| ELinks | |
|---|---|
 An older version of this article rendered in ELinks | |
| Original authors | Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca |
| Developer | Witold Filipczyk |
| Initial release | March 2, 2002; 23 years ago (2002-03-02) |
| Stable release | 0.19.0 / December 25, 2025; 46 days ago (2025-12-25) |
| Preview release | 0.19.0rc1 / December 6, 2025; 2 months ago (2025-12-06) |
| Written in | C,C++ |
| Operating system | DOS,Linux,Windows |
| Available in | English,Polish,Danish,French,Serbian,Hungarian,Czech,German, |
| Type | Text-based web browser |
| License | GPL 2.0 only |
| Website | github |
| Repository | github |
ELinks is atext-based web browser for theoperating systemsDOS,Linux, andWindows. It isfree and open-source software with aGNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 only.
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 namedfelinks, meaningforked elinks. On 1 December 2020, thefelinks repository on GitHub was renamed to elinks, with permission from Baudiš, as the old ELinks was not 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 2024.[7]
