ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230617

[ncurses.git] / NEWS

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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3957 2023/05/27 20:09:50 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3967 2023/06/17 17:17:42 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,34 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20230617
+       + markup manpages with revision information (prompted by discussion
+         with Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
+
+20230615
+       + modify _nc_read_file_entry() to show relevant filename in warnings.
+       + improve checks in convert_string() for corrupt terminfo entry (report
+         and test-case by Gregory James Duck).
+
+20230610
+       + improve manpages discussing file descriptors in low-level functions.
+       + modify flushinp to use file descriptors in SCREEN, rather than from
+         TERMINAL, and check if they are for a terminal, like SVr4.
+       + modify mcprint to use file descriptor in SCREEN, for consistency.
+       + add xterm+focus to foot+base (patch by Daniel Ekloef).
+       + correct definition of Charable() for non-wide ncurses library (report
+         and test-case by Zbigniew Baniewski).
+
+20230603
+       + add configure option --with-strip-program, to override program
+         chosen by the install program for stripping executables (prompted
+         by discussion with Aapo Rantalainen).
+       + fix typo in INSTALL (report/patch by Aapo Rantalainen).
+       + improve error-checks for isEILSEQ()
+       + increase MB_CUR_MAX to 16, matching glibc's MB_LEN_MAX.
+       + corrected mouse mask in test/testcurs.c
+       + improve thread lock in lib_trace.c
+
 20230527
        + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck.
 
@@ -11162,7 +11190,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
          aixterm entries -TD
        + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies.  An
-         example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
+         example of an illegal ANSI response can be found using Microsoft's
          Telnet client.  A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
          terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
                XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID:  450
@@ -12056,7 +12084,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
        + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
          libraries named according to release or ABI versions.  This
-         parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
+         parametrizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
          intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
          versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf:  980425).
        + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches