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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3102 2018/03/17 19:47:51 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).
+ + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
+ as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
+ + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
+ + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
+ + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
+ _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
+ + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
+ supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
+ Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
+ could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
+
+20181208
+ + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
+ curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
+ background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
+
+20181201
+ + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
+ + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
+ different character pages.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20181125
+ + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
+
+20181124
+ + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
+ the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
+ + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
+ used.
+ + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
+ + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
+ that lets different curses implementations be compared.
+ + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
+ block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
+ (report by Tomas Janousek).
+
+20181117
+ + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
+ + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
+ a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
+ the compiled-in search list.
+
+20181110
+ + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
+ Ada95 tree.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20181027
+ + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
+ + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
+
+20181020
+ + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
+ from the infocmp -Q option.
+ + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
+ + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
+ symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
+ + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
+ wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
+
+20181013
+ + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
+ to make it an absolute path.
+
+20181006
+ + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
+ Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
+ + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
+
+20180929
+ + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
+ + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
+ + add alias n7900 -TD
+ + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
+ + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
+ + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
+ + add bel to tvi950 -TD
+ + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
+ + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
+ + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
+
+20180923
+ + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
+ by Chris Clayton).
+
+20180922
+ + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
+ if the terminal were resized.
+ + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
+ #1610681, cf: 20141011).
+ + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
+ since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
+
+20180908
+ + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
+ + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
+ marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
+ character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
+ fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
+ + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
+ update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
+ output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
+ + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
+ implementations of sysconf().
+
+20180901
+ + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
+ parameter.
+ + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
+ "too large".
+ + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
+
+20180825
+ + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
+ terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
+ + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
+ deb test-packages.
+ + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
+ toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
+ + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
+ 20180818 updates.
+
+20180818
+ + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
+ + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
+ + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
+ install (Debian #903790):
+ + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
+ static libraries.
+ + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
+ sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
+ in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
+
+20180804
+ + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
+ scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
+ the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
+ display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+
+20180728
+ + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
+ + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
+ + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
+
+20180721
+ + build-fixes for gcc8.
+ + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
+ + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
+ + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
+
+20180714
+ + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
+ + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
+
+20180707
+ + build-fixes for gcc8.
+ + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
+ report_offsets.
+ + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
+ empty (Debian #902630).
+
+20180630
+ + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
+ add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
+ + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
+ (Nicholas Marriott).
+ + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
+ + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
+ locale support.
+ + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
+
+20180623
+ + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
+ to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
+ compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
+ + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
+ updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
+ CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
+ CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20180616
+ + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
+ + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
+ combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
+ + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
+ use of vsscanf and setenv.
+ + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
+ work on dialog.
+
+20180609
+ + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
+ to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
+ #900839).
+ + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
+ and vw_scanw, respectively.
+
+20180602
+ + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
+ + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
+
+20180526
+ + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
+ + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
+ files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
+ Pascual Monells).
+ + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
+ + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
+ work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
+
+20180519
+ + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
+ + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
+ fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
+ (report by C Anthony Risinger)
+ + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
+ + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
+ for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
+
+20180512
+ + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
+ + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
+ + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
+
+20180505
+ + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
+ versions of tack.
+ + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
+ alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
+ the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
+ such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
+ + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
+ conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
+ + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
+ for escaping regular expressions.
+
+20180428
+ + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
+ Winter).
+ + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
+ (report by Leon Winter).
+ + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
+ unfocus_current_field (form);
+ form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
+ (patch by Leon Winter).
+
+20180414
+ + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
+ edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
+ non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
+ + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
+ + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
+ a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
+
+20180407
+ + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
+ not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
+ + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
+ Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
+ interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
+ interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
+ As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
+ values, e.g., keyname().
+
+20180331
+ + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
+ extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
+ string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
+
+20180324
+ + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
+ 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
+ + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
+ + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
+ + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
+
20180317
+ fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
it should have.
Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
20121229
- + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
+ + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
+ add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
+ minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
numbers.
+ improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
20091114
-
+ updated man/curs_trace.3x
+ limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
+ change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
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
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