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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: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
7 TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
8 TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
9 TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
10 TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
11 TODO: rxvt -name urxvt-girly /// leave pixel droppings
12 TODO: distributed clipboard example
13 WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
14 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay...
15 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
16 DUMB: support tex fonts
17
18 TODO: move resources out of allocated
19 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
20 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
21 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
22 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
23 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
24 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
25 atoms only once per display.
26 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
27 xterm.
28
29 7.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
30 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
31 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
32 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
33 ctrl-shift-672c).
34 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
35 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
36 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
37 the primary screen.
38 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
39 could lead to an assertion failure.
40 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
41 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
42 via mouse clicks.
43 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
44 with shift - mouse button 2.
45 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
46 in non-synthetic events.
47 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
48 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
49 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
50 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
51 whole urxvt[d] process.
52 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
53 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
54 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
55 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
56
57 7.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
58 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
59 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
60 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
61 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
62 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
63 special privileges.
64 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
65 itself.
66 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
67 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
68 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
69 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
70 similar stuff.
71 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
72 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
73 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
74 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
75 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
76 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
77 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
78 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
79 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
80 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
81 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
82 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
83 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
84 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
85 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
86 to set the window title.
87 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
88 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
89 at the wrong time.
90 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
91 anymore.
92 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
93 - nuked QNX support.
94 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
95 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
96 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
97 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
98
99 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
100 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
101 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
102 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
103 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
104 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
105 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
106 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
107 and much much more.
108 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
109 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
110 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
111 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
112 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
113 setuid/setgid.
114 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
115 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
116 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
117 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
118 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
119 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
120 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
121 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
122 compatible, and not really small either.
123 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
124 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
125 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
126 to crashes.
127 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
128 colours.
129 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
130 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
131
132 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
133 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
134 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
135 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
136 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
137 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
138 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
139 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
140 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
141 by Mikachu).
142 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
143 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
144 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
145 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
146 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
147 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
148 - fix directory permissions on install.
149 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
150 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
151 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
152 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
153 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
154
155 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
156 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
157 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
158 Chuck Blake.
159 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
160 obscure the mouse cursor position.
161 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
162 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
163 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
164 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
165 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
166 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
167 transfer efficiency.
168 - further minor cleanups.
169
170 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
171 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
172 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
173 while the user still drags.
174 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
175 not drawn correctly.
176 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
177 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
178 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
179 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
180 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
181 stripping whitespace.
182 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
183 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
184
185 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
186 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
187 - enable slow link support by default.
188 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
189 (also a bug in original rxvt).
190 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
191 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
192 partial patch).
193 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
194 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
195 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
196 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
197 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
198 - implement -hold option.
199 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
200 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
201 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
202 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
203 - slight overall speed improvements.
204 - considerably improved code clarity.
205 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
206 buffer.
207
208 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
209 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
210 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
211 (matters only for rxvtd).
212 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
213 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
214 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
215
216 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
217 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
218 If you want the old behaviour, try:
219 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
220 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
221 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
222 percentage by 100-percentage.
223 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
224 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
225 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
226 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
227 windows.
228 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
229 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
230 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
231 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
232 - replaced INSTALL file.
233
234 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
235 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
236 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
237 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
238 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
239 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
240 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
241 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
242 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
243
244 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
245 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
246 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
247 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
248 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
249 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
250 Affects display in iso14755 box.
251 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
252 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
253 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
254 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
255 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
256 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
257 cutting pieces off of characters.
258 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
259 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
260 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
261 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
262 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
263 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
264 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
265
266 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
267 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
268 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
269 meaning of the given key.
270 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
271 (patch by Martin Edlman).
272
273 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
274 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
275 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
276 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
277 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
278 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
279 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
280 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
281 to disable it.
282
283 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
284 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
285 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
286 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
287 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
288 with modifiers.
289 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
290 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
291 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
292 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
293 and clear the scrollback buffer.
294
295 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
296 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
297 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
298 a command.
299 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
300 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
301 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
302 in Perl/Gtk2.
303 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
304 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
305 (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
306 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
307 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
308 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
309 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
310 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
311 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
312 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
313 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
314 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
315 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
316 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
317 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
318 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
319 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
320 rxvt-unicode).
321 - get rid of the intpro files.
322
323 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
324 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
325 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
326 (Kuang-che Wu).
327 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
328 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
329 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
330 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
331 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
332 along with other, similar, cleanups.
333 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
334 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
335 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
336 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
337 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
338 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
339
340 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
341 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
342 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
343 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
344 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
345 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
346 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
347 his patience and time in tracking this down).
348 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
349 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
350 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
351 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
352 by Joël Riou).
353 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
354 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
355 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
356 - shaved off some code segment size.
357 - various code cleanups.
358 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
359
360 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
361 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
362 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
363 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
364 -pixmap is active.
365 - new option/resource imFont.
366 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
367 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
368 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
369 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
370 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
371 (WU Fengguang).
372 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
373 examples (rxvt.1).
374 - removed src/test completely.
375 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
376
377 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
378 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
379 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
380 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
381 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
382 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
383 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
384 resulting in segfaults.
385 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
386 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
387 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
388 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
389 (Mikael Magnusson).
390 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
391 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
392 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
393 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
394 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
395 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
396 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
397 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
398 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
399 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
400 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
401 - initialize the locale much earlier.
402 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
403
404 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
405 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
406 black on initial startup.
407 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
408 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
409 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
410 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
411 additional multimedia keys.
412 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
413 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
414
415 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
416 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
417 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
418 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
419 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
420 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
421 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
422 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
423 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
424 ignored.
425 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
426 instead.
427 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
428 (reported by hednod).
429 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
430 - fix atom name enumeration.
431
432 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
433 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
434 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
435 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
436 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
437 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
438
439 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
440 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
441 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
442 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
443 titles etc.
444 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
445 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
446 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
447 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
448 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
449 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
450 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
451 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
452 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
453 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
454 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
455 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
456 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
457 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
458
459 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
460 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
461 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
462 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
463 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
464 thoroughly.
465 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
466 now, too.
467
468 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
469 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
470 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
471 on high-latency networks.
472 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
473 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
474 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
475 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
476 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
477 by Gunnar Ritter.
478 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
479 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
480
481 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
482 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
483 -ssc/-ssr settings.
484 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
485 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
486 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
487 - add compile fix for darwin.
488 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
489 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
490 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
491
492 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
493 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
494 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
495 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
496 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
497 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
498 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
499 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
500 ... terminated by a fix.
501 - new supported preeeditType "None".
502 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
503 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
504 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
505 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
506 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
507 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
508 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
509 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
510 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
511 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
512 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
513 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
514 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
515 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
516 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
517 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
518 in tracking this down.
519 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
520 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
521
522 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
523 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
524 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
525
526 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
527 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
528 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
529 installed if tic is available.
530 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
531 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
532 - removed README.unicode.
533 - support select&paste of tab characters.
534 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
535 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
536 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
537 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
538 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
539 screen updates with curses.
540 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
541 by spaces.
542 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
543 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
544 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
545 is just too slow for this to work.
546 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
547 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
548 implement. use --enable-styles.
549 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
550 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
551 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
552 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
553 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
554 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
555 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
556 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
557 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
558 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
559 (only for non-bold right now).
560 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
561 - better default font size and style.
562 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
563 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
564 single character against the base font extents and will only
565 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
566 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
567 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
568 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
569 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
570 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
571 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
572 screen height.
573 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
574 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
575 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
576 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
577 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
578 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
579 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
580 - removed OSC 702.
581 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
582 confused by it rather than using it.
583
584 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
585 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
586 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
587 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
588 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
589 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
590 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
591 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
592 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
593 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
594 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
595 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
596 close).
597 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
598 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
599 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
600 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
601 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
602 could not be created.
603 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
604 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
605 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
606 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
607 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
608 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
609 works.
610 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
611 - document more escape sequences.
612 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
613 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
614 character is a sensible operation.
615 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
616 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
617 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
618 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
619 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
620 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
621 with selections).
622
623 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
624 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
625 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
626 needs access to a local shell window).
627 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
628 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
629 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
630 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
631 a little window or so) would be welcome.
632 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
633 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
634 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
635 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
636 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
637 added there.
638 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
639 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
640 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
641 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
642 instead of being ignored.
643 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
644 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
645 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
646 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
647 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
648 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
649 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
650 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
651 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
652 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
653 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
654 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
655 needs testing anyways.
656 - more complete compile options help output.
657 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
658 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
659 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
660 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
661 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
662 - minor doc fix.
663
664 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
665 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
666 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
667 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
668 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
669 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
670 memmove :)
671 - minor cleanups.
672 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
673 (debian bug #169415).
674 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
675 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
676 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
677 - updated config.guess.
678
679 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
680 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
681 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
682 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
683 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
684 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
685 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
686 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
687 speeding up scrolling immensely.
688 - various other optimizations.
689 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
690
691 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
692 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
693 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
694 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
695 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
696 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
697 Mikael Magnusson).
698 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
699 Mikael Magnusson).
700 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
701 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
702 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
703
704 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
705 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
706 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
707 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
708 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
709 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
710 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
711 with ^V (SYN).
712 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
713
714 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
715 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
716 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
717 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
718 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
719 well as with other terminal emulators.
720 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
721 (reported by elmex).
722 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
723 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
724 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
725 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
726 Bloch.
727
728 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
729 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
730 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
731 sorry).
732 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
733 make it a little bit more correct c++).
734
735 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
736 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
737 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
738 - minor i18n issue fixes.
739
740 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
741 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
742 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
743 - fix some minor bugs.
744
745 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
746 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
747 for the keymappings.
748 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
749 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
750 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
751 an extension and is slightly ugly.
752 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
753 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
754 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
755 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
756 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
757 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
758 overwritten (as is common).
759 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
760 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
761
762 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
763 - minor doc corrections.
764 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
765 avoid clashes with xterm.
766 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
767 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
768 window colour when arg is "?".
769 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
770 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
771 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
772 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
773 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
774 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
775 (FRILLS).
776 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
777 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
778 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
779 - set _NET_WM_PID.
780
781 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
782 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
783 - support more 8-bit controls.
784 - more informative error messages.
785 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
786 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
787 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
788 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
789 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
790
791 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
792 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
793 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
794 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
795 - removed old selection style completely.
796 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
797 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
798 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
799 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
800 be used from within rxvt.
801 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
802
803 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
804 - code cleanup release.
805 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
806 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
807 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
808 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
809 all files.
810 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
811 --enable-xgetdefaults.
812
813 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
814 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
815 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
816 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
817 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
818 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
819 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
820 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
821 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
822 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
823 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
824 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
825 --disable-xgetdefault.
826 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
827 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
828 unicode character.
829 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
830 get it wrong.
831 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
832
833 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
834 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
835 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
836 settings.
837 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
838 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
839 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
840 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
841 mbrtowc.
842 - more robust encoding name matching.
843 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
844 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
845 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
846 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
847 resources and docs.
848 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
849
850 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
851 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
852 - some doc cleanup
853 - configure cleanup
854 - viscii enabled by default
855 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
856
857 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
858 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
859
860 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
861 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
862 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
863 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
864 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
865 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
866 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
867 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
868 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
869 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
870 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
871 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
872 reported by joel reed.
873 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
874 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
875 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
876 being selected.
877 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
878 - removed greek support.
879 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
880 - correct cursor width if !focus.
881 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
882 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
883 contributed.
884 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
885 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
886 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
887 - many other minor bugfixes.
888
889 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
890 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
891 new bugs, this should not change much.
892 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
893 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
894 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
895 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
896 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
897 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
898 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
899
900 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
901 - further cleanups.
902 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
903 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
904 use reverse video, not _blink_.
905 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
906 please drop me a note.
907
908 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
909 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
910 - blinking text.
911 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
912 normal text when colorBD is not set.
913 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
914 was never implemented
915
916 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
917 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
918 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
919 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
920 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
921 reported by fefe
922 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
923 Markus Demleitner
924 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
925 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
926 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
927
928 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
929 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
930 - small font tunings
931 - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
932 - better error reporting for unknown options
933
934 1.3 2003-12-26
935 - fix a bug in font height selection
936 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
937 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
938 - much faster x11 font selection
939
940 1.2 2003-12-24
941 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
942 - better font matching
943 - better memory management (less memory)
944 - new fallback: gnu freefont
945
946 1.1 2003-12-18
947 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
948 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
949 - much improved font choosing
950
951 1.0
952 - first release
953 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
954 - removed rclock et al.
955 - initial conversion to C++
956