It seems that the owner of the domain dillo[.]org changed on 10th of October 2022 and no more belongs to the Dillo upstream developers. It still worked on 6th of October: https://web.archive.org/web/20221006082222/https://www.dillo.org/ Also the project leader only used an @dillo[.]org e-mail address, so there seems no easy way to contact him. (There are a few other upstream developers with e.g. GMX addresses who might still be reachable.) This unfortunately means that the upstream project has fallen asleep even more than before — despite there still was some demand for the project as could be seen by several requests for making a new release on the mailing list the past few years. (This bug report is to track the domain loss on the one hand, but also in the long run to me maybe remove Dillo from Debian.)
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: Someone from the orbit of Bunsenlab Linux reminded me that there is a fork named DilloNG at https://github.com/w00fpack/dilloNG/ Bunsenlab seems to have based their Dillo package on Debian's plus that repo as upstream version. So maybe we should do that, too. They actually even made a 3.1X (tag name) / 3.1.0 (versions in file name) release about 11 months ago. I just looked through all additional commits seemingly not coming from the original Dillo developers. They so far looked sane although some might be a matter of taste or need to be reverted for data privacy reasons, like preferring Google over DuckDuckGo as default search engine which from my point of view is inacceptable. Regards, Axel
Hi, another BunsenLabs developer here. I can confirm that the source at https://github.com/w00fpack/dilloNG/ ( I used the latest commit 2804e6e ) will build successfully on Debian Bullseye using the standard Debian tools. Only a few changes were needed to the debian packaging you provide at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dillo/-/tree/master/debian *) Edit the patches to match the current files (fix-OpenSSL-1.1-detection.patch is now unnecessary). *) Edit debian/docs to deal with files now in devdocs/ *) Add libmbedtls-dev to the Build-Depends. FWIW, our repository: https://github.com/BunsenLabs/dilloNG As to dillo's future, the disappearance of the original project is worrying indeed, though now TLS has been upgraded it is still quite useful: *) On old 32 bit machines it's dramatically faster than the competing "lightweight" browsers, and the complete lack of javascript should give it a security advantage, especially considering the less-used browsers get infrequent security upgrades. *) It's handy as a fast html file viewer, and even for browsing /usr/share/docs where it opens any file with a click.
Hi, I've been maintaining Dillo for some months to get the 3.1.0 release ready, so it can include some of the changes since 3.0.5 was released back in 2015. I'm trying to stick to the original goal, which is to keep the browser as simple as posible and support a wide range of systems. I have created a new website for it, which contains the old website files too: https://dillo-browser.github.io/ I explained what happened to the dillo dot org domain in a post, with a bit of background to understand why it happened: https://dillo-browser.github.io/dillo.org.html There have been no replies from Jorge, the lead developer of Dillo since 2019. I have also contacted several developers via alternative emails from the commit logs and some of them replied and they have helped me to get a backup from the original server for the mailing list archives and the website. The mailing list is now at <dillo-dev@mailman3.com> and we keep the old and new archives here: https://lists.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/dillo-dev.mailman3.com/ We have made the 3.1.0-rc1 release candidate while we perform the final tests before the stable 3.1.0 is release. Please check the release notes: https://dillo-browser.github.io/latest.html While we build Dillo on Ubuntu and other systems on the GitHub CI, I would expect it to work without problems on Debian, but it would be nice to get it packaged and tested on a physical system. If you want to see the details, check the issues/PR or the commit log: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/milestone/1?closed=1 https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/commits/master/ Dillo now allows building TLS support from OpenSSL 3, OpenSSL 1.1, Mbed TLS 2, Mbed TLS 3 or LibreSSL. By default, it searches first for OpenSSL. Some of the bugs from your tracker have been fixed, others need a bit more time. For this release, we are mostly fixing bugs. New features from other forks like DilloNG may be introduced later. Thank you for keeping it on the repositories for all these years, hopefully we can get a new version soon. Best regards, Rodrigo.
Hi, Dillo 3.1.0 has been released a few days ago: https://dillo-browser.github.io/latest.html On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40260035 Now it supports OpenSSL 1.1 and 3, as well as LibreSSL and Mbed TLS 2 and 3. The flag --enable-ssl has been renamed to --enable-tls and is set by default so is no longer needed, and the following patches shouldn't be needed anymore: - fix-OpenSSL-1.1-detection.patch - fix-duckduckgo-shortcut-in-dillorc.patch - fix-FTBFS-with-gcc-10.patch I assume these are Debian specific: - fix-perl-shebang.patch - move-helper-tools-to-libexec.patch We also install the .desktop file with the Dillo icons from upstream. For reference, here are the changes in Arch Linux package: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/dillo/-/commit/ee5f62bb0ce230fe0538359c829fdbb8b7dced3d And Fedora: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dillo/c/25c8726b48a75aadd51214d29e34f9ea6935e1e8?branch=rawhide Thanks, Rodrigo.
Hi Axel, Yesterday, I have released Dillo 3.1.1 which includes some bug fixes, see the release notes here: https://dillo-browser.github.io/release/3.1.1/ The previous 3.1.0 release has been included in most major repositories and 3.1.1 is being updated quickly: https://repology.org/project/dillo/history I'm no very familiar with Debian packages, but I can try to prepare one for 3.1.1 if you are open to it. I saw that you were also on the old mailing list which is now hosted in mailman3.com, in case you want to take a look and maybe join again: https://lists.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/dillo-dev.mailman3.com/ Best, Rodrigo.
Hi, After talking with #debian-devel on IRC about updating Dillo, I was encouraged to mail this bug again to make a public record, so here it is. The 3.2.0 version was released on 2025-01-18, here are the release notes: https://dillo-browser.github.io/release/3.2.0/ I also gave a talk at FOSDEM about the resurrection process and the new features from the last releases as well as a live demo on an old computer, in case you are interested: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4100-resurrecting-the-minimalistic-dillo-web-browser/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFJp8JDg8Yg Best, Rodrigo.
As i run into an issue not be able to open certain sites (e.g. grml.org) because of SNI i tried my luck to update the package. https://salsa.debian.org/cb/dillo/-/commit/26239bc6034d29a0036f855dbc62bd4aa311db2f With that i could successfully import and build the last release with gbp. @Axel Maybe you could spare some time to update the package with whatever looks reasonable to you.
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dillo, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:12:31 -0400
Source: dillo
Architecture: source
Version: 3.3.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Nikolas Nyby <nikolas@gnu.org>
Changed-By: Nikolas Nyby <nikolas@gnu.org>
Closes: 766086 1022726 1077067 1102988 1114901 1137091 1141871 1141966
Changes:
dillo (3.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Salvage package. (Closes: #1141966)
* New upstream version 3.3.0.
(Closes: #1102988, #1077067, #1114901, #1141871)
* debian/control:
- Add myself as maintainer.
- Update standards version to 4.7.4.
- Update homepage. (Closes: #1022726, #1137091)
- Remove libjpeg8-dev from Build-Depends. (Closes: #766086)
- Fix wording in description.
* debian/copyright: Updates for new version.
* debian/patches: Remove unnecessary patches,
refresh move-helper-tools-to-libexec.patch.
* debian/upstream/metadata: Add file.
* debian/rules: Update deprecated --enable-ssl option to --enable-tls.
* debian/docs: Remove stale files for new release.
* debian/watch: Update for version 5 and new homepage.
* Add debian/salsa-ci.yml file.
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