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Revision: 1.490
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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 1.489 SECURITY FIX: systems using openpty (most BSDs) had wrong permissions on
13     the tty. Other systems (such as GNU/Linux) were not affected. Bug fixes:
14     the meta8 option ("weird alt key behaviour") is no longer forcefully
15 root 1.488 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 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
23     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
24     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
25 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
26     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
27 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
28 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
29     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
30 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
31 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
32 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
33 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
34 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
35 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
36 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
37 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
38     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
39     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
40 root 1.474
41 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
42 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
43     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
44     Chuck Blake.
45 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
46     obscure the mouse cursor position.
47 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
48 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
49     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
50 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
51     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
52 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
53     transfer efficiency.
54 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
55 root 1.463
56 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
57 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
58 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
59     while the user still drags.
60 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
61     not drawn correctly.
62 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
63     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
64 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
65     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
66 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
67     stripping whitespace.
68 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
69 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
70 root 1.452
71 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
72 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
73 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
74 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
75     (also a bug in original rxvt).
76 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
77     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
78     partial patch).
79     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
80     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
81 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
82 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
83 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
84 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
85 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
86 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
87 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
88     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
89     - slight overall speed improvements.
90     - considerably improved code clarity.
91 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
92     buffer.
93 root 1.437
94 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
95 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
96     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
97     (matters only for rxvtd).
98 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
99 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
100 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
101 root 1.431
102 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
103 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
104 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
105     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
106     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
107     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
108     percentage by 100-percentage.
109     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
110     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
111     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
112     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
113     windows.
114     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
115     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
116     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
117     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
118     - replaced INSTALL file.
119    
120 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
121 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
122 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
123     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
124     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
125     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
126     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
127     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
128 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
129 root 1.411
130 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
131 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
132     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
133     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
134     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
135     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
136     Affects display in iso14755 box.
137     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
138     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
139     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
140     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
141     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
142     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
143     cutting pieces off of characters.
144     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
145     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
146     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
147     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
148     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
149     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
150     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
151 root 1.399
152 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
153 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
154 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
155     meaning of the given key.
156     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
157     (patch by Martin Edlman).
158 root 1.394
159 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
160     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
161 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
162     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
163     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
164 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
165 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
166 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
167 root 1.433 to disable it.
168 root 1.393
169 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
170     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
171 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
172     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
173     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
174     with modifiers.
175 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
176     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
177 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
178     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
179     and clear the scrollback buffer.
180 root 1.389
181 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
182 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
183 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
184     a command.
185     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
186     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
187     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
188     in Perl/Gtk2.
189     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
190     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
191     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
192     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
193     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
194     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
195     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
196     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
197     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
198     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
199     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
200     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
201     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
202     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
203     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
204 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
205 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
206     rxvt-unicode).
207     - get rid of the intpro files.
208 root 1.373
209 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
210 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
211 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
212     (Kuang-che Wu).
213     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
214     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
215     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
216     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
217     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
218     along with other, similar, cleanups.
219     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
220     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
221     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
222     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
223     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
224     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
225 root 1.361
226 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
227     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
228 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
229     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
230     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
231     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
232     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
233     his patience and time in tracking this down).
234     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
235     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
236 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
237 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
238     by Joël Riou).
239     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
240     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
241     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
242     - shaved off some code segment size.
243     - various code cleanups.
244     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
245 root 1.360
246 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
247 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
248     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
249     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
250     -pixmap is active.
251     - new option/resource imFont.
252     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
253     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
254     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
255     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
256     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
257     (WU Fengguang).
258     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
259     examples (rxvt.1).
260     - removed src/test completely.
261     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
262 root 1.287
263 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
264 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
265     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
266     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
267     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
268     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
269     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
270     resulting in segfaults.
271     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
272     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
273     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
274     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
275     (Mikael Magnusson).
276     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
277     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
278     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
279     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
280     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
281     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
282     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
283     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
284     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
285     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
286     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
287     - initialize the locale much earlier.
288     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
289 root 1.331
290 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
291 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
292     black on initial startup.
293     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
294     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
295 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
296 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
297     additional multimedia keys.
298     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
299     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
300 root 1.312
301 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
302 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
303 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
304     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
305     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
306     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
307     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
308     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
309     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
310     ignored.
311     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
312     instead.
313     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
314     (reported by hednod).
315     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
316     - fix atom name enumeration.
317 root 1.291
318 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
319     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
320 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
321     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
322     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
323     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
324 root 1.288
325     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
326 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
327 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
328     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
329     titles etc.
330     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
331     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
332     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
333     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
334     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
335     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
336     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
337     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
338     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
339     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
340     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
341     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
342     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
343     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
344 root 1.272
345 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
346 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
347     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
348     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
349     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
350     thoroughly.
351     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
352     now, too.
353 root 1.274
354 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
355 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
356 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
357     on high-latency networks.
358     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
359     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
360     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
361     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
362     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
363     by Gunnar Ritter.
364     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
365     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
366 root 1.252
367 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
368     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
369 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
370 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
371 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
372 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
373 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
374     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
375     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
376     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
377 root 1.263
378 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
379     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
380 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
381     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
382     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
383     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
384     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
385     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
386     ... terminated by a fix.
387     - new supported preeeditType "None".
388     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
389     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
390     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
391     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
392     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
393     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
394     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
395     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
396     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
397     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
398     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
399     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
400     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
401     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
402     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
403     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
404     in tracking this down.
405     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
406     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
407 root 1.252
408     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
409     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
410 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
411 root 1.236
412     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
413 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
414     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
415     installed if tic is available.
416     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
417     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
418     - removed README.unicode.
419     - support select&paste of tab characters.
420     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
421     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
422     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
423     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
424     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
425     screen updates with curses.
426     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
427     by spaces.
428     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
429     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
430     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
431     is just too slow for this to work.
432     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
433     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
434     implement. use --enable-styles.
435     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
436     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
437     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
438     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
439     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
440     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
441 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
442 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
443     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
444     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
445     (only for non-bold right now).
446     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
447     - better default font size and style.
448     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
449     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
450     single character against the base font extents and will only
451     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
452     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
453     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
454     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
455     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
456     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
457     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
458     screen height.
459     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
460     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
461     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
462     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
463     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
464     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
465     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
466     - removed OSC 702.
467     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
468     confused by it rather than using it.
469 root 1.168
470 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
471     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
472 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
473     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
474 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
475 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
476     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
477     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
478     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
479     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
480     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
481     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
482     close).
483     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
484     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
485     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
486     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
487 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
488 root 1.430 could not be created.
489     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
490     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
491     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
492     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
493     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
494     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
495     works.
496 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
497 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
498     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
499     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
500     character is a sensible operation.
501     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
502     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
503     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
504     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
505     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
506     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
507     with selections).
508 root 1.194
509 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
510 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
511     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
512     needs access to a local shell window).
513     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
514     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
515     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
516     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
517     a little window or so) would be welcome.
518     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
519     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
520     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
521     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
522     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
523     added there.
524     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
525     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
526 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
527 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
528     instead of being ignored.
529     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
530     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
531     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
532     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
533     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
534     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
535     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
536     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
537     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
538     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
539     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
540     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
541     needs testing anyways.
542     - more complete compile options help output.
543     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
544     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
545     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
546     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
547     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
548     - minor doc fix.
549 root 1.137
550 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
551 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
552     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
553     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
554 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
555 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
556     memmove :)
557 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
558 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
559     (debian bug #169415).
560     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
561     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
562     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
563     - updated config.guess.
564 root 1.147
565     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
566 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
567 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
568     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
569     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
570     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
571     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
572     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
573     speeding up scrolling immensely.
574     - various other optimizations.
575     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
576 root 1.145
577     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
578 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
579     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
580     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
581 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
582 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
583 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
584     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
585     Mikael Magnusson).
586     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
587 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
588 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
589 root 1.124
590     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
591 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
592     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
593     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
594     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
595     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
596 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
597 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
598     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
599 root 1.124
600     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
601     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
602 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
603     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
604     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
605     well as with other terminal emulators.
606 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
607 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
608     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
609     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
610     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
611     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
612     Bloch.
613 root 1.124
614     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
615     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
616     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
617     sorry).
618     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
619     make it a little bit more correct c++).
620    
621 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
622 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
623     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
624     - minor i18n issue fixes.
625 pcg 1.114
626 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
627     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
628 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
629     - fix some minor bugs.
630 pcg 1.110
631 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
632 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
633 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
634     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
635     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
636     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
637     an extension and is slightly ugly.
638 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
639 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
640     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
641 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
642 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
643     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
644     overwritten (as is common).
645     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
646     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
647 pcg 1.108
648     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
649     - minor doc corrections.
650 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
651     avoid clashes with xterm.
652     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
653     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
654     window colour when arg is "?".
655     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
656     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
657     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
658     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
659     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
660     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
661     (FRILLS).
662     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
663     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
664     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
665     - set _NET_WM_PID.
666 pcg 1.108
667 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
668     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
669 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
670     - more informative error messages.
671     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
672     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
673     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
674     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
675     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
676 pcg 1.91
677 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
678     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
679     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
680 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
681     - removed old selection style completely.
682     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
683     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
684     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
685     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
686     be used from within rxvt.
687     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
688 pcg 1.83
689 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
690     - code cleanup release.
691     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
692 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
693     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
694     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
695     all files.
696     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
697     --enable-xgetdefaults.
698 pcg 1.74
699 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
700 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
701     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
702     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
703     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
704     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
705 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
706 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
707     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
708     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
709     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
710     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
711     --disable-xgetdefault.
712     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
713     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
714     unicode character.
715     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
716     get it wrong.
717     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
718 pcg 1.69
719 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
720 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
721 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
722     settings.
723     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
724     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
725     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
726     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
727     mbrtowc.
728     - more robust encoding name matching.
729     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
730     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
731     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
732     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
733     resources and docs.
734     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
735 pcg 1.58
736 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
737     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
738 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
739     - configure cleanup
740     - viscii enabled by default
741     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
742 pcg 1.50
743     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
744     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
745    
746 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
747 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
748 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
749     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
750     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
751     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
752     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
753     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
754     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
755     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
756     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
757     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
758     reported by joel reed.
759     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
760     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
761     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
762     being selected.
763     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
764     - removed greek support.
765     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
766     - correct cursor width if !focus.
767     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
768 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
769 root 1.430 contributed.
770     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
771     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
772     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
773     - many other minor bugfixes.
774 pcg 1.26
775 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
776 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
777 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
778     - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
779     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
780     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
781     - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
782     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
783     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
784     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
785 pcg 1.19
786 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
787     - further cleanups.
788 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
789     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
790     use reverse video, not _blink_.
791     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
792     please drop me a note.
793 pcg 1.16
794 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
795 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
796 root 1.430 - blinking text.
797     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
798     normal text when colorBD is not set.
799     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
800     was never implemented
801 pcg 1.13
802 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
803 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
804 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
805     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
806     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
807     reported by fefe
808     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
809     Markus Demleitner
810     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
811     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
812     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
813 pcg 1.7
814 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
815 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
816 root 1.430 - small font tunings
817     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
818     - better error reporting for unknown options
819 pcg 1.1
820 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
821 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
822     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
823     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
824     - much faster x11 font selection
825 pcg 1.2
826     1.2 2003-12-24
827 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
828 root 1.430 - better font matching
829     - better memory management (less memory)
830     - new fallback: gnu freefont
831 pcg 1.2
832     1.1 2003-12-18
833 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
834     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
835     - much improved font choosing
836 pcg 1.2
837 pcg 1.1 1.0
838 root 1.430 - first release
839     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
840     - removed rclock et al.
841     - initial conversion to C++
842 root 1.194