New:

• Implement XShape support for non rectangular windows.
• Provide a XML schema to validate theme files.
• Use heavily double linked lists.
• Support the Composite Xorg extension.
• Increase resizing speed by skipping useless events.
• Improve rendering of panels and windows using masks.
• Restore last used focus when swiching desktops.
• Support tabbed windows.
• Implement new theme objects: polyonal shapes, gradients, tiled pictures.
• Add a 'Mouse Hover' state for titlebar buttons.
• Add shadow to texts.
• Allow the full body of a client frame to be customized.
• Better handle big windows.
• Allow mathematical operations (plus and minus) for positions and sizes in theme files.
• Support all sizes of titlebar buttons.
• Handle 4 new atoms from the ICCCM/EWMH specifications.
• Dutch translation.

Fix:

• Improve the key bindings system, allowing applications to use the Alt key for instance.
• Add missing XML reading of some parameters.
• Show the content of windows when switching.
• Avoid to have to use Alt-Tab to give focus in some cases.
• Do nothing when trying to swicth in an empty desktop.
• Close windows when required (old bug with applications such as xpdf).
• Redraw client title only when needed (bug pointed by Gimp).
• Take care of short overflow in areas computing.

Remove:

• Delete lots of useless color definitions in themes.

New:

• Introduce dynamic menus based on the Radix Tree algorithm.
• Build a theme engine, with rendering objects support.
• Consider text alignments.
• Display a welcome message when no customized configuration is found.
• Define client layouts: random or optimized windows placements.
• Handle signals SIGUSR1 to restart and SIGUSR2 to reload the current theme.
• Support XRender Xorg extension rendering.
• Stack all exposed areas to optimize updates when receiving X events.
• Change menus behavior: keyboard browsing and mouse smoother.
• Check sizes provided by programs.
• Remove all dependencies to the Xpm library ; use bitmaps instead.

Fix:

• Use regions to clip rendering areas.
• Ensure that all the text area is cleared when printing on switch panels.
• Improve the way the client highlighting border is drawn.
• Fix a bug due to a misunderstanding when reading min/max/inc client values.
• Fix two big bugs between client and map/unmap events.

Remove:

• Suppress horizontal and vertical maximize actions.

New:

• Load application icons.
• Run all files found in ~/.firebox/start/ at startup.
• Add a constraint system.
• Flip desktops using mouse motion.
• Compute resistance against windows/screen.
• Add manual page.
• Internationalize the program using Gettext.
• Handle 4 more atoms from the ICCCM/EWMH specifications.

Fix:

• Windows can now be moved beyond the left/top screen borders.
• *Lock keys do not disturb key bindings anymore.
• Fix a memory leak with XPath objects usage.
• Fix SEGFAULT bug due to shutdown() function bad name.

New:

• Support FreeType font rendering.
• Add "shade/unshade window" actions.
• Support multi virtual desktops.
• Support PNG and JPEG files as desktop background.
• Support ScreenSavers as animated desktop background.
• Use XML file for the configuration.
• Preserve the environment while restarting.
• Handle 10 more atoms from the ICCCM/EWMH specifications.
• Customizable policy of focus management
• Customizable buttons and behavior of title bars.

Fix:

• Run applications do not become Zombies when they get closed anymore.
• Displayed menus all disappear.
• Colors of internal images are correctly (and externaly) allocated.
• Windows with no name nor command do not crash the manager anymore.
• Suppression of many memory leaks and buffer overflows.

Fix:

• Handle Motif properties even when the <Xm/MwmUtil.h> file is missing.

Initial release.