--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/04 02:01:38 1.487 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/04 02:37:30 1.488 @@ -8,23 +8,31 @@ WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender. WISH: make builtin character glyphs optional -WISH: better support for mixing xft font sizes rxvt -fn "xft:Andale Mono:size=15" -fb "xft:Andale Mono:size=8:bold" +SECURITY FIX: systems using openpty (most BSDs) had wrong permissions +on the tty. Systems using unix pty's (such as GNU/Linux) were not +affected. Apart from this, the meta8 option is no longer forcefully +enabled. New features: urxvt now supports embedded perl, which can already +do useful things and will certainly be extended in the future. + +6.3 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt, - too), and were not restored properly (same as xterm here). - Affected are only systems using non-unix ptys (such as most - BSDs, not GNU/Linux). + too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only systems + using non-unix ptys (such as most BSDs, not GNU/Linux). - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations. restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported - by Mikachu) + by Mikachu). - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback, menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option, perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet. - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent. + Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now. - fix directory permissions on install. +TODO - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters + and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack). - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.