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On 17 March 2017, [[OpenBSD]] removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.<ref name=”openbsd”>{{cite web |last1=Barrett |first1=Edd |date=2017-03-17 |title=Remove www/elinks from the ports tree. |url=https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=148977271815658&w=2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022101933/https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=148977271815658&w=2 |archive-date=2021-10-22 |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=[[MARC (archive)|MARC]]}}</ref>

On 17 March 2017, [[OpenBSD]] removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.<ref name=”openbsd”>{{cite web |last1=Barrett |first1=Edd |date=2017-03-17 |title=Remove www/elinks from the ports tree. |url=https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=148977271815658&w=2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022101933/https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=148977271815658&w=2 |archive-date=2021-10-22 |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=[[MARC (archive)|MARC]]}}</ref>

On {{Date|2017-11-17}}, ELinks was forked into another program named felinks, meaning ”forked elinks”. On {{Date|2020-12-01}}, the felinks repository on GitHub was renamed to elinks, with permission from Baudiš, as the old ELinks was not being actively maintained.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Filipczyk |first1=Witold |date=2017-11-11 |title=rkd77/elinks: Fork of elinks |url=https://github.com/rkd77/elinks |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213122418/https://github.com/rkd77/elinks |archive-date=2020-12-13 |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=[[GitHub]]}}</ref>

On {{Date|2017-11-17}}, ELinks was forked into another program named felinks, meaning ”forked elinks”. On {{Date|2020-12-01}}, the felinks repository on GitHub was renamed to elinks, with permission from Baudiš, as the old ELinks was not being actively maintained.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Filipczyk |first1=Witold |date=2017-11-11 |title=rkd77/elinks: Fork of elinks |url=https://github.com/rkd77/elinks |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213122418/https://github.com/rkd77/elinks |archive-date=2020-12-13 |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=[[GitHub]]}}</ref>

elinks is being actively maintained: preview version 0.18.0rc1 was released {{Date|2024-12-07}},<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Filipczyk |first1=Witold |date=2024-12-07 |title=Release v0.18.0rc1 · rkd77/elinks |url=https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/releases/tag/v0.18.0rc1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250220184504/https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/releases/tag/v0.18.0rc1 |archive-date=2025-02-20 |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=[[GitHub]]}}</ref> while stable version 0.18.0 was released {{Date|2024-12-25}}.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Filipczyk |first1=Witold |date=2024-12-26 |title=Release v0.18.0: rkd77/elinks |url=https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/releases/tag/v0.18.0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250211081227/https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/releases/tag/v0.18.0 |archive-date=2025-02-11 |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=[[GitHub]]}}</ref>

elinks is being actively maintained: preview version 0.18.0rc1 was released {{Date|2024-12-07}},<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Filipczyk |first1=Witold |date=2024-12-07 |title=Release v0.18.0rc1 · rkd77/elinks |url=https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/releases/tag/v0.18.0rc1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250220184504/https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/releases/tag/v0.18.0rc1 |archive-date=2025-02-20 |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=[[GitHub]]}}</ref> while stable version 0.18.0 was released {{Date|2024-12-25}}.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Filipczyk |first1=Witold |date=2024-12-26 |title=Release v0.18.0: rkd77/elinks |url=https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/releases/tag/v0.18.0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250211081227/https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/releases/tag/v0.18.0 |archive-date=2025-02-11 |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=[[GitHub]]}}</ref>

Text-based web browser

ELinks
Original authors Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca
Developer Witold Filipczyk
Initial release March 2, 2002; 23 years ago (2002-03-02)
Stable release

0.18.0
/ December 26, 2024; 10 months ago (2024-12-26)
Preview release

0.18.0rc1
/ December 7, 2024; 11 months ago (2024-12-07)
Repository github.com/rkd77/elinks
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.com/rkd77/elinks

ELinks is a text-based web browser for the operating systems DOS, Linux, and Windows. It is free and open-source software with a GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 only.

It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name.[1] Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended.[2] On 1 September 2004, Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to Danish 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 named felinks, meaning forked elinks. On 1 December 2020, the felinks 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]

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