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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: support tex fonts
11
12 TODO: document transient_for, vt and the grab etc. functionality
13
14 - perl: implement additional hook: line_update, add_lines.
15 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
16 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
17 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
18 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
19 and much much more.
20 - perl: anyevent support.
21 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if installed
22 setuid/setgid.
23 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory hole. as a
24 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
25 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leaks.
26
27 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
28 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
29 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
30 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
31 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
32 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
33 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
34 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
35 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
36 by Mikachu).
37 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
38 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
39 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
40 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
41 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
42 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
43 - fix directory permissions on install.
44 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
45 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
46 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
47 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
48 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
49
50 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
51 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
52 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
53 Chuck Blake.
54 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
55 obscure the mouse cursor position.
56 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
57 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
58 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
59 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
60 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
61 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
62 transfer efficiency.
63 - further minor cleanups.
64
65 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
66 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
67 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
68 while the user still drags.
69 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
70 not drawn correctly.
71 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
72 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
73 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
74 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
75 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
76 stripping whitespace.
77 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
78 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
79
80 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
81 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
82 - enable slow link support by default.
83 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
84 (also a bug in original rxvt).
85 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
86 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
87 partial patch).
88 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
89 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
90 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
91 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
92 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
93 - implement -hold option.
94 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
95 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
96 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
97 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
98 - slight overall speed improvements.
99 - considerably improved code clarity.
100 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
101 buffer.
102
103 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
104 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
105 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
106 (matters only for rxvtd).
107 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
108 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
109 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
110
111 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
112 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
113 If you want the old behaviour, try:
114 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
115 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
116 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
117 percentage by 100-percentage.
118 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
119 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
120 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
121 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
122 windows.
123 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
124 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
125 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
126 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
127 - replaced INSTALL file.
128
129 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
130 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
131 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
132 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
133 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
134 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
135 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
136 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
137 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
138
139 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
140 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
141 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
142 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
143 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
144 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
145 Affects display in iso14755 box.
146 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
147 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
148 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
149 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
150 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
151 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
152 cutting pieces off of characters.
153 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
154 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
155 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
156 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
157 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
158 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
159 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
160
161 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
162 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
163 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
164 meaning of the given key.
165 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
166 (patch by Martin Edlman).
167
168 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
169 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
170 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
171 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
172 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
173 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
174 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
175 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
176 to disable it.
177
178 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
179 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
180 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
181 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
182 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
183 with modifiers.
184 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
185 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
186 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
187 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
188 and clear the scrollback buffer.
189
190 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
191 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
192 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
193 a command.
194 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
195 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
196 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
197 in Perl/Gtk2.
198 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
199 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
200 (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
201 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
202 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
203 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
204 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
205 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
206 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
207 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
208 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
209 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
210 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
211 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
212 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
213 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
214 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
215 rxvt-unicode).
216 - get rid of the intpro files.
217
218 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
219 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
220 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
221 (Kuang-che Wu).
222 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
223 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
224 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
225 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
226 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
227 along with other, similar, cleanups.
228 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
229 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
230 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
231 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
232 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
233 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
234
235 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
236 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
237 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
238 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
239 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
240 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
241 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
242 his patience and time in tracking this down).
243 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
244 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
245 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
246 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
247 by Joël Riou).
248 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
249 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
250 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
251 - shaved off some code segment size.
252 - various code cleanups.
253 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
254
255 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
256 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
257 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
258 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
259 -pixmap is active.
260 - new option/resource imFont.
261 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
262 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
263 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
264 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
265 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
266 (WU Fengguang).
267 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
268 examples (rxvt.1).
269 - removed src/test completely.
270 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
271
272 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
273 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
274 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
275 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
276 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
277 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
278 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
279 resulting in segfaults.
280 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
281 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
282 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
283 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
284 (Mikael Magnusson).
285 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
286 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
287 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
288 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
289 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
290 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
291 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
292 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
293 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
294 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
295 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
296 - initialize the locale much earlier.
297 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
298
299 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
300 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
301 black on initial startup.
302 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
303 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
304 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
305 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
306 additional multimedia keys.
307 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
308 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
309
310 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
311 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
312 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
313 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
314 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
315 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
316 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
317 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
318 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
319 ignored.
320 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
321 instead.
322 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
323 (reported by hednod).
324 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
325 - fix atom name enumeration.
326
327 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
328 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
329 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
330 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
331 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
332 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
333
334 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
335 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
336 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
337 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
338 titles etc.
339 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
340 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
341 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
342 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
343 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
344 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
345 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
346 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
347 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
348 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
349 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
350 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
351 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
352 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
353
354 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
355 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
356 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
357 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
358 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
359 thoroughly.
360 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
361 now, too.
362
363 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
364 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
365 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
366 on high-latency networks.
367 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
368 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
369 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
370 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
371 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
372 by Gunnar Ritter.
373 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
374 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
375
376 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
377 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
378 -ssc/-ssr settings.
379 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
380 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
381 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
382 - add compile fix for darwin.
383 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
384 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
385 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
386
387 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
388 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
389 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
390 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
391 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
392 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
393 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
394 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
395 ... terminated by a fix.
396 - new supported preeeditType "None".
397 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
398 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
399 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
400 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
401 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
402 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
403 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
404 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
405 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
406 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
407 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
408 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
409 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
410 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
411 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
412 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
413 in tracking this down.
414 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
415 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
416
417 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
418 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
419 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
420
421 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
422 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
423 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
424 installed if tic is available.
425 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
426 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
427 - removed README.unicode.
428 - support select&paste of tab characters.
429 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
430 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
431 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
432 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
433 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
434 screen updates with curses.
435 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
436 by spaces.
437 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
438 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
439 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
440 is just too slow for this to work.
441 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
442 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
443 implement. use --enable-styles.
444 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
445 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
446 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
447 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
448 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
449 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
450 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
451 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
452 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
453 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
454 (only for non-bold right now).
455 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
456 - better default font size and style.
457 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
458 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
459 single character against the base font extents and will only
460 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
461 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
462 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
463 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
464 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
465 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
466 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
467 screen height.
468 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
469 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
470 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
471 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
472 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
473 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
474 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
475 - removed OSC 702.
476 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
477 confused by it rather than using it.
478
479 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
480 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
481 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
482 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
483 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
484 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
485 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
486 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
487 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
488 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
489 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
490 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
491 close).
492 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
493 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
494 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
495 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
496 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
497 could not be created.
498 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
499 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
500 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
501 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
502 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
503 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
504 works.
505 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
506 - document more escape sequences.
507 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
508 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
509 character is a sensible operation.
510 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
511 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
512 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
513 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
514 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
515 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
516 with selections).
517
518 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
519 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
520 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
521 needs access to a local shell window).
522 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
523 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
524 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
525 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
526 a little window or so) would be welcome.
527 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
528 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
529 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
530 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
531 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
532 added there.
533 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
534 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
535 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
536 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
537 instead of being ignored.
538 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
539 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
540 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
541 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
542 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
543 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
544 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
545 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
546 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
547 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
548 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
549 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
550 needs testing anyways.
551 - more complete compile options help output.
552 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
553 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
554 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
555 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
556 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
557 - minor doc fix.
558
559 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
560 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
561 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
562 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
563 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
564 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
565 memmove :)
566 - minor cleanups.
567 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
568 (debian bug #169415).
569 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
570 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
571 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
572 - updated config.guess.
573
574 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
575 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
576 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
577 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
578 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
579 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
580 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
581 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
582 speeding up scrolling immensely.
583 - various other optimizations.
584 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
585
586 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
587 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
588 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
589 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
590 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
591 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
592 Mikael Magnusson).
593 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
594 Mikael Magnusson).
595 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
596 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
597 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
598
599 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
600 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
601 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
602 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
603 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
604 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
605 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
606 with ^V (SYN).
607 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
608
609 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
610 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
611 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
612 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
613 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
614 well as with other terminal emulators.
615 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
616 (reported by elmex).
617 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
618 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
619 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
620 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
621 Bloch.
622
623 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
624 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
625 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
626 sorry).
627 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
628 make it a little bit more correct c++).
629
630 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
631 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
632 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
633 - minor i18n issue fixes.
634
635 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
636 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
637 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
638 - fix some minor bugs.
639
640 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
641 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
642 for the keymappings.
643 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
644 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
645 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
646 an extension and is slightly ugly.
647 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
648 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
649 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
650 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
651 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
652 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
653 overwritten (as is common).
654 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
655 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
656
657 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
658 - minor doc corrections.
659 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
660 avoid clashes with xterm.
661 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
662 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
663 window colour when arg is "?".
664 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
665 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
666 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
667 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
668 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
669 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
670 (FRILLS).
671 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
672 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
673 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
674 - set _NET_WM_PID.
675
676 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
677 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
678 - support more 8-bit controls.
679 - more informative error messages.
680 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
681 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
682 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
683 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
684 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
685
686 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
687 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
688 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
689 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
690 - removed old selection style completely.
691 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
692 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
693 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
694 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
695 be used from within rxvt.
696 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
697
698 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
699 - code cleanup release.
700 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
701 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
702 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
703 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
704 all files.
705 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
706 --enable-xgetdefaults.
707
708 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
709 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
710 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
711 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
712 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
713 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
714 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
715 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
716 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
717 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
718 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
719 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
720 --disable-xgetdefault.
721 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
722 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
723 unicode character.
724 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
725 get it wrong.
726 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
727
728 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
729 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
730 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
731 settings.
732 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
733 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
734 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
735 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
736 mbrtowc.
737 - more robust encoding name matching.
738 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
739 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
740 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
741 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
742 resources and docs.
743 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
744
745 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
746 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
747 - some doc cleanup
748 - configure cleanup
749 - viscii enabled by default
750 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
751
752 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
753 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
754
755 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
756 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
757 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
758 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
759 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
760 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
761 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
762 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
763 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
764 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
765 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
766 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
767 reported by joel reed.
768 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
769 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
770 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
771 being selected.
772 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
773 - removed greek support.
774 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
775 - correct cursor width if !focus.
776 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
777 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
778 contributed.
779 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
780 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
781 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
782 - many other minor bugfixes.
783
784 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
785 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
786 new bugs, this should not change much.
787 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
788 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
789 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
790 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
791 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
792 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
793 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
794
795 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
796 - further cleanups.
797 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
798 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
799 use reverse video, not _blink_.
800 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
801 please drop me a note.
802
803 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
804 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
805 - blinking text.
806 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
807 normal text when colorBD is not set.
808 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
809 was never implemented
810
811 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
812 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
813 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
814 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
815 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
816 reported by fefe
817 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
818 Markus Demleitner
819 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
820 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
821 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
822
823 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
824 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
825 - small font tunings
826 - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
827 - better error reporting for unknown options
828
829 1.3 2003-12-26
830 - fix a bug in font height selection
831 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
832 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
833 - much faster x11 font selection
834
835 1.2 2003-12-24
836 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
837 - better font matching
838 - better memory management (less memory)
839 - new fallback: gnu freefont
840
841 1.1 2003-12-18
842 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
843 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
844 - much improved font choosing
845
846 1.0
847 - first release
848 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
849 - removed rclock et al.
850 - initial conversion to C++
851