X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=3c1d58abe851b579889b817adce6c80cdae433f4;hp=3856e71b9292142acaf1b8850d2e058443f23ff3;hb=265e45e43e9917e8b9ecc2bf9d23867a3ede2ecd;hpb=3934889cc6b0f45cf218c88df7f35634d250c9e5 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3856e71b..3c1d58ab 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3636 2021/02/28 01:10:59 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3669 2021/05/22 23:06:34 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,116 @@ 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. +20210522 + + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate + an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted + by discussion with Peter Farley). + + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar. + + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses + in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by + report/testcase by Bill Gray) + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20210515 + + improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by + report/testcase by Bill Gray). + +20210508 + + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first + calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization + is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by + Sebastiano Vigna). + + fix several warnings from clang --analyze + + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers + to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav + Lichvar, cf: 20210227). + +20210501 + + add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the + build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here: + https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html + There is no workaround for the other issue, a broken linker spec. + + modify configure check for libtool to prevent accidental use of an + OpenBSD program which uses the same name. + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20210424 + + avoid using broken system macros for snprintf which interfere with + _nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks + configure option is enabled. + + add a "all::" rule before the new "check" rule in test/Makefile.in + +20210418 + + improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed + before linking to the target. + + add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories. + + build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports + by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum). + +20210417 + + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS + from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764). + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++ + libraries and progs directory. + + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments + (patch by Hadrien Lacour). + +20210403 + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and + progs directory. + + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x + + improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes. + + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning + leak-checking off later in a set of options. + + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to + accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime + on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems. + + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is + called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN + pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj + Lutter). + +20210327 + + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs, + form and menu libraries. + +20210323 + + add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn, making the _Noreturn + keyword optional to ease transition (prompted by report by + Rajeev V Pillai). + +20210320 + + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any + extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms + capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town, + cf: 20200531). + + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of + _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD + + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger) + + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that + rather than gcc's attribute. + + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is + a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention. + + add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck. + +20210313 + + improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and + ".pc" files, from dialog changes. + + reduce dependency of math-library in test programs. + + minor fixes for test_tparm.c (cf: 20210306) + + mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by + Michal Bielinski). + +20210306 + + improved test/test_tparm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities + that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test. + + improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in + man/curs_terminfo.3x + + update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1 + 20210227 + modify tic/infocmp to eliminate unnecessary "\" to escape ":" in terminfo format. @@ -385,7 +495,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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. + + add test/test_tparm.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").