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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3231 2018/12/16 00:18:46 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3297 2019/03/23 23:06:12 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.
+20190323
+ + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
+ + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
+ those in compilable form.
+ + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
+ in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
+ (report/patch by Werner Fink).
+
+20190317
+ + regenerate llib-* files.
+ + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
+ + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
+ an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
+ + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
+ + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
+ which did not become accepted.
+
+20190309
+ + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
+ capabilities in tic.
+ + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
+ data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
+
+20190302
+ + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
+ + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
+ user-defined capabilities.
+ + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
+ called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
+
+20190223
+ + fix typo in adds200 -TD
+ + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
+ + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
+ xt, tbc and hts as clues.
+ + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
+ tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
+
+20190216
+ + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
+ + add test/demo_tabs program.
+
+20190209
+ + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
+ parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
+
+20190202
+ + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
+ with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
+ + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
+ + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
+ to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
+ configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
+ in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
+
+20190126
+ + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
+ "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
+ + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
+ + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
+ being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
+ Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
+
+20190121
+ + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
+ file in Slackware.
+ + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
+ on some of the BSDs.
+ + updated "string-hacks" feature.
+ + minor improvements to manpage typography.
+ + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
+ "Hudd").
+ + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
+ init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
+ extended_color_content
+ + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
+ return values from the tested functions.
+ + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
+ extensions.
+ + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
+ option was given.
+ + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
+ warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
+
+20190112
+ + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
+ Modinos).
+ + add nsterm-direct -TD
+ + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
+ + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
+ + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
+
+20190105
+ + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
+ building test-packages for Arch.
+ + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
+ that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
+ packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20181229
+ + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
+ + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
+ as a pipe/filter.
+ + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
+ discussion with Bryan Christ).
+ + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
+ + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
+ obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
+ Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
+ names.
+
20181215
+ several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
+ fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
20000701 pre-release
+ change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
+ add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
- $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
+ $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
+ add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
+ modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating