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1rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title 1rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
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3TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve
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
7TODO: split perl documentation and urxvt.pm into separate files
3TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. 8TODO: 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 9TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
6TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. 10TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
11TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness, motion hints?)
12TODO: default selection should handle = better
13TODO: kick out xpm.C, replace by pixbuf
14WISH: skipscroll option
15WISH: selection-color-pair instead of reverse video
16WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one
17WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
18WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
7TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. 19WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
8WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif 20DUMB: support tex fonts
9WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
10WISH: make builtin character glyphs optional
11 21
12 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty (most BSDs, not GNU/Linux), 22TODO: investigate -pe tabbed -g 80x25 being 23 not 24 or 25 lines
23TODO: zero scorllback buffer should free memory
24TODO: kuake
25TODO: look into the selection hilight patch
26TODO: implement smartcase-like search in searchable-scrollback
27TODO: investigate the color-management patch send ages ago, as well as other postings
28 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: this version will always read ~/.Xdefaults, earlier
29 versions only read it if display-resources (usually from .Xresources)
30 are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my resource used") and
31 seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults resources have a lower
32 priority than display-specific resources.
33 - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and Xft
34 (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds).
35 - the "depth" resource is now respected.
36 - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h.
37 - double-buffered xft drawing did suffer from pixel offset issues
38 when pixmap transparency was enabled.
39 - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more
40 generic osc_seq.
41 - fix a bug causing double callback invocations when perl hooks
42 were invoked recursively.
43 - the automove-background extension now properly works when the
44 pixmap gets reset with an osc sequence (sqweek).
45 - selection-pastebin did not work properly with non-latin1-characters.
46 - apply colorUL only when the text colour is the default fg
47 (patch by Wu Fengguang).
48 - removed rxvtlib.h from the tarball, it had no reason to be there
49 (spotted by Decklin Foster).
50 - fix compiling with TRANSPARENT but !XPM_BACKGROUND, as reported
51 by omatunto_.
52 - slap in a using namespace std, might help on platforms that don't
53 follow C++ closely enough.
54 - fix mailto url regex, spotted within milliseconds by Jost Krieger.
55 - applied fade_color_update_func.patch by WU Fengguang.
56 - fix a bug where (due to an optimisation in av_delete), hiding the
57 bottom-most overlay would hide two overlays.
58
597.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
60 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
61 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
62 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
63 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
64 click, and eats the click.
65 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
66 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
67 refresh bugs please.
68 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
69 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
70 improve size hint setting.
71 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
72 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
73 to correctly position their preedit window.
74 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
75 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
76 in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
77 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
78 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
79 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
80 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
81 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
82 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
83 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
84 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
85 (reported by Paco-Paco).
86 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
87 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
88 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
89
907.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
91 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
92 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
93 resource value.
94 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
95 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
96 relevant tab window.
97 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
98 (initial patch by hednod).
99 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
100 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
101 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
102 the benefit of automove-background.
103 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
104 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
105 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
106 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
107 __linux__.
108 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
109 the colour components.
110 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
111 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
112 - more colour rtt optimisations.
113 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
114 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
115 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
116 - minor libptytty update.
117
1187.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
119 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
120 detection:
121 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
122 - overlap detection was improved.
123 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
124 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
125 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
126 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
127 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
128 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
129 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
130 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
131 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
132 broken.
133 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
134 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
135 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
136 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
137 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
138 (patch by Paco-Paco).
139 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
140 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
141 an "[alpha]" prefix.
142 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
143 transparent. Long Live Xft!
144 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
145 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
146 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
147 on a pseudocolor screen.
148 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
149 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
150 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
151 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
152 - small configure updates.
153 - further RTT optimisations.
154
1557.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
156 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
157 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
158 - small configure updates for libptytty.
159 - fixed version options: line output.
160 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
161
1627.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
163 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
164 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
165 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
166 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
167 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
168 selection extension.
169 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
170 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
171 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
172 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
173 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
174 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
175 needs the careful rendering mode.
176 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
177 too wide and needs careful mode.
178 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
179 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
180 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
181 atoms only once per display.
182 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
183 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
184 xterm.
185
1867.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
187 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
188 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
189 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
190 ctrl-shift-672c).
191 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
192 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
193 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
194 the primary screen.
195 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
196 could lead to an assertion failure.
197 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
198 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
199 via mouse clicks.
200 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
201 with shift - mouse button 2.
202 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
203 in non-synthetic events.
204 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
205 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
206 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
207 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
208 whole urxvt[d] process.
209 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
210 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
211 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
212 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
213
2147.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
215 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
216 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
217 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
218 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
219 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
220 special privileges.
221 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
222 itself.
223 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
224 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
225 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
226 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
227 similar stuff.
228 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
229 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
230 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
231 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
232 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
233 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
234 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
235 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
236 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
237 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
238 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
239 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
240 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
241 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
242 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
243 to set the window title.
244 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
245 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
246 at the wrong time.
247 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
248 anymore.
249 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
250 - nuked QNX support.
251 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
252 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
253 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
254 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
255
2567.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
257 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
258 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
259 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
260 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
261 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
262 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
263 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
264 and much much more.
265 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
266 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
267 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
268 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
269 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
270 setuid/setgid.
271 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
272 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
273 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
274 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
275 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
276 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
277 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
278 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
279 compatible, and not really small either.
280 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
281 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
282 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
283 to crashes.
284 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
285 colours.
286 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
287 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
288
2896.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
290 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
13 permissions were not correctly updated on the tty device and 291 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
14 were left as world-readable and world-writable (likely in original 292 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
15 rxvt, too), and were not restored properly (same as xterm here). 293 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
294 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
295 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
16 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations. 296 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
17 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported 297 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
18 by Mikachu) 298 by Mikachu).
19 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more 299 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
20 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback, 300 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
21 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option, 301 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
22 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet. 302 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
303 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
304 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
23 - fix directory permissions on install. 305 - fix directory permissions on install.
24 - improved sched_yield support. 306 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
307 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
308 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
309 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
310 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
25 311
266.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006 3126.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
27 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink 313 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
28 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by 314 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
29 Chuck Blake. 315 Chuck Blake.
695 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 981 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
696 --disable-xgetdefault. 982 --disable-xgetdefault.
697 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 983 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
698 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 984 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
699 unicode character. 985 unicode character.
700 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 986 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
701 get it wrong. 987 get it wrong.
702 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 988 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
703 989
7042.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 9902.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
705 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 991 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
706 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 992 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
707 settings. 993 settings.
758 - many other minor bugfixes. 1044 - many other minor bugfixes.
759 1045
7601.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 10461.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
761 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 1047 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
762 new bugs, this should not change much. 1048 new bugs, this should not change much.
763 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 1049 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
764 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 1050 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
765 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 1051 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
766 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 1052 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
767 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 1053 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
768 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 1054 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
769 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 1055 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
770 1056

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