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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2991 2017/10/28 23:46:30 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.
+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.
+ + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
+ different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
+ + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
+ + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
+ terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
+ by Gyorgy Jeney).
+
+20180303
+ + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
+ avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
+ + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
+ + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
+ verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
+ (report/patch by Werner Fink).
+ + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
+ on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
+ better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
+ + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
+ for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
+ structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
+ + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
+ + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
+ how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
+
+20180224
+ + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
+ a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
+ defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
+ compounded by repair in 20180121.
+ + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
+ + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
+ + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20180217
+ + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
+ + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
+ + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
+ + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
+ Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
+
+20180210
+ + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
+ the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
+ is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
+ + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
+ was needed, was standardized long ago.
+ + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
+ + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
+ and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
+ normally enabled.
+
+20180203
+ + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
+ + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
+ + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
+ + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
+ package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
+
+20180129
+ + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
+
+20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20180127
+ + updated release notes
+ + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
+ of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
+ > terminfo changes:
+ + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
+ not suitable -TD
+ + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
+ + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
+ konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
+ + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
+ imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
+ + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
+ support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
+ + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
+ + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
+ + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
+ + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
+ + add iterm2-direct -TD
+ + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
+ + add mlterm-direct -TD
+ + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
+
+20180121 pre-release
+ > terminfo changes:
+ + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
+ blocks from xterm #331 -TD
+ + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
+ #331 -TD
+ + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
+ color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
+ + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
+ + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
+ match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
+ + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
+ + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
+ + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
+ direct-colors are wanted -TD
+ + add vte-direct -TD
+ + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
+ Pierre Carru)
+ + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
+ + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
+ mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
+ + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
+ > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
+ + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
+ numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
+ such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
+ this feature.
+ + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
+ tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
+ + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
+ ncurses library work as expected.
+ + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
+ read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
+ + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
+ term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
+ + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
+ a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
+ + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
+ + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
+ wide-character configuration to 32768.
+
+20180120
+ + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
+ + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
+ + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
+ + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
+ gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
+ and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
+ libraries.
+ + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
+
+20180106
+ + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
+ + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
+ 256-, etc., colors.
+ + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
+ as possible default values.
+ + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
+ extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
+ handling of the curses/ncurses library.
+ + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
+ + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
+ configured to access it via weak symbols.
+ + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
+ checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
+ behavior.
+ + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
+ + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
+ ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
+ standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
+ needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
+ would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
+ + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
+ (report by Jeffrey Walton).
+
+20171230
+ + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
+ reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
+ + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
+ script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
+ directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
+ + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
+ some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
+ anticipated.
+ + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
+ conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
+
+20171223
+ + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
+ PDCurses.
+ + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
+ e.g., if there is a permission problem.
+ + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
+ + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
+ avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
+ if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
+ OpenSuSE #1070450).
+ + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
+
+20171216
+ + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
+ + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
+ for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
+ + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
+
+20171209
+ + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
+ consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
+ configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
+ are.
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
+ function in link_test.c
+ + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
+ + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
+ LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
+ linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
+ + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
+
+20171125
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
+ before initialized.
+ + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
+ + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
+ + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
+ Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
+ + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
+ + it lacks the use_env() function.
+ + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
+ + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
+ value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
+ error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
+ + additional manpage cleanup.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20171118
+ + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
+ + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
+ + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
+ + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
+ + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
+ + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
+ + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
+ account for xon -TD
+ + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
+ rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
+ + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
+ those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
+ otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
+ jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
+ dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
+ st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
+ + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
+ of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
+ Vassili Courzakis).
+
+20171111
+ + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
+ + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
+ + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
+ + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
+
+20171104
+ + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
+ dots_xcurses.c
+ + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
+ + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
+ test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
+
20171028
+ improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
(report by Midolikawa H).
+ add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
+ add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
+ improve usage messages for tset and tput.
- + minor fixes to "RDGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
+ + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
20170812
+ improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
20161224
- + correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
+ + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
(patch by Leon Winter).
+ improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
patch by Mihail Konev).
for special keys, based on xterm.
20160702
- + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters areg given.
+ + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
20160625
+ build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
to incorrect attribute-masking.
20151024
- + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
+ + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
+ modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
20150810
+ workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
- http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
+ https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
20131221
+ further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
manpages. See
- ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
+ ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
20131214
+ modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
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
+ document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
Stanislav Ievlev).
+ regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
- see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
+ see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
20050507
+ regenerated html documentation for manpages.
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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