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Revision: 1.533
Committed: Tue Jan 17 13:07:16 2006 UTC (18 years, 3 months ago) by elmex
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.532: +1 -0 lines
Log Message:
implemented perl:selection:remote-pastebin, documentation still missing

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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 - implemented perl:selection:remote-pastebin command in perl/selection
17 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
18 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0.
19 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
20 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
21 at the wrong time.
22 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
23 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
24 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
25 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
26 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
27 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
28 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
29 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
30 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
31 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
32 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
33 anymore.
34 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
35 to set the window title.
36 - nuked QNX support.
37
38 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
39 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
40 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
41 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
42 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
43 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
44 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
45 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
46 and much much more.
47 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
48 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
49 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
50 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
51 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
52 setuid/setgid.
53 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
54 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
55 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
56 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
57 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
58 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
59 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
60 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
61 compatible, and not really small either.
62 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
63 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
64 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
65 to crashes.
66 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
67 colours.
68 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
69 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
70
71 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
72 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
73 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
74 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
75 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
76 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
77 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
78 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
79 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
80 by Mikachu).
81 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
82 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
83 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
84 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
85 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
86 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
87 - fix directory permissions on install.
88 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
89 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
90 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
91 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
92 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
93
94 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
95 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
96 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
97 Chuck Blake.
98 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
99 obscure the mouse cursor position.
100 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
101 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
102 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
103 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
104 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
105 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
106 transfer efficiency.
107 - further minor cleanups.
108
109 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
110 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
111 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
112 while the user still drags.
113 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
114 not drawn correctly.
115 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
116 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
117 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
118 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
119 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
120 stripping whitespace.
121 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
122 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
123
124 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
125 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
126 - enable slow link support by default.
127 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
128 (also a bug in original rxvt).
129 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
130 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
131 partial patch).
132 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
133 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
134 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
135 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
136 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
137 - implement -hold option.
138 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
139 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
140 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
141 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
142 - slight overall speed improvements.
143 - considerably improved code clarity.
144 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
145 buffer.
146
147 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
148 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
149 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
150 (matters only for rxvtd).
151 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
152 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
153 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
154
155 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
156 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
157 If you want the old behaviour, try:
158 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
159 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
160 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
161 percentage by 100-percentage.
162 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
163 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
164 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
165 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
166 windows.
167 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
168 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
169 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
170 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
171 - replaced INSTALL file.
172
173 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
174 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
175 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
176 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
177 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
178 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
179 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
180 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
181 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
182
183 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
184 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
185 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
186 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
187 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
188 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
189 Affects display in iso14755 box.
190 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
191 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
192 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
193 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
194 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
195 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
196 cutting pieces off of characters.
197 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
198 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
199 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
200 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
201 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
202 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
203 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
204
205 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
206 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
207 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
208 meaning of the given key.
209 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
210 (patch by Martin Edlman).
211
212 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
213 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
214 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
215 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
216 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
217 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
218 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
219 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
220 to disable it.
221
222 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
223 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
224 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
225 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
226 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
227 with modifiers.
228 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
229 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
230 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
231 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
232 and clear the scrollback buffer.
233
234 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
235 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
236 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
237 a command.
238 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
239 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
240 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
241 in Perl/Gtk2.
242 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
243 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
244 (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
245 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
246 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
247 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
248 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
249 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
250 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
251 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
252 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
253 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
254 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
255 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
256 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
257 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
258 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
259 rxvt-unicode).
260 - get rid of the intpro files.
261
262 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
263 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
264 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
265 (Kuang-che Wu).
266 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
267 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
268 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
269 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
270 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
271 along with other, similar, cleanups.
272 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
273 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
274 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
275 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
276 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
277 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
278
279 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
280 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
281 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
282 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
283 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
284 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
285 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
286 his patience and time in tracking this down).
287 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
288 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
289 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
290 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
291 by Joël Riou).
292 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
293 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
294 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
295 - shaved off some code segment size.
296 - various code cleanups.
297 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
298
299 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
300 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
301 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
302 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
303 -pixmap is active.
304 - new option/resource imFont.
305 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
306 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
307 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
308 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
309 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
310 (WU Fengguang).
311 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
312 examples (rxvt.1).
313 - removed src/test completely.
314 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
315
316 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
317 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
318 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
319 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
320 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
321 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
322 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
323 resulting in segfaults.
324 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
325 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
326 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
327 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
328 (Mikael Magnusson).
329 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
330 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
331 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
332 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
333 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
334 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
335 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
336 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
337 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
338 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
339 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
340 - initialize the locale much earlier.
341 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
342
343 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
344 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
345 black on initial startup.
346 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
347 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
348 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
349 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
350 additional multimedia keys.
351 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
352 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
353
354 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
355 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
356 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
357 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
358 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
359 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
360 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
361 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
362 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
363 ignored.
364 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
365 instead.
366 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
367 (reported by hednod).
368 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
369 - fix atom name enumeration.
370
371 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
372 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
373 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
374 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
375 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
376 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
377
378 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
379 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
380 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
381 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
382 titles etc.
383 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
384 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
385 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
386 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
387 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
388 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
389 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
390 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
391 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
392 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
393 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
394 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
395 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
396 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
397
398 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
399 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
400 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
401 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
402 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
403 thoroughly.
404 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
405 now, too.
406
407 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
408 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
409 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
410 on high-latency networks.
411 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
412 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
413 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
414 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
415 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
416 by Gunnar Ritter.
417 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
418 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
419
420 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
421 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
422 -ssc/-ssr settings.
423 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
424 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
425 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
426 - add compile fix for darwin.
427 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
428 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
429 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
430
431 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
432 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
433 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
434 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
435 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
436 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
437 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
438 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
439 ... terminated by a fix.
440 - new supported preeeditType "None".
441 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
442 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
443 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
444 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
445 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
446 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
447 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
448 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
449 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
450 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
451 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
452 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
453 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
454 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
455 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
456 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
457 in tracking this down.
458 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
459 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
460
461 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
462 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
463 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
464
465 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
466 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
467 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
468 installed if tic is available.
469 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
470 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
471 - removed README.unicode.
472 - support select&paste of tab characters.
473 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
474 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
475 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
476 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
477 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
478 screen updates with curses.
479 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
480 by spaces.
481 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
482 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
483 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
484 is just too slow for this to work.
485 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
486 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
487 implement. use --enable-styles.
488 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
489 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
490 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
491 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
492 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
493 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
494 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
495 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
496 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
497 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
498 (only for non-bold right now).
499 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
500 - better default font size and style.
501 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
502 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
503 single character against the base font extents and will only
504 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
505 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
506 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
507 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
508 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
509 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
510 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
511 screen height.
512 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
513 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
514 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
515 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
516 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
517 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
518 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
519 - removed OSC 702.
520 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
521 confused by it rather than using it.
522
523 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
524 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
525 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
526 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
527 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
528 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
529 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
530 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
531 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
532 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
533 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
534 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
535 close).
536 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
537 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
538 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
539 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
540 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
541 could not be created.
542 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
543 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
544 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
545 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
546 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
547 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
548 works.
549 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
550 - document more escape sequences.
551 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
552 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
553 character is a sensible operation.
554 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
555 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
556 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
557 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
558 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
559 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
560 with selections).
561
562 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
563 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
564 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
565 needs access to a local shell window).
566 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
567 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
568 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
569 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
570 a little window or so) would be welcome.
571 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
572 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
573 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
574 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
575 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
576 added there.
577 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
578 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
579 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
580 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
581 instead of being ignored.
582 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
583 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
584 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
585 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
586 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
587 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
588 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
589 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
590 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
591 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
592 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
593 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
594 needs testing anyways.
595 - more complete compile options help output.
596 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
597 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
598 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
599 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
600 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
601 - minor doc fix.
602
603 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
604 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
605 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
606 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
607 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
608 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
609 memmove :)
610 - minor cleanups.
611 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
612 (debian bug #169415).
613 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
614 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
615 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
616 - updated config.guess.
617
618 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
619 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
620 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
621 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
622 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
623 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
624 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
625 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
626 speeding up scrolling immensely.
627 - various other optimizations.
628 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
629
630 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
631 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
632 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
633 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
634 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
635 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
636 Mikael Magnusson).
637 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
638 Mikael Magnusson).
639 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
640 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
641 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
642
643 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
644 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
645 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
646 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
647 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
648 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
649 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
650 with ^V (SYN).
651 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
652
653 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
654 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
655 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
656 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
657 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
658 well as with other terminal emulators.
659 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
660 (reported by elmex).
661 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
662 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
663 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
664 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
665 Bloch.
666
667 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
668 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
669 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
670 sorry).
671 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
672 make it a little bit more correct c++).
673
674 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
675 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
676 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
677 - minor i18n issue fixes.
678
679 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
680 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
681 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
682 - fix some minor bugs.
683
684 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
685 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
686 for the keymappings.
687 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
688 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
689 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
690 an extension and is slightly ugly.
691 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
692 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
693 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
694 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
695 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
696 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
697 overwritten (as is common).
698 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
699 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
700
701 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
702 - minor doc corrections.
703 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
704 avoid clashes with xterm.
705 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
706 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
707 window colour when arg is "?".
708 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
709 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
710 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
711 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
712 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
713 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
714 (FRILLS).
715 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
716 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
717 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
718 - set _NET_WM_PID.
719
720 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
721 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
722 - support more 8-bit controls.
723 - more informative error messages.
724 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
725 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
726 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
727 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
728 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
729
730 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
731 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
732 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
733 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
734 - removed old selection style completely.
735 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
736 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
737 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
738 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
739 be used from within rxvt.
740 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
741
742 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
743 - code cleanup release.
744 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
745 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
746 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
747 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
748 all files.
749 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
750 --enable-xgetdefaults.
751
752 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
753 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
754 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
755 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
756 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
757 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
758 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
759 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
760 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
761 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
762 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
763 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
764 --disable-xgetdefault.
765 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
766 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
767 unicode character.
768 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
769 get it wrong.
770 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
771
772 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
773 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
774 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
775 settings.
776 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
777 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
778 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
779 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
780 mbrtowc.
781 - more robust encoding name matching.
782 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
783 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
784 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
785 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
786 resources and docs.
787 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
788
789 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
790 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
791 - some doc cleanup
792 - configure cleanup
793 - viscii enabled by default
794 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
795
796 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
797 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
798
799 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
800 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
801 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
802 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
803 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
804 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
805 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
806 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
807 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
808 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
809 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
810 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
811 reported by joel reed.
812 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
813 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
814 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
815 being selected.
816 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
817 - removed greek support.
818 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
819 - correct cursor width if !focus.
820 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
821 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
822 contributed.
823 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
824 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
825 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
826 - many other minor bugfixes.
827
828 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
829 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
830 new bugs, this should not change much.
831 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
832 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
833 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
834 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
835 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
836 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
837 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
838
839 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
840 - further cleanups.
841 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
842 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
843 use reverse video, not _blink_.
844 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
845 please drop me a note.
846
847 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
848 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
849 - blinking text.
850 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
851 normal text when colorBD is not set.
852 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
853 was never implemented
854
855 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
856 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
857 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
858 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
859 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
860 reported by fefe
861 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
862 Markus Demleitner
863 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
864 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
865 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
866
867 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
868 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
869 - small font tunings
870 - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
871 - better error reporting for unknown options
872
873 1.3 2003-12-26
874 - fix a bug in font height selection
875 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
876 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
877 - much faster x11 font selection
878
879 1.2 2003-12-24
880 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
881 - better font matching
882 - better memory management (less memory)
883 - new fallback: gnu freefont
884
885 1.1 2003-12-18
886 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
887 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
888 - much improved font choosing
889
890 1.0
891 - first release
892 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
893 - removed rclock et al.
894 - initial conversion to C++
895