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1 rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
2
3 TODO: split perl documnetation and urxvt.pm into separate files
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 WISH: perl extension for background image loading and moving the origin.
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 TODO: distributed clipboard example
16 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD
17 - new script: perl/selection-pastebin
18 - improved security of setuid/setgid operation, which is now
19 encouraged, by moving privileged operations into a separate
20 process and permanently dropping privileges within the
21 terminal. This makes it possible to remove security checks from
22 the perl code and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to
23 run with special privileges.
24 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
25 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0.
26 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
27 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
28 at the wrong time.
29 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
30 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
31 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
32 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
33 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
34 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
35 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
36 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
37 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
38 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
39 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
40 anymore.
41 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
42 to set the window title.
43 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
44 - nuked QNX support.
45
46 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
47 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
48 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
49 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
50 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
51 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
52 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
53 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
54 and much much more.
55 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
56 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
57 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
58 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
59 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
60 setuid/setgid.
61 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
62 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
63 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
64 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
65 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
66 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
67 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
68 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
69 compatible, and not really small either.
70 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
71 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
72 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
73 to crashes.
74 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
75 colours.
76 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
77 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
78
79 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
80 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
81 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
82 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
83 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
84 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
85 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
86 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
87 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
88 by Mikachu).
89 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
90 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
91 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
92 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
93 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
94 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
95 - fix directory permissions on install.
96 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
97 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
98 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
99 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
100 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
101
102 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
103 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
104 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
105 Chuck Blake.
106 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
107 obscure the mouse cursor position.
108 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
109 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
110 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
111 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
112 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
113 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
114 transfer efficiency.
115 - further minor cleanups.
116
117 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
118 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
119 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
120 while the user still drags.
121 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
122 not drawn correctly.
123 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
124 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
125 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
126 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
127 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
128 stripping whitespace.
129 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
130 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
131
132 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
133 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
134 - enable slow link support by default.
135 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
136 (also a bug in original rxvt).
137 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
138 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
139 partial patch).
140 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
141 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
142 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
143 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
144 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
145 - implement -hold option.
146 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
147 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
148 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
149 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
150 - slight overall speed improvements.
151 - considerably improved code clarity.
152 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
153 buffer.
154
155 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
156 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
157 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
158 (matters only for rxvtd).
159 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
160 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
161 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
162
163 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
164 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
165 If you want the old behaviour, try:
166 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
167 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
168 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
169 percentage by 100-percentage.
170 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
171 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
172 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
173 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
174 windows.
175 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
176 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
177 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
178 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
179 - replaced INSTALL file.
180
181 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
182 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
183 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
184 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
185 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
186 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
187 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
188 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
189 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
190
191 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
192 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
193 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
194 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
195 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
196 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
197 Affects display in iso14755 box.
198 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
199 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
200 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
201 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
202 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
203 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
204 cutting pieces off of characters.
205 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
206 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
207 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
208 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
209 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
210 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
211 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
212
213 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
214 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
215 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
216 meaning of the given key.
217 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
218 (patch by Martin Edlman).
219
220 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
221 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
222 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
223 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
224 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
225 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
226 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
227 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
228 to disable it.
229
230 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
231 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
232 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
233 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
234 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
235 with modifiers.
236 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
237 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
238 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
239 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
240 and clear the scrollback buffer.
241
242 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
243 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
244 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
245 a command.
246 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
247 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
248 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
249 in Perl/Gtk2.
250 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
251 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
252 (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
253 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
254 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
255 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
256 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
257 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
258 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
259 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
260 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
261 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
262 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
263 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
264 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
265 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
266 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
267 rxvt-unicode).
268 - get rid of the intpro files.
269
270 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
271 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
272 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
273 (Kuang-che Wu).
274 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
275 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
276 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
277 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
278 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
279 along with other, similar, cleanups.
280 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
281 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
282 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
283 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
284 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
285 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
286
287 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
288 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
289 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
290 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
291 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
292 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
293 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
294 his patience and time in tracking this down).
295 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
296 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
297 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
298 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
299 by Joël Riou).
300 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
301 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
302 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
303 - shaved off some code segment size.
304 - various code cleanups.
305 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
306
307 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
308 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
309 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
310 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
311 -pixmap is active.
312 - new option/resource imFont.
313 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
314 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
315 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
316 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
317 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
318 (WU Fengguang).
319 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
320 examples (rxvt.1).
321 - removed src/test completely.
322 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
323
324 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
325 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
326 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
327 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
328 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
329 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
330 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
331 resulting in segfaults.
332 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
333 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
334 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
335 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
336 (Mikael Magnusson).
337 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
338 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
339 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
340 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
341 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
342 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
343 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
344 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
345 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
346 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
347 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
348 - initialize the locale much earlier.
349 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
350
351 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
352 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
353 black on initial startup.
354 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
355 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
356 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
357 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
358 additional multimedia keys.
359 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
360 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
361
362 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
363 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
364 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
365 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
366 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
367 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
368 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
369 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
370 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
371 ignored.
372 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
373 instead.
374 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
375 (reported by hednod).
376 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
377 - fix atom name enumeration.
378
379 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
380 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
381 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
382 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
383 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
384 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
385
386 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
387 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
388 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
389 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
390 titles etc.
391 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
392 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
393 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
394 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
395 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
396 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
397 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
398 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
399 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
400 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
401 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
402 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
403 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
404 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
405
406 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
407 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
408 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
409 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
410 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
411 thoroughly.
412 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
413 now, too.
414
415 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
416 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
417 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
418 on high-latency networks.
419 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
420 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
421 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
422 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
423 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
424 by Gunnar Ritter.
425 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
426 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
427
428 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
429 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
431 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
432 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
433 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
434 - add compile fix for darwin.
435 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
436 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
437 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
438
439 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
440 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
441 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
442 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
443 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
444 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
445 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
446 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
447 ... terminated by a fix.
448 - new supported preeeditType "None".
449 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
450 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
451 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
452 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
453 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
454 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
455 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
456 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
457 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
458 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
459 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
460 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
461 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
462 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
463 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
464 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
465 in tracking this down.
466 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
467 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
468
469 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
470 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
471 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
472
473 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
474 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
475 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
476 installed if tic is available.
477 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
478 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
479 - removed README.unicode.
480 - support select&paste of tab characters.
481 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
482 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
483 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
484 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
485 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
486 screen updates with curses.
487 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
488 by spaces.
489 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
490 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
491 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
492 is just too slow for this to work.
493 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
494 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
495 implement. use --enable-styles.
496 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
497 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
498 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
499 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
500 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
501 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
502 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
503 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
504 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
505 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
506 (only for non-bold right now).
507 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
508 - better default font size and style.
509 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
510 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
511 single character against the base font extents and will only
512 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
513 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
514 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
515 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
516 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
517 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
518 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
519 screen height.
520 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
521 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
522 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
523 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
524 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
525 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
526 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
527 - removed OSC 702.
528 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
529 confused by it rather than using it.
530
531 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
532 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
533 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
534 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
535 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
536 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
537 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
538 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
539 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
540 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
541 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
542 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
543 close).
544 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
545 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
546 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
547 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
548 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
549 could not be created.
550 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
551 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
552 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
553 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
554 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
555 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
556 works.
557 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
558 - document more escape sequences.
559 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
560 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
561 character is a sensible operation.
562 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
563 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
564 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
565 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
566 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
567 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
568 with selections).
569
570 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
571 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
572 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
573 needs access to a local shell window).
574 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
575 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
576 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
577 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
578 a little window or so) would be welcome.
579 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
580 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
581 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
582 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
583 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
584 added there.
585 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
586 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
587 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
588 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
589 instead of being ignored.
590 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
591 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
592 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
593 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
594 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
595 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
596 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
597 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
598 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
599 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
600 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
601 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
602 needs testing anyways.
603 - more complete compile options help output.
604 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
605 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
606 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
607 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
608 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
609 - minor doc fix.
610
611 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
612 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
613 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
614 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
615 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
616 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
617 memmove :)
618 - minor cleanups.
619 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
620 (debian bug #169415).
621 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
622 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
623 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
624 - updated config.guess.
625
626 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
627 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
628 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
629 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
630 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
631 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
632 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
633 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
634 speeding up scrolling immensely.
635 - various other optimizations.
636 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
637
638 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
639 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
640 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
641 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
642 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
643 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
644 Mikael Magnusson).
645 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
646 Mikael Magnusson).
647 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
648 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
649 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
650
651 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
652 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
653 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
654 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
655 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
656 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
657 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
658 with ^V (SYN).
659 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
660
661 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
662 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
663 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
664 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
665 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
666 well as with other terminal emulators.
667 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
668 (reported by elmex).
669 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
670 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
671 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
672 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
673 Bloch.
674
675 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
676 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
677 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
678 sorry).
679 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
680 make it a little bit more correct c++).
681
682 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
683 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
684 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
685 - minor i18n issue fixes.
686
687 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
688 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
689 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
690 - fix some minor bugs.
691
692 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
693 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
694 for the keymappings.
695 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
696 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
697 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
698 an extension and is slightly ugly.
699 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
700 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
701 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
702 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
703 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
704 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
705 overwritten (as is common).
706 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
707 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
708
709 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
710 - minor doc corrections.
711 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
712 avoid clashes with xterm.
713 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
714 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
715 window colour when arg is "?".
716 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
717 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
718 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
719 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
720 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
721 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
722 (FRILLS).
723 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
724 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
725 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
726 - set _NET_WM_PID.
727
728 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
729 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
730 - support more 8-bit controls.
731 - more informative error messages.
732 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
733 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
734 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
735 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
736 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
737
738 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
739 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
740 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
741 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
742 - removed old selection style completely.
743 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
744 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
745 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
746 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
747 be used from within rxvt.
748 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
749
750 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
751 - code cleanup release.
752 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
753 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
754 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
755 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
756 all files.
757 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
758 --enable-xgetdefaults.
759
760 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
761 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
762 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
763 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
764 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
765 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
766 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
767 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
768 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
769 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
770 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
771 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
772 --disable-xgetdefault.
773 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
774 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
775 unicode character.
776 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
777 get it wrong.
778 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
779
780 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
781 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
782 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
783 settings.
784 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
785 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
786 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
787 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
788 mbrtowc.
789 - more robust encoding name matching.
790 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
791 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
792 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
793 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
794 resources and docs.
795 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
796
797 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
798 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
799 - some doc cleanup
800 - configure cleanup
801 - viscii enabled by default
802 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
803
804 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
805 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
806
807 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
808 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
809 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
810 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
811 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
812 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
813 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
814 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
815 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
816 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
817 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
818 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
819 reported by joel reed.
820 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
821 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
822 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
823 being selected.
824 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
825 - removed greek support.
826 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
827 - correct cursor width if !focus.
828 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
829 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
830 contributed.
831 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
832 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
833 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
834 - many other minor bugfixes.
835
836 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
837 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
838 new bugs, this should not change much.
839 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
840 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
841 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
842 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
843 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
844 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
845 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
846
847 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
848 - further cleanups.
849 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
850 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
851 use reverse video, not _blink_.
852 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
853 please drop me a note.
854
855 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
856 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
857 - blinking text.
858 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
859 normal text when colorBD is not set.
860 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
861 was never implemented
862
863 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
864 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
865 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
866 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
867 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
868 reported by fefe
869 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
870 Markus Demleitner
871 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
872 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
873 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
874
875 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
876 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
877 - small font tunings
878 - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
879 - better error reporting for unknown options
880
881 1.3 2003-12-26
882 - fix a bug in font height selection
883 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
884 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
885 - much faster x11 font selection
886
887 1.2 2003-12-24
888 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
889 - better font matching
890 - better memory management (less memory)
891 - new fallback: gnu freefont
892
893 1.1 2003-12-18
894 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
895 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
896 - much improved font choosing
897
898 1.0
899 - first release
900 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
901 - removed rclock et al.
902 - initial conversion to C++
903