1 Changes for 1.15.3 (legion)
6 - kbdinfo: New utility to obtain information about console.
7 - setvtrgb: New utility to set the virtual terminal RGB colors.
8 - loadkeys: Add LOADKEYS_KEYMAP_PATH env variable.
9 - loadkeys: Fix some memory leaks.
10 - loadkeys: Do not set prefer_unicode for iso-8859-1.
11 - loadkeys -a: Switch to ASCII mode.
12 - loadkeys: Fix "compose as usual" for Unicode diacritics (Michael Schutte).
14 - Add dvorak-ru keymap.
16 - Add LatGrkCyr fonts.
18 Changes for 1.15.2 (legion)
21 - Use automake to build translations.
22 - Fix colemak installation.
23 - psffontop: Fix possible alignment issues, wrt -Wcast-align.
24 - vcstime: Fix build warning.
26 - loadkeys -u: Switch to Unicode mode, if necessary (Michael Schutte).
27 - Use either /dev/vcs[a] or /dev/vcs[a]0 (Michael Schutte)
29 - Add "mobii" specific keymap (Richard Zidlicky).
33 Changes for 1.15.1 (legion)
37 - Fix errors when building with -Werror=format-security
38 gcc option (Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski).
39 - Fix cross-compiling problems.
41 - loadkeys: Auto-convert “traditional”/Unicode keysyms (Michael Schutte).
42 - loadkeys: Support bidirectional conversion of keysyms (Michael Schutte).
43 - loadkeys: Support Unicode compose tables (Michael Schutte).
44 - showconsolefont: Print adequate space chars (Michael Schutte).
45 - dumpkeys: Use U+… in “compose” lines if KDGKBDIACRUC is available (Michael Schutte).
46 - Add support for Brl_dot9 and Brl_dot10 (Michael Schutte).
47 - Never handle plain ASCII characters as Unicode (Michael Schutte).
48 - Enable UNUMBERs in compose definitions (Michael Schutte).
50 - bg_pho-utf8 keycode 38 assignment fix.
51 - Add keymap for Colemak.
52 - Add keymap for German Intel based Macs.
53 - Add UK keymap for the Sun Type-6 keyboard.
54 - Add French keymap Dvorak.
57 - Add U+2010, U+2012, U+2013, U+2018, U+2019, U+2212
58 to the embedded character table.
60 Changes for 1.15 (legion)
64 - Add --enable-strip configure option.
65 - Propagates configure options (Charles Clément)
67 - Fix internationalization (Benno Schulenberg).
68 - unicode_start: Without any arguments utility will only set unicode mode.
69 - analyze.l: Add warning for on U+xxxx keysym specifications >= 0xf000.
70 - analyze.l: Understand the CapsShift modifiers (Michael Schutte).
71 - openvt: Document the -f switch (Michael Schutte).
72 - openvt: Print an error message when calls to exec* functions fail.
73 - loadkeys: dump binary keymap (Michel Stempin).
74 - loadunimap should use UNIMAPDIR.
76 - Add qwerty/cz.map keymap.
77 - Recognize Ctrl-[ as Escape.
78 - ruwin_*: Use qwerty-layout.inc.
79 - Revert "include/*euro.map: Change 'currency' to 'euro' symbol".
80 - be-latin1 keycode 7 assignment fix (Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski).
82 - iso07u-16.psfu: Update font (Lefteris Dimitroulakis)
84 - Update 8859-7_to_uni.trans
86 Changes for 1.14.1 (legion)
89 - Fix computing of the host-system type.
90 - Fix options handling (thanks for the help to Mike Frysinger).
91 - Fix DESTDIR handling.
93 - unicode_{start,stop}: To run loadkeys is allowed only to root.
95 - Add Norwegian dvorak keymap.
96 - Add turkish F (trf) keyboard map.
97 - Fix turkish Q (trq) keyboard map (Ozgur Murat Homurlu).
98 - Move qwerty/cz.map -> qwertz/cz.map.
99 - include/*euro.map: Change 'currency' to 'euro' symbol.
101 Changes for 1.14 (legion)
103 o Use autoconf for build system.
105 - Add --enable-nls option.
106 - Add --enable-optional-progs option.
108 - Add OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) keymaps
109 - Add more romanian keymaps (Vitezslav Crhonek)
110 - Add another ukrainian keymap
111 - Add Belarusian (Belarus) keymaps
114 - Add Bashkir (Russia) keymap
116 - Add more russian keymaps
118 - Add unicode fonts (UniCyrExt_8x16.psf, UniCyr_8x14.psf, UniCyr_8x16.psf,
120 - Add Lat2-Terminus16 font
121 - Fix sun12x22 font unicode mapping table (Vitezslav Crhonek)
123 - Add '.acm' suffix for compatibility with console-tools
128 - fix findfile so that it does not find directories
129 - kbdrate: fix for sparc
130 o New translations: cs.po, de.po
135 - updated getkeycodes, showkey for Linux 2.6
137 - Minor changes to is-latin1.map
138 - New is-latin1-us.map (Reynir H. Stefánsson)
139 o New translations: el.po, pl.po
144 - updated setkeycodes for Linux 2.6
145 o New translations: es.po, nl.po
150 - openvt: new -e option (damjan@legolas)
151 - Makefiles: DESTDIR handling improved
153 - New bg-cp1251.map (Dimitar Zhekov)
154 - New bg_bds-cp1251.map, bg_pho-cp1251.map (Peter Georgiev)
155 - New bg_bds-utf8.map, bg_pho-utf8.map (Peter Georgiev)
156 - Renamed bg.map to bg-cp855.map
157 Probably one of bg-cp1251.map and bg_pho-cp1251.map should be deleted.
158 Can some Bulgarian tell me which one?
160 - Added greek-polytonic.psfu (mpGr.psf, from Lefteris Dimitroulakis)
161 o New translations: cs.po, es.po, gr.po
166 - update for Linux 2.6.1, with PIO_UNIMAP for non-fg consoles
167 - update for Linux 2.5.42: NR_KEYS=256
169 - small fix for nl.map
170 o New translations: pl.po, ro.po
175 - loadkeys.y: fix for bison 1.50 (Per Lidén)
176 - loadkeys.y: fix in addfunc()
177 - Makefile etc: minor cleanup (Daniel R. Grayson)
178 - Makefile etc: --prefix support (Michael Covi)
180 - passim: don't map PrtSc to Ctrl-\ so that poor innocents do not
181 kill applications when they only want to print the screen;
182 only map Ctrl-PrtSc to Ctrl-\ (Kurt Garloff)
183 - modified fi-latin1.map, new fi-latin9.map (Marko Myllynen)
184 - bg-cp1251.map (Dimitar Zhekov)
185 - il-heb.map (Oded S. Resnik)
186 - sr-cy.map (Milos Rancic)
187 - fr-latin9.map (Guylhem Aznar), removed older fr-latin0.map.
192 - showfont renamed to showconsolefont to avoid clash with X
193 - loadkeys.y: fix in addfunc() (Shigeharu Hirayma)
194 - loadkeys.y: handle relative symlinks (Matthias Benkmann)
195 - sami.syms.h: symbol definitions for Northern Sámi (Regnor Jernsletten)
196 - findfile.c: search entire dir before looking at subdirs (Matthias Benkmann)
197 - getfd.c, etc.: also try devfs names (Alastair McKinstry)
198 - kbdrate.c: do not use <linux/kd.h>: the struct elements changed name
199 - setleds: typo fixed
201 - New: fgconsole.1 (Alastair McKinstry)
202 - Added a few man[18]misc pages, for non-installed stuff (Alastair McKinstry)
204 - Added cyr-sun16.psfu (Bero)
206 - Added cp1251_to_uni.trans, koi8-r_to_uni.trans, koi8-u_to_uni.trans (Bero)
208 - Renamed the Swedish se-latin1.map to sv-latin1.map
209 - Added se-fi-ir209.map, se-fi-lat6.map, se-ir209.map, se-lat6.map
210 for Northern Sámi (Regnor Jernsletten)
211 - Added pt-latin9.map (Carlos Monteiro)
212 - The old nl.map was really bad. Renamed nl3.map to nl.map.
213 - fi-latin1.map small changes
215 - kbd.FAQ: small additions
217 Changes for 1.06 (aeb)
220 - Some Makefile changes (Peter Breitenlohner)
221 - Added fgconsole to the installed programs
222 - resizecons.c: removed .psf extension from default fonts (bero)
223 - psffontop.c: correction to handling of unicode sequences (Kurt Garloff)
224 - loadkeys: work better in the presence of symlinks
226 - Removed scancode docs (these will be distributed separately, had grown to
227 over 1 MB; see also http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes.html)
229 - Added iso02-12x22.psfu (Jacek Lipkowski)
230 - Renamed sun-12x22.psfu to iso01-12x22.psfu since Kurt Garloff
231 explained that it was not the kernel font but a modified version.
232 Added the original sun-12x22.psfu.
233 - Renamed lat7-16.psfu to iso07u-16.psfu. (lat7 is iso13, not iso07)
234 - Added lat7a-14.psfu (earlier: lt-brim*) and lat7a-16.psf (bad fonts)
235 - Added lat7-14.psfu (ugly, but with the right characters)
237 - Renamed lat7u.uni to iso07u.uni since it is not a Latin-7 map.
239 o Keymaps (mostly Kurt Garloff, SuSE):
240 - Corrected br-latin1-abnt2.map (Frédéric Meunier), mac-de_CH.map,
242 - Added missing Latin-1 symbols to fi-latin1.map (Marko Myllynen)
243 - Added sundvorak.map, sunt4-no-latin1.map, sunt5-cz-us.map,
244 sunt5-us-cz.map, mac-dvorak.map, mac-qwertz-layout.inc
246 Changes for 1.05 (aeb)
249 - kdmapop.c, kdmapop.h, utf8.c, utf8.h: new
250 - loadunimap.c: also allow a range mapped to a single Unicode symbol
251 - mapscrn.c: also allow a character given as utf8 string
252 - mapscrn.c: handle PIO_SCRNMAP and PIO_UNISCRNMAP with same -m/-om options
253 - showfont.c: also show fonts larger than 256 glyphs
254 - unicode_start: updated; added text from Bruno Haible
256 - font-formats, unicode_start.1, unicode_stop.1: new
257 - loadunimap.8, mapscrn.8, setfont.8: updated
259 - Added drdos8xN.psfu
261 - Added cybercafe.uni
262 o Console translations:
263 - Added 8859-N_to_uni.trans, cpNNNN_to_uni.trans
265 - Corrected corrupted 737.cp, lat5-N.psfu, baltic.trans
267 Changes for 1.04 (aeb, Olaf Hering, Kurt Garloff):
270 - setfont etc: support for font widths other than 8
271 - loadkeys.y: also look at mac/include
274 - contrib/showfont: new
275 - contrib/psfsplit: new
276 - cad: don't create a temp file
278 - Minor changes to kbd FAQ. Extended scancode FAQ. New A20 docs.
279 - Minor changes to man pages.
281 - New keymap include dir mac/include.
282 - Added euro1.map and euro2.map.
283 - Added some compose definitions to compose.latin and compose.latin1.
284 - Deleted be-latin1.map and renamed be2-latin1.map to be-latin1.map.
285 There seems to be consensus that it is better than the original
287 - Renamed hebrew.map to il-phonetic.map and added il.map.
288 - Applied fix from Jochen Hein to de.map.
289 - Applied SuSE fixes to mac-de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map, us.map, de*.map.
290 - Added mac-be.map, mac-de-latin1.map, mac-de_CH.map, mac-dk-latin1.map,
291 mac-es.map, mac-fi-latin1.map, mac-fr.map, mac-fr_CH-latin1.map,
292 mac-it.map, mac-pt-latin1.map, mac-se.map, mac-uk.map, mac-us.map,
293 br-latin1-abnt2.map, br-latin1-us.map, cz.map, de_CH-latin1.map,
294 mk.map (renamed the old one to mk0.map), mk-cp1251.map, mk-utf.map,
295 ro_win.map and cz-cp1250.map.
298 o Console translations:
299 - Added iso02_to_cp1250.trans.
301 - Added cybercafe.fnt, sun12x22.psfu, cp1250.psfu,
302 cp857.08, cp857.14, cp857.16.
304 Changes for 1.03 (aeb):
306 o Added doc/scancodes/* with information on the scancodes produced
309 o Added Unicode maps to Greek fonts.
311 Changes for 1.00 (aeb):
313 o Introduced psf2 fonts, allowing one to describe a font position
314 with a Unicode sequence (base character with combining accents).
315 o Reorganized fonts; added Unicode table to most of them.
316 The consolefonts directory got a subdirectory partialfonts.
317 The Unicode maps got a directory of their own.
318 o Moved kbdrate from util-linux to here.
319 o Added -s (sort) option to getunimap.c.
320 o Setfont now accepts several psf2 fonts, each of arbitrary length.
321 Setfont now accepts certain codepage fonts.
322 Setfont now accepts a text file containing a list of fonts to load.
323 o Made distinction between koi8-r and koi8-u.
324 o spawn_console and spawn_login invoke openvt, not open.
326 Changes for 0.98 (aeb):
328 o Added internationalization and Dutch texts (nl.po)
330 Changes for 0.96 (aeb):
332 o Added keywords like strings_as_usual. Added keymap include files.
333 o Reorganized keymap directory.
334 o Added loading of compressed fonts.
335 o Added iso-8859-9 handling.
336 o Added -a option to showkey.
338 Changes for 0.94 (aeb):
340 o Added keyword alt_is_meta.
342 Changes for 0.91 (aeb):
344 o Added hpa's setfont patch.
346 Changes for 0.90 (aeb):
348 o Changed setfont to subsume mapscrn and escape sequence.
349 o Added hpa's psftable stuff.
350 o Added Unicode stuff (requires kernel 1.1.92 or later).
352 Changes for 0.89 (aeb):
356 Changes for 0.88 (aeb):
358 o Added dynamic keymap support. Added "keymaps" directive.
359 o Added dynamic console allocation. Added disalloc.
361 o Changed LED handling.
362 o Added the contributed codepage.c (to extract codepages from a
364 o Many minor changes.
366 Changes for 0.87 (aeb):
368 o Added iso-8859-8 support. Added "charset" directive.
369 o Corrected a typo in "trivial".
371 o Extended kbd.FAQ. Added contributed keymaps and fonts.
373 Changes for 0.85-0.86 (aeb):
375 o Minor things only. Added contributed keymaps and fonts.
377 Changes for 0.84 (aeb):
379 o Added more compose key support to loadkeys.
380 o Setfont, loadkeys and mapscrn look by default in /usr/lib/kbd/*.
381 o Setfont can read codepage font files (and select a font from them).
382 o Many minor changes.
384 Changes for 0.83 (aeb):
386 o Added KT_LETTER, so that CapsLock can work correctly.
387 For the time being, this is denoted by a leading + in the keymap.
388 o Added setfont, showfont, mapscrn.
389 o Added setleds, setmetamode.
390 o Put data by default in three subdirectories of /usr/lib/kbd.
392 Changes from version 0.81 to version 0.82 (aeb@cwi.nl):
394 o Made mktable an option of loadkeys, so that the file defkeymap.c
395 produced is independent of the current kernel, and independent of
396 the current keyboard settings. (The old mktable program is now
398 o After dumpkeys > x; loadkeys x; dumpkeys > y the files x and y
399 should be identical. They were not. I hope they are now.
400 o Showkey now restores the original keyboard mode.
401 o Loadkeys now accepts quotes and backslashes in strings.
402 o Added compose key support.
404 Changes from version 0.8 to version 0.81:
406 o Updated and fixed the keytable files
407 o Minor additions to the loadkeys man page
408 o Added support for ISO 8859-{2,3,4} character symbols, updated
409 dumpkeys man page accordingly
411 Changes from the prerelease to version 0.8:
413 o Enhanced the shorthand notation `keycode xx = a', where `a' is an
414 ASCII letter and changed `dumpkeys' and `loadkeys' accordingly.
415 Now this entry defines useful values in shift+control, meta+shift,
416 meta+control and meta+control+shift keytables, too. AltGr entries
417 also default now to the value of non-AltGr entries.
418 o Added the possibility to split long lines into multiple shorter ones
419 by appending a backslash at the end of each partial line.
420 o Added a version number and a short usage message to `dumpkeys'
421 o Added the options --short-info, --long-info (replaces the symbol
422 dump, -s), --numeric, --full-table, --funcs-only, --keys-only to
423 `dumpkeys'. See manpage for more info.
424 o Added a version number, a short usage message and the ability to load
425 multiple map files at a time to `loadkeys'.
426 o Added the utility `mktable' to generate the kernel default binding
427 table automatically from the currently loaded keytable.
428 o Added the utility `showkey' for interactively inspecting the
429 scancodes and keycode values sent by key presses and releases.
430 o Fixed the value of Uncaps_Shift, eliminated obsolete Map_xx symbols
431 o Added Meta_Control_xxx symbols.
432 o Added symbols for locking modifiers (kernel 0.99pl12 doesn't support this)