ViewVC Help
View File | Revision Log | Show Annotations | Download File
/cvs/rxvt-unicode/Changes
Revision: 1.486
Committed: Tue Jan 3 23:40:58 2006 UTC (18 years, 4 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.485: +1 -0 lines
Log Message:
*** empty log message ***

File Contents

# Content
1 rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
2
3 TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
4 TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
5 TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
6 TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
7 TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
8 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif
9 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
10 WISH: make builtin character glyphs optional
11 WISH: better support for mixing xft font sizes rxvt -fn "xft:Andale Mono:size=15" -fb "xft:Andale Mono:size=8:bold"
12
13 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
14 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
15 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
16 too), and were not restored properly (same as xterm here).
17 Affected are only systems using non-unix ptys (such as most
18 BSDs, not GNU/Linux).
19 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
20 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
21 by Mikachu)
22 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
23 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
24 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
25 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
26 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
27 - fix directory permissions on install.
28 - improved sched_yield support.
29
30 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
31 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
32 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
33 Chuck Blake.
34 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
35 obscure the mouse cursor position.
36 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
37 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
38 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
39 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
40 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
41 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
42 transfer efficiency.
43 - further minor cleanups.
44
45 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
46 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
47 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
48 while the user still drags.
49 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
50 not drawn correctly.
51 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
52 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
53 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
54 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
55 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
56 stripping whitespace.
57 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
58 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
59
60 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
61 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
62 - enable slow link support by default.
63 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
64 (also a bug in original rxvt).
65 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
66 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
67 partial patch).
68 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
69 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
70 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
71 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
72 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
73 - implement -hold option.
74 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
75 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
76 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
77 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
78 - slight overall speed improvements.
79 - considerably improved code clarity.
80 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
81 buffer.
82
83 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
84 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
85 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
86 (matters only for rxvtd).
87 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
88 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
89 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
90
91 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
92 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
93 If you want the old behaviour, try:
94 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
95 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
96 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
97 percentage by 100-percentage.
98 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
99 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
100 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
101 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
102 windows.
103 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
104 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
105 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
106 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
107 - replaced INSTALL file.
108
109 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
110 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
111 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
112 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
113 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
114 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
115 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
116 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
117 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
118
119 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
120 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
121 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
122 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
123 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
124 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
125 Affects display in iso14755 box.
126 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
127 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
128 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
129 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
130 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
131 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
132 cutting pieces off of characters.
133 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
134 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
135 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
136 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
137 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
138 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
139 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
140
141 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
142 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
143 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
144 meaning of the given key.
145 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
146 (patch by Martin Edlman).
147
148 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
149 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
150 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
151 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
152 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
153 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
154 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
155 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
156 to disable it.
157
158 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
159 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
160 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
161 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
162 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
163 with modifiers.
164 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
165 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
166 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
167 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
168 and clear the scrollback buffer.
169
170 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
171 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
172 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
173 a command.
174 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
175 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
176 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
177 in Perl/Gtk2.
178 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
179 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
180 (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
181 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
182 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
183 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
184 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
185 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
186 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
187 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
188 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
189 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
190 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
191 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
192 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
193 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
194 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
195 rxvt-unicode).
196 - get rid of the intpro files.
197
198 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
199 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
200 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
201 (Kuang-che Wu).
202 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
203 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
204 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
205 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
206 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
207 along with other, similar, cleanups.
208 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
209 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
210 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
211 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
212 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
213 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
214
215 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
216 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
217 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
218 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
219 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
220 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
221 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
222 his patience and time in tracking this down).
223 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
224 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
225 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
226 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
227 by Joël Riou).
228 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
229 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
230 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
231 - shaved off some code segment size.
232 - various code cleanups.
233 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
234
235 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
236 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
237 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
238 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
239 -pixmap is active.
240 - new option/resource imFont.
241 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
242 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
243 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
244 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
245 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
246 (WU Fengguang).
247 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
248 examples (rxvt.1).
249 - removed src/test completely.
250 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
251
252 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
253 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
254 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
255 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
256 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
257 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
258 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
259 resulting in segfaults.
260 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
261 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
262 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
263 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
264 (Mikael Magnusson).
265 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
266 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
267 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
268 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
269 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
270 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
271 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
272 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
273 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
274 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
275 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
276 - initialize the locale much earlier.
277 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
278
279 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
280 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
281 black on initial startup.
282 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
283 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
284 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
285 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
286 additional multimedia keys.
287 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
288 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
289
290 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
291 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
292 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
293 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
294 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
295 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
296 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
297 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
298 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
299 ignored.
300 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
301 instead.
302 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
303 (reported by hednod).
304 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
305 - fix atom name enumeration.
306
307 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
308 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
309 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
310 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
311 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
312 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
313
314 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
315 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
316 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
317 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
318 titles etc.
319 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
320 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
321 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
322 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
323 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
324 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
325 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
326 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
327 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
328 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
329 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
330 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
331 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
332 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
333
334 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
335 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
336 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
337 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
338 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
339 thoroughly.
340 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
341 now, too.
342
343 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
344 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
345 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
346 on high-latency networks.
347 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
348 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
349 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
350 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
351 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
352 by Gunnar Ritter.
353 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
354 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
355
356 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
357 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
358 -ssc/-ssr settings.
359 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
360 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
361 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
362 - add compile fix for darwin.
363 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
364 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
365 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
366
367 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
368 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
369 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
370 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
371 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
372 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
373 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
374 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
375 ... terminated by a fix.
376 - new supported preeeditType "None".
377 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
378 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
379 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
380 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
381 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
382 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
383 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
384 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
385 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
386 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
387 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
388 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
389 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
390 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
391 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
392 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
393 in tracking this down.
394 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
395 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
396
397 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
398 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
399 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
400
401 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
402 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
403 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
404 installed if tic is available.
405 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
406 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
407 - removed README.unicode.
408 - support select&paste of tab characters.
409 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
410 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
411 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
412 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
413 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
414 screen updates with curses.
415 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
416 by spaces.
417 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
418 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
419 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
420 is just too slow for this to work.
421 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
422 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
423 implement. use --enable-styles.
424 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
425 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
426 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
427 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
428 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
429 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
430 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
431 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
432 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
433 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
434 (only for non-bold right now).
435 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
436 - better default font size and style.
437 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
438 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
439 single character against the base font extents and will only
440 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
441 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
442 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
443 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
444 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
445 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
446 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
447 screen height.
448 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
449 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
450 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
451 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
452 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
453 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
454 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
455 - removed OSC 702.
456 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
457 confused by it rather than using it.
458
459 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
460 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
461 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
462 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
463 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
464 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
465 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
466 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
467 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
468 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
469 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
470 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
471 close).
472 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
473 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
474 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
475 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
476 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
477 could not be created.
478 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
479 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
480 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
481 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
482 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
483 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
484 works.
485 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
486 - document more escape sequences.
487 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
488 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
489 character is a sensible operation.
490 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
491 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
492 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
493 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
494 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
495 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
496 with selections).
497
498 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
499 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
500 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
501 needs access to a local shell window).
502 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
503 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
504 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
505 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
506 a little window or so) would be welcome.
507 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
508 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
509 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
510 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
511 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
512 added there.
513 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
514 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
515 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
516 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
517 instead of being ignored.
518 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
519 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
520 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
521 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
522 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
523 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
524 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
525 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
526 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
527 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
528 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
529 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
530 needs testing anyways.
531 - more complete compile options help output.
532 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
533 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
534 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
535 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
536 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
537 - minor doc fix.
538
539 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
540 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
541 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
542 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
543 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
544 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
545 memmove :)
546 - minor cleanups.
547 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
548 (debian bug #169415).
549 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
550 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
551 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
552 - updated config.guess.
553
554 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
555 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
556 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
557 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
558 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
559 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
560 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
561 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
562 speeding up scrolling immensely.
563 - various other optimizations.
564 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
565
566 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
567 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
568 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
569 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
570 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
571 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
572 Mikael Magnusson).
573 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
574 Mikael Magnusson).
575 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
576 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
577 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
578
579 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
580 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
581 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
582 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
583 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
584 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
585 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
586 with ^V (SYN).
587 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
588
589 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
590 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
591 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
592 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
593 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
594 well as with other terminal emulators.
595 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
596 (reported by elmex).
597 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
598 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
599 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
600 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
601 Bloch.
602
603 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
604 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
605 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
606 sorry).
607 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
608 make it a little bit more correct c++).
609
610 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
611 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
612 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
613 - minor i18n issue fixes.
614
615 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
616 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
617 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
618 - fix some minor bugs.
619
620 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
621 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
622 for the keymappings.
623 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
624 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
625 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
626 an extension and is slightly ugly.
627 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
628 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
629 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
630 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
631 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
632 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
633 overwritten (as is common).
634 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
635 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
636
637 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
638 - minor doc corrections.
639 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
640 avoid clashes with xterm.
641 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
642 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
643 window colour when arg is "?".
644 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
645 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
646 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
647 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
648 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
649 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
650 (FRILLS).
651 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
652 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
653 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
654 - set _NET_WM_PID.
655
656 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
657 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
658 - support more 8-bit controls.
659 - more informative error messages.
660 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
661 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
662 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
663 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
664 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
665
666 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
667 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
668 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
669 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
670 - removed old selection style completely.
671 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
672 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
673 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
674 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
675 be used from within rxvt.
676 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
677
678 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
679 - code cleanup release.
680 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
681 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
682 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
683 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
684 all files.
685 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
686 --enable-xgetdefaults.
687
688 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
689 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
690 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
691 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
692 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
693 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
694 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
695 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
696 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
697 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
698 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
699 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
700 --disable-xgetdefault.
701 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
702 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
703 unicode character.
704 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
705 get it wrong.
706 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
707
708 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
709 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
710 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
711 settings.
712 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
713 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
714 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
715 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
716 mbrtowc.
717 - more robust encoding name matching.
718 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
719 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
720 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
721 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
722 resources and docs.
723 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
724
725 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
726 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
727 - some doc cleanup
728 - configure cleanup
729 - viscii enabled by default
730 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
731
732 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
733 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
734
735 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
736 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
737 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
738 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
739 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
740 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
741 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
742 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
743 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
744 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
745 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
746 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
747 reported by joel reed.
748 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
749 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
750 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
751 being selected.
752 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
753 - removed greek support.
754 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
755 - correct cursor width if !focus.
756 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
757 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
758 contributed.
759 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
760 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
761 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
762 - many other minor bugfixes.
763
764 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
765 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
766 new bugs, this should not change much.
767 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
768 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
769 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
770 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
771 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
772 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
773 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
774
775 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
776 - further cleanups.
777 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
778 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
779 use reverse video, not _blink_.
780 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
781 please drop me a note.
782
783 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
784 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
785 - blinking text.
786 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
787 normal text when colorBD is not set.
788 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
789 was never implemented
790
791 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
792 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
793 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
794 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
795 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
796 reported by fefe
797 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
798 Markus Demleitner
799 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
800 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
801 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
802
803 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
804 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
805 - small font tunings
806 - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
807 - better error reporting for unknown options
808
809 1.3 2003-12-26
810 - fix a bug in font height selection
811 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
812 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
813 - much faster x11 font selection
814
815 1.2 2003-12-24
816 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
817 - better font matching
818 - better memory management (less memory)
819 - new fallback: gnu freefont
820
821 1.1 2003-12-18
822 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
823 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
824 - much improved font choosing
825
826 1.0
827 - first release
828 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
829 - removed rclock et al.
830 - initial conversion to C++
831