1 libxkbcommon 0.10.0 - 2020-01-18
4 - (security) Fix quadratic complexity in the XKB file parser. See commit
5 message 7c42945e04a2107827a057245298dedc0475cc88 for details.
7 - Add $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xkb to the default search path. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
8 is not set, $HOME/.config/xkb is used. If $HOME is not set, the path is not
11 The XDG path is looked up before the existing default search path $HOME/.xkb.
13 Contributed by Peter Hutterer <@who-t.net>.
15 - Add support for include statements in XKB rules files.
17 This is a step towards making local XKB customizations more tenable and
18 convenient, without modifying system files.
20 You can now include other rules files like this:
24 Two directives are supported, %H to $HOME and %S for the system-installed
25 rules directory (usually /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules).
27 See commit message ca033a29d2ca910fd17b1ae287cb420205bdddc8 and
28 doc/rules-format.txt in the xkbcommon source code for more information.
30 Contributed by Peter Hutterer <@who-t.net>.
32 - Downgrade "Symbol added to modifier map for multiple modifiers" log to a
35 This error message was too annoying to be shown by default. When working on
36 keymaps, set `XKB_LOG_LEVEL=debug XKB_LOG_VERBOSITY=10` to see all possible
39 - Support building on Windows using the meson MSVC backend.
41 Contributed by Adrian Perez de Castro <@igalia.com>.
43 - Fix bug where the merge mode only applied to the first vmod in a
44 `virtual_modifiers` statement. Given
46 augment virtual_modifiers NumLock,Alt,LevelThree
48 Previously it was incorrectly treated as
50 augment virtual_modifiers NumLock;
51 virtual_modifiers Alt;
52 virtual_modifiers LevelThree;
56 augment virtual_modifiers NumLock;
57 augment virtual_modifiers Alt;
58 augment virtual_modifiers LevelThree;
60 - Reject interpret modifier predicate with more than one value. Given
62 interpret ISO_Level3_Shift+AnyOf(all,extraneous) { ... };
64 Previously, extraneous (and further) was ignored. Now it's rejected.
66 - Correctly handle capitalization of the ssharp keysym.
68 - Speed up and improve the internal `xkeyboard-config` tool. This tool
69 compiles all layout/variant combinations in the xkeyboard-config dataset
70 and reports any issues it finds.
72 Contributed by Peter Hutterer <@who-t.net>.
74 - Speed up "atoms" (string interning). This code goes back at least to X11R1
78 libxkbcommon 0.9.1 - 2019-10-19
81 - Fix context creation failing when run in privileged processes as defined by
82 `secure_getenv(3)`, e.g. GDM.
85 libxkbcommon 0.9.0 - 2019-10-19
88 - Move ~/.xkb to before XKB_CONFIG_ROOT (the system XKB path, usually
89 /usr/share/X11/xkb) in the default include path. This enables the user
90 to have full control of the keymap definitions, instead of only augmenting
93 - Remove the Autotools build system. Use the meson build system instead.
95 - Fix invalid names used for levels above 8 when dumping keymaps. Previously,
96 e.g. "Level20" was dumped, but only up to "Level8" is accepted by the
97 parser. Now "20" is dumped.
99 - Change level references to always be dumped as e.g. "5" instead of "Level5".
101 Change group references to always be dumped capitalized e.g. "Group3" instead
102 of "group3". Previously it was inconsistent.
104 These changes affect the output of xkb_keymap_get_as_string().
106 - Fix several build issues on macOS/Darwin, Solaris, NetBSD, cross compilation.
108 - Port the interactive-wayland test program to the stable version of xdg-shell.
111 libxkbcommon 0.8.4 - 2019-02-22
114 - Fix build of xkbcommon-x11 static library with meson.
116 - Fix building using meson from the tarball generated by autotools.
119 libxkbcommon 0.8.3 - 2019-02-08
122 - Fix build of static libraries with meson.
123 (Future note: xkbcommon-x11 was *not* fixed in this release.)
126 XKB_KEY_XF86MonBrightnessCycle
127 XKB_KEY_XF86RotationLockToggle
130 libxkbcommon 0.8.2 - 2018-08-05
133 - Fix various problems found with fuzzing (see commit messages for
136 - Fix a few NULL-dereferences, out-of-bounds access and undefined behavior
137 in the XKB text format parser.
140 libxkbcommon 0.8.1 - 2018-08-03
143 - Fix various problems found in the meson build (see commit messages for more
146 - Fix compilation on Darwin.
148 - Fix compilation of the x11 tests and demos when XCB is installed in a
149 non-standard location.
151 - Fix xkbcommon-x11.pc missing the Requires specification.
153 - Fix various problems found with fuzzing and Coverity (see commit messages for
156 - Fix stack overflow in the XKB text format parser when evaluating boolean
159 - Fix NULL-dereferences in the XKB text format parser when some unsupported
160 tokens appear (the tokens are still parsed for backward compatibility).
162 - Fix NULL-dereference in the XKB text format parser when parsing an
163 xkb_geometry section.
165 - Fix an infinite loop in the Compose text format parser on some inputs.
167 - Fix an invalid free() when using multiple keysyms.
169 - Replace the Unicode characters for the leftanglebracket and rightanglebracket
170 keysyms from the deprecated LEFT/RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET to
171 MATHEMATICAL LEFT/RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET.
173 - Reject out-of-range Unicode codepoints in xkb_keysym_to_utf8 and
177 libxkbcommon 0.8.0 - 2017-12-15
180 - Added xkb_keysym_to_{upper,lower} to perform case-conversion directly on
181 keysyms. This is useful in some odd cases, but working with the Unicode
182 representations should be preferred when possible.
184 - Added Unicode conversion rules for the signifblank and permille keysyms.
186 - Fixed a bug in the parsing of XKB key type definitions where the number
187 of levels were determined by the number of level *names*. Keymaps which
188 omit level names were hence miscompiled.
190 This regressed in version 0.4.3. Keymaps from xkeyboard-config were not
191 affected since they don't omit level names.
194 xkb_keysym_to_upper()
195 xkb_keysym_to_lower()
198 libxkbcommon 0.7.2 - 2017-08-04
201 - Added a Meson build system as an alternative to existing autotools build
204 The intent is to remove the autotools build in one of the next releases.
205 Please try to convert to it and report any problems.
207 See http://mesonbuild.com/Quick-guide.html for basic usage, the
208 meson_options.txt for the project-specific configuration options,
209 and the PACKAGING file for more details.
211 There are some noteworthy differences compared to the autotools build:
213 - Feature auto-detection is not performed. By default, all features are
214 enabled (currently: docs, x11, wayland). The build fails if any of
215 the required dependencies are not available. To disable a feature,
216 pass -Denable-<feature>=false to meson.
218 - The libraries are either installed as shared or static, as specified
219 by the -Ddefault_library=shared/static option. With autotools, both
220 versions are installed by default.
222 - xorg-util-macros is not used.
224 - A parser generator (bison/byacc) is always required - there is no
225 fallback to pre-generated output bundled in the tarball, as there is
228 - Removed Android.mk support.
230 - Removed the *-uninstalled.pc pkgconfig files.
232 - Ported the interactive-wayland demo program to v6 of the xdg-shell
235 - Added new keysym definitions from xproto.
241 XKB_KEY_XF86AudioPreset
244 libxkbcommon 0.7.1 - 2017-01-18
247 - Fixed various reported problems when the current locale is tr_TR.UTF-8.
249 The function xkb_keysym_from_name() used to perform case-insensitive
250 string comparisons in a locale-dependent way, but required it to to
251 work as in the C/ASCII locale (the so called "Turkish i problem").
253 The function is now no longer affected by the current locale.
255 - Fixed compilation in NetBSD.
258 libxkbcommon 0.7.0 - 2016-11-11
261 - Added support for different "modes" of calculating consumed modifiers.
262 The existing mode, based on the XKB standard, has proven to be
263 unintuitive in various shortcut implementations.
265 A new mode, based on the calculation used by the GTK toolkit, is added.
266 This mode is less eager to declare a modifier as consumed.
268 - Added a new interactive demo program using the Wayland protocol.
269 See the PACKAGING file for the new (optional) test dependencies.
271 - Fixed a compilation error on GNU Hurd.
274 enum xkb_consumed_mode
275 XKB_CONSUMED_MODE_XKB
276 XKB_CONSUMED_MODE_GTK
277 xkb_state_key_get_consumed_mods2
278 xkb_state_mod_index_is_consumed2
281 libxkbcommon 0.6.1 - 2016-04-08
284 - Added LICENSE to distributed files in tarball releases.
286 - Minor typo fix in xkb_keymap_get_as_string() documentation.
289 libxkbcommon 0.6.0 - 2016-03-16
292 - If the XKB_CONFIG_ROOT environment variable is set, it is used as the XKB
293 configuration root instead of the path determined at build time.
295 - Tests and benchmarks now build correctly on OSX.
297 - An XKB keymap provides a name for each key it defines. Traditionally,
298 these names are limited to at most 4 characters, and are thus somewhat
299 obscure, but might still be useful (xkbcommon lifts the 4 character limit).
301 The new functions xkb_keymap_key_get_name() and xkb_keymap_key_by_name()
302 can be used to get the name of a key or find a key by name. Note that
303 a key may have aliases.
305 - Documentation improvements.
308 xkb_keymap_key_by_name()
309 xkb_keymap_key_get_name()
312 libxkbcommon 0.5.0 - 2014-10-18
315 - Added support for Compose/dead keys in a new module (included in
316 libxkbcommon). See the documentation or the
317 xkbcommon/xkbcommon-compose.h header file for more details.
319 - Improved and reordered some sections of the documentation.
321 - The doxygen HTML pages were made nicer to read.
323 - Most tests now run also on non-linux platforms.
325 - A warning is emitted by default about RMLVO values which are not used
326 during keymap compilation, which are most often a user misconfiguration.
327 For example, "terminate:ctrl_alt_backspace" instead of
328 "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp".
330 - Added symbol versioning for libxkbcommon and libxkbcommon-x11.
331 Note: binaries compiled against this and future versions will not be
332 able to link against the previous versions of the library.
334 - Removed several compatablity symbols from the binary (the API isn't
335 affected). This affects binaries which
337 1. Were compiled against a pre-stable (<0.2.0) version of libxkbcommon, and
338 2. Are linked against the this or later version of libxkbcommon.
340 Such a scenario is likely to fail already.
342 - If Xvfb is not available, the x11comp test is now correctly skipped
345 - Benchmarks were moved to a separate bench/ directory.
347 - Build fixes from OpenBSD.
349 - Fixed a bug where key type entries such as "map[None] = Level2;" were
357 libxkbcommon 0.4.3 - 2014-08-19
360 - Fixed a bug which caused xkb_x11_keymap_new_from_device() to misrepresent
361 modifiers for some keymaps.
363 https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/9
365 - Fixed a bug which caused xkb_x11_keymap_new_from_device() to ignore XKB
368 - Modifiers are now always fully resolved after xkb_state_update_mask().
369 Previously the given state components were used as-is, without
370 considering virtual modifier mappings.
371 Note: this only affects non-standard uses of xkb_state_update_mask().
373 - Added a test for xkbcommon-x11, "x11comp". The test uses the system's
374 Xvfb server and xkbcomp. If they do not exist or fail, the test is
377 - Fixed memory leaks after parse errors in the XKB yacc parser.
378 The fix required changes which are currently incompatible with byacc.
381 libxkbcommon 0.4.2 - 2014-05-15
384 - Fixed a bug where explicitly passing "--enable-x11" to ./configure would
385 in fact disable it (regressed in 0.4.1).
387 - Added @since version annotations to the API documentation for everything
388 introduced after the initial stable release (0.2.0).
390 - Added a section to the documentation about keysym transformations, and
391 clarified which functions perform a given transformation.
393 - XKB files which fail to compile during keymap construction can no longer
394 have any effect on the resulting keymap: changes are only applied when
395 the entire compilation succeeds.
396 Note: this was a minor correctness issue inherited from xkbcomp.
398 - Fix an out-of-bounds array access in src/x11/util.c:adopt_atoms()
400 Note: it seems impossible to trigger in the current code since the input
401 size cannot exceed the required size.
404 libxkbcommon 0.4.1 - 2014-03-27
407 - Converted README to markdown and added a Quick Guide to the
408 documentation, which breezes through the most common parts of
411 - Added two new functions, xkb_state_key_get_utf{8,32}(). They
412 combine the operations of xkb_state_key_get_syms() and
413 xkb_keysym_to_utf{8,32}(), and provide a nicer interface for it
414 (espcially for multiple-keysyms-per-level).
416 - The xkb_state_key_get_utf{8,32}() functions now apply Control
417 transformation: when the Control modifier is active, the string
418 is converted to an appropriate control character.
419 This matches the behavior of libX11's XLookupString(3), and
420 required by the XKB specification:
421 https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.html#Interpreting_the_Control_Modifier
423 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75892
425 - The consumed modifiers for a key are now calculated similarly
426 to libX11. The previous behavior caused a bug where Shift would
427 not cancel an active Caps Lock.
429 - Make xkbcommon-x11 work with the keymap reported by the XQuartz
432 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75798
434 - Reduce memory usage during keymap compilation some more.
437 xkb_state_key_get_consumed_mods()
438 xkb_state_key_get_utf8()
439 xkb_state_key_get_utf32()
442 XKB_MAP_COMPILE_PLACEHOLDER, XKB_MAP_NO_FLAGS
443 use XKB_KEYMAP_NO_FLAGS instead.
448 libxkbcommon 0.4.0 - 2014-02-02
451 - Add a new add-on library, xkbcommon-x11, to support creating keymaps
452 with the XKB X11 protocol, by querying the X server directly.
453 See the xkbcommon/xkbcommon-x11.h header file for more details.
454 This library requires libxcb-xkb >= 1.10, and is enabled by default.
455 It can be disabled with the --disable-x11 configure switch.
456 Distributions are encouraged to split the necessary files for this
457 library (libxkbcommon-x11.so, xkbcommon-x11.pc, xkbcommon/xkbcommon-x11.h)
458 to a separate package, such that the main package does not depend on
461 - Fix the keysym <-> name lookup table to not require huge amounts of
464 - Fix a bug in the keysym <-> name lookup, whereby lookup might fail in
467 - Reduce memory usage during keymap compilation.
470 New keysyms from xproto 7.0.25 (German T3 layout keysyms).
471 XKB_MOD_NAME_NUM for the usual NumLock modifier.
472 xkb_x11_* types and functions, XKB_X11_* constants.
475 libxkbcommon 0.3.2 - 2013-11-22
478 - Log messages from the library now look like "xkbcommon: ERROR" by
479 default, instead of xkbcomp-like "Error: ".
481 - Apply capitalization transformation on keysyms in
482 xkb_keysym_get_one_sym(), to match the behavior specified in the XKB
484 https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.html#Interpreting_the_Lock_Modifier
486 - Support byacc for generating the parser, in addition to Bison.
489 XKB_KEY_XF86AudioMicMute keysym from xproto 7.0.24.
492 XKB_MAP_COMPILE_NO_FLAGS
497 libxkbcommon 0.3.1 - 2013-06-03
500 - Replace the flex scanner with a hand-written one. flex is no longer
504 xkb_keymap_min_keycode()
505 xkb_keymap_max_keycode()
506 xkb_keymap_key_for_each()
509 libxkbcommon 0.3.0 - 2013-04-01
512 - Allow passing NULL to *_unref() functions; do nothing instead of
515 - The functions xkb_keymap_num_levels_for_key() and
516 xkb_keymap_get_syms_by_level() now allow out-of-range values for the
517 'layout' parameter. The functions now wrap the value around the number
518 of layouts instead of failing.
520 - The function xkb_keysym_get_name() now types unicode keysyms in
521 uppercase and 0-padding, to match the format used by XKeysymToString().
523 - Building Linux-specific tests is no longer attempted on non-Linux
526 - The function xkb_keymap_new_from_names() now accepts a NULL value for
527 the 'names' parameter, instead of failing. This is equivalent to passing
528 a 'struct xkb_rule_names' with all fields set to NULL.
531 xkb_keymap_new_from_buffer()