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@@ -1,4 +1,59 @@ 0.15.1 +====== +This is a very exciting release. Most of the changes are made by Chris Wilson +who just got access to the vte repository. On his first day he committed more +than 20 large patches, cleaning various parts of the code base and optimizing +too! As a result of huge changes in this release, some regressions, specially +on less common systems/architectures is expected. Please file bugs. + +Highlights of improvements in this release: +- Moving around in vim and mc is a lot faster now, thanks to much + smaller areas that will be redrawn with this release. +- Mouse wheel is usable in mc now, since we don't generate release + events for scroll wheel events anymore. +- Faster. One of the internal timers was completely removed, and + lots of unnecessary work is not done anymore. Particularly when + the widget is not visible. +- Switched to using g_spawn_async to fork the child process, so we + can now enjoy the error checking implemented in that functions. + Failed forks now return an error message. +- Accessibility improvements. +- New environment variable VTE_BACKEND, to choose which rendering + backend to use. The old VTE_USE_* env vars are deprecated and + not functional anymore. +- Bugs fixed in this release: + Bug 399137 - continuation. + Bug 132316 – terminal widget's context menu posting isn't exposed as an AtkAction + Original patch by <padraig.obriain@sun.com> + Bug 156161 – AccessibleText_getTextAtOffset returns wrong values in gnome-terminal + Patch by <padraig.obriain@sun.com> + Bug 399137 – UTF-8 problem in VteAccess + Bug 123591 – vte_terminal_fork_command succeeds even when it does not + Bug 345514 – -no-undefined doesn't work with latest libtool + Bug 162003 – vte configure.in X checking can fail + – though this may cause other regressions! + Bug 314669 – Please specialize AC_PATH_XTRA + Bug 389538 – crash in Terminal: nothing + Bug 161479 – Scroll wheel generates Release events + Bug 398602 – Build Failure + Bug 397724 – Orca incorrect echo's certain input in gnome-terminal + when key echo is set to off (on Ubuntu Feisty). + Bug 398244 – Gnome-terminal opens a huge sized window + Bug 398243 – Crash + Bug 398116 – lags behind when widget not visible + Bug 398083 – background not painted correctly when starting up + Bug 397414 - port vteapp to GOption + Bug 395373 - Allow the user to specify backend priorities. + Bug 346554 – Fancy prompt triggers update problem + Bug 397439 – Performance enhancement patch series + Bug 161342 – Vte slow with mc and vim + Bug 387171 – vte fails to install on FreeBSD due to missing header + Patch from Roy Marples + Bug 396831 – Unable to compile without X + Patch from Chris Wilson + Bug 394890 – Segfault when running vte or gnome-terminal + +0.15.1 Bug 354061 – Excessive use of strlen by _vte_termcap_create Patch from Ryan Lortie Bug 387475 – Gtk-Warning spew in gnome-terminal |