--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/08 07:55:36 1.497 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/18 17:49:46 1.543 @@ -1,27 +1,90 @@ rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title +TODO: split perl documnetation and urxvt.pm into separate files 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: rxvt -name urxvt-girly /// leave pixel droppings +WISH: perl extension for background image loading and moving the origin. +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: support tex fonts -TODO: document transient_for, vt and the grab etc. functionality -TODO: add warning about perl interpreter and setuid/setgid +9.0 +TODO: distributed clipboard example - - perl: implement additional hook: line_update, add_lines. + - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been + improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process + and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This + makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code + and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with + special privileges. + - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid + itself. + - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get + the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap. + - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to + e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or + similar stuff. + - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't + span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps + for programs displaying a status line at the bottom. + - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct. + - some fixes to xpm offste and scaling code. + - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection + code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases + :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant. + - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now + being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started. + - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD. + - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure + (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description, + to set the window title. + - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes + some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables + at the wrong time. + - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support + anymore. + - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH. + - nuked QNX support. + - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order. + - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom. + +7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006 + - 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: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support - and much much more. - - perl: anyevent support. - - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory hole. as a + - 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 leaks. + - 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 pty handling cleanups and improvements (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. + - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering. 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were @@ -783,9 +846,9 @@ 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing new bugs, this should not change much. - - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. - - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. - - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. + - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. + - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. + - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. - blinking and selections work slightly better now. - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.