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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3761 2021/12/26 00:29:27 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3788 2022/03/20 00:18:08 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.
+20220319
+ + add xgterm -TD
+ + correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by
+ Robert Lange)
+ + add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange)
+ + improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc.
+
+20220312
+ + add xterm+acs building-block -TD
+ + add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD
+ + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per patch #371 -TD
+ + add mosh and mosh-256color -TD
+
+20220305
+ + replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to
+ work around build problems with gnat 12.
+ + update external links in Ada95.html
+ + trim unused return-value from canonical_name().
+
+20220226
+ + fix issues found with coverity:
+ + rewrite canonical_name() function of infocmp to ensure buffer size
+ + corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands
+ + modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns
+ + add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c
+ + add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis.
+ + enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding.
+ + adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from
+ gcc 12.0.1
+
+20220219
+ + expanded description in man/resizeterm.3x
+ + additional workaround for ImageMagick in test/picsmap.c
+
+20220212
+ + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency.
+ + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno
+ Schulenberg).
+
+20220205
+ + workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values
+ by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit.
+ + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap".
+
+20220129
+ + minor updates for test-packages
+ + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the
+ case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a
+ colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum,
+ cf: 20211113).
+ + update kitty -TD
+
+20220122
+ + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script.
+ + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps"
+ does not exist.
+ + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on
+ format-warnings.
+ + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the
+ infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
+
+20220115
+ + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse
+ state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by
+ Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022).
+ + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files.
+
+20220101
+ + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
+ curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
+
20211225
+ improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
(prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
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