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Revision: 1.488
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1 root 1.462 rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
2    
3 root 1.435 TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
4 root 1.428 TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
5 root 1.365 TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
6 root 1.287 TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
7 root 1.443 TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
8 root 1.363 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif
9 root 1.346 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
10 root 1.480 WISH: make builtin character glyphs optional
11 root 1.346
12 root 1.488 SECURITY FIX: systems using openpty (most BSDs) had wrong permissions
13     on the tty. Systems using unix pty's (such as GNU/Linux) were not
14     affected. Apart from this, the meta8 option is no longer forcefully
15     enabled. New features: urxvt now supports embedded perl, which can already
16     do useful things and will certainly be extended in the future.
17    
18     6.3
19 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
20     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
21     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
22 root 1.488 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only systems
23     using non-unix ptys (such as most BSDs, not GNU/Linux).
24 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
25     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
26 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
27 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
28     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
29 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
30 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
31 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
32 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
33 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
34 root 1.488 TODO - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
35     and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
36 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
37     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
38     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
39 root 1.474
40 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
41 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
42     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
43     Chuck Blake.
44 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
45     obscure the mouse cursor position.
46 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
47 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
48     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
49 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
50     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
51 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
52     transfer efficiency.
53 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
54 root 1.463
55 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
56 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
57 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
58     while the user still drags.
59 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
60     not drawn correctly.
61 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
62     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
63 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
64     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
65 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
66     stripping whitespace.
67 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
68 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
69 root 1.452
70 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
71 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
72 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
73 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
74     (also a bug in original rxvt).
75 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
76     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
77     partial patch).
78     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
79     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
80 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
81 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
82 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
83 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
84 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
85 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
86 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
87     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
88     - slight overall speed improvements.
89     - considerably improved code clarity.
90 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
91     buffer.
92 root 1.437
93 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
94 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
95     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
96     (matters only for rxvtd).
97 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
98 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
99 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
100 root 1.431
101 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
102 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
103 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
104     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
105     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
106     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
107     percentage by 100-percentage.
108     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
109     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
110     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
111     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
112     windows.
113     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
114     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
115     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
116     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
117     - replaced INSTALL file.
118    
119 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
120 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
121 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
122     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
123     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
124     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
125     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
126     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
127 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
128 root 1.411
129 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
130 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
131     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
132     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
133     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
134     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
135     Affects display in iso14755 box.
136     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
137     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
138     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
139     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
140     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
141     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
142     cutting pieces off of characters.
143     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
144     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
145     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
146     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
147     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
148     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
149     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
150 root 1.399
151 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
152 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
153 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
154     meaning of the given key.
155     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
156     (patch by Martin Edlman).
157 root 1.394
158 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
159     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
160 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
161     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
162     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
163 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
164 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
165 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
166 root 1.433 to disable it.
167 root 1.393
168 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
169     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
170 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
171     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
172     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
173     with modifiers.
174 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
175     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
176 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
177     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
178     and clear the scrollback buffer.
179 root 1.389
180 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
181 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
182 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
183     a command.
184     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
185     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
186     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
187     in Perl/Gtk2.
188     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
189     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
190     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
191     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
192     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
193     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
194     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
195     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
196     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
197     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
198     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
199     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
200     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
201     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
202     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
203 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
204 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
205     rxvt-unicode).
206     - get rid of the intpro files.
207 root 1.373
208 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
209 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
210 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
211     (Kuang-che Wu).
212     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
213     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
214     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
215     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
216     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
217     along with other, similar, cleanups.
218     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
219     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
220     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
221     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
222     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
223     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
224 root 1.361
225 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
226     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
227 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
228     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
229     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
230     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
231     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
232     his patience and time in tracking this down).
233     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
234     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
235 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
236 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
237     by Joël Riou).
238     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
239     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
240     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
241     - shaved off some code segment size.
242     - various code cleanups.
243     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
244 root 1.360
245 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
246 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
247     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
248     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
249     -pixmap is active.
250     - new option/resource imFont.
251     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
252     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
253     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
254     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
255     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
256     (WU Fengguang).
257     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
258     examples (rxvt.1).
259     - removed src/test completely.
260     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
261 root 1.287
262 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
263 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
264     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
265     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
266     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
267     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
268     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
269     resulting in segfaults.
270     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
271     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
272     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
273     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
274     (Mikael Magnusson).
275     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
276     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
277     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
278     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
279     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
280     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
281     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
282     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
283     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
284     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
285     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
286     - initialize the locale much earlier.
287     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
288 root 1.331
289 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
290 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
291     black on initial startup.
292     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
293     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
294 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
295 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
296     additional multimedia keys.
297     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
298     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
299 root 1.312
300 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
301 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
302 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
303     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
304     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
305     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
306     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
307     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
308     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
309     ignored.
310     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
311     instead.
312     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
313     (reported by hednod).
314     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
315     - fix atom name enumeration.
316 root 1.291
317 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
318     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
319 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
320     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
321     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
322     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
323 root 1.288
324     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
325 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
326 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
327     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
328     titles etc.
329     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
330     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
331     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
332     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
333     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
334     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
335     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
336     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
337     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
338     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
339     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
340     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
341     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
342     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
343 root 1.272
344 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
345 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
346     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
347     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
348     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
349     thoroughly.
350     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
351     now, too.
352 root 1.274
353 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
354 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
355 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
356     on high-latency networks.
357     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
358     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
359     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
360     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
361     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
362     by Gunnar Ritter.
363     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
364     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
365 root 1.252
366 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
367     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
368 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
369 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
370 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
371 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
372 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
373     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
374     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
375     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
376 root 1.263
377 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
378     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
379 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
380     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
381     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
382     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
383     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
384     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
385     ... terminated by a fix.
386     - new supported preeeditType "None".
387     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
388     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
389     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
390     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
391     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
392     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
393     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
394     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
395     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
396     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
397     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
398     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
399     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
400     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
401     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
402     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
403     in tracking this down.
404     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
405     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
406 root 1.252
407     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
408     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
409 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
410 root 1.236
411     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
412 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
413     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
414     installed if tic is available.
415     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
416     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
417     - removed README.unicode.
418     - support select&paste of tab characters.
419     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
420     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
421     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
422     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
423     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
424     screen updates with curses.
425     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
426     by spaces.
427     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
428     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
429     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
430     is just too slow for this to work.
431     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
432     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
433     implement. use --enable-styles.
434     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
435     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
436     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
437     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
438     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
439     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
440 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
441 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
442     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
443     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
444     (only for non-bold right now).
445     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
446     - better default font size and style.
447     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
448     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
449     single character against the base font extents and will only
450     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
451     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
452     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
453     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
454     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
455     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
456     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
457     screen height.
458     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
459     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
460     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
461     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
462     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
463     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
464     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
465     - removed OSC 702.
466     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
467     confused by it rather than using it.
468 root 1.168
469 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
470     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
471 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
472     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
473 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
474 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
475     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
476     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
477     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
478     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
479     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
480     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
481     close).
482     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
483     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
484     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
485     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
486 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
487 root 1.430 could not be created.
488     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
489     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
490     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
491     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
492     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
493     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
494     works.
495 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
496 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
497     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
498     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
499     character is a sensible operation.
500     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
501     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
502     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
503     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
504     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
505     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
506     with selections).
507 root 1.194
508 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
509 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
510     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
511     needs access to a local shell window).
512     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
513     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
514     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
515     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
516     a little window or so) would be welcome.
517     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
518     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
519     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
520     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
521     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
522     added there.
523     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
524     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
525 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
526 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
527     instead of being ignored.
528     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
529     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
530     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
531     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
532     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
533     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
534     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
535     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
536     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
537     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
538     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
539     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
540     needs testing anyways.
541     - more complete compile options help output.
542     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
543     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
544     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
545     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
546     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
547     - minor doc fix.
548 root 1.137
549 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
550 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
551     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
552     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
553 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
554 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
555     memmove :)
556 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
557 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
558     (debian bug #169415).
559     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
560     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
561     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
562     - updated config.guess.
563 root 1.147
564     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
565 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
566 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
567     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
568     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
569     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
570     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
571     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
572     speeding up scrolling immensely.
573     - various other optimizations.
574     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
575 root 1.145
576     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
577 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
578     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
579     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
580 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
581 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
582 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
583     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
584     Mikael Magnusson).
585     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
586 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
587 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
588 root 1.124
589     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
590 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
591     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
592     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
593     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
594     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
595 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
596 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
597     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
598 root 1.124
599     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
600     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
601 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
602     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
603     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
604     well as with other terminal emulators.
605 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
606 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
607     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
608     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
609     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
610     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
611     Bloch.
612 root 1.124
613     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
614     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
615     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
616     sorry).
617     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
618     make it a little bit more correct c++).
619    
620 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
621 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
622     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
623     - minor i18n issue fixes.
624 pcg 1.114
625 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
626     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
627 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
628     - fix some minor bugs.
629 pcg 1.110
630 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
631 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
632 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
633     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
634     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
635     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
636     an extension and is slightly ugly.
637 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
638 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
639     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
640 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
641 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
642     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
643     overwritten (as is common).
644     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
645     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
646 pcg 1.108
647     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
648     - minor doc corrections.
649 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
650     avoid clashes with xterm.
651     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
652     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
653     window colour when arg is "?".
654     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
655     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
656     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
657     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
658     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
659     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
660     (FRILLS).
661     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
662     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
663     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
664     - set _NET_WM_PID.
665 pcg 1.108
666 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
667     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
668 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
669     - more informative error messages.
670     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
671     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
672     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
673     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
674     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
675 pcg 1.91
676 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
677     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
678     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
679 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
680     - removed old selection style completely.
681     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
682     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
683     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
684     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
685     be used from within rxvt.
686     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
687 pcg 1.83
688 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
689     - code cleanup release.
690     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
691 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
692     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
693     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
694     all files.
695     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
696     --enable-xgetdefaults.
697 pcg 1.74
698 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
699 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
700     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
701     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
702     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
703     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
704 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
705 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
706     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
707     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
708     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
709     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
710     --disable-xgetdefault.
711     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
712     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
713     unicode character.
714     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
715     get it wrong.
716     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
717 pcg 1.69
718 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
719 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
720 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
721     settings.
722     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
723     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
724     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
725     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
726     mbrtowc.
727     - more robust encoding name matching.
728     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
729     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
730     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
731     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
732     resources and docs.
733     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
734 pcg 1.58
735 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
736     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
737 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
738     - configure cleanup
739     - viscii enabled by default
740     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
741 pcg 1.50
742     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
743     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
744    
745 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
746 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
747 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
748     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
749     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
750     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
751     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
752     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
753     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
754     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
755     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
756     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
757     reported by joel reed.
758     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
759     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
760     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
761     being selected.
762     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
763     - removed greek support.
764     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
765     - correct cursor width if !focus.
766     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
767 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
768 root 1.430 contributed.
769     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
770     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
771     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
772     - many other minor bugfixes.
773 pcg 1.26
774 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
775 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
776 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
777     - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
778     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
779     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
780     - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
781     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
782     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
783     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
784 pcg 1.19
785 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
786     - further cleanups.
787 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
788     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
789     use reverse video, not _blink_.
790     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
791     please drop me a note.
792 pcg 1.16
793 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
794 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
795 root 1.430 - blinking text.
796     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
797     normal text when colorBD is not set.
798     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
799     was never implemented
800 pcg 1.13
801 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
802 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
803 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
804     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
805     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
806     reported by fefe
807     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
808     Markus Demleitner
809     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
810     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
811     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
812 pcg 1.7
813 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
814 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
815 root 1.430 - small font tunings
816     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
817     - better error reporting for unknown options
818 pcg 1.1
819 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
820 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
821     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
822     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
823     - much faster x11 font selection
824 pcg 1.2
825     1.2 2003-12-24
826 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
827 root 1.430 - better font matching
828     - better memory management (less memory)
829     - new fallback: gnu freefont
830 pcg 1.2
831     1.1 2003-12-18
832 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
833     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
834     - much improved font choosing
835 pcg 1.2
836 pcg 1.1 1.0
837 root 1.430 - first release
838     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
839     - removed rclock et al.
840     - initial conversion to C++
841 root 1.194