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Revision: 1.503
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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 1.492 WISH: support tex fonts
11 root 1.346
12 root 1.500 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
13 root 1.501 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
14 root 1.503 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
15     option-popup extensions enabled by default.
16 root 1.502 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
17     will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
18 root 1.499 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
19     and much much more.
20 root 1.493 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
21 root 1.495 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
22 root 1.496 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
23 root 1.499 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
24     - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
25 root 1.498 setuid/setgid.
26 root 1.499 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
27 root 1.497 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
28 root 1.499 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
29 root 1.503 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
30 root 1.493
31 root 1.491 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
32 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
33     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
34     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
35 root 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
36     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
37     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
38 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
39     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
40 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
41 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
42     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
43 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
44 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
45 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
46 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
47 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
48 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
49 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
50 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
51     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
52     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
53 root 1.474
54 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
55 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
56     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
57     Chuck Blake.
58 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
59     obscure the mouse cursor position.
60 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
61 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
62     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
63 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
64     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
65 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
66     transfer efficiency.
67 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
68 root 1.463
69 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
70 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
71 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
72     while the user still drags.
73 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
74     not drawn correctly.
75 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
76     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
77 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
78     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
79 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
80     stripping whitespace.
81 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
82 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
83 root 1.452
84 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
85 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
86 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
87 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
88     (also a bug in original rxvt).
89 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
90     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
91     partial patch).
92     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
93     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
94 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
95 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
96 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
97 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
98 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
99 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
100 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
101     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
102     - slight overall speed improvements.
103     - considerably improved code clarity.
104 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
105     buffer.
106 root 1.437
107 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
108 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
109     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
110     (matters only for rxvtd).
111 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
112 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
113 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
114 root 1.431
115 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
116 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
117 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
118     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
119     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
120     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
121     percentage by 100-percentage.
122     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
123     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
124     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
125     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
126     windows.
127     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
128     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
129     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
130     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
131     - replaced INSTALL file.
132    
133 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
134 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
135 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
136     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
137     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
138     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
139     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
140     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
141 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
142 root 1.411
143 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
144 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
145     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
146     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
147     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
148     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
149     Affects display in iso14755 box.
150     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
151     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
152     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
153     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
154     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
155     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
156     cutting pieces off of characters.
157     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
158     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
159     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
160     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
161     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
162     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
163     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
164 root 1.399
165 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
166 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
167 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
168     meaning of the given key.
169     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
170     (patch by Martin Edlman).
171 root 1.394
172 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
173     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
174 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
175     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
176     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
177 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
178 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
179 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
180 root 1.433 to disable it.
181 root 1.393
182 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
183     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
184 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
185     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
186     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
187     with modifiers.
188 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
189     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
190 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
191     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
192     and clear the scrollback buffer.
193 root 1.389
194 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
195 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
196 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
197     a command.
198     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
199     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
200     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
201     in Perl/Gtk2.
202     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
203     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
204     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
205     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
206     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
207     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
208     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
209     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
210     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
211     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
212     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
213     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
214     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
215     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
216     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
217 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
218 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
219     rxvt-unicode).
220     - get rid of the intpro files.
221 root 1.373
222 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
223 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
224 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
225     (Kuang-che Wu).
226     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
227     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
228     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
229     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
230     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
231     along with other, similar, cleanups.
232     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
233     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
234     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
235     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
236     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
237     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
238 root 1.361
239 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
240     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
241 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
242     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
243     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
244     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
245     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
246     his patience and time in tracking this down).
247     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
248     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
249 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
250 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
251     by Joël Riou).
252     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
253     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
254     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
255     - shaved off some code segment size.
256     - various code cleanups.
257     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
258 root 1.360
259 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
260 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
261     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
262     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
263     -pixmap is active.
264     - new option/resource imFont.
265     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
266     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
267     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
268     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
269     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
270     (WU Fengguang).
271     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
272     examples (rxvt.1).
273     - removed src/test completely.
274     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
275 root 1.287
276 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
277 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
278     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
279     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
280     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
281     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
282     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
283     resulting in segfaults.
284     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
285     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
286     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
287     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
288     (Mikael Magnusson).
289     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
290     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
291     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
292     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
293     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
294     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
295     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
296     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
297     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
298     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
299     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
300     - initialize the locale much earlier.
301     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
302 root 1.331
303 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
304 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
305     black on initial startup.
306     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
307     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
308 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
309 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
310     additional multimedia keys.
311     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
312     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
313 root 1.312
314 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
315 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
316 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
317     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
318     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
319     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
320     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
321     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
322     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
323     ignored.
324     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
325     instead.
326     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
327     (reported by hednod).
328     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
329     - fix atom name enumeration.
330 root 1.291
331 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
332     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
333 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
334     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
335     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
336     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
337 root 1.288
338     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
339 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
340 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
341     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
342     titles etc.
343     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
344     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
345     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
346     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
347     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
348     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
349     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
350     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
351     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
352     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
353     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
354     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
355     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
356     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
357 root 1.272
358 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
359 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
360     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
361     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
362     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
363     thoroughly.
364     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
365     now, too.
366 root 1.274
367 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
368 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
369 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
370     on high-latency networks.
371     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
372     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
373     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
374     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
375     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
376     by Gunnar Ritter.
377     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
378     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
379 root 1.252
380 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
381     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
382 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
383 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
384 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
385 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
386 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
387     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
388     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
389     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
390 root 1.263
391 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
392     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
393 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
394     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
395     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
396     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
397     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
398     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
399     ... terminated by a fix.
400     - new supported preeeditType "None".
401     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
402     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
403     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
404     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
405     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
406     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
407     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
408     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
409     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
410     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
411     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
412     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
413     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
414     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
415     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
416     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
417     in tracking this down.
418     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
419     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
420 root 1.252
421     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
422     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
423 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
424 root 1.236
425     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
426 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
427     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
428     installed if tic is available.
429     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
430     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
431     - removed README.unicode.
432     - support select&paste of tab characters.
433     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
434     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
435     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
436     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
437     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
438     screen updates with curses.
439     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
440     by spaces.
441     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
442     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
443     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
444     is just too slow for this to work.
445     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
446     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
447     implement. use --enable-styles.
448     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
449     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
450     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
451     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
452     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
453     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
454 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
455 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
456     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
457     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
458     (only for non-bold right now).
459     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
460     - better default font size and style.
461     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
462     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
463     single character against the base font extents and will only
464     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
465     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
466     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
467     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
468     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
469     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
470     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
471     screen height.
472     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
473     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
474     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
475     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
476     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
477     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
478     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
479     - removed OSC 702.
480     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
481     confused by it rather than using it.
482 root 1.168
483 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
484     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
485 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
486     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
487 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
488 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
489     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
490     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
491     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
492     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
493     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
494     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
495     close).
496     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
497     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
498     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
499     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
500 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
501 root 1.430 could not be created.
502     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
503     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
504     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
505     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
506     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
507     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
508     works.
509 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
510 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
511     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
512     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
513     character is a sensible operation.
514     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
515     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
516     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
517     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
518     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
519     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
520     with selections).
521 root 1.194
522 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
523 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
524     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
525     needs access to a local shell window).
526     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
527     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
528     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
529     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
530     a little window or so) would be welcome.
531     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
532     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
533     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
534     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
535     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
536     added there.
537     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
538     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
539 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
540 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
541     instead of being ignored.
542     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
543     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
544     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
545     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
546     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
547     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
548     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
549     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
550     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
551     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
552     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
553     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
554     needs testing anyways.
555     - more complete compile options help output.
556     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
557     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
558     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
559     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
560     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
561     - minor doc fix.
562 root 1.137
563 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
564 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
565     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
566     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
567 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
568 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
569     memmove :)
570 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
571 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
572     (debian bug #169415).
573     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
574     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
575     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
576     - updated config.guess.
577 root 1.147
578     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
579 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
580 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
581     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
582     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
583     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
584     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
585     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
586     speeding up scrolling immensely.
587     - various other optimizations.
588     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
589 root 1.145
590     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
591 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
592     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
593     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
594 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
595 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
596 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
597     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
598     Mikael Magnusson).
599     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
600 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
601 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
602 root 1.124
603     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
604 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
605     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
606     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
607     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
608     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
609 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
610 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
611     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
612 root 1.124
613     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
614     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
615 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
616     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
617     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
618     well as with other terminal emulators.
619 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
620 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
621     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
622     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
623     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
624     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
625     Bloch.
626 root 1.124
627     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
628     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
629     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
630     sorry).
631     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
632     make it a little bit more correct c++).
633    
634 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
635 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
636     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
637     - minor i18n issue fixes.
638 pcg 1.114
639 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
640     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
641 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
642     - fix some minor bugs.
643 pcg 1.110
644 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
645 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
646 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
647     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
648     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
649     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
650     an extension and is slightly ugly.
651 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
652 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
653     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
654 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
655 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
656     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
657     overwritten (as is common).
658     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
659     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
660 pcg 1.108
661     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
662     - minor doc corrections.
663 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
664     avoid clashes with xterm.
665     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
666     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
667     window colour when arg is "?".
668     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
669     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
670     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
671     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
672     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
673     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
674     (FRILLS).
675     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
676     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
677     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
678     - set _NET_WM_PID.
679 pcg 1.108
680 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
681     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
682 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
683     - more informative error messages.
684     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
685     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
686     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
687     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
688     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
689 pcg 1.91
690 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
691     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
692     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
693 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
694     - removed old selection style completely.
695     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
696     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
697     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
698     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
699     be used from within rxvt.
700     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
701 pcg 1.83
702 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
703     - code cleanup release.
704     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
705 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
706     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
707     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
708     all files.
709     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
710     --enable-xgetdefaults.
711 pcg 1.74
712 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
713 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
714     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
715     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
716     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
717     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
718 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
719 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
720     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
721     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
722     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
723     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
724     --disable-xgetdefault.
725     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
726     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
727     unicode character.
728     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
729     get it wrong.
730     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
731 pcg 1.69
732 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
733 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
734 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
735     settings.
736     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
737     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
738     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
739     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
740     mbrtowc.
741     - more robust encoding name matching.
742     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
743     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
744     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
745     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
746     resources and docs.
747     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
748 pcg 1.58
749 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
750     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
751 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
752     - configure cleanup
753     - viscii enabled by default
754     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
755 pcg 1.50
756     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
757     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
758    
759 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
760 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
761 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
762     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
763     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
764     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
765     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
766     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
767     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
768     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
769     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
770     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
771     reported by joel reed.
772     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
773     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
774     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
775     being selected.
776     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
777     - removed greek support.
778     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
779     - correct cursor width if !focus.
780     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
781 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
782 root 1.430 contributed.
783     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
784     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
785     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
786     - many other minor bugfixes.
787 pcg 1.26
788 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
789 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
790 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
791     - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
792     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
793     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
794     - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
795     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
796     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
797     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
798 pcg 1.19
799 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
800     - further cleanups.
801 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
802     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
803     use reverse video, not _blink_.
804     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
805     please drop me a note.
806 pcg 1.16
807 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
808 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
809 root 1.430 - blinking text.
810     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
811     normal text when colorBD is not set.
812     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
813     was never implemented
814 pcg 1.13
815 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
816 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
817 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
818     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
819     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
820     reported by fefe
821     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
822     Markus Demleitner
823     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
824     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
825     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
826 pcg 1.7
827 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
828 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
829 root 1.430 - small font tunings
830     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
831     - better error reporting for unknown options
832 pcg 1.1
833 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
834 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
835     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
836     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
837     - much faster x11 font selection
838 pcg 1.2
839     1.2 2003-12-24
840 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
841 root 1.430 - better font matching
842     - better memory management (less memory)
843     - new fallback: gnu freefont
844 pcg 1.2
845     1.1 2003-12-18
846 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
847     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
848     - much improved font choosing
849 pcg 1.2
850 pcg 1.1 1.0
851 root 1.430 - first release
852     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
853     - removed rclock et al.
854     - initial conversion to C++
855 root 1.194