X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e098f0fff5f624eff2a1c21db851d9333701943c;hb=49690d936bf6cc6bf85058c1f0a545f0d5e37c77;hp=39e6b93eb79b2f71239357746623fb0c8d0f06bf;hpb=919b97a83739bd9b810670cb0bbcf7651d82b964;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Flibxkbcommon.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 39e6b93..e098f0f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,636 @@ +libxkbcommon 1.5.0 - 2023-01-02 +================== + +- Add `xkb_context` flag `XKB_CONTEXT_NO_SECURE_GETENV` and `rxkb_context` flag + `RXKB_CONTEXT_NO_SECURE_GETENV`. + + xkbcommon uses `getenv_secure()` to obtain environment variables. This flag + makes xkbcommon use `getenv()` instead. + + This is useful for some clients that have relatively benign capabilities set, + like CAP_SYS_NICE, that also want to use e.g. the XKB configuration from the + environment and user configs in XDG_CONFIG_HOME. + + Contributed by Ronan Pigott. + +- Fix crash in `xkbcli interactive-wayland` under a compositor which supports + new versions of the xdg-shell protocol. + + Contributed by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig). + +- Fix some MSVC build issues. + +- Fix some issues when including xkbcommon as a meson subproject. + +- meson>=0.51 is now required. + +- New API: + XKB_CONTEXT_NO_SECURE_GETENV + RXKB_CONTEXT_NO_SECURE_GETENV + +libxkbcommon 1.4.1 - 2022-05-21 +================== + +- Fix compose sequence overriding (common prefix) not working correctly. + Regressed in 1.2.0. + + Contributed by Weng Xuetian. + +- Remove various bogus currency sign (particulary Euro and Korean Won) entries + from the keysym <-> Unicode mappings. They prevented the real + keysyms/codepoints for these from mapping correctly. + + Contributed by Sam Lantinga and Simon Ser. + +libxkbcommon 1.4.0 - 2022-02-04 +================== + +- Add `enable-tools` option to Meson build (on by default) to allow disabling + the `xkbcli` tools. + + Contributed by Alex Xu (Hello71). + +- In `xkbcli list`, fix "YAML Norway problem" in output. + + Contributed by Peter Hutterer. + +- In libxkbregistry, variants now inherit iso639, iso3166 and brief from parent + layout if omitted. + + Contributed by M Hickford. + +- In libxkbregistry, don't call `xmlCleanupParser()` - it's not supposed to + be called by libraries. + + Contributed by Peter Hutterer. + +- In libxkbregistry, skip over invalid ISO-639 or ISO-3166 entries. + + Contributed by Peter Hutterer. + +libxkbcommon 1.3.1 - 2021-09-10 +================== + +- In `xkbcli interactive-x11`, use the Esc keysym instead of the Esc keycode + for quitting. + + Contributed by Simon Ser. + +- In `xkbcli how-to-type`, add `--keysym` argugment for how to type a keysym + instead of a Unicode codepoint. + +- Fix a crash in `xkb_x11_keymap_new_from_device` error handling given some + invalid keymaps. Regressed in 1.2.0. + + Reported by Zack Weinberg. Tested by Uli Schlachter. + +libxkbcommon 1.3.0 - 2021-05-01 +================== + +- Change `xkbcli list` to output YAML, instead of the previous ad-hoc format. + + This allows to more easily process the information in a programmetic way, for + example + + xkbcli list | yq -r ".layouts[].layout" + + Contributed by Peter Hutterer. + +- Optimize a certain part of keymap compilation (atom interning). + +- Fix segmentation fault in case-insensitive `xkb_keysym_from_name` for certain + values like the empty string. + + Contributed by Isaac Freund. + +- Support building libxkbcommon as a meson subproject. + + Contributed by Adrian Perez de Castro. + +- Add `ftruncate` fallback for `posix_fallocate` in `xkbcli interactive-wayland` + for FreeBSD. + + Contributed by Evgeniy Khramtsov. + +- Properly export library symbols in MSVC. + + Contributed by Adrian Perez de Castro. + +libxkbcommon 1.2.1 - 2021-04-07 +================== + +- Fix `xkb_x11_keymap_new_from_device()` failing when the keymap contains key + types with missing level names, like the one used by the `numpad:mac` option + in xkeyboard-config. Regressed in 1.2.0. + +libxkbcommon 1.2.0 - 2021-04-03 +================== + +- `xkb_x11_keymap_new_from_device()` is much faster. It now performs only 2 + roundtrips to the X server, instead of dozens (in first-time calls). + + Contributed by Uli Schlachter. + +- Case-sensitive `xkb_keysym_from_name()` is much faster. + +- Keysym names of the form `0x12AB` and `U12AB` are parsed more strictly. + Previously the hexadecimal part was parsed with `strtoul()`, now only up + to 8 hexadecimal digits (0-9A-Fa-f) are allowed. + +- Compose files now have a size limit (65535 internal nodes). Further sequences + are discared and a warning is issued. + +- Compose table loading (`xkb_compose_table_new_from_locale()` and similar) is + much faster. + +- Use `poll()` instead of `epoll()` for `xlbcli interactive-evdev`, making it + portable to FreeBSD which provides evdev but not epoll. On FreeBSD, remember + to install the `evdev-proto` package to get the evdev headers. + +- The build now requires a C11 compiler (uses anonymous structs/unions). + +libxkbcommon 1.1.0 - 2021-02-27 +================== + +- Publish the `xkb-format-text-v1.md` file in the HTML documentation. This file + existed for a long time but only in the Git repository. + Link: https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/md_doc_keymap_format_text_v1.html + +- Add partial documentation for xkb_symbols to xkb-format-text-v1.md. + + Contributed by Simon Zeni. + +- Update keysym definitions to latest xorgproto. In particular, this adds many + special keysyms corresponding to Linux evdev keycodes. + + Contributed by Peter Hutterer <@who-t.net>. + +- New API: + Too many XKB_KEY_* definitions to list here. + +libxkbcommon 1.0.3 - 2020-11-23 +================== + +- Fix (hopefully) a segfault in xkb_x11_keymap_new_from_device() in some + unclear situation (bug introduced in 1.0.2). + +- Fix keymaps created with xkb_x11_keymap_new_from_device() don't have level + names (bug introduced in 0.8.0). + +libxkbcommon 1.0.2 - 2020-11-20 +================== + +- Fix a bug where a keysym that cannot be resolved in a keymap gets compiled to + a garbage keysym. Now it is set to XKB_KEY_NoSymbol instead. + +- Improve the speed of xkb_x11_keymap_new_from_device() on repeated calls in the + same xkb_context(). + + +libxkbcommon 1.0.1 - 2020-09-11 +================== + +- Fix the tool-option-parsing test failing. + +- Remove requirement for pytest in the tool-option-parsing test. + +- Make the table output of `xkbcli how-to-type` aligned. + +- Some portability and test isolation fixes. + +libxkbcommon 1.0.0 - 2020-09-05 +================== + +Note: this release is API and ABI compatible with previous releases -- the +major version bump is only an indication of stability. + +- Add libxkbregistry as configure-time optional library. libxkbregistry is a C + library that lists available XKB models, layouts and variants for a given + ruleset. This is a separate library (libxkbregistry.so, pkgconfig file + xkbregistry.pc) and aimed at tools that provide a listing of available + keyboard layouts to the user. See the Documentation for details on the API. + + Contributed by Peter Hutterer <@who-t.net>. + +- Better support custom user configuration: + + * Allow including XKB files from other paths. + + Previously, a 'symbols/us' file in path A would shadow the same file in + path B. This is suboptimal, we rarely need to hide the system files - we + care mostly about *extending* them. By continuing to check other lookup + paths, we make it possible for a XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xkb/symbols/us file to + have sections including those from /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us. + + Note that this is not possible for rules files, which need to be manually + controlled to get the right bits resolved. + + * Add /etc/xkb as extra lookup path for system data files. + + This completes the usual triplet of configuration locations available for + most processes: + - vendor-provided data files in /usr/share/X11/xkb + - system-specific data files in /etc/xkb + - user-specific data files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xkb + + The default lookup order user, system, vendor, just like everything else + that uses these conventions. + + For include directives in rules files, the '%E' resolves to that path. + + * Add a new section to the documentation for custom user configuration. + + Contributed by Peter Hutterer <@who-t.net>. + +- Add an `xkbcli` command-line utility. + + This tool offers various subcommands for introspection and debugging. + Currently the available subcommands are: + + list + List available rules, models, layouts, variants and options + + interactive-wayland + Interactive debugger for XKB keymaps for Wayland + + interactive-x11 + Interactive debugger for XKB keymaps for X11 + + interactive-evdev + Interactive debugger for XKB keymaps for evdev (Linux) + + compile-keymap + Compile an XKB keymap + + how-to-type + See separate entry below. + + See the manpages for usage information. + + Contributed by Peter Hutterer <@who-t.net>. + +- Add `xkb_utf32_to_keysym()` to translate a Unicode codepoint to a keysym. + When a special keysym (`XKB_KEY_` constant) for the codepoint exists, it is + returned, otherwise the direct encoding is used, if permissible. + + Contributed by Jaroslaw Kubik <@froglogic.com>. + +- Add `xkb_keymap_key_get_mods_for_level()` which retrieves sets of modifiers + which produce a given shift level in a given key+layout. + + Contributed by Jaroslaw Kubik <@froglogic.com>. + +- Add `xkbcli how-to-type` command, which, using `xkb_utf32_to_keysym()` + and `xkb_keymap_key_get_mods_for_level()` and other APIs, prints out all + the ways to produce a given keysym. + + For example, how to type `?` (codepoint 63) in a us,de keymap? + + $ xkbcli how-to-type --layout us,de 63 | column -ts $'\t' + keysym: question (0x3f) + KEYCODE KEY NAME LAYOUT# LAYOUT NAME LEVEL# MODIFIERS + 20 AE11 2 German 2 [ Shift ] + 20 AE11 2 German 2 [ Shift Lock ] + 61 AB10 1 English (US) 2 [ Shift ] + +- Add a new section to the documentation describing the format of the XKB + rules file. + +- Search for Compose in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/XCompose (fallback to + ~/.config/XCompose) before trying $HOME/.XCompose. + + Note that libX11 still only searches in $HOME/.XCompose. + + Contributed by Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <@linkmauve.fr>. + +- Bump meson requirement to >= 0.49.0. + +- Fix build with byacc. + +- Fix building X11 tests on PE targets. + + Contributed by Jon Turney <@dronecode.org.uk> + +- The tests no longer rely on bash, only Python (which is already used by + meson). + +- New API: + xkb_utf32_to_keysym + xkb_keymap_key_get_mods_for_level + XKB_KEY_XF86FullScreen + + +libxkbcommon 0.10.0 - 2020-01-18 +=================== + +- (security) Fix quadratic complexity in the XKB file parser. See commit + message 7c42945e04a2107827a057245298dedc0475cc88 for details. + +- Add $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xkb to the default search path. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME + is not set, $HOME/.config/xkb is used. If $HOME is not set, the path is not + added. + + The XDG path is looked up before the existing default search path $HOME/.xkb. + + Contributed by Peter Hutterer <@who-t.net>. + +- Add support for include statements in XKB rules files. + + This is a step towards making local XKB customizations more tenable and + convenient, without modifying system files. + + You can now include other rules files like this: + + ! include %S/evdev + + Two directives are supported, %H to $HOME and %S for the system-installed + rules directory (usually /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules). + + See commit message ca033a29d2ca910fd17b1ae287cb420205bdddc8 and + doc/rules-format.txt in the xkbcommon source code for more information. + + Contributed by Peter Hutterer <@who-t.net>. + +- Downgrade "Symbol added to modifier map for multiple modifiers" log to a + warning. + + This error message was too annoying to be shown by default. When working on + keymaps, set `XKB_LOG_LEVEL=debug XKB_LOG_VERBOSITY=10` to see all possible + messages. + +- Support building on Windows using the meson MSVC backend. + + Contributed by Adrian Perez de Castro <@igalia.com>. + +- Fix bug where the merge mode only applied to the first vmod in a + `virtual_modifiers` statement. Given + + augment virtual_modifiers NumLock,Alt,LevelThree + + Previously it was incorrectly treated as + + augment virtual_modifiers NumLock; + virtual_modifiers Alt; + virtual_modifiers LevelThree; + + Now it is treated as + + augment virtual_modifiers NumLock; + augment virtual_modifiers Alt; + augment virtual_modifiers LevelThree; + +- Reject interpret modifier predicate with more than one value. Given + + interpret ISO_Level3_Shift+AnyOf(all,extraneous) { ... }; + + Previously, extraneous (and further) was ignored. Now it's rejected. + +- Correctly handle capitalization of the ssharp keysym. + +- Speed up and improve the internal `xkeyboard-config` tool. This tool + compiles all layout/variant combinations in the xkeyboard-config dataset + and reports any issues it finds. + + Contributed by Peter Hutterer <@who-t.net>. + +- Speed up "atoms" (string interning). This code goes back at least to X11R1 + (released 1987). + + +libxkbcommon 0.9.1 - 2019-10-19 +================== + +- Fix context creation failing when run in privileged processes as defined by + `secure_getenv(3)`, e.g. GDM. + + +libxkbcommon 0.9.0 - 2019-10-19 +================== + +- Move ~/.xkb to before XKB_CONFIG_ROOT (the system XKB path, usually + /usr/share/X11/xkb) in the default include path. This enables the user + to have full control of the keymap definitions, instead of only augmenting + them. + +- Remove the Autotools build system. Use the meson build system instead. + +- Fix invalid names used for levels above 8 when dumping keymaps. Previously, + e.g. "Level20" was dumped, but only up to "Level8" is accepted by the + parser. Now "20" is dumped. + +- Change level references to always be dumped as e.g. "5" instead of "Level5". + + Change group references to always be dumped capitalized e.g. "Group3" instead + of "group3". Previously it was inconsistent. + + These changes affect the output of xkb_keymap_get_as_string(). + +- Fix several build issues on macOS/Darwin, Solaris, NetBSD, cross compilation. + +- Port the interactive-wayland test program to the stable version of xdg-shell. + + +libxkbcommon 0.8.4 - 2019-02-22 +================== + +- Fix build of xkbcommon-x11 static library with meson. + +- Fix building using meson from the tarball generated by autotools. + + +libxkbcommon 0.8.3 - 2019-02-08 +================== + +- Fix build of static libraries with meson. + (Future note: xkbcommon-x11 was *not* fixed in this release.) + +- New API: + XKB_KEY_XF86MonBrightnessCycle + XKB_KEY_XF86RotationLockToggle + + +libxkbcommon 0.8.2 - 2018-08-05 +================== + +- Fix various problems found with fuzzing (see commit messages for + more details): + + - Fix a few NULL-dereferences, out-of-bounds access and undefined behavior + in the XKB text format parser. + + +libxkbcommon 0.8.1 - 2018-08-03 +================== + +- Fix various problems found in the meson build (see commit messages for more + details): + + - Fix compilation on Darwin. + + - Fix compilation of the x11 tests and demos when XCB is installed in a + non-standard location. + + - Fix xkbcommon-x11.pc missing the Requires specification. + +- Fix various problems found with fuzzing and Coverity (see commit messages for + more details): + + - Fix stack overflow in the XKB text format parser when evaluating boolean + negation. + + - Fix NULL-dereferences in the XKB text format parser when some unsupported + tokens appear (the tokens are still parsed for backward compatibility). + + - Fix NULL-dereference in the XKB text format parser when parsing an + xkb_geometry section. + + - Fix an infinite loop in the Compose text format parser on some inputs. + + - Fix an invalid free() when using multiple keysyms. + +- Replace the Unicode characters for the leftanglebracket and rightanglebracket + keysyms from the deprecated LEFT/RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET to + MATHEMATICAL LEFT/RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET. + +- Reject out-of-range Unicode codepoints in xkb_keysym_to_utf8 and + xkb_keysym_to_utf32. + + +libxkbcommon 0.8.0 - 2017-12-15 +================== + +- Added xkb_keysym_to_{upper,lower} to perform case-conversion directly on + keysyms. This is useful in some odd cases, but working with the Unicode + representations should be preferred when possible. + +- Added Unicode conversion rules for the signifblank and permille keysyms. + +- Fixed a bug in the parsing of XKB key type definitions where the number + of levels were determined by the number of level *names*. Keymaps which + omit level names were hence miscompiled. + + This regressed in version 0.4.3. Keymaps from xkeyboard-config were not + affected since they don't omit level names. + +- New API: + xkb_keysym_to_upper() + xkb_keysym_to_lower() + + +libxkbcommon 0.7.2 - 2017-08-04 +================== + +- Added a Meson build system as an alternative to existing autotools build + system. + + The intent is to remove the autotools build in one of the next releases. + Please try to convert to it and report any problems. + + See http://mesonbuild.com/Quick-guide.html for basic usage, the + meson_options.txt for the project-specific configuration options, + and the PACKAGING file for more details. + + There are some noteworthy differences compared to the autotools build: + + - Feature auto-detection is not performed. By default, all features are + enabled (currently: docs, x11, wayland). The build fails if any of + the required dependencies are not available. To disable a feature, + pass -Denable-=false to meson. + + - The libraries are either installed as shared or static, as specified + by the -Ddefault_library=shared/static option. With autotools, both + versions are installed by default. + + - xorg-util-macros is not used. + + - A parser generator (bison/byacc) is always required - there is no + fallback to pre-generated output bundled in the tarball, as there is + in autotools. + +- Removed Android.mk support. + +- Removed the *-uninstalled.pc pkgconfig files. + +- Ported the interactive-wayland demo program to v6 of the xdg-shell + protocol. + +- Added new keysym definitions from xproto. + +- New API: + XKB_KEY_XF86Keyboard + XKB_KEY_XF86WWAN + XKB_KEY_XF86RFKill + XKB_KEY_XF86AudioPreset + + +libxkbcommon 0.7.1 - 2017-01-18 +================== + +- Fixed various reported problems when the current locale is tr_TR.UTF-8. + + The function xkb_keysym_from_name() used to perform case-insensitive + string comparisons in a locale-dependent way, but required it to to + work as in the C/ASCII locale (the so called "Turkish i problem"). + + The function is now no longer affected by the current locale. + +- Fixed compilation in NetBSD. + + +libxkbcommon 0.7.0 - 2016-11-11 +================== + +- Added support for different "modes" of calculating consumed modifiers. + The existing mode, based on the XKB standard, has proven to be + unintuitive in various shortcut implementations. + + A new mode, based on the calculation used by the GTK toolkit, is added. + This mode is less eager to declare a modifier as consumed. + +- Added a new interactive demo program using the Wayland protocol. + See the PACKAGING file for the new (optional) test dependencies. + +- Fixed a compilation error on GNU Hurd. + +- New API: + enum xkb_consumed_mode + XKB_CONSUMED_MODE_XKB + XKB_CONSUMED_MODE_GTK + xkb_state_key_get_consumed_mods2 + xkb_state_mod_index_is_consumed2 + + +libxkbcommon 0.6.1 - 2016-04-08 +================== + +- Added LICENSE to distributed files in tarball releases. + +- Minor typo fix in xkb_keymap_get_as_string() documentation. + + +libxkbcommon 0.6.0 - 2016-03-16 +================== + +- If the XKB_CONFIG_ROOT environment variable is set, it is used as the XKB + configuration root instead of the path determined at build time. + +- Tests and benchmarks now build correctly on OSX. + +- An XKB keymap provides a name for each key it defines. Traditionally, + these names are limited to at most 4 characters, and are thus somewhat + obscure, but might still be useful (xkbcommon lifts the 4 character limit). + + The new functions xkb_keymap_key_get_name() and xkb_keymap_key_by_name() + can be used to get the name of a key or find a key by name. Note that + a key may have aliases. + +- Documentation improvements. + +- New API: + xkb_keymap_key_by_name() + xkb_keymap_key_get_name() + + libxkbcommon 0.5.0 - 2014-10-18 ================== @@ -107,7 +740,7 @@ libxkbcommon 0.4.1 - 2014-03-27 is converted to an appropriate control character. This matches the behavior of libX11's XLookupString(3), and required by the XKB specification: - http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.html#Interpreting_the_Control_Modifier + https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.html#Interpreting_the_Control_Modifier https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75892 @@ -170,7 +803,7 @@ libxkbcommon 0.3.2 - 2013-11-22 - Apply capitalization transformation on keysyms in xkb_keysym_get_one_sym(), to match the behavior specified in the XKB specification: - http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.html#Interpreting_the_Lock_Modifier + https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.html#Interpreting_the_Lock_Modifier - Support byacc for generating the parser, in addition to Bison.