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man2web 0.88 is now available for download.
New in this version:
- support for calling lynx to display the page (and follow links)
- fixed a bug that would cause a crash if apropos failed
- create certain defaults (switches and section entries) based on the distribution.

This fully fixes the vulnerability that would allow a user to read arbitrary files by either include shell escapes or a file path in the man page name. It also fixes a bug that I introduced in the 0.86 quick release that prevented any man output at all...

The fix is still incomplete, so I am removing all releases until I fix this later today.

This release fixes a security bug where a user could type something like "groff;cat</etc/passwd" and read abitrary files on the server.

It also features XHTML 1.0 compliant output.

I've created binary and source RPMS for RedHat Linux 8.0/9.

This is the initial release of man2web. It should be fairly usable, but has only been tested on a couple of platforms. Please send feedback to man2web-sections@lists.sourceforge.net .