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Revision: 1.549
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1 root 1.462 rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
2    
3 root 1.549 TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable.
4     TODO: simplify selection_request and make it callable from perl.
5 root 1.540 TODO: split perl documnetation and urxvt.pm into separate files
6 root 1.548 TODO: nuke rxvt_privaction and related garbage
7 root 1.435 TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
8 root 1.428 TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
9 root 1.365 TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
10 root 1.287 TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
11 root 1.443 TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
12 root 1.542 TODO: rxvt -name urxvt-girly /// leave pixel droppings
13 root 1.549 TODO: distributed clipboard example
14 root 1.526 WISH: perl extension for background image loading and moving the origin.
15 root 1.510 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay...
16 root 1.346 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
17 root 1.492 WISH: support tex fonts
18 root 1.346
19 root 1.518 9.0
20 root 1.542 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
21     improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
22     and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
23     makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
24     and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
25     special privileges.
26     - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
27     itself.
28 root 1.543 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
29     the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
30     - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
31 root 1.542 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
32     similar stuff.
33 root 1.521 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
34 root 1.542 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
35     for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
36 root 1.521 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
37     - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
38     code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
39     :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
40     - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
41     being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
42 root 1.545 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
43     as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
44 root 1.542 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
45 root 1.532 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
46     (Emanuele Giaquinta).
47 root 1.542 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
48     to set the window title.
49     - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
50     some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
51     at the wrong time.
52 root 1.530 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
53     anymore.
54 root 1.535 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
55 root 1.531 - nuked QNX support.
56 root 1.544 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
57 root 1.542 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
58     - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
59 root 1.547 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
60 root 1.518
61 root 1.517 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
62 root 1.500 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
63 root 1.501 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
64 root 1.503 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
65     option-popup extensions enabled by default.
66 root 1.502 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
67     will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
68 root 1.499 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
69     and much much more.
70 root 1.493 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
71 root 1.495 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
72 root 1.496 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
73 root 1.499 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
74     - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
75 root 1.498 setuid/setgid.
76 root 1.499 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
77 root 1.497 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
78 root 1.499 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
79 root 1.503 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
80 root 1.504 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
81 root 1.514 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
82 root 1.505 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
83 root 1.506 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
84     compatible, and not really small either.
85     - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
86     - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
87 root 1.510 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
88     to crashes.
89 root 1.511 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
90     colours.
91 root 1.510 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
92 root 1.513 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
93 root 1.493
94 root 1.491 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
95 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
96     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
97     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
98 root 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
99     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
100     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
101 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
102     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
103 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
104 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
105     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
106 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
107 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
108 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
109 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
110 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
111 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
112 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
113 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
114     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
115     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
116 root 1.474
117 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
118 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
119     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
120     Chuck Blake.
121 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
122     obscure the mouse cursor position.
123 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
124 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
125     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
126 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
127     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
128 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
129     transfer efficiency.
130 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
131 root 1.463
132 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
133 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
134 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
135     while the user still drags.
136 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
137     not drawn correctly.
138 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
139     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
140 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
141     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
142 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
143     stripping whitespace.
144 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
145 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
146 root 1.452
147 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
148 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
149 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
150 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
151     (also a bug in original rxvt).
152 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
153     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
154     partial patch).
155     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
156     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
157 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
158 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
159 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
160 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
161 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
162 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
163 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
164     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
165     - slight overall speed improvements.
166     - considerably improved code clarity.
167 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
168     buffer.
169 root 1.437
170 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
171 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
172     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
173     (matters only for rxvtd).
174 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
175 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
176 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
177 root 1.431
178 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
179 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
180 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
181     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
182     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
183     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
184     percentage by 100-percentage.
185     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
186     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
187     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
188     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
189     windows.
190     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
191     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
192     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
193     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
194     - replaced INSTALL file.
195    
196 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
197 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
198 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
199     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
200     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
201     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
202     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
203     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
204 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
205 root 1.411
206 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
207 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
208     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
209     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
210     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
211     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
212     Affects display in iso14755 box.
213     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
214     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
215     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
216     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
217     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
218     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
219     cutting pieces off of characters.
220     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
221     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
222     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
223     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
224     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
225     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
226     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
227 root 1.399
228 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
229 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
230 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
231     meaning of the given key.
232     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
233     (patch by Martin Edlman).
234 root 1.394
235 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
236     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
237 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
238     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
239     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
240 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
241 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
242 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
243 root 1.433 to disable it.
244 root 1.393
245 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
246     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
247 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
248     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
249     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
250     with modifiers.
251 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
252     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
253 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
254     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
255     and clear the scrollback buffer.
256 root 1.389
257 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
258 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
259 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
260     a command.
261     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
262     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
263     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
264     in Perl/Gtk2.
265     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
266     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
267     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
268     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
269     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
270     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
271     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
272     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
273     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
274     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
275     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
276     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
277     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
278     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
279     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
280 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
281 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
282     rxvt-unicode).
283     - get rid of the intpro files.
284 root 1.373
285 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
286 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
287 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
288     (Kuang-che Wu).
289     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
290     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
291     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
292     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
293     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
294     along with other, similar, cleanups.
295     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
296     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
297     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
298     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
299     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
300     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
301 root 1.361
302 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
303     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
304 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
305     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
306     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
307     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
308     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
309     his patience and time in tracking this down).
310     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
311     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
312 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
313 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
314     by Joël Riou).
315     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
316     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
317     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
318     - shaved off some code segment size.
319     - various code cleanups.
320     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
321 root 1.360
322 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
323 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
324     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
325     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
326     -pixmap is active.
327     - new option/resource imFont.
328     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
329     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
330     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
331     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
332     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
333     (WU Fengguang).
334     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
335     examples (rxvt.1).
336     - removed src/test completely.
337     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
338 root 1.287
339 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
340 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
341     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
342     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
343     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
344     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
345     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
346     resulting in segfaults.
347     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
348     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
349     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
350     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
351     (Mikael Magnusson).
352     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
353     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
354     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
355     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
356     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
357     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
358     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
359     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
360     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
361     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
362     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
363     - initialize the locale much earlier.
364     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
365 root 1.331
366 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
367 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
368     black on initial startup.
369     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
370     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
371 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
372 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
373     additional multimedia keys.
374     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
375     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
376 root 1.312
377 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
378 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
379 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
380     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
381     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
382     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
383     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
384     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
385     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
386     ignored.
387     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
388     instead.
389     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
390     (reported by hednod).
391     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
392     - fix atom name enumeration.
393 root 1.291
394 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
395     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
396 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
397     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
398     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
399     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
400 root 1.288
401     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
402 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
403 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
404     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
405     titles etc.
406     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
407     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
408     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
409     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
410     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
411     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
412     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
413     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
414     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
415     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
416     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
417     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
418     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
419     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
420 root 1.272
421 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
422 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
423     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
424     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
425     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
426     thoroughly.
427     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
428     now, too.
429 root 1.274
430 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
431 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
432 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
433     on high-latency networks.
434     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
435     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
436     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
437     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
438     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
439     by Gunnar Ritter.
440     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
441     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
442 root 1.252
443 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
444     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
445 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
446 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
447 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
448 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
449 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
450     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
451     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
452     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
453 root 1.263
454 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
455     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
456 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
457     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
458     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
459     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
460     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
461     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
462     ... terminated by a fix.
463     - new supported preeeditType "None".
464     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
465     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
466     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
467     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
468     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
469     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
470     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
471     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
472     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
473     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
474     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
475     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
476     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
477     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
478     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
479     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
480     in tracking this down.
481     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
482     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
483 root 1.252
484     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
485     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
486 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
487 root 1.236
488     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
489 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
490     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
491     installed if tic is available.
492     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
493     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
494     - removed README.unicode.
495     - support select&paste of tab characters.
496     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
497     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
498     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
499     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
500     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
501     screen updates with curses.
502     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
503     by spaces.
504     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
505     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
506     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
507     is just too slow for this to work.
508     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
509     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
510     implement. use --enable-styles.
511     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
512     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
513     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
514     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
515     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
516     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
517 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
518 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
519     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
520     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
521     (only for non-bold right now).
522     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
523     - better default font size and style.
524     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
525     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
526     single character against the base font extents and will only
527     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
528     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
529     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
530     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
531     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
532     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
533     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
534     screen height.
535     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
536     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
537     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
538     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
539     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
540     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
541     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
542     - removed OSC 702.
543     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
544     confused by it rather than using it.
545 root 1.168
546 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
547     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
548 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
549     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
550 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
551 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
552     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
553     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
554     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
555     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
556     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
557     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
558     close).
559     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
560     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
561     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
562     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
563 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
564 root 1.430 could not be created.
565     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
566     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
567     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
568     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
569     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
570     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
571     works.
572 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
573 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
574     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
575     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
576     character is a sensible operation.
577     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
578     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
579     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
580     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
581     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
582     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
583     with selections).
584 root 1.194
585 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
586 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
587     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
588     needs access to a local shell window).
589     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
590     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
591     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
592     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
593     a little window or so) would be welcome.
594     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
595     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
596     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
597     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
598     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
599     added there.
600     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
601     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
602 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
603 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
604     instead of being ignored.
605     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
606     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
607     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
608     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
609     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
610     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
611     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
612     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
613     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
614     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
615     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
616     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
617     needs testing anyways.
618     - more complete compile options help output.
619     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
620     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
621     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
622     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
623     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
624     - minor doc fix.
625 root 1.137
626 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
627 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
628     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
629     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
630 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
631 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
632     memmove :)
633 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
634 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
635     (debian bug #169415).
636     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
637     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
638     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
639     - updated config.guess.
640 root 1.147
641     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
642 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
643 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
644     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
645     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
646     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
647     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
648     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
649     speeding up scrolling immensely.
650     - various other optimizations.
651     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
652 root 1.145
653     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
654 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
655     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
656     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
657 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
658 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
659 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
660     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
661     Mikael Magnusson).
662     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
663 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
664 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
665 root 1.124
666     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
667 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
668     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
669     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
670     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
671     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
672 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
673 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
674     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
675 root 1.124
676     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
677     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
678 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
679     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
680     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
681     well as with other terminal emulators.
682 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
683 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
684     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
685     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
686     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
687     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
688     Bloch.
689 root 1.124
690     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
691     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
692     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
693     sorry).
694     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
695     make it a little bit more correct c++).
696    
697 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
698 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
699     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
700     - minor i18n issue fixes.
701 pcg 1.114
702 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
703     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
704 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
705     - fix some minor bugs.
706 pcg 1.110
707 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
708 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
709 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
710     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
711     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
712     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
713     an extension and is slightly ugly.
714 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
715 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
716     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
717 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
718 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
719     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
720     overwritten (as is common).
721     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
722     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
723 pcg 1.108
724     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
725     - minor doc corrections.
726 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
727     avoid clashes with xterm.
728     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
729     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
730     window colour when arg is "?".
731     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
732     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
733     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
734     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
735     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
736     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
737     (FRILLS).
738     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
739     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
740     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
741     - set _NET_WM_PID.
742 pcg 1.108
743 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
744     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
745 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
746     - more informative error messages.
747     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
748     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
749     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
750     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
751     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
752 pcg 1.91
753 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
754     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
755     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
756 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
757     - removed old selection style completely.
758     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
759     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
760     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
761     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
762     be used from within rxvt.
763     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
764 pcg 1.83
765 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
766     - code cleanup release.
767     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
768 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
769     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
770     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
771     all files.
772     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
773     --enable-xgetdefaults.
774 pcg 1.74
775 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
776 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
777     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
778     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
779     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
780     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
781 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
782 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
783     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
784     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
785     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
786     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
787     --disable-xgetdefault.
788     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
789     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
790     unicode character.
791     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
792     get it wrong.
793     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
794 pcg 1.69
795 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
796 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
797 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
798     settings.
799     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
800     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
801     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
802     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
803     mbrtowc.
804     - more robust encoding name matching.
805     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
806     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
807     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
808     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
809     resources and docs.
810     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
811 pcg 1.58
812 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
813     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
814 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
815     - configure cleanup
816     - viscii enabled by default
817     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
818 pcg 1.50
819     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
820     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
821    
822 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
823 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
824 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
825     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
826     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
827     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
828     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
829     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
830     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
831     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
832     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
833     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
834     reported by joel reed.
835     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
836     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
837     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
838     being selected.
839     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
840     - removed greek support.
841     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
842     - correct cursor width if !focus.
843     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
844 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
845 root 1.430 contributed.
846     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
847     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
848     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
849     - many other minor bugfixes.
850 pcg 1.26
851 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
852 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
853 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
854 root 1.528 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
855     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
856     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
857 root 1.430 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
858     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
859     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
860     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
861 pcg 1.19
862 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
863     - further cleanups.
864 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
865     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
866     use reverse video, not _blink_.
867     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
868     please drop me a note.
869 pcg 1.16
870 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
871 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
872 root 1.430 - blinking text.
873     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
874     normal text when colorBD is not set.
875     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
876     was never implemented
877 pcg 1.13
878 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
879 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
880 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
881     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
882     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
883     reported by fefe
884     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
885     Markus Demleitner
886     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
887     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
888     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
889 pcg 1.7
890 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
891 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
892 root 1.430 - small font tunings
893     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
894     - better error reporting for unknown options
895 pcg 1.1
896 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
897 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
898     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
899     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
900     - much faster x11 font selection
901 pcg 1.2
902     1.2 2003-12-24
903 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
904 root 1.430 - better font matching
905     - better memory management (less memory)
906     - new fallback: gnu freefont
907 pcg 1.2
908     1.1 2003-12-18
909 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
910     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
911     - much improved font choosing
912 pcg 1.2
913 pcg 1.1 1.0
914 root 1.430 - first release
915     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
916     - removed rclock et al.
917     - initial conversion to C++
918 root 1.194