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# V1.0.0 - Welcome in 2016
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The new release, after a long development cycle, is finally out. It has a lot of changes that are hopefully invisible to
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the user. On top of that we decided it is time to deprecate some old stuff left from the simpleswitcher era.
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the user. On top of that we decided it is time to deprecate some old stuff left from the simpleswitcher era.
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The biggest changes in this version are two major rewrites in the hope to improve maintainability and code quality.
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The biggest changes in this release are:
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## XLib to xcb
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With the help of SardemFF7 **rofi** we broke free from the massif xlib and moved to xcb. This resulted in cleaner and
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faster code.
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faster code. To offer all the functionality offered by the xlib version, we do depend on a relatively new xkbcommon
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(0.5.0), luckily most distributions latest releases should be supporting this. In this move we manage to squash several
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long standing bugs and open a possibility to fix more in the future.
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## GLib Mainloop
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`XDG_CONFIG_HOME/rofi/config`, or passed from the commandline via the `-config` option. Settings in the config file will
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override Xresources and is read on each startup.
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## Version scheme
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Rofi now no longer uses 0.year.month as release number, but switches to a more common scheme:
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**major**.**minor**.**patch**. The release number 1.0.0 has no significant meaning, but was a logic followup on 0.15.12.
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We added features and broke backwards compatibility.
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## Better locale and UTF-8 handling
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In our continious effort of making **rofi** handle UTF-8 and locales correctly we made the run dialog convert to and
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from the locale filesystem encoding correctly, made the dmenu input parser more robust for handling invalid UTF-8 and do
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we try to convert coming from Xorg.
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## "Regression"
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There where also some victims of the big rewrite, we decided to remove an old remnants from the simpleswitcher era,
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namely daemon mode. In our opinion this is duplicate functionality, if you are using **rofi** it is very likely you are
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either running a window manager (like i3) that implements global hotkey functionality, or running a keyboard daemon like
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sxhkd.
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sxhkd.
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A second victim, that had been marked deprecated for more then a year, is the old method of specifying themes where
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every color option had one commandline flag. This method was very verbose and incomplete. With the [theme
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* Levenshtein sort is now UTF-8 aware.
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* Use xcb instead of large xlib library.
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* Use GLib mainloop for cleaner code and easier external event based handling in future.
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* Run dialog: Try to convert between locale, fs encoding and utf8. Fixing problems with non-utf8 filesystem encodings.
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* Try to display non-utf8 strings as good as possible.
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* Autocomplete bang hint in combi mode (#380)
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* Remove magic line length limits by switching to getline from fgets.
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* Print git version for git builds in version string.
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## Bug fixes
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* Be able to distinguish between empty and cancel in dmenu mode. (#323)
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* Fix memcpy on single memory region. (#312)
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* Fix opening file with mode a+ and using fseek to overwrite on bsd.
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* Run dialog: Try to convert between locale, fs encoding and utf8. Fixing problems with non-utf8 filesystem encodings.
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## Regressions
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