X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b05a6dcbd447042dd416ad5c04de9ccc3f12bac7;hb=HEAD;hp=ccb3d108e02b4c53be1b20c724170350de32e37c;hpb=0485620c03e69b1b58a6b12e5e45c98415fc7575;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ccb3d108..bec446a8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright 2018-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey -- +-- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- @@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2920 2017/08/19 20:10:50 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4139 2024/06/15 20:49:04 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +46,2802 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names. Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions; it is not possible to add this information. +20240615 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + review/update modules files. + + improve install-rules in Ada95 makefiles (report by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages in test-directory. + +20240608 + + change winwstr to return wide character count instead of OK (patch + by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + rename testing dpkg's for ncurses6 to resolve a naming conflict with + Debian's ncurses packages. + +20240601 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + change Ada95/configure to use --with-screen option rather than + --enable-widec, to provide more choices of underlying curses library + +20240525 + + build-fix for configure option --disable-ext-funcs + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + review/update iTerm2 for 3.5.0 -TD + +20240519 + + update Ada95/configure to match change for -DTRACE + + revert change to include/ncurses_defs, which caused build failure if + tracing was not enabled (report by Branden Robinson). + +20240518 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + move makefile's -DTRACE into include/ncurses_cfg.h, to simplify use + of CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS. + + improve check for clock_gettime(), from xterm. + + modify configure script to work around broken gnatgcc script found in + gcc-13 builds. + +20240511 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + limit value from ESCDELAY environment variable to 30 seconds, like + other delay limits. + + limit values from LINES and COLUMNS environment variables to 512 + (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20240504 + + update ncurses/wcwidth.c, for MinGW ports, from xterm. + + trim obsolete comment about tack from INSTALL. + +20240427 6.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update announcement + + fixes/corrections for manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + fix redefinition of CASTxPTR, for legacy Unix. + +20240420 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + compiler warning/portability fixes. + +20240414 + + build/bug-fix for check-size feature (reports by Sam James, Gabriele + Balducci). + +20240413 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + provide for padding in check-size feature, using new_prescr() to + pass interim SCREEN pointer. + + complete change for opaque options (Gentoo #928973, cf: 20231021). + + update package /debian/rules and related lintian overrides + + revise progs.priv.h to provide for NC_ISATTY reuse + +20240330 + + remove masking of ISIG in cbreak() (report by Benno Schulenberg). + + modify test/test_mouse.c to use curses api for raw/noraw. + > improved configure macros from other program development: + + build-fix for clang on Solaris + + suppress filename/timestamp in gzip'd manpages (suggested for + byacc by Andrin Geiger) + +20240323 + + modify tput/tset reset feature to avoid 1-second sleep if running in + a pseudo-terminal. + + modify check-size feature to avoid using it in a pseudoterminal + (cf: 20231016) + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + trim a space after some "-R" options, fixing builds for applications + built using clang and ncurses on Solaris. + +20240309 + + modify xgterm to work around line-drawing bug -TD + + use CSI 3J in vte-2017 (report by Sven Joachim) + +20240302 + + add configure check for MB_LEN_MAX, to provide warning as needed. + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + fix regression in tput which disallowed hex/octal parameters (report + by Werner Fink, cf: 20230408) + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20240224 + + improve man/curs_mouse.3x style (Branden Robinson, Sven Joachim). + + provide for CCHARW_MAX greater than 1 + + eliminate use of PATH_MAX in lib_trace.c + + work around misconfiguration of MacPorts gcc13, which exposes invalid + definition of MB_LEN_MAX in gcc's fallback copy of limits.h (MacPorts + #69374). + +20240217 + + add vt100+noapp, vt100+noapp+pc, xterm+app+pc, xterm+decedit from + xterm #389 -TD + + fix inconsistent description of wmouse_trafo() (Debian #1059778). + + modify wenclose() to handle pads (Debian #1059783). + + improve manpage discussion of mouseinterval() (Debian #1058560). + +20240210 + + compiler-warning fixes, while investigating an optimizer bug in + "gcc (MacPorts gcc13 13.2.0_4+stdlib_flag) 13.2.0" + which results in only the first byte of a multibyte character being + printed to the screen. + +20240203 + + minor changes to tracing and locale-checks. + +20240127 + + amend change to z39-a (report by Sven Joachim). + + use xterm+nopcfkeys, vt52-basic, dec+pp, dec+sl, vt52+arrows, + hp+pfk+cr, klone+acs, klone+color, klone+sgr, ncr160wy50+pp + to trim -TD + + NetBSD-related fixes for x68k and wsvt25 (patch by Thomas Klausner) + +20240120 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + amend discussion of aliases in tput.1 + + use ansi+sgrbold, ansi+sgrdim, ansi+sgrso, ansi+sgrul, ansi+tabs + ecma+color, ecma+sgr, vt100+4bsd, vt100+pfkeys, vt220+pcedit + xterm+256color, xterm+acs, xterm+nopcfkeys, xterm+pcf2 to trim -TD + + modify configure scripts/makefiles to omit KEY_RESIZE if the + corresponding SIGWINCH feature is disabled. + +20240113 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + modify dist.mk to avoid passing developer's comments in manpages into + the generated html documentation. + + use ansi+local, ansi+local1, ansi+pp, ansi+rca, ansi+rca2, ansi+sgr + to trim -TD + + restore padding for wy520* and vt320-k311 (report by Sven Joachim). + +20240106 + + use ansi+arrows, ansi+apparrows, ansi+csr, ansi+erase, ansi+idc, + ansi+idc1, ansi+idl, ansi+idl1, ansi+inittabs to trim -TD + + minor manpage formatting changes for consistency. + + modify doc-html test package's install-directory, per lintian. + + add attr_get.3x to man_db.renames.in (patch by Sven Joachim). + +20231230 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + add ms-vt100-16color, winconsole -TD + + add rio, rio-direct -TD + + add mostlike -TD + + add wezterm, contour -TD + +20231223 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20231217 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean + is unset in a base entry and set in a use'd chunk, i.e., if it was + cancelled. + + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which + were already cancelled in a use'd chunk. + + join two lines in infotocap.3x to eliminate a spurious "description" + link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim). + + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim). + +20231209 + + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels in use'd chunks + which are not mentioned in the top-level terminal description. + + remove xterm+sm+1006 from tmux (Debian #1057688). + + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD + + updated man/edit_man.sh to allow for "\%" markers embedded after + bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057651). + + reduce compiler-warnings in configure checks + +20231202 + + correct initial alignment of extended capabilities in infocmp, so + that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types. + + improve formatting/style of manpages, changing environment variables + to italics (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20231125 + + add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1 + (patch by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering + (patches by Branden Robinson). + + modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values + (report by Branden Robinson). + +20231121 + + amend fix for Debian #1055882, correcting nul terminator check in + waddnstr (Debian #1056340). + +20231118 + + improve description of length-parameter and error-returns in several + manpages: curs_addchstr.3x, curs_addstr.3x, curs_addwstr.3x, + curs_in_wch.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x, curs_inchstr.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x, + curs_insstr.3x, curs_instr.3x, curs_inwstr.3x + + amend parameter check for entire string versus specific length in + winsnstr() and wins_nwstr() to match Solaris. + + make similar correction to wins_nwstr(). + + correct loop termination condition in waddnstr() and waddnwstr() + (Debian #1055882, cf: 20201205). + +20231111 + + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD + + add limit checks in infocmp needed when processing extended + capabilities with the "-u" option. + + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages. + + fix a few compiler warnings for Solaris 10. + + modify endwin() to return an error if it is called again without an + intervening screen update (report by Rajeev Pillai, NetBSD #57592). + +20231104 + + modify reset command to avoid altering clocal if the terminal uses a + modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek, + OpenSUSE #1201384, Debian #60377). + + build-fixes for --with-caps variations. + + correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL. + +20231028 + + move xterm focus mode 1004 from xterm+sm+1006 into xterm+focus as + fe/fd capabilities, like vim (vim-pr #13440). + + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make "libdir" the default, + as documented, rather than "auto" (report by Branden Robinson). + + improve messages from configure script (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20231021 + + use oldxterm+sm+1006 in vte-2014 (report by Benno Schulenberg) -TD + + add ansi+apparrows -TD + + change defaults for configure opaque and widec options (prompted by + discussion with Branden Robinson). + + minor cleanup of compiler- and manpage-warnings. + +20231016 + + make the recent change to setupterm optional "--enable-check-size" + (Debian #1054022). + +20231014 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, for uClibc-ng + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20231007 + + improve loop-limit for get_position(). + + improve manual description of immedok (Debian #1053603). + + fix a few formatting issues with manpages (Debian #1053123). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20231001 + + modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in + user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither + environment variables or ioctl is used. The ncurses test-program + with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature. + + improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates. + + fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by + copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott). + +20230923 + + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + amend change to delscreen() to limit the windows which it creates to + just those associated with the screen (report by Frederic Boiteux, + cf: 20220813). + +20230918 + + new tarball/errata (report by Sven Joachim). + +20230917 + + improve formatting of manpages (integrated patches by Branden + Robinson). + + correct limit for name-length in write_entry.c (report/testcase by + Luna Saphie Mittelbach). + + limit delays to 30 seconds, i.e., padding delays in terminfo, as well + as napms() and delay_output() functions. + + improve a few pointer-checks. + + improve parsing in _nc_msec_cost, allowing a single decimal point. + +20230909 + + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson), for + captoinfo.1m and terminfo.5 + > patches by Nicholas Marriott: + + use string-hacks in alloc_entry.c, alloc_type.c and hardscroll.c, + overlooked due to compiler changes in recent OpenBSD releases. + + add "-6" option to ncu2openbsd script. + +20230902 + + improve description of search rules for terminal descriptions in + terminfo manpage (report by Sven Joachim). + +20230826 + + fixes for compiler-warnings. + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20230819 + + various manpage-formatting fixes. + + correct formatting of table header in curs_inopts.3x (Branden + Robinson). + + correct manpage description of panel_hidden (report by Benjamin + Mordaunt). + +20230812 + + add/use putty+cursor to reflect amending of modified cursor-keys in + 2021 -TD + + add ecma+strikeout to putty -TD + + add functions to query tty-flags in SCREEN (request by Bill Gray). + +20230805 + + fix a few manpages needing tbl marker, seen by lintian warning. + + fixes for compiler-warnings. + + minor grammatical fix for manpages (Branden Robinson). + +20230729 + + improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_wnstr(). + + modify MinGW configuration to provide for running in MSYS/MSYS2 + shells, assuming ConPTY support (patch by Pavel Fedin). + + add assignment in CF_MAN_PAGES to fill in value for TERMINFO_DIRS in + ncurses, terminfo and tic manpages (patch by Sven Joachim). + +20230722 + + add "auto" default for --with-xterm-kbs configure option. + +20230715 + + correct wadd_wch_literal() when adding a non-spacing character to a + double-width character. + + improve manual page for curs_util. + + improve manual page for wadd_wch(). + +20230708 + + add linux+kbs for terminals which imitate xterm's behavior with + Linux -TD + + modify MinGW driver to return KEY_BACKSPACE when an unmodified + VK_BACK virtual key is entered (prompted by patch by Pavel Fedin, + Savannah #64292). + + disallow using $TERMINFO or $HOME/.terminfo when tic "-o" option is + used (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #1040048). + +20230701 + + fix mandoc warnings about unnecessary markup. + + improve parameter check in tparm_setup() + +20230625 + + adjust man/make_sed.sh to work with dates as the third field of TH. + + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai"). + +20230624 + + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai"). + +20230617 + + markup manpages with revision information (prompted by discussion + with Bjarni Ingi Gislason). + +20230615 + + modify _nc_read_file_entry() to show relevant filename in warnings. + + improve checks in convert_string() for corrupt terminfo entry (report + and test-case by Gregory James Duck). + +20230610 + + improve manpages discussing file descriptors in low-level functions. + + modify flushinp to use file descriptors in SCREEN, rather than from + TERMINAL, and check if they are for a terminal, like SVr4. + + modify mcprint to use file descriptor in SCREEN, for consistency. + + add xterm+focus to foot+base (patch by Daniel Ekloef). + + correct definition of Charable() for non-wide ncurses library (report + and test-case by Zbigniew Baniewski). + +20230603 + + add configure option --with-strip-program, to override program + chosen by the install program for stripping executables (prompted + by discussion with Aapo Rantalainen). + + fix typo in INSTALL (report/patch by Aapo Rantalainen). + + improve error-checks for isEILSEQ() + + increase MB_CUR_MAX to 16, matching glibc's MB_LEN_MAX. + + corrected mouse mask in test/testcurs.c + + improve thread lock in lib_trace.c + +20230527 + + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck. + +20230520 + + fixes for compiler warnings in MinGW environments. + +20230514 + + modify test-package "ncurses6-doc" to use manpage-aliases, which in + turn required a change to the configure script to factor in the + extra-suffix option when deriving alias names. + + add mode 1004 to xterm+sm+1006 from xterm #380 -TD + +20230506 + > build-fixes related to configure-options and/or platform: + + fix for --enable-fvisibility + + fix for unusual values of --with-rel-version + + fix for unusual values of --with-abi-version + + fix for --disable-tcap-names + + fix for termcap in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink). + +20230429 + + revise recent change to _nc_write_entry to isolate it to a Cygwin bug + (cf: 20230311) + + amend fix for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to use cbreak mode unless raw + mode was set (cf: 20210522). + + fix a few warnings from cppcheck, etc. + + correct copy/paste error in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink). + +20230424 + + check return value of _nc_save_str(), in special case for tic where + extended capabilities are processed but the terminal description was + not initialized (report by Ziqiao Kong). + + regenerate llib-* files. + +20230423 + + add tiscan_s() to help applications check formatting capabilities + that would be passed to tiparm_s, etc. + + add tiparm_s() to provide applications a way to tell ncurses what + the expected parameters are for a capability (tmux #3531). + + improve check in lib_tparm.c, ensuring that a char* fits into a + TPARM_ARG. + + add --disable-setuid-environ configure option (request by Sven + Joachim). + + drop compatibility with obsolete versions of tack, e.g., pre-1.08 + (Debian #1034549, cf: 20170722). + +20230418 + + improve checks for limits on privileged execution: + + modify _nc_syserr_abort() to use _nc_env_access(), rather than + only checking root uid. + + use getauxval() when available, to improve setuid/setgid checks. + + modify test packages to disable root access/environ options. + + modify tgoto() to accept no-parameter capabilities, for joe editor + (OpenSUSE #1210485, Gentoo #904263). + +20230415 + + configure script fixes: + + fix copy/paste error in configure option --disable-root-access + (report/patch by Sven Joachim). + + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro's amend default case to avoid + undefining _XOPEN_SOURCE if _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined. + + modify test_tparm to account for extended capabilities. + + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of numeric parameters, + overlooked in 20230408. + + fix errata in clear.1 and curs_terminfo.3x + +20230408 + + document limitations of tparm, and error-returns in curs_terminfo.3x + + document limitations of tgoto, and error-returns in curs_termcap.3x + + add xterm+focus to alacritty+common (patch by Christian Duerr). + + add "-v" option to tput, to show warnings. + > improve checks for malformed terminfo data (report/analysis by + Jonathan Bar Or, Michael Pearse, Emanuele Cozzi). + + make the parameter type/count checks in _nc_tiparm() more stringent + + update tgoto() to account for _nc_tiparm() changes + + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of string parameters + + add special cases in tput to handle extensions Cs/Ms parameters + + ignore compiled-terminfo where the array sizes exceed the standard + +20230401 + + modify experimental Windows driver to work with xterm mouse protocol. + + remove DECCOLM+DECSCLM from foot (patch by Daniel Ekloef). + +20230311 + + improve manpage description for addch versus unctrl format used for + non-printable characters. + + modify version-check for gcc/g++, now works for msys2. + + modify check in _nc_write_entry() for multiply defined aliases to + report problems within the current runtime of tic rather than for + conflicts with pre-existing terminal descriptions. + + allow for MinGW32-/64-bit configurations to use _DEFAULT_SOURCE + + clarify interaction of -R option versus -C, -I and -r in infocmp + manpage. + + build-fix in lib_win32con.c (cf: 20230211). + +20230225 + + build-fixes for rpm test-packages. + + add/use configure check for clock_gettime(), to supersede + gettimeofday(). + +20230218 + + configure-script improvements: + + recent msys2 headers work with _DEFAULT_SOURCE; amend check + + use $ac_includes_default in most cases where stdlib.h should work + + use #error consistently vs "make an error" + + add configure macro for gettimeofday vs inline check + +20230211 + + set dwShareMode in calls to CreateConsoleScreenBuffer() (patch by + Hannes Domani). + + use CreateFile with "CONIN$", "CONOUT$" rather than GetStdHandle to + obtain a handle on the actual console, avoiding redirection in the + MinGW/Win32 configurations (adapted from patch by LIU Hao). + +20230128 + + document XF, kxIN and kxOUT -TD + + add note on sun/wscons/cmdtool/shelltool -TD + + modify configure script check for pkg-config library directory to + take into account an older version 0.15.0 which used PKG_CONFIG_PATH + but not PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR + +20230121 + + correct limit-check when dumping tc/use clause via tic -I (report by + Gabriel Ravier). + + correct a check for manpage-alias in edit_man.sh, to work with out of + tree builds (report by Sven Joachim). + +20230114 + + change RV to XR/xr, to avoid conflict with pre-existing usage in vim, + to use RV/rv to denote DA2 and its response (discussion with Bram + Moolenaar) -TD + + add XF flag to xterm+focus so that termcap applications can be aware + of terminals which may support focus in/out -TD + + use xterm+focus in xterm-p370 and tmux -TD + + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings. + +20230107 + + add --with-abi-altered configure option (prompted by discussion with + Brian Inglis). + + add BSD erase2 to characters handled by tset/reset. + + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings. + + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221202 + + add RV report+version (suggested by Bram Moolenaar). + + add comment to bracketed+paste explaining that vim patch 9.0.1117 is + needed for use with the updated xterm descriptions (suggested by Bram + Moolenaar). + +20221231 6.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update release notes + + regenerate llib-* files. + + correct PS vs PE names in bracketed+paste (report by Bram Moolenaar) + -TD + +20221224 + + add mutex lock/unlock in a few places reported by thread-sanitizer + + add/use bracketed+paste to help identify terminals supporting this + xterm feature (prompted by discussion with Bram Moolenaar) -TD + +20221217 + + install Ada95 sample programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper + script to invoke those. + +20221210 + + add minimal -h/-V getopt logic to the remaining test-programs. + + free new_pair() data in delscreen (report by "magiblot"). + + add clarification of the scope of dynamic variables in terminfo(5). + + remove a stray '/' from description of %g in terminfo(5). + +20221203 + + add -h usage and -V version options to the test-programs which use + getopt. + + use "command -v" rather than "type" in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in to fix + a portability issue (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez). + + update ncurses-howto, more documentation fixes along with corrections + to example programs. + +20221126 + + fix an error in pathname of explain.txt (cf: 20200201). + + fix an error in "@" command in test/ncurses.c F-menu (cf: 20190121). + + improve formatting of ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html + + improve man/curs_clear.3x links to other pages + +20221119 + + use static libraries for AdaCurses test-package for Mageia, since no + gprbuild package is available. + + updated test packages for Debian. + +20221112 + + build-fixes for AdaCurses RPM test-package. + +20221105 + + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221009 + + modify "--with-manpage-format" to support bzip2 and xz compression + (prompted by discussion with Sam James). + + modify make-tar.sh scripts to make timestamps more predictable. + +20221029 + + improve curs_slk.3x discussion of extensions and portability (report + by Bill Gray). + +20221023 + + change man_db.renames to template, to handle ncurses*-config script + with the extra-suffix configure option. + +20221015 + + fix another memory-leak in tic. + + update install-sh script from autoconf, to fix install problem for + Ada95 with Arch; as noted in + https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-09/msg00005.html + there are unaddressed issues. + + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding GNU libc suffixes for abi64, abin32, + x32 (report by Sven Joachim): + + correct ifdef's for _nc_set_read_thread() (patch by Mikhail Korolev, + cf: 20220813). + +20221008 + + correct a switch-statement case in configure script to allow for test + builds with ABI=7. + + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to allow for the case where the library + directory does not yet exist, since this is processed before doing an + install (report by Michal Liszcz). + +20221001 + + modify configure/scripts to work around interference by GNU grep 3.8 + (report by Sam James). + + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding variants "gnueabi" and "gnueabihf" to + get _DEFAULT_SOURCE special case (report by Adam Sampson) + +20220924 + + modify configure macro CF_BUILD_CC to check if the build-compiler + works, rather than that it is different from the cross-compiler, e.g., + to accommodate a compiler which can be used for either purpose with + different flags (report by Mikhail Korolev). + + fix another memory-leak in tic. + + correct change for cppcheck in menu library (report/analysis by + "tuxway", cf: 20220903). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20220917 + + reduce memory-leak in tic by separating allocations for struct entry + from TERMTYPE2 (cf: 20220430). + + improve interaction between tic -v option and NCURSES_TRACE, by + processing the latter only when -v option does not set _nc_tracing. + + modify curses_trace() to show the trace-mask as symbols, e.g., + TRACE_ORDINARY, DEBUG_LEVEL(3). + +20220910 + + amend verbose-option change to make this affect level 3, e.g., using + "tic -cv3 terminfo". + + work around musl's nonstandard use of feature test macros by adding + a definition for NCURSES_WIDECHAR to the generated ".pc" and *-config + files (report by Sam James). + +20220903 + + modify verbose-option of infocmp, tic, toe to enable debug-tracing + if that is configured. + +20220827 + + modify configure scripts to use overlooked cases for LD and + PKG_CONFIG variables (report by Alan Webb, Gentoo #866398). + + modify nsterm to use xterm+alt1049 (report by Paul Handly) -TD + + modify putty to use xterm+alt1049 -TD + +20220820 + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++ + libraries and progs directory. + + add curses_trace to ifdef's for START_TRACE in test/test.priv.h + + update config.guess + +20220813 + + modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given + screen. + + amend portability note for delwin in manual page. + + adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray. + + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration + + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about + pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol. + + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c + +20220806 + + amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final + newline. + + check for non-textfiles to tic. + +20220729 + + fixes to build with dietlibc: + + add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner). + + add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock, + and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner). + + use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found + (adapted from patch by Georg Lehner). + + trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc + files seen in Fedora 36+. + +20220724 + + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual. + + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c + + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen + (Debian #1015756). + +20220716 + + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw. + + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck + + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke). + +20220709 + + lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the + pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries). + +20220703 + + add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities. + + use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and + response -TD + + use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably + supported the u6-u9 extension -TD + + add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD + +20220625 + + improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results + for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic). + + correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD + + add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD + +20220618 + + add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(), + needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521). + + revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to + smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD + + amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610, + att620, att730 -TD + +20220612 + + modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when + merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy). + + improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character. + +20220604 + + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x + + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD + + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD + +20220529 + + expanded notes for teken/syscons -TD + + fix overlooked copying of extended string-heap in copy_termtype + (cf: 20220430). + + update config.guess + +20220521 + + improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs. + + set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr(). + + modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to + copy_termtype(). + +20220514 + + further improvements to test/test_mouse.c; compare with ncurses test + program menu A/a. + +20220507 + + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov). + + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks. + +20220501 + + build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton). + +20220430 + + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and + also provide for focus in/out responses -TD + + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release + events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov). + + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo + syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'. + + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table + data rather than relying upon its callers. + + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure + it is initialized. + + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC. + + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp. + +20220423 + + in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402). + + fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir(). + + fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used. + +20220416 + + add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data + (report/testcase by NCNIPC of China). + + add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is + missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379). + + add setlocale call to several test-programs. + + allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on. + +20220409 + + add test/test_unget_wch.c + +20220402 + + amend extended_captype(), returning CANCEL if a string is explicitly + cancelled. + + make description-fields distinct -TD + +20220326 + + update teken -TD + + add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD + + add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD + +20220319 + + add xgterm -TD + + correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by + Robert Lange) + + add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) + + improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc. + +20220312 + + add xterm+acs building-block -TD + + add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD + + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per xterm patch #371 -TD + + add mosh and mosh-256color -TD + +20220305 + + replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to + work around build problems with gnat 12. + + update external links in Ada95.html + + trim unused return-value from canonical_name(). + +20220226 + + fix issues found with coverity: + + rewrite canonical_name() function of infocmp to ensure buffer size + + corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands + + modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns + + add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c + + add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis. + + enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding. + + adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from + gcc 12.0.1 + +20220219 + + expanded description in man/resizeterm.3x + + additional workaround for ImageMagick in test/picsmap.c + +20220212 + + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency. + + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno + Schulenberg). + +20220205 + + workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values + by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit. + + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap". + +20220129 + + minor updates for test-packages + + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the + case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a + colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum, + cf: 20211113). + + update kitty -TD + +20220122 + + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script. + + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps" + does not exist. + + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on + format-warnings. + + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the + infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker. + +20220115 + + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse + state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by + Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022). + + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files. + +20220101 + + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and + curs_terminfo.3x manpages. + +20211225 + + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages + (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann). + +20211219 + + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper + script to invoke those. + + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c + +20211211 + + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters. + +20211204 + + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink). + +20211127 + + fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD + + add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD + +20211120 + + add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD + + deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last + allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar, + cf: 20200531). + + modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch. + + if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use + ${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross + Burton). + +20211115 + + fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE + #1192668, cf: 20211106), + +20211113 + + minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437). + + add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse + Sundrup) -TD + + improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which + installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes. + +20211106 + + improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR + + modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad, + rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit + its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou). + + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram + Moolenaar, cf: 20210821). + +20211030 + + simplify some references to WINDOWS._flags using macros. + + add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages. + + build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp + +20211026 + + corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10. + + amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where + none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from + mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic). + +20211021 6.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update release notes + + add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD + system to use a current ncurses release. + +20211018 + + check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case + a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by + Frank Tkalcevic). + +20211017 + + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in + the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci). + +20211016 + + build-fix for pmake with libtool. + + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up + shellcheck warnings. + + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc + + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual + search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug + (report by Pascal Pignard). + + freeze ABI in ".map" files. + +20211009 + + implement "+m" option in tabs program. + + fill in some details for infoton -TD + + fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD + + use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD + + modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other + than reset/init, e.g., for clear. + + modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather + than the last. + + improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp, + and smgbp (cf: 20020525). + + correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow + special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407). + + remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and + non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present + (cf: 20101002). + +20211002 + + use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for + buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_"). + + modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to + match the documentation. + + add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses. + + make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when + those are used, rather than the underlying program's name. + + improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating + tput-specific portions. + + add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather + than binary. + + further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from + the other BSDs. + +20210925 + + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD + + add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the + "tabs" +m option -TD + + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward + reference of anonymous struct typedef. + + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line. + + minor fixes for tset manpage. + +20210911 + + adjust ifdef in test_opaque.c to fix build with ncurses 5.7 + + add testing note for xterm-{hp|sco|sun} -TD + + corrected description for ansi.sys-old -TD + + add xterm+nopcfkeys, to fill in keys for xterm-hp, xterm-sun -TD + + use hp+arrows in a few places -TD + + use hp+pfk-cr in a few places -TD + +20210905 + + correct logic in filtering of redefinitions (report by Sven Joachim, + cf: 20210828). + +20210904 + + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by + kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD + + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color + manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4. + + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black). + + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh). + + build-fix for compiling link_test + + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify + use (Debian #993179). + +20210828 + + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis + by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626). + + apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list + parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list + (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request). + + modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE, + e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for + ncursesw. + + improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables. + + improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson). + +20210821 + + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching + SVr4 terminfo. + + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h + + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile + + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD + + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an + error in an expression (cf: 20201010). + + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than + SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812). + + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report + by Florian Weimer) -TD + + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes. + + update config.sub + +20210814 + + add workaround for broken pcre2 package in Debian 10, from xterm #369. + +20210807 + + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files, + adapted from "distr1" patch. + + add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports. + +20210731 + + add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal, + but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD + + add foot and foot-direct -TD + +20210724 + + add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to + ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + + review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD + +20210718 + + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this + against Glink manual -TD + + fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the + vt220 entry -TD + + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option + (report by Juergen Pfeifer). + + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers + who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library. + + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque + curses structs. + +20210710 + + improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball, + which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years. + + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs + Jansen). + + further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of + the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree. + + update config.sub + +20210703 + + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc., + in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries. + + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature. + +20210626 + + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to + disallow most file-opens by setuid processes. + + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD + + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD + + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler) + + regenerate man-html documentation. + +20210619 + + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such + as --with-valgrind + + trim trailing blanks from files + +20210612 + + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing. + + update config.guess + +20210605 + + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h + (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray). + +20210522 + + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate + an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted + by discussion with Peter Farley). + + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar. + + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses + in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by + report/testcase by Bill Gray) + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20210515 + + improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by + report/testcase by Bill Gray). + +20210508 + + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first + calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization + is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by + Sebastiano Vigna). + + fix several warnings from clang --analyze + + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers + to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav + Lichvar, cf: 20210227). + +20210501 + + add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the + build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here: + https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html + There is no workaround for the other issue, a broken linker spec. + + modify configure check for libtool to prevent accidental use of an + OpenBSD program which uses the same name. + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20210424 + + avoid using broken system macros for snprintf which interfere with + _nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks + configure option is enabled. + + add a "all::" rule before the new "check" rule in test/Makefile.in + +20210418 + + improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed + before linking to the target. + + add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories. + + build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports + by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum). + +20210417 + + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS + from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764). + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++ + libraries and progs directory. + + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments + (patch by Hadrien Lacour). + +20210403 + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and + progs directory. + + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x + + improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes. + + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning + leak-checking off later in a set of options. + + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to + accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime + on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems. + + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is + called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN + pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj + Lutter). + +20210327 + + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs, + form and menu libraries. + +20210323 + + add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn, making the _Noreturn + keyword optional to ease transition (prompted by report by + Rajeev V Pillai). + +20210320 + + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any + extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms + capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town, + cf: 20200531). + + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of + _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD + + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger) + + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that + rather than gcc's attribute. + + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is + a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention. + + add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck. + +20210313 + + improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and + ".pc" files, from dialog changes. + + reduce dependency of math-library in test programs. + + minor fixes for test_tparm.c (cf: 20210306) + + mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by + Michal Bielinski). + +20210306 + + improved test/test_tparm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities + that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test. + + improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in + man/curs_terminfo.3x + + update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1 + +20210227 + + modify tic/infocmp to eliminate unnecessary "\" to escape ":" in + terminfo format. + + add check in tic for duplicate "use=" clauses. + +20210220 + + improve tic warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49 for xterm + compatible XT flag. + + revert change to lib_addch.c in waddch_literal() from 20210130, since + the followup fix in PutCharLR() actually corrects the problem while + this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes + Altmanninger). + + add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD + + add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD + + add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD + + add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD + + move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD + +20210213 + + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background + functions. + + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a + wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character. + + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries. + + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first + parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1". + +20210206 + + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd + (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic) + + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2" + option, from xterm #363 -TD + + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before + writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the + cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130). + +20210130 + + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused + scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower + right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg). + + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD + + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not + supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD + + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD + + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD + + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore + blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD + +20210123 + + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for + cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding + the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich). + + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around + quirks of pmake. + +20210116 + + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS + (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD + + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1, + adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate. + +20210109 + + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates. + + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of + autoconf 2.52.20210105 + +20210102 + + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include which declares + exit_terminfo. + + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is + defined in , and remove it from the list of prototypes + (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon). + + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that is required + for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for + types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031). + + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for + consistency with other manpages. + +20201227 + + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD + + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly. + +20201219 + + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address + regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3. + + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report + by Chris Bennett). + +20201212 + + improve manual pages for form field-types. + +20201205 + + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking + gprbuild (cf: 20200627). + + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen. + + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin + Abendroth). + + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout + (patch by Benno Schulenberg). + + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD + + add flash to mlterm3 -TD + +20201128 + + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr). + + add rep to PuTTY -TD + + add putty+keypad -TD + + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in + the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses + low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217). + + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its + -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS, + do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases. + +20201121 + + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver. + + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang + (report by Steven Pitman). + +20201114 + + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver. + + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the + special case where short extended capability strings were not + converted from terminfo to termcap format. + + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case + when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff). + +20201107 + + update kitty+common -TD + + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron). + + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely + upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas). + +20201031 + + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include + before (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas). + + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion + with Reuben Thomas). + + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to + ensure that the messages contain only printable text. + + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments + is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven + Pitman). + +20201024 + + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling. + + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with + Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer. + + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check, + needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled + (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim) + + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters + and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of + parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert + Sebastian Herlim). + + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick + Black), as well as some fixes via linklint. + +20201017 + + improve manpage typography. + + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display + nonprintable characters. + + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such + as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm. + +20201010 + + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD + + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154, + ncrvt100an -TD + + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by + discussion with Florian Weimer). + + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen + Pfeifer). + +20201003 + + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter). + + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) + + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD + + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas). + + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754) + + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for + checking consistency with tic. + +20200926 + + correct configure-check for gnurx library. + + regenerate llib-* files. + + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for + panel- and user-pointers. + +20200919 + + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD + +20200918 + + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated + curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545). + +20200912 + + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get + the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64. + + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration. + + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer). + +20200907 + + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by + Soren Tempel). + +20200906 + + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of + win32-driver. + + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs). + +20200831 + + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner + Fink). + +20200829 + + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten + Anonymous". + + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of + win32-driver. + + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS + to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on + mawk and lynx). + > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer): + + correct icl6404 csr + + correct ti916 cup + + improve ndr9500 + +20200822 + + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh + + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the + man_db.renames file. + + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function + (report by Yue Tai). + + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker). + + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared" + option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to + provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai). + +20200817 + + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation + warnings. + + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated. + + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds + using the string-hacks option. + + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure + option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink). + +20200816 + + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence + (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808). + + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck + + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++ + (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous"). + +20200808 + + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part + of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall). + + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use + AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and + --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using + fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling + (discussion with Keith Marshall). + + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW. + + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as + parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with + MinGW. + +20200801 + + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006). + + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration + (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous"). + + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to + reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings. + + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure + +20200725 + + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by + "Maarten Anonymous") + + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT. + + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by + Florian Weimer). + +20200718 + + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual + Studio C++. + + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static + libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++. + > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling + the main program, so the linker can find related objects. + + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link. + + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs. + +20200711 + + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo + Bruckl). + + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen + Pfeifer). + + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell). + + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the + buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan). + + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a + trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen). + +20200704 + + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in + the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard). + > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"): + + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport" + declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++. + +20200627 + + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with + gprbuild. + + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h + +20200613 + + update list of functions in ncurses.3x + + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case + in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian + #961097). + +20200606 + + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage + in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD + + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for + screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron). + + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron). + + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron). + +20200531 + + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x + + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang) + + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron). + + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl + + add test/test_tparm.c, for checking tparm changes. + + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to + handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters + (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's + save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function + passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier + (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed + string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + +20200523 + + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x + + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502) + + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits + which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad + is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma). + + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the + generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify + configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants + to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg). + > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by + "Maarten Anonymous"): + + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker + options into Visual Studio's dialect. + + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to + work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation. + +20200516 + + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x + + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD + +20200509 + + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting + a performance comparison. + + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers + use different names than SVr4 or ncurses. + +20200502 + + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD + + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD + + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert + those to position reports. + +20200425 + + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD + + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols". + +20200418 + + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction. + + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not + check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth + character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg). + + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD + + improve see-also section of user_caps.5 + +20200411 + + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs() + (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812). + + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10 + + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x + +20200404 + + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++ + > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by + "Maarten Anonymous"): + + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature + + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio + C++ preprocessor limitations. + + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work + with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming. + +20200328 + + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field(). + + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree + builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren). + +20200321 + + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables. + + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual + pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg). + + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for + a corresponding demo of dup_field(). + +20200314 + + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for and + + add history note to curs_printw.3x for and + + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding + +20200308 + + update copyright notices in test-packages. + + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table. + + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted + by discussion with Thomas Klausner). + +20200301 + + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the + background character, because it may be used in cases where the + corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte, + cf: 20181208). + +20200229 + + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option, + which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options. + > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by + "Maarten Anonymous"): + + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h + + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc + + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h + + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable + length array feature. + + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations + + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h + + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in + + use configured check for in a couple of places + + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c, + because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration. + + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol. + +20200222 + + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers + + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD + + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD + + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when + building out-of-tree. + + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in + + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers + include all of the required headers for the types used. + +20200215 + + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability + section as well as documenting error-returns. + + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh + + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from + FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725). + + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL. + +20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update release notes + + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts + +20200208 + + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result + when cross-compiling. + + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken. + + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used, + to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples. + +20200202 + + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ: + https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed + +20200201 + + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in + collision handling for Caps-hpux11 + + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for + terminfo and termcap names. + + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit(). + + update a few comments about tack 1.07 + + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample + programs for explain.txt + +20200118 + + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5 + + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD + + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages. + + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by + Christian Durr) -TD + + correct spelling errors found with codespell. + + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352. + +20200111 + + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header, + to accommodate recent MacOS changes. + + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20200104 + + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to + "work", to help illustrate discussion in + https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html + + fix some warnings from autoheader-252 + +20191228 + + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments + past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those + symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS. + + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs. + + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration + for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages. + +20191221 + + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to + work with test-packages. + + improve tracemunch: + + keep track of TERMINAL* values + + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to + show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway. + + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype + for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink). + +20191214 + + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for + leak-checking. + +20191207 + + fix a few warnings for test-package builds + + add curses_trace(), to replace trace(). + +20191130 + + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by + discussion with Nick Black). + + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch + manpage. + + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages. + +20191123 + + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package. + + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31. + +20191116 + + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes + to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test + packages. + + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c + defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName + from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503). + +20191109 + + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich. + + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility + with old non-curses programs -TD + + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD + + use ansi+rep several places -TD + + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner, + cf: 20020901). + +20191102 + + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative. + + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero + (report/patch by Anthony Sottile). + + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries. + + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD + +20191026 + + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the + line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black). + + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a + \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923). + + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in + early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci). + +20191019 + + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building + with address-sanitizer. + + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because + treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in + use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001). + +20191015 + + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the + input string is shorter than expected. + > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen): + + check for missing character after backslash in write_it + + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap + syntax (cf: 980530). + +20191012 + + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out + Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516). + + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage. + + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and + _nc_find_name_entry. + > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"): + + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry. + + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry + + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one + mapping (cf: 20060415); + + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability, + overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007). + +20191005 + + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the + -I and -l options. + +20190928 + + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath + hack which differed between those files. + + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config + + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in + test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on + EINTR (cf: 20180922) + +20190921 + + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch + the screen's borders. + + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path + and version. + +20190914 + + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package + +20190907 + + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to + allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes + by Pascal Pignard). + + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when + the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary + warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim). + +20190831 + + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95, + noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without + libpanelw, etc. + +20190824 + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs. + +20190817 + + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few + details where it still differed from SVr4. + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs. + +20190810 + + fix a few more coverity warnings. + +20190803 + + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where + the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch + by Rob King). + + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry + and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD + + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD + + updated kitty entry & notes -TD + + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD + + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD + +20190728 + + fix a few more coverity warnings. + + more documentation updates based on tctest. + +20190727 + + fix a few coverity warnings. + + documentation updates based on tctest. + +20190720 + + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x + + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp + manual pages. + + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage + (report by Sven Joachim). + +20190713 + + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if + possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the + terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff). + + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c + +20190706 + + add domterm -TD + + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD + +20190630 + + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems + building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp. + + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin + + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless + filenames. + + add ms-terminal -TD + + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD + +20190623 + + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th + Edition versions of the tabs utility. + + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown + in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE + macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya + Ig Petrov). + + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent + data for the result from getenv(). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20190615 + + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page. + + regenerate HTML manpages. + +20190609 + + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff). + Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out, + to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0 + + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD + + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges, + to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names. + +20190601 + + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs + e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru). + + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE + variable. + +20190525 + + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8 + (report by Vincent Huisman). + +20190518 + + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD + + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD + + update terminator entry -TD + + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker) + + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page. + + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages. + +20190511 + + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse" + + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and + scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow. + + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the + row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio + Kuratomi, cf: 20170729). + + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus + number of parameters. + +20190504 + + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters + (report by Pavel Stehule). + + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension. + + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses. + +20190427 + + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented + infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name + but different types. + +20190420 + + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports. + +20190413 + + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script. + + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11 + + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh + + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do + not depend on order into Caps-ncurses. + +20190406 + + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle + split-up Caps-files. + + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled. + +20190330 + + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann) + + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD + + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1 + (report by Dennis Grevenstein). + + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works + + check for missing feature of locale.h + + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs + + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20190323 + + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef. + + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract + those in compilable form. + + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm, + in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions + (report/patch by Werner Fink). + +20190317 + + regenerate llib-* files. + + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info. + + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has + an unexpected type; ignore it in that case. + + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files. + + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made, + which did not become accepted. + +20190309 + + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined + capabilities in tic. + + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef" + data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302). + +20190302 + + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11 + + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some + user-defined capabilities. + + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was + called after initscr() (report by "Ampera"). + +20190223 + + fix typo in adds200 -TD + + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities. + + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using + xt, tbc and hts as clues. + + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using + tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott). + +20190216 + + improve manual page description of TABSIZE. + + add test/demo_tabs program. + +20190209 + + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of + parameters in the documented user-capability extensions. + +20190202 + + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict + with Redhat's package for ncurses6. + + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy. + + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile + to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not + configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also + in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills). + +20190126 + + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to + "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat. + + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter). + + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable. + + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from + being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by + Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924). + +20190121 + + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h + file in Slackware. + + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe + on some of the BSDs. + + updated "string-hacks" feature. + + minor improvements to manpage typography. + + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by + "Hudd"). + + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing + init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color, + extended_color_content + + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the + return values from the tested functions. + + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and + extensions. + + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter). + + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure + option was given. + + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a + warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci). + +20190112 + + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto + Modinos). + + add nsterm-direct -TD + + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD + + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD + + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker) + +20190105 + + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply + building test-packages for Arch. + + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature + that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some + packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20181229 + + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm + + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use + as a pipe/filter. + + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by + discussion with Bryan Christ). + + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c + + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for + obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names. + Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability + names. + +20181215 + + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings. + + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes). + + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter + as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD + + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD + + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm: + + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the + _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol. + + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is + supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array. + Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which + could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode. + +20181208 + + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4 + curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the + background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov). + +20181201 + + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen). + + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to + different character pages. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20181125 + + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim). + +20181124 + + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add + the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary. + + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is + used. + + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris. + + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form + that lets different curses implementations be compared. + + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006 + block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm + (report by Tomas Janousek). + +20181117 + + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing. + + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading + a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to + the compiled-in search list. + +20181110 + + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of + Ada95 tree. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20181027 + + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD + + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott + +20181020 + + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came + from the infocmp -Q option. + + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname + + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned + symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols. + + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to + wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681). + +20181013 + + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value + to make it an absolute path. + +20181006 + + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by + Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142). + + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825). + +20180929 + + fix typo in tvi955 -TD + + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD + + add alias n7900 -TD + + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD + + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD + + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD + + add bel to tvi950 -TD + + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD + + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD + + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD + +20180923 + + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report + by Chris Clayton). + +20180922 + + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g., + if the terminal were resized. + + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat + #1610681, cf: 20141011). + + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat, + since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature. + +20180908 + + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL. + + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is + marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the + character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII + fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505). + + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary + update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable + output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414). + + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken + implementations of sysconf(). + +20180901 + + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length + parameter. + + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or + "too large". + + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390). + +20180825 + + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the + terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks). + + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the + deb test-packages. + + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around + toolset breakage in Fedora 28. + + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final + 20180818 updates. + +20180818 + + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples. + + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS. + + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library + install (Debian #903790): + + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of + static libraries. + + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second + sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g., + in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution. + +20180804 + + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal + scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing + the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the + display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott). + +20180728 + + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h + + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens. + + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation. + +20180721 + + build-fixes for gcc8. + + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD + + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD + + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD + +20180714 + + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms + + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port. + +20180707 + + build-fixes for gcc8. + + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in + report_offsets. + + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was + empty (Debian #902630). + +20180630 + + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous) + add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD + + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works + (Nicholas Marriott). + + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow: + + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking + locale support. + + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations + +20180623 + + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols + to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both + compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir). + + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e., + updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS, + CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and + CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20180616 + + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526). + + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE + combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987). + + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address + use of vsscanf and setenv. + + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from + work on dialog. + +20180609 + + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc., + to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian + #900839). + + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw + and vw_scanw, respectively. + +20180602 + + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples". + + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6. + +20180526 + + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h + + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary + files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac + Pascual Monells). + + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525. + + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but + work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c + +20180519 + + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation. + + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes; + fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR + (report by C Anthony Risinger) + + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD + + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks + for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658). + +20180512 + + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition. + + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead. + + fix several minor Coverity warnings. + +20180505 + + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older + versions of tack. + + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as + alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support + the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal + such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability. + + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename + conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages. + + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules + for escaping regular expressions. + +20180428 + + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon + Winter). + + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions + (report by Leon Winter). + + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference: + unfocus_current_field (form); + form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION); + (patch by Leon Winter). + +20180414 + + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field + edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter). + + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in + non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter). + + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function. + + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places + + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when + a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin). + +20180407 + + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete, + not part of X/Open Curses since 2007. + + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open + Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo + interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap + interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007). + As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return + values, e.g., keyname(). + +20180331 + + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the + extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended + string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources). + +20180324 + + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range + 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne). + + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables. + + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD + + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD + +20180317 + + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when + it should have. + + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using + different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab. + + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin). + + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no + terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch + by Gyorgy Jeney). + +20180303 + + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to + avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace. + + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages. + + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first + verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols + (report/patch by Werner Fink). + + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width + on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look + better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin). + + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t" + for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the + structures reported to make the categories more apparent. + + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors. + + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show + how similar the different tinfo configurations are. + +20180224 + + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging + a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a + defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111, + compounded by repair in 20180121. + + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD + + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD + + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim). + +20180217 + + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek). + + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean. + + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan). + + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by + Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim). + +20180210 + + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case + the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall + is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton). + + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what + was needed, was standardized long ago. + + add several development/experimental options to development packages. + + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded + and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are + normally enabled. + +20180203 + + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent. + + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works. + + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability. + + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate + package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401). + +20180129 + + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming. + +20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + +20180127 + + updated release notes + + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse + of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description. + > terminfo changes: + + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was + not suitable -TD + + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD + + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting + konsole's removal in 2008 -TD + + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed + imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD + + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet + support xterm's 1006 mode -TD + + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD + + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD + + update vte to vte-2017 -TD + + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD + + add iterm2-direct -TD + + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD + + add mlterm-direct -TD + + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD + +20180121 pre-release + > terminfo changes: + + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title + blocks from xterm #331 -TD + + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm + #331 -TD + + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of + color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD + + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD + + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to + match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD + + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD + + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD + + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if + direct-colors are wanted -TD + + add vte-direct -TD + + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by + Pierre Carru) + + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD + + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006 + mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD + + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD + > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features: + + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores + numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs + such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use + this feature. + + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of + tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767. + + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character + ncurses library work as expected. + + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will + read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767. + + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in + term.h still uses signed 16-bit values. + + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format, + a new magic value is provided for the "file" program. + + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format. + + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the + wide-character configuration to 32768. + +20180120 + + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence. + + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts. + + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory. + + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking + gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake, + and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static + libraries. + + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5. + +20180106 + + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin. + + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-, + 256-, etc., colors. + + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99 + as possible default values. + + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the + extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the + handling of the curses/ncurses library. + + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files. + + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when + configured to access it via weak symbols. + + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker + checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the + behavior. + + update URLs for ncurses website to use https. + + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the + ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the + standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is + needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and + would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc. + + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule + (report by Jeffrey Walton). + +20171230 + + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for + reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package. + + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure + script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than + directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton). + + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are + some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are + anticipated. + + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename + conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages. + +20171223 + + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with + PDCurses. + + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description, + e.g., if there is a permission problem. + + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2. + + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also + avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent + if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder, + OpenSuSE #1070450). + + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable. + +20171216 + + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111). + + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use + for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6. + + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs. + +20171209 + + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir + consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was + configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers + are. + + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented" + function in link_test.c + + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc. + + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case + LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU + linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah). + + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5 + +20171125 + + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr + before initialized. + + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap. + + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap. + + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by + Hosein Askari, Debian #882620). + + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses: + + it lacks the use_env() function. + + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol. + + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return + value to make it possible for most applications to check for an + error-return (report by Midolikawa H). + + additional manpage cleanup. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20171118 + + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability. + + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads. + + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H). + + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551. + + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c + + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors. + + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to + account for xon -TD + + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code + rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan) + + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making + those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but + otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently: + jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b, + dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an, + st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD + + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions + of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by + Vassili Courzakis). + +20171111 + + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD + + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD + + reviewed st 0.7 -TD + + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build. + +20171104 + + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c, + dots_xcurses.c + + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens. + + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better + test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions. + +20171028 + + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c + (report by Midolikawa H). + + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim). + + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line + drawing character is drawn. + + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are + available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen. + + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs. + + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in + recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923). + + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for + directory-tree terminal databases. + + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent + port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909). + + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c + +20171021 + + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather + than in the test-program. + + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE. + + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs. + + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs. + +20171014 + + minor cleanup to test/view.c: + + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file. + + implement page up/down commands. + + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a + terminal. + + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the + attribute values which can be stored in those types. + + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs + program. + + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar(). + + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for + extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c. + + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory + delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions + for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly. + +20171007 + + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain + the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible. + + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit + with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno. + + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the + database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable + terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen). + + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but + not slk_color(). + + regenerate man-html documentation. + +20170930 + + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with + Solaris xpg4 curses. + + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with + Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm(). + + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and + tin. + + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit(). + + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing + signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not. + + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit. + + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open + documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different + values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned + short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the + two sets. + +20170923 + + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen. + + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin + + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc. + +20170916 + + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case. + + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set. + +20170909 + + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c, + which was inconsistent with the normal implementation. + + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching + behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter). + + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens + using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a". + + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to + consistently do this only if "-d" option is given. + + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses: + + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit + checks in some libraries. + + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does + not return ERR on the lower-right corner. + + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses. + + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826). + +20170902 + + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older + logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722). + + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string + (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c + and tput.c + +20170827 + + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton). + +20170826 + + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD + + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip + over missing/cancelled values. + + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted + special key. + + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for + cancelled string capabilities. + + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the + name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries. + + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input + + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a + nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic + as input (Redhat #1484274). + + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276). + + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat + #1484284). + + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285) + + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287). + + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using + cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291). + + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim). + + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on + X/Open Curses. + + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and + panel libraries. + 20170819 + update "iterm" entry -TD + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD @@ -58,7 +2855,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput. + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855). + improve usage messages for tset and tput. - + minor fixes to "RDGB" extension and reset_color_pairs(). + + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs(). 20170812 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by @@ -485,7 +3282,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git 20161224 - + correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes() + + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes() (patch by Leon Winter). + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by patch by Mihail Konev). @@ -674,7 +3471,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. for special keys, based on xterm. 20160702 - + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters areg given. + + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given. 20160625 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule. @@ -912,7 +3709,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. to incorrect attribute-masking. 20151024 - + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename + + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements. + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support @@ -1009,7 +3806,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20150810 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See - http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727 + https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org @@ -1723,7 +4520,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20131221 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html manpages. See - ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html + ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html 20131214 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be @@ -2112,7 +4909,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for matching capability names. + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy - applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2 + applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725). 20130112 @@ -2137,7 +4934,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. Waterlander regarding screen flicker). 20121229 - + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers. + + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers. + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning. + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report numbers. @@ -2626,11 +5423,11 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + regenerated html manpages. 20120107 - + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer): + + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer): + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member + drop mk-dlls.sh script. + change recommended regular expression library. - + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton. + + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuration. + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used. 20111231 @@ -3013,7 +5810,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. function pointer passed to tputs(). + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095). - + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate + + modify test/background.c, adding command-line options to demonstrate assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors(). 20110416 @@ -3250,7 +6047,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink). + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a - warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal + warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additional scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build tree (report by Werner Fink). + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form. @@ -3658,7 +6455,6 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT. 20091114 - + updated man/curs_trace.3x + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740). + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which @@ -4418,7 +7214,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20080209 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for - comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses + comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open Curses that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228). @@ -5077,7 +7873,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this. - + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option. + + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvements to "-f" option. + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting. 20060923 @@ -5681,7 +8477,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by Stanislav Ievlev). + regenerated html documentation for ada binding. - see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml + see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml 20050507 + regenerated html documentation for manpages. @@ -8627,7 +11423,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20000701 pre-release + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for - $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm. + $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm. + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings ). + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating @@ -8749,7 +11545,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5, aixterm entries -TD + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An - example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's + example of an illegal ANSI response can be found using Microsoft's Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx terminal or XFree86 xterm with: XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450 @@ -8983,7 +11779,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. current directory (reported by Mike Castle ). + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller). - + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and + + document a special case of incompatibility between ncurses 4.2 and 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL. + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace(). @@ -9557,7 +12353,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for - PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD + PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatibility - TD + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with a given keycode. + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is @@ -9643,8 +12439,8 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller). + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This - parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is - intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used + parametrizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is + intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425). + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's @@ -10125,7 +12921,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 980523 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov). - + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty + + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibility fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk). + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike @@ -10211,7 +13007,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by H.J.Lu). + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to - avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch + avoid ambiguous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). 980404 @@ -10661,7 +13457,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. > patch by Juergen Pfeifer: + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN - + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation + + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implementation + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages @@ -10872,7 +13668,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on navigation requests. + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in - case-insensitiva comparision routine. + case-insensitiva comparison routine. + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a forms field by index. + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus @@ -10983,7 +13779,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw keys 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar - 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm + 6. correctly handle the case of reception of KEY_MOUSE from gpm + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm @@ -11224,7 +14020,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov). + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). - + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL + + improve threshold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov). 970531 @@ -12459,7 +15255,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. * tset(1) added * mouse support for xterm. * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space. -* Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off. +* Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initially off. * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now. * tic can interpret ko capabilities now. * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library. @@ -12475,7 +15271,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1). * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux * terminfo.src 9.8.2 -* tweaks for compiling in seperate directories. +* tweaks for compiling in separate directories. * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries. * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX. @@ -12556,7 +15352,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo. * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console. It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets. -* initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if +* initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This will mostly happen if you try to run on an undefined terminal. * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome. @@ -12795,7 +15591,7 @@ Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include: * cleaned up vidputs() * general cleanup of the code * more attention to portability to other systems -* added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are +* added terminfos for hp70092 (won't work until changes to lib_update.c are made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers. Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.