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4.4.0
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- Use screen from xevent instead of client for keypress (Bug #2749)
- Raise/focus when using alt+left-click for resize for consistency with move
- Be more permissive toward stick/unstick (bug #2735) 
- Ignore focus stealing prevention between windows of the same group or 
  between windows that have a transient relationship.
- Rework grab release (bug #2694)
- Fix display of ARGB32 windows with compositing enabled but without 
  compositor active (bug #2710).
- Apply NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION changes (otherwise it breaks xfwm4 
  demand attention mechanism), but do not obey client state change requests 
  for NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION if the client is already focused.
- Apply patch from Mike Massonnet that fixes an error in Stonage decoration 
  theme (Bug #2696)
- Do not apply NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION if client is already focused, as
  some apps seem to request NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION state even while
  focused (See comment #14 in bug #2678)
- Set the demands attention flag with focus prevention enabled only (Bug #2678)
- Update the NET_WM_STATE when the client requests an update of
  NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION (Bug #2678)
- Focus the internal fallback window
  when focus is transfered to a window that doesn't have InputHint set but 
  still use WM_PROTOCOLS_TAKE_FOCUS (ie, there is no way for the window 
  manager to tell whether or not the client will accept focus in the end 
  since focus is set by the client alone through the 'take focus' mechanism)
  (Fix bug #1853 without breaking bug #2410)
- Fix redraw problem with compositor
- Update application icon asynchronously to avoid queuing useless icon updates
  (Ubuntu/Launchpad bug #61424)
- Fix user focus timetamp being falsely reset to 0 causing some windows to be
  started un-focused (Bug #2664), re-add some traces (which compile with 
  -Werror this time), small code/api cleanup.
- Remove shadow on dock-type windows (bug #2648)
- Prevent fullscreen windows from beeing maximized (Bug #2663).
- Use timestamp provided by NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW and NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP messages 
  from EWMH version 1.3 and above, fix focus transition with 
  NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP messages causing either flickering or wrong restacking 
  on workspace switch (bug #2654),
- Quit nicely when MANAGE client message is received, so that xfwm4 obeys to 
  ICCCM2 standard (bug #2374)
- Fix demands attention being activated when it shouldn't
- Improve focus stealing prevention.
- Auto-maximize regular windows only.
- Be a lot more paranoid about what broken apps set as struts.
- Plug a huge X resources leak in handleMappingNotify () (bug #2618)
- Do not prevent stick when skip taskbar is set
- Re-enable focus passing to previously focused window (req. on ML)
- Focus windows that raise themselves if focus stealing prevention is 
  disabled, and set demands attention flag otherwise, that should improve 
  focus prevention.
- Keep focus on sticky windows only for regular windows w/out skip 
  taskbar/pager property (Bug 2603)
- Improve resize (Bug #2597)
- Be more permissive with resizes towards struts (Bug #2597, bis), optimize 
  shape use.
- Fix off-by-one causing windows to be moved wrongly via keyboard 
  (patch from Darren Salt (bug #2594)
- Enter key doesn't work for "Add keybinding theme" dialog (Bug #2560, patch 
  by Brian Tarricone
- Use focus pending with with apps that use WM_FLAG_TAKEFOCUS protocol too 
  (Bug #2561)
- Hide as more windows when showing desktop (Bug #2518)
- Don't skip windows that have the skip pager/taskbar properties when 
  searching for windows below the pointer (bug #2550)
- Fix focus transitionning to root taking into account the pending focus too, 
  so that focus doesn't return to the fallback internal window when it should 
  return to some other client window (like when an application closes with a 
  modal dialog opened).
- Check for valid transient or modal when switching workspaces, to avoid 
  missing windows to unmap (bug #2518).
- Use X server time to restore focus when sent to the root window (bug #2472)


4.3.99.2 (rc2)
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- Add new option to enable/disable borderless maximization (Bug
  #2257).
- Rework keyboard shortcuts grabs, saving a lot of grabs and fixing
  keyboard shortcuts not working on shaded windows (Bug #2291).
- Fix compiler warning when build w/out compositor support (Bug
  #2335).
- Fix restore of original size/position of maximized windows
  restored by session management, do not match windows that aren't
  placed by the WM, that avoids some misplacements.).
- Add cancel option when cycling (Bug #2373).
- Add new window operations menu shortcut (Bug #2400).
- Set focus on desktop with showing desktop (Bug #2410).
- Improve workspace switch, reduce expose events (Bug #2409).
- Improve focus transition (Bug #2408).
- Rework error handling in pixbuf loading, fixes a crash.
- Do not raise on WM_TRANSIENT_FOR property change, required for
  Java 1.6 (Bug #2483).
- Add support for XSync protocol.
- Add support to NET_WM_MOVERESIZE.
- New SVG based default theme (using PNG for speend and
  compatibility although xfwm4 is able to use SVG theme), previous
  theme renamed as "Sassandra".
- Fix compositor unredirect with Xorg 7.1 (bug #64115 in Ubuntu
  Launchpad).
- Fix compositor availability check (Bug #2418
  <http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2418>, #2428
  <http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2428>).
- Fix visual/depth/colormap with and without render (Bug #1617
  <http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617>).
- Rework focus management to fix some issues (Bug #2472
  <http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2472>).
- Allow use of Alt+C in shortcuts.
- Lot of optimizations and code cleanup.

4.3.99.1 (rc1)
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- Implement borderless full maximization (Bug #1750).
- Rework maximization switches (Bug #2047).
- Unmap the client window when shaded (Bug #2168).
- Fix a crash in compositor when the client vanishes (Bug #2105).
- Make sure the icon selected in the tabwin matches the selected window in all 
  cases (Bug #2008).
- Add <Xutil.h> include for building on Solaris.
- Add new option to enable/disable unredirection of fullscreen override windows 
  (overlays).
- Prevent shaped windows to request a frame.
- Fix meaning of the Xfwm/CycleMinimum option in the WM tweak plugin 
  (Bug #2058).
- Fix focus transition back to regular window when an override window grabbing 
  keyboard is unmapped (Bug #2090).
- Allow pkg-config to be more verbose (Bug #2178).
- Add a fallback to the configure script to check for libXrender on Solaris 10 
  (Bug #2165).
- Plug a few memory leaks.
- Reduce Xserver's memory usage my disabling frame caching.
- Fix bogus high CPU usage on loading themes that miss the menu button.

4.3.90.2 (beta2)
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- Get rid of libXpm dependency by implementing an XPM loader with color
  symbol substitution.
- Add support for svg, png, bmp, gif, jpg file formats for themes
  components.
- Embedded compositor can be enabled/disabled on the fly from the WM tweaks
  plugin without restarting the WM.
- Transparency of inactive windows configurable through the WM tweaks
  plugin.
- Automatically unredirect fullscreen override windows, fixing the
  performance penalty of using unredirected rendering.
- Add host name to window title when running apps from other hosts.
- Rework default theme, add new themes (Moheli, Daloa).
- Clean up modifer code in shortcut editor.
- Lot of optimizations, including in the embedded compositor.
- Lot of bug fixes.

4.3.90.1 (beta1)
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- First public release