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32 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
33 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
35 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
36 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
38 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
39 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
40 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
42 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
43 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
44 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
46 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
47 it is not possible to add this information.
49 20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
50 + update release notes
51 + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
54 + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
56 + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
57 + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
58 to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
61 + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
62 https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
65 + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
66 collision handling for Caps-hpux11
67 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
68 terminfo and termcap names.
69 + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
70 + update a few comments about tack 1.07
71 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
72 programs for explain.txt
75 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
76 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
77 + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
78 + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
80 + correct spelling errors found with codespell.
81 + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
84 + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
85 to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
86 + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
87 + update config.guess, config.sub
90 + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
91 "work", to help illustrate discussion in
92 https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
93 + fix some warnings from autoheader-252
96 + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
97 past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
98 symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
99 + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
100 + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
101 for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
104 + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
105 work with test-packages.
106 + improve tracemunch:
107 + keep track of TERMINAL* values
108 + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
109 show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
110 + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
111 for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
114 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
118 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds
119 + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
122 + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
123 discussion with Nick Black).
124 + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
126 + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
129 + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
130 + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
133 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
134 to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
136 + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
137 defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
138 from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
141 + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
142 + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
143 with old non-curses programs -TD
144 + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
145 + use ansi+rep several places -TD
146 + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
150 + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
151 + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
152 (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
153 + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
154 + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
157 + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
158 line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
159 + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
160 \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
161 + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
162 early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
165 + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
166 with address-sanitizer.
167 + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
168 treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
169 use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
172 + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
173 input string is shorter than expected.
174 > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
175 + check for missing character after backslash in write_it
176 + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
180 + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
181 Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
182 + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
183 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
185 > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
186 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
187 + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
188 + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
189 mapping (cf: 20060415);
190 + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
191 overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
194 + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
198 + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
199 hack which differed between those files.
200 + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
201 + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
202 test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
206 + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
207 the screen's borders.
208 + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
212 + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
215 + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
216 allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
218 + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
219 the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
220 warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
223 + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
224 noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
228 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
231 + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
232 details where it still differed from SVr4.
233 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
236 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
239 + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
240 the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
242 + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
243 and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
244 + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
245 + updated kitty entry & notes -TD
246 + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
247 + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
250 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
251 + more documentation updates based on tctest.
254 + fix a few coverity warnings.
255 + documentation updates based on tctest.
258 + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
259 + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
261 + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
262 (report by Sven Joachim).
265 + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
266 possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
267 terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
268 + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
272 + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
275 + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
276 building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
277 + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
278 + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
280 + add ms-terminal -TD
281 + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
284 + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
285 Edition versions of the tabs utility.
286 + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
287 in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
288 macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
290 + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
291 data for the result from getenv().
292 + update config.guess, config.sub
295 + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
296 + regenerate HTML manpages.
299 + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
300 Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
301 to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
302 + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
303 + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
304 + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
305 to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
308 + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
309 e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
310 + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
314 + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
315 (report by Vincent Huisman).
318 + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
319 + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
320 + update terminator entry -TD
321 + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
322 + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
323 + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
326 + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
327 + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
328 scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
329 + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
330 row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
331 Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
332 + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
333 number of parameters.
336 + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
337 (report by Pavel Stehule).
338 + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
339 + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
342 + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
343 infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
347 + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
350 + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
351 + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
352 + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
353 + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
354 not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
357 + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle
359 + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
362 + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
363 + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
364 + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
365 (report by Dennis Grevenstein).
366 + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
367 + check for missing feature of locale.h
368 + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
369 + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
370 + update config.guess, config.sub
373 + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
374 + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
375 those in compilable form.
376 + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
377 in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
378 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
381 + regenerate llib-* files.
382 + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
383 + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
384 an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
385 + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
386 + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
387 which did not become accepted.
390 + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
392 + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
393 data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
396 + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
397 + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
398 user-defined capabilities.
399 + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
400 called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
403 + fix typo in adds200 -TD
404 + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
405 + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
406 xt, tbc and hts as clues.
407 + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
408 tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
411 + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
412 + add test/demo_tabs program.
415 + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
416 parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
419 + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
420 with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
421 + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
422 + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
423 to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
424 configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
425 in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
428 + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
429 "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
430 + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
431 + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
432 + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
433 being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
434 Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
437 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
439 + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
441 + updated "string-hacks" feature.
442 + minor improvements to manpage typography.
443 + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
445 + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
446 init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
447 extended_color_content
448 + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
449 return values from the tested functions.
450 + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
452 + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
453 + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
455 + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
456 warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
459 + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
461 + add nsterm-direct -TD
462 + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
463 + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
464 + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
467 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
468 building test-packages for Arch.
469 + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
470 that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
471 packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
472 + update config.guess, config.sub
475 + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
476 + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
478 + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
479 discussion with Bryan Christ).
480 + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
481 + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
482 obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
483 Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
487 + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
488 + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
489 + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
490 as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
491 + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
492 + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
493 + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
494 _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
495 + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
496 supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
497 Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
498 could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
501 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
502 curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
503 background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
506 + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
507 + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
508 different character pages.
509 + update config.guess, config.sub from
510 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
513 + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
516 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
517 the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
518 + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
520 + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
521 + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
522 that lets different curses implementations be compared.
523 + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
524 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
525 (report by Tomas Janousek).
528 + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
529 + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
530 a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
531 the compiled-in search list.
534 + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
536 + update config.guess, config.sub from
537 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
540 + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
541 + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
544 + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
545 from the infocmp -Q option.
546 + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
547 + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
548 symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
549 + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
550 wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
553 + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
554 to make it an absolute path.
557 + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
558 Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
559 + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
562 + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
563 + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
564 + add alias n7900 -TD
565 + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
566 + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
567 + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
568 + add bel to tvi950 -TD
569 + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
570 + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
571 + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
574 + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
578 + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
579 if the terminal were resized.
580 + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
581 #1610681, cf: 20141011).
582 + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
583 since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
586 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
587 + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
588 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
589 character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
590 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
591 + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
592 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
593 output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
594 + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
595 implementations of sysconf().
598 + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
600 + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
602 + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
605 + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
606 terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
607 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
609 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
610 toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
611 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
615 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
616 + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
617 + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
618 install (Debian #903790):
619 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
621 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
622 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
623 in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
626 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
627 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
628 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
629 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
632 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
633 + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
634 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
637 + build-fixes for gcc8.
638 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
639 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
640 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
643 + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
644 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
647 + build-fixes for gcc8.
648 + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
650 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
651 empty (Debian #902630).
654 + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
655 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
656 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
658 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
659 + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
661 + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
664 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
665 to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
666 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
667 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
668 updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
669 CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
671 + update config.guess, config.sub from
672 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
675 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
676 + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
677 combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
678 + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
679 use of vsscanf and setenv.
680 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
684 + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
685 to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
687 + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
688 and vw_scanw, respectively.
691 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
692 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
695 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
696 + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
697 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
699 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
700 + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
701 work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
704 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
705 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
706 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
707 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
708 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
709 + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
710 for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
713 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
714 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
715 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
718 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
720 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
721 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
722 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
723 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
724 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
725 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
726 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
727 for escaping regular expressions.
730 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
732 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
733 (report by Leon Winter).
734 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
735 unfocus_current_field (form);
736 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
737 (patch by Leon Winter).
740 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
741 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
742 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
743 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
744 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
745 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
746 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
747 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
750 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
751 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
752 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
753 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
754 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
755 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
756 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
757 values, e.g., keyname().
760 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
761 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
762 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
765 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
766 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
767 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
768 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
769 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
772 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
774 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
775 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
776 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
777 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
778 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
782 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
783 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
784 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
785 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
786 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
787 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
788 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
789 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
790 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
791 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
792 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
793 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
794 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
795 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
796 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
799 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
800 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
801 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
802 compounded by repair in 20180121.
803 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
804 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
805 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
808 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
809 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
810 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
811 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
812 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
815 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
816 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
817 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
818 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
819 was needed, was standardized long ago.
820 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
821 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
822 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
826 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
827 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
828 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
829 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
830 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
833 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
835 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
838 + updated release notes
839 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
840 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
842 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
844 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
845 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
846 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
847 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
848 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
849 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
850 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
851 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
852 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
853 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
854 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
855 + add iterm2-direct -TD
856 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
857 + add mlterm-direct -TD
858 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
862 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
863 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
864 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
866 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
867 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
868 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
869 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
870 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
871 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
872 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
873 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
874 direct-colors are wanted -TD
876 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
878 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
879 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
880 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
881 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
882 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
883 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
884 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
885 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
887 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
888 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
889 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
890 ncurses library work as expected.
891 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
892 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
893 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
894 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
895 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
896 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
897 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
898 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
899 wide-character configuration to 32768.
902 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
903 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
904 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
905 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
906 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
907 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
909 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
912 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
913 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
915 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
916 as possible default values.
917 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
918 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
919 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
920 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
921 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
922 configured to access it via weak symbols.
923 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
924 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
926 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
927 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
928 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
929 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
930 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
931 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
932 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
933 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
936 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
937 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
938 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
939 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
940 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
941 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
942 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
944 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
945 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
948 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
950 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
951 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
952 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
953 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
954 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
955 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
957 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
960 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
961 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
962 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
963 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
966 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
967 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
968 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
970 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
971 function in link_test.c
972 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
973 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
974 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
975 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
976 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
979 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
981 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
982 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
983 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
984 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
985 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
986 + it lacks the use_env() function.
987 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
988 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
989 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
990 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
991 + additional manpage cleanup.
992 + update config.guess, config.sub from
993 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
996 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
997 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
998 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
999 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
1000 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
1001 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
1002 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
1004 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
1005 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
1006 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
1007 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
1008 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
1009 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
1010 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
1011 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
1012 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
1013 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
1017 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
1018 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
1019 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
1020 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
1023 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
1025 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
1026 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
1027 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
1030 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
1031 (report by Midolikawa H).
1032 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
1033 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
1034 drawing character is drawn.
1035 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
1036 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
1037 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
1038 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
1039 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
1040 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
1041 directory-tree terminal databases.
1042 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
1043 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
1044 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
1047 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
1048 than in the test-program.
1049 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
1050 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
1051 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
1054 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
1055 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
1056 + implement page up/down commands.
1057 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
1059 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
1060 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
1061 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
1063 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
1064 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
1065 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
1066 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
1067 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
1068 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
1071 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
1072 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
1073 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
1074 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
1075 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
1076 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
1077 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
1078 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
1080 + regenerate man-html documentation.
1083 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
1084 Solaris xpg4 curses.
1085 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
1086 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
1087 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
1089 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
1090 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
1091 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
1092 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
1093 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
1094 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
1095 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
1096 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
1100 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
1101 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
1102 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
1105 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
1106 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
1109 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
1110 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
1111 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
1112 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
1113 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
1114 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
1115 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
1116 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
1117 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
1118 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit
1119 checks in some libraries.
1120 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
1121 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
1122 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
1123 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
1126 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
1127 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
1128 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
1129 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
1133 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
1136 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1137 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
1138 over missing/cancelled values.
1139 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
1141 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
1142 cancelled string capabilities.
1143 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
1144 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
1145 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
1146 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
1147 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
1148 as input (Redhat #1484274).
1149 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
1150 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
1152 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
1153 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
1154 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
1155 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
1156 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
1157 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
1159 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
1163 + update "iterm" entry -TD
1164 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1165 + regenerate llib-* files.
1166 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1167 + improve picsmap test-program:
1168 + reduce memory used for tsearch
1169 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
1170 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
1172 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
1173 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
1174 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
1175 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
1178 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
1180 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
1181 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
1183 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
1184 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
1185 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
1186 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
1187 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
1188 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
1189 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
1190 current screen is marked for clearing.
1191 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
1192 loading image files.
1193 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
1194 on demand up to the existing limit.
1195 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
1196 improve color_content().
1197 + improve picsmap test-program:
1198 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
1199 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
1200 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
1201 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
1202 + add "-l" option for logging
1203 + add "-d" option for debugging
1204 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
1206 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
1207 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1208 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1211 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
1212 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
1213 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
1214 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
1216 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
1217 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
1218 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
1219 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
1220 parameters for a capability and the actual.
1221 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
1222 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
1223 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
1224 alternate character set is enabled.
1225 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
1226 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
1227 tack for memory-leak checking.
1228 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
1229 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
1230 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
1231 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
1232 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
1233 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
1234 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
1235 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
1236 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
1237 extended capability arrays.
1238 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
1241 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
1242 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
1243 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
1244 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
1245 term-driver configuration.
1246 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
1247 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
1248 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
1249 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
1250 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
1251 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
1254 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
1255 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
1256 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
1257 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
1259 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
1260 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
1263 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
1264 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
1267 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
1268 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
1269 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
1270 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
1271 configuration; none is needed.
1272 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
1273 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
1274 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
1275 not work (cf: 20160213).
1276 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
1277 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
1278 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
1279 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
1280 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
1281 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
1282 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
1283 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
1284 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
1285 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
1286 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
1287 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
1288 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
1289 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
1290 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
1291 (report by Allen Hewes).
1294 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
1295 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
1296 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
1297 (report by Allen Hewes).
1298 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
1299 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
1300 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
1301 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
1302 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
1303 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
1304 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
1305 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
1306 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
1309 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
1310 (report by Allen Hewes).
1311 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
1312 to help with leak checking.
1313 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
1315 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
1316 cannot be initialized.
1319 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
1320 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
1321 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
1324 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
1326 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
1327 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
1328 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1329 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
1330 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
1333 + improved test/picsmap.c:
1334 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
1335 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
1336 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
1339 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
1340 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
1341 related files can be checked with lintian.
1342 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
1345 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
1346 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
1347 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
1348 changed (cf: 20170311).
1349 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
1352 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
1353 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
1354 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
1355 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
1356 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
1357 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
1358 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
1359 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
1362 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
1363 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
1364 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
1365 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
1366 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
1367 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
1368 for better compatibility with other implementations.
1369 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
1370 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
1371 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
1372 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1373 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1376 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
1377 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
1379 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
1380 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
1381 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
1382 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
1383 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
1384 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
1385 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
1386 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
1387 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
1388 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
1389 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
1390 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
1391 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
1392 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
1393 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
1394 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
1395 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
1396 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
1397 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
1398 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
1399 preference to "%02" on output.
1400 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
1401 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
1402 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
1405 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
1406 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
1407 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
1409 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
1410 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
1411 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
1412 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
1413 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
1414 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
1417 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
1419 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
1420 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
1421 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
1425 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
1426 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
1427 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
1428 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
1429 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
1430 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
1431 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
1432 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
1433 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
1435 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
1436 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
1437 calls to get original tty-modes.
1438 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
1439 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
1440 null, as documented.
1441 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
1442 reduce compiler warnings.
1443 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
1444 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
1445 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
1446 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
1447 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
1448 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
1449 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
1450 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
1451 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
1452 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
1453 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
1456 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
1457 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
1458 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
1460 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
1461 called (report by "Kau").
1462 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
1465 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
1466 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
1467 rather than using def_prog_mode().
1468 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
1469 externals that are used by tack.
1470 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
1471 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
1472 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
1474 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
1475 + regenerate man-html documentation.
1478 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
1479 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
1480 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
1481 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
1482 terminal emulators -TD
1483 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
1485 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
1486 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
1487 8-bit limit on colors
1488 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
1489 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
1490 free_pair() functions
1491 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
1494 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
1495 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
1496 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
1497 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
1499 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
1502 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
1505 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
1506 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
1507 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
1508 treated as only absent.
1509 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
1510 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
1511 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
1514 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
1515 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
1516 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
1517 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
1518 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
1519 --enable-sp-funcs option.
1520 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
1521 without modifying API/ABI.
1522 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
1523 similar options for the other libraries.
1526 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
1528 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
1529 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
1530 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
1531 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
1532 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
1533 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
1534 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
1535 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
1538 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
1539 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
1540 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
1541 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
1542 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1543 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
1544 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
1547 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
1548 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
1549 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
1550 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
1551 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
1552 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
1553 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
1555 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
1556 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
1559 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
1560 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
1561 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
1562 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
1563 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
1567 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
1568 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
1569 either reset- or init-strings.
1570 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
1571 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
1572 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
1573 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
1574 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
1575 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
1576 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
1577 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
1578 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
1579 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
1580 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
1581 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
1584 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
1585 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
1586 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
1587 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
1588 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
1589 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
1590 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
1591 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
1593 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
1594 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
1595 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
1596 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
1598 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1599 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1602 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
1603 (patch by Leon Winter).
1604 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
1605 patch by Mihail Konev).
1606 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
1607 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
1611 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
1612 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
1613 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
1614 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
1615 did not work after changes in 20130112.
1618 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
1619 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
1620 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
1621 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
1622 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
1623 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
1625 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
1628 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
1629 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
1632 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
1634 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
1635 reverse-video control -TD
1636 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
1637 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
1638 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
1639 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
1640 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
1641 video escape without using a delay.
1642 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
1643 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
1647 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
1648 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
1649 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
1650 by various discussions including
1651 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
1654 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
1655 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
1656 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
1657 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
1660 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
1661 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
1664 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
1667 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
1668 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
1669 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
1670 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
1671 not optional in tput.
1672 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
1673 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
1674 for transformed names.
1675 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
1676 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
1679 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
1680 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
1681 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
1682 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
1684 + regenerate llib-* files.
1685 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1686 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
1689 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
1690 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
1691 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
1694 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
1695 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
1696 a given line-length.
1697 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
1698 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
1701 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
1702 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
1703 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
1706 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
1707 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
1710 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
1712 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
1713 page (patch by Leon Winter).
1714 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
1715 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
1716 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
1717 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
1718 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
1721 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
1723 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
1724 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
1726 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
1727 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
1728 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
1729 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
1733 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
1735 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
1737 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
1738 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
1739 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
1740 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
1741 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
1742 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
1743 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1744 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1747 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
1748 modes by sharing functions with tset.
1749 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
1750 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
1751 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
1752 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
1754 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
1757 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
1758 handle a case of "configure && make install".
1759 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
1760 in sed (Debian #818067).
1763 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
1764 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
1765 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
1766 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
1768 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
1769 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
1773 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
1774 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
1775 output or error are redirected.
1776 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
1780 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
1781 redirected to a file or pipe.
1782 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
1785 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
1787 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
1788 for special keys, based on xterm.
1791 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
1794 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
1795 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
1796 work (report by Sven Joachim).
1799 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
1800 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
1801 to make it more readable.
1804 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
1805 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
1806 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
1807 better testing of function-keys.
1808 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
1809 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
1810 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
1811 that could be returned -TD
1812 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
1815 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
1816 + add test/list_keys.c
1819 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
1820 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
1823 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
1824 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
1825 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
1826 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
1827 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
1828 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
1829 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
1830 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
1831 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
1832 cannot combine -c and -o options.
1835 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1836 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
1837 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
1838 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
1839 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
1840 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
1841 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
1844 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
1845 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
1847 + modify test/ncurses.c:
1848 + check return-value of putwin
1849 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
1850 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
1851 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
1854 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
1855 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
1856 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
1857 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
1861 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
1862 PIC builds documented in
1863 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
1864 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
1865 due to program-transformation configure options.
1866 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
1869 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
1870 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
1873 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1874 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
1878 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1879 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
1880 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
1881 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
1882 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
1883 can handle the event.
1886 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
1887 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
1888 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
1889 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
1892 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
1893 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
1894 as responding to window size-changes.
1897 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
1898 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
1901 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
1902 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
1903 in case weak symbols are used.
1904 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
1905 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
1907 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
1908 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
1909 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1910 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1913 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
1914 in threaded configuration.
1915 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
1916 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
1919 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
1920 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
1921 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
1925 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
1926 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
1927 unwanted blank lines.
1930 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
1931 (report by Corey Minyard).
1932 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
1935 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
1936 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1937 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
1938 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
1940 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
1941 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
1942 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
1944 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
1945 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
1948 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
1949 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
1950 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
1951 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
1954 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
1955 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
1956 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
1959 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
1960 with James Crippen).
1961 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
1963 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
1964 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
1967 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
1968 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1969 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
1970 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
1971 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
1972 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
1973 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
1974 drawing characters as double-width.
1977 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
1978 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1979 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
1980 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
1981 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
1982 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
1983 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
1984 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
1988 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
1990 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
1992 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
1993 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
1994 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
1995 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
1996 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
1999 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
2000 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
2001 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
2002 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
2005 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
2006 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
2007 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
2008 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
2009 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
2011 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
2012 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
2013 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
2014 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
2015 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
2018 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
2019 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
2020 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
2021 install time (cf: 20150822).
2022 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
2023 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
2024 empty "local" section.
2025 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
2026 to incorrect attribute-masking.
2029 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
2030 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
2031 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
2032 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
2033 did not display well.
2034 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
2035 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
2036 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
2037 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
2038 Normand, Novell #946048).
2039 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
2040 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
2041 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
2042 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
2043 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
2044 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
2045 Internet Archive -TD
2046 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2047 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2050 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
2051 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
2052 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
2053 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
2054 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
2055 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
2056 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
2057 + support building with libtool on OS/2
2058 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
2059 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
2062 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
2063 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
2064 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
2065 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
2067 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
2068 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
2069 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
2072 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
2074 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
2075 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
2078 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
2080 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
2081 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
2082 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
2083 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2086 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
2088 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
2089 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
2090 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
2091 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
2092 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
2093 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
2095 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
2098 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
2100 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
2101 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
2102 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
2104 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
2105 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
2108 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
2110 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
2111 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
2112 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
2113 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
2114 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
2118 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
2119 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
2120 + update release notes in INSTALL.
2121 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
2124 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
2125 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
2126 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
2128 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2131 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
2132 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
2133 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
2134 more than 200 snapshots.
2135 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
2139 + updated llib-* files.
2140 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
2141 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
2143 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2144 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
2145 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
2146 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
2147 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
2148 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
2149 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
2152 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
2153 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
2154 curs_initscr.3x page.
2155 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
2156 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
2157 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
2159 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
2160 e.g., ncursestw library.
2163 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
2164 configuration of ncurses6.
2165 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
2166 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
2167 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
2168 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
2169 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
2172 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
2173 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
2174 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
2177 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
2179 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
2180 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
2181 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
2182 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
2183 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
2184 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
2185 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
2186 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
2187 setupterm and restartterm functions.
2188 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
2189 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
2190 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
2194 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
2195 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
2196 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
2197 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
2198 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
2199 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
2200 discussion with Sven Joachim).
2201 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
2203 20150606 pre-release
2204 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
2205 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
2206 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
2207 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
2208 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
2209 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
2210 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
2211 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
2212 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
2213 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
2214 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
2215 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
2216 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
2217 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
2220 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
2221 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
2222 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
2223 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
2224 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
2225 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
2226 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
2227 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
2230 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
2231 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
2232 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
2233 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
2234 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
2236 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
2237 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
2240 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
2241 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
2242 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
2243 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
2245 + regenerate html manpages.
2246 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
2247 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
2248 Stack Overflow forum):
2251 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
2252 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
2253 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
2254 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
2255 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
2259 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
2260 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
2261 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
2262 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
2263 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
2265 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
2266 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2267 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
2268 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
2269 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
2270 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
2272 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
2273 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
2274 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
2275 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
2276 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
2277 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
2279 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
2280 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
2282 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
2283 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
2285 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
2286 the ncurses library aside from headers.
2287 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
2288 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
2289 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
2290 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
2291 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2292 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2295 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
2296 (report by Todd M Lewis).
2297 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
2298 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
2299 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
2300 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
2301 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
2302 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
2304 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
2305 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
2306 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
2307 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
2308 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
2309 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
2310 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
2313 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
2314 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
2315 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
2316 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
2317 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
2318 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
2319 with the shared libraries.
2320 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
2321 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
2322 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
2323 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
2324 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
2325 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
2326 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
2327 inherit into new windows.
2330 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
2331 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
2332 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
2333 readonly text segment.
2336 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
2337 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
2340 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
2341 the extended putwin/getwin.
2342 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
2344 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
2348 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
2349 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
2350 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
2351 for a magic code at the beginning:
2352 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
2355 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
2357 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
2358 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
2361 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
2362 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
2363 (report by Grady Martin).
2366 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
2367 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
2368 the wide-character libraries.
2369 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
2371 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
2372 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
2375 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
2376 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
2377 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
2381 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
2382 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
2385 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
2386 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
2387 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
2388 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
2389 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
2392 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
2393 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
2394 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
2397 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
2398 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
2399 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
2401 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
2402 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
2403 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
2404 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
2405 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
2406 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
2407 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
2408 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
2409 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
2410 (report by Pavel Balaev).
2413 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
2414 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
2415 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
2416 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
2417 variations in ABI 6.
2420 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
2421 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
2425 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
2429 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
2430 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
2431 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
2432 the ABI 5 libraries.
2433 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
2434 regenerate html-manpages.
2437 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
2438 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
2440 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
2441 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
2442 package for ncurses6.
2443 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
2444 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
2445 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
2446 in the corresponding ".map" files.
2447 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
2448 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
2452 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
2453 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
2454 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
2455 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
2456 gcc introduced here:
2457 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
2458 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
2459 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
2460 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
2463 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
2464 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
2465 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
2466 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
2467 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
2470 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
2471 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
2472 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
2473 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
2474 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
2475 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
2476 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
2480 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
2481 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
2485 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
2486 msys2 configuration.
2489 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
2490 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
2491 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
2492 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
2493 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
2495 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
2496 (report by Mike Gran).
2499 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
2500 demonstration of its limitations.
2501 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
2502 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
2503 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
2504 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
2505 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
2506 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
2507 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
2509 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
2510 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
2513 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
2514 + implement flash in win_driver.c
2515 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
2517 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
2518 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
2519 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
2520 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
2521 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
2522 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
2523 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
2524 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
2527 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
2528 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
2529 some older cross-compiler environments.
2530 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
2531 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
2532 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
2533 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
2534 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
2535 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
2536 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
2537 + update config.sub from
2538 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2541 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
2542 C++ cross-compilers.
2543 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
2546 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
2548 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
2551 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
2552 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
2553 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
2556 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
2557 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
2561 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
2562 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
2563 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
2566 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
2567 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
2568 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
2569 + regenerated html manpages.
2570 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
2571 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
2572 which reverses cause/effect.
2573 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
2574 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
2575 + fixes for win_driver.c:
2576 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
2581 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
2582 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
2583 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
2584 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
2586 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
2587 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
2588 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
2589 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
2593 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
2594 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
2595 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
2596 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
2597 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
2598 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
2599 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
2600 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
2601 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
2604 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
2605 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
2606 options, from xterm changes.
2609 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
2610 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
2614 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
2615 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
2618 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
2619 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
2620 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
2621 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
2622 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
2623 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
2624 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
2627 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
2628 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
2629 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
2630 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
2631 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
2632 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
2633 providing directly comparable screens.
2634 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
2637 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
2639 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
2640 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
2641 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
2642 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
2643 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
2644 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
2645 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
2648 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
2649 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
2650 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
2651 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
2652 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
2655 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
2656 overlap with sgr functionality.
2657 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
2658 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
2659 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
2660 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
2661 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
2662 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
2663 older ncurses than 20131207.
2664 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
2665 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
2666 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
2667 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
2668 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
2671 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
2672 environment variable.
2673 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
2674 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
2675 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
2676 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
2677 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
2678 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
2679 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
2680 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
2681 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
2682 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
2683 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
2684 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
2685 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
2686 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
2688 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
2690 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
2691 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
2692 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
2694 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
2695 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
2696 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
2697 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
2698 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
2699 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
2700 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
2702 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
2704 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
2705 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
2706 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
2707 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
2708 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
2709 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
2710 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
2711 to be consecutive anyway.
2712 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
2713 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
2714 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
2715 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
2718 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
2719 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
2720 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
2723 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
2724 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
2725 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
2726 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2729 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
2731 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
2732 simplify later merging:
2733 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
2734 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
2735 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
2736 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
2737 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
2741 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2742 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2745 + modify configure script:
2746 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
2747 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
2748 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
2749 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
2750 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
2751 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
2752 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
2753 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
2754 "#win32console", and
2755 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
2756 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
2759 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
2760 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
2761 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
2762 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
2763 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
2764 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
2768 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
2771 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
2772 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
2773 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
2774 + add terminology entry -TD
2775 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
2776 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
2779 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
2780 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
2781 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
2782 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
2783 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
2787 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
2788 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
2789 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
2790 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
2791 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
2794 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
2797 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
2798 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
2799 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
2803 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
2804 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
2805 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
2806 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
2807 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
2808 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
2810 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
2811 html emitted by docbook.
2814 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
2815 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
2816 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
2817 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
2820 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
2821 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
2822 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
2823 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
2824 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2825 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
2828 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
2829 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
2830 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
2831 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2834 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
2835 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
2838 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
2840 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
2843 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
2844 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
2845 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
2846 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
2848 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
2850 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
2851 + updated llib-l* files.
2854 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
2855 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
2859 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
2860 recognized by clang.
2863 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
2864 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
2865 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
2866 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
2867 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
2868 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
2869 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
2870 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
2871 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
2872 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
2873 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
2874 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
2876 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
2878 + update config.sub from
2879 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2882 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
2885 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
2886 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
2887 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
2888 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
2890 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
2893 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
2894 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
2895 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
2896 them more consistent with other packages.
2899 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
2900 compiling ncurses-examples.
2901 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
2904 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
2907 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
2908 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
2909 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
2910 cross-compiles to MinGW.
2911 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
2915 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
2916 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
2920 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
2921 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
2923 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
2925 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
2926 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
2927 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
2928 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
2929 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
2932 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
2933 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
2934 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
2937 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
2939 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
2940 before/after Debian #700177.
2941 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
2942 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
2944 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
2945 of sort, improving portability.
2946 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
2947 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2948 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2951 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
2952 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
2954 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
2955 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
2956 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
2959 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
2960 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
2961 introduced by Debian #700177.
2962 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
2963 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
2966 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
2967 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
2969 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
2970 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
2971 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
2974 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
2975 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
2977 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
2978 cross-compile support packages.
2979 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
2982 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
2983 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
2984 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
2985 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
2986 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
2987 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
2988 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
2989 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
2990 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
2991 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
2992 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
2993 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
2996 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
2997 initialization of cur_term.
3000 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
3001 + minor compiler-warning fixes
3004 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
3005 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
3006 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
3007 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
3008 --enable-auto-import flag.
3009 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
3013 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
3014 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
3015 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
3016 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
3017 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
3019 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
3020 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
3021 (patch by Eric Raymond).
3024 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
3025 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
3026 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
3028 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
3029 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
3030 not printing the full pathname of the program.
3031 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
3032 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
3033 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
3036 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
3037 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
3039 + add test/dots_termcap.c
3040 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
3041 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
3042 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
3043 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
3044 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
3045 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
3046 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
3047 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
3048 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
3050 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
3051 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
3054 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
3055 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
3056 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
3057 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
3058 the left margin of the display.
3059 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
3060 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
3061 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
3062 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
3065 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
3066 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
3067 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
3068 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
3069 + regenerated html manpages.
3070 + update doctype used for html documentation.
3073 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
3074 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
3075 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
3076 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
3077 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
3078 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
3081 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
3082 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
3083 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
3084 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
3085 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
3088 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
3089 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
3092 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
3093 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
3094 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3095 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
3096 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
3098 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
3099 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
3100 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
3101 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
3104 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
3105 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
3106 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
3107 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
3109 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
3111 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
3113 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
3116 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
3120 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
3121 (report by Christian Ebert).
3122 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
3123 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
3124 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
3127 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
3128 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
3129 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
3130 add bold for consistency with sgr,
3131 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
3132 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
3133 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
3134 by Benjamin Sittler)
3135 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
3136 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
3137 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
3138 line split after "%;".
3139 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
3140 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
3143 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
3144 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
3145 + regenerated html manpages.
3146 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
3147 + updated some autoconf macros:
3148 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
3149 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
3150 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
3151 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
3152 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
3153 configuration (Redhat #911540).
3154 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
3155 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
3158 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
3159 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
3161 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
3162 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
3164 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
3165 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
3166 of raw input in MinGW port.
3169 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
3170 + update config.guess, config.sub
3173 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
3175 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
3177 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
3178 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
3179 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
3180 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
3181 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
3182 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
3183 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
3185 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
3186 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
3189 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
3190 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
3192 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
3193 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
3194 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
3197 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
3198 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
3199 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
3202 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
3203 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
3204 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
3205 help reduce flicker.
3206 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
3207 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
3208 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
3209 by Dennis Grevenstein).
3210 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
3211 Dennis Grevenstein).
3212 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
3213 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
3214 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
3217 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
3218 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
3219 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
3220 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
3221 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
3222 + improve error-checking in copywin
3223 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
3224 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
3225 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
3226 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
3227 matching capability names.
3228 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
3229 applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2
3230 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
3233 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
3234 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
3235 are unused in the current driver model.
3236 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
3238 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
3239 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
3240 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
3241 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
3244 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
3245 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
3247 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
3248 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
3249 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
3250 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
3251 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
3254 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
3255 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
3256 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
3260 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
3262 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
3263 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
3265 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
3266 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
3267 wide-character which can be used.
3270 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
3271 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
3272 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
3273 by Erwin Waterlander).
3274 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
3275 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3276 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
3277 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
3278 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
3279 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
3283 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
3284 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
3285 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
3286 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
3287 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
3288 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3289 + remove a few redundant checks.
3290 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
3292 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
3293 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
3294 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
3295 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
3297 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
3298 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
3299 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
3303 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
3304 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
3305 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
3309 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
3310 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
3311 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3312 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
3315 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3316 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
3317 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
3318 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
3319 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
3320 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
3321 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
3322 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
3324 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
3325 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
3326 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
3327 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
3330 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
3331 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
3332 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
3334 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
3335 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
3336 libraries or executables.
3339 + realign these related pages:
3344 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
3345 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
3346 (report by Reuben Thomas).
3347 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
3348 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
3349 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
3350 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
3351 based on testing with tack -TD
3352 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
3353 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
3356 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
3358 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
3359 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
3360 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
3363 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
3367 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
3368 (patch by Christian Persch).
3371 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
3373 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
3374 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
3375 has used that for a while.
3376 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
3377 for experimental use.
3378 + remove unused configure macros.
3379 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
3380 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
3381 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
3382 + update config.guess, config.sub
3385 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
3386 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
3387 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
3388 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
3389 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
3390 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
3391 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
3394 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
3395 to help with MinGW port.
3398 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
3400 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
3403 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
3406 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
3407 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
3408 might not be allocated.
3409 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
3412 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
3413 initial screen-sizes.
3414 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
3415 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
3419 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
3420 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
3424 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
3425 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
3426 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
3428 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
3429 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
3432 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
3433 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
3434 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
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