X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=116bf91e8dbdd85f77fda8fc6b500d4d7c47fe42;hp=8cdb035af9c56f5e2f58b8bad757bf7778c85ba4;hb=302a066a01e4de40f08b397e87ca0e97f20870a7;hpb=c885a3fdd089f784f17dd2e9c03d8eb774072dc9 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8cdb035a..116bf91e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2015,2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2711 2016/12/17 23:41:02 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2744 2017/01/29 00:42:37 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,79 @@ 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. +20170128 + + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD + + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD + + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to + reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default + (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott). + + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD + +20170121 + + improve discussion of early history of tput program. + + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application + provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone). + + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for + termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709). + + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which + omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations + (cf: 990123). + + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around + clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc. + +20170114 + + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs. + + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is + available only when ncurses is configured for tracing. + + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard + error after initializing the trace feature using the environment + variable. + +20170107 + + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program + is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends + either reset- or init-strings. + + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset, + to make it easier to see how they are similar and different. + + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals + + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl() + state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching + the behavior when using the term-driver configuration. + + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions + + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields, + and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib + compatibility (cf: 20120714). + + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and + use_tioctl() versus first trace calls. + +20161231 + + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe). + + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath + were combined (report by Thomas Klausner). + + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD + + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay + between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD + + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to + setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work + consistently. + + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout. + + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line + utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126). + + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in + 20161203. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20161224 + + correct parmeters 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). + + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file + descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making + padding work. + 20161217 + add tput-colorcube demo script. + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.