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Revision: 1.529
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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 1.526 WISH: perl extension for background image loading and moving the origin.
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 1.518 9.0
16 root 1.521 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
17     span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0.
18 root 1.528 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
19     some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
20     at the wrong time.
21 root 1.521 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
22     - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
23     code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
24     :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
25     - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
26     being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
27 root 1.522 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
28     - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
29 root 1.521 - applied many patches by Emanuele Giaquinta that clean the code up
30     and fix more bugs in the utmp logging code.
31 root 1.529 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C.
32 root 1.520 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
33     to set the window title.
34 root 1.518
35 root 1.517 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
36 root 1.500 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
37 root 1.501 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
38 root 1.503 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
39     option-popup extensions enabled by default.
40 root 1.502 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
41     will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
42 root 1.499 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
43     and much much more.
44 root 1.493 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
45 root 1.495 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
46 root 1.496 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
47 root 1.499 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
48     - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
49 root 1.498 setuid/setgid.
50 root 1.499 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
51 root 1.497 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
52 root 1.499 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
53 root 1.503 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
54 root 1.504 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
55 root 1.514 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
56 root 1.505 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
57 root 1.506 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
58     compatible, and not really small either.
59     - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
60     - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
61 root 1.510 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
62     to crashes.
63 root 1.511 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
64     colours.
65 root 1.510 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
66 root 1.513 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
67 root 1.493
68 root 1.491 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
69 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
70     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
71     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
72 root 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
73     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
74     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
75 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
76     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
77 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
78 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
79     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
80 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
81 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
82 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
83 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
84 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
85 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
86 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
87 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
88     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
89     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
90 root 1.474
91 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
92 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
93     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
94     Chuck Blake.
95 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
96     obscure the mouse cursor position.
97 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
98 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
99     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
100 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
101     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
102 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
103     transfer efficiency.
104 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
105 root 1.463
106 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
107 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
108 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
109     while the user still drags.
110 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
111     not drawn correctly.
112 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
113     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
114 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
115     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
116 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
117     stripping whitespace.
118 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
119 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
120 root 1.452
121 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
122 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
123 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
124 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
125     (also a bug in original rxvt).
126 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
127     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
128     partial patch).
129     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
130     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
131 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
132 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
133 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
134 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
135 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
136 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
137 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
138     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
139     - slight overall speed improvements.
140     - considerably improved code clarity.
141 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
142     buffer.
143 root 1.437
144 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
145 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
146     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
147     (matters only for rxvtd).
148 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
149 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
150 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
151 root 1.431
152 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
153 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
154 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
155     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
156     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
157     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
158     percentage by 100-percentage.
159     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
160     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
161     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
162     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
163     windows.
164     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
165     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
166     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
167     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
168     - replaced INSTALL file.
169    
170 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
171 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
172 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
173     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
174     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
175     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
176     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
177     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
178 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
179 root 1.411
180 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
181 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
182     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
183     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
184     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
185     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
186     Affects display in iso14755 box.
187     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
188     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
189     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
190     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
191     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
192     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
193     cutting pieces off of characters.
194     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
195     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
196     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
197     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
198     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
199     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
200     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
201 root 1.399
202 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
203 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
204 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
205     meaning of the given key.
206     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
207     (patch by Martin Edlman).
208 root 1.394
209 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
210     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
211 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
212     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
213     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
214 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
215 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
216 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
217 root 1.433 to disable it.
218 root 1.393
219 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
220     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
221 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
222     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
223     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
224     with modifiers.
225 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
226     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
227 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
228     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
229     and clear the scrollback buffer.
230 root 1.389
231 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
232 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
233 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
234     a command.
235     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
236     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
237     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
238     in Perl/Gtk2.
239     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
240     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
241     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
242     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
243     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
244     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
245     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
246     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
247     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
248     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
249     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
250     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
251     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
252     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
253     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
254 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
255 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
256     rxvt-unicode).
257     - get rid of the intpro files.
258 root 1.373
259 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
260 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
261 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
262     (Kuang-che Wu).
263     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
264     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
265     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
266     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
267     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
268     along with other, similar, cleanups.
269     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
270     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
271     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
272     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
273     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
274     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
275 root 1.361
276 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
277     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
278 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
279     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
280     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
281     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
282     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
283     his patience and time in tracking this down).
284     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
285     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
286 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
287 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
288     by Joël Riou).
289     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
290     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
291     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
292     - shaved off some code segment size.
293     - various code cleanups.
294     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
295 root 1.360
296 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
297 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
298     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
299     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
300     -pixmap is active.
301     - new option/resource imFont.
302     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
303     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
304     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
305     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
306     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
307     (WU Fengguang).
308     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
309     examples (rxvt.1).
310     - removed src/test completely.
311     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
312 root 1.287
313 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
314 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
315     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
316     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
317     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
318     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
319     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
320     resulting in segfaults.
321     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
322     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
323     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
324     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
325     (Mikael Magnusson).
326     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
327     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
328     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
329     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
330     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
331     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
332     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
333     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
334     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
335     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
336     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
337     - initialize the locale much earlier.
338     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
339 root 1.331
340 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
341 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
342     black on initial startup.
343     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
344     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
345 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
346 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
347     additional multimedia keys.
348     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
349     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
350 root 1.312
351 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
352 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
353 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
354     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
355     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
356     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
357     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
358     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
359     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
360     ignored.
361     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
362     instead.
363     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
364     (reported by hednod).
365     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
366     - fix atom name enumeration.
367 root 1.291
368 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
369     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
370 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
371     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
372     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
373     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
374 root 1.288
375     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
376 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
377 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
378     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
379     titles etc.
380     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
381     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
382     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
383     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
384     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
385     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
386     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
387     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
388     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
389     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
390     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
391     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
392     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
393     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
394 root 1.272
395 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
396 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
397     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
398     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
399     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
400     thoroughly.
401     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
402     now, too.
403 root 1.274
404 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
405 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
406 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
407     on high-latency networks.
408     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
409     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
410     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
411     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
412     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
413     by Gunnar Ritter.
414     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
415     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
416 root 1.252
417 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
418     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
419 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
420 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
421 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
422 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
423 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
424     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
425     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
426     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
427 root 1.263
428 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
429     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
430 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
431     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
432     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
433     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
434     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
435     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
436     ... terminated by a fix.
437     - new supported preeeditType "None".
438     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
439     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
440     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
441     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
442     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
443     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
444     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
445     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
446     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
447     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
448     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
449     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
450     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
451     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
452     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
453     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
454     in tracking this down.
455     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
456     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
457 root 1.252
458     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
459     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
460 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
461 root 1.236
462     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
463 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
464     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
465     installed if tic is available.
466     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
467     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
468     - removed README.unicode.
469     - support select&paste of tab characters.
470     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
471     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
472     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
473     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
474     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
475     screen updates with curses.
476     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
477     by spaces.
478     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
479     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
480     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
481     is just too slow for this to work.
482     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
483     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
484     implement. use --enable-styles.
485     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
486     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
487     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
488     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
489     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
490     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
491 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
492 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
493     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
494     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
495     (only for non-bold right now).
496     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
497     - better default font size and style.
498     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
499     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
500     single character against the base font extents and will only
501     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
502     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
503     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
504     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
505     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
506     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
507     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
508     screen height.
509     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
510     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
511     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
512     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
513     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
514     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
515     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
516     - removed OSC 702.
517     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
518     confused by it rather than using it.
519 root 1.168
520 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
521     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
522 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
523     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
524 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
525 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
526     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
527     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
528     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
529     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
530     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
531     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
532     close).
533     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
534     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
535     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
536     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
537 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
538 root 1.430 could not be created.
539     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
540     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
541     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
542     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
543     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
544     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
545     works.
546 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
547 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
548     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
549     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
550     character is a sensible operation.
551     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
552     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
553     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
554     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
555     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
556     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
557     with selections).
558 root 1.194
559 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
560 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
561     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
562     needs access to a local shell window).
563     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
564     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
565     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
566     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
567     a little window or so) would be welcome.
568     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
569     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
570     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
571     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
572     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
573     added there.
574     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
575     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
576 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
577 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
578     instead of being ignored.
579     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
580     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
581     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
582     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
583     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
584     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
585     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
586     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
587     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
588     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
589     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
590     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
591     needs testing anyways.
592     - more complete compile options help output.
593     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
594     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
595     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
596     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
597     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
598     - minor doc fix.
599 root 1.137
600 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
601 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
602     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
603     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
604 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
605 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
606     memmove :)
607 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
608 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
609     (debian bug #169415).
610     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
611     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
612     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
613     - updated config.guess.
614 root 1.147
615     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
616 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
617 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
618     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
619     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
620     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
621     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
622     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
623     speeding up scrolling immensely.
624     - various other optimizations.
625     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
626 root 1.145
627     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
628 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
629     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
630     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
631 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
632 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
633 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
634     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
635     Mikael Magnusson).
636     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
637 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
638 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
639 root 1.124
640     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
641 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
642     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
643     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
644     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
645     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
646 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
647 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
648     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
649 root 1.124
650     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
651     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
652 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
653     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
654     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
655     well as with other terminal emulators.
656 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
657 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
658     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
659     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
660     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
661     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
662     Bloch.
663 root 1.124
664     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
665     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
666     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
667     sorry).
668     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
669     make it a little bit more correct c++).
670    
671 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
672 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
673     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
674     - minor i18n issue fixes.
675 pcg 1.114
676 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
677     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
678 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
679     - fix some minor bugs.
680 pcg 1.110
681 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
682 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
683 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
684     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
685     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
686     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
687     an extension and is slightly ugly.
688 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
689 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
690     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
691 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
692 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
693     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
694     overwritten (as is common).
695     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
696     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
697 pcg 1.108
698     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
699     - minor doc corrections.
700 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
701     avoid clashes with xterm.
702     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
703     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
704     window colour when arg is "?".
705     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
706     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
707     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
708     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
709     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
710     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
711     (FRILLS).
712     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
713     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
714     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
715     - set _NET_WM_PID.
716 pcg 1.108
717 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
718     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
719 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
720     - more informative error messages.
721     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
722     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
723     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
724     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
725     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
726 pcg 1.91
727 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
728     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
729     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
730 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
731     - removed old selection style completely.
732     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
733     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
734     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
735     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
736     be used from within rxvt.
737     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
738 pcg 1.83
739 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
740     - code cleanup release.
741     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
742 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
743     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
744     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
745     all files.
746     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
747     --enable-xgetdefaults.
748 pcg 1.74
749 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
750 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
751     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
752     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
753     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
754     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
755 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
756 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
757     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
758     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
759     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
760     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
761     --disable-xgetdefault.
762     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
763     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
764     unicode character.
765     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
766     get it wrong.
767     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
768 pcg 1.69
769 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
770 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
771 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
772     settings.
773     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
774     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
775     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
776     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
777     mbrtowc.
778     - more robust encoding name matching.
779     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
780     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
781     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
782     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
783     resources and docs.
784     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
785 pcg 1.58
786 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
787     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
788 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
789     - configure cleanup
790     - viscii enabled by default
791     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
792 pcg 1.50
793     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
794     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
795    
796 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
797 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
798 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
799     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
800     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
801     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
802     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
803     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
804     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
805     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
806     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
807     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
808     reported by joel reed.
809     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
810     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
811     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
812     being selected.
813     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
814     - removed greek support.
815     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
816     - correct cursor width if !focus.
817     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
818 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
819 root 1.430 contributed.
820     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
821     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
822     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
823     - many other minor bugfixes.
824 pcg 1.26
825 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
826 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
827 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
828 root 1.528 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
829     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
830     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
831 root 1.430 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
832     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
833     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
834     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
835 pcg 1.19
836 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
837     - further cleanups.
838 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
839     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
840     use reverse video, not _blink_.
841     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
842     please drop me a note.
843 pcg 1.16
844 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
845 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
846 root 1.430 - blinking text.
847     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
848     normal text when colorBD is not set.
849     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
850     was never implemented
851 pcg 1.13
852 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
853 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
854 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
855     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
856     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
857     reported by fefe
858     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
859     Markus Demleitner
860     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
861     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
862     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
863 pcg 1.7
864 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
865 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
866 root 1.430 - small font tunings
867     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
868     - better error reporting for unknown options
869 pcg 1.1
870 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
871 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
872     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
873     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
874     - much faster x11 font selection
875 pcg 1.2
876     1.2 2003-12-24
877 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
878 root 1.430 - better font matching
879     - better memory management (less memory)
880     - new fallback: gnu freefont
881 pcg 1.2
882     1.1 2003-12-18
883 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
884     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
885     - much improved font choosing
886 pcg 1.2
887 pcg 1.1 1.0
888 root 1.430 - first release
889     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
890     - removed rclock et al.
891     - initial conversion to C++
892 root 1.194