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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_user_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: `/etc/udev/rules.d/41-mythtv-permissions.rules'
23 TODO: exg-- patch
24 TODO: selection_beg/end should set screen, or so
25 TODO: - upgrade to libev-xx
26 TODO: -rv interacts badly with popups.
27 TODO: idle/interval timer implementation für anyevent
28 TODO: perl-shell-window?
29 TODO: restore signal mask when starting shells
30 TODO: zweimal numlock? falsche codes rxvt urxvt for numpad?
31 - port to glibc-2.10 changes (strchr etc. returning const char *
32 in C++), based on patches by Milos Jakubicek and Oliver Mader.
33 - the binary search algorithm to find precomposed characters
34 was faulty, skipping some possible combinations (found by
35 Mikachu).
36 - new -letterspace option, patch by Mark H. Wilkinson.
37 - enable --mlock option for urxvt with frills on
38 systems supporting it (patch by Russell Harmon).
39 - urxvt did not compile without frills enabled
40 (analysed by Matthew Rosewarne).
41 - correctly reset the mbstate after an illegal
42 input sequence when handling terminal output (Emanuele Giaquinta).
43 - avoid redrawing wide characters with combining enabled on every
44 refresh (reported by Mikachu).
45 - fix a typo preventing the ISO-646.1991 character set from being
46 recognized (http://achurch.org/patch-pile/).
47 - better warning for x11 font encoding detection failures, also,
48 try to deduce encoding from both font properties and name
49 (adapted from http://achurch.org/patch-pile/).
50 - resizing the window with the scrollbar disabled via the escapes
51 sequence could make the window bigger again (Mikachu).
52 - make sure the alignment for fd passing control messages
53 is correct and work around some NetBSD issues (Taylor R Campbell).
54 - update to libptytty 1.3.
55 - replace maxosc-pastebin by a nicer version by Reza Jelveh, and move
56 the old version to macosx-pastebin-native.
57 - document the -uc option (exg).
58 - assertions in libev are now enabled depending on frills.
59 - work around arrogant bsd idiocies again: netbsd spills the default
60 namespace with lots of symbols "for gnu/gcc compatibility" even
61 though neither of them does it, and then calls the rest of the world
62 in need of fixing. go figure.
63 - on_keyboard_command is on_user_command (patch by Michael Witten).
64
65 9.06 Sat Nov 8 17:47:18 CET 2008
66 - NOTICE: this release updates terminfo/termcap.
67 - updates libev to 3.48.
68 - the aterm code now frees the as visual and image manager objects
69 when a window was closed.
70 - do not (wrongly) adjust the virtual line length inside
71 scr_insdel_chars/ERASE (Miroslav Lichvar).
72 - fix an issue where wide tab characters caused character shifts
73 when part of them was deleted (tracked down by Miroslav Lichvar).
74 - artificially enlargen the previous character at the end of a line
75 when trying to output a character that doesn't fit. looks ugly, but
76 makes copy&paste work.
77 - remove bogus "setuid/setgid security issues" from rxvt.1.pod, they
78 no longer apply.
79 - the urgency hint is now cleared on both focus in and focus out.
80 - cache urgency hint locally to avoid server rtt on every focus change.
81 - perl 5.10 needs PERL_SYS_INIT3 on hppa.
82 - ignore byte-order marks and do not treat them like combining characters.
83 - fix build issue when CURSOR_BLINK is not defined (Emanuele Giaquinta).
84 - do some µ-optimisations to the character fast path.
85 - use a less cunning, but more robust algorithm to avoid one terminal
86 monopolising the whole process by outputting a lot of text.
87 - try to work around linux first breaking sched_yield and now breaking
88 the only known workaround.
89 - new option -icon to set _NET_WM_ICON (based on patch by Frank Schmitt).
90 - initialise the as visual only on demand, instead of unconditionally,
91 to save memory in the common case of not using visual gimmicks.
92 - try to work around bugs in a few wm's that errornously resize
93 client windows on hint property updates by temporarily
94 disabling size hints.
95 - implement the DECSTR soft reset sequence and use it for tput init,
96 and make hard RIS and DECSTR both reset more private modes, such
97 as mouse reporting.
98 - redundantly clear mouse reporting and a few other states in
99 tput init/tput reset, for older urxvts.
100 - partial/full clear screens did cause flickering and possibly pixel
101 droppings when urxvt viewed the scrollback buffer.
102 - use current rendition style in DCH sequence.
103 - the 132/80 mode switch no longer forces a screen reset.
104 - add an osc sequence to change the border colour (Emanuele Giaquinta).
105 - new perl extension "overlay-osc", for status displays and the like.
106 - fix some minor cursor drawing issues with overlays by allowing
107 overlays to modify screen flags (to disable the cursor themselves).
108 - work around programs not restoring rstyle before rmcup
109 (analysed by Miroslav Lichvar).
110
111 9.05 Sun Jun 15 20:09:20 CEST 2008
112 - new option --cd/chdir to set the starting working directory.
113 - tabbed extension now starts in the "correct" working directory.
114 - work around fedora 9 providing isastream but not the relevant
115 header file for it (report by Tuncer Ayaz).
116 - upgrade libev, fixing a bug in the select backend
117 with more than 31 file descriptors on non-linux 64 bit systems.
118 - correctly reset the multibyte state to the initial one
119 after EILSEQ (patch by Neil Booth). This fixes the
120 issue of rxvt-unicode not properly displaying text after an illegal
121 sequence on NetBSD and probably other systems.
122 - more intelligent property handling with -pe tabbed, works around
123 broken window managers (kwm et al.), saves bandwidth and should
124 help working window managers as well.
125 - made tabs moveable (based on a patch by Petr Machata).
126 - implement ESC [ 3 K as a more rational alternative to ESC [ 0 K.
127 - support relative paths for RXVT_SOCKET in urxvtd.
128 - the tabbed extension now blindly copies over all (rxvt-) resources
129 from the toplevel window to the children.
130 - better diagnostic on 0x0 window geometries.
131 - update AnyEvent API to version 3.4 and above.
132 - document the default value of :0 for DISPLAY.
133 - rename perl method XChangeWindowProperty to XChangeProperty.
134
135 9.02 Tue Jan 29 11:58:36 CET 2008
136 - the "exg makes everybody happy" release.
137 - fix build with !xft.
138 - always compile in plain style scrollbar (simplifies code and looks great).
139
140 9.01 Sat Jan 26 20:49:27 CET 2008
141 - be more aggressive about handling X events, this seems to be required
142 with newer xlibs (should fix the "screen stays black until event is
143 received" problem, again :)
144 - add buffered resource to control xft double-buffering.
145
146 9.0 Fri Jan 25 19:34:04 CET 2008
147 - fix a crash bug where urxvtd would crash when urxvtc was called
148 with wrong arguments (I wish debian maintainers in general would
149 report bugs and their proposed fixes to the original package maintainers
150 instead of sitting on them for good measure to see if anybody notices).
151 - drawing xft compose characters was causing garbage to be drawn.
152 - correctly clear xft character background in all cases.
153 - implement bracketed paste mode (xterm private mode 2004).
154 - improve documentation on alpha channel handling, make urxvt
155 work better on servers lacking the RENDER extension when alpha
156 channels or background images are used.
157 - check for refresh after initialising to avoid staying blank
158 till the first event arrives. or so.
159 - the FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT feature macro works again.
160 - continuously update transparency while moving/resizing now.
161 - OSC 39/49 are deprecated and aliased to OSC 10/11.
162 - cub1 now acts as advertised (and ignores the "wrapped" state).
163 - the 132/80 mode switch now forces a height of 24, too, and
164 resets the terminal.
165 - scrollbar code cleanups.
166 - stopping children is no longer confused with children exiting.
167 - removed (undocumented) #aarrggbb format.
168 - updated to libev 3.0.
169
170 8.9 Mon Dec 24 07:51:40 CET 2007
171 - fix the issue where urxvtd would not immediately close a window
172 when the command exited but only on the next X event.
173 - changed terminfo file not to use application keypad mode.
174 - fix the issue where making a selection in one urxvtd window
175 would not clear it visually in another.
176 - fix an issue of urxvt not getting background pixmap updates
177 and flickering after bg pixmap changes (reported by Mikachu).
178 - fix redraw bug in xterm scrollbar with -sr (reported by Mikachu).
179 - correctly provide dependencies for libev (µikachu).
180 - minor code reorganisations and cleanups.
181 - be more robust in case the urxvt-popup extension cannot be loaded.
182
183 8.8 Sat Dec 15 19:40:39 CET 2007
184 - option -C was aliased to all unsupported options, activating
185 options that shouldn't be compiled in, leading to interesting
186 effects.
187 - updated libev, working around a bug in linux 2.4, curing the
188 symptom of urxvt not closing its window on shell exit. also
189 fixes a problem with urxvt not refreshing.
190 - the text blink callback was called even when no blinking
191 text was visible.
192 - pre-8.4 slipwheeling behaviour has been reinstated, with
193 some minor improvements.
194 - streamlined x events processing to only flush once per
195 display and not once per terminal window.
196 - quite a bit of minor code cleanups and codesize optimisations.
197
198 8.7 Sun Nov 25 10:23:49 CET 2007
199 - update libev with an important bugfix that would cause crashes
200 when closing windows (when using rxvtd, and update is recommended).
201 - do not compile in the block builtin graphics with --disable-frills.
202
203 8.6 Fri Nov 23 14:10:57 CET 2007
204 - upgrade libev to disable kqueue on anything but netbsd as it
205 seems to be broken everywhere else w.r.t. ptys.
206 - allow for spurious event notifications, as at least epoll and
207 especially solaris ports like to lie about them (symptoms:
208 urxvt "hangs" until there is some x11 related activity).
209 - -keysym command line options are now subjected to xlib parsing.
210 - add 'xrm' option analogous to Xt one.
211
212 8.5a Wed Nov 21 10:16:33 CET 2007
213 - make it compile with --disable-transparency.
214
215 8.5 Wed Nov 21 05:19:20 CET 2007
216 - expect major portability issues in this release: please test and report.
217 - converted from the veritable io manager event loop to
218 the high performance libev (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
219 - minor tuning to the perl selection (include single words and more quoting chars).
220 - fix memory leak in pixmap code.
221 - fix a serious bug while setting the XIM destroy callback
222 on (typical) 64 bit systems.
223 - automove-background functionality re-implemented internally using :root op in pixmap
224 geometry string. For example: rxvt -pixmap "image.jpg;:root"
225 - do not link rxvtc against every lib on the planet anymore.
226 - parallel builds should work once more.
227
228 8.4 Sat Oct 27 14:02:13 CEST 2007
229 - overhaul of the transparency/pixmap code (sasha).
230 - fix possible race between visual bell and poweron.
231 (reported by Martin von Gagern, gentoo?).
232 - urxvt -e no longer crashes the child.
233 - fixed some minor memleaks on incorrect usage or
234 missing DISPLAY.
235 - implement xterm 1002/1003 mouse tracking modes (exg).
236 - source code organisational cleanups (exg).
237 - updated io_manager.
238
239 8.3 Wed Aug 1 20:21:31 CEST 2007
240 - new option: skipScroll/-ss, enabled by default.
241 - go with the times and expect x11 library files in /usr/lib, not
242 /usr/X11R6/lib.
243 - initial transparency improvement/afterimage support
244 patch by Sasha Vasko.
245 - add urgentOnBell resource to set the urgency hint
246 (patch by Philip Paeps).
247 - do not process focus events caused by grabs
248 (patch by Mikachu).
249 - add iso14755_52 resource to disable iso14755 5.2 (exg).
250 - add binding for backspace in iso14755 5.1 to remove the last
251 digit (exg).
252 - better option handling, support more than 30 options (exg).
253 - nuke reconf script, serves no purpose anymore.
254 - fixed and documented matcher/on_user_command processing in matcher
255 extension (tpope).
256 - compile out of the box on Solaris 10 (exg).
257 - fix MappingNotify events (reported by Stephan Walter).
258 - zero-initialise mwmhints, this seems to solve all sorts of minor
259 problems.
260
261 8.2 Sat Feb 17 21:35:28 CET 2007
262 - fix make depend in src/, reported by exg.
263 - fixed typo in urxvt::GET_CUSTOM, causing the result to be wrong.
264 (patch by Sergey Vlasov).
265 - unbundled iom perl interface somewhat.
266 - scrollbar-xterm now uses the selected scrollColor instead of fg
267 (found by Aiviru).
268 - disabled linux kernel bug workaround again: disabling it gives
269 a 50% speed hit on affected machines, while enabling it gives
270 a similar speed hit to screen, which is likely the more common
271 case to work around for :/
272 - urxvt::rend2mask perl function, and utilization of it by matcher
273 (patch by Moshe Kamensky).
274 - use perl:matcher on a keysym to open most recently displayed URL.
275 - with matcher, when multiple patterns match, last wins, not first.
276 - fix make and make install with srcdir != builddir (exg).
277 - updated bundled libptytty to fix a bug where the tty would be kept
278 open (see the libptytty ChangeLog for details).
279 - delay setting the IUTF8 flag to after the tty settings have been
280 set so its value does not get lost (reported and analysed by Andrei
281 Paskevich).
282 - rip out support for obsolete sgtty.h interface.
283 - rip out support for non-POSIX termios variants.
284 - update libptytty.
285 - update iom.C, make it call ptytty::sanitise_stdfd on init.
286 - when !XFT, change rounding of colours to use a less correct formula to
287 meet user expectancies (#aaa becomes #a000a000a000 not #9f9f9f9f9f9f).
288 - change the starting offset of the pixmap set with backgroundPixmap
289 from (50,50) to (0,0) (exg).
290 - fix a typo in button_release, now meta-button2 request the value of
291 the Clipboard selection as it should (patch by Serge Koksharov).
292 - fix a bug in drawing a cell with a nonspacing char when using an xft
293 font with inheritPixmap and tintColor (exg).
294
295 8.1 Thu Dec 7 22:27:25 CET 2006
296 - ケリスマスプレゼント - zomg!!1, it's too early!!!
297 - fix the assumption that chars < 256 are single-width. Now
298 only assume this for codepoints 32 to 126 (reported by Dai.H.).
299 - $term->strwidth returned wide chars as width 1, because some jerk
300 confused min and max. Fixing this also fixes xim-onthespot.
301 Reported by Takano Akio.
302 - secondaryScroll is now enabled by default (as per the manpage),
303 reported by exg.
304 - correct the description of [percent]color rgba format in the manpage.
305 - incorporated macosx-clipboard extension by Samuel Ljungkvist.
306 - ignore (some) useless focus events (reported by mmc).
307 - updated compose table to unicode 5.0.0.
308
309 8.0 Thu Nov 2 18:35:19 CET 2006
310 - combining characters cleared the area instead of creating an overlay,
311 thus losing the ability to draw combining characters properly in most
312 circumstances (reported by exg).
313 - specified fonts were incorrectly morphed to bold/italic according to the
314 basefont, even if explicitly specified (tracked down by tpope).
315 - fixed urxvt::strwidth to calculate width in the same way as screen.C.
316 - fix a crash caused by passing negative widths to overlay functions.
317 - added 'matcher' extension by tpope, replacing the mark-urls extension.
318 - improve url regex to match anything www.* (tpope).
319 - fixed bug with outline cursor color being wrong after xft fonts.
320 - update to libptytty-1.0.
321 - give proper diagnostic when RXVT_SOCKET is too long instead of
322 corrupting the stack (patch by exg).
323 - display current terminal locale in option menu.
324 - urxvtd no longer crashes when the client sends an inaccessible
325 working directory (reported by Roland Baer, possibly fixes gentoo
326 bug #143985).
327 - fixed many minor issues reported by Roland Baer.
328 - Leonid Khramov spotted a minor glitch in rxvtfont.C that
329 should not have any consequences, but was buggy nonetheless.
330 - manpage fix by exg.
331
332 7.9 Mon Aug 7 18:16:07 CEST 2006
333 - fix the crashing bug people encountered with 7.8 + urxvtd + perl
334 + transparency. Ought to fix debian bug #380348.
335 - fix urxvtc.1.pod: it actually claimed -pty-fd would not work. But
336 it does! :->
337 - rxvt_fatal() in case the locale string is too long for our static buffer.
338 - fixed many, many, typos in the manpages (patch supplied by ves).
339
340 7.8 Mon Jul 17 21:00:46 CEST 2006
341 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: this version will always read ~/.Xdefaults,
342 earlier versions only read it if display-resources (usually from
343 .Xresources) are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my
344 resource used") and seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults
345 resources have a lower priority than display-specific resources.
346 - add "kuake" perl extension that does a similar thing to the kuake
347 terminal emulator (see man urxvtperl).
348 - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and
349 Xft (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds).
350 - the "depth" resource is now respected.
351 - preset the searchable-scrollback pattern with "(?i)" to default search
352 to case-insensitivity. Will automatically be cleared when typing an
353 uppercase character.
354 - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h.
355 - re-enabled highlightcolor support with --enable-frills, based on
356 a patch by Martin Stubenschrott.
357 - double-buffered xft drawing did suffer from pixel offset issues
358 when pixmap transparency was enabled.
359 - strategically add # to the url-match regexes, as we really want to
360 match common URIs not common URLs. Reported by Aaron Griffin.
361 - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more
362 generic osc_seq.
363 - fix a bug causing double callback invocations when perl hooks
364 were invoked recursively.
365 - the automove-background extension now properly works when the
366 pixmap gets reset with an osc sequence (sqweek).
367 - selection-pastebin did not work properly with non-latin1-characters.
368 - apply colorUL only when the text colour is the default fg
369 (patch by Wu Fengguang).
370 - removed rxvtlib.h from the tarball, it had no reason to be there
371 (spotted by Decklin Foster).
372 - fix compiling with TRANSPARENT but !XPM_BACKGROUND, as reported
373 by omatunto_.
374 - slap in a using namespace std, might help on platforms that don't
375 follow C++ closely enough.
376 - fix mailto url regex, spotted within milliseconds by Jost Krieger.
377 - applied fade_color_update_func.patch by WU Fengguang.
378 - fix a bug where (due to an optimisation in av_delete), hiding the
379 bottom-most overlay would hide two overlays.
380
381 7.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
382 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
383 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
384 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
385 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
386 click, and eats the click.
387 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
388 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
389 refresh bugs please.
390 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
391 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
392 improve size hint setting.
393 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
394 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
395 to correctly position their preedit window.
396 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
397 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
398 in empty spaces, but that's not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
399 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
400 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
401 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
402 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
403 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
404 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
405 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
406 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
407 (reported by Paco-Paco).
408 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
409 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
410 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
411
412 7.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
413 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
414 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
415 resource value.
416 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
417 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and key events to the
418 relevant tab window.
419 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
420 (initial patch by hednod).
421 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
422 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
423 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
424 the benefit of automove-background.
425 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
426 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
427 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
428 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
429 __linux__.
430 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
431 the colour components.
432 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
433 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
434 - more colour rtt optimisations.
435 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
436 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
437 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
438 - minor libptytty update.
439
440 7.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
441 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
442 detection:
443 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
444 - overlap detection was improved.
445 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
446 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
447 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
448 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
449 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
450 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
451 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
452 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
453 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
454 broken.
455 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
456 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
457 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
458 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
459 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
460 (patch by Paco-Paco).
461 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
462 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
463 an "[alpha]" prefix.
464 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
465 transparent. Long Live Xft!
466 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
467 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
468 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
469 on a pseudocolor screen.
470 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
471 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
472 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
473 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
474 - small configure updates.
475 - further RTT optimisations.
476 - backported clean-up patches for makefiles and documentation from
477 the debian package.
478 - updated doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file. It's still not maintained here,
479 but much newer than the old one.
480
481 7.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
482 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
483 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
484 - small configure updates for libptytty.
485 - fixed version options: line output.
486 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
487
488 7.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
489 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
490 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
491 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
492 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
493 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
494 selection extension.
495 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
496 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
497 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
498 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
499 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
500 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
501 needs the careful rendering mode.
502 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
503 too wide and needs careful mode.
504 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
505 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
506 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
507 atoms only once per display.
508 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
509 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
510 xterm.
511
512 7.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
513 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
514 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
515 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
516 ctrl-shift-672c).
517 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
518 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
519 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
520 the primary screen.
521 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
522 could lead to an assertion failure.
523 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
524 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
525 via mouse clicks.
526 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
527 with shift - mouse button 2.
528 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
529 in non-synthetic events.
530 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
531 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
532 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
533 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
534 whole urxvt[d] process.
535 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
536 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
537 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
538 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
539
540 7.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
541 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
542 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
543 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
544 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
545 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
546 special privileges.
547 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
548 itself.
549 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
550 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
551 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
552 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
553 similar stuff.
554 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
555 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
556 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
557 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
558 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
559 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
560 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
561 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
562 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
563 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
564 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
565 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
566 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
567 (Emanuele Giaquinta=exg).
568 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
569 to set the window title.
570 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
571 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
572 at the wrong time.
573 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
574 anymore.
575 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
576 - nuked QNX support.
577 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
578 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
579 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
580 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
581
582 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
583 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
584 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
585 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
586 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
587 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
588 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
589 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
590 and much much more.
591 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
592 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
593 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
594 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
595 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
596 setuid/setgid.
597 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
598 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
599 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
600 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
601 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
602 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
603 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
604 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
605 compatible, and not really small either.
606 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
607 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
608 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
609 to crashes.
610 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
611 colours.
612 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
613 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
614
615 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
616 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
617 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
618 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
619 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
620 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
621 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
622 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
623 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
624 by Mikachu).
625 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
626 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
627 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
628 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
629 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
630 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
631 - fix directory permissions on install.
632 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
633 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
634 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
635 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
636 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
637
638 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
639 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
640 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
641 Chuck Blake.
642 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
643 obscure the mouse cursor position.
644 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
645 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
646 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
647 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
648 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
649 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
650 transfer efficiency.
651 - further minor cleanups.
652
653 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
654 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
655 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
656 while the user still drags.
657 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
658 not drawn correctly.
659 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
660 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
661 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
662 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
663 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
664 stripping whitespace.
665 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
666 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
667
668 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
669 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
670 - enable slow link support by default.
671 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
672 (also a bug in original rxvt).
673 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
674 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
675 partial patch).
676 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
677 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
678 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
679 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
680 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
681 - implement -hold option.
682 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
683 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
684 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
685 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
686 - slight overall speed improvements.
687 - considerably improved code clarity.
688 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
689 buffer.
690
691 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
692 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
693 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
694 (matters only for rxvtd).
695 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
696 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
697 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
698
699 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
700 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
701 If you want the old behaviour, try:
702 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
703 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
704 the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
705 percentage by 100-percentage.
706 - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
707 - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
708 the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
709 synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
710 windows.
711 - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
712 bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
713 - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
714 - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
715 - replaced INSTALL file.
716
717 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
718 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
719 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
720 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
721 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
722 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
723 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
724 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
725 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
726
727 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
728 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
729 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
730 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
731 - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
732 uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
733 Affects display in iso14755 box.
734 - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
735 hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
736 chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
737 - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
738 overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
739 more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
740 cutting pieces off of characters.
741 - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
742 fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
743 - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
744 at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
745 - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
746 output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
747 - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
748
749 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
750 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
751 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
752 meaning of the given key.
753 - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
754 (patch by Martin Edlman).
755
756 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
757 - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
758 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
759 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
760 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
761 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
762 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
763 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
764 to disable it.
765
766 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
767 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
768 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
769 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
770 - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
771 with modifiers.
772 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
773 - properly update WM_LOCALE.
774 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
775 - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
776 and clear the scrollback buffer.
777
778 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
779 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
780 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
781 a command.
782 - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
783 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
784 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
785 in Perl/Gtk2.
786 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
787 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
788 (reported by Mikael Magnusson=Mikachu).
789 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
790 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
791 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
792 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
793 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
794 line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
795 with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
796 needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
797 - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
798 some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
799 - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
800 not destroy the window for other types of messages.
801 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
802 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
803 rxvt-unicode).
804 - get rid of the intpro files.
805
806 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
807 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
808 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
809 (Kuang-che Wu).
810 - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
811 tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
812 - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
813 - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
814 - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
815 along with other, similar, cleanups.
816 - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
817 - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
818 - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
819 compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
820 match (reported by Paco-Paco).
821 - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
822
823 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
824 - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
825 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
826 - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
827 Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
828 - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
829 and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
830 his patience and time in tracking this down).
831 - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
832 most notably, don't remove double quotes.
833 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
834 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
835 by Joël Riou).
836 - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
837 available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
838 and is surprisingly hard to implement.
839 - shaved off some code segment size.
840 - various code cleanups.
841 - more keysym-mapping fixes.
842
843 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
844 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
845 original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
846 - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
847 -pixmap is active.
848 - new option/resource imFont.
849 - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
850 - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
851 - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
852 - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
853 - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
854 (WU Fengguang).
855 - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
856 examples (rxvt.1).
857 - removed src/test completely.
858 - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
859
860 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
861 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
862 highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
863 sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
864 - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
865 can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
866 - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
867 resulting in segfaults.
868 - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
869 screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
870 - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
871 - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
872 (Mikael Magnusson).
873 - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
874 and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
875 font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
876 tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
877 - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
878 - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
879 - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
880 - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
881 on frills, not on it's own configure option).
882 - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
883 - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
884 - initialize the locale much earlier.
885 - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
886
887 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
888 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
889 black on initial startup.
890 - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
891 races in the protocol and within Xlib.
892 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
893 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
894 additional multimedia keys.
895 - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
896 implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
897
898 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
899 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
900 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
901 - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
902 time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
903 turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
904 - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
905 - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
906 process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
907 ignored.
908 - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
909 instead.
910 - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
911 (reported by hednod).
912 - fix an unlikely memory leak.
913 - fix atom name enumeration.
914
915 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
916 - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
917 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
918 incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
919 selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
920 for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
921
922 4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
923 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
924 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
925 for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
926 titles etc.
927 - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
928 - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
929 - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
930 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
931 - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
932 - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
933 which got partially overwritten by spaces.
934 - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
935 and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
936 should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
937 and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
938 for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
939 - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
940 - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
941
942 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
943 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
944 obviously in locales not having these characters they should
945 still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
946 Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
947 thoroughly.
948 - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
949 now, too.
950
951 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
952 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
953 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
954 on high-latency networks.
955 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
956 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
957 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
958 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
959 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
960 by Gunnar Ritter.
961 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
962 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
963
964 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
965 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
966 -ssc/-ssr settings.
967 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
968 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
969 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
970 - add compile fix for darwin.
971 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
972 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
973 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
974
975 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
976 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
977 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
978 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
979 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
980 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
981 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
982 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
983 ... terminated by a fix.
984 - new supported preeeditType "None".
985 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
986 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
987 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
988 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
989 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
990 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
991 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
992 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
993 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
994 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
995 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
996 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
997 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
998 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
999 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
1000 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
1001 in tracking this down.
1002 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
1003 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
1004
1005 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
1006 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
1007 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
1008
1009 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
1010 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
1011 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
1012 installed if tic is available.
1013 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
1014 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
1015 - removed README.unicode.
1016 - support select&paste of tab characters.
1017 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
1018 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
1019 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
1020 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
1021 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
1022 screen updates with curses.
1023 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
1024 by spaces.
1025 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
1026 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
1027 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
1028 is just too slow for this to work.
1029 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
1030 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
1031 implement. use --enable-styles.
1032 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
1033 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
1034 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
1035 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
1036 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
1037 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
1038 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
1039 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
1040 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
1041 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
1042 (only for non-bold right now).
1043 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
1044 - better default font size and style.
1045 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
1046 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
1047 single character against the base font extents and will only
1048 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
1049 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
1050 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
1051 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
1052 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
1053 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
1054 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
1055 screen height.
1056 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
1057 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
1058 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
1059 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
1060 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
1061 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
1062 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
1063 - removed OSC 702.
1064 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
1065 confused by it rather than using it.
1066
1067 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
1068 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
1069 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
1070 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
1071 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
1072 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
1073 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
1074 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
1075 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
1076 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
1077 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
1078 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
1079 close).
1080 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
1081 not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
1082 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
1083 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
1084 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
1085 could not be created.
1086 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
1087 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
1088 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
1089 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
1090 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
1091 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
1092 works.
1093 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
1094 - document more escape sequences.
1095 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
1096 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
1097 character is a sensible operation.
1098 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
1099 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
1100 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
1101 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
1102 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
1103 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
1104 with selections).
1105
1106 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
1107 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
1108 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
1109 needs access to a local shell window).
1110 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
1111 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
1112 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
1113 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
1114 a little window or so) would be welcome.
1115 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
1116 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
1117 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
1118 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
1119 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
1120 added there.
1121 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
1122 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
1123 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
1124 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
1125 instead of being ignored.
1126 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
1127 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
1128 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
1129 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
1130 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
1131 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
1132 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
1133 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
1134 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
1135 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
1136 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
1137 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
1138 needs testing anyways.
1139 - more complete compile options help output.
1140 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
1141 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
1142 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
1143 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
1144 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
1145 - minor doc fix.
1146
1147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
1148 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
1149 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
1150 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
1151 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
1152 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
1153 memmove :)
1154 - minor cleanups.
1155 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
1156 (debian bug #169415).
1157 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
1158 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
1159 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
1160 - updated config.guess.
1161
1162 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
1163 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
1164 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
1165 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
1166 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
1167 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
1168 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
1169 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
1170 speeding up scrolling immensely.
1171 - various other optimizations.
1172 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
1173
1174 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
1175 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
1176 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
1177 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
1178 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
1179 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
1180 Mikael Magnusson, based on aterm code).
1181 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
1182 Mikael Magnusson).
1183 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
1184 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
1185 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
1186
1187 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
1188 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
1189 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
1190 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
1191 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
1192 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
1193 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
1194 with ^V (SYN).
1195 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
1196
1197 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
1198 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
1199 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
1200 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
1201 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
1202 well as with other terminal emulators.
1203 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
1204 (reported by elmex).
1205 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
1206 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
1207 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
1208 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
1209 Bloch.
1210
1211 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
1212 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
1213 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
1214 sorry).
1215 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
1216 make it a little bit more correct c++).
1217
1218 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
1219 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
1220 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
1221 - minor i18n issue fixes.
1222
1223 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
1224 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
1225 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
1226 - fix some minor bugs.
1227
1228 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
1229 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
1230 for the keymappings.
1231 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
1232 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
1233 - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
1234 an extension and is slightly ugly.
1235 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
1236 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
1237 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
1238 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
1239 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
1240 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
1241 overwritten (as is common).
1242 - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
1243 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
1244
1245 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
1246 - minor doc corrections.
1247 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
1248 avoid clashes with xterm.
1249 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
1250 - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
1251 window colour when arg is "?".
1252 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
1253 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
1254 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
1255 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
1256 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
1257 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
1258 (FRILLS).
1259 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
1260 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
1261 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
1262 - set _NET_WM_PID.
1263
1264 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
1265 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
1266 - support more 8-bit controls.
1267 - more informative error messages.
1268 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
1269 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
1270 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
1271 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
1272 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
1273
1274 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
1275 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
1276 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
1277 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
1278 - removed old selection style completely.
1279 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
1280 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
1281 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
1282 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
1283 be used from within rxvt.
1284 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
1285
1286 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
1287 - code cleanup release.
1288 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
1289 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
1290 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
1291 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
1292 all files.
1293 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
1294 --enable-xgetdefaults.
1295
1296 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
1297 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
1298 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
1299 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
1300 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
1301 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
1302 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
1303 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
1304 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
1305 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
1306 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
1307 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
1308 --disable-xgetdefault.
1309 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
1310 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
1311 unicode character.
1312 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
1313 get it wrong.
1314 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
1315
1316 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
1317 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
1318 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
1319 settings.
1320 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
1321 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
1322 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
1323 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
1324 mbrtowc.
1325 - more robust encoding name matching.
1326 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
1327 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
1328 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
1329 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
1330 resources and docs.
1331 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
1332
1333 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
1334 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
1335 - some doc cleanup
1336 - configure cleanup
1337 - viscii enabled by default
1338 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
1339
1340 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
1341 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
1342
1343 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
1344 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
1345 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
1346 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
1347 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
1348 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
1349 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
1350 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
1351 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
1352 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
1353 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
1354 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
1355 reported by joel reed.
1356 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
1357 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
1358 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
1359 being selected.
1360 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
1361 - removed greek support.
1362 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
1363 - correct cursor width if !focus.
1364 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
1365 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
1366 contributed.
1367 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
1368 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
1369 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
1370 - many other minor bugfixes.
1371
1372 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
1373 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
1374 new bugs, this should not change much.
1375 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
1376 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
1377 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
1378 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
1379 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
1380 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
1381 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
1382
1383 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
1384 - further cleanups.
1385 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
1386 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
1387 use reverse video, not _blink_.
1388 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
1389 please drop me a note.
1390
1391 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
1392 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
1393 - blinking text.
1394 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
1395 normal text when colorBD is not set.
1396 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
1397 was never implemented
1398
1399 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
1400 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
1401 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
1402 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
1403 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
1404 reported by fefe
1405 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
1406 Markus Demleitner
1407 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
1408 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
1409 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
1410
1411 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
1412 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
1413 - small font tunings
1414 - much better io manager, fewer bugs, higher speed
1415 - better error reporting for unknown options
1416
1417 1.3 2003-12-26
1418 - fix a bug in font height selection
1419 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
1420 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
1421 - much faster x11 font selection
1422
1423 1.2 2003-12-24
1424 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
1425 - better font matching
1426 - better memory management (less memory)
1427 - new fallback: gnu freefont
1428
1429 1.1 2003-12-18
1430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
1431 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
1432 - much improved font choosing
1433
1434 1.0 2003-12-18
1435 - first release
1436 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
1437 - removed rclock et al.
1438 - initial conversion to C++
1439