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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1184 2007/11/25 00:04:31 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1213 2008/03/09 00:21:51 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.
+20080308
+ + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
+ + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
+ that the 'F' accepts.
+ + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
+ are working concurrently.
+ + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
+ window.
+
+20080301
+ + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
+ recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
+ _nc_free_and_exit().
+
+20080223
+ + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
+ lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
+
+20080216
+ + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
+ is implemented to suspend the entire process.
+
+20080209
+ + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
+ comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
+ that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
+ implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
+
+20080203
+ + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
+ for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
+ but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
+ + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
+ using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
+ further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
+ Chernov).
+ + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
+ If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
+ sequence.
+
+20080126
+ + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
+ handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
+ or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
+
+20080119
+ + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
+ + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
+ + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
+
+20080112
+ + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
+ + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
+ adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
+ softkeys were used.
+
+20080105
+ + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
+ "link_test" builds properly.
+ + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
+ + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
+ (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
+ + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
+ soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
+ + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
+ cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
+ question).
+ + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
+
+20071222
+ + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
+ for delwin().
+
+20071215
+ + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
+ pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
+
+20071201
+ + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
+ INSTALL file.
+ + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
+ + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
+ applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
+
20071124
+ modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by