libxkbcommon-0.10

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

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.

• 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).

• 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.
• 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.

• Speed up "atoms" (string interning). This code goes back at least to X11R1 (released 1987).

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 22584.