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1 rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
2
3 TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable.
4 TODO: simplify selection_request and make it callable from perl.
5 TODO: split perl documnetation and urxvt.pm into separate files
6 TODO: nuke rxvt_privaction and related garbage
7 TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
8 TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
9 TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
10 TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
11 TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
12 TODO: rxvt -name urxvt-girly /// leave pixel droppings
13 TODO: distributed clipboard example
14 WISH: perl extension for background image loading and moving the origin.
15 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay...
16 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
17 WISH: support tex fonts
18
19 7.2
20 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
21 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
22 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
23 in non-synthetic events.
24
25 7.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
26 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
27 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
28 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
29 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
30 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
31 special privileges.
32 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
33 itself.
34 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
35 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
36 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
37 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
38 similar stuff.
39 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
40 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
41 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
42 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
43 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
44 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
45 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
46 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
47 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
48 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
49 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
50 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
51 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
52 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
53 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
54 to set the window title.
55 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
56 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
57 at the wrong time.
58 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
59 anymore.
60 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
61 - nuked QNX support.
62 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
63 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
64 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
65 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
66
67 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
68 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
69 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
70 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
71 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
72 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
73 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
74 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
75 and much much more.
76 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
77 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
78 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
79 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
80 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
81 setuid/setgid.
82 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
83 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
84 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
85 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
86 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
87 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
88 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
89 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
90 compatible, and not really small either.
91 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
92 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
93 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
94 to crashes.
95 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
96 colours.
97 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
98 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
99
100 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
101 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
102 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
103 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
104 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
105 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
106 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
107 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
108 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
109 by Mikachu).
110 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
111 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
112 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
113 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
114 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
115 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
116 - fix directory permissions on install.
117 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
118 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
119 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
120 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
121 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
122
123 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
124 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
125 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
126 Chuck Blake.
127 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
128 obscure the mouse cursor position.
129 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
130 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
131 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
132 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
133 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
134 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
135 transfer efficiency.
136 - further minor cleanups.
137
138 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
139 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
140 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
141 while the user still drags.
142 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
143 not drawn correctly.
144 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
145 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
146 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
147 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
148 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
149 stripping whitespace.
150 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
151 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
152
153 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
154 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
155 - enable slow link support by default.
156 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
157 (also a bug in original rxvt).
158 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
159 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
160 partial patch).
161 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
162 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
163 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
164 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
165 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
166 - implement -hold option.
167 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
168 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
169 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
170 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
171 - slight overall speed improvements.
172 - considerably improved code clarity.
173 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
174 buffer.
175
176 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
177 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
178 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
179 (matters only for rxvtd).
180 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
181 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
182 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
183
184 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
185 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
186 If you want the old behaviour, try:
187 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
188 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
189 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
190 percentage by 100-percentage.
191 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
192 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
193 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
194 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
195 windows.
196 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
197 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
198 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
199 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
200 - replaced INSTALL file.
201
202 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
203 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
204 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
205 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
206 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
207 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
208 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
209 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
210 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
211
212 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
213 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
214 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
215 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
216 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
217 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
218 Affects display in iso14755 box.
219 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
220 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
221 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
222 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
223 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
224 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
225 cutting pieces off of characters.
226 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
227 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
228 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
229 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
230 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
231 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
232 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
233
234 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
235 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
236 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
237 meaning of the given key.
238 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
239 (patch by Martin Edlman).
240
241 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
242 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
243 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
244 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
245 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
246 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
247 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
248 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
249 to disable it.
250
251 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
252 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
253 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
254 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
255 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
256 with modifiers.
257 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
258 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
259 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
260 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
261 and clear the scrollback buffer.
262
263 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
264 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
265 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
266 a command.
267 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
268 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
269 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
270 in Perl/Gtk2.
271 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
272 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
273 (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
274 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
275 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
276 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
277 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
278 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
279 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
280 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
281 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
282 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
283 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
284 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
285 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
286 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
287 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
288 rxvt-unicode).
289 - get rid of the intpro files.
290
291 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
292 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
293 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
294 (Kuang-che Wu).
295 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
296 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
297 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
298 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
299 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
300 along with other, similar, cleanups.
301 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
302 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
303 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
304 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
305 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
306 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
307
308 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
309 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
310 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
311 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
312 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
313 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
314 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
315 his patience and time in tracking this down).
316 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
317 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
318 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
319 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
320 by Joël Riou).
321 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
322 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
323 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
324 - shaved off some code segment size.
325 - various code cleanups.
326 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
327
328 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
329 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
330 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
331 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
332 -pixmap is active.
333 - new option/resource imFont.
334 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
335 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
336 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
337 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
338 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
339 (WU Fengguang).
340 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
341 examples (rxvt.1).
342 - removed src/test completely.
343 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
344
345 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
346 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
347 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
348 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
349 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
350 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
351 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
352 resulting in segfaults.
353 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
354 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
355 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
356 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
357 (Mikael Magnusson).
358 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
359 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
360 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
361 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
362 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
363 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
364 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
365 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
366 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
367 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
368 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
369 - initialize the locale much earlier.
370 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
371
372 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
373 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
374 black on initial startup.
375 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
376 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
377 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
378 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
379 additional multimedia keys.
380 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
381 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
382
383 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
384 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
385 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
386 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
387 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
388 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
389 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
390 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
391 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
392 ignored.
393 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
394 instead.
395 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
396 (reported by hednod).
397 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
398 - fix atom name enumeration.
399
400 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
401 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
402 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
403 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
404 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
405 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
406
407 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
408 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
409 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
410 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
411 titles etc.
412 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
413 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
414 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
415 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
416 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
417 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
418 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
419 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
420 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
421 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
422 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
423 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
424 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
425 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
426
427 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
428 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
429 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
430 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
431 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
432 thoroughly.
433 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
434 now, too.
435
436 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
437 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
438 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
439 on high-latency networks.
440 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
441 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
442 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
443 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
444 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
445 by Gunnar Ritter.
446 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
447 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
448
449 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
450 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
451 -ssc/-ssr settings.
452 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
453 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
454 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
455 - add compile fix for darwin.
456 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
457 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
458 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
459
460 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
461 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
462 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
463 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
464 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
465 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
466 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
467 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
468 ... terminated by a fix.
469 - new supported preeeditType "None".
470 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
471 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
472 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
473 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
474 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
475 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
476 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
477 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
478 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
479 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
480 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
481 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
482 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
483 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
484 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
485 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
486 in tracking this down.
487 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
488 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
489
490 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
491 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
492 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
493
494 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
495 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
496 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
497 installed if tic is available.
498 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
499 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
500 - removed README.unicode.
501 - support select&paste of tab characters.
502 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
503 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
504 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
505 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
506 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
507 screen updates with curses.
508 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
509 by spaces.
510 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
511 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
512 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
513 is just too slow for this to work.
514 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
515 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
516 implement. use --enable-styles.
517 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
518 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
519 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
520 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
521 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
522 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
523 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
524 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
525 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
526 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
527 (only for non-bold right now).
528 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
529 - better default font size and style.
530 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
531 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
532 single character against the base font extents and will only
533 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
534 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
535 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
536 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
537 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
538 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
539 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
540 screen height.
541 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
542 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
543 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
544 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
545 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
546 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
547 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
548 - removed OSC 702.
549 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
550 confused by it rather than using it.
551
552 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
553 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
554 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
555 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
556 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
557 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
558 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
559 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
560 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
561 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
562 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
563 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
564 close).
565 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
566 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
567 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
568 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
569 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
570 could not be created.
571 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
572 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
573 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
574 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
575 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
576 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
577 works.
578 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
579 - document more escape sequences.
580 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
581 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
582 character is a sensible operation.
583 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
584 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
585 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
586 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
587 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
588 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
589 with selections).
590
591 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
592 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
593 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
594 needs access to a local shell window).
595 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
596 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
597 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
598 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
599 a little window or so) would be welcome.
600 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
601 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
602 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
603 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
604 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
605 added there.
606 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
607 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
608 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
609 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
610 instead of being ignored.
611 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
612 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
613 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
614 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
615 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
616 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
617 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
618 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
619 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
620 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
621 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
622 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
623 needs testing anyways.
624 - more complete compile options help output.
625 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
626 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
627 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
628 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
629 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
630 - minor doc fix.
631
632 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
633 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
634 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
635 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
636 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
637 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
638 memmove :)
639 - minor cleanups.
640 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
641 (debian bug #169415).
642 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
643 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
644 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
645 - updated config.guess.
646
647 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
648 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
649 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
650 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
651 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
652 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
653 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
654 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
655 speeding up scrolling immensely.
656 - various other optimizations.
657 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
658
659 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
660 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
661 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
662 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
663 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
664 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
665 Mikael Magnusson).
666 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
667 Mikael Magnusson).
668 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
669 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
670 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
671
672 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
673 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
674 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
675 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
676 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
677 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
678 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
679 with ^V (SYN).
680 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
681
682 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
683 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
684 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
685 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
686 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
687 well as with other terminal emulators.
688 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
689 (reported by elmex).
690 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
691 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
692 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
693 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
694 Bloch.
695
696 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
697 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
698 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
699 sorry).
700 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
701 make it a little bit more correct c++).
702
703 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
704 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
705 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
706 - minor i18n issue fixes.
707
708 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
709 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
710 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
711 - fix some minor bugs.
712
713 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
714 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
715 for the keymappings.
716 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
717 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
718 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
719 an extension and is slightly ugly.
720 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
721 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
722 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
723 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
724 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
725 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
726 overwritten (as is common).
727 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
728 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
729
730 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
731 - minor doc corrections.
732 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
733 avoid clashes with xterm.
734 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
735 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
736 window colour when arg is "?".
737 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
738 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
739 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
740 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
741 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
742 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
743 (FRILLS).
744 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
745 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
746 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
747 - set _NET_WM_PID.
748
749 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
750 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
751 - support more 8-bit controls.
752 - more informative error messages.
753 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
754 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
755 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
756 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
757 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
758
759 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
760 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
761 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
762 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
763 - removed old selection style completely.
764 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
765 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
766 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
767 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
768 be used from within rxvt.
769 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
770
771 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
772 - code cleanup release.
773 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
774 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
775 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
776 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
777 all files.
778 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
779 --enable-xgetdefaults.
780
781 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
782 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
783 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
784 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
785 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
786 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
787 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
788 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
789 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
790 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
791 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
792 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
793 --disable-xgetdefault.
794 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
795 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
796 unicode character.
797 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
798 get it wrong.
799 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
800
801 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
802 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
803 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
804 settings.
805 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
806 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
807 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
808 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
809 mbrtowc.
810 - more robust encoding name matching.
811 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
812 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
813 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
814 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
815 resources and docs.
816 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
817
818 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
819 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
820 - some doc cleanup
821 - configure cleanup
822 - viscii enabled by default
823 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
824
825 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
826 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
827
828 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
829 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
830 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
831 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
832 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
833 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
834 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
835 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
836 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
837 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
838 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
839 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
840 reported by joel reed.
841 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
842 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
843 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
844 being selected.
845 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
846 - removed greek support.
847 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
848 - correct cursor width if !focus.
849 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
850 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
851 contributed.
852 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
853 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
854 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
855 - many other minor bugfixes.
856
857 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
858 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
859 new bugs, this should not change much.
860 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
861 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
862 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
863 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
864 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
865 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
866 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
867
868 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
869 - further cleanups.
870 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
871 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
872 use reverse video, not _blink_.
873 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
874 please drop me a note.
875
876 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
877 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
878 - blinking text.
879 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
880 normal text when colorBD is not set.
881 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
882 was never implemented
883
884 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
885 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
886 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
887 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
888 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
889 reported by fefe
890 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
891 Markus Demleitner
892 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
893 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
894 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
895
896 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
897 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
898 - small font tunings
899 - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
900 - better error reporting for unknown options
901
902 1.3 2003-12-26
903 - fix a bug in font height selection
904 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
905 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
906 - much faster x11 font selection
907
908 1.2 2003-12-24
909 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
910 - better font matching
911 - better memory management (less memory)
912 - new fallback: gnu freefont
913
914 1.1 2003-12-18
915 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
916 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
917 - much improved font choosing
918
919 1.0
920 - first release
921 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
922 - removed rclock et al.
923 - initial conversion to C++
924