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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: nuke rxvt_privaction and related garbage
5 TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
6 TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
7 TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
8 TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
9 TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
10 TODO: rxvt -name urxvt-girly /// leave pixel droppings
11 WISH: perl extension for background image loading and moving the origin.
12 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay...
13 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
14 WISH: support tex fonts
15
16 9.0
17 TODO: distributed clipboard example
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 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
41 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
42 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
43 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
44 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
45 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
46 to set the window title.
47 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
48 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
49 at the wrong time.
50 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
51 anymore.
52 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
53 - nuked QNX support.
54 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
55 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
56 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
57 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
58
59 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
60 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
61 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
62 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
63 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
64 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
65 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
66 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
67 and much much more.
68 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
69 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
70 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
71 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
72 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
73 setuid/setgid.
74 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
75 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
76 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
77 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
78 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
79 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
80 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
81 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
82 compatible, and not really small either.
83 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
84 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
85 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
86 to crashes.
87 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
88 colours.
89 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
90 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
91
92 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
93 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
94 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
95 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
96 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
97 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
98 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
99 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
100 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
101 by Mikachu).
102 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
103 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
104 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
105 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
106 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
107 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
108 - fix directory permissions on install.
109 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
110 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
111 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
112 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
113 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
114
115 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
116 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
117 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
118 Chuck Blake.
119 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
120 obscure the mouse cursor position.
121 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
122 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
123 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
124 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
125 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
126 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
127 transfer efficiency.
128 - further minor cleanups.
129
130 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
131 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
132 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
133 while the user still drags.
134 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
135 not drawn correctly.
136 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
137 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
138 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
139 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
140 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
141 stripping whitespace.
142 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
143 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
144
145 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
146 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
147 - enable slow link support by default.
148 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
149 (also a bug in original rxvt).
150 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
151 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
152 partial patch).
153 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
154 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
155 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
156 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
157 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
158 - implement -hold option.
159 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
160 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
161 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
162 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
163 - slight overall speed improvements.
164 - considerably improved code clarity.
165 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
166 buffer.
167
168 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
169 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
170 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
171 (matters only for rxvtd).
172 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
173 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
174 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
175
176 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
177 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
178 If you want the old behaviour, try:
179 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
180 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
181 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
182 percentage by 100-percentage.
183 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
184 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
185 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
186 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
187 windows.
188 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
189 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
190 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
191 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
192 - replaced INSTALL file.
193
194 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
195 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
196 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
197 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
198 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
199 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
200 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
201 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
202 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
203
204 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
205 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
206 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
207 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
208 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
209 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
210 Affects display in iso14755 box.
211 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
212 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
213 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
214 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
215 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
216 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
217 cutting pieces off of characters.
218 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
219 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
220 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
221 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
222 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
223 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
224 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
225
226 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
227 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
228 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
229 meaning of the given key.
230 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
231 (patch by Martin Edlman).
232
233 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
234 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
235 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
236 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
237 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
238 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
239 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
240 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
241 to disable it.
242
243 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
244 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
245 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
246 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
247 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
248 with modifiers.
249 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
250 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
251 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
252 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
253 and clear the scrollback buffer.
254
255 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
256 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
257 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
258 a command.
259 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
260 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
261 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
262 in Perl/Gtk2.
263 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
264 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
265 (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
266 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
267 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
268 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
269 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
270 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
271 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
272 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
273 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
274 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
275 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
276 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
277 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
278 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
279 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
280 rxvt-unicode).
281 - get rid of the intpro files.
282
283 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
284 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
285 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
286 (Kuang-che Wu).
287 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
288 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
289 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
290 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
291 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
292 along with other, similar, cleanups.
293 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
294 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
295 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
296 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
297 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
298 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
299
300 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
301 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
302 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
303 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
304 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
305 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
306 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
307 his patience and time in tracking this down).
308 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
309 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
310 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
311 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
312 by Joël Riou).
313 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
314 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
315 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
316 - shaved off some code segment size.
317 - various code cleanups.
318 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
319
320 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
321 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
322 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
323 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
324 -pixmap is active.
325 - new option/resource imFont.
326 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
327 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
328 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
329 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
330 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
331 (WU Fengguang).
332 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
333 examples (rxvt.1).
334 - removed src/test completely.
335 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
336
337 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
338 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
339 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
340 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
341 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
342 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
343 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
344 resulting in segfaults.
345 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
346 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
347 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
348 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
349 (Mikael Magnusson).
350 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
351 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
352 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
353 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
354 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
355 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
356 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
357 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
358 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
359 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
360 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
361 - initialize the locale much earlier.
362 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
363
364 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
365 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
366 black on initial startup.
367 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
368 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
369 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
370 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
371 additional multimedia keys.
372 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
373 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
374
375 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
376 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
377 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
378 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
379 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
380 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
381 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
382 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
383 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
384 ignored.
385 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
386 instead.
387 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
388 (reported by hednod).
389 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
390 - fix atom name enumeration.
391
392 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
393 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
394 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
395 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
396 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
397 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
398
399 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
400 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
401 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
402 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
403 titles etc.
404 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
405 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
406 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
407 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
408 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
409 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
410 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
411 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
412 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
413 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
414 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
415 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
416 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
417 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
418
419 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
420 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
421 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
422 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
423 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
424 thoroughly.
425 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
426 now, too.
427
428 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
429 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
431 on high-latency networks.
432 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
433 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
434 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
435 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
436 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
437 by Gunnar Ritter.
438 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
439 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
440
441 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
442 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
443 -ssc/-ssr settings.
444 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
445 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
446 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
447 - add compile fix for darwin.
448 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
449 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
450 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
451
452 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
453 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
454 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
455 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
456 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
457 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
458 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
459 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
460 ... terminated by a fix.
461 - new supported preeeditType "None".
462 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
463 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
464 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
465 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
466 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
467 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
468 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
469 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
470 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
471 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
472 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
473 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
474 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
475 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
476 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
477 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
478 in tracking this down.
479 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
480 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
481
482 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
483 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
484 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
485
486 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
487 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
488 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
489 installed if tic is available.
490 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
491 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
492 - removed README.unicode.
493 - support select&paste of tab characters.
494 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
495 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
496 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
497 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
498 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
499 screen updates with curses.
500 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
501 by spaces.
502 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
503 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
504 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
505 is just too slow for this to work.
506 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
507 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
508 implement. use --enable-styles.
509 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
510 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
511 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
512 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
513 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
514 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
515 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
516 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
517 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
518 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
519 (only for non-bold right now).
520 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
521 - better default font size and style.
522 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
523 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
524 single character against the base font extents and will only
525 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
526 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
527 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
528 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
529 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
530 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
531 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
532 screen height.
533 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
534 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
535 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
536 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
537 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
538 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
539 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
540 - removed OSC 702.
541 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
542 confused by it rather than using it.
543
544 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
545 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
546 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
547 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
548 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
549 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
550 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
551 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
552 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
553 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
554 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
555 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
556 close).
557 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
558 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
559 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
560 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
561 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
562 could not be created.
563 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
564 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
565 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
566 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
567 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
568 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
569 works.
570 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
571 - document more escape sequences.
572 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
573 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
574 character is a sensible operation.
575 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
576 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
577 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
578 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
579 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
580 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
581 with selections).
582
583 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
584 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
585 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
586 needs access to a local shell window).
587 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
588 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
589 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
590 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
591 a little window or so) would be welcome.
592 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
593 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
594 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
595 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
596 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
597 added there.
598 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
599 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
600 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
601 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
602 instead of being ignored.
603 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
604 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
605 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
606 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
607 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
608 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
609 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
610 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
611 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
612 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
613 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
614 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
615 needs testing anyways.
616 - more complete compile options help output.
617 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
618 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
619 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
620 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
621 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
622 - minor doc fix.
623
624 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
625 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
626 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
627 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
628 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
629 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
630 memmove :)
631 - minor cleanups.
632 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
633 (debian bug #169415).
634 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
635 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
636 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
637 - updated config.guess.
638
639 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
640 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
641 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
642 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
643 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
644 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
645 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
646 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
647 speeding up scrolling immensely.
648 - various other optimizations.
649 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
650
651 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
652 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
653 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
654 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
655 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
656 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
657 Mikael Magnusson).
658 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
659 Mikael Magnusson).
660 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
661 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
662 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
663
664 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
665 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
666 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
667 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
668 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
669 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
670 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
671 with ^V (SYN).
672 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
673
674 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
675 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
676 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
677 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
678 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
679 well as with other terminal emulators.
680 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
681 (reported by elmex).
682 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
683 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
684 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
685 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
686 Bloch.
687
688 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
689 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
690 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
691 sorry).
692 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
693 make it a little bit more correct c++).
694
695 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
696 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
697 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
698 - minor i18n issue fixes.
699
700 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
701 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
702 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
703 - fix some minor bugs.
704
705 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
706 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
707 for the keymappings.
708 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
709 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
710 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
711 an extension and is slightly ugly.
712 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
713 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
714 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
715 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
716 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
717 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
718 overwritten (as is common).
719 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
720 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
721
722 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
723 - minor doc corrections.
724 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
725 avoid clashes with xterm.
726 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
727 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
728 window colour when arg is "?".
729 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
730 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
731 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
732 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
733 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
734 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
735 (FRILLS).
736 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
737 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
738 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
739 - set _NET_WM_PID.
740
741 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
742 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
743 - support more 8-bit controls.
744 - more informative error messages.
745 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
746 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
747 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
748 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
749 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
750
751 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
752 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
753 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
754 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
755 - removed old selection style completely.
756 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
757 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
758 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
759 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
760 be used from within rxvt.
761 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
762
763 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
764 - code cleanup release.
765 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
766 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
767 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
768 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
769 all files.
770 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
771 --enable-xgetdefaults.
772
773 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
774 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
775 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
776 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
777 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
778 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
779 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
780 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
781 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
782 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
783 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
784 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
785 --disable-xgetdefault.
786 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
787 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
788 unicode character.
789 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
790 get it wrong.
791 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
792
793 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
794 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
795 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
796 settings.
797 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
798 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
799 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
800 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
801 mbrtowc.
802 - more robust encoding name matching.
803 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
804 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
805 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
806 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
807 resources and docs.
808 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
809
810 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
811 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
812 - some doc cleanup
813 - configure cleanup
814 - viscii enabled by default
815 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
816
817 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
818 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
819
820 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
821 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
822 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
823 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
824 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
825 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
826 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
827 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
828 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
829 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
830 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
831 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
832 reported by joel reed.
833 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
834 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
835 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
836 being selected.
837 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
838 - removed greek support.
839 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
840 - correct cursor width if !focus.
841 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
842 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
843 contributed.
844 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
845 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
846 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
847 - many other minor bugfixes.
848
849 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
850 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
851 new bugs, this should not change much.
852 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
853 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
854 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
855 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
856 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
857 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
858 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
859
860 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
861 - further cleanups.
862 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
863 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
864 use reverse video, not _blink_.
865 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
866 please drop me a note.
867
868 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
869 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
870 - blinking text.
871 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
872 normal text when colorBD is not set.
873 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
874 was never implemented
875
876 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
877 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
878 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
879 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
880 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
881 reported by fefe
882 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
883 Markus Demleitner
884 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
885 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
886 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
887
888 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
889 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
890 - small font tunings
891 - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
892 - better error reporting for unknown options
893
894 1.3 2003-12-26
895 - fix a bug in font height selection
896 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
897 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
898 - much faster x11 font selection
899
900 1.2 2003-12-24
901 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
902 - better font matching
903 - better memory management (less memory)
904 - new fallback: gnu freefont
905
906 1.1 2003-12-18
907 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
908 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
909 - much improved font choosing
910
911 1.0
912 - first release
913 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
914 - removed rclock et al.
915 - initial conversion to C++
916