vte-0.19.1 released

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Hi,

 

vte-0.19.1 is released. This is a major new devel release. We're aiming for

releasing 0.20.0 for GNOME 2.26 and hopefully vte 1.0 for GNOME 2.28. Some

API has been marked as deprecated in this release. These are symbols that

will be removed in 1.0. There has been a bunch of other exciting changes in

this release. Many thanks to ChPe for continuously working on keeping vte 1.0

in sight.

 

Cheers,

behdad

 

0.19.0

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- New, PangoCairo, rendering backend. This is functionally equivalent to the

previous default backend which was Xft. And just a tad bit faster.

- All other backends are removed.

- Configurable cursor shape (block, underline, I-beam).

- Preliminary object properties added to VteTerminal.

- Vte now depends on glib, pango, gtk+, and nothing else.

- API that will be removed in vte 1.0 has been marked deprecated in this

release.

- gnome-pty-helper does no longer depend on and link to glib

- General code maintenance and cleanup.

- Misc bug fixes.

- Bugs fixed in this release:

Bug 562806 – crash in Terminal: Typing "cd " just after ...

Bug 562511 – scrollbar doesn't sit at the bottom

Bug 540951 – The gnome-pty-helper is spawn when its not needed

Bug 465036 – gnome-pty-helper locks /var/run/utmp

Bug 127870 – terminal garbled and needs 'reset' after cat'ing file

Bug 317236 – vte resynchrones too late on invalid UTF-8

Bug 107031 – device-control-string error

Bug 521420 – vte closes connection to child before all output is read

Patch from Thomas Leonard

Bug 514632 – Problem with cursor in emacs in gnome-terminal

Bug 459553 – gnome-terminal cannot shows circled digits with the

correct width on ja_JP.PCK

Patch from Takao Fujiwara

Bug 562385 – gnome-pty-helper goes to 100% cpu usage

Bug 562332 – cleanup font infos on exit?

Bug 562338 – don't need to connect to bunch of xft settings

Bug 488960 – gnome-terminal on Solaris 10 does not clean up utmpx on

exit (intermittent)

Bug 561366 – remove antialias setting for 1.0

Bug 562187 – Add make rules for calling gperf

Bug 416518 – Do something about uniwidths

Bug 500191 – Remove vteseq-table.h?

Bug 514457 – Use g_strv_length()

Bug 542561 – Doesn't build when disabling gnome-pty-helper

Bug 560766 – Deprecate and remove vte_terminal_get_using_xft()

Bug 536894 – Confusing use of "free" as variable-name in ring

functions

Bug 561713 – crash on font cache cleanup

Bug 560819 – Remove obsolete backends

Bug 560818 – pangocairo backend doesn't share font cache across

widgets

Bug 560977 – Cleaning up GTK Includes in vte

Bug 561185 – pangocairo backend sets antialias incorrectly

Bug 560817 – pagocairo backend doesn't have correct opacity support

Bug 560991 – Unsetting background doesn't work

Bug 395599 – Add pangocairo backend

Bug 557375 – >=vte-0.16.14 breaks highlighting on activity

Bug 556398 – maybe deprecate vte_terminal_get_char_ascent/descent

Bug 339819 – LibVTE terminals in GLADE

Bug 399364 – Implement properties

Bug 556328 – Document set-scroll-adjustment parameters

Bug 549835 – Feature Request: Configurable cursor appearance

Bug 509204 – child-exited signal does not provide exit code

Bug 539130 – building g-t fails due to GtkType etc. deprecation

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