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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2006 2012/12/29 22:37:28 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.
+20130202
+ + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
+ an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
+ + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
+
+20130126
+ + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
+ needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
+ + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
+ help reduce flicker.
+ + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
+ old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
+ + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
+ by Dennis Grevenstein).
+ + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
+ Dennis Grevenstein).
+ + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
+ rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
+ (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
+
+20130119
+ + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
+ + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
+ + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
+ + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
+ + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
+ + improve error-checking in copywin
+ + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
+ + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
+ demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
+ + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
+ matching capability names.
+ + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
+ applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
+ termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
+
+20130112
+ + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
+ + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
+ are unused in the current driver model.
+ + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
+ library.
+ + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
+ + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
+ putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
+ The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
+
+20130105
+ + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
+ mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
+ MinGW changes.
+ + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
+ + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
+ screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
+ so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
+ Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
+
20121229
+ fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
+ add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
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