--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/04 02:37:30 1.488 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/11 19:55:33 1.512 @@ -1,26 +1,57 @@ rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title +TODO: move pty/tty handling into a fork'ed server and drop all privs TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent. TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. -WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif +TODO: clarify and get rid of SMOOTH_REFRESH etc. +WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay... WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender. -WISH: make builtin character glyphs optional +WISH: support tex fonts -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. +7.0 +TODO: run external commands more sytematically (using $self->env etc.) +TODO: document searchable-scorllback hotkey + - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about + SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ. + - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and + option-popup extensions enabled by default. + - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect + will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related. + - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support + and much much more. + - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r. + - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe. + - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval. + - perl: non-blocking anyevent support. + - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started + setuid/setgid. + - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a + side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls. + - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak. + - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast. + - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic. + - applied better configure support for openpty by Emanuele Giaquinta. + - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler. + - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really + compatible, and not really small either. + - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support. + - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file. + - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead + to crashes. + - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all + colours. + - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode. -6.3 +6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006 - 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. 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 where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not + GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley). - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations. restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported by Mikachu). @@ -31,7 +62,7 @@ - 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 + - 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