X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=2e4ab8e21a89a88317b9109634d49f2b89979b38;hp=313a9761378717c324c3334d3772cedca5dc30c6;hb=1713400c1c9b80cb7cb9d204acb0525dc592b07d;hpb=b0bdfbb1c78346047c54d8e516a104fcff586e52 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 313a9761..2e4ab8e2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 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 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3035 2017/12/30 23:12:52 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3069 2018/01/27 15:28:53 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,104 @@ 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. +20180127 + + updated release notes + + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse + of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description. + > terminfo changes: + + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was + not suitable -TD + + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD + + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting + konsole's removal in 2008 -TD + + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed + imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD + + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet + support xterm's 1006 mode -TD + + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD + + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD + + update vte to vte-2017 -TD + + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD + + add iterm2-direct -TD + + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD + + add mlterm-direct -TD + + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD + +20180121 pre-release + > terminfo changes: + + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title + blocks from xterm #331 -TD + + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm + #331 -TD + + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of + color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD + + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD + + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to + match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD + + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD + + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD + + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if + direct-colors are wanted -TD + + add vte-direct -TD + + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by + Pierre Carru) + + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD + + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006 + mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD + + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD + > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features: + + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores + numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs + such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use + this feature. + + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of + tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767. + + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character + ncurses library work as expected. + + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will + read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767. + + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in + term.h still uses signed 16-bit values. + + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format, + a new magic value is provided for the "file" program. + + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format. + + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the + wide-character configuration to 32768. + +20180120 + + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence. + + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts. + + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory. + + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking + gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake, + and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static + libraries. + + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5. + +20180106 + + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin. + + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-, + 256-, etc., colors. + + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99 + as possible default values. + + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the + extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the + handling of the curses/ncurses library. + + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files. + + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when + configured to access it via weak symbols. + + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker + checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the + behavior. + + update URLs for ncurses website to use https. + + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the + ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the + standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is + needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and + would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc. + + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule + (report by Jeffrey Walton). + 20171230 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package. @@ -285,7 +383,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput. + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855). + improve usage messages for tset and tput. - + minor fixes to "RDGB" extension and reset_color_pairs(). + + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs(). 20170812 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by @@ -712,7 +810,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git 20161224 - + correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes() + + correct parameters 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). @@ -901,7 +999,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. for special keys, based on xterm. 20160702 - + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters areg given. + + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given. 20160625 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule. @@ -1139,7 +1237,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. to incorrect attribute-masking. 20151024 - + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename + + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements. + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support @@ -1236,7 +1334,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20150810 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See - http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727 + https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org @@ -1950,7 +2048,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20131221 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html manpages. See - ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html + ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html 20131214 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be @@ -5908,7 +6006,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by Stanislav Ievlev). + regenerated html documentation for ada binding. - see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml + see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml 20050507 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.