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Revision: 1.510
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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 1.507 TODO: clarify and get rid of SMOOTH_REFRESH etc.
9 root 1.510 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay...
10 root 1.346 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
11 root 1.492 WISH: support tex fonts
12 root 1.346
13 root 1.508 7.0
14 root 1.510 TODO: run external commands more sytematically (using $self->env etc.)
15     TODO: document searchable-scorllback hotkey
16 root 1.500 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
17 root 1.501 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
18 root 1.503 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
19     option-popup extensions enabled by default.
20 root 1.502 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
21     will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
22 root 1.499 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
23     and much much more.
24 root 1.493 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
25 root 1.495 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
26 root 1.496 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
27 root 1.499 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
28     - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
29 root 1.498 setuid/setgid.
30 root 1.499 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
31 root 1.497 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
32 root 1.499 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
33 root 1.503 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
34 root 1.504 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
35     - applied better configure support for openpty by Emanuele Giaquinta.
36 root 1.505 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
37 root 1.506 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
38     compatible, and not really small either.
39     - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
40     - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
41 root 1.510 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
42     to crashes.
43     - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
44 root 1.493
45 root 1.491 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
46 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
47     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
48     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
49 root 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
50     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
51     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
52 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
53     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
54 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
55 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
56     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
57 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
58 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
59 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
60 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
61 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
62 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
63 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
64 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
65     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
66     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
67 root 1.474
68 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
69 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
70     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
71     Chuck Blake.
72 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
73     obscure the mouse cursor position.
74 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
75 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
76     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
77 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
78     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
79 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
80     transfer efficiency.
81 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
82 root 1.463
83 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
84 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
85 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
86     while the user still drags.
87 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
88     not drawn correctly.
89 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
90     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
91 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
92     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
93 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
94     stripping whitespace.
95 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
96 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
97 root 1.452
98 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
99 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
100 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
101 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
102     (also a bug in original rxvt).
103 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
104     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
105     partial patch).
106     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
107     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
108 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
109 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
110 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
111 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
112 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
113 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
114 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
115     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
116     - slight overall speed improvements.
117     - considerably improved code clarity.
118 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
119     buffer.
120 root 1.437
121 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
122 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
123     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
124     (matters only for rxvtd).
125 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
126 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
127 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
128 root 1.431
129 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
130 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
131 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
132     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
133     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
134     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
135     percentage by 100-percentage.
136     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
137     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
138     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
139     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
140     windows.
141     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
142     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
143     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
144     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
145     - replaced INSTALL file.
146    
147 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
148 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
149 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
150     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
151     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
152     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
153     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
154     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
155 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
156 root 1.411
157 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
158 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
159     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
160     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
161     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
162     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
163     Affects display in iso14755 box.
164     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
165     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
166     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
167     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
168     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
169     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
170     cutting pieces off of characters.
171     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
172     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
173     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
174     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
175     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
176     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
177     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
178 root 1.399
179 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
180 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
181 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
182     meaning of the given key.
183     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
184     (patch by Martin Edlman).
185 root 1.394
186 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
187     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
188 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
189     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
190     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
191 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
192 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
193 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
194 root 1.433 to disable it.
195 root 1.393
196 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
197     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
198 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
199     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
200     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
201     with modifiers.
202 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
203     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
204 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
205     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
206     and clear the scrollback buffer.
207 root 1.389
208 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
209 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
210 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
211     a command.
212     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
213     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
214     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
215     in Perl/Gtk2.
216     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
217     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
218     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
219     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
220     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
221     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
222     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
223     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
224     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
225     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
226     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
227     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
228     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
229     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
230     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
231 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
232 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
233     rxvt-unicode).
234     - get rid of the intpro files.
235 root 1.373
236 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
237 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
238 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
239     (Kuang-che Wu).
240     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
241     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
242     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
243     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
244     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
245     along with other, similar, cleanups.
246     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
247     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
248     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
249     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
250     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
251     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
252 root 1.361
253 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
254     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
255 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
256     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
257     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
258     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
259     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
260     his patience and time in tracking this down).
261     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
262     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
263 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
264 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
265     by Joël Riou).
266     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
267     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
268     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
269     - shaved off some code segment size.
270     - various code cleanups.
271     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
272 root 1.360
273 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
274 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
275     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
276     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
277     -pixmap is active.
278     - new option/resource imFont.
279     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
280     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
281     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
282     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
283     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
284     (WU Fengguang).
285     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
286     examples (rxvt.1).
287     - removed src/test completely.
288     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
289 root 1.287
290 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
291 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
292     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
293     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
294     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
295     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
296     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
297     resulting in segfaults.
298     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
299     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
300     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
301     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
302     (Mikael Magnusson).
303     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
304     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
305     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
306     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
307     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
308     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
309     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
310     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
311     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
312     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
313     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
314     - initialize the locale much earlier.
315     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
316 root 1.331
317 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
318 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
319     black on initial startup.
320     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
321     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
322 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
323 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
324     additional multimedia keys.
325     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
326     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
327 root 1.312
328 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
329 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
330 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
331     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
332     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
333     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
334     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
335     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
336     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
337     ignored.
338     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
339     instead.
340     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
341     (reported by hednod).
342     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
343     - fix atom name enumeration.
344 root 1.291
345 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
346     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
347 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
348     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
349     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
350     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
351 root 1.288
352     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
353 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
354 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
355     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
356     titles etc.
357     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
358     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
359     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
360     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
361     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
362     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
363     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
364     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
365     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
366     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
367     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
368     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
369     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
370     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
371 root 1.272
372 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
373 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
374     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
375     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
376     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
377     thoroughly.
378     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
379     now, too.
380 root 1.274
381 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
382 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
383 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
384     on high-latency networks.
385     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
386     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
387     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
388     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
389     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
390     by Gunnar Ritter.
391     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
392     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
393 root 1.252
394 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
395     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
396 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
397 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
398 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
399 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
400 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
401     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
402     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
403     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
404 root 1.263
405 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
406     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
407 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
408     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
409     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
410     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
411     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
412     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
413     ... terminated by a fix.
414     - new supported preeeditType "None".
415     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
416     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
417     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
418     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
419     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
420     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
421     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
422     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
423     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
424     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
425     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
426     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
427     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
428     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
429     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
430     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
431     in tracking this down.
432     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
433     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
434 root 1.252
435     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
436     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
437 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
438 root 1.236
439     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
440 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
441     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
442     installed if tic is available.
443     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
444     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
445     - removed README.unicode.
446     - support select&paste of tab characters.
447     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
448     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
449     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
450     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
451     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
452     screen updates with curses.
453     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
454     by spaces.
455     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
456     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
457     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
458     is just too slow for this to work.
459     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
460     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
461     implement. use --enable-styles.
462     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
463     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
464     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
465     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
466     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
467     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
468 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
469 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
470     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
471     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
472     (only for non-bold right now).
473     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
474     - better default font size and style.
475     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
476     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
477     single character against the base font extents and will only
478     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
479     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
480     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
481     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
482     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
483     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
484     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
485     screen height.
486     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
487     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
488     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
489     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
490     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
491     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
492     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
493     - removed OSC 702.
494     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
495     confused by it rather than using it.
496 root 1.168
497 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
498     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
499 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
500     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
501 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
502 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
503     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
504     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
505     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
506     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
507     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
508     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
509     close).
510     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
511     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
512     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
513     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
514 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
515 root 1.430 could not be created.
516     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
517     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
518     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
519     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
520     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
521     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
522     works.
523 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
524 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
525     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
526     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
527     character is a sensible operation.
528     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
529     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
530     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
531     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
532     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
533     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
534     with selections).
535 root 1.194
536 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
537 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
538     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
539     needs access to a local shell window).
540     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
541     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
542     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
543     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
544     a little window or so) would be welcome.
545     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
546     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
547     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
548     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
549     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
550     added there.
551     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
552     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
553 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
554 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
555     instead of being ignored.
556     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
557     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
558     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
559     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
560     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
561     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
562     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
563     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
564     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
565     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
566     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
567     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
568     needs testing anyways.
569     - more complete compile options help output.
570     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
571     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
572     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
573     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
574     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
575     - minor doc fix.
576 root 1.137
577 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
578 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
579     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
580     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
581 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
582 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
583     memmove :)
584 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
585 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
586     (debian bug #169415).
587     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
588     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
589     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
590     - updated config.guess.
591 root 1.147
592     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
593 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
594 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
595     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
596     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
597     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
598     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
599     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
600     speeding up scrolling immensely.
601     - various other optimizations.
602     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
603 root 1.145
604     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
605 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
606     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
607     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
608 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
609 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
610 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
611     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
612     Mikael Magnusson).
613     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
614 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
615 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
616 root 1.124
617     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
618 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
619     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
620     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
621     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
622     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
623 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
624 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
625     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
626 root 1.124
627     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
628     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
629 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
630     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
631     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
632     well as with other terminal emulators.
633 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
634 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
635     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
636     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
637     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
638     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
639     Bloch.
640 root 1.124
641     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
642     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
643     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
644     sorry).
645     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
646     make it a little bit more correct c++).
647    
648 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
649 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
650     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
651     - minor i18n issue fixes.
652 pcg 1.114
653 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
654     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
655 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
656     - fix some minor bugs.
657 pcg 1.110
658 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
659 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
660 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
661     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
662     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
663     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
664     an extension and is slightly ugly.
665 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
666 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
667     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
668 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
669 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
670     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
671     overwritten (as is common).
672     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
673     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
674 pcg 1.108
675     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
676     - minor doc corrections.
677 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
678     avoid clashes with xterm.
679     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
680     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
681     window colour when arg is "?".
682     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
683     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
684     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
685     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
686     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
687     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
688     (FRILLS).
689     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
690     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
691     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
692     - set _NET_WM_PID.
693 pcg 1.108
694 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
695     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
696 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
697     - more informative error messages.
698     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
699     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
700     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
701     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
702     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
703 pcg 1.91
704 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
705     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
706     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
707 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
708     - removed old selection style completely.
709     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
710     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
711     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
712     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
713     be used from within rxvt.
714     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
715 pcg 1.83
716 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
717     - code cleanup release.
718     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
719 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
720     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
721     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
722     all files.
723     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
724     --enable-xgetdefaults.
725 pcg 1.74
726 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
727 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
728     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
729     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
730     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
731     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
732 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
733 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
734     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
735     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
736     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
737     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
738     --disable-xgetdefault.
739     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
740     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
741     unicode character.
742     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
743     get it wrong.
744     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
745 pcg 1.69
746 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
747 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
748 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
749     settings.
750     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
751     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
752     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
753     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
754     mbrtowc.
755     - more robust encoding name matching.
756     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
757     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
758     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
759     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
760     resources and docs.
761     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
762 pcg 1.58
763 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
764     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
765 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
766     - configure cleanup
767     - viscii enabled by default
768     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
769 pcg 1.50
770     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
771     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
772    
773 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
774 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
775 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
776     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
777     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
778     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
779     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
780     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
781     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
782     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
783     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
784     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
785     reported by joel reed.
786     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
787     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
788     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
789     being selected.
790     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
791     - removed greek support.
792     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
793     - correct cursor width if !focus.
794     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
795 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
796 root 1.430 contributed.
797     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
798     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
799     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
800     - many other minor bugfixes.
801 pcg 1.26
802 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
803 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
804 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
805     - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
806     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
807     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
808     - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
809     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
810     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
811     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
812 pcg 1.19
813 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
814     - further cleanups.
815 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
816     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
817     use reverse video, not _blink_.
818     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
819     please drop me a note.
820 pcg 1.16
821 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
822 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
823 root 1.430 - blinking text.
824     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
825     normal text when colorBD is not set.
826     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
827     was never implemented
828 pcg 1.13
829 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
830 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
831 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
832     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
833     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
834     reported by fefe
835     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
836     Markus Demleitner
837     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
838     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
839     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
840 pcg 1.7
841 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
842 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
843 root 1.430 - small font tunings
844     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
845     - better error reporting for unknown options
846 pcg 1.1
847 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
848 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
849     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
850     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
851     - much faster x11 font selection
852 pcg 1.2
853     1.2 2003-12-24
854 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
855 root 1.430 - better font matching
856     - better memory management (less memory)
857     - new fallback: gnu freefont
858 pcg 1.2
859     1.1 2003-12-18
860 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
861     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
862     - much improved font choosing
863 pcg 1.2
864 pcg 1.1 1.0
865 root 1.430 - first release
866     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
867     - removed rclock et al.
868     - initial conversion to C++
869 root 1.194