X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=353d1582ae6a1ad4a953d6eb969fda737dadd01e;hp=ccc1d43b6f3441af6985c14b96b49e3c364cc55e;hb=c0f109a299a82a33c16bd7af942a12ce9aefaaf0;hpb=47d2fb4537d9ad5bb14f4810561a327930ca4280 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ccc1d43b..353d1582 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3446 2020/02/12 02:21:21 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3463 2020/03/15 00:15:32 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,59 @@ 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. +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