nsxiv - Changelog

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v32 (October 01, 2023)

• Changes:

  • Removed legacy multi-frame loaders. Animated image support now requires Imlib2 v1.8.0 or above.
  • Move loading/caching messages to right side bar #446
  • Set a default delay if delay is 0 in a multi-frame image #445
  • config.mk: default to -O2 #435
  • config.mk no longer explicitly sets CC to c99 #455
  • Assertions are now opt-in and requires explicitly defining DEBUG #447

• Added:

  • Added a pick-quit key-binding #432
  • Ability to configure Xresources class name in config.h #427
  • --version output now also includes compiled-in feature list #462
  • Document handling of empty X resources values #428
  • Experimental flag --bg-cache to generate thumbnail cache in a background process #438

• Fixes:

  • Changing brightness/contrast on multi-frame images #440
  • Brightness keybindings on manpage #467
  • Various autoreload bugs #437, #459, #460
  • *-info scripts not updating when selecting thumbnail with mouse #477
  • Updated openbsd configuration in config.mk #453
  • Memory leak in win_draw_bar #444
  • Thumbnail leak when removing the last file #423

v31 (January 28, 2023)

• Changes:

  • Uncritical files moved to etc/. #350
  • Empty Xresource entry will now be ignored. #340
  • win-title will be read in a non-blocking manner. #314

• Added:

  • Support for multi-frame images via Imlib2. #373
  • Support for long-opts. #332
  • Cli flag --anti-alias to enable/disable anti-aliasing. #361
  • Cli flag --alpha-layer to enable/disable checkerboard background. #408
  • Accept directory via stdin (-i) #383
  • Support for modifying brightness and contrast #396

• Fixes:

  • Build failure when _SC_PHYS_PAGES is not defined. #334
  • Various statusbar issues. #353,#341
  • Crashes due to faulty signal-handler. #411
  • Potential memory leak in r_readdir(). #319
  • Potentially printing incorrect error message. #321
  • Wrong slideshow length on animated webp. #381
  • Document missing Ctrl+6 binding in the manpage. #347

SPECIAL NOTE: Due to this incident we have moved development over to Codeberg.

A lot of the references below may now be 404 on GitHub. Any threads which survived the wipe have been migrated over to nsxiv-record. All of the references above can be found on the new main nsxiv repository on Codeberg.

v30 (June 15, 2022)

• Changes:

  • Development and main repository moved over to Codeberg. See the special note above for more info.
  • autoreload_{inotify,nop}.c merged into a single file, autoreload.c. #263
  • Moved all configuration related macros to config.mk. #264
  • win-title is now called only when there's change rather than being called on each redraw. #266

• Added:

  • Added more mimetypes to the .desktop entry. #260
  • Added thumb-info for customizing the statusbar in thumbnail-mode. #265
  • Added comments for building on OpenBSD. #264

• Fixes:

  • "Too many open file" error due to not closing the win-title script. #245
  • -f now directly starts in fullscreen mode rather than opening a normal window and then going fullscreen. #251
  • Broken slideshow on slow systems or fast animations. #282
  • Memory leak when removing an image in thumbnail mode. #247
  • Correctly setting _NET_WM_PID. #251
  • Don't override statusbar if info script doesn't exist. #271
  • Potential misbehavior regarding font. #250

v29 (March 03, 2022)

• Changes:

  • Window title is now customizable via win-title, cli flag -T and related config.h options are removed. See WINDOW TITLE section of the manpage for more info. #213
  • Imlib2 cache size is now set based on total memory percentage, by default set to 3%. #184
  • Removed some non-POSIX extensions in the Makefile. #225

• Added:

  • Ability to customize thumbnail mode mouse-bindings via config.h. #167
  • Option to set statusbar position to top via config.h. #231
  • New keybinding z to scroll to center. #203

• Fixes:

  • Manpage cleanup: avoid confusing wording and document thumbnail mode mouse-bindings. #186
  • Wrong jpeg exif orientation with Imlib2 v1.7.5 (and above). #188
  • Animation slowdown when zoomed in. #200
  • Reset statusbar after failed keyhandler. #191
  • Window title not working on certain WMs. #234
  • Various compiler warnings. #197

v28 (December 12, 2021)

• Changes:

  • Statusbar made optional via HAVE_LIBFONTS. #95
  • Remove library auto-detection, use OPT_DEP_DEFAULT instead. #71
  • Example scripts will now be installed into EGPREFIX ($(PREFIX)/share/doc/nsxiv/examples by default). See README for more info. #86

• Added:

  • Animated webp support (optional via HAVE_LIBWEBP). #20
  • New mouse-binding Ctrl-Button1 for relative drag. #117
  • Ability to configure colors and fonts in config.h. #115
  • Ability to configure navigation width area in config.h. #155
  • Ability to customize the set of modifiers used when processing keybindings in config.h via USED_MODMASK. #150
  • Ability to configure Imlib2's cache size for better image (re)loading performance in config.h. #171
  • Cli flag -0 for sending null-seperated file-list to standard out (-o), and key-handler and receiving null-seperated file-list via stdin (-i). #68,#141,#164
  • Export environment variable NSXIV_USING_NULL to key-handler. #164
  • Embed new nsxiv icon. #163
  • make install-icon to install icons. #80,#96
  • make install-desktop to install .desktop entry. #80,#96
  • make install-all to install everything. #80,#96
  • Configurable KEYHANDLER_ABORT in config.h. #91,#172
  • Statusbar message upon key-handler activation. #98
  • Ability to write custom C functions in config.h and use them via keybindings. #76

• Fixes:

  • Not able to use KEYHANDLER_ABORT key (Escape by default) in regular keybindings. #91
  • Memory leak related to Xresources. #134
  • Memory leak in gif loader. #165
  • Better handle gif colormap and prevent out-of-bound access. #165
  • Prevent crash when zooming out in very small images. #178
  • Removed non-POSIX commands and extensions from Makefile. #71
  • Regression where nsxiv wouldn't run on non-TrueColor X server. #114
  • Wrong comments in config.h and description in manpage. #105,#106,#152

v27.1 (September 16, 2021)

• Fixes:

  • Source tarball failing build #66

v27 (September 16, 2021)

• Changes:

  • Re-release under the name nsxiv.
  • Xresources Sxiv.foreground and Sxiv.background changed to Nsxiv.window.foreground and Nsxiv.window.background.
  • Xresources Sxiv.font changed to Nsxiv.bar.font.
  • Rework the build system. Now by default we'll build with only optional dependencies that are already installed. #19

• Added:

  • Fill scale mode. #2
  • Configurable X window title (via config.h and the -T flag). #23
  • Support custom bar colors via Xresources. #19
  • Support custom mark color via Xresources. #51
  • Toggle animation playback with Ctrl-a. #33
  • Set _NET_WM_PID and WM_CLIENT_MACHINE X properties. #13
  • Set ICCCM WM manager hints. #12

• Fixes:

  • Cli flag -G not initially setting gamma. #31
  • Wrong keybinding description in the manpage. #14
  • .desktop entry not advertising webp support. #15
  • Prevent crash when embedded into transparent window. #3
  • Small memory leak. #57
  • Rare crash when showing some GIFs. #41
  • Rare event where nsxiv wouldn't close after window being destroyed. #53

sxiv

Stable releases

v26 (January 16, 2020)

• Maintenance release

v25 (January 26, 2019)

• Support font fallback for missing glyphs
• Fix busy loop when built without inotify
• Use background/foreground colors from X resource database

v24 (October 27, 2017)

• Automatically reload the current image whenever it changes
• Support embedding into other X windows with -e (e.g. tabbed)
• New option -p prevents sxiv from creating cache and temporary files
• Simpler mouse mappings, the most basic features are accessible with the mouse only (navigate, zoom, pan)

v1.3.2 (December 20, 2015)

• external key handler gets file paths on stdin, not as arguments
• Cache out-of-view thumbnails in the background
• Apply gamma correction to thumbnails

v1.3.1 (November 16, 2014)

• Fixed build error, caused by delayed config.h creation
• Fixed segfault when run with -c

v1.3 (October 24, 2014)

• Extract thumbnails from EXIF tags (requires libexif)
• Zoomable thumbnails, supported sizes defined in config.h
• Fixed build error with giflib version >= 5.1.0

v1.2 (April 24, 2014)

• Added external key handler, called on keys prefixed with Ctrl-x
• New keybinding {/} to change gamma (by András Mohari)
• Support for slideshows, enabled with -S option & toggled with s
• Added application icon (created by 0ion9)
• Checkerboard background for alpha layer
• Option -o only prints files marked with m key
• Fixed rotation/flipping of multi-frame images (gifs)

v1.1.1 (June 2, 2013)

• Various bug fixes

v1.1 (March 30, 2013)

• Added status bar on bottom of window with customizable content
• New keyboard shortcuts \/|: flip image vertically/horizontally
• New keyboard shortcut Ctrl-6: go to last/alternate image
• Added own EXIF orientation handling, removed dependency on libexif
• Fixed various bugs

v1.0 (October 31, 2011)

• Support for multi-frame images & GIF animations
• POSIX compliant (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001)

v0.9 (August 17, 2011)

• Made key and mouse mappings fully configurable in config.h
• Complete code refactoring

v0.8.2 (June 29, 2011)

• POSIX-compliant Makefile; compiles under NetBSD

v0.8.1 (May 8, 2011)

• Fixed fullscreen under window managers, which are not fully EWMH-compliant

v0.8 (April 18, 2011)

• Support for thumbnail caching
• Ability to run external commands (e.g. jpegtran, convert) on current image

v0.7 (February 26, 2011)

• Sort directory entries when using -r command line option
• Hide cursor in image mode
• Full functional thumbnail mode, use Return key to switch between image and thumbnail mode

v0.6 (February 16, 2011)

• Bug fix: Correctly display filenames with umlauts in window title
• Basic support of thumbnails

v0.5 (February 6, 2011)

• New command line option: -r: open all images in given directories
• New key shortcuts: w: resize image to fit into window; W: resize window to fit to image

v0.4 (February 1, 2011)

• New command line option: -F, -g: use fixed window dimensions and apply a given window geometry
• New key shortcut: r: reload current image

v0.3.1 (January 30, 2011)

• Bug fix: Do not set setuid bit on executable when using make install
• Pan image with mouse while pressing middle mouse button

v0.3 (January 29, 2011)

• New command line options: -d, -f, -p, -s, -v, -w, -Z, -z
• More mouse mappings: Go to next/previous image with left/right click, scroll image with mouse wheel (horizontally if Shift key is pressed), zoom image with mouse wheel if Ctrl key is pressed

v0.2 (January 23, 2011)

• Bug fix: Handle window resizes correctly
• New keyboard shortcuts: g/G: go to first/last image; [/]: go 10 images back/forward
• Support for mouse wheel zooming (by Dave Reisner)
• Added fullscreen mode

v0.1 (January 21, 2011)

• Initial release