X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=08ac63808507de93124b372a4852ff7ddda22b1c;hp=60b7fe151c96d89e5727c4ff613b911b054dbf67;hb=HEAD;hpb=3d46d7e9d3e210417f34acf3b469378558398d07 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 60b7fe15..7a5ca227 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey -- +-- Copyright 2018-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey -- -- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3721 2021/10/09 22:22:17 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4111 2024/04/20 21:37:56 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,895 @@ 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. +20240420 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + compiler warning/portability fixes. + +20240414 + + build/bug-fix for check-size feature (reports by Sam James, Gabriele + Balducci). + +20240413 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + provide for padding in check-size feature, using new_prescr() to + pass interim SCREEN pointer. + + complete change for opaque options (Gentoo #928973, cf: 20231021). + + update package /debian/rules and related lintian overrides + + revise progs.priv.h to provide for NC_ISATTY reuse + +20240330 + + remove masking of ISIG in cbreak() (report by Benno Schulenberg). + + modify test/test_mouse.c to use curses api for raw/noraw. + > improved configure macros from other program development: + + build-fix for clang on Solaris + + suppress filename/timestamp in gzip'd manpages (suggested for + byacc by Andrin Geiger) + +20240323 + + modify tput/tset reset feature to avoid 1-second sleep if running in + a pseudo-terminal. + + modify check-size feature to avoid using it in a pseudoterminal + (cf: 20231016) + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + trim a space after some "-R" options, fixing builds for applications + built using clang and ncurses on Solaris. + +20240309 + + modify xgterm to work around line-drawing bug -TD + + use CSI 3J in vte-2017 (report by Sven Joachim) + +20240302 + + add configure check for MB_LEN_MAX, to provide warning as needed. + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + fix regression in tput which disallowed hex/octal parameters (report + by Werner Fink, cf: 20230408) + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20240224 + + improve man/curs_mouse.3x style (Branden Robinson, Sven Joachim). + + provide for CCHARW_MAX greater than 1 + + eliminate use of PATH_MAX in lib_trace.c + + work around misconfiguration of MacPorts gcc13, which exposes invalid + definition of MB_LEN_MAX in gcc's fallback copy of limits.h (MacPorts + #69374). + +20240217 + + add vt100+noapp, vt100+noapp+pc, xterm+app+pc, xterm+decedit from + xterm #389 -TD + + fix inconsistent description of wmouse_trafo() (Debian #1059778). + + modify wenclose() to handle pads (Debian #1059783). + + improve manpage discussion of mouseinterval() (Debian #1058560). + +20240210 + + compiler-warning fixes, while investigating an optimizer bug in + "gcc (MacPorts gcc13 13.2.0_4+stdlib_flag) 13.2.0" + which results in only the first byte of a multibyte character being + printed to the screen. + +20240203 + + minor changes to tracing and locale-checks. + +20240127 + + amend change to z39-a (report by Sven Joachim). + + use xterm+nopcfkeys, vt52-basic, dec+pp, dec+sl, vt52+arrows, + hp+pfk+cr, klone+acs, klone+color, klone+sgr, ncr160wy50+pp + to trim -TD + + NetBSD-related fixes for x68k and wsvt52 (patch by Thomas Klausner) + +20240120 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + amend discussion of aliases in tput.1 + + use ansi+sgrbold, ansi+sgrdim, ansi+sgrso, ansi+sgrul, ansi+tabs + ecma+color, ecma+sgr, vt100+4bsd, vt100+pfkeys, vt220+pcedit + xterm+256color, xterm+acs, xterm+nopcfkeys, xterm+pcf2 to trim -TD + + modify configure scripts/makefiles to omit KEY_RESIZE if the + corresponding SIGWINCH feature is disabled. + +20240113 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + modify dist.mk to avoid passing developer's comments in manpages into + the generated html documentation. + + use ansi+local, ansi+local1, ansi+pp, ansi+rca, ansi+rca2, ansi+sgr + to trim -TD + + restore padding for wy520* and vt320-k311 (report by Sven Joachim). + +20240106 + + use ansi+arrows, ansi+apparrows, ansi+csr, ansi+erase, ansi+idc, + ansi+idc1, ansi+idl, ansi+idl1, ansi+inittabs to trim -TD + + minor manpage formatting changes for consistency. + + modify doc-html test package's install-directory, per lintian. + + add attr_get.3x to man_db.renames.in (patch by Sven Joachim). + +20231230 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + add ms-vt100-16color, winconsole -TD + + add rio, rio-direct -TD + + add mostlike -TD + + add wezterm, contour -TD + +20231223 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20231217 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean + is unset in a base entry and set in a use'd chunk, i.e., if it was + cancelled. + + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which + were already cancelled in a use'd chunk. + + join two lines in infotocap.3x to eliminate a spurious "description" + link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim). + + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim). + +20231209 + + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels in use'd chunks + which are not mentioned in the top-level terminal description. + + remove xterm+sm+1006 from tmux (Debian #1057688). + + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD + + updated man/edit_man.sh to allow for "\%" markers embedded after + bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057651). + + reduce compiler-warnings in configure checks + +20231202 + + correct initial alignment of extended capabilities in infocmp, so + that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types. + + improve formatting/style of manpages, changing environment variables + to italics (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20231125 + + add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1 + (patch by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering + (patches by Branden Robinson). + + modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values + (report by Branden Robinson). + +20231121 + + amend fix for Debian #1055882, correcting nul terminator check in + waddnstr (Debian #1056340). + +20231118 + + improve description of length-parameter and error-returns in several + manpages: curs_addchstr.3x, curs_addstr.3x, curs_addwstr.3x, + curs_in_wch.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x, curs_inchstr.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x, + curs_insstr.3x, curs_instr.3x, curs_inwstr.3x + + amend parameter check for entire string versus specific length in + winsnstr() and wins_nwstr() to match Solaris. + + make similar correction to wins_nwstr(). + + correct loop termination condition in waddnstr() and waddnwstr() + (Debian #1055882, cf: 20201205). + +20231111 + + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD + + add limit checks in infocmp needed when processing extended + capabilities with the "-u" option. + + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages. + + fix a few compiler warnings for Solaris 10. + + modify endwin() to return an error if it is called again without an + intervening screen update (report by Rajeev Pillai, NetBSD #57592). + +20231104 + + modify reset command to avoid altering clocal if the terminal uses a + modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek, + OpenSUSE #1201384, Debian #60377). + + build-fixes for --with-caps variations. + + correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL. + +20231028 + + move xterm focus mode 1004 from xterm+sm+1006 into xterm+focus as + fe/fd capabilities, like vim (vim-pr #13440). + + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make "libdir" the default, + as documented, rather than "auto" (report by Branden Robinson). + + improve messages from configure script (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20231021 + + use oldxterm+sm+1006 in vte-2014 (report by Benno Schulenberg) -TD + + add ansi+apparrows -TD + + change defaults for configure opaque and widec options (prompted by + discussion with Branden Robinson). + + minor cleanup of compiler- and manpage-warnings. + +20231016 + + make the recent change to setupterm optional "--enable-check-size" + (Debian #1054022). + +20231014 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, for uClibc-ng + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20231007 + + improve loop-limit for get_position(). + + improve manual description of immedok (Debian #1053603). + + fix a few formatting issues with manpages (Debian #1053123). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20231001 + + modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in + user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither + environment variables or ioctl is used. The ncurses test-program + with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature. + + improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates. + + fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by + copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott). + +20230923 + + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + amend change to delscreen() to limit the windows which it creates to + just those associated with the screen (report by Frederic Boiteux, + cf: 20220813). + +20230918 + + new tarball/errata (report by Sven Joachim). + +20230917 + + improve formatting of manpages (integrated patches by Branden + Robinson). + + correct limit for name-length in write_entry.c (report/testcase by + Luna Saphie Mittelbach). + + limit delays to 30 seconds, i.e., padding delays in terminfo, as well + as napms() and delay_output() functions. + + improve a few pointer-checks. + + improve parsing in _nc_msec_cost, allowing a single decimal point. + +20230909 + + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson), for + captoinfo.1m and terminfo.5 + > patches by Nicholas Marriott: + + use string-hacks in alloc_entry.c, alloc_type.c and hardscroll.c, + overlooked due to compiler changes in recent OpenBSD releases. + + add "-6" option to ncu2openbsd script. + +20230902 + + improve description of search rules for terminal descriptions in + terminfo manpage (report by Sven Joachim). + +20230826 + + fixes for compiler-warnings. + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20230819 + + various manpage-formatting fixes. + + correct formatting of table header in curs_inopts.3x (Branden + Robinson). + + correct manpage description of panel_hidden (report by Benjamin + Mordaunt). + +20230812 + + add/use putty+cursor to reflect amending of modified cursor-keys in + 2021 -TD + + add ecma+strikeout to putty -TD + + add functions to query tty-flags in SCREEN (request by Bill Gray). + +20230805 + + fix a few manpages needing tbl marker, seen by lintian warning. + + fixes for compiler-warnings. + + minor grammatical fix for manpages (Branden Robinson). + +20230729 + + improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_wnstr(). + + modify MinGW configuration to provide for running in MSYS/MSYS2 + shells, assuming ConPTY support (patch by Pavel Fedin). + + add assignment in CF_MAN_PAGES to fill in value for TERMINFO_DIRS in + ncurses, terminfo and tic manpages (patch by Sven Joachim). + +20230722 + + add "auto" default for --with-xterm-kbs configure option. + +20230715 + + correct wadd_wch_literal() when adding a non-spacing character to a + double-width character. + + improve manual page for curs_util. + + improve manual page for wadd_wch(). + +20230708 + + add linux+kbs for terminals which imitate xterm's behavior with + Linux -TD + + modify MinGW driver to return KEY_BACKSPACE when an unmodified + VK_BACK virtual key is entered (prompted by patch by Pavel Fedin, + Savannah #64292). + + disallow using $TERMINFO or $HOME/.terminfo when tic "-o" option is + used (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #1040048). + +20230701 + + fix mandoc warnings about unnecessary markup. + + improve parameter check in tparm_setup() + +20230625 + + adjust man/make_sed.sh to work with dates as the third field of TH. + + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai"). + +20230624 + + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai"). + +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. + +20230520 + + fixes for compiler warnings in MinGW environments. + +20230514 + + modify test-package "ncurses6-doc" to use manpage-aliases, which in + turn required a change to the configure script to factor in the + extra-suffix option when deriving alias names. + + add mode 1004 to xterm+sm+1006 from xterm #380 -TD + +20230506 + > build-fixes related to configure-options and/or platform: + + fix for --enable-fvisibility + + fix for unusual values of --with-rel-version + + fix for unusual values of --with-abi-version + + fix for --disable-tcap-names + + fix for termcap in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink). + +20230429 + + revise recent change to _nc_write_entry to isolate it to a Cygwin bug + (cf: 20230311) + + amend fix for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to use cbreak mode unless raw + mode was set (cf: 20210522). + + fix a few warnings from cppcheck, etc. + + correct copy/paste error in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink). + +20230424 + + check return value of _nc_save_str(), in special case for tic where + extended capabilities are processed but the terminal description was + not initialized (report by Ziqiao Kong). + + regenerate llib-* files. + +20230423 + + add tiscan_s() to help applications check formatting capabilities + that would be passed to tiparm_s, etc. + + add tiparm_s() to provide applications a way to tell ncurses what + the expected parameters are for a capability (tmux #3531). + + improve check in lib_tparm.c, ensuring that a char* fits into a + TPARM_ARG. + + add --disable-setuid-environ configure option (request by Sven + Joachim). + + drop compatibility with obsolete versions of tack, e.g., pre-1.08 + (Debian #1034549, cf: 20170722). + +20230418 + + improve checks for limits on privileged execution: + + modify _nc_syserr_abort() to use _nc_env_access(), rather than + only checking root uid. + + use getauxval() when available, to improve setuid/setgid checks. + + modify test packages to disable root access/environ options. + + modify tgoto() to accept no-parameter capabilities, for joe editor + (OpenSUSE #1210485, Gentoo #904263). + +20230415 + + configure script fixes: + + fix copy/paste error in configure option --disable-root-access + (report/patch by Sven Joachim). + + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro's amend default case to avoid + undefining _XOPEN_SOURCE if _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined. + + modify test_tparm to account for extended capabilities. + + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of numeric parameters, + overlooked in 20230408. + + fix errata in clear.1 and curs_terminfo.3x + +20230408 + + document limitations of tparm, and error-returns in curs_terminfo.3x + + document limitations of tgoto, and error-returns in curs_termcap.3x + + add xterm+focus to alacritty+common (patch by Christian Duerr). + + add "-v" option to tput, to show warnings. + > improve checks for malformed terminfo data (report/analysis by + Jonathan Bar Or, Michael Pearse, Emanuele Cozzi). + + make the parameter type/count checks in _nc_tiparm() more stringent + + update tgoto() to account for _nc_tiparm() changes + + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of string parameters + + add special cases in tput to handle extensions Cs/Ms parameters + + ignore compiled-terminfo where the array sizes exceed the standard + +20230401 + + modify experimental Windows driver to work with xterm mouse protocol. + + remove DECCOLM+DECSCLM from foot (patch by Daniel Ekloef). + +20230311 + + improve manpage description for addch versus unctrl format used for + non-printable characters. + + modify version-check for gcc/g++, now works for msys2. + + modify check in _nc_write_entry() for multiply defined aliases to + report problems within the current runtime of tic rather than for + conflicts with pre-existing terminal descriptions. + + allow for MinGW32-/64-bit configurations to use _DEFAULT_SOURCE + + clarify interaction of -R option versus -C, -I and -r in infocmp + manpage. + + build-fix in lib_win32con.c (cf: 20230211). + +20230225 + + build-fixes for rpm test-packages. + + add/use configure check for clock_gettime(), to supersede + gettimeofday(). + +20230218 + + configure-script improvements: + + recent msys2 headers work with _DEFAULT_SOURCE; amend check + + use $ac_includes_default in most cases where stdlib.h should work + + use #error consistently vs "make an error" + + add configure macro for gettimeofday vs inline check + +20230211 + + set dwShareMode in calls to CreateConsoleScreenBuffer() (patch by + Hannes Domani). + + use CreateFile with "CONIN$", "CONOUT$" rather than GetStdHandle to + obtain a handle on the actual console, avoiding redirection in the + MinGW/Win32 configurations (adapted from patch by LIU Hao). + +20230128 + + document XF, kxIN and kxOUT -TD + + add note on sun/wscons/cmdtool/shelltool -TD + + modify configure script check for pkg-config library directory to + take into account an older version 0.15.0 which used PKG_CONFIG_PATH + but not PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR + +20230121 + + correct limit-check when dumping tc/use clause via tic -I (report by + Gabriel Ravier). + + correct a check for manpage-alias in edit_man.sh, to work with out of + tree builds (report by Sven Joachim). + +20230114 + + change RV to XR/xr, to avoid conflict with pre-existing usage in vim, + to use RV/rv to denote DA2 and its response (discussion with Bram + Moolenaar) -TD + + add XF flag to xterm+focus so that termcap applications can be aware + of terminals which may support focus in/out -TD + + use xterm+focus in xterm-p370 and tmux -TD + + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings. + +20230107 + + add --with-abi-altered configure option (prompted by discussion with + Brian Inglis). + + add BSD erase2 to characters handled by tset/reset. + + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings. + + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221202 + + add RV report+version (suggested by Bram Moolenaar). + + add comment to bracketed+paste explaining that vim patch 9.0.1117 is + needed for use with the updated xterm descriptions (suggested by Bram + Moolenaar). + +20221231 6.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update release notes + + regenerate llib-* files. + + correct PS vs PE names in bracketed+paste (report by Bram Moolenaar) + -TD + +20221224 + + add mutex lock/unlock in a few places reported by thread-sanitizer + + add/use bracketed+paste to help identify terminals supporting this + xterm feature (prompted by discussion with Bram Moolenaar) -TD + +20221217 + + install Ada95 sample programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper + script to invoke those. + +20221210 + + add minimal -h/-V getopt logic to the remaining test-programs. + + free new_pair() data in delscreen (report by "magiblot"). + + add clarification of the scope of dynamic variables in terminfo(5). + + remove a stray '/' from description of %g in terminfo(5). + +20221203 + + add -h usage and -V version options to the test-programs which use + getopt. + + use "command -v" rather than "type" in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in to fix + a portability issue (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez). + + update ncurses-howto, more documentation fixes along with corrections + to example programs. + +20221126 + + fix an error in pathname of explain.txt (cf: 20200201). + + fix an error in "@" command in test/ncurses.c F-menu (cf: 20190121). + + improve formatting of ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html + + improve man/curs_clear.3x links to other pages + +20221119 + + use static libraries for AdaCurses test-package for Mageia, since no + gprbuild package is available. + + updated test packages for Debian. + +20221112 + + build-fixes for AdaCurses RPM test-package. + +20221105 + + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221009 + + modify "--with-manpage-format" to support bzip2 and xz compression + (prompted by discussion with Sam James). + + modify make-tar.sh scripts to make timestamps more predictable. + +20221029 + + improve curs_slk.3x discussion of extensions and portability (report + by Bill Gray). + +20221023 + + change man_db.renames to template, to handle ncurses*-config script + with the extra-suffix configure option. + +20221015 + + fix another memory-leak in tic. + + update install-sh script from autoconf, to fix install problem for + Ada95 with Arch; as noted in + https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-09/msg00005.html + there are unaddressed issues. + + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding GNU libc suffixes for abi64, abin32, + x32 (report by Sven Joachim): + + correct ifdef's for _nc_set_read_thread() (patch by Mikhail Korolev, + cf: 20220813). + +20221008 + + correct a switch-statement case in configure script to allow for test + builds with ABI=7. + + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to allow for the case where the library + directory does not yet exist, since this is processed before doing an + install (report by Michal Liszcz). + +20221001 + + modify configure/scripts to work around interference by GNU grep 3.8 + (report by Sam James). + + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding variants "gnueabi" and "gnueabihf" to + get _DEFAULT_SOURCE special case (report by Adam Sampson) + +20220924 + + modify configure macro CF_BUILD_CC to check if the build-compiler + works, rather than that it is different from the cross-compiler, e.g., + to accommodate a compiler which can be used for either purpose with + different flags (report by Mikhail Korolev). + + fix another memory-leak in tic. + + correct change for cppcheck in menu library (report/analysis by + "tuxway", cf: 20220903). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20220917 + + reduce memory-leak in tic by separating allocations for struct entry + from TERMTYPE2 (cf: 20220430). + + improve interaction between tic -v option and NCURSES_TRACE, by + processing the latter only when -v option does not set _nc_tracing. + + modify curses_trace() to show the trace-mask as symbols, e.g., + TRACE_ORDINARY, DEBUG_LEVEL(3). + +20220910 + + amend verbose-option change to make this affect level 3, e.g., using + "tic -cv3 terminfo". + + work around musl's nonstandard use of feature test macros by adding + a definition for NCURSES_WIDECHAR to the generated ".pc" and *-config + files (report by Sam James). + +20220903 + + modify verbose-option of infocmp, tic, toe to enable debug-tracing + if that is configured. + +20220827 + + modify configure scripts to use overlooked cases for LD and + PKG_CONFIG variables (report by Alan Webb, Gentoo #866398). + + modify nsterm to use xterm+alt1049 (report by Paul Handly) -TD + + modify putty to use xterm+alt1049 -TD + +20220820 + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++ + libraries and progs directory. + + add curses_trace to ifdef's for START_TRACE in test/test.priv.h + + update config.guess + +20220813 + + modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given + screen. + + amend portability note for delwin in manual page. + + adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray. + + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration + + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about + pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol. + + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c + +20220806 + + amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final + newline. + + check for non-textfiles to tic. + +20220729 + + fixes to build with dietlibc: + + add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner). + + add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock, + and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner). + + use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found + (adapted from patch by Georg Lehner). + + trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc + files seen in Fedora 36+. + +20220724 + + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual. + + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c + + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen + (Debian #1015756). + +20220716 + + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw. + + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck + + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke). + +20220709 + + lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the + pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries). + +20220703 + + add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities. + + use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and + response -TD + + use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably + supported the u6-u9 extension -TD + + add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD + +20220625 + + improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results + for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic). + + correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD + + add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD + +20220618 + + add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(), + needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521). + + revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to + smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD + + amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610, + att620, att730 -TD + +20220612 + + modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when + merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy). + + improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character. + +20220604 + + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x + + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD + + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD + +20220529 + + expanded notes for teken/syscons -TD + + fix overlooked copying of extended string-heap in copy_termtype + (cf: 20220430). + + update config.guess + +20220521 + + improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs. + + set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr(). + + modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to + copy_termtype(). + +20220514 + + further improvements to test/test_mouse.c; compare with ncurses test + program menu A/a. + +20220507 + + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov). + + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks. + +20220501 + + build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton). + +20220430 + + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and + also provide for focus in/out responses -TD + + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release + events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov). + + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo + syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'. + + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table + data rather than relying upon its callers. + + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure + it is initialized. + + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC. + + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp. + +20220423 + + in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402). + + fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir(). + + fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used. + +20220416 + + add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data + (report/testcase by NCNIPC of China). + + add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is + missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379). + + add setlocale call to several test-programs. + + allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on. + +20220409 + + add test/test_unget_wch.c + +20220402 + + amend extended_captype(), returning CANCEL if a string is explicitly + cancelled. + + make description-fields distinct -TD + +20220326 + + update teken -TD + + add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD + + add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD + +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 xterm 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). + +20211219 + + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper + script to invoke those. + + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c + +20211211 + + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters. + +20211204 + + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink). + +20211127 + + fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD + + add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD + +20211120 + + add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD + + deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last + allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar, + cf: 20200531). + + modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch. + + if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use + ${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross + Burton). + +20211115 + + fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE + #1192668, cf: 20211106), + +20211113 + + minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437). + + add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse + Sundrup) -TD + + improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which + installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes. + +20211106 + + improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR + + modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad, + rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit + its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou). + + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram + Moolenaar, cf: 20210821). + +20211030 + + simplify some references to WINDOWS._flags using macros. + + add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages. + + build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp + +20211026 + + corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10. + + amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where + none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from + mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic). + +20211021 6.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update release notes + + add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD + system to use a current ncurses release. + +20211018 + + check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case + a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by + Frank Tkalcevic). + +20211017 + + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in + the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci). + +20211016 + + build-fix for pmake with libtool. + + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up + shellcheck warnings. + + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc + + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual + search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug + (report by Pascal Pignard). + + freeze ABI in ".map" files. + 20211009 + implement "+m" option in tabs program. + fill in some details for infoton -TD @@ -4869,7 +5758,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. function pointer passed to tputs(). + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095). - + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate + + modify test/background.c, adding command-line options to demonstrate assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors(). 20110416 @@ -10604,7 +11493,7 @@ 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 @@ -11498,7 +12387,7 @@ 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