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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1973 2012/11/10 21:44:29 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.
+20130126
+ + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
+ needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
+ + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
+ help reduce flicker.
+ + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
+ old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
+ + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
+ by Dennis Grevenstein).
+ + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
+ Dennis Grevenstein).
+ + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
+ rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
+ (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
+
+20130119
+ + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
+ + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
+ + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
+ + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
+ + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
+ + improve error-checking in copywin
+ + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
+ + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
+ demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
+ + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
+ matching capability names.
+ + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
+ applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
+ termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
+
+20130112
+ + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
+ + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
+ are unused in the current driver model.
+ + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
+ library.
+ + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
+ + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
+ putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
+ The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
+
+20130105
+ + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
+ mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
+ MinGW changes.
+ + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
+ + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
+ screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
+ so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
+ Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
+
+20121229
+ + 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.
+
+20121222
+ + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
+ for Mac OS builds.
+ + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
+ available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
+ cf: 20011208).
+ + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
+ that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
+ wide-character which can be used.
+
+20121215
+ + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
+ a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
+ + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
+ by Erwin Waterlander).
+ + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
+ > fixes based on Coverity report:
+ + correct coloring in test/bs.c
+ + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
+ + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
+ + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
+ test-programs.
+
+20121208
+ + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
+ each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
+ Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
+ + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
+ the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
+ > fixes based on Coverity report:
+ + remove a few redundant checks.
+ + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
+ ship.
+ + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
+ + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
+ + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
+ + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
+ terminal driver.
+ + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
+ + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
+ + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
+ used.
+
+20121201
+ + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
+ + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
+ regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
+ do not work.
+
+20121124
+ + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
+ test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
+ > fixes based on Coverity report:
+ + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
+
+20121117
+ > fixes based on Coverity report:
+ + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
+ + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
+ + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
+ + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
+ + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
+ + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
+ + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
+ test/inchs.c
+ + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
+ test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
+ + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
+ test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
+
20121110
+ modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
that library.
+ add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
- + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
- #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
+ patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
Lichvar).
+ update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
+ workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
+ improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
- buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
- #202480)).
+ buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
+ correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
20060826
source output (Debian #378783).
+ modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
- variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
+ variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
+ port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
+ fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
- (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
+ (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
20060805
+ updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
- or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
+ or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
+ add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
Campo).
entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
+ add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
+ correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
- using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
+ using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
+ modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
(comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
+ modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
- konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
- xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
- new ones do not require this change. -TD
+ konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
+ The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
+ the new ones do not require this change. -TD
20040814
+ fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
+ modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
- + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
- patch by Hans de Goede)
+ + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
+ Hans de Goede)
> terminfo updates -TD
+ make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
+ add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
> terminfo updates -TD
+ add xterm-pc-fkeys
+ review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
- Bugzilla #122815).
+ #122815).
+ review/update konsole entries
+ add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
+ correct tsl string in kterm
+ add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
- + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
+ + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
+ ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
+ modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
- bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
+ #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
+ add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
+ modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
- window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
+ window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
20020803
+ fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
which may be in libutf8.
+ remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
- links (Debian bug report #99550).
+ links (Debian #99550).
+ add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
- C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
+ C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
> several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
+ correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
+ add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
+ modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
- 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
+ 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
+ correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
<stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
debugging.
+ correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
- --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
- bug #89939).
+ --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
+ #89939).
+ report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
given.
+ remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
- (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
+ (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
20010310
+ cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
+ correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
bg300-rv in esr's version.
+ modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
- (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
+ (fixes Debian #61088).
+ correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
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