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Revision: 1.542
Committed: Wed Jan 18 15:02:08 2006 UTC (18 years, 3 months ago) by root
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1 root 1.462 rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
2    
3 root 1.540 TODO: split perl documnetation and urxvt.pm into separate files
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 1.542 TODO: rxvt -name urxvt-girly /// leave pixel droppings
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 1.539 TODO: distributed clipboard example
17 root 1.542
18     - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
19     improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
20     and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
21     makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
22     and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
23     special privileges.
24     - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
25     itself.
26     - new extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
27     e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
28     similar stuff.
29 root 1.521 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
30 root 1.542 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
31     for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
32 root 1.521 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
33     - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
34     code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
35     :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
36     - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
37     being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
38 root 1.542 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
39 root 1.532 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
40     (Emanuele Giaquinta).
41 root 1.542 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
42     to set the window title.
43     - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
44     some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
45     at the wrong time.
46 root 1.530 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
47     anymore.
48 root 1.535 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
49 root 1.531 - nuked QNX support.
50 root 1.542 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
51     - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
52 root 1.518
53 root 1.517 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
54 root 1.500 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
55 root 1.501 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
56 root 1.503 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
57     option-popup extensions enabled by default.
58 root 1.502 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
59     will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
60 root 1.499 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
61     and much much more.
62 root 1.493 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
63 root 1.495 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
64 root 1.496 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
65 root 1.499 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
66     - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
67 root 1.498 setuid/setgid.
68 root 1.499 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
69 root 1.497 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
70 root 1.499 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
71 root 1.503 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
72 root 1.504 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
73 root 1.514 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
74 root 1.505 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
75 root 1.506 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
76     compatible, and not really small either.
77     - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
78     - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
79 root 1.510 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
80     to crashes.
81 root 1.511 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
82     colours.
83 root 1.510 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
84 root 1.513 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
85 root 1.493
86 root 1.491 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
87 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
88     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
89     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
90 root 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
91     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
92     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
93 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
94     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
95 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
96 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
97     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
98 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
99 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
100 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
101 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
102 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
103 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
104 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
105 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
106     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
107     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
108 root 1.474
109 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
110 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
111     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
112     Chuck Blake.
113 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
114     obscure the mouse cursor position.
115 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
116 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
117     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
118 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
119     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
120 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
121     transfer efficiency.
122 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
123 root 1.463
124 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
125 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
126 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
127     while the user still drags.
128 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
129     not drawn correctly.
130 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
131     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
132 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
133     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
134 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
135     stripping whitespace.
136 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
137 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
138 root 1.452
139 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
140 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
141 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
142 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
143     (also a bug in original rxvt).
144 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
145     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
146     partial patch).
147     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
148     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
149 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
150 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
151 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
152 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
153 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
154 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
155 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
156     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
157     - slight overall speed improvements.
158     - considerably improved code clarity.
159 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
160     buffer.
161 root 1.437
162 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
163 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
164     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
165     (matters only for rxvtd).
166 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
167 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
168 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
169 root 1.431
170 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
171 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
172 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
173     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
174     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
175     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
176     percentage by 100-percentage.
177     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
178     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
179     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
180     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
181     windows.
182     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
183     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
184     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
185     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
186     - replaced INSTALL file.
187    
188 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
189 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
190 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
191     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
192     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
193     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
194     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
195     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
196 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
197 root 1.411
198 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
199 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
200     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
201     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
202     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
203     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
204     Affects display in iso14755 box.
205     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
206     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
207     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
208     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
209     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
210     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
211     cutting pieces off of characters.
212     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
213     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
214     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
215     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
216     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
217     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
218     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
219 root 1.399
220 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
221 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
222 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
223     meaning of the given key.
224     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
225     (patch by Martin Edlman).
226 root 1.394
227 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
228     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
229 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
230     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
231     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
232 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
233 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
234 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
235 root 1.433 to disable it.
236 root 1.393
237 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
238     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
239 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
240     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
241     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
242     with modifiers.
243 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
244     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
245 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
246     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
247     and clear the scrollback buffer.
248 root 1.389
249 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
250 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
251 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
252     a command.
253     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
254     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
255     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
256     in Perl/Gtk2.
257     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
258     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
259     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
260     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
261     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
262     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
263     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
264     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
265     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
266     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
267     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
268     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
269     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
270     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
271     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
272 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
273 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
274     rxvt-unicode).
275     - get rid of the intpro files.
276 root 1.373
277 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
278 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
279 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
280     (Kuang-che Wu).
281     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
282     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
283     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
284     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
285     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
286     along with other, similar, cleanups.
287     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
288     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
289     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
290     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
291     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
292     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
293 root 1.361
294 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
295     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
296 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
297     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
298     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
299     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
300     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
301     his patience and time in tracking this down).
302     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
303     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
304 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
305 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
306     by Joël Riou).
307     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
308     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
309     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
310     - shaved off some code segment size.
311     - various code cleanups.
312     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
313 root 1.360
314 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
315 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
316     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
317     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
318     -pixmap is active.
319     - new option/resource imFont.
320     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
321     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
322     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
323     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
324     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
325     (WU Fengguang).
326     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
327     examples (rxvt.1).
328     - removed src/test completely.
329     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
330 root 1.287
331 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
332 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
333     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
334     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
335     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
336     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
337     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
338     resulting in segfaults.
339     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
340     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
341     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
342     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
343     (Mikael Magnusson).
344     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
345     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
346     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
347     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
348     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
349     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
350     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
351     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
352     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
353     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
354     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
355     - initialize the locale much earlier.
356     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
357 root 1.331
358 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
359 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
360     black on initial startup.
361     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
362     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
363 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
364 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
365     additional multimedia keys.
366     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
367     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
368 root 1.312
369 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
370 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
371 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
372     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
373     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
374     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
375     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
376     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
377     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
378     ignored.
379     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
380     instead.
381     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
382     (reported by hednod).
383     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
384     - fix atom name enumeration.
385 root 1.291
386 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
387     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
388 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
389     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
390     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
391     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
392 root 1.288
393     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
394 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
395 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
396     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
397     titles etc.
398     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
399     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
400     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
401     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
402     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
403     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
404     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
405     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
406     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
407     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
408     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
409     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
410     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
411     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
412 root 1.272
413 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
414 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
415     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
416     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
417     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
418     thoroughly.
419     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
420     now, too.
421 root 1.274
422 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
423 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
424 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
425     on high-latency networks.
426     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
427     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
428     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
429     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
430     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
431     by Gunnar Ritter.
432     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
433     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
434 root 1.252
435 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
436     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
437 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
438 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
439 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
440 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
441 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
442     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
443     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
444     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
445 root 1.263
446 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
447     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
448 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
449     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
450     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
451     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
452     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
453     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
454     ... terminated by a fix.
455     - new supported preeeditType "None".
456     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
457     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
458     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
459     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
460     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
461     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
462     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
463     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
464     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
465     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
466     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
467     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
468     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
469     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
470     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
471     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
472     in tracking this down.
473     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
474     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
475 root 1.252
476     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
477     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
478 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
479 root 1.236
480     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
481 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
482     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
483     installed if tic is available.
484     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
485     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
486     - removed README.unicode.
487     - support select&paste of tab characters.
488     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
489     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
490     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
491     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
492     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
493     screen updates with curses.
494     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
495     by spaces.
496     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
497     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
498     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
499     is just too slow for this to work.
500     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
501     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
502     implement. use --enable-styles.
503     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
504     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
505     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
506     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
507     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
508     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
509 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
510 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
511     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
512     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
513     (only for non-bold right now).
514     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
515     - better default font size and style.
516     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
517     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
518     single character against the base font extents and will only
519     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
520     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
521     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
522     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
523     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
524     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
525     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
526     screen height.
527     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
528     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
529     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
530     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
531     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
532     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
533     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
534     - removed OSC 702.
535     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
536     confused by it rather than using it.
537 root 1.168
538 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
539     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
540 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
541     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
542 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
543 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
544     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
545     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
546     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
547     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
548     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
549     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
550     close).
551     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
552     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
553     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
554     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
555 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
556 root 1.430 could not be created.
557     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
558     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
559     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
560     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
561     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
562     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
563     works.
564 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
565 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
566     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
567     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
568     character is a sensible operation.
569     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
570     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
571     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
572     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
573     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
574     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
575     with selections).
576 root 1.194
577 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
578 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
579     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
580     needs access to a local shell window).
581     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
582     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
583     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
584     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
585     a little window or so) would be welcome.
586     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
587     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
588     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
589     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
590     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
591     added there.
592     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
593     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
594 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
595 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
596     instead of being ignored.
597     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
598     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
599     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
600     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
601     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
602     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
603     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
604     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
605     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
606     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
607     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
608     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
609     needs testing anyways.
610     - more complete compile options help output.
611     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
612     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
613     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
614     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
615     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
616     - minor doc fix.
617 root 1.137
618 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
619 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
620     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
621     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
622 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
623 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
624     memmove :)
625 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
626 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
627     (debian bug #169415).
628     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
629     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
630     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
631     - updated config.guess.
632 root 1.147
633     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
634 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
635 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
636     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
637     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
638     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
639     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
640     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
641     speeding up scrolling immensely.
642     - various other optimizations.
643     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
644 root 1.145
645     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
646 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
647     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
648     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
649 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
650 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
651 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
652     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
653     Mikael Magnusson).
654     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
655 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
656 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
657 root 1.124
658     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
659 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
660     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
661     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
662     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
663     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
664 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
665 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
666     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
667 root 1.124
668     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
669     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
670 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
671     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
672     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
673     well as with other terminal emulators.
674 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
675 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
676     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
677     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
678     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
679     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
680     Bloch.
681 root 1.124
682     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
683     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
684     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
685     sorry).
686     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
687     make it a little bit more correct c++).
688    
689 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
690 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
691     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
692     - minor i18n issue fixes.
693 pcg 1.114
694 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
695     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
696 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
697     - fix some minor bugs.
698 pcg 1.110
699 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
700 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
701 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
702     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
703     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
704     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
705     an extension and is slightly ugly.
706 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
707 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
708     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
709 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
710 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
711     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
712     overwritten (as is common).
713     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
714     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
715 pcg 1.108
716     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
717     - minor doc corrections.
718 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
719     avoid clashes with xterm.
720     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
721     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
722     window colour when arg is "?".
723     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
724     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
725     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
726     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
727     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
728     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
729     (FRILLS).
730     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
731     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
732     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
733     - set _NET_WM_PID.
734 pcg 1.108
735 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
736     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
737 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
738     - more informative error messages.
739     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
740     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
741     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
742     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
743     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
744 pcg 1.91
745 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
746     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
747     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
748 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
749     - removed old selection style completely.
750     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
751     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
752     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
753     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
754     be used from within rxvt.
755     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
756 pcg 1.83
757 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
758     - code cleanup release.
759     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
760 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
761     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
762     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
763     all files.
764     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
765     --enable-xgetdefaults.
766 pcg 1.74
767 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
768 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
769     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
770     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
771     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
772     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
773 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
774 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
775     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
776     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
777     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
778     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
779     --disable-xgetdefault.
780     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
781     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
782     unicode character.
783     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
784     get it wrong.
785     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
786 pcg 1.69
787 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
788 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
789 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
790     settings.
791     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
792     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
793     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
794     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
795     mbrtowc.
796     - more robust encoding name matching.
797     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
798     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
799     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
800     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
801     resources and docs.
802     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
803 pcg 1.58
804 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
805     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
806 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
807     - configure cleanup
808     - viscii enabled by default
809     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
810 pcg 1.50
811     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
812     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
813    
814 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
815 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
816 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
817     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
818     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
819     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
820     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
821     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
822     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
823     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
824     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
825     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
826     reported by joel reed.
827     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
828     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
829     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
830     being selected.
831     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
832     - removed greek support.
833     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
834     - correct cursor width if !focus.
835     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
836 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
837 root 1.430 contributed.
838     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
839     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
840     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
841     - many other minor bugfixes.
842 pcg 1.26
843 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
844 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
845 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
846 root 1.528 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
847     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
848     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
849 root 1.430 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
850     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
851     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
852     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
853 pcg 1.19
854 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
855     - further cleanups.
856 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
857     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
858     use reverse video, not _blink_.
859     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
860     please drop me a note.
861 pcg 1.16
862 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
863 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
864 root 1.430 - blinking text.
865     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
866     normal text when colorBD is not set.
867     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
868     was never implemented
869 pcg 1.13
870 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
871 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
872 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
873     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
874     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
875     reported by fefe
876     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
877     Markus Demleitner
878     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
879     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
880     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
881 pcg 1.7
882 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
883 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
884 root 1.430 - small font tunings
885     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
886     - better error reporting for unknown options
887 pcg 1.1
888 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
889 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
890     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
891     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
892     - much faster x11 font selection
893 pcg 1.2
894     1.2 2003-12-24
895 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
896 root 1.430 - better font matching
897     - better memory management (less memory)
898     - new fallback: gnu freefont
899 pcg 1.2
900     1.1 2003-12-18
901 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
902     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
903     - much improved font choosing
904 pcg 1.2
905 pcg 1.1 1.0
906 root 1.430 - first release
907     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
908     - removed rclock et al.
909     - initial conversion to C++
910 root 1.194