phetch/CHANGELOG.md

v1.0.3

This release adds support for the ; and s Gopher item types, as well as the ability to play them in a media player - meaning you can now run Gopher-powered media servers! As seen here:

https://twitter.com/grufwub/status/1264296292764856320

mpv is used by default, but you can specify a custom player or disable the feature using the -m and -M flags. Info has been added to --help and the phetch manual.

Special thanks to @grufwub for the feature request and getting the code rolling!

Enjoy!

v1.0.2

This release fixes a few small but irritating bugs:

• ANSI color codes now render properly. Full technicolor support. Try it out: phetch gopher://tilde.black/1/users/genin/
• Resizing your terminal now resizes phetch automatically.
• Downloads can now be cancelled while in-progress with no funny business.
• Debug information is now properly displayed when phetch crashes.

v1.0.1

This is a small bugfix release. Thanks to @TheEnbyperor and @grufwub!

• phetch no longer panics on multibyte characters when trying to truncate Gopher content.

v1.0.0

phetch is now v1.0.0! Major thanks to @kseistrup for design, testing, and documentation, @iglosiggio for supporting GILD, @lartu for inspiration, and @antirez for re-introducing me to Gopher one year ago with his blog post, Gopher: a present for Redis.

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phetch is a terminal Gopher client designed to help you quickly navigate the gophersphere. With a snappy, text-based UI, Gopher types distinguished by color, and built-in support for secure Gopher and Tor routing, phetch is perfect for catching up on the latest from sdf.org or kicking back and enjoying some Zaibatsu.

Download a binary release below for Linux, Raspberry Pi, or macOS, or see the Installation section of the README for instructions on how to install for Arch Linux with AUR (yay phetch), macOS with homebrew (brew install xvxx/code/phetch), or how to build from source.

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I have fond memories of using telnet to connect to the local library when I was a kid, browsing their selection of books in an amber-colored, text-based interface. This was the mid-90s, so I was using some version of Windows, literally dialing into the library with Hyperterminal.

It was futuristic. And, I thought, lost in the past. But Gopher, a relic of that text-based era, lives on thanks to the work of some amazing folks, and today there are more Gopher servers than ever.

The protocol is simple, constrained, and bursting with opportunity. And while MTV may not have an active Gopher server anymore, you can easily run your own, or find a generous host like SDF or a tilde.

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phetch is my attempt to bring a little bit of that retro-nostalgia back into my terminal. Sure, I can acccess Gopher just fine using lynx or through a web proxy like Floodgap, but where's the fun in that?

To get started just install and run phetch.

It's not perfect, but I've had fun using it, and I hope you do too!

v0.9.1

This update improves the release system. The man page is now included in release downloads and installed with homebrew.

v0.9.0

This is the first release candidate for phetch v1.0.0. We will continue fixing bugs, tweaking the release system, and pruning the public Rust API, but no new features will be added until v1.0.0 is released.

Added

• Changelog is now available: gopher://phkt.io/0/code/phetch/CHANGELOG.md
• Added some basic internals documentation.
• Added --no-default-features build flag to disable Tor and TLS.

Changed

• Parsing and rendering Gophermaps got a major performance boost.
• Memory utilization has been reduced.
• Error checking has been improved throughout.
• Fixed .onion URLs when using Tor.
• phetch is now clippy compatible.
• phetch config is not loaded in tests.
• TTY checking disabled in tests.
• Fixed --no-config flag.
• Fixed crash when building without git.
• Fixed a few status line display bugs.
• Fixed a minor config parsing bug.

v0.1.13

This release fixes some longstanding display bugs and introduces Tor support to help you easily browse Gopher more anonymously.

The next release will be v0.9.0, the first release candidate for phetch v1.0. We do not anticipate adding any more large features before the 1.0 release.

Added

• phetch now supports Tor!
• phetch now supports a ~/.config/phetch/phetch.conf config file!
• Specify your own config file with --config FILE. Or disable with -C/--no-config.
• Emoji can be used as status indicators. Put emoji yes in your config file. 🧅🔐
• phetch --print URL will just print a rendered version of the page.
• phetch -p URL | cat works now. A simplified, plaintext version of the page will be rendered.
• Tor and TLS can be disabled with -O and -S, opposites of their -o and -s flags.
• On macOS, phetch is now available through Homebrew:

  brew install xvxx/code/phetch

Changed

• Wide mode (ctrl-w/w) is now session-wide, not per-page.
• Many rendering bugs fixed. Pages with UTF8 errors are now displayed.
• Sites that don't prefix their selectors with / now work.