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0.20.3
=======
- Bugs fixed in this release:
    Bug 583129 - [python] allow passing None as command or directory option
    Bug 583078 - [python] allow passing of environment as a dictionary

0.20.2
=======
- Bugs fixed in this release:
    Bug 567064 - Work around buggy iconv

0.20.1
=======
- Bugs fixed in this release:
    Bug 574491 – gnome-pty-helper can prevent volumes from being unmounted
    Bug 576504 – vte does not pass its testsuite.
    Bug 573674 – reset resets width to 80 chars
    Bug 576797 – Double-click sometimes stops working

0.20.0
=======
- Support using a real bold font instead of pseudo-bolding
- Respond to fontconfig configuration changes
- Bugs fixed in this release:
    Bug 54926 – Should try bold version of font before pseudo-bolding
    Bug 570208 – vte fails to build outside source tree
    Bug 548272 – Fix output of CSI 13,14, 18-21
    Bug 565688 – [gnome-pty-helper] using openpty in a bad way
    Bug 566795 – VTE fails to build in trunk
    Bug 524170 – Support initc terminfo capability and change-cursor-color
    Bug 566730 – vte_terminal_set_color_cursor() calls invalidate_all but
                 it doesn't have to
    Bug 565679 – alloca is discouraged
    Bug 565675 – typo in configure.in cause ncurses checking fail
    Bug 565663 – compile failure because use static function in another .h
                 file
    Bug 575398 – configure warns about term.h under OpenSolaris
    Bug 574616 – "real" transparency not working from python bindings
    Bug 574025 – Crash in _vte_terminal_insert_char

0.19.4
======
- Support for correct rendering of combining characters
- Fix background rendering.
- Misc bug fixes.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 564535 – check for gperf in autogen.sh
	Bug 149631 – gnome-terminal doesn't combine combining chars in utf8
	Bug 564057 – src/pty.c does not compile with
		--disable-gnome-pty-helper
	Bug 562695 - ship pkg-config file for python bindings
	Bug 563752 – pangocairo backend recreates cairo_surface_t for
		background drawing
	Bug 163213 – Cursor should remain visible when selected

0.19.3
======
- Really fix the rendering bug.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Red Hat Bug 474618 -  gnome-terminal sometime leaves empty begining
		of the line

0.19.2
======
- Rewrote text selection.  Much less buggy now.  Specially block-mode.
- Fixed rendering bug caused by wrong tab handling introduced in 0.19.0.
- More deprecation.  VteReaper is deprecated and will be removed in 1.0.
- Minor optimizations in the pangocairo backend.  Only one FcFontSort now
  instead of the previous two.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Red Hat Bug 474618 -  gnome-terminal sometime leaves empty begining
		of the line
	Bug 563274 – Misspelled word in src code
	Bug 563024 – In alternate-screen, selection can copy out of screen
		boundaries
	Bug 552096 – Detect tgetent if provided by libtinfo
	Bug 559818 – redundant selection-changed signal on deselection
	Bug 471480 – select single character
	Bug 110371 – Cannot select newline at end of full line
	Bug 112172 – Get rid of VteReaper
	Bug 560667 – invalid definition of VTE_INVALID_SOURCE
	Bug 541441 – Dehighlight links on visibility notify?

0.19.1
======
- 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

0.17.4
======
- Translation updates

0.17.3
======
- Update python bindings to bind new API from 0.17.1
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 538344 – Anjuta hangs when program is executed in terminal


0.17.2
======
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 546940 – Crash when selecting text

0.17.1
======
- New API to:
  * Make the cursor blinking follow the gtk setting by default, with a
    possible override.
  * Set named cursors on matches.
  * Do GRegex matching, to be used alternatively to the old vteregex matching.
  * Add set-scroll-adjustments signal, needed to allow adding a VteTerminal
    into a GtkScrolledWindow.
  * Add version check macro.
- Misc bug fixes.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 546366 – hard to select last tab char on a line
	Bug 545924 – tab characters not handled correctly after ncurses clear	
		Patch from Patryk Zawadzki
	Bug 542795 – VTE_CJK_WIDTH don't work
        Bug 399744 – Hide more font-aa implementation details
        Bug 510903 – use gtk-cursor-blink setting
        Bug 539130 – building g-t fails due to GtkType etc. deprecation
	Bug 540182 – crash in geany with vte trunk
	Bug 535552 – vte_terminal_set_allow_bold doesn't queue redraw
        Bug 535469 – support named cursors on matches
        Bug 418918 – Switch to GRegex
        Bug 535467 – implement set-scroll-adjustments signal
        Bug 535468 – need version check macros
	Bug 515972 – Bold black is black in vte's default palette

0.16.14
=======
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 536632 – vte build failure in ring.c:210: error: expected
		expression before 'do'
	Bug 535022 – ambiguous width in utf8 locale
	Bug 534148 – Use g_listenv() instead of environ
	Bug 516869 – vte displays nothing on GTK+/DirectFB
		Original patch by Jérémy Bobbio.
	Fix "GLib-CRITICAL **: g_io_add_watch_full: assertion
	                       `channel != NULL' failed"

0.16.13
=======
- Minor optimization.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 517709 – VTE's pty.c makes 4096 getrlimit calls when it only needs
	one
	Bug 449131 – Wrong gettext domain

0.16.12
=======
- More work around Gdk backends that don't issue GdkVisibilityNotify.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 503164 – Drawing problems for VTE with gtk+-quartz
	Bug 449131 – Wrong gettext domain

0.16.11
=======
- Work around Gdk backends that don't issue GdkVisibilityNotify.
- Try transliteration when pasting text into a non-UTF-8 locale.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 503164 – Drawing problems for VTE with gtk+-quartz
	Bug 319687 – Pasting of text containing characters not in the
		terminal's encoding silently fails

0.16.10
=======
- Smart tab character: you can now copy/paste tab characters printed by cat,
  diff, and other line-oriented tools and get the tab character in the
  clipboard, instead of multiple spaces.  The selection indicates that by
  being all or none.
- Misc bug fixes and optimizations.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	* src/vtedraw.c (_vte_draw_init_user): Make VTE_BACKEND=list list
	available backends to stderr.

	Bug 497246 – Kill vte_iso2022_fragment_input
	Bug 412435 – Invalid variable name in Makefile.am
	Bug 416561 – Rendering issue in VtePango
	Bug 416558 – Rendering errors in VteFT2
	Bug 403217 – Outdated README
	Bug 118967 – single line scrolling with "Ctrl+Shift+ArrowUp/ArrowDown"
		Patch from Mauricio and Mariano Suárez-Alvarez
	Bug 353610 – Don't convert tab characters upon copying
	Bug 499892 – strikethrough line is too high
	Bug 499891 – vte with opacity set, shows invisible chars
	Bug 499896 – Alternate charset isn't an attribute, though we treat it
		as one.
	Bug 499893 – cell.attr.protect is unused
	Bug 499287 – Fix doc coverage regression
	Bug 142640 – FcConfigSubstitute in place of _vte_fc_defaults_from_gtk
		to get antialias and hinting value
	Bug 439384 – gnome-terminal on feisty crashes when giving wrong locale
		environment
	Bug 483642 – vte_terminal_feed crash when 8190 characters passed
	Bug 480735 – Underlining whitespace not reliable
		Original patch by Steven Skovran.

0.16.9
======
- Slightly improved pango backend
- Misc bug fixes.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 469862 – Handling of wrapped links in gnome-terminal is broken
	Bug 471901 – troubles with pad
	Bug 153265 – Handle Sun Cut, Copy, Paste keys
		Patch by Brian Cameron.
	Bug 471484 – vteapp resize weirdness
	Bug 434230 – Spaces are not underlined
		Original patch by Santtu Lakkala.
	Bug 450069 – vte crash on removing a terminal tab

0.16.8
======
- Quick followup release with no code changes, to fix missing
  documentation index in the tarball.

0.16.7
======
- Misc bug fixes.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 337252 – ALT + Arrow keys don't work in irssi through gnome-terminal
		Patch by James Bowes
	Bug 448259 – Mapping for Ctrl-_
		Patch by Andrey Melnikov.
	Bug 449809 – use python-config to get python includes
		Patch by Sebastien Bacher.
	Bug 450745 – VTE's response to CSI 2 1 t incorrectly formatted
		Patch by Dale Sedivec.

0.16.6
======
- Misc bug fixes.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 445620 – Some characters shows different in different locales.
		Patch from Zealot
	Bug 372743 – vte_terminal_set_colors doesn't work as advertised

0.16.5
======
- Fix issue with 'some strange "underline" line where cursor is
  located and blinking'.

0.16.4
======
- Misc bug fixes.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 429278 – Cursor drawn strangely in joe
	cf Bug 439247 – scrolling vim in full screen is painfully slow and takes up 100% of the cpu
	Bug 440475 – Display glitch with transparent backgroud
	Bug 375112 – ctrl-key combinations yielding just key
		Original patch by <samo@altern.org> and refactored by Loïc Minier.
	Bug 440377 – gnome-terminal cannot refresh terminal when accessibility enabled
		Original patch by Li Yuan.
	Bug 433776 – gnome-terminal crashes when open preedit area

0.16.3
======
- Remove false warnings about missing glyphs in the Xft backend.
- Rename --enable-debugging configure option to --enable-debug to
  match other modules.
- Fix some of refresh issue where terminals stopped updating after
  changing workspaces.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 429189 – Vte-WARNING's
	Bug 415044 – Use --enable-debug rather than --enable-debugging
	Bug 414716 – Refresh issue after changing workspaces

0.16.2
======
- Consider ambiguous-width chars if VTE_CJK_WIDTH env var is set and we
  are under a CJK locale.
- Minor optimization
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 431799 – Regex highlighting is broken

0.16.1
======
- Lots of bug fixes by Chris Wilson
- New feature: mouse scroll-wheel now feeds three arrow-up/down keys to the
  terminal if in the "alternate" mode.  The alternate mode is used by apps
  like vim, less, emacs, screen, etc.  This makes the scroll-wheel usable
  in a state that it was of no use before.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 426870 – vte often passes NUL to functions requiring valid unichar
	Bug 419644 – Links do not get highlighted anymore
	Bug 404757 – URL matching doesn't work with PCRE
	Bug 426541 – crash on IRM escape code
	Bug 424184 – Make scroll wheel send Page Up/Down when it makes sense
		Original patch by Shaun McCance and refined by Baris Cicek.
	Bug 425767 – vte_terminal_set_color_highlight should test for
		NULL before _vte_debug_print
	Bug 422385 – vte appears at the top of the root window even when
		packed at the bottom of it
		Patch by Dodji Seketeli.
	Bug 420935 – glyph can be cropped with not fitting in a cell
	Bug 420067 – Does not handle expose events whilst processing
		unseen incoming data
	Bug 415381 – Improve performance of vte_terminal_insert_char()
	Bug 418073 – Opacity ignored for vtexft
	Bug 418910 – Asymmetric scrolling with mouse wheel
	Bug 416634 – Rendering glitch as autowrapped chars are outside
		invalidated bbox
	Bug 416635 – Rendering glitch: double draw of line below exposed region
	Bug 418588 – Invalid read when drawing preedit cursor
	Bug 417652 – Scrolling bug exposed by nvi
	Bug 417301 – Terminal widgets don't respond to DPI changes

0.16.0
======
- Fix some minor bugs.  More regressions to be fixed later.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 414716 – gnome-terminal-2.17.92: terminal window dies...
	Bug 414586 – Terminal screen blinks when menu is opened for the first time
	Bug 413068 – new line added to tab when opened

0.15.6
======
- Fix various bugs introduced in last couple of releases.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 410534 – Slow content scrolling, takes 100% of CPU.
	Bug 413068 – new line added to tab when opened
	Bug 413262 – Incorrectly coloured tabs
	Bug 413102 – Incorrect highlighting in vim
	Bug 413158 – Cursor trails
	Bug 413078 – Crash during opening a new tab whilst scrolling
	Bug 412717 – Crash when opening a new tab with window maximized

0.15.5
======
This is a quick followup release to 0.15.4 to fix a crasher recently
introduced.
- Fix a newly-introduced crasher
- Do not link to libpython in the python bindings
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 412562 – Crash in vte_terminal_match_hilite_update
	Bug 410986 – Fails to build with -z defs

0.15.4
======
This is yet another release including awesome work of Chris Wilson.
Hopefully mostly bugs fixed with this release and not many introduced.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 412361 – Yet another mouse selection regression...
	Bug 411000 – Orca repeats old text in gnome-terminal
	Bug 410534 – Slow content scrolling, takes 100% of CPU.
	Bug 410463 – Poor interactive performance with multiple terminals
	Bug 159078 – slow highlight
	Bug 411276 – SVN trunk compilation error
	Bug 410986 – Fails to build with -z defs
		Patch by Loïc Minier.
	Bug 410819 – slider not correctly positioned after calling less
	Bug 410534 – Slow content scrolling, takes 100% of CPU.
	Bug 410463 – Poor interactive performance with multiple terminals
	RedHat Bug 113195: First line displayed incorrectly if prompt changes background color
	RedHat Bug 123845: gnome-terminal not parsing cursor position escape sequence properly
	Bug 409055 – Terminal stays blank
	Bug 409241 – gnome-terminal crashed with SIGSEGV in vte_terminal_draw_graphic()
	Bug 407945 – "GNOME" Terminal" regression after "vte" update when using "csh"
	Bug 408536 – trouble compiling vte 0.15.3
	Bug 408040 – vte automagic hyperlinks
		Patch by Gilles Dartiguelongue.
	Bug 407839 – Use of environ breaks build on Solaris
		Original patch by Damien Carbery.
	Bug 407358 – regression in mouse selection

0.15.3
======
This is another release including awesome work of one Chris Wilson.  Lots of
bugs with the previous release are fixed in this one and some new ones are
introduced.  Doh!

- Faster control sequence matching, using gperf-generated tables now
- Faster regex matching
- Improved expose handling
- Improved control sequence matching
- Various optimizations
- Various cleanups
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 407091 – vte_terminal_fork_command() env argument changed semantic
		in 0.15.2
		Original patch by Michael Vogt.
	Bug 323393 – Hyper-sensitive selection
	Bug 406763 – Selecting double-wide characters
	Bug 363597 – Scrollback in profile dialog doesn't work
	Bug 345344 – Pattern matching is inefficient
	Bug 324246 – Performance degredation with large numbers of highlighted
		addresses/URLs
	Bug 86119 – "select all" feature
		Original patch by Simone Gotti.
	Bug 342059 – ASCII escape sequences don't work as expected
		Patch by Mariano Suárez-Alvarez.
	Bug 404757 – URL matching doesn't work with PCRE
	Bug 403028 – decset mode 12 = blinking cursor
	cf Bug 342338 – suffers from memory fragmentation
	Bug 106618 – CJK 'fixed width' font and 's p a c e d o u t' issue
	cf Bug 83285 – Treacle-slow scrolling in gnome-terminal on
		unaccelerated X server
	Bug 322241 – Please switch to pkg-config to check for freetype
	Bug 322240 – Usage of pkg-config privates header
	cf Bug 403275 – crash in Terminal: I was typing reset on th...
	Bug 403159 – XftDrawSetClipRectangles() silently fails on ppc->i386
	Bug 382245 – __PyGtk_API multiply defined in python module
	Bug 155687 – Scroll region \E[NN;MMr should set cursor to home
	Bug 147784 – cursor unvisible under mouse highlight
	Bug 368894 – crash in Terminal: I started gnome-terminal...
	Bug 402329 – Rendering problem with underlines and cursor
	Bug 336105 – gnome-terminal crashes when termcap not found
	Bug 401215 – Multi-pass renderering
	Bug 157267 – _vte_terminal_fudge_pango_colors() breaks Japanese input
		style
		Patch by ynakai@redhat.com.
	Bug 400834 – Use a global display/process timeout
	Bug 401082 – double-draw issue
	Bug 318307 – Cursor colour changes to foreground when unfocused
	Bug 317449 – The cursor disappears when clicking on windows above
		gnome-terminal
	Bug 400759 – update problem with vte trunk
	Bug 400671 – crash in Terminal: detaching of tabs
	Bug 399137 – UTF-8 problem in VteAccess
	Bug 400493 – Mouse selection seriously broken
	Bug 400438 – _vte_invalidate_all triggered on GDK_VISIBILITY_UNOBSCURED
	cf Bug 400072 – Handling of ; in control sequences
	cf Bug 399617 – Avoid memory allocations during an expose event.
	Bug 147495 – screen flicker when opening new terminal windows
	Bug 334755 – Incomplete information from vte_terminal_get_font
	Bug 400184 – _vte_pty_open declaration mismatch - breaks on Solaris
	Bug 335269 – Change the way vte handles PangoFontDescription behind
		vte_terminal_set_font
	Bug 123591 – vte_terminal_fork_command succeeds even when it does not

0.15.2
======
This is a very exciting release.  Most of the changes are made by Chris Wilson
who just got access to the vte repository.  On his first day he committed more
than 20 large patches, cleaning various parts of the code base and optimizing
too!  As a result of huge changes in this release, some regressions, specially
on less common systems/architectures is expected.  Please file bugs.

Highlights of improvements in this release:
- Moving around in vim and mc is a lot faster now, thanks to much
  smaller areas that will be redrawn with this release.
- Mouse wheel is usable in mc now, since we don't generate release
  events for scroll wheel events anymore.
- Faster.  One of the internal timers was completely removed, and
  lots of unnecessary work is not done anymore.  Particularly when
  the widget is not visible.
- Switched to using g_spawn_async to fork the child process, so we
  can now enjoy the error checking implemented in that functions.
  Failed forks now return an error message.
- Accessibility improvements.
- New environment variable VTE_BACKEND, to choose which rendering
  backend to use.  The old VTE_USE_* env vars are deprecated and
  not functional anymore.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 399137 - continuation.
	Bug 132316 – terminal widget's context menu posting isn't exposed as an AtkAction
		     Original patch by <padraig.obriain@sun.com>
	Bug 156161 – AccessibleText_getTextAtOffset returns wrong values in gnome-terminal
		     Patch by <padraig.obriain@sun.com>
	Bug 399137 – UTF-8 problem in VteAccess
	Bug 123591 – vte_terminal_fork_command succeeds even when it does not
	Bug 345514 – -no-undefined doesn't work with latest libtool
	Bug 162003 – vte configure.in X checking can fail
	           – though this may cause other regressions!
	Bug 314669 – Please specialize AC_PATH_XTRA
	Bug 389538 – crash in Terminal: nothing
	Bug 161479 – Scroll wheel generates Release events
	Bug 398602 – Build Failure
	Bug 397724 – Orca incorrect echo's certain input in gnome-terminal
		     when key echo is set to off (on Ubuntu Feisty).
	Bug 398244 – Gnome-terminal opens a huge sized window
	Bug 398243 – Crash
	Bug 398116 – lags behind when widget not visible
	Bug 398083 – background not painted correctly when starting up
	Bug 397414 - port vteapp to GOption
	Bug 395373 - Allow the user to specify backend priorities.
	Bug 346554 – Fancy prompt triggers update problem
	Bug 397439 – Performance enhancement patch series
	Bug 161342 – Vte slow with mc and vim
	Bug 387171 – vte fails to install on FreeBSD due to missing header
		     Patch from Roy Marples
	Bug 396831 – Unable to compile without X
		     Patch from Chris Wilson
	Bug 394890 – Segfault when running vte or gnome-terminal

0.15.1
	Bug 354061 – Excessive use of strlen by _vte_termcap_create
		     Patch from Ryan Lortie
	Bug 387475 – Gtk-Warning spew in gnome-terminal
		     Patch from Ryan Lortie
	Bug 387482 – Variable modified in signal handler should be volatile
		     Patch from Bastien Nocera
	Red Hat Bug 218626: "last -ad" print junk in last column

0.15.0
	Bug 356552 – cursor timeout runs all the time [Ryan Lortie]
	Bug 307396 – Mouse scroll mode not controllable [Mariano Suárez-Alvarez]
	Bug 356602 – const cast warning fixes for libvte [Ryan]
	Bug 150858 – In gnome-terminal, the deleted character reported as "space" [Rich Burridge]
	Bug 337252 – ALT + Arrow keys don't work in irssi through gnome-terminal [Mariano]

0.14.1
	Bug 358344 – autoscroll only works one way in fullscreen [PATCH]
	             Patch by Egmont Koblinger
	Bug 353756 – font setting cleanup
	Bug 356616 – libvte broken with new autotools
	Bug 354024 – Suppress multiple warnings for missing control sequence
	             handlers
	             Patch from Chris Wilson
	Bug 354620 – vte-0.14.0: undefined C code
	             Patch from Ales Nosek
	Define G_LOG_DOMAIN=Vte.

0.14.0
	Minor doc syntax update.
	Fix bug causing empty lines to not being copied.

0.13.7
	Bug 350236 – Cannot copy text; invalid character sequence errors
	Bug 352439 – URL highlighting seriously broken
	Bug 351494 – Gnome-terminal doesn't kills bash on tab close
	             Patch from Aivars Kalvans
	Bug 352365 – font caching problem for not-found glyphs

0.13.6
	Bug 351696 – crash on Terminal, check ->window before setting
	             icon/window title
	Bug 350623 – Accessible text getTextAtOffset is broken
	             Patch from Willie Walker

0.13.5
	Bug 158200 – terminal backspace behavior not set to UTF-8 mode
	             Based on patch from Egmont Koblinger
	Bug 348814 – crash on Terminal
	             Patch from Aivars Kalvans

0.13.4
	Fix selection that I broke in last release.
	Bug 336947 – [patch] Redundant vte_terminal_set_font_full() calls
	             Patch from Aivars Kalvans
	Bug 134800 – gnome-termnal hung up when input by ATOK
	             Patch from Yukihiro Nakai  <nakai@gnome.gr.jp>
	Bug 339983 – gnome-pty-helper should log username
	             Patch from Brian Cameron

0.13.3
	Bug 121904 – copy-paste of empty line
	Bug 25290 – Small UI tweak to select-by-word (only select only letter
	            at a time for non-word characters)
	Bug 339986 – Patch to select localized strings exactly
		     Patch from Takao Fujiwara
	Bug 311855 – Race in vte leads to blocking of input.
		     Patch from Kalle Raiskila
	Bug 342396 – Ctrl-space sends " ", not NUL.
	Bug 345377 – real transparency
		     Patch from Kristian Høgsberg <krh redhat.com>
	Bug 345514 – -no-undefined doesn't work with latest libtool
	Bug 141985 – vte does not respond to 'CSI 2 1 t' or 'CSI 2 0 t' with
		     the correct window/icon title
		     Patch from Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

0.13.2
	Bug 344666 – Problems with *_CFLAGS and *_LDFLAGS in makefiles
	             Patch from Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>.
	Bug 339529 – gnome-terminal (vte) crashes when detatched window is
	             closed
	Bug 342549 – uninitialized var (coverity)
	             Patch from Paolo Borelli.
	Bug 342082 – vte_invalidate_region() may check whether terminal is
	             realiazed or not
	             Patch from Kouhei Sutou.
	Bug 340363 – vte Cygwin build fixes
	             Patch from Cygwin Ports maintainer
	Bug 341793 – vte.h doesn't need to include X11/Xlib.h
	             Patch from Kouhei Sutou
	Require intltool 0.35.0 to have translations in the dist tarballs.
	Fix typo which may have been causing things like crashes.

0.13.1
	Use intltool 0.34.90 to make sure tarball includes po files.
	Bug 339980 – nativeecho needs glib in LDADD to build on Solaris
	             Patch from Brian Cameron.
	Bug 331803 – style needs to be attached/detached to the window on
	             realize/unrealize
	             Patch from Benjamin Berg  <benjamin@sipsolutions.net>.
	Pass -no-undefined linker flag.

0.13.0
	Removed obsolete #ifde GTK_CHECK_VERSION(2,2,0) checks.
	Bug 339448 – selection doesn't respect hard newlines
	Bug 148720 – Word selection erroneously captures text from next line
	Bug 126376 – Uncoinditional definition of _XOPEN_SOURCE breaks build
	             on NetBSD
	Bug 97719 – Selection: double/triple click doesn't cross line boundaries
	Bug 160782 – Vte isn't multi-screen safe
	Bug 330441 – Remove libzvt support
	Bug 328850 – Crash when pasting selection
	Bug 160134 – mouse events occurring past column 95 are not passed
	             through to terminal application
		     New public function vte_terminal_feed_child_binary
	Bug 135230 – Feature request to attach VTE to existing pty
	             New public function vte_terminal_set_pty
	Bug 337442 – [patch] Reduce .plt section
	             We use a regexp to limit exported symbols now.
	Bug 142247 – use of uninitialized value
	Bug 149633 – gnome-terminal messes up boxdrawing chars aligment
	Bug 144456 – UK pound currency symbol rendered incorrectly
	Bug 307403 – xticker doublefree
	Bug 337877 – Patch to use po/LINGUAS
	Bug 337552 – Insufficient version requirement for gtk+
	Bug 168251 – add support for 256 colors terminals
	Bug 120276 – Wishlist: Support Rectangular Selection
	Bug 336117 – [patch] Use g_slice API
	Bug 336128 – vim scrolling issues - emulation errors
	Bug 334385 – Use intltool
	Bug 104841 – scrolling doesn't work inside "screen" windows
	Bug 333768 – vteapp debug stuff should be conditional

0.12.0   - Released with no code changes.

0.11.21	 - Revert change introduced in 0.11.19 that made vte very unresponsive
	   with tall terminal windows. (bug #333776)
	 - Step up COALESCE_TIMEOUT and DISPLAY_TIMEOUT from 2ms to 10ms.
	   This is more compatible with the update timeout that we are doing
	   at 25ms, but needs testing.

0.11.20	 - Revert patch introduced in 0.11.16 that was corrupting the Xft
	   font cache. (bug #309322)

0.11.19	 - Revert Shift+Insert to paste PRIMARY.  Use Ctrl+Shirt+Insert to
	   paste CLIPBOARD (bug #123844)
	 - Improvements to the update throttling handler.
	 - gnome-pty-helper minor race condition fix.
	 - Use getpwnam to correctly log multiple users with the same UID
	   (bug #319564, Laszlo Peter)
	 - A couple minor build fixes.

0.11.18	 - Fix bug #317235 - Use U+FFFD instead of U-FFFF for invalid
	   codepoints. (Egmont Koblinger)
	 - Modernized the build system.  Depending on gnome-common  for
	   autogen.sh now and make distcheck works.
	 - Limit redrawings to a maximum of 40fps.  Makes vte run about
	   three times faster.
	 - Use GObject private data internally. (Behdad)
	 - Optimize the sequence handler code and split it into a
	   separate file. (Behdad)
	 - Fix bug #123844 - primary and clipboard selections are broken.
	   (Behdad)
	 - Fix bug #161337 - double free. (Guilherme de S. Pastore)
	 - Code cleanup and misc fixes. (Behdad)

0.11.17  - Revert .pc changes from previous release (Olav Vitters)
	 - Fix bug #170032 - gnome-terminal has problems with ANSI
	   (save and restore cursor position) (Olav Vitters)
	 - Fix bug #321909 – vte does not install devhelp file
	   (Guilherme de S. Pastore)
	 - Apply patch from Kjartan Maraas to replace g_return* with
	   g_assert in static functions (Guilherme de S. Pastore)
	 - Avoid guessing the user's shell until we make sure it is
	   really necessary (Guilherme de S. Pastore)
	 - Disable asserts by default (Guilherme de S. Pastore)

0.11.16  - Optimize memory used for fonts (Mike Hearn)
	 - Fix crasher with accessibility (Padraig O'Briain)
	 - Fix some warning from GDK (Michele Baldessari)
	 - Fix python build problems (Manish Sing)
	 - Fix generation of the forkpty() method for python.
	   (Michael Vogt)
	 - Cleanups for the .pc file (Steve Langasek)
	 - Don't emit signals for every character of output. Huge performance
	   improvement with a11y enabled. Patch from Padraig O'Briain.

0.11.15  - Fix check for recvmsg () (Robert Basch)
	 - Make it possible to implement atkText selection methods
	   for VteAccessible. Bug #113590. (Padraig O'Briain)
	 - Don't crash if there's no termcap file (Michele Baldessari)
	 - Make VTE work on some Net/OpenBSD on sparc and macppc
	   (Dan Winship, Rich Edelman, Adrian Bunk)

0.11.14  - Fix a crasher on reparent (Michele Baldessari)
	 - Fix a crash in a11y related code (Padraig O'Briain)
	 - Fix a crash in the pango backend (Michele Baldessari)
	 - Fix a crash from not unsetting the user data on the
	   gdk window (Matthias Clasen)
	 - Fix a crash in the python bindings when changing color
	   (Michele Baaldessari, Ethan Glasser-Kamp)

0.11.13  - Back out one of the previous patches from Fedora since it had
	   issues (Reported by Warren Togami)
	 - Reduce memory consumption with more that one tab a whole lot
	   (Aivars Kalvans)
	 - Make the python bindings work again (Manish Singh)
	 - Build fix (Ali Akcaagac)
	 - Updated translations ug (Abduxukur Abdurixit), rw (Steve Murphy),
	   xh (Adi Attar))

0.11.12: - Performance improvements:
	   - Two patches from bug #137864 (Benjamin Otte)
	   - Patch from bug #143914 (Søren Sandmann)
	 - Fix crash when resizing a terminal running minicom (Søren Sandmann)
	   Closes bug #163814 and duplicate.
	 - Adjust timeouts to make us behave like xterm when
	   outputing large amounts of text and still be fast (Kjartan)
	 - Fix build with VTE_DEBUG enabled (Kjartan)
	 - Build fixes for NetBSD and Darwin. Bug #126377 (Adrian Bunk)
	 - Build fixes for AIX. Bug #161352
	 - Make keypad behave like in xterm. Bug #128099. (jylefort at brutele be)
	 - Fix black background in new terminals. Bug #125364. (Fedora)
	 - Fix scrolling issues. Bug #168210 (Fedora)
	 - Fix screen corruption with multibyte charsets. Bug #168211 (Fedora)
	 - Redraw terminal fully before scrolling. Bug #168212 (Fedora)
	 - Fix crash with IM-methods. Bug #168213 (Fedora)
	 - Fix for scrolling back then forward. Bug 122150 (Benjamin Otte)
	 - Make terminal report correct type. Bug 130761 (Mariano)
	 - Updated translations:
	   Estii (et), Old English (ang), Canadian English (en_CA),
	   Spanish (es), Hungarian (hu), Albanian (sq), Norwegian bokmål
	   (nb), Bosnian (bs), Finnish (fi), Oriya (or), Georgian (ka),
	   Hindi (hi)
0.11.11: Add APIs for setting font with/without antialiasing, cursor color,
	 hilite color, and a forkpty()-alike.  Fix meta-space.  Use glib 2.4's
	 child watch API if available.
	 Add a configure switch for setting the default emulation instead of
	 hard-coding it to be "xterm".
	 Tweak autowrapping of text to handle cases where the terminal has
	 both LP and xn capabilities.
	 Truncate empty lines when copying text to mimic xterm.
	 Internally abstract out matching APIs, though we still use POSIX regex.
	 Try to set UTF8 line editing mode under sufficiently-new Linux.
	 Obey Pango's specified attributes when displaying pre-edit text.
	 Never steal modifier keys which might affect the input method from
	 the input methods.
	 Fix python binding so that help() lists the terminal class.
0.11.10: Fix cases where the application sets the encoding.  Adjust display of
         way-too-wide characters to better comply with openi18n.
0.11.9: Accessibility improvements.  Multihead fixes.  Revert to the 0.10 way
        of determining how wide an ambiguously-wide character should be.  Fix
        origin mode.  Fix linefeed mode, really.  Fix saving/restoring the
        cursor position via DECSET/DECRST.  Fix handling of control characters
        in the middle of control sequences.  Don't subject users to my crude
        approximation of U00A3 if any available font can be used instead.
0.11.8: Fix some memory leaks.  Fix compilation on Solaris.  Fix Ctrl-Space.
0.11.7: Properly recognizes 8-bit versions of SS2 and SS3 intermixed with
        UTF-8.  Add Macedonian and Welsh translations (yay GTP!).  Fix keypad
        page down key in application keypad mode.  Internalize some conversions
        to work better on platforms which lack a gunichar-compatible iconv
        target or UTF-8 to UTF-8 conversions.
0.11.6: Recognizes 8-bit versions of SS2 and SS3.
        Shares pixmap and pixbuf backgrounds between multiple terminal widgets
        within the same process, reducing both memory and CPU use.
0.11.5: Support for PC437.  Fix Ctrl+/.  Use xrdb font settings if GTK+ doesn't
        have anything to say.
0.11.4: Speedier transparency update when you move the windows, fixes for
        flickering when scrolling part of the screen, accessibility fixes.
        Bold works again.
0.11.3: Reworked handling of ISO-2022 text, handles Chinese and Korean
        correctly.
0.11.2: Fix for wrapping when selecting by word or lines.  Fix to conform to
        OpenI18N assertions.
0.11.1: A native FT2 drawing backend which may be faster than Pango on systems
        without Xft2.  Support for scrolling backgrounds for everyone.
0.11.0: Support for using font sets for better Unicode coverage when drawing
        using Xft2.  Support for scrolling backgrounds with Xft2.
0.10: Rewrote selection to better integrate dingus and autoscroll support.  The
      previous implementation was just a mess.  Changed the APIs so that callers
      have to decide whether or not to log (NOTE: this breaks gnome-terminal
      versions before 2.1.1 and 2.0.2).
0.9: Added integration with gnome-pty-helper.  This makes the lastlog/utmp/wtmp
     stuff work.
0.8: Added iso-2022 and national replacement character substitutions.  Line
     drawing characters are now represented as Unicode code points internally,
     so if you select a graphical line, you'll get the right results when you
     paste it.
0.7: Broke rendering code up into a couple of pieces to take advantage of
     Xft2 and Xlib APIs for drawing more than one character at a time.
0.6: Replaced the trie parser with a table-driven parser which is faster but
     only accurate enough for ANSI-compatible terminal types.  At some point
     I'll add a redirection layer to use the older code for other terminals.
0.5: Store characters as gunichars internally instead of wchar_t's.  Most of
     the internal processing is performed on gunichars anyway.
0.4: Support for Xft2 (which lets us do things faster than Xft1), and python
     bindings.
0.3: Initial accessibility peer implementation.

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