--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2008/02/08 13:17:59 1.856 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2008/11/08 16:50:44 1.907 @@ -8,19 +8,87 @@ 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: investigate -pe tabbed -g 80x25 being 23 not 24 or 25 lines +TODO: better resource handling for tabbar in -pe tabbed. +WISH: 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: coloured pastebin 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? DUMB: support tex fonts -TODO: bgPixmap.apply all to do in scr_recolour? - +9.06 Sat Nov 8 17:47:18 CET 2008 + - NOTICE: this release updates terminfo/termcap. + - updates libev to 3.48. + - the aterm code now frees the as visual and image manager objects + when a window was closed. + - do not (wrongly) adjust the virtual line length inside + scr_insdel_chars/ERASE (Miroslav Lichvar). + - fix an issue where wide tab characters caused character shifts + when part of them was deleted (tracked down by Miroslav Lichvar). + - artificially enlargen the previous character at the end of a line + when trying to output a character that doesn't fit. looks ugly, but + makes copy&paste work. + - remove bogus "setuid/setgid security issues" from rxvt.1.pod, they + no longer apply. + - the urgency hint is now cleared on both focus in and focus out. + - cache urgency hint locally to avoid server rtt on every focus change. + - perl 5.10 needs PERL_SYS_INIT3 on hppa. + - ignore byte-order marks and do not treat them like combining characters. + - fix build issue when CURSOR_BLINK is not defined (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - do some ยต-optimisations to the character fast path. + - use a less cunning, but more robust algorithm to avoid one terminal + monopolising the whole process by outputting a lot of text. + - try to work around linux first breaking sched_yield and now breaking + the only known workaround. + - new option -icon to set _NET_WM_ICON (based on patch by Frank Schmitt). + - initialise the as visual only on demand, instead of unconditionally, + to save memory in the common case of not using visual gimmicks. + - try to work around bugs in a few wm's that errornously resize + client windows on hint property updates by temporarily + disabling size hints. + - implement the DECSTR soft reset sequence and use it for tput init, + and make hard RIS and DECSTR both reset more private modes, such + as mouse reporting. + - redundantly clear mouse reporting and a few other states in + tput init/tput reset, for older urxvts. + - partial/full clear screens did cause flickering and possibly pixel + droppings when urxvt viewed the scrollback buffer. + - use current rendition style in DCH sequence. + - the 132/80 mode switch no longer forces a screen reset. + - add an osc sequence to change the border colour (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - new perl extension "overlay-osc", for status displays and the like. + - fix some minor cursor drawing issues with overlays by allowing + overlays to modify screen flags (to disable the cursor themselves). + - work around programs not restoring rstyle before rmcup + (analysed by Miroslav Lichvar). + +9.05 Sun Jun 15 20:09:20 CEST 2008 + - new option --cd/chdir to set the starting working directory. + - tabbed extension now starts in the "correct" working directory. + - work around fedora 9 providing isastream but not the relevant + header file for it (report by Tuncer Ayaz). + - upgrade libev, fixing a bug in the select backend + with more than 31 file descriptors on non-linux 64 bit systems. + - correctly reset the multibyte state to the initial one + after EILSEQ (patch by Neil Booth). This fixes the + issue of rxvt-unicode not properly displaying text after an illegal + sequence on NetBSD and probably other systems. + - more intelligent property handling with -pe tabbed, works around + broken window managers (kwm et al.), saves bandwidth and should + help working window managers as well. - made tabs moveable (based on a patch by Petr Machata). - + - implement ESC [ 3 K as a more rational alternative to ESC [ 0 K. + - support relative paths for RXVT_SOCKET in urxvtd. + - the tabbed extension now blindly copies over all (rxvt-) resources + from the toplevel window to the children. + - better diagnostic on 0x0 window geometries. + - update AnyEvent API to version 3.4 and above. + - document the default value of :0 for DISPLAY. + - rename perl method XChangeWindowProperty to XChangeProperty. + 9.02 Tue Jan 29 11:58:36 CET 2008 - the "exg makes everybody happy" release. - fix build with !xft. @@ -35,7 +103,7 @@ 9.0 Fri Jan 25 19:34:04 CET 2008 - 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 + report bugs and their proposed fixes to the original package maintainers instead of sitting on them for good measure to see if anybody notices). - drawing xft compose characters was causing garbage to be drawn. - correctly clear xft character background in all cases. @@ -109,14 +177,14 @@ - 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 + - automove-background functionality re-implemented internally 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. + - fix possible race between 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 @@ -233,7 +301,7 @@ 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). + terminal emulator (see man urxvtperl). - 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. @@ -284,7 +352,7 @@ to correctly position their preedit window. - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same - in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection), + in empty spaces, but that's not true when reversing (e.g. selection), so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours. - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate @@ -303,7 +371,7 @@ - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the resource value. - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument. - - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th + - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and key events to the relevant tab window. - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults (initial patch by hednod).