^O^O commands and mouse clicks (with --mouse) to find and open OSC8 hyperlinks (github #251).
* Add --match-shift option.
* Add --lesskey-content option (github #447).
* Add LESSKEY_CONTENT environment variable (github #447).
* Add --no-search-header-lines and --no-search-header-columns options (github #397).
* Add ctrl-L search modifier (github #367).
* A ctrl-P at the start of a shell command suppresses the "done" message (github #462).
* Add attribute characters ('*', '~', '_', '&') to --color parameter (github #471).
* Allow expansion of environment variables in lesskey files.
* Add LESSSECURE_ALLOW environment variable (github #449).
* Add LESS_UNSUPPORT environment variable.
* Add line number parameter to --header option (github #436).
* Mouse right-click jumps to position marked by left-click (github #390).
* Ensure that the target line is not obscured by a header line set by --header (github #444).
* Change default character set to "utf-8", except remains "dos" on MS-DOS.
* Add message when search with ^W wraps (github #459).
* UCRT builds on Windows 10 and later now support Unicode file names (github #438).
* Improve behavior of interrupt while reading non-terminated pipe (github #414).
* Improve parsing of -j, -x and -# options (github #393).
* Support files larger than 4GB on Windows (github #417).
* Support entry of Unicode chars larger than U+FFFF on Windows (github #391).
* Improve colors of bold, underline and standout text on Windows.
* Allow --rscroll to accept non-ASCII characters (github #483).
* Allow the parameter to certain options to be terminated with a space (--color, --quotes, --rscroll, --search-options and --intr) (github #495).
* Fix bug where # substitution failed after viewing help (github #420).
* Fix crash if files are deleted while less is viewing them (github #404).
* Workaround unreliable ReadConsoleInputW behavior on Windows with non-ASCII input.
* Fix -J display when searching for non-ASCII characters (github #422).
* Don't filter header lines via the & command (github #423).
* Fix bug when horizontally shifting long lines (github #425).
* Add -x and -D options to lesstest, to make it easier to diagnose a failed lesstest run.
* Fix bug searching long lines with --incsearch and -S (github #428).
* Fix bug that made ESC-} fail if top line on screen was empty (github #429).
* Fix bug with --mouse on Windows when used with pipes (github #440).
* Fix bug in --+OPTION command line syntax.
* Fix display bug when using -w with an empty line with a CR/LF line ending (github #474).
* When substituting '#' or '%' with a filename, quote the filename if it contains a space (github #480).
* Fix wrong sleep time when system has usleep but not nanosleep (github #489).
* Fix bug when file name contains a newline (CVE-2024-32487, bsc#1222849).
* Fix bug when file name contains nonprintable characters (github #503).
* Fix DJGPP build (github #497).
* Update Unicode tables.
- Refresh less-429-shell.patch
* Thu Nov 09 2023 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- add zstd support to lessopen
* Mon Aug 14 2023 Paolo Stivanin <info@paolostivanin.com>
- Update to 643:
* Fix problem when a program piping into less reads from the tty,
like sudo asking for password (github #368).
* Fix search modifier ^E after ^W.
* Fix bug using negated (^N) search (github #374).
* Fix bug setting colors with -D on Windows build (github #386).
* Fix reading special chars like PageDown on Windows (github #378).
* Fix mouse wheel scrolling on Windows (github #379).
* Fix erroneous EOF when terminal window size changes (github #372).
* Fix compile error with some definitions of ECHONL (github #395).
* Fix crash on Windows when writing logfile (github #405).
* Fix regression in exit code when stdin is /dev/null and
output is a file (github #373).
* Add lesstest test suite to production release (github #344).
* Change lesstest output to conform with
automake Simple Test Format (github #399).
* Thu May 04 2023 Kristyna Streitova <kstreitova@suse.com>
- Update to 633
* This release fixes a build problem found in less-632 on systems
which have termcap.h in a subdirectory (ncurses/termcap.h or
ncursesw/termcap.h). There is no functional difference between
less-632 and less-633
* Tue May 02 2023 Kristyna Streitova <kstreitova@suse.com>
- Update to 632 (differences between 608 and 632)
* Add LESSUTFCHARDEF environment variable (github #275).
* Add # command (github #330).
* Add ^S search modifier (github #196).
* Add --wordwrap option (github #113).
* Add --no-vbell option (github #304).
* Add --no-search-headers option (github #44).
* Add --modelines option (github #89).
* Add --intr option (github #224).
* Add --proc-backspace, --proc-tab and --proc-return options (github #335).
* Add --show-preproc-errors option (github #258).
* Add LESS_LINES and LESS_COLUMNS environment variables (github #84).
* Add LESS_DATA_DELAY environment variable (github #337).
* Allow empty "lines" field in --header option.
* Update Unicode tables.
* Improve ability of ^X to interrupt F command (github #49).
* Status column (-J) shows off-screen matches.
* Parenthesized sub-patterns in searches are colored with unique colors, if supported by the regular expression library (github #196).
* Don't allow opening a tty as file input unless -f is set (github #309).
* Don't require newline input after +&... option (github #339).
* Fix incorrect handling of some Private Use Unicode characters.
* Fix ANSI color bug when overstriking with colored chars (github #276).
* Fix compiler const warning (github #279).
* Fix signal race in iread (github #280).
* Fix reading procfs files on Linux (github #282).
* Fix --ignore-case with ctrl-R (no regex) search (github #300).
* Fix bug doing repeat search after setting & filter (github #299).
* Fix bug doing repeat search before non-repeat search.
* Fix crash with -R and certain line lengths (github #338).
* Fix input of Windows dead keys (github #352).
* Don't retain search options from a cancelled search (github #302).
* Don't call realpath on fake filenames like "-" (github #289).
* Implement lesstest test suite.
* Convert function parameter definitions from K&R to C89 (github #316).
- Drop patch cve-2022-46663.patch (merged).
* Tue Feb 07 2023 Peter Simons <psimons@suse.com>
- Apply "cve-2022-46663.patch" to fix a vulnerability in less that
could be exploited for denial-of-service attacks or even remote
code execution by printing specially crafted escape sequences to
the terminal. [CVE-2022-46663, bsc#1207815]
- Refreshed all other patches with quilt to an uniform -p1 patch
style, which allows us to use %autosetup and simplify the spec
file a bit.
* Wed Sep 14 2022 Danilo Spinella <danilo.spinella@suse.com>
- Update to 608:
* Add the --header option (github #43).
* Add the --no-number-headers option (github #178).
* Add the --status-line option.
* Add the --redraw-on-quit option (github #36).
* Add the --search-options option (github #213).
* Add the --exit-follow-on-close option (github #244).
* Add 'H' color type to set color of header lines.
* Add #version conditional to lesskey.
* Add += syntax to variable section in lesskey files.
* Allow option name in -- command to end with '=' in addition to '\n'.
* Add $HOME/.config to possible locations of lesskey file (github #153).
* Add $XDG_STATE_HOME and $HOME/.local/state to possible locations
of history file (github #223).
* Don't read or write history file in secure mode (github #201).
* Fix display of multibyte and double-width chars in prompt.
* Fix ESC-BACKSPACE command when BACKSPACE key does not send 0x08
(github #188).
* Add more \k codes to lesskey format.
* Fix bug when empty file is modified while viewing it.
* Fix bug when parsing a malformed lesskey file (githb #234).
* Fix bug scrolling history when --incsearch is set (github #214).
* Fix buffer overflow when invoking lessecho with more than 63 -m/-n
options (github #198).
* Fix buffer overflow in bin_file (github #271).
* Fix bug restoring color at end of highlighted text.
* Fix bug in parsing lesskey file.
* Defer moving cursor to lower left in some more cases.
* Suppress TAB filename expansion in some cases where it doesn't make sense.
* Fix termlib detection when compiler doesn't accept
calls to undeclared functions.
* Escape filenames when invoking LESSCLOSE.
* Fix bug using multibyte UTF-8 char in search string
with --incsearch (github #273).
* Tue Aug 16 2022 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
- Which need one /usr/bin/which, not the package which
/usr/bin/less /usr/bin/lessclose.sh /usr/bin/lessecho /usr/bin/lesskey /usr/bin/lessopen.sh /usr/etc/lesskey /usr/etc/lesskey.bin /usr/share/doc/packages/less /usr/share/doc/packages/less/NEWS /usr/share/doc/packages/less/README.SUSE /usr/share/licenses/less /usr/share/licenses/less/COPYING /usr/share/licenses/less/LICENSE /usr/share/man/man1/less.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/lessecho.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/lesskey.1.gz
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