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3TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. 3TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve
4TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent. 4TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable.
5TODO: slipwheeling needs a keyboard grab to get key release events.
6TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn
5TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts 7TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
6TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. 8TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
9TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness, motion hints?)
10TODO: investigate -pe tabbed -g 80x25 being 23 not 24 or 25 lines
11 => when setting the constraints, the wm might (correctly)
12 resize the outer window, which might result in a smaller window overall.
13 or something like that. guys, send me a patch.
14TODO: zeroing scorllback buffer should free memory
15WISH: skipscroll option
16WISH: selection-color-pair instead of reverse video
17WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one
18WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
19WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
7TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. 20WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep scrollbar look.
8TODO: clarify and get rid of SMOOTH_REFRESH etc. 21WISH: kick out xpm.C, replace by pixbuf
9WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay...
10WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
11WISH: support tex fonts 22DUMB: support tex fonts
12 23
137.0 24TODO: outline cursor color broken? http://bereft.net/rxvt-cursor2.png http://bereft.net/rxvt-cursor1.png
14TODO: run external commands more sytematically (using $self->env etc.) 25TODO: matcher etc. support
15TODO: document searchable-scorllback hotkey 26TODO: add ctype locale info to some menu to aid the "support"
278.0
28 - specified fonts were incorrectly morphed to bold/italic according to the
29 basefont, even if explicitly specified (tracked down by tpope).
30 - fixed urxvt::strwidth to calculate width in the same way as screen.C.
31 - fix a crash caused by passing negative widths to overlay functions.
32 - give proper diagnostic when RXVT_SOCKET is too long instead of
33 corrupting the stack (patch by exg).
34 - urxvtd no longer crashes when the client sends an inaccessible
35 working directory (reported by Roland Baer, possibly fixes gentoo
36 bug #143985).
37 - fixed many minor issues reported by Roland Baer.
38
397.9 Mon Aug 7 18:16:07 CEST 2006
40 - fix the crashing bug people encountered with 7.8 + urxvtd + perl
41 + transparency. Ought to fix debian bug #380348.
42 - fix urxvtc.1.pod: it actually claimed -pty-fd would not work. But
43 it does! :->
44 - rxvt_fatal() in case the locale string is too long for our static buffer.
45 - fixed many, many, typos in the manpages (patch supplied by ves).
46
477.8 Mon Jul 17 21:00:46 CEST 2006
48 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: this version will always read ~/.Xdefaults,
49 earlier versions only read it if display-resources (usually from
50 .Xresources) are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my
51 resource used") and seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults
52 resources have a lower priority than display-specific resources.
53 - add "kuake" perl extension that does a similar thing to the kuake
54 terminal emulator (see man urxtvperl).
55 - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and
56 Xft (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds).
57 - the "depth" resource is now respected.
58 - preset the searchable-scrollback pattern with "(?i)" to default search
59 to case-insensitivity. Will automatically be cleared when typing an
60 uppercase character.
61 - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h.
62 - re-enabled highlightcolor support with --enable-frills, based on
63 a patch by Martin Stubenschrott.
64 - double-buffered xft drawing did suffer from pixel offset issues
65 when pixmap transparency was enabled.
66 - strategically add # to the url-match regexes, as we really want to
67 match common URIs not common URLs. Reported by Aaron Griffin.
68 - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more
69 generic osc_seq.
70 - fix a bug causing double callback invocations when perl hooks
71 were invoked recursively.
72 - the automove-background extension now properly works when the
73 pixmap gets reset with an osc sequence (sqweek).
74 - selection-pastebin did not work properly with non-latin1-characters.
75 - apply colorUL only when the text colour is the default fg
76 (patch by Wu Fengguang).
77 - removed rxvtlib.h from the tarball, it had no reason to be there
78 (spotted by Decklin Foster).
79 - fix compiling with TRANSPARENT but !XPM_BACKGROUND, as reported
80 by omatunto_.
81 - slap in a using namespace std, might help on platforms that don't
82 follow C++ closely enough.
83 - fix mailto url regex, spotted within milliseconds by Jost Krieger.
84 - applied fade_color_update_func.patch by WU Fengguang.
85 - fix a bug where (due to an optimisation in av_delete), hiding the
86 bottom-most overlay would hide two overlays.
87
887.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
89 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
90 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
91 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
92 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
93 click, and eats the click.
94 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
95 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
96 refresh bugs please.
97 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
98 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
99 improve size hint setting.
100 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
101 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
102 to correctly position their preedit window.
103 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
104 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
105 in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
106 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
107 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
108 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
109 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
110 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
111 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
112 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
113 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
114 (reported by Paco-Paco).
115 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
116 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
117 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
118
1197.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
120 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
121 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
122 resource value.
123 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
124 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
125 relevant tab window.
126 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
127 (initial patch by hednod).
128 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
129 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
130 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
131 the benefit of automove-background.
132 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
133 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
134 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
135 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
136 __linux__.
137 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
138 the colour components.
139 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
140 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
141 - more colour rtt optimisations.
142 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
143 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
144 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
145 - minor libptytty update.
146
1477.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
148 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
149 detection:
150 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
151 - overlap detection was improved.
152 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
153 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
154 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
155 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
156 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
157 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
158 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
159 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
160 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
161 broken.
162 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
163 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
164 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
165 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
166 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
167 (patch by Paco-Paco).
168 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
169 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
170 an "[alpha]" prefix.
171 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
172 transparent. Long Live Xft!
173 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
174 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
175 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
176 on a pseudocolor screen.
177 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
178 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
179 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
180 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
181 - small configure updates.
182 - further RTT optimisations.
183 - backported clean-up patches for makefiles and documentation from
184 the debian package.
185 - updated doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file. It's still not maintained here,
186 but much newer than the old one.
187
1887.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
189 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
190 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
191 - small configure updates for libptytty.
192 - fixed version options: line output.
193 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
194
1957.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
196 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
197 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
198 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
199 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
200 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
201 selection extension.
202 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
203 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
204 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
205 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
206 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
207 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
208 needs the careful rendering mode.
209 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
210 too wide and needs careful mode.
211 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
212 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
213 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
214 atoms only once per display.
215 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
216 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
217 xterm.
218
2197.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
220 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
221 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
222 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
223 ctrl-shift-672c).
224 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
225 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
226 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
227 the primary screen.
228 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
229 could lead to an assertion failure.
230 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
231 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
232 via mouse clicks.
233 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
234 with shift - mouse button 2.
235 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
236 in non-synthetic events.
237 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
238 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
239 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
240 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
241 whole urxvt[d] process.
242 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
243 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
244 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
245 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
246
2477.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
248 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
249 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
250 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
251 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
252 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
253 special privileges.
254 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
255 itself.
256 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
257 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
258 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
259 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
260 similar stuff.
261 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
262 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
263 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
264 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
265 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
266 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
267 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
268 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
269 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
270 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
271 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
272 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
273 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
274 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
275 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
276 to set the window title.
277 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
278 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
279 at the wrong time.
280 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
281 anymore.
282 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
283 - nuked QNX support.
284 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
285 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
286 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
287 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
288
2897.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
16 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about 290 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
17 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ. 291 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
18 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and 292 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
19 option-popup extensions enabled by default. 293 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
20 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect 294 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
30 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a 304 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
31 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls. 305 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
32 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak. 306 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
33 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast. 307 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
34 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic. 308 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
35 - applied better configure support for openpty by Emanuele Giaquinta. 309 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
36 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler. 310 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
37 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really 311 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
38 compatible, and not really small either. 312 compatible, and not really small either.
39 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support. 313 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
40 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file. 314 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
41 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead 315 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
42 to crashes. 316 to crashes.
43 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all 317 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
44 colours. 318 colours.
45 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode. 319 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
320 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
46 321
476.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006 3226.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
48 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were 323 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
49 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as 324 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
50 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt, 325 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
739 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 1014 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
740 --disable-xgetdefault. 1015 --disable-xgetdefault.
741 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 1016 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
742 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 1017 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
743 unicode character. 1018 unicode character.
744 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 1019 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
745 get it wrong. 1020 get it wrong.
746 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 1021 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
747 1022
7482.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 10232.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
749 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 1024 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
750 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 1025 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
751 settings. 1026 settings.
802 - many other minor bugfixes. 1077 - many other minor bugfixes.
803 1078
8041.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 10791.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
805 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 1080 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
806 new bugs, this should not change much. 1081 new bugs, this should not change much.
807 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 1082 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
808 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 1083 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
809 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 1084 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
810 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 1085 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
811 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 1086 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
812 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 1087 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
813 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 1088 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
814 1089

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