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Less is a free, open-source file pager. It can be found on most versions of Linux, Unix and Mac OS, as well as on many other operating systems.


Releases

The current released version is less-444. It was released on 9 Jun 2011.

News

9 Jun 2011 less-444 has been released for general use.
This release fixes two bugs found in less-443.
10 Apr 2011 less-443 has been released for general use.
28 Feb 2011 less-441 is available for BETA testing.
You can download it here.

The release notes are here. less-441 changes the search behavior so that the new -A option introduced in less-440 is now the default. The -A option now changes the behavior to the old, pre-440, behavior.

5 Jan 2011 less-440 is available for BETA testing.

The release notes are here. less-440 fixes a bug in less-438 and, at the risk of some feature creep, adds one much requested feature. The -A option changes search behavior so that an initial search includes the entire displayed screen and does not skip the first line as is currently done. Non-initial searches (for example, the "n" command) continue to skip the first (target) line to allow searches to proceed past the current screen.

31 Dec 2010 less-438 is available for BETA testing.
25 Jul 2009 less-436 has been released for general use.
7 Jul 2009 less-436 is available for BETA testing.
Less-436 fixes a few search and filter bugs found in less-434 by Klaus Kusche.
11 Apr 2009 less-429 has been released.
2 Jan 2008 less-418 has been released.
This version provides emulation of SGR escape sequences for Windows, uses version 3 of the GPL, and fixes a few bugs.
26 Mar 2007 A mailing list for less announcements is now available.
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