X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=18dec72b92833085ba5e7923fe8e066e32cacece;hp=8650eabec07f346742493128cec123a5df832aea;hb=2a3e5b0949f9eca0620d2548488cf81904ad3c83;hpb=896224bea6196d73d03e39b1a266887d6f2cb6ff diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8650eabe..18dec72b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2018,2019 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 1.3420 2019/12/21 22:43:54 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 +46,326 @@ 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 + + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages. + + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by + Christian Durr) -TD + + correct spelling errors found with codespell. + + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352. + +20200111 + + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header, + to accommodate recent MacOS changes. + + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20200104 + + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to + "work", to help illustrate discussion in + https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html + + fix some warnings from autoheader-252 + +20191228 + + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments + past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those + symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS. + + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs. + + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration + for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages. + 20191221 + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to work with test-packages. @@ -1060,7 +1381,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to consistently do this only if "-d" option is given. + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses: - + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit + + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit checks in some libraries. + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does not return ERR on the lower-right corner. @@ -3171,7 +3492,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for matching capability names. + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy - applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2 + applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725). 20130112 @@ -3689,7 +4010,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member + drop mk-dlls.sh script. + change recommended regular expression library. - + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton. + + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuration. + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used. 20111231 @@ -4309,7 +4630,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink). + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a - warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal + warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additional scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build tree (report by Werner Fink). + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form. @@ -10041,7 +10362,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. current directory (reported by Mike Castle ). + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller). - + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and + + document a special case of incompatibility between ncurses 4.2 and 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL. + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace(). @@ -10615,7 +10936,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for - PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD + PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatibility - TD + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with a given keycode. + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is @@ -10702,7 +11023,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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 - intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used + 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 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's @@ -11183,7 +11504,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 980523 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov). - + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty + + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibility fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk). + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike @@ -11269,7 +11590,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by H.J.Lu). + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to - avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch + avoid ambiguous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). 980404 @@ -11719,7 +12040,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. > patch by Juergen Pfeifer: + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN - + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation + + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implementation + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages @@ -11930,7 +12251,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on navigation requests. + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in - case-insensitiva comparision routine. + case-insensitiva comparison routine. + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a forms field by index. + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus @@ -12041,7 +12362,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw keys 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar - 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm + 6. correctly handle the case of reception of KEY_MOUSE from gpm + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm @@ -12282,7 +12603,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov). + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). - + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL + + improve threshold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov). 970531 @@ -13517,7 +13838,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. * tset(1) added * mouse support for xterm. * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space. -* Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off. +* Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initially off. * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now. * tic can interpret ko capabilities now. * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library. @@ -13533,7 +13854,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1). * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux * terminfo.src 9.8.2 -* tweaks for compiling in seperate directories. +* tweaks for compiling in separate directories. * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries. * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX. @@ -13614,7 +13935,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo. * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console. It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets. -* initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if +* initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This will mostly happen if you try to run on an undefined terminal. * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome. @@ -13853,7 +14174,7 @@ Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include: * cleaned up vidputs() * general cleanup of the code * more attention to portability to other systems -* added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are +* added terminfos for hp70092 (won't work until changes to lib_update.c are made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers. Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.