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| Original author(s) | Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Witold Filipczyk |
| Stable release | 0.18.0 / 2024-12-26 |
| Preview release | 0.18.0rc1 / 2024-12-07 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | C,C++ |
| Operating system | Linux,DOS,Windows |
| Available in | English,Polish,Danish,French,Serbian,Hungarian,Czech,German |
| Type | Text-based web browser |
| License | GPL-2.0-only |
| Website | github |
ELinks is afreetext-based web browser forLinux,DOS, andWindowsoperating systems.
It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of theLinks Web browser, hence the E in the name.[1] Since then, the E has come to stand forEnhanced orExtended.[2] On 1 September 2004, Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over toDanish developer Jonas Fonseca, citing a lack of time and interest and a desire to spend more time coding rather than reviewing and organising releases.[3]
On 17 March 2017,OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.[4]
On 17 November 2017, ELinks was forked into another program called felinks, meaningforked elinks. On 1 December 2020, the felinks repository on GitHub was renamed to elinks, with permission from Baudiš, as the old ELinks was no longer being actively maintained.[5]
elinks is being actively maintained: preview version 0.18.0rc1 was released 7 December 2024,[6] while stable version 0.18.0 was released 25 December 2023.[7]
