X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=18dec72b92833085ba5e7923fe8e066e32cacece;hp=6dab01c4399694e94abcde45e5a156b558b4314a;hb=2a3e5b0949f9eca0620d2548488cf81904ad3c83;hpb=c55d387cebf1cee4757ca2c2ef4fbeae59ee4175 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6dab01c4..18dec72b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2019,2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey -- +-- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 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 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3431 2020/01/19 02:02:44 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3552 2020/09/01 00:21:01 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +46,297 @@ 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. +20200831 + + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner + Fink). + +20200829 + + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten + Anonymous". + + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of + win32-driver. + + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS + to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on + mawk and lynx). + > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer): + + correct icl6404 csr + + correct ti916 cup + + improve ndr9500 + +20200822 + + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh + + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the + man_db.renames file. + + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function + (report by Yue Tai). + + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker). + + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared" + option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to + provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai). + +20200817 + + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation + warnings. + + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated. + + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds + using the string-hacks option. + + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure + option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink). + +20200816 + + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence + (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808). + + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck + + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++ + (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous"). + +20200808 + + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part + of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall). + + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use + AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and + --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using + fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling + (discussion with Keith Marshall). + + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW. + + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as + parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with + MinGW. + +20200801 + + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006). + + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration + (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous"). + + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to + reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings. + + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure + +20200725 + + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by + "Maarten Anonymous") + + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT. + + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by + Florian Weimer). + +20200718 + + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual + Studio C++. + + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static + libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++. + > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling + the main program, so the linker can find related objects. + + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link. + + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs. + +20200711 + + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo + Bruckl). + + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen + Pfeifer). + + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell). + + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the + buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan). + + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a + trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen). + +20200704 + + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in + the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard). + > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"): + + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport" + declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++. + +20200627 + + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with + gprbuild. + + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h + +20200613 + + update list of functions in ncurses.3x + + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case + in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian + #961097). + +20200606 + + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage + in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD + + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for + screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron). + + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron). + + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron). + +20200531 + + 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 + + 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 + (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's + save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function + passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier + (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed + string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + +20200523 + + 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 + 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 + configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants + to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg). + > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by + "Maarten Anonymous"): + + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker + options into Visual Studio's dialect. + + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to + work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation. + +20200516 + + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x + + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD + +20200509 + + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting + a performance comparison. + + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers + use different names than SVr4 or ncurses. + +20200502 + + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD + + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD + + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert + those to position reports. + +20200425 + + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD + + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols". + +20200418 + + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction. + + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not + check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth + character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg). + + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD + + improve see-also section of user_caps.5 + +20200411 + + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs() + (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812). + + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10 + + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x + +20200404 + + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++ + > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by + "Maarten Anonymous"): + + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature + + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio + C++ preprocessor limitations. + + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work + with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming. + +20200328 + + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field(). + + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree + builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren). + +20200321 + + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables. + + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual + pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg). + + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for + a corresponding demo of dup_field(). + +20200314 + + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for and + + add history note to curs_printw.3x for and + + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding + +20200308 + + update copyright notices in test-packages. + + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table. + + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted + by discussion with Thomas Klausner). + +20200301 + + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the + background character, because it may be used in cases where the + corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte, + cf: 20181208). + +20200229 + + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option, + which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options. + > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by + "Maarten Anonymous"): + + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h + + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc + + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h + + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable + length array feature. + + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations + + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h + + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in + + use configured check for in a couple of places + + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c, + because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration. + + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol. + +20200222 + + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers + + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD + + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD + + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when + building out-of-tree. + + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in + + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers + include all of the required headers for the types used. + +20200215 + + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability + section as well as documenting error-returns. + + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh + + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from + FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725). + + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL. + +20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update release notes + + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts + +20200208 + + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result + when cross-compiling. + + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken. + + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used, + to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples. + +20200202 + + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ: + https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed + +20200201 + + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in + collision handling for Caps-hpux11 + + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for + terminfo and termcap names. + + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit(). + + update a few comments about tack 1.07 + + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample + programs for explain.txt + 20200118 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD