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Revision: 1.532
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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: perl extension for background image loading and moving the origin.
11 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay...
12 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
13 WISH: support tex fonts
14
15 9.0
16 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
17 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0.
18 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
19 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
20 at the wrong time.
21 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
22 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
23 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
24 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
25 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
26 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
27 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
28 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
29 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
30 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
31 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
32 anymore.
33 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
34 to set the window title.
35 - nuked QNX support.
36
37 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
38 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
39 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
40 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
41 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
42 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
43 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
44 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
45 and much much more.
46 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
47 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
48 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
49 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
50 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
51 setuid/setgid.
52 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
53 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
54 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
55 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
56 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
57 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
58 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
59 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
60 compatible, and not really small either.
61 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
62 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
63 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
64 to crashes.
65 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
66 colours.
67 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
68 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
69
70 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
71 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
72 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
73 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
74 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
75 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
76 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
77 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
78 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
79 by Mikachu).
80 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
81 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
82 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
83 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
84 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
85 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
86 - fix directory permissions on install.
87 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
88 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
89 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
90 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
91 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
92
93 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
94 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
95 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
96 Chuck Blake.
97 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
98 obscure the mouse cursor position.
99 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
100 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
101 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
102 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
103 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
104 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
105 transfer efficiency.
106 - further minor cleanups.
107
108 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
109 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
110 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
111 while the user still drags.
112 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
113 not drawn correctly.
114 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
115 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
116 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
117 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
118 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
119 stripping whitespace.
120 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
121 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
122
123 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
124 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
125 - enable slow link support by default.
126 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
127 (also a bug in original rxvt).
128 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
129 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
130 partial patch).
131 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
132 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
133 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
134 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
135 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
136 - implement -hold option.
137 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
138 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
139 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
140 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
141 - slight overall speed improvements.
142 - considerably improved code clarity.
143 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
144 buffer.
145
146 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
147 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
148 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
149 (matters only for rxvtd).
150 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
151 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
152 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
153
154 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
155 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
156 If you want the old behaviour, try:
157 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
158 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
159 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
160 percentage by 100-percentage.
161 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
162 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
163 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
164 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
165 windows.
166 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
167 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
168 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
169 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
170 - replaced INSTALL file.
171
172 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
173 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
174 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
175 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
176 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
177 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
178 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
179 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
180 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
181
182 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
183 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
184 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
185 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
186 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
187 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
188 Affects display in iso14755 box.
189 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
190 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
191 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
192 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
193 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
194 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
195 cutting pieces off of characters.
196 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
197 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
198 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
199 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
200 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
201 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
202 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
203
204 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
205 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
206 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
207 meaning of the given key.
208 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
209 (patch by Martin Edlman).
210
211 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
212 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
213 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
214 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
215 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
216 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
217 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
218 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
219 to disable it.
220
221 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
222 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
223 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
224 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
225 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
226 with modifiers.
227 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
228 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
229 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
230 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
231 and clear the scrollback buffer.
232
233 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
234 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
235 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
236 a command.
237 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
238 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
239 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
240 in Perl/Gtk2.
241 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
242 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
243 (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
244 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
245 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
246 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
247 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
248 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
249 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
250 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
251 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
252 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
253 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
254 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
255 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
256 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
257 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
258 rxvt-unicode).
259 - get rid of the intpro files.
260
261 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
262 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
263 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
264 (Kuang-che Wu).
265 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
266 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
267 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
268 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
269 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
270 along with other, similar, cleanups.
271 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
272 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
273 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
274 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
275 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
276 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
277
278 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
279 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
280 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
281 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
282 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
283 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
284 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
285 his patience and time in tracking this down).
286 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
287 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
288 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
289 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
290 by Joël Riou).
291 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
292 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
293 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
294 - shaved off some code segment size.
295 - various code cleanups.
296 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
297
298 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
299 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
300 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
301 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
302 -pixmap is active.
303 - new option/resource imFont.
304 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
305 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
306 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
307 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
308 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
309 (WU Fengguang).
310 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
311 examples (rxvt.1).
312 - removed src/test completely.
313 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
314
315 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
316 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
317 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
318 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
319 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
320 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
321 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
322 resulting in segfaults.
323 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
324 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
325 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
326 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
327 (Mikael Magnusson).
328 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
329 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
330 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
331 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
332 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
333 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
334 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
335 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
336 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
337 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
338 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
339 - initialize the locale much earlier.
340 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
341
342 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
343 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
344 black on initial startup.
345 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
346 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
347 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
348 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
349 additional multimedia keys.
350 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
351 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
352
353 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
354 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
355 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
356 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
357 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
358 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
359 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
360 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
361 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
362 ignored.
363 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
364 instead.
365 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
366 (reported by hednod).
367 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
368 - fix atom name enumeration.
369
370 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
371 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
372 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
373 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
374 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
375 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
376
377 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
378 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
379 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
380 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
381 titles etc.
382 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
383 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
384 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
385 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
386 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
387 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
388 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
389 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
390 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
391 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
392 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
393 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
394 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
395 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
396
397 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
398 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
399 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
400 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
401 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
402 thoroughly.
403 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
404 now, too.
405
406 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
407 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
408 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
409 on high-latency networks.
410 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
411 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
412 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
413 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
414 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
415 by Gunnar Ritter.
416 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
417 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
418
419 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
420 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
421 -ssc/-ssr settings.
422 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
423 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
424 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
425 - add compile fix for darwin.
426 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
427 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
428 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
429
430 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
431 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
432 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
433 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
434 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
435 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
436 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
437 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
438 ... terminated by a fix.
439 - new supported preeeditType "None".
440 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
441 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
442 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
443 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
444 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
445 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
446 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
447 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
448 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
449 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
450 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
451 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
452 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
453 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
454 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
455 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
456 in tracking this down.
457 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
458 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
459
460 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
461 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
462 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
463
464 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
465 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
466 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
467 installed if tic is available.
468 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
469 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
470 - removed README.unicode.
471 - support select&paste of tab characters.
472 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
473 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
474 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
475 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
476 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
477 screen updates with curses.
478 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
479 by spaces.
480 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
481 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
482 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
483 is just too slow for this to work.
484 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
485 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
486 implement. use --enable-styles.
487 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
488 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
489 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
490 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
491 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
492 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
493 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
494 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
495 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
496 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
497 (only for non-bold right now).
498 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
499 - better default font size and style.
500 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
501 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
502 single character against the base font extents and will only
503 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
504 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
505 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
506 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
507 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
508 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
509 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
510 screen height.
511 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
512 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
513 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
514 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
515 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
516 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
517 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
518 - removed OSC 702.
519 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
520 confused by it rather than using it.
521
522 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
523 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
524 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
525 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
526 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
527 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
528 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
529 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
530 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
531 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
532 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
533 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
534 close).
535 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
536 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
537 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
538 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
539 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
540 could not be created.
541 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
542 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
543 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
544 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
545 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
546 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
547 works.
548 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
549 - document more escape sequences.
550 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
551 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
552 character is a sensible operation.
553 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
554 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
555 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
556 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
557 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
558 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
559 with selections).
560
561 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
562 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
563 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
564 needs access to a local shell window).
565 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
566 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
567 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
568 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
569 a little window or so) would be welcome.
570 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
571 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
572 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
573 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
574 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
575 added there.
576 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
577 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
578 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
579 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
580 instead of being ignored.
581 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
582 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
583 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
584 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
585 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
586 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
587 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
588 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
589 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
590 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
591 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
592 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
593 needs testing anyways.
594 - more complete compile options help output.
595 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
596 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
597 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
598 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
599 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
600 - minor doc fix.
601
602 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
603 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
604 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
605 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
606 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
607 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
608 memmove :)
609 - minor cleanups.
610 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
611 (debian bug #169415).
612 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
613 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
614 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
615 - updated config.guess.
616
617 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
618 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
619 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
620 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
621 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
622 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
623 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
624 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
625 speeding up scrolling immensely.
626 - various other optimizations.
627 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
628
629 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
630 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
631 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
632 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
633 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
634 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
635 Mikael Magnusson).
636 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
637 Mikael Magnusson).
638 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
639 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
640 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
641
642 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
643 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
644 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
645 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
646 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
647 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
648 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
649 with ^V (SYN).
650 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
651
652 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
653 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
654 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
655 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
656 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
657 well as with other terminal emulators.
658 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
659 (reported by elmex).
660 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
661 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
662 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
663 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
664 Bloch.
665
666 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
667 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
668 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
669 sorry).
670 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
671 make it a little bit more correct c++).
672
673 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
674 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
675 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
676 - minor i18n issue fixes.
677
678 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
679 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
680 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
681 - fix some minor bugs.
682
683 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
684 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
685 for the keymappings.
686 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
687 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
688 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
689 an extension and is slightly ugly.
690 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
691 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
692 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
693 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
694 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
695 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
696 overwritten (as is common).
697 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
698 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
699
700 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
701 - minor doc corrections.
702 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
703 avoid clashes with xterm.
704 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
705 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
706 window colour when arg is "?".
707 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
708 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
709 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
710 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
711 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
712 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
713 (FRILLS).
714 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
715 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
716 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
717 - set _NET_WM_PID.
718
719 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
720 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
721 - support more 8-bit controls.
722 - more informative error messages.
723 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
724 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
725 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
726 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
727 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
728
729 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
730 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
731 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
732 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
733 - removed old selection style completely.
734 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
735 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
736 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
737 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
738 be used from within rxvt.
739 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
740
741 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
742 - code cleanup release.
743 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
744 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
745 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
746 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
747 all files.
748 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
749 --enable-xgetdefaults.
750
751 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
752 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
753 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
754 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
755 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
756 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
757 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
758 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
759 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
760 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
761 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
762 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
763 --disable-xgetdefault.
764 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
765 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
766 unicode character.
767 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
768 get it wrong.
769 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
770
771 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
772 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
773 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
774 settings.
775 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
776 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
777 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
778 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
779 mbrtowc.
780 - more robust encoding name matching.
781 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
782 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
783 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
784 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
785 resources and docs.
786 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
787
788 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
789 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
790 - some doc cleanup
791 - configure cleanup
792 - viscii enabled by default
793 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
794
795 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
796 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
797
798 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
799 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
800 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
801 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
802 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
803 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
804 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
805 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
806 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
807 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
808 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
809 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
810 reported by joel reed.
811 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
812 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
813 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
814 being selected.
815 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
816 - removed greek support.
817 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
818 - correct cursor width if !focus.
819 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
820 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
821 contributed.
822 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
823 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
824 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
825 - many other minor bugfixes.
826
827 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
828 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
829 new bugs, this should not change much.
830 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
831 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
832 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
833 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
834 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
835 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
836 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
837
838 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
839 - further cleanups.
840 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
841 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
842 use reverse video, not _blink_.
843 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
844 please drop me a note.
845
846 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
847 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
848 - blinking text.
849 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
850 normal text when colorBD is not set.
851 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
852 was never implemented
853
854 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
855 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
856 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
857 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
858 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
859 reported by fefe
860 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
861 Markus Demleitner
862 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
863 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
864 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
865
866 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
867 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
868 - small font tunings
869 - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
870 - better error reporting for unknown options
871
872 1.3 2003-12-26
873 - fix a bug in font height selection
874 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
875 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
876 - much faster x11 font selection
877
878 1.2 2003-12-24
879 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
880 - better font matching
881 - better memory management (less memory)
882 - new fallback: gnu freefont
883
884 1.1 2003-12-18
885 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
886 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
887 - much improved font choosing
888
889 1.0
890 - first release
891 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
892 - removed rclock et al.
893 - initial conversion to C++
894