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1 rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
2
3 TODO: move pty/tty handling into a fork'ed server and drop all privs
4 TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
5 TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
6 TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
7 TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
8 TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
9 TODO: clarify and get rid of SMOOTH_REFRESH etc.
10 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay...
11 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
12 WISH: support tex fonts
13
14 9.0
15 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
16 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0.
17 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
18 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
19 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
20 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
21 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
22 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
23 - applied many patches by Emanuele Giaquinta that clean the code up
24 and fix more bugs in the utmp logging code.
25 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
26 to set the window title.
27
28 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
29 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
30 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
31 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
32 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
33 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
34 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
35 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
36 and much much more.
37 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
38 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
39 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
40 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
41 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
42 setuid/setgid.
43 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
44 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
45 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
46 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
47 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
48 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
49 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
50 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
51 compatible, and not really small either.
52 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
53 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
54 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
55 to crashes.
56 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
57 colours.
58 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
59 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
60
61 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
62 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
63 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
64 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
65 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
66 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
67 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
68 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
69 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
70 by Mikachu).
71 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
72 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
73 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
74 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
75 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
76 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
77 - fix directory permissions on install.
78 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
79 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
80 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
81 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
82 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
83
84 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
85 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
86 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
87 Chuck Blake.
88 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
89 obscure the mouse cursor position.
90 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
91 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
92 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
93 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
94 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
95 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
96 transfer efficiency.
97 - further minor cleanups.
98
99 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
100 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
101 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
102 while the user still drags.
103 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
104 not drawn correctly.
105 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
106 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
107 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
108 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
109 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
110 stripping whitespace.
111 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
112 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
113
114 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
115 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
116 - enable slow link support by default.
117 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
118 (also a bug in original rxvt).
119 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
120 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
121 partial patch).
122 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
123 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
124 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
125 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
126 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
127 - implement -hold option.
128 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
129 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
130 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
131 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
132 - slight overall speed improvements.
133 - considerably improved code clarity.
134 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
135 buffer.
136
137 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
138 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
139 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
140 (matters only for rxvtd).
141 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
142 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
143 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
144
145 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
146 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
147 If you want the old behaviour, try:
148 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
149 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
150 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
151 percentage by 100-percentage.
152 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
153 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
154 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
155 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
156 windows.
157 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
158 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
159 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
160 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
161 - replaced INSTALL file.
162
163 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
164 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
165 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
166 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
167 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
168 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
169 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
170 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
171 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
172
173 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
174 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
175 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
176 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
177 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
178 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
179 Affects display in iso14755 box.
180 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
181 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
182 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
183 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
184 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
185 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
186 cutting pieces off of characters.
187 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
188 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
189 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
190 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
191 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
192 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
193 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
194
195 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
196 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
197 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
198 meaning of the given key.
199 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
200 (patch by Martin Edlman).
201
202 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
203 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
204 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
205 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
206 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
207 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
208 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
209 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
210 to disable it.
211
212 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
213 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
214 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
215 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
216 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
217 with modifiers.
218 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
219 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
220 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
221 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
222 and clear the scrollback buffer.
223
224 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
225 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
226 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
227 a command.
228 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
229 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
230 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
231 in Perl/Gtk2.
232 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
233 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
234 (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
235 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
236 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
237 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
238 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
239 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
240 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
241 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
242 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
243 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
244 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
245 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
246 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
247 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
248 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
249 rxvt-unicode).
250 - get rid of the intpro files.
251
252 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
253 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
254 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
255 (Kuang-che Wu).
256 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
257 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
258 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
259 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
260 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
261 along with other, similar, cleanups.
262 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
263 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
264 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
265 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
266 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
267 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
268
269 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
270 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
271 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
272 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
273 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
274 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
275 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
276 his patience and time in tracking this down).
277 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
278 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
279 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
280 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
281 by Joël Riou).
282 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
283 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
284 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
285 - shaved off some code segment size.
286 - various code cleanups.
287 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
288
289 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
290 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
291 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
292 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
293 -pixmap is active.
294 - new option/resource imFont.
295 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
296 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
297 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
298 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
299 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
300 (WU Fengguang).
301 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
302 examples (rxvt.1).
303 - removed src/test completely.
304 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
305
306 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
307 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
308 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
309 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
310 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
311 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
312 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
313 resulting in segfaults.
314 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
315 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
316 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
317 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
318 (Mikael Magnusson).
319 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
320 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
321 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
322 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
323 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
324 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
325 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
326 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
327 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
328 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
329 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
330 - initialize the locale much earlier.
331 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
332
333 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
334 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
335 black on initial startup.
336 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
337 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
338 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
339 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
340 additional multimedia keys.
341 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
342 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
343
344 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
345 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
346 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
347 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
348 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
349 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
350 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
351 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
352 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
353 ignored.
354 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
355 instead.
356 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
357 (reported by hednod).
358 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
359 - fix atom name enumeration.
360
361 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
362 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
363 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
364 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
365 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
366 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
367
368 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
369 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
370 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
371 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
372 titles etc.
373 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
374 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
375 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
376 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
377 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
378 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
379 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
380 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
381 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
382 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
383 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
384 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
385 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
386 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
387
388 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
389 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
390 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
391 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
392 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
393 thoroughly.
394 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
395 now, too.
396
397 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
398 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
399 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
400 on high-latency networks.
401 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
402 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
403 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
404 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
405 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
406 by Gunnar Ritter.
407 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
408 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
409
410 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
411 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
412 -ssc/-ssr settings.
413 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
414 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
415 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
416 - add compile fix for darwin.
417 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
418 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
419 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
420
421 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
422 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
423 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
424 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
425 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
426 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
427 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
428 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
429 ... terminated by a fix.
430 - new supported preeeditType "None".
431 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
432 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
433 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
434 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
435 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
436 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
437 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
438 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
439 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
440 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
441 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
442 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
443 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
444 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
445 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
446 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
447 in tracking this down.
448 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
449 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
450
451 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
452 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
453 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
454
455 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
456 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
457 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
458 installed if tic is available.
459 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
460 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
461 - removed README.unicode.
462 - support select&paste of tab characters.
463 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
464 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
465 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
466 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
467 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
468 screen updates with curses.
469 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
470 by spaces.
471 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
472 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
473 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
474 is just too slow for this to work.
475 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
476 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
477 implement. use --enable-styles.
478 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
479 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
480 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
481 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
482 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
483 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
484 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
485 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
486 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
487 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
488 (only for non-bold right now).
489 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
490 - better default font size and style.
491 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
492 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
493 single character against the base font extents and will only
494 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
495 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
496 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
497 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
498 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
499 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
500 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
501 screen height.
502 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
503 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
504 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
505 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
506 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
507 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
508 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
509 - removed OSC 702.
510 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
511 confused by it rather than using it.
512
513 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
514 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
515 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
516 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
517 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
518 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
519 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
520 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
521 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
522 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
523 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
524 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
525 close).
526 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
527 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
528 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
529 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
530 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
531 could not be created.
532 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
533 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
534 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
535 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
536 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
537 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
538 works.
539 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
540 - document more escape sequences.
541 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
542 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
543 character is a sensible operation.
544 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
545 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
546 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
547 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
548 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
549 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
550 with selections).
551
552 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
553 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
554 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
555 needs access to a local shell window).
556 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
557 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
558 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
559 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
560 a little window or so) would be welcome.
561 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
562 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
563 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
564 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
565 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
566 added there.
567 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
568 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
569 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
570 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
571 instead of being ignored.
572 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
573 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
574 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
575 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
576 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
577 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
578 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
579 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
580 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
581 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
582 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
583 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
584 needs testing anyways.
585 - more complete compile options help output.
586 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
587 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
588 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
589 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
590 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
591 - minor doc fix.
592
593 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
594 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
595 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
596 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
597 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
598 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
599 memmove :)
600 - minor cleanups.
601 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
602 (debian bug #169415).
603 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
604 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
605 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
606 - updated config.guess.
607
608 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
609 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
610 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
611 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
612 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
613 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
614 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
615 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
616 speeding up scrolling immensely.
617 - various other optimizations.
618 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
619
620 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
621 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
622 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
623 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
624 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
625 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
626 Mikael Magnusson).
627 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
628 Mikael Magnusson).
629 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
630 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
631 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
632
633 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
634 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
635 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
636 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
637 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
638 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
639 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
640 with ^V (SYN).
641 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
642
643 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
644 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
645 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
646 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
647 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
648 well as with other terminal emulators.
649 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
650 (reported by elmex).
651 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
652 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
653 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
654 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
655 Bloch.
656
657 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
658 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
659 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
660 sorry).
661 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
662 make it a little bit more correct c++).
663
664 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
665 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
666 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
667 - minor i18n issue fixes.
668
669 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
670 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
671 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
672 - fix some minor bugs.
673
674 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
675 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
676 for the keymappings.
677 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
678 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
679 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
680 an extension and is slightly ugly.
681 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
682 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
683 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
684 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
685 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
686 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
687 overwritten (as is common).
688 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
689 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
690
691 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
692 - minor doc corrections.
693 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
694 avoid clashes with xterm.
695 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
696 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
697 window colour when arg is "?".
698 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
699 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
700 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
701 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
702 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
703 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
704 (FRILLS).
705 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
706 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
707 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
708 - set _NET_WM_PID.
709
710 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
711 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
712 - support more 8-bit controls.
713 - more informative error messages.
714 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
715 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
716 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
717 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
718 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
719
720 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
721 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
722 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
723 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
724 - removed old selection style completely.
725 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
726 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
727 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
728 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
729 be used from within rxvt.
730 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
731
732 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
733 - code cleanup release.
734 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
735 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
736 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
737 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
738 all files.
739 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
740 --enable-xgetdefaults.
741
742 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
743 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
744 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
745 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
746 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
747 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
748 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
749 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
750 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
751 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
752 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
753 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
754 --disable-xgetdefault.
755 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
756 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
757 unicode character.
758 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
759 get it wrong.
760 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
761
762 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
763 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
764 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
765 settings.
766 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
767 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
768 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
769 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
770 mbrtowc.
771 - more robust encoding name matching.
772 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
773 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
774 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
775 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
776 resources and docs.
777 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
778
779 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
780 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
781 - some doc cleanup
782 - configure cleanup
783 - viscii enabled by default
784 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
785
786 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
787 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
788
789 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
790 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
791 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
792 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
793 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
794 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
795 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
796 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
797 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
798 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
799 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
800 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
801 reported by joel reed.
802 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
803 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
804 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
805 being selected.
806 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
807 - removed greek support.
808 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
809 - correct cursor width if !focus.
810 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
811 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
812 contributed.
813 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
814 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
815 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
816 - many other minor bugfixes.
817
818 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
819 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
820 new bugs, this should not change much.
821 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
822 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
823 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
824 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
825 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
826 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
827 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
828
829 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
830 - further cleanups.
831 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
832 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
833 use reverse video, not _blink_.
834 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
835 please drop me a note.
836
837 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
838 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
839 - blinking text.
840 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
841 normal text when colorBD is not set.
842 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
843 was never implemented
844
845 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
846 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
847 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
848 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
849 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
850 reported by fefe
851 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
852 Markus Demleitner
853 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
854 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
855 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
856
857 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
858 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
859 - small font tunings
860 - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
861 - better error reporting for unknown options
862
863 1.3 2003-12-26
864 - fix a bug in font height selection
865 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
866 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
867 - much faster x11 font selection
868
869 1.2 2003-12-24
870 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
871 - better font matching
872 - better memory management (less memory)
873 - new fallback: gnu freefont
874
875 1.1 2003-12-18
876 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
877 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
878 - much improved font choosing
879
880 1.0
881 - first release
882 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
883 - removed rclock et al.
884 - initial conversion to C++
885