====== 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 Bug 156161 – AccessibleText_getTextAtOffset returns wrong values in gnome-terminal Patch by 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