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Revision: 1.515
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1 root 1.462 rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
2    
3 root 1.512 TODO: move pty/tty handling into a fork'ed server and drop all privs
4 root 1.435 TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
5 root 1.428 TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
6 root 1.365 TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
7 root 1.287 TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
8 root 1.443 TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
9 root 1.507 TODO: clarify and get rid of SMOOTH_REFRESH etc.
10 root 1.515 TODO: scroll lines into scrollback when tscroll==0, regardless of bscrol
11 root 1.510 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay...
12 root 1.346 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
13 root 1.492 WISH: support tex fonts
14 root 1.346
15 root 1.508 7.0
16 root 1.510 TODO: document searchable-scorllback hotkey
17 root 1.513 TODO: double-click and right-extend
18 root 1.514 TODO: change scrollback to use cursor movements
19 root 1.500 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
20 root 1.501 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
21 root 1.503 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
22     option-popup extensions enabled by default.
23 root 1.502 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
24     will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
25 root 1.499 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
26     and much much more.
27 root 1.493 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
28 root 1.495 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
29 root 1.496 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
30 root 1.499 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
31     - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
32 root 1.498 setuid/setgid.
33 root 1.499 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
34 root 1.497 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
35 root 1.499 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
36 root 1.503 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
37 root 1.504 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
38 root 1.514 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
39 root 1.505 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
40 root 1.506 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
41     compatible, and not really small either.
42     - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
43     - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
44 root 1.510 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
45     to crashes.
46 root 1.511 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
47     colours.
48 root 1.510 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
49 root 1.513 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
50 root 1.493
51 root 1.491 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
52 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
53     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
54     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
55 root 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
56     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
57     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
58 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
59     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
60 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
61 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
62     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
63 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
64 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
65 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
66 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
67 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
68 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
69 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
70 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
71     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
72     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
73 root 1.474
74 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
75 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
76     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
77     Chuck Blake.
78 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
79     obscure the mouse cursor position.
80 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
81 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
82     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
83 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
84     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
85 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
86     transfer efficiency.
87 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
88 root 1.463
89 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
90 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
91 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
92     while the user still drags.
93 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
94     not drawn correctly.
95 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
96     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
97 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
98     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
99 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
100     stripping whitespace.
101 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
102 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
103 root 1.452
104 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
105 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
106 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
107 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
108     (also a bug in original rxvt).
109 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
110     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
111     partial patch).
112     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
113     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
114 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
115 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
116 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
117 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
118 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
119 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
120 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
121     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
122     - slight overall speed improvements.
123     - considerably improved code clarity.
124 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
125     buffer.
126 root 1.437
127 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
128 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
129     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
130     (matters only for rxvtd).
131 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
132 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
133 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
134 root 1.431
135 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
136 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
137 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
138     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
139     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
140     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
141     percentage by 100-percentage.
142     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
143     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
144     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
145     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
146     windows.
147     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
148     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
149     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
150     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
151     - replaced INSTALL file.
152    
153 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
154 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
155 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
156     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
157     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
158     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
159     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
160     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
161 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
162 root 1.411
163 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
164 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
165     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
166     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
167     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
168     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
169     Affects display in iso14755 box.
170     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
171     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
172     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
173     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
174     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
175     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
176     cutting pieces off of characters.
177     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
178     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
179     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
180     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
181     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
182     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
183     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
184 root 1.399
185 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
186 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
187 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
188     meaning of the given key.
189     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
190     (patch by Martin Edlman).
191 root 1.394
192 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
193     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
194 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
195     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
196     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
197 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
198 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
199 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
200 root 1.433 to disable it.
201 root 1.393
202 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
203     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
204 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
205     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
206     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
207     with modifiers.
208 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
209     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
210 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
211     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
212     and clear the scrollback buffer.
213 root 1.389
214 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
215 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
216 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
217     a command.
218     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
219     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
220     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
221     in Perl/Gtk2.
222     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
223     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
224     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
225     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
226     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
227     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
228     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
229     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
230     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
231     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
232     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
233     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
234     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
235     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
236     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
237 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
238 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
239     rxvt-unicode).
240     - get rid of the intpro files.
241 root 1.373
242 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
243 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
244 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
245     (Kuang-che Wu).
246     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
247     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
248     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
249     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
250     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
251     along with other, similar, cleanups.
252     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
253     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
254     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
255     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
256     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
257     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
258 root 1.361
259 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
260     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
261 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
262     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
263     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
264     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
265     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
266     his patience and time in tracking this down).
267     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
268     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
269 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
270 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
271     by Joël Riou).
272     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
273     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
274     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
275     - shaved off some code segment size.
276     - various code cleanups.
277     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
278 root 1.360
279 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
280 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
281     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
282     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
283     -pixmap is active.
284     - new option/resource imFont.
285     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
286     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
287     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
288     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
289     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
290     (WU Fengguang).
291     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
292     examples (rxvt.1).
293     - removed src/test completely.
294     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
295 root 1.287
296 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
297 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
298     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
299     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
300     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
301     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
302     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
303     resulting in segfaults.
304     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
305     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
306     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
307     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
308     (Mikael Magnusson).
309     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
310     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
311     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
312     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
313     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
314     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
315     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
316     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
317     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
318     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
319     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
320     - initialize the locale much earlier.
321     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
322 root 1.331
323 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
324 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
325     black on initial startup.
326     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
327     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
328 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
329 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
330     additional multimedia keys.
331     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
332     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
333 root 1.312
334 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
335 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
336 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
337     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
338     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
339     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
340     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
341     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
342     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
343     ignored.
344     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
345     instead.
346     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
347     (reported by hednod).
348     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
349     - fix atom name enumeration.
350 root 1.291
351 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
352     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
353 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
354     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
355     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
356     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
357 root 1.288
358     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
359 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
360 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
361     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
362     titles etc.
363     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
364     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
365     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
366     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
367     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
368     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
369     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
370     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
371     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
372     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
373     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
374     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
375     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
376     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
377 root 1.272
378 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
379 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
380     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
381     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
382     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
383     thoroughly.
384     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
385     now, too.
386 root 1.274
387 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
388 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
389 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
390     on high-latency networks.
391     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
392     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
393     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
394     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
395     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
396     by Gunnar Ritter.
397     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
398     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
399 root 1.252
400 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
401     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
402 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
403 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
404 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
405 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
406 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
407     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
408     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
409     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
410 root 1.263
411 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
412     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
413 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
414     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
415     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
416     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
417     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
418     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
419     ... terminated by a fix.
420     - new supported preeeditType "None".
421     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
422     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
423     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
424     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
425     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
426     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
427     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
428     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
429     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
430     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
431     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
432     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
433     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
434     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
435     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
436     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
437     in tracking this down.
438     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
439     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
440 root 1.252
441     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
442     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
443 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
444 root 1.236
445     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
446 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
447     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
448     installed if tic is available.
449     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
450     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
451     - removed README.unicode.
452     - support select&paste of tab characters.
453     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
454     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
455     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
456     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
457     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
458     screen updates with curses.
459     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
460     by spaces.
461     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
462     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
463     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
464     is just too slow for this to work.
465     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
466     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
467     implement. use --enable-styles.
468     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
469     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
470     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
471     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
472     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
473     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
474 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
475 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
476     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
477     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
478     (only for non-bold right now).
479     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
480     - better default font size and style.
481     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
482     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
483     single character against the base font extents and will only
484     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
485     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
486     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
487     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
488     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
489     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
490     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
491     screen height.
492     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
493     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
494     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
495     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
496     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
497     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
498     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
499     - removed OSC 702.
500     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
501     confused by it rather than using it.
502 root 1.168
503 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
504     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
505 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
506     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
507 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
508 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
509     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
510     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
511     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
512     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
513     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
514     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
515     close).
516     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
517     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
518     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
519     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
520 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
521 root 1.430 could not be created.
522     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
523     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
524     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
525     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
526     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
527     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
528     works.
529 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
530 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
531     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
532     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
533     character is a sensible operation.
534     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
535     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
536     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
537     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
538     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
539     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
540     with selections).
541 root 1.194
542 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
543 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
544     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
545     needs access to a local shell window).
546     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
547     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
548     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
549     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
550     a little window or so) would be welcome.
551     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
552     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
553     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
554     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
555     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
556     added there.
557     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
558     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
559 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
560 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
561     instead of being ignored.
562     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
563     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
564     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
565     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
566     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
567     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
568     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
569     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
570     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
571     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
572     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
573     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
574     needs testing anyways.
575     - more complete compile options help output.
576     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
577     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
578     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
579     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
580     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
581     - minor doc fix.
582 root 1.137
583 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
584 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
585     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
586     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
587 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
588 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
589     memmove :)
590 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
591 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
592     (debian bug #169415).
593     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
594     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
595     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
596     - updated config.guess.
597 root 1.147
598     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
599 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
600 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
601     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
602     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
603     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
604     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
605     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
606     speeding up scrolling immensely.
607     - various other optimizations.
608     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
609 root 1.145
610     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
611 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
612     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
613     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
614 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
615 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
616 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
617     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
618     Mikael Magnusson).
619     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
620 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
621 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
622 root 1.124
623     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
624 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
625     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
626     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
627     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
628     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
629 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
630 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
631     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
632 root 1.124
633     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
634     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
635 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
636     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
637     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
638     well as with other terminal emulators.
639 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
640 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
641     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
642     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
643     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
644     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
645     Bloch.
646 root 1.124
647     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
648     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
649     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
650     sorry).
651     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
652     make it a little bit more correct c++).
653    
654 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
655 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
656     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
657     - minor i18n issue fixes.
658 pcg 1.114
659 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
660     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
661 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
662     - fix some minor bugs.
663 pcg 1.110
664 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
665 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
666 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
667     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
668     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
669     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
670     an extension and is slightly ugly.
671 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
672 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
673     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
674 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
675 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
676     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
677     overwritten (as is common).
678     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
679     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
680 pcg 1.108
681     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
682     - minor doc corrections.
683 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
684     avoid clashes with xterm.
685     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
686     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
687     window colour when arg is "?".
688     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
689     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
690     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
691     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
692     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
693     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
694     (FRILLS).
695     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
696     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
697     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
698     - set _NET_WM_PID.
699 pcg 1.108
700 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
701     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
702 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
703     - more informative error messages.
704     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
705     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
706     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
707     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
708     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
709 pcg 1.91
710 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
711     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
712     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
713 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
714     - removed old selection style completely.
715     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
716     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
717     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
718     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
719     be used from within rxvt.
720     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
721 pcg 1.83
722 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
723     - code cleanup release.
724     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
725 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
726     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
727     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
728     all files.
729     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
730     --enable-xgetdefaults.
731 pcg 1.74
732 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
733 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
734     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
735     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
736     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
737     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
738 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
739 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
740     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
741     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
742     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
743     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
744     --disable-xgetdefault.
745     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
746     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
747     unicode character.
748     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
749     get it wrong.
750     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
751 pcg 1.69
752 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
753 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
754 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
755     settings.
756     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
757     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
758     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
759     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
760     mbrtowc.
761     - more robust encoding name matching.
762     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
763     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
764     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
765     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
766     resources and docs.
767     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
768 pcg 1.58
769 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
770     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
771 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
772     - configure cleanup
773     - viscii enabled by default
774     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
775 pcg 1.50
776     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
777     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
778    
779 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
780 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
781 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
782     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
783     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
784     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
785     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
786     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
787     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
788     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
789     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
790     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
791     reported by joel reed.
792     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
793     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
794     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
795     being selected.
796     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
797     - removed greek support.
798     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
799     - correct cursor width if !focus.
800     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
801 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
802 root 1.430 contributed.
803     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
804     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
805     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
806     - many other minor bugfixes.
807 pcg 1.26
808 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
809 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
810 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
811     - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
812     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
813     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
814     - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
815     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
816     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
817     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
818 pcg 1.19
819 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
820     - further cleanups.
821 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
822     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
823     use reverse video, not _blink_.
824     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
825     please drop me a note.
826 pcg 1.16
827 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
828 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
829 root 1.430 - blinking text.
830     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
831     normal text when colorBD is not set.
832     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
833     was never implemented
834 pcg 1.13
835 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
836 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
837 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
838     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
839     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
840     reported by fefe
841     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
842     Markus Demleitner
843     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
844     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
845     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
846 pcg 1.7
847 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
848 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
849 root 1.430 - small font tunings
850     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
851     - better error reporting for unknown options
852 pcg 1.1
853 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
854 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
855     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
856     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
857     - much faster x11 font selection
858 pcg 1.2
859     1.2 2003-12-24
860 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
861 root 1.430 - better font matching
862     - better memory management (less memory)
863     - new fallback: gnu freefont
864 pcg 1.2
865     1.1 2003-12-18
866 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
867     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
868     - much improved font choosing
869 pcg 1.2
870 pcg 1.1 1.0
871 root 1.430 - first release
872     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
873     - removed rclock et al.
874     - initial conversion to C++
875 root 1.194