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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: cursor over overlays, when focus change?
27 - the aterm code now frees the as visual and image manager objects
28 when a window was closed.
29 - do not (wrongly) adjust the virtual line length inside
30 scr_insdel_chars/ERASE (Miroslav Lichvar).
31 - fix an issue where wide tab characters caused character shifts
32 when part of them was deleted (tracked down by Miroslav Lichvar).
33 - artificially enlargen the previous character at the end of a line
34 when trying to output a character that doesn't fit. looks ugly, but
35 makes copy&paste work.
36 - remove bogus "setuid/setgid security issues" from rxvt.1.pod, they
37 no longer apply.
38 - the urgency hint is now cleared on both focus in and focus out.
39 - cache urgency hint locally to avoid server rtt on every focus change.
40 - perl 5.10 needs PERL_SYS_INIT3 on hppa.
41 - ignore byte-order marks and do not treat them like combining characters.
42 - fix build issue when CURSOR_BLINK is not defined (Emanuele Giaquinta).
43 - do some µ-optimisations to the character fast path.
44 - use a less cunning, but more robust algorithm to avoid one terminal
45 monopolising the whole process by outputting a lot of text.
46 - try to work around linux first breaking sched_yield and now breaking
47 the only known workaround.
48 - new option -icon to set _NET_WM_ICON (based on patch by Frank Schmitt).
49 - intiialise the as visual only on demand, instead of unconditionally.
50
51 9.05 Sun Jun 15 20:09:20 CEST 2008
52 - new option --cd/chdir to set the starting working directory.
53 - tabbed extension now starts in the "correct" working directory.
54 - work around fedora 9 providing isastream but not the relevant
55 header file for it (report by Tuncer Ayaz).
56 - upgrade libev, fixing a bug in the select backend
57 with more than 31 file descriptors on non-linux 64 bit systems.
58 - correctly reset the multibyte state to the initial one
59 after EILSEQ (patch by Neil Booth). This fixes the
60 issue of rxvt-unicode not properly displaying text after an illegal
61 sequence on NetBSD and probably other systems.
62 - more intelligent property handling with -pe tabbed, works around
63 broken window managers (kwm et al.), saves bandwidth and should
64 help working window managers as well.
65 - made tabs moveable (based on a patch by Petr Machata).
66 - implement ESC [ 3 K as a more rational alternative to ESC [ 0 K.
67 - support relative paths for RXVT_SOCKET in urxvtd.
68 - the tabbed extension now blindly copies over all (rxvt-) resources
69 from the toplevel window to the children.
70 - better diagnostic on 0x0 window geometries.
71 - update AnyEvent API to version 3.4 and above.
72 - document the default value of :0 for DISPLAY.
73 - rename perl method XChangeWindowProperty to XChangeProperty.
74
75 9.02 Tue Jan 29 11:58:36 CET 2008
76 - the "exg makes everybody happy" release.
77 - fix build with !xft.
78 - always compile in plain style scrollbar (simplifies code and looks great).
79
80 9.01 Sat Jan 26 20:49:27 CET 2008
81 - be more aggressive about handling X events, this seems to be required
82 with newer xlibs (should fix the "screen stays black until event is
83 received" problem, again :)
84 - add buffered resource to control xft double-buffering.
85
86 9.0 Fri Jan 25 19:34:04 CET 2008
87 - fix a crash bug where urxvtd would crash when urxvtc was called
88 with wrong arguments (I wish debian maintainers in general would
89 report bugs and their proposed fixes to the original package maintaienrs
90 instead of sitting on them for good measure to see if anybody notices).
91 - drawing xft compose characters was causing garbage to be drawn.
92 - correctly clear xft character background in all cases.
93 - implement bracketed paste mode (xterm private mode 2004).
94 - improve documentation on alpha channel handling, make urxvt
95 work better on servers lacking the RENDER extension when alpha
96 channels or background images are used.
97 - check for refresh after initialising to avoid staying blank
98 till the first event arrives. or so.
99 - the FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT feature macro works again.
100 - continuously update transparency while moving/resizing now.
101 - OSC 39/49 are deprecated and aliased to OSC 10/11.
102 - cub1 now acts as advertised (and ignores the "wrapped" state).
103 - the 132/80 mode switch now forces a height of 24, too, and
104 resets the terminal.
105 - scrollbar code cleanups.
106 - stopping children is no longer confused with children exiting.
107 - removed (undocumented) #aarrggbb format.
108 - updated to libev 3.0.
109
110 8.9 Mon Dec 24 07:51:40 CET 2007
111 - fix the issue where urxvtd would not immediately close a window
112 when the command exited but only on the next X event.
113 - changed terminfo file not to use application keypad mode.
114 - fix the issue where making a selection in one urxvtd window
115 would not clear it visually in another.
116 - fix an issue of urxvt not getting background pixmap updates
117 and flickering after bg pixmap changes (reported by Mikachu).
118 - fix redraw bug in xterm scrollbar with -sr (reported by Mikachu).
119 - correctly provide dependencies for libev (µikachu).
120 - minor code reorganisations and cleanups.
121 - be more robust in case the urxvt-popup extension cannot be loaded.
122
123 8.8 Sat Dec 15 19:40:39 CET 2007
124 - option -C was aliased to all unsupported options, activating
125 options that shouldn't be compiled in, leading to interesting
126 effects.
127 - updated libev, working around a bug in linux 2.4, curing the
128 symptom of urxvt not closing its window on shell exit. also
129 fixes a problem with urxvt not refreshing.
130 - the text blink callback was called even when no blinking
131 text was visible.
132 - pre-8.4 slipwheeling behaviour has been reinstated, with
133 some minor improvements.
134 - streamlined x events processing to only flush once per
135 display and not once per terminal window.
136 - quite a bit of minor code cleanups and codesize optimisations.
137
138 8.7 Sun Nov 25 10:23:49 CET 2007
139 - update libev with an important bugfix that would cause crashes
140 when closing windows (when using rxvtd, and update is recommended).
141 - do not compile in the block builtin graphics with --disable-frills.
142
143 8.6 Fri Nov 23 14:10:57 CET 2007
144 - upgrade libev to disable kqueue on anything but netbsd as it
145 seems to be broken everywhere else w.r.t. ptys.
146 - allow for spurious event notifications, as at least epoll and
147 especially solaris ports like to lie about them (symptoms:
148 urxvt "hangs" until there is some x11 related activity).
149 - -keysym command line options are now subjected to xlib parsing.
150 - add 'xrm' option analogous to Xt one.
151
152 8.5a Wed Nov 21 10:16:33 CET 2007
153 - make it compile with --disable-transparency.
154
155 8.5 Wed Nov 21 05:19:20 CET 2007
156 - expect major portability issues in this release: please test and report.
157 - converted from the veritable io manager event loop to
158 the high performance libev (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
159 - minor tuning to the perl selection (include single words and more quoting chars).
160 - fix memory leak in pixmap code.
161 - fix a serious bug while setting the XIM destroy callback
162 on (typical) 64 bit systems.
163 - automove-background functionality re-implemented internaly using :root op in pixmap
164 geometry string. For example: rxvt -pixmap "image.jpg;:root"
165 - do not link rxvtc against every lib on the planet anymore.
166 - parallel builds should work once more.
167
168 8.4 Sat Oct 27 14:02:13 CEST 2007
169 - overhaul of the transparency/pixmap code (sasha).
170 - fix possible race betwen visual bell and poweron.
171 (reported by Martin von Gagern, gentoo?).
172 - urxvt -e no longer crashes the child.
173 - fixed some minor memleaks on incorrect usage or
174 missing DISPLAY.
175 - implement xterm 1002/1003 mouse tracking modes (exg).
176 - source code organisational cleanups (exg).
177 - updated io_manager.
178
179 8.3 Wed Aug 1 20:21:31 CEST 2007
180 - new option: skipScroll/-ss, enabled by default.
181 - go with the times and expect x11 library files in /usr/lib, not
182 /usr/X11R6/lib.
183 - initial transparency improvement/afterimage support
184 patch by Sasha Vasko.
185 - add urgentOnBell resource to set the urgency hint
186 (patch by Philip Paeps).
187 - do not process focus events caused by grabs
188 (patch by Mikachu).
189 - add iso14755_52 resource to disable iso14755 5.2 (exg).
190 - add binding for backspace in iso14755 5.1 to remove the last
191 digit (exg).
192 - better option handling, support more than 30 options (exg).
193 - nuke reconf script, serves no purpose anymore.
194 - fixed and documented matcher/on_user_command processing in matcher
195 extension (tpope).
196 - compile out of the box on Solaris 10 (exg).
197 - fix MappingNotify events (reported by Stephan Walter).
198 - zero-initialise mwmhints, this seems to solve all sorts of minor
199 problems.
200
201 8.2 Sat Feb 17 21:35:28 CET 2007
202 - fix make depend in src/, reported by exg.
203 - fixed typo in urxvt::GET_CUSTOM, causing the result to be wrong.
204 (patch by Sergey Vlasov).
205 - unbundled iom perl interface somewhat.
206 - scrollbar-xterm now uses the selected scrollColor instead of fg
207 (found by Aiviru).
208 - disabled linux kernel bug workaround again: disabling it gives
209 a 50% speed hit on affected machines, while enabling it gives
210 a similar speed hit to screen, which is likely the more common
211 case to work around for :/
212 - urxvt::rend2mask perl function, and utilization of it by matcher
213 (patch by Moshe Kamensky).
214 - use perl:matcher on a keysym to open most recently displayed URL.
215 - with matcher, when multiple patterns match, last wins, not first.
216 - fix make and make install with srcdir != builddir (exg).
217 - updated bundled libptytty to fix a bug where the tty would be kept
218 open (see the libptytty ChangeLog for details).
219 - delay setting the IUTF8 flag to after the tty settings have been
220 set so its value does not get lost (reported and analysed by Andrei
221 Paskevich).
222 - rip out support for obsolete sgtty.h interface.
223 - rip out support for non-POSIX termios variants.
224 - update libptytty.
225 - update iom.C, make it call ptytty::sanitise_stdfd on init.
226 - when !XFT, change rounding of colours to use a less correct formula to
227 meet user expectancies (#aaa becomes #a000a000a000 not #9f9f9f9f9f9f).
228 - change the starting offset of the pixmap set with backgroundPixmap
229 from (50,50) to (0,0) (exg).
230 - fix a typo in button_release, now meta-button2 request the value of
231 the Clipboard selection as it should (patch by Serge Koksharov).
232 - fix a bug in drawing a cell with a nonspacing char when using an xft
233 font with inheritPixmap and tintColor (exg).
234
235 8.1 Thu Dec 7 22:27:25 CET 2006
236 - ケリスマスプレゼント - zomg!!1, it's too early!!!
237 - fix the assumption that chars < 256 are single-width. Now
238 only assume this for codepoints 32 to 126 (reported by Dai.H.).
239 - $term->strwidth returned wide chars as width 1, because some jerk
240 confused min and max. Fixing this also fixes xim-onthespot.
241 Reported by Takano Akio.
242 - secondaryScroll is now enabled by default (as per the manpage),
243 reported by exg.
244 - correct the description of [percent]color rgba format in the manpage.
245 - incorporated macosx-clipboard extension by Samuel Ljungkvist.
246 - ignore (some) useless focus events (reported by mmc).
247 - updated compose table to unicode 5.0.0.
248
249 8.0 Thu Nov 2 18:35:19 CET 2006
250 - combining characters cleared the area instead of creating an overlay,
251 thus losing the ability to draw combining characters properly in most
252 circumstances (reported by exg).
253 - specified fonts were incorrectly morphed to bold/italic according to the
254 basefont, even if explicitly specified (tracked down by tpope).
255 - fixed urxvt::strwidth to calculate width in the same way as screen.C.
256 - fix a crash caused by passing negative widths to overlay functions.
257 - added 'matcher' extension by tpope, replacing the mark-urls extension.
258 - improve url regex to match anything www.* (tpope).
259 - fixed bug with outline cursor color being wrong after xft fonts.
260 - update to libptytty-1.0.
261 - give proper diagnostic when RXVT_SOCKET is too long instead of
262 corrupting the stack (patch by exg).
263 - display current terminal locale in option menu.
264 - urxvtd no longer crashes when the client sends an inaccessible
265 working directory (reported by Roland Baer, possibly fixes gentoo
266 bug #143985).
267 - fixed many minor issues reported by Roland Baer.
268 - Leonid Khramov spotted a minor glitch in rxvtfont.C that
269 should not have any consequences, but was buggy nonetheless.
270 - manpage fix by exg.
271
272 7.9 Mon Aug 7 18:16:07 CEST 2006
273 - fix the crashing bug people encountered with 7.8 + urxvtd + perl
274 + transparency. Ought to fix debian bug #380348.
275 - fix urxvtc.1.pod: it actually claimed -pty-fd would not work. But
276 it does! :->
277 - rxvt_fatal() in case the locale string is too long for our static buffer.
278 - fixed many, many, typos in the manpages (patch supplied by ves).
279
280 7.8 Mon Jul 17 21:00:46 CEST 2006
281 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: this version will always read ~/.Xdefaults,
282 earlier versions only read it if display-resources (usually from
283 .Xresources) are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my
284 resource used") and seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults
285 resources have a lower priority than display-specific resources.
286 - add "kuake" perl extension that does a similar thing to the kuake
287 terminal emulator (see man urxtvperl).
288 - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and
289 Xft (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds).
290 - the "depth" resource is now respected.
291 - preset the searchable-scrollback pattern with "(?i)" to default search
292 to case-insensitivity. Will automatically be cleared when typing an
293 uppercase character.
294 - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h.
295 - re-enabled highlightcolor support with --enable-frills, based on
296 a patch by Martin Stubenschrott.
297 - double-buffered xft drawing did suffer from pixel offset issues
298 when pixmap transparency was enabled.
299 - strategically add # to the url-match regexes, as we really want to
300 match common URIs not common URLs. Reported by Aaron Griffin.
301 - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more
302 generic osc_seq.
303 - fix a bug causing double callback invocations when perl hooks
304 were invoked recursively.
305 - the automove-background extension now properly works when the
306 pixmap gets reset with an osc sequence (sqweek).
307 - selection-pastebin did not work properly with non-latin1-characters.
308 - apply colorUL only when the text colour is the default fg
309 (patch by Wu Fengguang).
310 - removed rxvtlib.h from the tarball, it had no reason to be there
311 (spotted by Decklin Foster).
312 - fix compiling with TRANSPARENT but !XPM_BACKGROUND, as reported
313 by omatunto_.
314 - slap in a using namespace std, might help on platforms that don't
315 follow C++ closely enough.
316 - fix mailto url regex, spotted within milliseconds by Jost Krieger.
317 - applied fade_color_update_func.patch by WU Fengguang.
318 - fix a bug where (due to an optimisation in av_delete), hiding the
319 bottom-most overlay would hide two overlays.
320
321 7.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
322 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
323 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
324 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
325 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
326 click, and eats the click.
327 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
328 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
329 refresh bugs please.
330 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
331 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
332 improve size hint setting.
333 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
334 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
335 to correctly position their preedit window.
336 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
337 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
338 in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
339 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
340 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
341 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
342 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
343 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
344 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
345 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
346 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
347 (reported by Paco-Paco).
348 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
349 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
350 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
351
352 7.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
353 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
354 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
355 resource value.
356 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
357 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
358 relevant tab window.
359 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
360 (initial patch by hednod).
361 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
362 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
363 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
364 the benefit of automove-background.
365 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
366 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
367 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
368 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
369 __linux__.
370 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
371 the colour components.
372 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
373 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
374 - more colour rtt optimisations.
375 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
376 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
377 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
378 - minor libptytty update.
379
380 7.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
381 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
382 detection:
383 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
384 - overlap detection was improved.
385 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
386 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
387 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
388 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
389 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
390 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
391 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
392 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
393 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
394 broken.
395 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
396 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
397 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
398 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
399 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
400 (patch by Paco-Paco).
401 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
402 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
403 an "[alpha]" prefix.
404 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
405 transparent. Long Live Xft!
406 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
407 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
408 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
409 on a pseudocolor screen.
410 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
411 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
412 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
413 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
414 - small configure updates.
415 - further RTT optimisations.
416 - backported clean-up patches for makefiles and documentation from
417 the debian package.
418 - updated doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file. It's still not maintained here,
419 but much newer than the old one.
420
421 7.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
422 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
423 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
424 - small configure updates for libptytty.
425 - fixed version options: line output.
426 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
427
428 7.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
429 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
430 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
431 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
432 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
433 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
434 selection extension.
435 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
436 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
437 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
438 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
439 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
440 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
441 needs the careful rendering mode.
442 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
443 too wide and needs careful mode.
444 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
445 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
446 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
447 atoms only once per display.
448 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
449 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
450 xterm.
451
452 7.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
453 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
454 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
455 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
456 ctrl-shift-672c).
457 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
458 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
459 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
460 the primary screen.
461 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
462 could lead to an assertion failure.
463 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
464 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
465 via mouse clicks.
466 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
467 with shift - mouse button 2.
468 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
469 in non-synthetic events.
470 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
471 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
472 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
473 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
474 whole urxvt[d] process.
475 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
476 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
477 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
478 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
479
480 7.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
481 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
482 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
483 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
484 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
485 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
486 special privileges.
487 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
488 itself.
489 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
490 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
491 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
492 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
493 similar stuff.
494 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
495 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
496 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
497 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
498 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
499 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
500 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
501 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
502 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
503 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
504 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
505 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
506 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
507 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
508 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
509 to set the window title.
510 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
511 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
512 at the wrong time.
513 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
514 anymore.
515 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
516 - nuked QNX support.
517 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
518 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
519 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
520 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
521
522 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
523 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
524 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
525 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
526 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
527 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
528 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
529 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
530 and much much more.
531 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
532 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
533 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
534 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
535 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
536 setuid/setgid.
537 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
538 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
539 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
540 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
541 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
542 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
543 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
544 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
545 compatible, and not really small either.
546 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
547 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
548 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
549 to crashes.
550 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
551 colours.
552 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
553 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
554
555 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
556 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
557 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
558 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
559 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
560 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
561 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
562 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
563 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
564 by Mikachu).
565 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
566 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
567 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
568 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
569 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
570 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
571 - fix directory permissions on install.
572 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
573 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
574 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
575 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
576 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
577
578 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
579 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
580 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
581 Chuck Blake.
582 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
583 obscure the mouse cursor position.
584 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
585 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
586 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
587 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
588 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
589 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
590 transfer efficiency.
591 - further minor cleanups.
592
593 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
594 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
595 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
596 while the user still drags.
597 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
598 not drawn correctly.
599 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
600 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
601 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
602 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
603 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
604 stripping whitespace.
605 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
606 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
607
608 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
609 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
610 - enable slow link support by default.
611 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
612 (also a bug in original rxvt).
613 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
614 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
615 partial patch).
616 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
617 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
618 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
619 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
620 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
621 - implement -hold option.
622 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
623 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
624 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
625 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
626 - slight overall speed improvements.
627 - considerably improved code clarity.
628 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
629 buffer.
630
631 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
632 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
633 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
634 (matters only for rxvtd).
635 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
636 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
637 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
638
639 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
640 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
641 If you want the old behaviour, try:
642 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
643 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
644 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
645 percentage by 100-percentage.
646 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
647 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
648 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
649 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
650 windows.
651 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
652 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
653 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
654 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
655 - replaced INSTALL file.
656
657 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
658 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
659 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
660 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
661 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
662 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
663 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
664 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
665 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
666
667 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
668 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
669 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
670 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
671 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
672 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
673 Affects display in iso14755 box.
674 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
675 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
676 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
677 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
678 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
679 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
680 cutting pieces off of characters.
681 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
682 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
683 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
684 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
685 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
686 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
687 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
688
689 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
690 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
691 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
692 meaning of the given key.
693 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
694 (patch by Martin Edlman).
695
696 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
697 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
698 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
699 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
700 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
701 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
702 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
703 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
704 to disable it.
705
706 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
707 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
708 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
709 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
710 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
711 with modifiers.
712 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
713 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
714 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
715 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
716 and clear the scrollback buffer.
717
718 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
719 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
720 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
721 a command.
722 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
723 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
724 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
725 in Perl/Gtk2.
726 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
727 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
728 (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
729 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
730 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
731 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
732 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
733 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
734 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
735 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
736 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
737 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
738 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
739 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
740 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
741 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
742 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
743 rxvt-unicode).
744 - get rid of the intpro files.
745
746 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
747 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
748 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
749 (Kuang-che Wu).
750 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
751 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
752 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
753 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
754 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
755 along with other, similar, cleanups.
756 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
757 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
758 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
759 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
760 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
761 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
762
763 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
764 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
765 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
766 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
767 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
768 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
769 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
770 his patience and time in tracking this down).
771 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
772 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
773 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
774 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
775 by Joël Riou).
776 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
777 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
778 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
779 - shaved off some code segment size.
780 - various code cleanups.
781 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
782
783 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
784 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
785 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
786 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
787 -pixmap is active.
788 - new option/resource imFont.
789 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
790 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
791 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
792 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
793 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
794 (WU Fengguang).
795 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
796 examples (rxvt.1).
797 - removed src/test completely.
798 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
799
800 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
801 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
802 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
803 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
804 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
805 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
806 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
807 resulting in segfaults.
808 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
809 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
810 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
811 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
812 (Mikael Magnusson).
813 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
814 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
815 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
816 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
817 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
818 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
819 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
820 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
821 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
822 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
823 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
824 - initialize the locale much earlier.
825 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
826
827 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
828 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
829 black on initial startup.
830 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
831 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
832 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
833 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
834 additional multimedia keys.
835 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
836 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
837
838 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
839 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
840 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
841 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
842 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
843 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
844 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
845 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
846 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
847 ignored.
848 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
849 instead.
850 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
851 (reported by hednod).
852 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
853 - fix atom name enumeration.
854
855 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
856 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
857 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
858 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
859 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
860 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
861
862 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
863 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
864 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
865 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
866 titles etc.
867 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
868 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
869 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
870 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
871 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
872 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
873 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
874 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
875 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
876 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
877 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
878 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
879 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
880 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
881
882 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
883 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
884 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
885 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
886 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
887 thoroughly.
888 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
889 now, too.
890
891 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
892 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
893 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
894 on high-latency networks.
895 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
896 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
897 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
898 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
899 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
900 by Gunnar Ritter.
901 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
902 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
903
904 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
905 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
906 -ssc/-ssr settings.
907 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
908 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
909 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
910 - add compile fix for darwin.
911 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
912 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
913 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
914
915 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
916 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
917 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
918 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
919 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
920 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
921 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
922 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
923 ... terminated by a fix.
924 - new supported preeeditType "None".
925 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
926 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
927 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
928 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
929 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
930 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
931 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
932 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
933 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
934 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
935 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
936 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
937 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
938 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
939 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
940 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
941 in tracking this down.
942 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
943 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
944
945 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
946 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
947 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
948
949 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
950 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
951 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
952 installed if tic is available.
953 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
954 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
955 - removed README.unicode.
956 - support select&paste of tab characters.
957 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
958 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
959 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
960 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
961 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
962 screen updates with curses.
963 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
964 by spaces.
965 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
966 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
967 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
968 is just too slow for this to work.
969 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
970 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
971 implement. use --enable-styles.
972 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
973 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
974 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
975 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
976 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
977 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
978 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
979 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
980 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
981 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
982 (only for non-bold right now).
983 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
984 - better default font size and style.
985 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
986 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
987 single character against the base font extents and will only
988 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
989 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
990 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
991 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
992 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
993 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
994 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
995 screen height.
996 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
997 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
998 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
999 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
1000 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
1001 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
1002 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
1003 - removed OSC 702.
1004 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
1005 confused by it rather than using it.
1006
1007 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
1008 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
1009 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
1010 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
1011 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
1012 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
1013 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
1014 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
1015 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
1016 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
1017 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
1018 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
1019 close).
1020 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
1021 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
1022 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
1023 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
1024 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
1025 could not be created.
1026 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
1027 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
1028 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
1029 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
1030 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
1031 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
1032 works.
1033 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
1034 - document more escape sequences.
1035 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
1036 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
1037 character is a sensible operation.
1038 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
1039 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
1040 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
1041 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
1042 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
1043 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
1044 with selections).
1045
1046 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
1047 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
1048 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
1049 needs access to a local shell window).
1050 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
1051 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
1052 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
1053 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
1054 a little window or so) would be welcome.
1055 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
1056 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
1057 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
1058 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
1059 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
1060 added there.
1061 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
1062 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
1063 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
1064 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
1065 instead of being ignored.
1066 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
1067 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
1068 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
1069 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
1070 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
1071 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
1072 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
1073 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
1074 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
1075 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
1076 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
1077 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
1078 needs testing anyways.
1079 - more complete compile options help output.
1080 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
1081 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
1082 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
1083 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
1084 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
1085 - minor doc fix.
1086
1087 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
1088 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
1089 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
1090 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
1091 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
1092 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
1093 memmove :)
1094 - minor cleanups.
1095 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
1096 (debian bug #169415).
1097 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
1098 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
1099 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
1100 - updated config.guess.
1101
1102 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
1103 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
1104 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
1105 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
1106 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
1107 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
1108 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
1109 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
1110 speeding up scrolling immensely.
1111 - various other optimizations.
1112 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
1113
1114 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
1115 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
1116 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
1117 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
1118 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
1119 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
1120 Mikael Magnusson, based on aterm code).
1121 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
1122 Mikael Magnusson).
1123 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
1124 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
1125 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
1126
1127 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
1128 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
1129 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
1130 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
1131 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
1132 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
1133 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
1134 with ^V (SYN).
1135 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
1136
1137 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
1138 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
1139 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
1140 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
1141 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
1142 well as with other terminal emulators.
1143 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
1144 (reported by elmex).
1145 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
1146 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
1147 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
1148 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
1149 Bloch.
1150
1151 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
1152 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
1153 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
1154 sorry).
1155 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
1156 make it a little bit more correct c++).
1157
1158 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
1159 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
1160 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
1161 - minor i18n issue fixes.
1162
1163 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
1164 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
1165 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
1166 - fix some minor bugs.
1167
1168 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
1169 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
1170 for the keymappings.
1171 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
1172 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
1173 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
1174 an extension and is slightly ugly.
1175 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
1176 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
1177 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
1178 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
1179 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
1180 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
1181 overwritten (as is common).
1182 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
1183 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
1184
1185 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
1186 - minor doc corrections.
1187 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
1188 avoid clashes with xterm.
1189 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
1190 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
1191 window colour when arg is "?".
1192 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
1193 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
1194 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
1195 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
1196 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
1197 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
1198 (FRILLS).
1199 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
1200 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
1201 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
1202 - set _NET_WM_PID.
1203
1204 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
1205 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
1206 - support more 8-bit controls.
1207 - more informative error messages.
1208 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
1209 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
1210 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
1211 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
1212 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
1213
1214 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
1215 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
1216 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
1217 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
1218 - removed old selection style completely.
1219 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
1220 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
1221 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
1222 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
1223 be used from within rxvt.
1224 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
1225
1226 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
1227 - code cleanup release.
1228 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
1229 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
1230 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
1231 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
1232 all files.
1233 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
1234 --enable-xgetdefaults.
1235
1236 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
1237 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
1238 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
1239 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
1240 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
1241 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
1242 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
1243 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
1244 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
1245 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
1246 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
1247 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
1248 --disable-xgetdefault.
1249 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
1250 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
1251 unicode character.
1252 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
1253 get it wrong.
1254 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
1255
1256 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
1257 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
1258 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
1259 settings.
1260 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
1261 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
1262 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
1263 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
1264 mbrtowc.
1265 - more robust encoding name matching.
1266 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
1267 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
1268 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
1269 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
1270 resources and docs.
1271 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
1272
1273 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
1274 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
1275 - some doc cleanup
1276 - configure cleanup
1277 - viscii enabled by default
1278 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
1279
1280 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
1281 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
1282
1283 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
1284 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
1285 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
1286 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
1287 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
1288 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
1289 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
1290 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
1291 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
1292 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
1293 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
1294 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
1295 reported by joel reed.
1296 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
1297 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
1298 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
1299 being selected.
1300 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
1301 - removed greek support.
1302 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
1303 - correct cursor width if !focus.
1304 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
1305 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
1306 contributed.
1307 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
1308 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
1309 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
1310 - many other minor bugfixes.
1311
1312 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
1313 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
1314 new bugs, this should not change much.
1315 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
1316 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
1317 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
1318 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
1319 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
1320 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
1321 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
1322
1323 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
1324 - further cleanups.
1325 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
1326 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
1327 use reverse video, not _blink_.
1328 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
1329 please drop me a note.
1330
1331 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
1332 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
1333 - blinking text.
1334 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
1335 normal text when colorBD is not set.
1336 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
1337 was never implemented
1338
1339 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
1340 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
1341 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
1342 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
1343 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
1344 reported by fefe
1345 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
1346 Markus Demleitner
1347 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
1348 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
1349 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
1350
1351 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
1352 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
1353 - small font tunings
1354 - much better io manager, fewer bugs, higher speed
1355 - better error reporting for unknown options
1356
1357 1.3 2003-12-26
1358 - fix a bug in font height selection
1359 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
1360 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
1361 - much faster x11 font selection
1362
1363 1.2 2003-12-24
1364 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
1365 - better font matching
1366 - better memory management (less memory)
1367 - new fallback: gnu freefont
1368
1369 1.1 2003-12-18
1370 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
1371 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
1372 - much improved font choosing
1373
1374 1.0 2003-12-18
1375 - first release
1376 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
1377 - removed rclock et al.
1378 - initial conversion to C++
1379