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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 TODO: rxvt -name urxvt-girly /// leave pixel droppings
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 TODO: distributed clipboard example
17
18 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
19 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
20 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
21 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
22 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
23 special privileges.
24 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
25 itself.
26 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
27 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
28 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
29 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
30 similar stuff.
31 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
32 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
33 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
34 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
35 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
36 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
37 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
38 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
39 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
40 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
41 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
42 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
43 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
44 to set the window title.
45 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
46 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
47 at the wrong time.
48 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
49 anymore.
50 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
51 - nuked QNX support.
52 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
53 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
54 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
55
56 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
57 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
58 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
59 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
60 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
61 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
62 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
63 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
64 and much much more.
65 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
66 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
67 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
68 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
69 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
70 setuid/setgid.
71 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
72 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
73 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
74 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
75 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
76 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
77 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
78 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
79 compatible, and not really small either.
80 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
81 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
82 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
83 to crashes.
84 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
85 colours.
86 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
87 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
88
89 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
90 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
91 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
92 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
93 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
94 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
95 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
96 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
97 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
98 by Mikachu).
99 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
100 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
101 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
102 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
103 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
104 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
105 - fix directory permissions on install.
106 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
107 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
108 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
109 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
110 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
111
112 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
113 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
114 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
115 Chuck Blake.
116 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
117 obscure the mouse cursor position.
118 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
119 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
120 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
121 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
122 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
123 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
124 transfer efficiency.
125 - further minor cleanups.
126
127 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
128 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
129 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
130 while the user still drags.
131 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
132 not drawn correctly.
133 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
134 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
135 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
136 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
137 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
138 stripping whitespace.
139 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
140 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
141
142 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
143 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
144 - enable slow link support by default.
145 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
146 (also a bug in original rxvt).
147 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
148 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
149 partial patch).
150 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
151 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
152 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
153 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
154 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
155 - implement -hold option.
156 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
157 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
158 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
159 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
160 - slight overall speed improvements.
161 - considerably improved code clarity.
162 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
163 buffer.
164
165 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
166 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
167 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
168 (matters only for rxvtd).
169 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
170 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
171 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
172
173 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
174 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
175 If you want the old behaviour, try:
176 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
177 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
178 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
179 percentage by 100-percentage.
180 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
181 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
182 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
183 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
184 windows.
185 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
186 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
187 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
188 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
189 - replaced INSTALL file.
190
191 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
192 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
193 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
194 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
195 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
196 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
197 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
198 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
199 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
200
201 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
202 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
203 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
204 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
205 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
206 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
207 Affects display in iso14755 box.
208 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
209 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
210 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
211 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
212 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
213 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
214 cutting pieces off of characters.
215 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
216 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
217 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
218 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
219 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
220 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
221 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
222
223 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
224 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
225 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
226 meaning of the given key.
227 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
228 (patch by Martin Edlman).
229
230 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
231 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
232 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
233 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
234 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
235 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
236 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
237 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
238 to disable it.
239
240 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
241 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
242 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
243 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
244 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
245 with modifiers.
246 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
247 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
248 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
249 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
250 and clear the scrollback buffer.
251
252 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
253 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
254 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
255 a command.
256 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
257 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
258 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
259 in Perl/Gtk2.
260 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
261 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
262 (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
263 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
264 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
265 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
266 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
267 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
268 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
269 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
270 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
271 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
272 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
273 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
274 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
275 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
276 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
277 rxvt-unicode).
278 - get rid of the intpro files.
279
280 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
281 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
282 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
283 (Kuang-che Wu).
284 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
285 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
286 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
287 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
288 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
289 along with other, similar, cleanups.
290 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
291 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
292 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
293 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
294 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
295 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
296
297 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
298 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
299 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
300 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
301 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
302 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
303 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
304 his patience and time in tracking this down).
305 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
306 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
307 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
308 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
309 by Joël Riou).
310 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
311 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
312 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
313 - shaved off some code segment size.
314 - various code cleanups.
315 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
316
317 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
318 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
319 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
320 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
321 -pixmap is active.
322 - new option/resource imFont.
323 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
324 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
325 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
326 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
327 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
328 (WU Fengguang).
329 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
330 examples (rxvt.1).
331 - removed src/test completely.
332 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
333
334 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
335 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
336 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
337 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
338 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
339 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
340 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
341 resulting in segfaults.
342 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
343 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
344 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
345 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
346 (Mikael Magnusson).
347 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
348 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
349 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
350 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
351 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
352 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
353 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
354 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
355 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
356 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
357 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
358 - initialize the locale much earlier.
359 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
360
361 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
362 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
363 black on initial startup.
364 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
365 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
366 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
367 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
368 additional multimedia keys.
369 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
370 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
371
372 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
373 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
374 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
375 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
376 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
377 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
378 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
379 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
380 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
381 ignored.
382 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
383 instead.
384 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
385 (reported by hednod).
386 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
387 - fix atom name enumeration.
388
389 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
390 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
391 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
392 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
393 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
394 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
395
396 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
397 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
398 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
399 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
400 titles etc.
401 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
402 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
403 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
404 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
405 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
406 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
407 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
408 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
409 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
410 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
411 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
412 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
413 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
414 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
415
416 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
417 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
418 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
419 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
420 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
421 thoroughly.
422 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
423 now, too.
424
425 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
426 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
427 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
428 on high-latency networks.
429 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
430 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
431 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
432 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
433 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
434 by Gunnar Ritter.
435 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
436 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
437
438 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
439 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
440 -ssc/-ssr settings.
441 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
442 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
443 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
444 - add compile fix for darwin.
445 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
446 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
447 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
448
449 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
450 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
451 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
452 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
453 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
454 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
455 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
456 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
457 ... terminated by a fix.
458 - new supported preeeditType "None".
459 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
460 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
461 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
462 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
463 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
464 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
465 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
466 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
467 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
468 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
469 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
470 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
471 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
472 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
473 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
474 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
475 in tracking this down.
476 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
477 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
478
479 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
480 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
481 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
482
483 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
484 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
485 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
486 installed if tic is available.
487 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
488 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
489 - removed README.unicode.
490 - support select&paste of tab characters.
491 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
492 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
493 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
494 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
495 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
496 screen updates with curses.
497 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
498 by spaces.
499 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
500 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
501 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
502 is just too slow for this to work.
503 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
504 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
505 implement. use --enable-styles.
506 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
507 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
508 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
509 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
510 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
511 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
512 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
513 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
514 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
515 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
516 (only for non-bold right now).
517 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
518 - better default font size and style.
519 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
520 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
521 single character against the base font extents and will only
522 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
523 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
524 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
525 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
526 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
527 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
528 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
529 screen height.
530 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
531 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
532 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
533 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
534 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
535 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
536 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
537 - removed OSC 702.
538 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
539 confused by it rather than using it.
540
541 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
542 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
543 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
544 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
545 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
546 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
547 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
548 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
549 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
550 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
551 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
552 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
553 close).
554 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
555 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
556 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
557 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
558 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
559 could not be created.
560 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
561 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
562 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
563 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
564 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
565 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
566 works.
567 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
568 - document more escape sequences.
569 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
570 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
571 character is a sensible operation.
572 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
573 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
574 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
575 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
576 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
577 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
578 with selections).
579
580 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
581 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
582 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
583 needs access to a local shell window).
584 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
585 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
586 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
587 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
588 a little window or so) would be welcome.
589 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
590 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
591 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
592 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
593 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
594 added there.
595 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
596 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
597 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
598 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
599 instead of being ignored.
600 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
601 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
602 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
603 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
604 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
605 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
606 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
607 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
608 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
609 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
610 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
611 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
612 needs testing anyways.
613 - more complete compile options help output.
614 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
615 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
616 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
617 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
618 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
619 - minor doc fix.
620
621 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
622 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
623 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
624 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
625 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
626 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
627 memmove :)
628 - minor cleanups.
629 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
630 (debian bug #169415).
631 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
632 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
633 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
634 - updated config.guess.
635
636 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
637 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
638 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
639 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
640 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
641 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
642 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
643 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
644 speeding up scrolling immensely.
645 - various other optimizations.
646 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
647
648 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
649 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
650 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
651 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
652 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
653 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
654 Mikael Magnusson).
655 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
656 Mikael Magnusson).
657 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
658 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
659 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
660
661 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
662 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
663 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
664 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
665 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
666 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
667 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
668 with ^V (SYN).
669 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
670
671 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
672 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
673 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
674 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
675 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
676 well as with other terminal emulators.
677 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
678 (reported by elmex).
679 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
680 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
681 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
682 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
683 Bloch.
684
685 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
686 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
687 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
688 sorry).
689 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
690 make it a little bit more correct c++).
691
692 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
693 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
694 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
695 - minor i18n issue fixes.
696
697 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
698 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
699 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
700 - fix some minor bugs.
701
702 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
703 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
704 for the keymappings.
705 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
706 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
707 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
708 an extension and is slightly ugly.
709 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
710 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
711 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
712 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
713 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
714 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
715 overwritten (as is common).
716 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
717 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
718
719 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
720 - minor doc corrections.
721 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
722 avoid clashes with xterm.
723 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
724 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
725 window colour when arg is "?".
726 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
727 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
728 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
729 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
730 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
731 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
732 (FRILLS).
733 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
734 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
735 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
736 - set _NET_WM_PID.
737
738 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
739 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
740 - support more 8-bit controls.
741 - more informative error messages.
742 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
743 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
744 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
745 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
746 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
747
748 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
749 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
750 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
751 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
752 - removed old selection style completely.
753 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
754 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
755 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
756 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
757 be used from within rxvt.
758 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
759
760 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
761 - code cleanup release.
762 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
763 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
764 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
765 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
766 all files.
767 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
768 --enable-xgetdefaults.
769
770 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
771 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
772 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
773 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
774 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
775 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
776 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
777 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
778 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
779 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
780 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
781 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
782 --disable-xgetdefault.
783 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
784 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
785 unicode character.
786 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
787 get it wrong.
788 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
789
790 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
791 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
792 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
793 settings.
794 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
795 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
796 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
797 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
798 mbrtowc.
799 - more robust encoding name matching.
800 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
801 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
802 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
803 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
804 resources and docs.
805 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
806
807 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
808 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
809 - some doc cleanup
810 - configure cleanup
811 - viscii enabled by default
812 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
813
814 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
815 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
816
817 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
818 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
819 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
820 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
821 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
822 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
823 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
824 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
825 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
826 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
827 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
828 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
829 reported by joel reed.
830 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
831 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
832 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
833 being selected.
834 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
835 - removed greek support.
836 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
837 - correct cursor width if !focus.
838 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
839 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
840 contributed.
841 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
842 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
843 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
844 - many other minor bugfixes.
845
846 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
847 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
848 new bugs, this should not change much.
849 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
850 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
851 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
852 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
853 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
854 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
855 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
856
857 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
858 - further cleanups.
859 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
860 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
861 use reverse video, not _blink_.
862 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
863 please drop me a note.
864
865 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
866 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
867 - blinking text.
868 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
869 normal text when colorBD is not set.
870 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
871 was never implemented
872
873 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
874 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
875 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
876 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
877 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
878 reported by fefe
879 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
880 Markus Demleitner
881 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
882 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
883 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
884
885 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
886 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
887 - small font tunings
888 - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
889 - better error reporting for unknown options
890
891 1.3 2003-12-26
892 - fix a bug in font height selection
893 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
894 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
895 - much faster x11 font selection
896
897 1.2 2003-12-24
898 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
899 - better font matching
900 - better memory management (less memory)
901 - new fallback: gnu freefont
902
903 1.1 2003-12-18
904 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
905 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
906 - much improved font choosing
907
908 1.0
909 - first release
910 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
911 - removed rclock et al.
912 - initial conversion to C++
913