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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 1.505 TODO: resources! resources! resources!
13     TODO: better environment handling in rxvt/xim etc. and urxvt::term->new
14 root 1.500 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
15 root 1.501 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
16 root 1.503 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
17     option-popup extensions enabled by default.
18 root 1.502 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
19     will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
20 root 1.499 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
21     and much much more.
22 root 1.493 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
23 root 1.495 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
24 root 1.496 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
25 root 1.499 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
26     - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
27 root 1.498 setuid/setgid.
28 root 1.499 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
29 root 1.497 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
30 root 1.499 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
31 root 1.503 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
32 root 1.504 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
33     - applied better configure support for openpty by Emanuele Giaquinta.
34 root 1.505 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
35 root 1.493
36 root 1.491 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
37 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
38     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
39     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
40 root 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
41     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
42     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
43 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
44     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
45 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
46 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
47     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
48 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
49 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
50 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
51 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
52 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
53 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
54 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
55 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
56     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
57     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
58 root 1.474
59 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
60 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
61     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
62     Chuck Blake.
63 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
64     obscure the mouse cursor position.
65 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
66 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
67     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
68 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
69     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
70 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
71     transfer efficiency.
72 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
73 root 1.463
74 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
75 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
76 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
77     while the user still drags.
78 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
79     not drawn correctly.
80 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
81     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
82 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
83     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
84 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
85     stripping whitespace.
86 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
87 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
88 root 1.452
89 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
90 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
91 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
92 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
93     (also a bug in original rxvt).
94 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
95     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
96     partial patch).
97     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
98     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
99 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
100 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
101 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
102 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
103 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
104 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
105 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
106     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
107     - slight overall speed improvements.
108     - considerably improved code clarity.
109 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
110     buffer.
111 root 1.437
112 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
113 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
114     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
115     (matters only for rxvtd).
116 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
117 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
118 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
119 root 1.431
120 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
121 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
122 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
123     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
124     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
125     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
126     percentage by 100-percentage.
127     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
128     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
129     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
130     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
131     windows.
132     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
133     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
134     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
135     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
136     - replaced INSTALL file.
137    
138 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
139 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
140 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
141     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
142     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
143     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
144     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
145     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
146 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
147 root 1.411
148 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
149 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
150     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
151     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
152     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
153     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
154     Affects display in iso14755 box.
155     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
156     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
157     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
158     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
159     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
160     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
161     cutting pieces off of characters.
162     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
163     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
164     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
165     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
166     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
167     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
168     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
169 root 1.399
170 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
171 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
172 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
173     meaning of the given key.
174     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
175     (patch by Martin Edlman).
176 root 1.394
177 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
178     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
179 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
180     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
181     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
182 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
183 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
184 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
185 root 1.433 to disable it.
186 root 1.393
187 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
188     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
189 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
190     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
191     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
192     with modifiers.
193 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
194     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
195 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
196     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
197     and clear the scrollback buffer.
198 root 1.389
199 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
200 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
201 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
202     a command.
203     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
204     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
205     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
206     in Perl/Gtk2.
207     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
208     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
209     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
210     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
211     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
212     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
213     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
214     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
215     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
216     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
217     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
218     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
219     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
220     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
221     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
222 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
223 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
224     rxvt-unicode).
225     - get rid of the intpro files.
226 root 1.373
227 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
228 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
229 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
230     (Kuang-che Wu).
231     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
232     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
233     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
234     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
235     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
236     along with other, similar, cleanups.
237     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
238     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
239     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
240     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
241     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
242     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
243 root 1.361
244 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
245     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
246 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
247     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
248     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
249     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
250     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
251     his patience and time in tracking this down).
252     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
253     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
254 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
255 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
256     by Joël Riou).
257     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
258     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
259     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
260     - shaved off some code segment size.
261     - various code cleanups.
262     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
263 root 1.360
264 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
265 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
266     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
267     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
268     -pixmap is active.
269     - new option/resource imFont.
270     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
271     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
272     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
273     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
274     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
275     (WU Fengguang).
276     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
277     examples (rxvt.1).
278     - removed src/test completely.
279     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
280 root 1.287
281 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
282 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
283     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
284     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
285     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
286     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
287     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
288     resulting in segfaults.
289     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
290     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
291     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
292     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
293     (Mikael Magnusson).
294     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
295     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
296     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
297     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
298     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
299     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
300     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
301     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
302     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
303     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
304     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
305     - initialize the locale much earlier.
306     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
307 root 1.331
308 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
309 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
310     black on initial startup.
311     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
312     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
313 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
314 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
315     additional multimedia keys.
316     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
317     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
318 root 1.312
319 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
320 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
321 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
322     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
323     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
324     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
325     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
326     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
327     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
328     ignored.
329     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
330     instead.
331     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
332     (reported by hednod).
333     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
334     - fix atom name enumeration.
335 root 1.291
336 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
337     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
338 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
339     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
340     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
341     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
342 root 1.288
343     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
344 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
345 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
346     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
347     titles etc.
348     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
349     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
350     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
351     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
352     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
353     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
354     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
355     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
356     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
357     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
358     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
359     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
360     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
361     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
362 root 1.272
363 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
364 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
365     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
366     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
367     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
368     thoroughly.
369     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
370     now, too.
371 root 1.274
372 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
373 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
374 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
375     on high-latency networks.
376     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
377     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
378     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
379     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
380     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
381     by Gunnar Ritter.
382     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
383     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
384 root 1.252
385 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
386     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
387 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
388 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
389 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
390 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
391 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
392     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
393     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
394     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
395 root 1.263
396 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
397     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
398 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
399     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
400     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
401     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
402     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
403     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
404     ... terminated by a fix.
405     - new supported preeeditType "None".
406     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
407     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
408     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
409     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
410     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
411     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
412     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
413     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
414     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
415     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
416     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
417     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
418     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
419     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
420     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
421     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
422     in tracking this down.
423     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
424     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
425 root 1.252
426     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
427     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
428 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
429 root 1.236
430     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
431 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
432     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
433     installed if tic is available.
434     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
435     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
436     - removed README.unicode.
437     - support select&paste of tab characters.
438     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
439     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
440     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
441     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
442     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
443     screen updates with curses.
444     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
445     by spaces.
446     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
447     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
448     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
449     is just too slow for this to work.
450     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
451     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
452     implement. use --enable-styles.
453     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
454     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
455     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
456     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
457     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
458     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
459 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
460 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
461     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
462     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
463     (only for non-bold right now).
464     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
465     - better default font size and style.
466     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
467     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
468     single character against the base font extents and will only
469     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
470     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
471     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
472     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
473     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
474     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
475     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
476     screen height.
477     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
478     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
479     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
480     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
481     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
482     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
483     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
484     - removed OSC 702.
485     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
486     confused by it rather than using it.
487 root 1.168
488 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
489     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
490 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
491     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
492 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
493 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
494     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
495     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
496     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
497     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
498     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
499     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
500     close).
501     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
502     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
503     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
504     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
505 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
506 root 1.430 could not be created.
507     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
508     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
509     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
510     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
511     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
512     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
513     works.
514 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
515 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
516     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
517     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
518     character is a sensible operation.
519     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
520     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
521     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
522     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
523     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
524     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
525     with selections).
526 root 1.194
527 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
528 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
529     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
530     needs access to a local shell window).
531     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
532     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
533     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
534     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
535     a little window or so) would be welcome.
536     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
537     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
538     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
539     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
540     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
541     added there.
542     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
543     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
544 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
545 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
546     instead of being ignored.
547     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
548     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
549     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
550     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
551     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
552     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
553     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
554     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
555     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
556     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
557     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
558     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
559     needs testing anyways.
560     - more complete compile options help output.
561     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
562     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
563     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
564     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
565     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
566     - minor doc fix.
567 root 1.137
568 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
569 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
570     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
571     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
572 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
573 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
574     memmove :)
575 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
576 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
577     (debian bug #169415).
578     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
579     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
580     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
581     - updated config.guess.
582 root 1.147
583     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
584 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
585 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
586     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
587     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
588     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
589     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
590     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
591     speeding up scrolling immensely.
592     - various other optimizations.
593     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
594 root 1.145
595     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
596 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
597     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
598     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
599 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
600 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
601 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
602     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
603     Mikael Magnusson).
604     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
605 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
606 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
607 root 1.124
608     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
609 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
610     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
611     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
612     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
613     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
614 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
615 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
616     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
617 root 1.124
618     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
619     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
620 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
621     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
622     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
623     well as with other terminal emulators.
624 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
625 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
626     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
627     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
628     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
629     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
630     Bloch.
631 root 1.124
632     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
633     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
634     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
635     sorry).
636     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
637     make it a little bit more correct c++).
638    
639 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
640 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
641     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
642     - minor i18n issue fixes.
643 pcg 1.114
644 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
645     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
646 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
647     - fix some minor bugs.
648 pcg 1.110
649 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
650 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
651 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
652     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
653     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
654     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
655     an extension and is slightly ugly.
656 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
657 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
658     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
659 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
660 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
661     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
662     overwritten (as is common).
663     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
664     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
665 pcg 1.108
666     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
667     - minor doc corrections.
668 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
669     avoid clashes with xterm.
670     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
671     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
672     window colour when arg is "?".
673     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
674     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
675     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
676     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
677     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
678     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
679     (FRILLS).
680     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
681     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
682     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
683     - set _NET_WM_PID.
684 pcg 1.108
685 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
686     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
687 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
688     - more informative error messages.
689     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
690     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
691     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
692     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
693     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
694 pcg 1.91
695 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
696     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
697     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
698 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
699     - removed old selection style completely.
700     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
701     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
702     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
703     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
704     be used from within rxvt.
705     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
706 pcg 1.83
707 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
708     - code cleanup release.
709     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
710 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
711     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
712     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
713     all files.
714     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
715     --enable-xgetdefaults.
716 pcg 1.74
717 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
718 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
719     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
720     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
721     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
722     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
723 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
724 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
725     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
726     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
727     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
728     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
729     --disable-xgetdefault.
730     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
731     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
732     unicode character.
733     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
734     get it wrong.
735     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
736 pcg 1.69
737 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
738 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
739 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
740     settings.
741     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
742     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
743     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
744     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
745     mbrtowc.
746     - more robust encoding name matching.
747     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
748     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
749     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
750     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
751     resources and docs.
752     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
753 pcg 1.58
754 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
755     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
756 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
757     - configure cleanup
758     - viscii enabled by default
759     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
760 pcg 1.50
761     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
762     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
763    
764 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
765 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
766 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
767     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
768     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
769     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
770     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
771     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
772     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
773     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
774     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
775     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
776     reported by joel reed.
777     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
778     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
779     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
780     being selected.
781     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
782     - removed greek support.
783     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
784     - correct cursor width if !focus.
785     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
786 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
787 root 1.430 contributed.
788     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
789     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
790     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
791     - many other minor bugfixes.
792 pcg 1.26
793 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
794 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
795 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
796     - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
797     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
798     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
799     - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
800     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
801     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
802     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
803 pcg 1.19
804 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
805     - further cleanups.
806 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
807     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
808     use reverse video, not _blink_.
809     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
810     please drop me a note.
811 pcg 1.16
812 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
813 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
814 root 1.430 - blinking text.
815     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
816     normal text when colorBD is not set.
817     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
818     was never implemented
819 pcg 1.13
820 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
821 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
822 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
823     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
824     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
825     reported by fefe
826     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
827     Markus Demleitner
828     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
829     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
830     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
831 pcg 1.7
832 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
833 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
834 root 1.430 - small font tunings
835     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
836     - better error reporting for unknown options
837 pcg 1.1
838 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
839 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
840     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
841     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
842     - much faster x11 font selection
843 pcg 1.2
844     1.2 2003-12-24
845 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
846 root 1.430 - better font matching
847     - better memory management (less memory)
848     - new fallback: gnu freefont
849 pcg 1.2
850     1.1 2003-12-18
851 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
852     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
853     - much improved font choosing
854 pcg 1.2
855 pcg 1.1 1.0
856 root 1.430 - first release
857     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
858     - removed rclock et al.
859     - initial conversion to C++
860 root 1.194