X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=3856e71b9292142acaf1b8850d2e058443f23ff3;hp=c04424f4ffbf88a71206ea4f1f6f0bb48b2904ed;hb=3934889cc6b0f45cf218c88df7f35634d250c9e5;hpb=1b93a8aeaacc07de6d2aa08e658402b54446f064 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c04424f4..3856e71b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3619 2021/01/17 00:50:16 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3636 2021/02/28 01:10:59 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,61 @@ 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. +20210227 + + modify tic/infocmp to eliminate unnecessary "\" to escape ":" in + terminfo format. + + add check in tic for duplicate "use=" clauses. + +20210220 + + improve tic warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49 for xterm + compatible XT flag. + + revert change to lib_addch.c in waddch_literal() from 20210130, since + the followup fix in PutCharLR() actually corrects the problem while + this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes + Altmanninger). + + add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD + + add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD + + add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD + + add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD + + move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD + +20210213 + + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background + functions. + + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a + wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character. + + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries. + + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first + parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1". + +20210206 + + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd + (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic) + + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2" + option, from xterm #363 -TD + + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before + writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the + cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130). + +20210130 + + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused + scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower + right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg). + + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD + + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not + supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD + + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD + + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD + + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore + blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD + +20210123 + + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for + cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding + the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich). + + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around + quirks of pmake. + 20210116 + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD