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1 rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
2
3 TODO: init_secondary serves what purpose? maybe move it to earlier startup phase and re-think
4 TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve
5 TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable.
6 TODO: slipwheeling needs a keyboard grab to get key release events.
7 TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn
8 TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
9 TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
10 TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness, motion hints?)
11 TODO: better resource handling for tabbar in -pe tabbed.
12 WISH: investigate -pe tabbed -g 80x25 being 23 not 24 or 25 lines
13 => when setting the constraints, the wm might (correctly)
14 resize the outer window, which might result in a smaller window overall.
15 or something like that. guys, send me a patch.
16 WISH: coloured pastebin
17 WISH: selection-color-pair instead of reverse video
18 WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one
19 WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
20 DUMB: support tex fonts
21
22 TODO: /*TODO: the xlceararea/xfillrectangle below don't take scroll offste into account, ask mikachu for details */
23
24 TODO: investgate wm resize race: while sleep 0.001; do printf "\033[?30l";sleep 0.001;printf "\033[?30h";done
25 TODO: investigate miroslav patches
26 TODO: artificially enlargen wide characters at end to correctly cut&paste.
27 TODO: cursor over overlays, when focus change?
28 - remove bogus "setuid/setgid security issues" from rxvt.1.pod, they
29 no longer apply.
30 - the urgency hint is now cleared on both focus in and focus out.
31 - cache urgency hint locally to avoid server rtt on every focus change.
32 - perl 5.10 needs PERL_SYS_INIT3 on hppa.
33 - ignore byte-order marks and do not treat them like combining characters.
34 - fix build issue when CURSOR_BLINK is not defined (Emanuele Giaquinta).
35 - do some µ-optimisations to the character fast path.
36 - use a less cunning, but more robust algorithm to avoid one terminal
37 monopolising the whole process by outputting a lot of text.
38 - try to work around linux first breaking sched_yield and now breaking
39 the only known workaround.
40
41 9.05 Sun Jun 15 20:09:20 CEST 2008
42 - new option --cd/chdir to set the starting working directory.
43 - tabbed extension now starts in the "correct" working directory.
44 - work around fedora 9 providing isastream but not the relevant
45 header file for it (report by Tuncer Ayaz).
46 - upgrade libev, fixing a bug in the select backend
47 with more than 31 file descriptors on non-linux 64 bit systems.
48 - correctly reset the multibyte state to the initial one
49 after EILSEQ (patch by Neil Booth). This fixes the
50 issue of rxvt-unicode not properly displaying text after an illegal
51 sequence on NetBSD and probably other systems.
52 - more intelligent property handling with -pe tabbed, works around
53 broken window managers (kwm et al.), saves bandwidth and should
54 help working window managers as well.
55 - made tabs moveable (based on a patch by Petr Machata).
56 - implement ESC [ 3 K as a more rational alternative to ESC [ 0 K.
57 - support relative paths for RXVT_SOCKET in urxvtd.
58 - the tabbed extension now blindly copies over all (rxvt-) resources
59 from the toplevel window to the children.
60 - better diagnostic on 0x0 window geometries.
61 - update AnyEvent API to version 3.4 and above.
62 - document the default value of :0 for DISPLAY.
63 - rename perl method XChangeWindowProperty to XChangeProperty.
64
65 9.02 Tue Jan 29 11:58:36 CET 2008
66 - the "exg makes everybody happy" release.
67 - fix build with !xft.
68 - always compile in plain style scrollbar (simplifies code and looks great).
69
70 9.01 Sat Jan 26 20:49:27 CET 2008
71 - be more aggressive about handling X events, this seems to be required
72 with newer xlibs (should fix the "screen stays black until event is
73 received" problem, again :)
74 - add buffered resource to control xft double-buffering.
75
76 9.0 Fri Jan 25 19:34:04 CET 2008
77 - fix a crash bug where urxvtd would crash when urxvtc was called
78 with wrong arguments (I wish debian maintainers in general would
79 report bugs and their proposed fixes to the original package maintaienrs
80 instead of sitting on them for good measure to see if anybody notices).
81 - drawing xft compose characters was causing garbage to be drawn.
82 - correctly clear xft character background in all cases.
83 - implement bracketed paste mode (xterm private mode 2004).
84 - improve documentation on alpha channel handling, make urxvt
85 work better on servers lacking the RENDER extension when alpha
86 channels or background images are used.
87 - check for refresh after initialising to avoid staying blank
88 till the first event arrives. or so.
89 - the FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT feature macro works again.
90 - continuously update transparency while moving/resizing now.
91 - OSC 39/49 are deprecated and aliased to OSC 10/11.
92 - cub1 now acts as advertised (and ignores the "wrapped" state).
93 - the 132/80 mode switch now forces a height of 24, too, and
94 resets the terminal.
95 - scrollbar code cleanups.
96 - stopping children is no longer confused with children exiting.
97 - removed (undocumented) #aarrggbb format.
98 - updated to libev 3.0.
99
100 8.9 Mon Dec 24 07:51:40 CET 2007
101 - fix the issue where urxvtd would not immediately close a window
102 when the command exited but only on the next X event.
103 - changed terminfo file not to use application keypad mode.
104 - fix the issue where making a selection in one urxvtd window
105 would not clear it visually in another.
106 - fix an issue of urxvt not getting background pixmap updates
107 and flickering after bg pixmap changes (reported by Mikachu).
108 - fix redraw bug in xterm scrollbar with -sr (reported by Mikachu).
109 - correctly provide dependencies for libev (µikachu).
110 - minor code reorganisations and cleanups.
111 - be more robust in case the urxvt-popup extension cannot be loaded.
112
113 8.8 Sat Dec 15 19:40:39 CET 2007
114 - option -C was aliased to all unsupported options, activating
115 options that shouldn't be compiled in, leading to interesting
116 effects.
117 - updated libev, working around a bug in linux 2.4, curing the
118 symptom of urxvt not closing its window on shell exit. also
119 fixes a problem with urxvt not refreshing.
120 - the text blink callback was called even when no blinking
121 text was visible.
122 - pre-8.4 slipwheeling behaviour has been reinstated, with
123 some minor improvements.
124 - streamlined x events processing to only flush once per
125 display and not once per terminal window.
126 - quite a bit of minor code cleanups and codesize optimisations.
127
128 8.7 Sun Nov 25 10:23:49 CET 2007
129 - update libev with an important bugfix that would cause crashes
130 when closing windows (when using rxvtd, and update is recommended).
131 - do not compile in the block builtin graphics with --disable-frills.
132
133 8.6 Fri Nov 23 14:10:57 CET 2007
134 - upgrade libev to disable kqueue on anything but netbsd as it
135 seems to be broken everywhere else w.r.t. ptys.
136 - allow for spurious event notifications, as at least epoll and
137 especially solaris ports like to lie about them (symptoms:
138 urxvt "hangs" until there is some x11 related activity).
139 - -keysym command line options are now subjected to xlib parsing.
140 - add 'xrm' option analogous to Xt one.
141
142 8.5a Wed Nov 21 10:16:33 CET 2007
143 - make it compile with --disable-transparency.
144
145 8.5 Wed Nov 21 05:19:20 CET 2007
146 - expect major portability issues in this release: please test and report.
147 - converted from the veritable io manager event loop to
148 the high performance libev (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
149 - minor tuning to the perl selection (include single words and more quoting chars).
150 - fix memory leak in pixmap code.
151 - fix a serious bug while setting the XIM destroy callback
152 on (typical) 64 bit systems.
153 - automove-background functionality re-implemented internaly using :root op in pixmap
154 geometry string. For example: rxvt -pixmap "image.jpg;:root"
155 - do not link rxvtc against every lib on the planet anymore.
156 - parallel builds should work once more.
157
158 8.4 Sat Oct 27 14:02:13 CEST 2007
159 - overhaul of the transparency/pixmap code (sasha).
160 - fix possible race betwen visual bell and poweron.
161 (reported by Martin von Gagern, gentoo?).
162 - urxvt -e no longer crashes the child.
163 - fixed some minor memleaks on incorrect usage or
164 missing DISPLAY.
165 - implement xterm 1002/1003 mouse tracking modes (exg).
166 - source code organisational cleanups (exg).
167 - updated io_manager.
168
169 8.3 Wed Aug 1 20:21:31 CEST 2007
170 - new option: skipScroll/-ss, enabled by default.
171 - go with the times and expect x11 library files in /usr/lib, not
172 /usr/X11R6/lib.
173 - initial transparency improvement/afterimage support
174 patch by Sasha Vasko.
175 - add urgentOnBell resource to set the urgency hint
176 (patch by Philip Paeps).
177 - do not process focus events caused by grabs
178 (patch by Mikachu).
179 - add iso14755_52 resource to disable iso14755 5.2 (exg).
180 - add binding for backspace in iso14755 5.1 to remove the last
181 digit (exg).
182 - better option handling, support more than 30 options (exg).
183 - nuke reconf script, serves no purpose anymore.
184 - fixed and documented matcher/on_user_command processing in matcher
185 extension (tpope).
186 - compile out of the box on Solaris 10 (exg).
187 - fix MappingNotify events (reported by Stephan Walter).
188 - zero-initialise mwmhints, this seems to solve all sorts of minor
189 problems.
190
191 8.2 Sat Feb 17 21:35:28 CET 2007
192 - fix make depend in src/, reported by exg.
193 - fixed typo in urxvt::GET_CUSTOM, causing the result to be wrong.
194 (patch by Sergey Vlasov).
195 - unbundled iom perl interface somewhat.
196 - scrollbar-xterm now uses the selected scrollColor instead of fg
197 (found by Aiviru).
198 - disabled linux kernel bug workaround again: disabling it gives
199 a 50% speed hit on affected machines, while enabling it gives
200 a similar speed hit to screen, which is likely the more common
201 case to work around for :/
202 - urxvt::rend2mask perl function, and utilization of it by matcher
203 (patch by Moshe Kamensky).
204 - use perl:matcher on a keysym to open most recently displayed URL.
205 - with matcher, when multiple patterns match, last wins, not first.
206 - fix make and make install with srcdir != builddir (exg).
207 - updated bundled libptytty to fix a bug where the tty would be kept
208 open (see the libptytty ChangeLog for details).
209 - delay setting the IUTF8 flag to after the tty settings have been
210 set so its value does not get lost (reported and analysed by Andrei
211 Paskevich).
212 - rip out support for obsolete sgtty.h interface.
213 - rip out support for non-POSIX termios variants.
214 - update libptytty.
215 - update iom.C, make it call ptytty::sanitise_stdfd on init.
216 - when !XFT, change rounding of colours to use a less correct formula to
217 meet user expectancies (#aaa becomes #a000a000a000 not #9f9f9f9f9f9f).
218 - change the starting offset of the pixmap set with backgroundPixmap
219 from (50,50) to (0,0) (exg).
220 - fix a typo in button_release, now meta-button2 request the value of
221 the Clipboard selection as it should (patch by Serge Koksharov).
222 - fix a bug in drawing a cell with a nonspacing char when using an xft
223 font with inheritPixmap and tintColor (exg).
224
225 8.1 Thu Dec 7 22:27:25 CET 2006
226 - ケリスマスプレゼント - zomg!!1, it's too early!!!
227 - fix the assumption that chars < 256 are single-width. Now
228 only assume this for codepoints 32 to 126 (reported by Dai.H.).
229 - $term->strwidth returned wide chars as width 1, because some jerk
230 confused min and max. Fixing this also fixes xim-onthespot.
231 Reported by Takano Akio.
232 - secondaryScroll is now enabled by default (as per the manpage),
233 reported by exg.
234 - correct the description of [percent]color rgba format in the manpage.
235 - incorporated macosx-clipboard extension by Samuel Ljungkvist.
236 - ignore (some) useless focus events (reported by mmc).
237 - updated compose table to unicode 5.0.0.
238
239 8.0 Thu Nov 2 18:35:19 CET 2006
240 - combining characters cleared the area instead of creating an overlay,
241 thus losing the ability to draw combining characters properly in most
242 circumstances (reported by exg).
243 - specified fonts were incorrectly morphed to bold/italic according to the
244 basefont, even if explicitly specified (tracked down by tpope).
245 - fixed urxvt::strwidth to calculate width in the same way as screen.C.
246 - fix a crash caused by passing negative widths to overlay functions.
247 - added 'matcher' extension by tpope, replacing the mark-urls extension.
248 - improve url regex to match anything www.* (tpope).
249 - fixed bug with outline cursor color being wrong after xft fonts.
250 - update to libptytty-1.0.
251 - give proper diagnostic when RXVT_SOCKET is too long instead of
252 corrupting the stack (patch by exg).
253 - display current terminal locale in option menu.
254 - urxvtd no longer crashes when the client sends an inaccessible
255 working directory (reported by Roland Baer, possibly fixes gentoo
256 bug #143985).
257 - fixed many minor issues reported by Roland Baer.
258 - Leonid Khramov spotted a minor glitch in rxvtfont.C that
259 should not have any consequences, but was buggy nonetheless.
260 - manpage fix by exg.
261
262 7.9 Mon Aug 7 18:16:07 CEST 2006
263 - fix the crashing bug people encountered with 7.8 + urxvtd + perl
264 + transparency. Ought to fix debian bug #380348.
265 - fix urxvtc.1.pod: it actually claimed -pty-fd would not work. But
266 it does! :->
267 - rxvt_fatal() in case the locale string is too long for our static buffer.
268 - fixed many, many, typos in the manpages (patch supplied by ves).
269
270 7.8 Mon Jul 17 21:00:46 CEST 2006
271 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: this version will always read ~/.Xdefaults,
272 earlier versions only read it if display-resources (usually from
273 .Xresources) are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my
274 resource used") and seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults
275 resources have a lower priority than display-specific resources.
276 - add "kuake" perl extension that does a similar thing to the kuake
277 terminal emulator (see man urxtvperl).
278 - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and
279 Xft (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds).
280 - the "depth" resource is now respected.
281 - preset the searchable-scrollback pattern with "(?i)" to default search
282 to case-insensitivity. Will automatically be cleared when typing an
283 uppercase character.
284 - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h.
285 - re-enabled highlightcolor support with --enable-frills, based on
286 a patch by Martin Stubenschrott.
287 - double-buffered xft drawing did suffer from pixel offset issues
288 when pixmap transparency was enabled.
289 - strategically add # to the url-match regexes, as we really want to
290 match common URIs not common URLs. Reported by Aaron Griffin.
291 - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more
292 generic osc_seq.
293 - fix a bug causing double callback invocations when perl hooks
294 were invoked recursively.
295 - the automove-background extension now properly works when the
296 pixmap gets reset with an osc sequence (sqweek).
297 - selection-pastebin did not work properly with non-latin1-characters.
298 - apply colorUL only when the text colour is the default fg
299 (patch by Wu Fengguang).
300 - removed rxvtlib.h from the tarball, it had no reason to be there
301 (spotted by Decklin Foster).
302 - fix compiling with TRANSPARENT but !XPM_BACKGROUND, as reported
303 by omatunto_.
304 - slap in a using namespace std, might help on platforms that don't
305 follow C++ closely enough.
306 - fix mailto url regex, spotted within milliseconds by Jost Krieger.
307 - applied fade_color_update_func.patch by WU Fengguang.
308 - fix a bug where (due to an optimisation in av_delete), hiding the
309 bottom-most overlay would hide two overlays.
310
311 7.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
312 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
313 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
314 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
315 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
316 click, and eats the click.
317 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
318 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
319 refresh bugs please.
320 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
321 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
322 improve size hint setting.
323 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
324 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
325 to correctly position their preedit window.
326 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
327 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
328 in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
329 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
330 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
331 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
332 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
333 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
334 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
335 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
336 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
337 (reported by Paco-Paco).
338 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
339 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
340 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
341
342 7.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
343 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
344 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
345 resource value.
346 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
347 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
348 relevant tab window.
349 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
350 (initial patch by hednod).
351 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
352 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
353 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
354 the benefit of automove-background.
355 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
356 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
357 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
358 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
359 __linux__.
360 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
361 the colour components.
362 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
363 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
364 - more colour rtt optimisations.
365 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
366 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
367 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
368 - minor libptytty update.
369
370 7.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
371 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
372 detection:
373 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
374 - overlap detection was improved.
375 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
376 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
377 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
378 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
379 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
380 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
381 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
382 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
383 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
384 broken.
385 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
386 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
387 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
388 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
389 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
390 (patch by Paco-Paco).
391 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
392 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
393 an "[alpha]" prefix.
394 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
395 transparent. Long Live Xft!
396 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
397 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
398 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
399 on a pseudocolor screen.
400 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
401 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
402 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
403 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
404 - small configure updates.
405 - further RTT optimisations.
406 - backported clean-up patches for makefiles and documentation from
407 the debian package.
408 - updated doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file. It's still not maintained here,
409 but much newer than the old one.
410
411 7.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
412 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
413 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
414 - small configure updates for libptytty.
415 - fixed version options: line output.
416 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
417
418 7.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
419 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
420 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
421 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
422 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
423 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
424 selection extension.
425 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
426 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
427 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
428 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
429 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
430 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
431 needs the careful rendering mode.
432 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
433 too wide and needs careful mode.
434 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
435 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
436 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
437 atoms only once per display.
438 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
439 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
440 xterm.
441
442 7.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
443 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
444 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
445 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
446 ctrl-shift-672c).
447 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
448 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
449 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
450 the primary screen.
451 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
452 could lead to an assertion failure.
453 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
454 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
455 via mouse clicks.
456 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
457 with shift - mouse button 2.
458 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
459 in non-synthetic events.
460 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
461 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
462 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
463 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
464 whole urxvt[d] process.
465 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
466 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
467 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
468 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
469
470 7.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
471 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
472 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
473 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
474 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
475 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
476 special privileges.
477 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
478 itself.
479 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
480 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
481 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
482 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
483 similar stuff.
484 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
485 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
486 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
487 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
488 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
489 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
490 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
491 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
492 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
493 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
494 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
495 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
496 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
497 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
498 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
499 to set the window title.
500 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
501 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
502 at the wrong time.
503 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
504 anymore.
505 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
506 - nuked QNX support.
507 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
508 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
509 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
510 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
511
512 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
513 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
514 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
515 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
516 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
517 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
518 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
519 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
520 and much much more.
521 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
522 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
523 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
524 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
525 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
526 setuid/setgid.
527 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
528 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
529 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
530 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
531 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
532 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
533 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
534 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
535 compatible, and not really small either.
536 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
537 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
538 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
539 to crashes.
540 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
541 colours.
542 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
543 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
544
545 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
546 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
547 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
548 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
549 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
550 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
551 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
552 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
553 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
554 by Mikachu).
555 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
556 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
557 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
558 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
559 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
560 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
561 - fix directory permissions on install.
562 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
563 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
564 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
565 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
566 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
567
568 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
569 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
570 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
571 Chuck Blake.
572 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
573 obscure the mouse cursor position.
574 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
575 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
576 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
577 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
578 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
579 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
580 transfer efficiency.
581 - further minor cleanups.
582
583 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
584 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
585 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
586 while the user still drags.
587 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
588 not drawn correctly.
589 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
590 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
591 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
592 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
593 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
594 stripping whitespace.
595 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
596 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
597
598 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
599 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
600 - enable slow link support by default.
601 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
602 (also a bug in original rxvt).
603 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
604 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
605 partial patch).
606 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
607 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
608 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
609 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
610 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
611 - implement -hold option.
612 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
613 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
614 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
615 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
616 - slight overall speed improvements.
617 - considerably improved code clarity.
618 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
619 buffer.
620
621 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
622 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
623 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
624 (matters only for rxvtd).
625 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
626 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
627 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
628
629 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
630 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
631 If you want the old behaviour, try:
632 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
633 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
634 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
635 percentage by 100-percentage.
636 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
637 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
638 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
639 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
640 windows.
641 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
642 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
643 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
644 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
645 - replaced INSTALL file.
646
647 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
648 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
649 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
650 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
651 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
652 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
653 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
654 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
655 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
656
657 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
658 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
659 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
660 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
661 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
662 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
663 Affects display in iso14755 box.
664 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
665 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
666 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
667 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
668 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
669 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
670 cutting pieces off of characters.
671 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
672 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
673 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
674 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
675 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
676 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
677 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
678
679 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
680 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
681 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
682 meaning of the given key.
683 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
684 (patch by Martin Edlman).
685
686 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
687 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
688 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
689 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
690 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
691 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
692 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
693 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
694 to disable it.
695
696 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
697 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
698 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
699 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
700 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
701 with modifiers.
702 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
703 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
704 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
705 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
706 and clear the scrollback buffer.
707
708 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
709 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
710 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
711 a command.
712 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
713 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
714 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
715 in Perl/Gtk2.
716 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
717 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
718 (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
719 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
720 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
721 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
722 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
723 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
724 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
725 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
726 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
727 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
728 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
729 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
730 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
731 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
732 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
733 rxvt-unicode).
734 - get rid of the intpro files.
735
736 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
737 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
738 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
739 (Kuang-che Wu).
740 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
741 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
742 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
743 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
744 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
745 along with other, similar, cleanups.
746 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
747 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
748 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
749 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
750 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
751 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
752
753 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
754 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
755 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
756 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
757 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
758 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
759 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
760 his patience and time in tracking this down).
761 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
762 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
763 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
764 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
765 by Joël Riou).
766 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
767 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
768 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
769 - shaved off some code segment size.
770 - various code cleanups.
771 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
772
773 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
774 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
775 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
776 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
777 -pixmap is active.
778 - new option/resource imFont.
779 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
780 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
781 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
782 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
783 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
784 (WU Fengguang).
785 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
786 examples (rxvt.1).
787 - removed src/test completely.
788 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
789
790 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
791 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
792 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
793 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
794 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
795 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
796 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
797 resulting in segfaults.
798 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
799 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
800 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
801 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
802 (Mikael Magnusson).
803 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
804 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
805 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
806 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
807 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
808 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
809 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
810 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
811 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
812 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
813 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
814 - initialize the locale much earlier.
815 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
816
817 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
818 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
819 black on initial startup.
820 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
821 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
822 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
823 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
824 additional multimedia keys.
825 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
826 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
827
828 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
829 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
830 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
831 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
832 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
833 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
834 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
835 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
836 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
837 ignored.
838 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
839 instead.
840 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
841 (reported by hednod).
842 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
843 - fix atom name enumeration.
844
845 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
846 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
847 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
848 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
849 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
850 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
851
852 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
853 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
854 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
855 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
856 titles etc.
857 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
858 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
859 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
860 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
861 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
862 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
863 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
864 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
865 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
866 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
867 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
868 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
869 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
870 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
871
872 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
873 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
874 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
875 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
876 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
877 thoroughly.
878 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
879 now, too.
880
881 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
882 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
883 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
884 on high-latency networks.
885 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
886 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
887 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
888 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
889 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
890 by Gunnar Ritter.
891 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
892 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
893
894 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
895 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
896 -ssc/-ssr settings.
897 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
898 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
899 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
900 - add compile fix for darwin.
901 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
902 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
903 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
904
905 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
906 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
907 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
908 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
909 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
910 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
911 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
912 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
913 ... terminated by a fix.
914 - new supported preeeditType "None".
915 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
916 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
917 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
918 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
919 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
920 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
921 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
922 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
923 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
924 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
925 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
926 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
927 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
928 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
929 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
930 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
931 in tracking this down.
932 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
933 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
934
935 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
936 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
937 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
938
939 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
940 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
941 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
942 installed if tic is available.
943 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
944 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
945 - removed README.unicode.
946 - support select&paste of tab characters.
947 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
948 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
949 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
950 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
951 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
952 screen updates with curses.
953 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
954 by spaces.
955 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
956 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
957 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
958 is just too slow for this to work.
959 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
960 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
961 implement. use --enable-styles.
962 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
963 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
964 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
965 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
966 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
967 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
968 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
969 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
970 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
971 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
972 (only for non-bold right now).
973 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
974 - better default font size and style.
975 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
976 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
977 single character against the base font extents and will only
978 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
979 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
980 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
981 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
982 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
983 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
984 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
985 screen height.
986 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
987 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
988 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
989 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
990 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
991 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
992 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
993 - removed OSC 702.
994 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
995 confused by it rather than using it.
996
997 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
998 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
999 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
1000 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
1001 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
1002 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
1003 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
1004 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
1005 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
1006 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
1007 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
1008 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
1009 close).
1010 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
1011 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
1012 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
1013 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
1014 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
1015 could not be created.
1016 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
1017 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
1018 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
1019 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
1020 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
1021 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
1022 works.
1023 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
1024 - document more escape sequences.
1025 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
1026 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
1027 character is a sensible operation.
1028 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
1029 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
1030 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
1031 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
1032 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
1033 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
1034 with selections).
1035
1036 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
1037 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
1038 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
1039 needs access to a local shell window).
1040 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
1041 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
1042 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
1043 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
1044 a little window or so) would be welcome.
1045 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
1046 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
1047 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
1048 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
1049 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
1050 added there.
1051 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
1052 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
1053 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
1054 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
1055 instead of being ignored.
1056 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
1057 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
1058 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
1059 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
1060 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
1061 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
1062 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
1063 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
1064 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
1065 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
1066 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
1067 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
1068 needs testing anyways.
1069 - more complete compile options help output.
1070 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
1071 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
1072 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
1073 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
1074 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
1075 - minor doc fix.
1076
1077 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
1078 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
1079 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
1080 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
1081 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
1082 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
1083 memmove :)
1084 - minor cleanups.
1085 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
1086 (debian bug #169415).
1087 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
1088 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
1089 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
1090 - updated config.guess.
1091
1092 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
1093 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
1094 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
1095 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
1096 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
1097 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
1098 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
1099 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
1100 speeding up scrolling immensely.
1101 - various other optimizations.
1102 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
1103
1104 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
1105 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
1106 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
1107 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
1108 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
1109 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
1110 Mikael Magnusson, based on aterm code).
1111 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
1112 Mikael Magnusson).
1113 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
1114 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
1115 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
1116
1117 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
1118 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
1119 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
1120 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
1121 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
1122 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
1123 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
1124 with ^V (SYN).
1125 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
1126
1127 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
1128 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
1129 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
1130 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
1131 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
1132 well as with other terminal emulators.
1133 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
1134 (reported by elmex).
1135 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
1136 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
1137 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
1138 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
1139 Bloch.
1140
1141 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
1142 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
1143 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
1144 sorry).
1145 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
1146 make it a little bit more correct c++).
1147
1148 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
1149 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
1150 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
1151 - minor i18n issue fixes.
1152
1153 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
1154 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
1155 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
1156 - fix some minor bugs.
1157
1158 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
1159 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
1160 for the keymappings.
1161 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
1162 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
1163 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
1164 an extension and is slightly ugly.
1165 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
1166 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
1167 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
1168 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
1169 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
1170 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
1171 overwritten (as is common).
1172 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
1173 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
1174
1175 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
1176 - minor doc corrections.
1177 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
1178 avoid clashes with xterm.
1179 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
1180 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
1181 window colour when arg is "?".
1182 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
1183 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
1184 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
1185 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
1186 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
1187 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
1188 (FRILLS).
1189 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
1190 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
1191 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
1192 - set _NET_WM_PID.
1193
1194 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
1195 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
1196 - support more 8-bit controls.
1197 - more informative error messages.
1198 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
1199 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
1200 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
1201 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
1202 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
1203
1204 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
1205 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
1206 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
1207 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
1208 - removed old selection style completely.
1209 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
1210 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
1211 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
1212 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
1213 be used from within rxvt.
1214 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
1215
1216 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
1217 - code cleanup release.
1218 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
1219 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
1220 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
1221 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
1222 all files.
1223 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
1224 --enable-xgetdefaults.
1225
1226 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
1227 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
1228 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
1229 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
1230 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
1231 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
1232 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
1233 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
1234 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
1235 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
1236 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
1237 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
1238 --disable-xgetdefault.
1239 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
1240 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
1241 unicode character.
1242 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
1243 get it wrong.
1244 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
1245
1246 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
1247 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
1248 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
1249 settings.
1250 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
1251 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
1252 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
1253 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
1254 mbrtowc.
1255 - more robust encoding name matching.
1256 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
1257 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
1258 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
1259 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
1260 resources and docs.
1261 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
1262
1263 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
1264 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
1265 - some doc cleanup
1266 - configure cleanup
1267 - viscii enabled by default
1268 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
1269
1270 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
1271 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
1272
1273 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
1274 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
1275 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
1276 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
1277 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
1278 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
1279 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
1280 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
1281 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
1282 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
1283 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
1284 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
1285 reported by joel reed.
1286 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
1287 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
1288 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
1289 being selected.
1290 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
1291 - removed greek support.
1292 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
1293 - correct cursor width if !focus.
1294 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
1295 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
1296 contributed.
1297 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
1298 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
1299 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
1300 - many other minor bugfixes.
1301
1302 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
1303 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
1304 new bugs, this should not change much.
1305 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
1306 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
1307 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
1308 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
1309 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
1310 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
1311 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
1312
1313 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
1314 - further cleanups.
1315 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
1316 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
1317 use reverse video, not _blink_.
1318 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
1319 please drop me a note.
1320
1321 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
1322 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
1323 - blinking text.
1324 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
1325 normal text when colorBD is not set.
1326 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
1327 was never implemented
1328
1329 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
1330 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
1331 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
1332 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
1333 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
1334 reported by fefe
1335 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
1336 Markus Demleitner
1337 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
1338 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
1339 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
1340
1341 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
1342 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
1343 - small font tunings
1344 - much better io manager, fewer bugs, higher speed
1345 - better error reporting for unknown options
1346
1347 1.3 2003-12-26
1348 - fix a bug in font height selection
1349 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
1350 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
1351 - much faster x11 font selection
1352
1353 1.2 2003-12-24
1354 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
1355 - better font matching
1356 - better memory management (less memory)
1357 - new fallback: gnu freefont
1358
1359 1.1 2003-12-18
1360 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
1361 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
1362 - much improved font choosing
1363
1364 1.0 2003-12-18
1365 - first release
1366 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
1367 - removed rclock et al.
1368 - initial conversion to C++
1369