--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2005/12/31 18:36:21 1.468 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/19 18:02:28 1.550 @@ -1,22 +1,120 @@ rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title +TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable. +TODO: simplify selection_request and make it callable from perl. +TODO: split perl documnetation and urxvt.pm into separate files +TODO: nuke rxvt_privaction and related garbage TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent. -TODO: safer command: keymap processing. 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: keymap modification via esc-sequences. -WISH: searchable backlog -WISH: meta-tagging of data by regex/master process (my dream project) -WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif +TODO: rxvt -name urxvt-girly /// leave pixel droppings +TODO: distributed clipboard example +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 -6.2 - - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty (not GNU/Linux, probably - most BSDs), privileges weren't dropped before opening the pty, - resulting in wrong permissions on the pseudo terminal. - Reported and fixed by Ryan Beasley. +7.1 Thu Jan 19 18:56:55 CET 2006 + - 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. + - 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. + - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus, + as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm). + - 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. + - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code. + - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order. + - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom. + - iom extended to support listening for child exits. + +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: 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 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 + 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 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). + - 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. + - 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. + +6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by Chuck Blake. @@ -25,6 +123,10 @@ - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc on a few architectures). Reported by darix. + - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate + the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing). + - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data + transfer efficiency. - further minor cleanups. 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005 @@ -749,9 +851,9 @@ 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.