News

GSoC projects selected 22 Apr 2008
The student projects that will be carried out this summer have been announced. See our GSoC page for details.
NetSurf 1.2 released 22 Mar 2008
The second update to NetSurf 1 has been released. It offers several bug fixes over the previous release and we recommend that users upgrade.
Google Summer of Code 17 Mar 2008
NetSurf is participating in Google Summer of Code 2008, as a mentoring organisation. Students interested in getting involved should apply to Google. More information on our GSoC page.
Summary of recent development 02 Mar 2008
Pages are now periodically reflowed as images are downloaded. Handling of presentational markup is improved. Better form element handling and many other fixes and improvements.
Summary of recent development 03 Feb 2008
NetSurf's cookie and HTTP redirect support have been enhanced. Layout upgrades, including better form element display and float positioning. SVG redraw is now faster on RISC OS.
NetSurf web site redesigned 02 Jan 2008
We've redesigned the web site to make it easier to navigate. Much of the content has been rewritten to make it clear that NetSurf is a multi-platform web browser.
Summary of recent development 02 Jan 2008
Recent work on the development branch of NetSurf has added SVG support to the GTK build and the beginnings of SVG Tiny support to the RISC OS version. Other changes have included refinements to the web page scaling facilities.
NetSurf 1.1 released 13 Aug 2007
The first update to NetSurf 1 has been released. It offers several bug fixes over the previous release and we recommend that users upgrade.
NetSurf in Debian testing 03 Jun 2007
NetSurf is now packaged in Debian linux. Currently it is in Debian testing.
NetSurf 1.0 released 19 May 2007
The first stable release of NetSurf is now available. The NetSurf project was first started in 2003 and development builds have been available from the project web site since then.
Media watch 04 Dec 2006
An article at The Iconbar reviews recent developments and discusses future plans for the project.
Moved to subversion 09 Apr 2006
We have migrated to Subversion, a more powerful and advanced versioning system than CVS.
The road to 1.0 25 Mar 2006
Our plans for version 1.0 for the RISC OS and GTK builds.
Experimental GTK port 22 Jun 2004
A new GTK front end has been checked in. It allows NetSurf to be tested on Uinx-like systems.
Sourceforge project registered 19 Apr 2002
After an online discussion about the deficiencies of existing web browser on the RISC OS plaform, the NetSurf web browser project has been started.