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Revision: 1.524
Committed: Mon Jan 16 09:10:16 2006 UTC (18 years, 3 months ago) by root
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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 1.510 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay...
11 root 1.346 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
12 root 1.492 WISH: support tex fonts
13 root 1.346
14 root 1.518 9.0
15 root 1.521 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
16     span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0.
17     - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
18     - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
19     code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
20     :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
21     - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
22     being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
23 root 1.522 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
24     - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
25 root 1.521 - applied many patches by Emanuele Giaquinta that clean the code up
26     and fix more bugs in the utmp logging code.
27 root 1.520 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
28     to set the window title.
29 root 1.518
30 root 1.517 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
31 root 1.500 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
32 root 1.501 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
33 root 1.503 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
34     option-popup extensions enabled by default.
35 root 1.502 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
36     will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
37 root 1.499 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
38     and much much more.
39 root 1.493 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
40 root 1.495 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
41 root 1.496 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
42 root 1.499 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
43     - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
44 root 1.498 setuid/setgid.
45 root 1.499 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
46 root 1.497 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
47 root 1.499 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
48 root 1.503 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
49 root 1.504 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
50 root 1.514 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
51 root 1.505 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
52 root 1.506 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
53     compatible, and not really small either.
54     - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
55     - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
56 root 1.510 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
57     to crashes.
58 root 1.511 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
59     colours.
60 root 1.510 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
61 root 1.513 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
62 root 1.493
63 root 1.491 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
64 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
65     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
66     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
67 root 1.524 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
68     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
69     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
70 root 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
71     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
72     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
73 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
74     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
75 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
76 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
77     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
78 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
79 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
80 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
81 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
82 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
83 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
84 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
85 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
86     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
87     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
88 root 1.474
89 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
90 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
91     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
92     Chuck Blake.
93 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
94     obscure the mouse cursor position.
95 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
96 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
97     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
98 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
99     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
100 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
101     transfer efficiency.
102 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
103 root 1.463
104 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
105 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
106 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
107     while the user still drags.
108 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
109     not drawn correctly.
110 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
111     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
112 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
113     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
114 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
115     stripping whitespace.
116 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
117 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
118 root 1.452
119 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
120 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
121 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
122 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
123     (also a bug in original rxvt).
124 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
125     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
126     partial patch).
127     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
128     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
129 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
130 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
131 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
132 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
133 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
134 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
135 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
136     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
137     - slight overall speed improvements.
138     - considerably improved code clarity.
139 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
140     buffer.
141 root 1.437
142 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
143 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
144     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
145     (matters only for rxvtd).
146 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
147 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
148 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
149 root 1.431
150 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
151 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
152 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
153     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
154     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
155     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
156     percentage by 100-percentage.
157     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
158     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
159     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
160     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
161     windows.
162     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
163     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
164     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
165     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
166     - replaced INSTALL file.
167    
168 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
169 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
170 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
171     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
172     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
173     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
174     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
175     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
176 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
177 root 1.411
178 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
179 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
180     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
181     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
182     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
183     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
184     Affects display in iso14755 box.
185     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
186     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
187     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
188     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
189     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
190     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
191     cutting pieces off of characters.
192     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
193     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
194     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
195     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
196     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
197     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
198     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
199 root 1.399
200 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
201 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
202 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
203     meaning of the given key.
204     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
205     (patch by Martin Edlman).
206 root 1.394
207 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
208     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
209 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
210     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
211     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
212 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
213 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
214 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
215 root 1.433 to disable it.
216 root 1.393
217 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
218     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
219 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
220     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
221     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
222     with modifiers.
223 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
224     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
225 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
226     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
227     and clear the scrollback buffer.
228 root 1.389
229 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
230 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
231 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
232     a command.
233     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
234     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
235     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
236     in Perl/Gtk2.
237     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
238     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
239     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
240     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
241     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
242     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
243     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
244     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
245     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
246     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
247     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
248     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
249     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
250     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
251     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
252 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
253 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
254     rxvt-unicode).
255     - get rid of the intpro files.
256 root 1.373
257 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
258 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
259 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
260     (Kuang-che Wu).
261     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
262     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
263     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
264     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
265     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
266     along with other, similar, cleanups.
267     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
268     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
269     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
270     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
271     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
272     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
273 root 1.361
274 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
275     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
276 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
277     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
278     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
279     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
280     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
281     his patience and time in tracking this down).
282     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
283     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
284 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
285 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
286     by Joël Riou).
287     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
288     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
289     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
290     - shaved off some code segment size.
291     - various code cleanups.
292     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
293 root 1.360
294 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
295 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
296     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
297     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
298     -pixmap is active.
299     - new option/resource imFont.
300     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
301     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
302     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
303     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
304     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
305     (WU Fengguang).
306     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
307     examples (rxvt.1).
308     - removed src/test completely.
309     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
310 root 1.287
311 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
312 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
313     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
314     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
315     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
316     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
317     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
318     resulting in segfaults.
319     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
320     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
321     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
322     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
323     (Mikael Magnusson).
324     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
325     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
326     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
327     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
328     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
329     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
330     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
331     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
332     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
333     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
334     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
335     - initialize the locale much earlier.
336     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
337 root 1.331
338 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
339 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
340     black on initial startup.
341     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
342     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
343 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
344 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
345     additional multimedia keys.
346     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
347     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
348 root 1.312
349 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
350 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
351 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
352     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
353     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
354     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
355     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
356     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
357     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
358     ignored.
359     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
360     instead.
361     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
362     (reported by hednod).
363     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
364     - fix atom name enumeration.
365 root 1.291
366 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
367     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
368 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
369     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
370     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
371     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
372 root 1.288
373     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
374 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
375 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
376     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
377     titles etc.
378     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
379     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
380     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
381     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
382     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
383     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
384     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
385     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
386     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
387     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
388     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
389     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
390     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
391     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
392 root 1.272
393 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
394 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
395     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
396     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
397     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
398     thoroughly.
399     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
400     now, too.
401 root 1.274
402 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
403 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
404 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
405     on high-latency networks.
406     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
407     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
408     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
409     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
410     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
411     by Gunnar Ritter.
412     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
413     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
414 root 1.252
415 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
416     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
417 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
418 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
419 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
420 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
421 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
422     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
423     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
424     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
425 root 1.263
426 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
427     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
428 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
429     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
430     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
431     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
432     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
433     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
434     ... terminated by a fix.
435     - new supported preeeditType "None".
436     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
437     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
438     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
439     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
440     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
441     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
442     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
443     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
444     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
445     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
446     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
447     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
448     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
449     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
450     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
451     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
452     in tracking this down.
453     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
454     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
455 root 1.252
456     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
457     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
458 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
459 root 1.236
460     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
461 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
462     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
463     installed if tic is available.
464     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
465     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
466     - removed README.unicode.
467     - support select&paste of tab characters.
468     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
469     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
470     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
471     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
472     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
473     screen updates with curses.
474     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
475     by spaces.
476     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
477     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
478     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
479     is just too slow for this to work.
480     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
481     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
482     implement. use --enable-styles.
483     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
484     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
485     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
486     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
487     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
488     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
489 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
490 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
491     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
492     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
493     (only for non-bold right now).
494     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
495     - better default font size and style.
496     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
497     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
498     single character against the base font extents and will only
499     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
500     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
501     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
502     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
503     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
504     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
505     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
506     screen height.
507     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
508     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
509     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
510     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
511     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
512     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
513     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
514     - removed OSC 702.
515     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
516     confused by it rather than using it.
517 root 1.168
518 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
519     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
520 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
521     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
522 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
523 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
524     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
525     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
526     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
527     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
528     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
529     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
530     close).
531     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
532     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
533     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
534     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
535 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
536 root 1.430 could not be created.
537     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
538     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
539     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
540     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
541     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
542     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
543     works.
544 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
545 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
546     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
547     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
548     character is a sensible operation.
549     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
550     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
551     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
552     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
553     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
554     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
555     with selections).
556 root 1.194
557 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
558 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
559     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
560     needs access to a local shell window).
561     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
562     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
563     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
564     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
565     a little window or so) would be welcome.
566     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
567     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
568     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
569     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
570     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
571     added there.
572     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
573     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
574 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
575 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
576     instead of being ignored.
577     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
578     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
579     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
580     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
581     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
582     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
583     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
584     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
585     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
586     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
587     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
588     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
589     needs testing anyways.
590     - more complete compile options help output.
591     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
592     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
593     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
594     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
595     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
596     - minor doc fix.
597 root 1.137
598 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
599 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
600     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
601     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
602 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
603 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
604     memmove :)
605 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
606 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
607     (debian bug #169415).
608     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
609     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
610     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
611     - updated config.guess.
612 root 1.147
613     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
614 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
615 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
616     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
617     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
618     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
619     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
620     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
621     speeding up scrolling immensely.
622     - various other optimizations.
623     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
624 root 1.145
625     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
626 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
627     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
628     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
629 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
630 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
631 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
632     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
633     Mikael Magnusson).
634     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
635 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
636 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
637 root 1.124
638     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
639 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
640     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
641     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
642     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
643     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
644 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
645 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
646     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
647 root 1.124
648     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
649     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
650 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
651     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
652     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
653     well as with other terminal emulators.
654 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
655 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
656     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
657     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
658     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
659     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
660     Bloch.
661 root 1.124
662     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
663     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
664     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
665     sorry).
666     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
667     make it a little bit more correct c++).
668    
669 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
670 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
671     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
672     - minor i18n issue fixes.
673 pcg 1.114
674 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
675     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
676 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
677     - fix some minor bugs.
678 pcg 1.110
679 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
680 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
681 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
682     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
683     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
684     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
685     an extension and is slightly ugly.
686 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
687 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
688     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
689 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
690 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
691     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
692     overwritten (as is common).
693     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
694     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
695 pcg 1.108
696     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
697     - minor doc corrections.
698 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
699     avoid clashes with xterm.
700     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
701     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
702     window colour when arg is "?".
703     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
704     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
705     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
706     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
707     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
708     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
709     (FRILLS).
710     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
711     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
712     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
713     - set _NET_WM_PID.
714 pcg 1.108
715 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
716     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
717 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
718     - more informative error messages.
719     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
720     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
721     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
722     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
723     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
724 pcg 1.91
725 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
726     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
727     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
728 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
729     - removed old selection style completely.
730     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
731     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
732     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
733     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
734     be used from within rxvt.
735     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
736 pcg 1.83
737 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
738     - code cleanup release.
739     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
740 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
741     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
742     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
743     all files.
744     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
745     --enable-xgetdefaults.
746 pcg 1.74
747 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
748 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
749     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
750     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
751     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
752     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
753 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
754 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
755     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
756     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
757     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
758     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
759     --disable-xgetdefault.
760     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
761     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
762     unicode character.
763     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
764     get it wrong.
765     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
766 pcg 1.69
767 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
768 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
769 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
770     settings.
771     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
772     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
773     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
774     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
775     mbrtowc.
776     - more robust encoding name matching.
777     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
778     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
779     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
780     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
781     resources and docs.
782     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
783 pcg 1.58
784 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
785     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
786 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
787     - configure cleanup
788     - viscii enabled by default
789     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
790 pcg 1.50
791     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
792     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
793    
794 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
795 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
796 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
797     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
798     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
799     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
800     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
801     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
802     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
803     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
804     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
805     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
806     reported by joel reed.
807     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
808     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
809     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
810     being selected.
811     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
812     - removed greek support.
813     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
814     - correct cursor width if !focus.
815     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
816 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
817 root 1.430 contributed.
818     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
819     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
820     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
821     - many other minor bugfixes.
822 pcg 1.26
823 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
824 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
825 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
826     - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
827     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
828     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
829     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
830 pcg 1.19
831 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
832     - further cleanups.
833 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
834     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
835     use reverse video, not _blink_.
836     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
837     please drop me a note.
838 pcg 1.16
839 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
840 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
841 root 1.430 - blinking text.
842     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
843     normal text when colorBD is not set.
844     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
845     was never implemented
846 pcg 1.13
847 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
848 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
849 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
850     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
851     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
852     reported by fefe
853     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
854     Markus Demleitner
855     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
856     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
857     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
858 pcg 1.7
859 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
860 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
861 root 1.430 - small font tunings
862     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
863     - better error reporting for unknown options
864 pcg 1.1
865 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
866 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
867     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
868     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
869     - much faster x11 font selection
870 pcg 1.2
871     1.2 2003-12-24
872 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
873 root 1.430 - better font matching
874     - better memory management (less memory)
875     - new fallback: gnu freefont
876 pcg 1.2
877     1.1 2003-12-18
878 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
879     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
880     - much improved font choosing
881 pcg 1.2
882 pcg 1.1 1.0
883 root 1.430 - first release
884     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
885     - removed rclock et al.
886     - initial conversion to C++
887 root 1.194