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Revision: 1.532
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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 1.532 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
30     (Emanuele Giaquinta).
31 root 1.530 - 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 1.531 - nuked QNX support.
36 root 1.518
37 root 1.517 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
38 root 1.500 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
39 root 1.501 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
40 root 1.503 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
41     option-popup extensions enabled by default.
42 root 1.502 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
43     will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
44 root 1.499 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
45     and much much more.
46 root 1.493 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
47 root 1.495 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
48 root 1.496 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
49 root 1.499 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
50     - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
51 root 1.498 setuid/setgid.
52 root 1.499 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
53 root 1.497 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
54 root 1.499 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
55 root 1.503 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
56 root 1.504 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
57 root 1.514 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
58 root 1.505 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
59 root 1.506 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
60     compatible, and not really small either.
61     - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
62     - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
63 root 1.510 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
64     to crashes.
65 root 1.511 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
66     colours.
67 root 1.510 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
68 root 1.513 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
69 root 1.493
70 root 1.491 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
71 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
72     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
73     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
74 root 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
75     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
76     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
77 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
78     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
79 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
80 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
81     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
82 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
83 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
84 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
85 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
86 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
87 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
88 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
89 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
90     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
91     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
92 root 1.474
93 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
94 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
95     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
96     Chuck Blake.
97 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
98     obscure the mouse cursor position.
99 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
100 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
101     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
102 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
103     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
104 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
105     transfer efficiency.
106 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
107 root 1.463
108 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
109 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
110 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
111     while the user still drags.
112 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
113     not drawn correctly.
114 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
115     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
116 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
117     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
118 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
119     stripping whitespace.
120 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
121 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
122 root 1.452
123 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
124 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
125 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
126 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
127     (also a bug in original rxvt).
128 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
129     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
130     partial patch).
131     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
132     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
133 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
134 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
135 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
136 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
137 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
138 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
139 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
140     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
141     - slight overall speed improvements.
142     - considerably improved code clarity.
143 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
144     buffer.
145 root 1.437
146 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
147 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
148     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
149     (matters only for rxvtd).
150 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
151 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
152 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
153 root 1.431
154 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
155 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
156 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
157     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
158     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
159     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
160     percentage by 100-percentage.
161     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
162     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
163     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
164     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
165     windows.
166     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
167     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
168     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
169     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
170     - replaced INSTALL file.
171    
172 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
173 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
174 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
175     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
176     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
177     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
178     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
179     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
180 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
181 root 1.411
182 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
183 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
184     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
185     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
186     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
187     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
188     Affects display in iso14755 box.
189     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
190     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
191     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
192     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
193     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
194     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
195     cutting pieces off of characters.
196     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
197     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
198     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
199     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
200     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
201     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
202     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
203 root 1.399
204 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
205 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
206 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
207     meaning of the given key.
208     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
209     (patch by Martin Edlman).
210 root 1.394
211 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
212     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
213 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
214     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
215     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
216 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
217 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
218 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
219 root 1.433 to disable it.
220 root 1.393
221 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
222     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
223 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
224     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
225     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
226     with modifiers.
227 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
228     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
229 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
230     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
231     and clear the scrollback buffer.
232 root 1.389
233 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
234 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
235 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
236     a command.
237     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
238     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
239     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
240     in Perl/Gtk2.
241     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
242     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
243     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
244     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
245     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
246     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
247     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
248     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
249     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
250     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
251     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
252     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
253     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
254     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
255     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
256 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
257 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
258     rxvt-unicode).
259     - get rid of the intpro files.
260 root 1.373
261 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
262 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
263 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
264     (Kuang-che Wu).
265     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
266     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
267     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
268     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
269     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
270     along with other, similar, cleanups.
271     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
272     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
273     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
274     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
275     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
276     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
277 root 1.361
278 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
279     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
280 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
281     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
282     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
283     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
284     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
285     his patience and time in tracking this down).
286     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
287     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
288 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
289 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
290     by Joël Riou).
291     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
292     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
293     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
294     - shaved off some code segment size.
295     - various code cleanups.
296     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
297 root 1.360
298 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
299 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
300     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
301     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
302     -pixmap is active.
303     - new option/resource imFont.
304     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
305     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
306     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
307     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
308     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
309     (WU Fengguang).
310     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
311     examples (rxvt.1).
312     - removed src/test completely.
313     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
314 root 1.287
315 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
316 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
317     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
318     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
319     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
320     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
321     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
322     resulting in segfaults.
323     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
324     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
325     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
326     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
327     (Mikael Magnusson).
328     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
329     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
330     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
331     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
332     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
333     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
334     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
335     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
336     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
337     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
338     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
339     - initialize the locale much earlier.
340     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
341 root 1.331
342 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
343 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
344     black on initial startup.
345     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
346     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
347 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
348 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
349     additional multimedia keys.
350     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
351     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
352 root 1.312
353 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
354 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
355 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
356     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
357     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
358     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
359     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
360     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
361     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
362     ignored.
363     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
364     instead.
365     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
366     (reported by hednod).
367     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
368     - fix atom name enumeration.
369 root 1.291
370 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
371     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
372 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
373     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
374     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
375     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
376 root 1.288
377     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
378 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
379 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
380     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
381     titles etc.
382     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
383     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
384     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
385     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
386     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
387     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
388     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
389     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
390     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
391     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
392     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
393     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
394     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
395     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
396 root 1.272
397 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
398 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
399     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
400     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
401     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
402     thoroughly.
403     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
404     now, too.
405 root 1.274
406 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
407 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
408 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
409     on high-latency networks.
410     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
411     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
412     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
413     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
414     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
415     by Gunnar Ritter.
416     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
417     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
418 root 1.252
419 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
420     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
421 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
422 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
423 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
424 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
425 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
426     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
427     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
428     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
429 root 1.263
430 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
431     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
432 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
433     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
434     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
435     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
436     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
437     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
438     ... terminated by a fix.
439     - new supported preeeditType "None".
440     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
441     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
442     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
443     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
444     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
445     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
446     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
447     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
448     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
449     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
450     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
451     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
452     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
453     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
454     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
455     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
456     in tracking this down.
457     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
458     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
459 root 1.252
460     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
461     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
462 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
463 root 1.236
464     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
465 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
466     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
467     installed if tic is available.
468     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
469     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
470     - removed README.unicode.
471     - support select&paste of tab characters.
472     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
473     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
474     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
475     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
476     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
477     screen updates with curses.
478     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
479     by spaces.
480     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
481     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
482     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
483     is just too slow for this to work.
484     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
485     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
486     implement. use --enable-styles.
487     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
488     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
489     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
490     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
491     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
492     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
493 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
494 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
495     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
496     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
497     (only for non-bold right now).
498     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
499     - better default font size and style.
500     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
501     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
502     single character against the base font extents and will only
503     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
504     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
505     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
506     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
507     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
508     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
509     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
510     screen height.
511     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
512     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
513     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
514     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
515     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
516     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
517     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
518     - removed OSC 702.
519     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
520     confused by it rather than using it.
521 root 1.168
522 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
523     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
524 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
525     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
526 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
527 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
528     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
529     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
530     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
531     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
532     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
533     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
534     close).
535     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
536     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
537     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
538     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
539 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
540 root 1.430 could not be created.
541     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
542     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
543     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
544     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
545     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
546     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
547     works.
548 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
549 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
550     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
551     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
552     character is a sensible operation.
553     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
554     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
555     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
556     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
557     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
558     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
559     with selections).
560 root 1.194
561 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
562 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
563     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
564     needs access to a local shell window).
565     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
566     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
567     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
568     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
569     a little window or so) would be welcome.
570     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
571     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
572     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
573     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
574     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
575     added there.
576     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
577     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
578 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
579 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
580     instead of being ignored.
581     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
582     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
583     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
584     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
585     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
586     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
587     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
588     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
589     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
590     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
591     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
592     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
593     needs testing anyways.
594     - more complete compile options help output.
595     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
596     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
597     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
598     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
599     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
600     - minor doc fix.
601 root 1.137
602 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
603 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
604     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
605     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
606 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
607 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
608     memmove :)
609 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
610 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
611     (debian bug #169415).
612     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
613     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
614     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
615     - updated config.guess.
616 root 1.147
617     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
618 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
619 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
620     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
621     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
622     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
623     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
624     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
625     speeding up scrolling immensely.
626     - various other optimizations.
627     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
628 root 1.145
629     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
630 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
631     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
632     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
633 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
634 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
635 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
636     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
637     Mikael Magnusson).
638     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
639 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
640 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
641 root 1.124
642     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
643 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
644     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
645     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
646     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
647     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
648 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
649 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
650     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
651 root 1.124
652     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
653     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
654 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
655     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
656     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
657     well as with other terminal emulators.
658 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
659 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
660     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
661     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
662     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
663     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
664     Bloch.
665 root 1.124
666     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
667     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
668     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
669     sorry).
670     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
671     make it a little bit more correct c++).
672    
673 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
674 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
675     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
676     - minor i18n issue fixes.
677 pcg 1.114
678 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
679     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
680 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
681     - fix some minor bugs.
682 pcg 1.110
683 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
684 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
685 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
686     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
687     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
688     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
689     an extension and is slightly ugly.
690 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
691 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
692     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
693 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
694 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
695     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
696     overwritten (as is common).
697     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
698     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
699 pcg 1.108
700     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
701     - minor doc corrections.
702 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
703     avoid clashes with xterm.
704     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
705     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
706     window colour when arg is "?".
707     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
708     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
709     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
710     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
711     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
712     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
713     (FRILLS).
714     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
715     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
716     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
717     - set _NET_WM_PID.
718 pcg 1.108
719 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
720     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
721 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
722     - more informative error messages.
723     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
724     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
725     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
726     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
727     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
728 pcg 1.91
729 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
730     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
731     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
732 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
733     - removed old selection style completely.
734     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
735     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
736     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
737     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
738     be used from within rxvt.
739     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
740 pcg 1.83
741 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
742     - code cleanup release.
743     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
744 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
745     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
746     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
747     all files.
748     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
749     --enable-xgetdefaults.
750 pcg 1.74
751 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
752 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
753     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
754     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
755     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
756     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
757 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
758 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
759     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
760     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
761     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
762     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
763     --disable-xgetdefault.
764     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
765     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
766     unicode character.
767     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
768     get it wrong.
769     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
770 pcg 1.69
771 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
772 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
773 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
774     settings.
775     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
776     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
777     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
778     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
779     mbrtowc.
780     - more robust encoding name matching.
781     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
782     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
783     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
784     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
785     resources and docs.
786     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
787 pcg 1.58
788 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
789     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
790 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
791     - configure cleanup
792     - viscii enabled by default
793     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
794 pcg 1.50
795     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
796     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
797    
798 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
799 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
800 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
801     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
802     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
803     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
804     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
805     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
806     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
807     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
808     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
809     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
810     reported by joel reed.
811     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
812     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
813     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
814     being selected.
815     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
816     - removed greek support.
817     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
818     - correct cursor width if !focus.
819     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
820 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
821 root 1.430 contributed.
822     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
823     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
824     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
825     - many other minor bugfixes.
826 pcg 1.26
827 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
828 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
829 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
830 root 1.528 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
831     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
832     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
833 root 1.430 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
834     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
835     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
836     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
837 pcg 1.19
838 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
839     - further cleanups.
840 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
841     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
842     use reverse video, not _blink_.
843     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
844     please drop me a note.
845 pcg 1.16
846 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
847 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
848 root 1.430 - blinking text.
849     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
850     normal text when colorBD is not set.
851     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
852     was never implemented
853 pcg 1.13
854 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
855 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
856 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
857     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
858     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
859     reported by fefe
860     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
861     Markus Demleitner
862     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
863     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
864     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
865 pcg 1.7
866 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
867 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
868 root 1.430 - small font tunings
869     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
870     - better error reporting for unknown options
871 pcg 1.1
872 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
873 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
874     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
875     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
876     - much faster x11 font selection
877 pcg 1.2
878     1.2 2003-12-24
879 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
880 root 1.430 - better font matching
881     - better memory management (less memory)
882     - new fallback: gnu freefont
883 pcg 1.2
884     1.1 2003-12-18
885 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
886     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
887     - much improved font choosing
888 pcg 1.2
889 pcg 1.1 1.0
890 root 1.430 - first release
891     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
892     - removed rclock et al.
893     - initial conversion to C++
894 root 1.194