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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2437 2015/06/06 23:53:34 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20151205
+ + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
+ function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
+ + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
+ rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
+ listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
+ listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
+ e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
+ feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
+ Jason McIntyre).
+
+20151128
+ + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
+ Leon Winter).
+ + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
+ (Debian #805618).
+ + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
+ + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
+ + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
+ backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
+ + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
+
+20151121
+ + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
+ + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
+ + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
+ + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
+
+20151107
+ + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
+ which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
+ name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
+ tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
+ this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
+ Burridge).
+ + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
+ are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
+ + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
+ renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
+ normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
+
+20151101
+ + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
+ valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
+ actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
+ install time (cf: 20150822).
+ + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
+ clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
+ empty "local" section.
+ + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
+ to incorrect attribute-masking.
+
+20151024
+ + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
+ to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
+ + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
+ annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
+ did not display well.
+ + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
+ + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
+ + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
+ the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
+ Normand, Novell #946048).
+ + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
+ FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
+ + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
+ minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
+ + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
+ + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
+ Internet Archive -TD
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20151017
+ + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
+ (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
+ + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
+ data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
+ (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
+ > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
+ + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
+ + support building with libtool on OS/2
+ + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
+ + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
+
+20151010
+ + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
+ + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
+ + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
+ + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
+ change.
+ + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
+ fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
+ (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
+
+20150926
+ + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
+ than clean.
+ + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
+ + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
+
+20150919
+ + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
+ stream.
+ + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
+ read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
+ + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
+ configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
+
+20150912
+ + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
+ William Gallafent).
+ + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
+ solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
+ of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
+ + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
+ "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
+ + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
+ library.
+ + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
+
+20150905
+ + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
+ UTF-8.
+ + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
+ all comments from the "tic -I" output.
+ + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
+ header.
+ + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
+ form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
+
+20150822
+ + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
+ see unused letters.
+ + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
+ + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
+ + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
+ + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
+ ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
+ Joshua Root).
+
+20150815
+ + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
+ overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
+ + update release notes in INSTALL.
+ + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
+
+20150810
+ + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
+ releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
+ http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
+
+20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20150808
+ + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
+ + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
+ + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
+ more than 200 snapshots.
+ + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
+ page.
+
+20150725
+ + updated llib-* files.
+ + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
+ + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
+ Mikhail Peselnik).
+ + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
+ + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
+ curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
+ curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
+ curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
+ curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
+
+20150719
+ + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
+ + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
+ curs_initscr.3x page.
+ + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
+ of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
+ in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
+ Coverity).
+ + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
+ e.g., ncursestw library.
+
+20150711
+ + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
+ configuration of ncurses6.
+ + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
+ demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
+ the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
+ versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
+ + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
+
+20150704
+ + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
+ + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
+ (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
+
+20150627
+ + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
+ building ABI 6.
+ + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
+ map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
+ suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
+ + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
+ from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
+ + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
+ databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
+ + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
+ setupterm and restartterm functions.
+ + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
+ of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
+ it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
+ Schindelin).
+
+20150613
+ + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
+ + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
+ the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
+ files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
+ corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
+ configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
+ discussion with Sven Joachim).
+ + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
+
20150606 pre-release
+ make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
- "--with-abi=5" option.
+ "--with-abi-version=5" option.
+ regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
+ minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
+ fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
- + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
- checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
+ updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
+ modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
- + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
+ + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
20120114
+ several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
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