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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2085 2013/08/05 00:51:45 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.
+20131027
+ + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
+ reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
+ + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
+ them more consistent with other packages.
+
+20131019
+ + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
+ compiling ncurses-examples.
+ + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
+
+20131014
+ + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
+
+20131012
+ + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
+ + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
+ + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
+ cross-compiles to MinGW.
+ + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
+ MinGW using NSIS.
+
+20131005
+ + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
+ + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
+ to MinGW.
+
+20130928
+ + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
+ it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
+ addressed.
+ + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
+ OpenBSD 5.3
+ + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
+ + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
+ nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
+ + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
+ + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
+
+20130921
+ + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
+ + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
+ by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
+
+20130907
+ + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
+ Alexey Pavlov).
+ + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
+ before/after Debian #700177.
+ + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
+ + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
+ Alexey Pavlov).
+ + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
+ of sort, improving portability.
+ + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20130831
+ + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
+ attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
+ italics test.
+ + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
+ character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
+ + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
+
+20130824
+ + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
+ + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
+ introduced by Debian #700177.
+ + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
+ was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
+
+20130816
+ + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
+ addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
+ generic_type.
+ + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
+ + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
+ port when tic and other programs are not needed.
+
20130805
+ minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
+ modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
- Koblinger Egmont).
+ Egmont Koblinger).
20031004
+ add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
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