--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/07/05 22:46:14 1.682 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2008/01/20 13:45:20 1.837 @@ -1,42 +1,227 @@ rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title +TODO: init_secondary serves what purpose? maybe move it to earlier startup phase and re-think TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable. TODO: slipwheeling needs a keyboard grab to get key release events. TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn -TODO: split perl documentation and urxvt.pm into separate files -TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango! TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness, motion hints?) -TODO: default selection should handle = better -TODO: kick out xpm.C, replace by pixbuf -WISH: skipscroll option +TODO: investigate -pe tabbed -g 80x25 being 23 not 24 or 25 lines + => when setting the constraints, the wm might (correctly) + resize the outer window, which might result in a smaller window overall. + or something like that. guys, send me a patch. WISH: selection-color-pair instead of reverse video WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that? -WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better. -WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. DUMB: support tex fonts -TODO: investigate -pe tabbed -g 80x25 being 23 not 24 or 25 lines -TODO: zero scorllback buffer should free memory -TODO: kuake -TODO: look into the selection hilight patch -TODO: implement smartcase-like search in searchable-scrollback -TODO: digital clock gets nuked after searching -TODO: investigate the color-management patch send ages ago, as well as other postings - - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: this version will always read ~/.Xdefaults, earlier - versions only read it if display-resources (usually from .Xresources) - are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my resource used") and - seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults resources have a lower - priority than display-specific resources. - - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and Xft - (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds). +9.0 + - fix a crash bug where urxvtd would crash when urxvtc was called + with wrong arguments (I wish debian maintainers in general would + report bugs and their proposed fixes to the original package maintaienrs + instead of sitting on them for good measure to see if anybody notices). + - check for refresh after initialising to avoid staying blank + till the first event arrives. or so. + - continuously update transparency while moving/resizing now. + - OSC 39/49 are deprecated and aliased to OSC 10/11. + - cub1 now acts as advertised (and ignores the "wrapped" state). + - the 132/80 mode switch now forces a height of 24, too, and + resets the terminal. + - scrollbar code cleanups. + +8.9 Mon Dec 24 07:51:40 CET 2007 + - fix the issue where urxvtd would not immediately close a window + when the command exited but only on the next X event. + - changed terminfo file not to use application keypad mode. + - fix the issue where making a selection in one urxvtd window + would not clear it visually in another. + - fix an issue of urxvt not getting background pixmap updates + and flickering after bg pixmap changes (reported by Mikachu). + - fix redraw bug in xterm scrollbar with -sr (reported by Mikachu). + - correctly provide dependencies for libev (µikachu). + - minor code reorganisations and cleanups. + - be more robust in case the urxvt-popup extension cannot be loaded. + +8.8 Sat Dec 15 19:40:39 CET 2007 + - option -C was aliased to all unsupported options, activating + options that shouldn't be compiled in, leading to interesting + effects. + - updated libev, working around a bug in linux 2.4, curing the + symptom of urxvt not closing its window on shell exit. also + fixes a problem with urxvt not refreshing. + - the text blink callback was called even when no blinking + text was visible. + - pre-8.4 slipwheeling behaviour has been reinstated, with + some minor improvements. + - streamlined x events processing to only flush once per + display and not once per terminal window. + - quite a bit of minor code cleanups and codesize optimisations. + +8.7 Sun Nov 25 10:23:49 CET 2007 + - update libev with an important bugfix that would cause crashes + when closing windows (when using rxvtd, and update is recommended). + - do not compile in the block builtin graphics with --disable-frills. + +8.6 Fri Nov 23 14:10:57 CET 2007 + - upgrade libev to disable kqueue on anything but netbsd as it + seems to be broken everywhere else w.r.t. ptys. + - allow for spurious event notifications, as at least epoll and + especially solaris ports like to lie about them (symptoms: + urxvt "hangs" until there is some x11 related activity). + - -keysym command line options are now subjected to xlib parsing. + - add 'xrm' option analogous to Xt one. + +8.5a Wed Nov 21 10:16:33 CET 2007 + - make it compile with --disable-transparency. + +8.5 Wed Nov 21 05:19:20 CET 2007 + - expect major portability issues in this release: please test and report. + - converted from the veritable io manager event loop to + the high performance libev (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev). + - minor tuning to the perl selection (include single words and more quoting chars). + - fix memory leak in pixmap code. + - fix a serious bug while setting the XIM destroy callback + on (typical) 64 bit systems. + - automove-background functionality re-implemented internaly using :root op in pixmap + geometry string. For example: rxvt -pixmap "image.jpg;:root" + - do not link rxvtc against every lib on the planet anymore. + - parallel builds should work once more. + +8.4 Sat Oct 27 14:02:13 CEST 2007 + - overhaul of the transparency/pixmap code (sasha). + - fix possible race betwen visual bell and poweron. + (reported by Martin von Gagern, gentoo?). + - urxvt -e no longer crashes the child. + - fixed some minor memleaks on incorrect usage or + missing DISPLAY. + - implement xterm 1002/1003 mouse tracking modes (exg). + - source code organisational cleanups (exg). + - updated io_manager. + +8.3 Wed Aug 1 20:21:31 CEST 2007 + - new option: skipScroll/-ss, enabled by default. + - go with the times and expect x11 library files in /usr/lib, not + /usr/X11R6/lib. + - initial transparency improvement/afterimage support + patch by Sasha Vasko. + - add urgentOnBell resource to set the urgency hint + (patch by Philip Paeps). + - do not process focus events caused by grabs + (patch by Mikachu). + - add iso14755_52 resource to disable iso14755 5.2 (exg). + - add binding for backspace in iso14755 5.1 to remove the last + digit (exg). + - better option handling, support more than 30 options (exg). + - nuke reconf script, serves no purpose anymore. + - fixed and documented matcher/on_user_command processing in matcher + extension (tpope). + - compile out of the box on Solaris 10 (exg). + - fix MappingNotify events (reported by Stephan Walter). + - zero-initialise mwmhints, this seems to solve all sorts of minor + problems. + +8.2 Sat Feb 17 21:35:28 CET 2007 + - fix make depend in src/, reported by exg. + - fixed typo in urxvt::GET_CUSTOM, causing the result to be wrong. + (patch by Sergey Vlasov). + - unbundled iom perl interface somewhat. + - scrollbar-xterm now uses the selected scrollColor instead of fg + (found by Aiviru). + - disabled linux kernel bug workaround again: disabling it gives + a 50% speed hit on affected machines, while enabling it gives + a similar speed hit to screen, which is likely the more common + case to work around for :/ + - urxvt::rend2mask perl function, and utilization of it by matcher + (patch by Moshe Kamensky). + - use perl:matcher on a keysym to open most recently displayed URL. + - with matcher, when multiple patterns match, last wins, not first. + - fix make and make install with srcdir != builddir (exg). + - updated bundled libptytty to fix a bug where the tty would be kept + open (see the libptytty ChangeLog for details). + - delay setting the IUTF8 flag to after the tty settings have been + set so its value does not get lost (reported and analysed by Andrei + Paskevich). + - rip out support for obsolete sgtty.h interface. + - rip out support for non-POSIX termios variants. + - update libptytty. + - update iom.C, make it call ptytty::sanitise_stdfd on init. + - when !XFT, change rounding of colours to use a less correct formula to + meet user expectancies (#aaa becomes #a000a000a000 not #9f9f9f9f9f9f). + - change the starting offset of the pixmap set with backgroundPixmap + from (50,50) to (0,0) (exg). + - fix a typo in button_release, now meta-button2 request the value of + the Clipboard selection as it should (patch by Serge Koksharov). + - fix a bug in drawing a cell with a nonspacing char when using an xft + font with inheritPixmap and tintColor (exg). + +8.1 Thu Dec 7 22:27:25 CET 2006 + - ｹﾘｽﾏｽﾌ゚ﾚｾ゙ﾝﾄ - zomg!!1, it's too early!!! + - fix the assumption that chars < 256 are single-width. Now + only assume this for codepoints 32 to 126 (reported by Dai.H.). + - $term->strwidth returned wide chars as width 1, because some jerk + confused min and max. Fixing this also fixes xim-onthespot. + Reported by Takano Akio. + - secondaryScroll is now enabled by default (as per the manpage), + reported by exg. + - correct the description of [percent]color rgba format in the manpage. + - incorporated macosx-clipboard extension by Samuel Ljungkvist. + - ignore (some) useless focus events (reported by mmc). + - updated compose table to unicode 5.0.0. + +8.0 Thu Nov 2 18:35:19 CET 2006 + - combining characters cleared the area instead of creating an overlay, + thus losing the ability to draw combining characters properly in most + circumstances (reported by exg). + - specified fonts were incorrectly morphed to bold/italic according to the + basefont, even if explicitly specified (tracked down by tpope). + - fixed urxvt::strwidth to calculate width in the same way as screen.C. + - fix a crash caused by passing negative widths to overlay functions. + - added 'matcher' extension by tpope, replacing the mark-urls extension. + - improve url regex to match anything www.* (tpope). + - fixed bug with outline cursor color being wrong after xft fonts. + - update to libptytty-1.0. + - give proper diagnostic when RXVT_SOCKET is too long instead of + corrupting the stack (patch by exg). + - display current terminal locale in option menu. + - urxvtd no longer crashes when the client sends an inaccessible + working directory (reported by Roland Baer, possibly fixes gentoo + bug #143985). + - fixed many minor issues reported by Roland Baer. + - Leonid Khramov spotted a minor glitch in rxvtfont.C that + should not have any consequences, but was buggy nonetheless. + - manpage fix by exg. + +7.9 Mon Aug 7 18:16:07 CEST 2006 + - fix the crashing bug people encountered with 7.8 + urxvtd + perl + + transparency. Ought to fix debian bug #380348. + - fix urxvtc.1.pod: it actually claimed -pty-fd would not work. But + it does! :-> + - rxvt_fatal() in case the locale string is too long for our static buffer. + - fixed many, many, typos in the manpages (patch supplied by ves). + +7.8 Mon Jul 17 21:00:46 CEST 2006 + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: this version will always read ~/.Xdefaults, + earlier versions only read it if display-resources (usually from + .Xresources) are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my + resource used") and seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults + resources have a lower priority than display-specific resources. + - add "kuake" perl extension that does a similar thing to the kuake + terminal emulator (see man urxtvperl). + - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and + Xft (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds). - the "depth" resource is now respected. + - preset the searchable-scrollback pattern with "(?i)" to default search + to case-insensitivity. Will automatically be cleared when typing an + uppercase character. - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h. + - re-enabled highlightcolor support with --enable-frills, based on + a patch by Martin Stubenschrott. - double-buffered xft drawing did suffer from pixel offset issues when pixmap transparency was enabled. + - strategically add # to the url-match regexes, as we really want to + match common URIs not common URLs. Reported by Aaron Griffin. - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more generic osc_seq. - fix a bug causing double callback invocations when perl hooks @@ -48,12 +233,14 @@ (patch by Wu Fengguang). - removed rxvtlib.h from the tarball, it had no reason to be there (spotted by Decklin Foster). - - fix compiling with TRANSPARENT but !XPM_BACKGROUND, as reported + - fix compiling with TRANSPARENT but !XPM_BACKGROUND, as reported by omatunto_. - slap in a using namespace std, might help on platforms that don't follow C++ closely enough. - fix mailto url regex, spotted within milliseconds by Jost Krieger. - applied fade_color_update_func.patch by WU Fengguang. + - fix a bug where (due to an optimisation in av_delete), hiding the + bottom-most overlay would hide two overlays. 7.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware @@ -116,7 +303,7 @@ 7.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width - detection: + detection: - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated, - overlap detection was improved. - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft). @@ -150,6 +337,10 @@ - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number. - small configure updates. - further RTT optimisations. + - backported clean-up patches for makefiles and documentation from + the debian package. + - updated doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file. It's still not maintained here, + but much newer than the old one. 7.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling, @@ -850,7 +1041,7 @@ - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch). - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson. - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by - Mikael Magnusson). + Mikael Magnusson, based on aterm code). - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by Mikael Magnusson). - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).