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3TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable.
4TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn
5TODO: split perl documentation and urxvt.pm into separate files
3TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. 6TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
4TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
5TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts 7TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
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?)
10WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
11WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
7TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. 12WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
8WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif 13DUMB: support tex fonts
9WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
10WISH: make builtin character glyphs optional
11 14
12SECURITY FIX: systems using openpty (most BSDs) had wrong permissions on 15TODO: option popup hook, make some exts switchable
13the tty. Other systems (such as GNU/Linux) were not affected. Bug fixes: 16TODO: constant offste with automove
14the meta8 option ("weird alt key behaviour") is no longer forcefully 17TODO: rework colors and blabla section
15enabled. New features: urxvt now supports embedded perl, which can already
16do useful things and will certainly be extended in the future.
17 18
186.3 19 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
20 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
21 resource value.
22 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
23 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
24 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
25 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
26 __linux__.
27 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
28 the colour components.
29 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
30 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
31 - more colour rtt optimisations.
32 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
33 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
34 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
35 the benefit of automove-background.
36
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38 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
39 detection:
40 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
41 - overlap detection was improved.
42 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
43 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
44 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
45 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
46 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
47 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
48 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
49 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
50 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
51 broken.
52 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
53 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
54 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
55 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
56 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
57 (patch by Paco-Paco).
58 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
59 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
60 an "[alpha]" prefix.
61 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
62 transparent. Long Live Xft!
63 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
64 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
65 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
66 on a pseudocolor screen.
67 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
68 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
69 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
70 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
71 - small configure updates.
72 - further RTT optimisations.
73
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75 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
76 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
77 - small configure updates for libptytty.
78 - fixed version options: line output.
79 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
80
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82 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
83 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
84 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
85 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
86 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
87 selection extension.
88 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
89 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
90 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
91 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
92 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
93 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
94 needs the careful rendering mode.
95 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
96 too wide and needs careful mode.
97 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
98 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
99 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
100 atoms only once per display.
101 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
102 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
103 xterm.
104
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106 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
107 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
108 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
109 ctrl-shift-672c).
110 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
111 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
112 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
113 the primary screen.
114 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
115 could lead to an assertion failure.
116 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
117 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
118 via mouse clicks.
119 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
120 with shift - mouse button 2.
121 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
122 in non-synthetic events.
123 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
124 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
125 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
126 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
127 whole urxvt[d] process.
128 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
129 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
130 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
131 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
132
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134 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
135 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
136 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
137 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
138 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
139 special privileges.
140 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
141 itself.
142 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
143 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
144 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
145 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
146 similar stuff.
147 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
148 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
149 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
150 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
151 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
152 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
153 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
154 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
155 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
156 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
157 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
158 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
159 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
160 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
161 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
162 to set the window title.
163 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
164 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
165 at the wrong time.
166 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
167 anymore.
168 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
169 - nuked QNX support.
170 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
171 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
172 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
173 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
174
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176 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
177 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
178 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
179 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
180 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
181 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
182 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
183 and much much more.
184 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
185 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
186 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
187 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
188 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
189 setuid/setgid.
190 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
191 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
192 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
193 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
194 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
195 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
196 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
197 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
198 compatible, and not really small either.
199 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
200 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
201 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
202 to crashes.
203 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
204 colours.
205 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
206 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
207
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19 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were 209 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
20 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as 210 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
21 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt, 211 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
22 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only 212 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
23 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not 213 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
30 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option, 220 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
31 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet. 221 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
32 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent. 222 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
33 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now. 223 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
34 - fix directory permissions on install. 224 - fix directory permissions on install.
35TODO - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters 225 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
36 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack). 226 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
37 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless 227 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
38 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended 228 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
39 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here. 229 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
40 230
710 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 900 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
711 --disable-xgetdefault. 901 --disable-xgetdefault.
712 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 902 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
713 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 903 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
714 unicode character. 904 unicode character.
715 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 905 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
716 get it wrong. 906 get it wrong.
717 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 907 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
718 908
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720 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 910 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
721 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 911 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
722 settings. 912 settings.
773 - many other minor bugfixes. 963 - many other minor bugfixes.
774 964
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776 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 966 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
777 new bugs, this should not change much. 967 new bugs, this should not change much.
778 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 968 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
779 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 969 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
780 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 970 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
781 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 971 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
782 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 972 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
783 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 973 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
784 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 974 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
785 975

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