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Revision: 1.530
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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 1.530 - applied many patches by Emanuele Giaquinta, cleanups and
30     bugfixes in the utmp logging code and configure.
31     - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
32     anymore.
33 root 1.520 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
34     to set the window title.
35 root 1.518
36 root 1.517 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
37 root 1.500 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
38 root 1.501 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
39 root 1.503 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
40     option-popup extensions enabled by default.
41 root 1.502 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
42     will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
43 root 1.499 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
44     and much much more.
45 root 1.493 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
46 root 1.495 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
47 root 1.496 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
48 root 1.499 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
49     - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
50 root 1.498 setuid/setgid.
51 root 1.499 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
52 root 1.497 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
53 root 1.499 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
54 root 1.503 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
55 root 1.504 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
56 root 1.514 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
57 root 1.505 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
58 root 1.506 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
59     compatible, and not really small either.
60     - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
61     - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
62 root 1.510 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
63     to crashes.
64 root 1.511 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
65     colours.
66 root 1.510 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
67 root 1.513 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
68 root 1.493
69 root 1.491 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
70 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
71     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
72     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
73 root 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
74     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
75     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
76 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
77     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
78 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
79 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
80     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
81 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
82 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
83 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
84 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
85 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
86 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
87 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
88 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
89     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
90     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
91 root 1.474
92 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
93 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
94     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
95     Chuck Blake.
96 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
97     obscure the mouse cursor position.
98 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
99 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
100     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
101 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
102     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
103 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
104     transfer efficiency.
105 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
106 root 1.463
107 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
108 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
109 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
110     while the user still drags.
111 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
112     not drawn correctly.
113 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
114     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
115 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
116     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
117 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
118     stripping whitespace.
119 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
120 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
121 root 1.452
122 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
123 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
124 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
125 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
126     (also a bug in original rxvt).
127 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
128     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
129     partial patch).
130     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
131     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
132 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
133 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
134 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
135 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
136 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
137 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
138 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
139     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
140     - slight overall speed improvements.
141     - considerably improved code clarity.
142 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
143     buffer.
144 root 1.437
145 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
146 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
147     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
148     (matters only for rxvtd).
149 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
150 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
151 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
152 root 1.431
153 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
154 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
155 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
156     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
157     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
158     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
159     percentage by 100-percentage.
160     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
161     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
162     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
163     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
164     windows.
165     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
166     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
167     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
168     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
169     - replaced INSTALL file.
170    
171 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
172 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
173 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
174     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
175     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
176     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
177     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
178     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
179 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
180 root 1.411
181 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
182 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
183     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
184     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
185     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
186     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
187     Affects display in iso14755 box.
188     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
189     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
190     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
191     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
192     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
193     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
194     cutting pieces off of characters.
195     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
196     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
197     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
198     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
199     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
200     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
201     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
202 root 1.399
203 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
204 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
205 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
206     meaning of the given key.
207     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
208     (patch by Martin Edlman).
209 root 1.394
210 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
211     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
212 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
213     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
214     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
215 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
216 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
217 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
218 root 1.433 to disable it.
219 root 1.393
220 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
221     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
222 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
223     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
224     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
225     with modifiers.
226 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
227     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
228 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
229     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
230     and clear the scrollback buffer.
231 root 1.389
232 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
233 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
234 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
235     a command.
236     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
237     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
238     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
239     in Perl/Gtk2.
240     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
241     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
242     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
243     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
244     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
245     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
246     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
247     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
248     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
249     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
250     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
251     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
252     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
253     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
254     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
255 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
256 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
257     rxvt-unicode).
258     - get rid of the intpro files.
259 root 1.373
260 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
261 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
262 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
263     (Kuang-che Wu).
264     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
265     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
266     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
267     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
268     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
269     along with other, similar, cleanups.
270     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
271     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
272     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
273     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
274     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
275     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
276 root 1.361
277 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
278     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
279 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
280     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
281     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
282     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
283     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
284     his patience and time in tracking this down).
285     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
286     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
287 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
288 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
289     by Joël Riou).
290     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
291     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
292     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
293     - shaved off some code segment size.
294     - various code cleanups.
295     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
296 root 1.360
297 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
298 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
299     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
300     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
301     -pixmap is active.
302     - new option/resource imFont.
303     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
304     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
305     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
306     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
307     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
308     (WU Fengguang).
309     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
310     examples (rxvt.1).
311     - removed src/test completely.
312     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
313 root 1.287
314 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
315 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
316     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
317     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
318     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
319     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
320     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
321     resulting in segfaults.
322     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
323     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
324     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
325     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
326     (Mikael Magnusson).
327     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
328     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
329     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
330     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
331     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
332     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
333     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
334     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
335     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
336     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
337     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
338     - initialize the locale much earlier.
339     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
340 root 1.331
341 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
342 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
343     black on initial startup.
344     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
345     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
346 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
347 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
348     additional multimedia keys.
349     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
350     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
351 root 1.312
352 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
353 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
354 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
355     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
356     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
357     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
358     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
359     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
360     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
361     ignored.
362     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
363     instead.
364     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
365     (reported by hednod).
366     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
367     - fix atom name enumeration.
368 root 1.291
369 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
370     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
371 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
372     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
373     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
374     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
375 root 1.288
376     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
377 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
378 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
379     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
380     titles etc.
381     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
382     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
383     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
384     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
385     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
386     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
387     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
388     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
389     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
390     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
391     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
392     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
393     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
394     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
395 root 1.272
396 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
397 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
398     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
399     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
400     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
401     thoroughly.
402     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
403     now, too.
404 root 1.274
405 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
406 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
407 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
408     on high-latency networks.
409     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
410     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
411     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
412     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
413     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
414     by Gunnar Ritter.
415     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
416     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
417 root 1.252
418 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
419     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
420 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
421 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
422 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
423 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
424 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
425     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
426     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
427     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
428 root 1.263
429 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
430     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
431 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
432     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
433     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
434     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
435     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
436     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
437     ... terminated by a fix.
438     - new supported preeeditType "None".
439     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
440     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
441     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
442     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
443     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
444     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
445     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
446     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
447     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
448     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
449     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
450     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
451     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
452     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
453     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
454     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
455     in tracking this down.
456     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
457     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
458 root 1.252
459     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
460     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
461 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
462 root 1.236
463     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
464 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
465     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
466     installed if tic is available.
467     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
468     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
469     - removed README.unicode.
470     - support select&paste of tab characters.
471     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
472     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
473     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
474     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
475     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
476     screen updates with curses.
477     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
478     by spaces.
479     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
480     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
481     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
482     is just too slow for this to work.
483     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
484     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
485     implement. use --enable-styles.
486     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
487     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
488     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
489     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
490     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
491     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
492 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
493 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
494     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
495     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
496     (only for non-bold right now).
497     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
498     - better default font size and style.
499     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
500     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
501     single character against the base font extents and will only
502     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
503     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
504     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
505     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
506     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
507     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
508     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
509     screen height.
510     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
511     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
512     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
513     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
514     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
515     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
516     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
517     - removed OSC 702.
518     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
519     confused by it rather than using it.
520 root 1.168
521 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
522     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
523 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
524     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
525 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
526 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
527     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
528     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
529     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
530     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
531     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
532     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
533     close).
534     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
535     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
536     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
537     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
538 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
539 root 1.430 could not be created.
540     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
541     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
542     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
543     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
544     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
545     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
546     works.
547 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
548 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
549     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
550     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
551     character is a sensible operation.
552     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
553     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
554     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
555     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
556     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
557     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
558     with selections).
559 root 1.194
560 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
561 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
562     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
563     needs access to a local shell window).
564     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
565     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
566     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
567     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
568     a little window or so) would be welcome.
569     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
570     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
571     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
572     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
573     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
574     added there.
575     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
576     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
577 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
578 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
579     instead of being ignored.
580     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
581     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
582     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
583     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
584     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
585     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
586     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
587     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
588     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
589     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
590     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
591     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
592     needs testing anyways.
593     - more complete compile options help output.
594     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
595     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
596     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
597     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
598     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
599     - minor doc fix.
600 root 1.137
601 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
602 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
603     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
604     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
605 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
606 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
607     memmove :)
608 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
609 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
610     (debian bug #169415).
611     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
612     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
613     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
614     - updated config.guess.
615 root 1.147
616     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
617 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
618 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
619     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
620     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
621     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
622     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
623     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
624     speeding up scrolling immensely.
625     - various other optimizations.
626     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
627 root 1.145
628     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
629 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
630     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
631     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
632 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
633 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
634 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
635     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
636     Mikael Magnusson).
637     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
638 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
639 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
640 root 1.124
641     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
642 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
643     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
644     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
645     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
646     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
647 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
648 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
649     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
650 root 1.124
651     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
652     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
653 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
654     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
655     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
656     well as with other terminal emulators.
657 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
658 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
659     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
660     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
661     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
662     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
663     Bloch.
664 root 1.124
665     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
666     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
667     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
668     sorry).
669     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
670     make it a little bit more correct c++).
671    
672 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
673 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
674     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
675     - minor i18n issue fixes.
676 pcg 1.114
677 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
678     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
679 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
680     - fix some minor bugs.
681 pcg 1.110
682 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
683 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
684 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
685     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
686     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
687     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
688     an extension and is slightly ugly.
689 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
690 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
691     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
692 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
693 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
694     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
695     overwritten (as is common).
696     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
697     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
698 pcg 1.108
699     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
700     - minor doc corrections.
701 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
702     avoid clashes with xterm.
703     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
704     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
705     window colour when arg is "?".
706     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
707     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
708     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
709     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
710     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
711     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
712     (FRILLS).
713     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
714     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
715     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
716     - set _NET_WM_PID.
717 pcg 1.108
718 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
719     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
720 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
721     - more informative error messages.
722     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
723     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
724     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
725     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
726     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
727 pcg 1.91
728 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
729     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
730     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
731 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
732     - removed old selection style completely.
733     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
734     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
735     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
736     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
737     be used from within rxvt.
738     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
739 pcg 1.83
740 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
741     - code cleanup release.
742     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
743 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
744     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
745     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
746     all files.
747     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
748     --enable-xgetdefaults.
749 pcg 1.74
750 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
751 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
752     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
753     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
754     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
755     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
756 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
757 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
758     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
759     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
760     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
761     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
762     --disable-xgetdefault.
763     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
764     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
765     unicode character.
766     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
767     get it wrong.
768     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
769 pcg 1.69
770 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
771 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
772 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
773     settings.
774     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
775     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
776     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
777     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
778     mbrtowc.
779     - more robust encoding name matching.
780     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
781     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
782     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
783     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
784     resources and docs.
785     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
786 pcg 1.58
787 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
788     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
789 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
790     - configure cleanup
791     - viscii enabled by default
792     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
793 pcg 1.50
794     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
795     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
796    
797 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
798 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
799 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
800     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
801     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
802     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
803     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
804     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
805     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
806     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
807     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
808     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
809     reported by joel reed.
810     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
811     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
812     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
813     being selected.
814     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
815     - removed greek support.
816     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
817     - correct cursor width if !focus.
818     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
819 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
820 root 1.430 contributed.
821     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
822     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
823     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
824     - many other minor bugfixes.
825 pcg 1.26
826 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
827 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
828 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
829 root 1.528 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
830     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
831     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
832 root 1.430 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
833     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
834     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
835     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
836 pcg 1.19
837 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
838     - further cleanups.
839 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
840     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
841     use reverse video, not _blink_.
842     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
843     please drop me a note.
844 pcg 1.16
845 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
846 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
847 root 1.430 - blinking text.
848     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
849     normal text when colorBD is not set.
850     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
851     was never implemented
852 pcg 1.13
853 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
854 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
855 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
856     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
857     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
858     reported by fefe
859     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
860     Markus Demleitner
861     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
862     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
863     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
864 pcg 1.7
865 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
866 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
867 root 1.430 - small font tunings
868     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
869     - better error reporting for unknown options
870 pcg 1.1
871 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
872 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
873     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
874     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
875     - much faster x11 font selection
876 pcg 1.2
877     1.2 2003-12-24
878 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
879 root 1.430 - better font matching
880     - better memory management (less memory)
881     - new fallback: gnu freefont
882 pcg 1.2
883     1.1 2003-12-18
884 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
885     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
886     - much improved font choosing
887 pcg 1.2
888 pcg 1.1 1.0
889 root 1.430 - first release
890     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
891     - removed rclock et al.
892     - initial conversion to C++
893 root 1.194