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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3600 2020/11/28 23:32:30 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3631 2021/02/13 22:39:42 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.
+20210213
+ + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background
+ functions.
+ + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a
+ wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character.
+ + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries.
+ + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first
+ parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
+
+20210206
+ + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd
+ (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic)
+ + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2"
+ option, from xterm #363 -TD
+ + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before
+ writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the
+ cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
+
+20210130
+ + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused
+ scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower
+ right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD
+ + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not
+ supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD
+ + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD
+ + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD
+ + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore
+ blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD
+
+20210123
+ + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for
+ cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding
+ the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich).
+ + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around
+ quirks of pmake.
+
+20210116
+ + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS
+ (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD
+ + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1,
+ adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
+
+20210109
+ + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates.
+ + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of
+ autoconf 2.52.20210105
+
+20210102
+ + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
+ exit_terminfo.
+ + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
+ defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
+ (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
+ + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
+ for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
+ types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031).
+ + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
+ consistency with other manpages.
+
+20201227
+ + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
+ + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
+
+20201219
+ + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
+ regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
+ + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
+ by Chris Bennett).
+
+20201212
+ + improve manual pages for form field-types.
+
+20201205
+ + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
+ gprbuild (cf: 20200627).
+ + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
+ + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
+ Abendroth).
+ + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
+ (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
+ + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
+
20201128
+ add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
+ add rep to PuTTY -TD
+ correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
+ re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
+ add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
- + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
+ + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
+ add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes.
+ improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
+ update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
+ fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
+ add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
- which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
+ which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
+ add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
+ build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
20190907
- + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
+ + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
by Pascal Pignard).
+ modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
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