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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1734 2011/07/16 22:24:30 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.
+20110910
+ + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
+ the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
+ (cf: 20110716).
+ + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
+ of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
+ cf: 20100102).
+ + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
+ + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
+ the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
+ the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
+ Meunier).
+ + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
+ FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
+ + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
+ show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
+ is used.
+ + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
+ --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
+
+20110903
+ + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
+ increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
+ by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
+ + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
+
+20110820
+ + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
+ not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
+ + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
+ + add terminator entry -TD
+ + add simpleterm entry -TD
+ + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
+ null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
+ (cf: 20110528).
+
+20110813
+ + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
+ + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
+ database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
+ + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
+ entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
+ guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
+ the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
+ + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
+ accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
+ + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
+ error-return.
+
+20110807
+ + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
+ variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
+ + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
+ + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
+ + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
+ + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
+ from tic/infocmp.
+ + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
+ field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
+ + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
+ use a single line.
+ + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
+
+20110730
+ + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
+ directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
+ around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
+ + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
+ for termcap output.
+ + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
+ "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
+ features:
+ + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
+ + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
+ termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
+ + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
+ + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
+ there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
+ + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
+ + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
+ freed memory.
+ + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
+ values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
+ positive.
+ + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
+ feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
+ tctest (cf: 19991211).
+ + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
+ from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
+ + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
+ a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
+ + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
+ translating to termcap.
+ + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
+ getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
+
+20110723
+ + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
+ extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
+ + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
+ the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
+ + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
+ + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
+ (Yuri Pankov).
+ + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
+ to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
+ regarding Schilling's test program):
+ + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
+ + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
+ + use \040 rather than \s
+ + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
+ + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
+
20110716
+ replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
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