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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2851 2017/06/03 23:27:40 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.
+20170729
+ + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
+ + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
+ + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
+ + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
+ Williams) -TD
+ + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
+ cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
+ + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
+ tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
+ parameters for a capability and the actual.
+ + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
+ report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
+ + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
+ alternate character set is enabled.
+ + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
+ + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
+ tack for memory-leak checking.
+ + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
+ configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
+ a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
+ installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
+ + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
+ needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
+ internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
+ string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
+ curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
+ extended capability arrays.
+ + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
+
+20170722
+ + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
+ + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
+ the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
+ ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
+ term-driver configuration.
+ + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
+ files to allow each to be compiled separately.
+ + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
+ using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
+ versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
+ dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
+
+20170715
+ + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
+ with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
+ + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
+ + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
+ (Debian #868266).
+ + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
+ + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
+
+20170708
+ + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
+ + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20170701
+ + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
+ variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
+ application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
+ + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
+ configuration; none is needed.
+ + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
+ + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
+ fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
+ not work (cf: 20160213).
+ + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
+ reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
+ reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
+ showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
+ addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
+ + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
+ (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
+ + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
+ + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
+ one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
+ treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
+ + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
+ + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
+ + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
+ + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
+ (report by Allen Hewes).
+
+20170624
+ + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
+ throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
+ + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
+ (report by Allen Hewes).
+ + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
+ + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
+ not initialized, rather than returning an error.
+ + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
+ has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
+ + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
+ assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
+ + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
+ behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
+
+20170617
+ + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
+ (report by Allen Hewes).
+ + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
+ to help with leak checking.
+ + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
+ checking.
+ + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
+ cannot be initialized.
+
+20170610
+ + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
+ + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
+ + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
+
20170603
+ add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
to xterm-256color.
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