X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=445cb3913f844a4e9c0e387c4b39d1f47b60be49;hp=f2c8b786b6a88dfbde05fb1f30f6fd68598257ea;hb=aa70bf3c762c5b6407bf34812d63c20f7ac8ffdd;hpb=5c085efbe35681c3847b3ced598635f083810865 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f2c8b786..445cb391 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2600 2016/05/07 23:49:50 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2636 2016/07/30 21:38:22 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,77 @@ 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. +20160730 + + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the + standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when + output or error are redirected. + + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput + manual pages. + +20160723 + + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are + redirected to a file or pipe. + + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x + +20160709 + + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when + building link_test. + + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers + for special keys, based on xterm. + +20160702 + + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters areg given. + +20160625 + + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule. + + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build + work (report by Sven Joachim). + +20160618 + + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses. + + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list + to make it more readable. + +20160611 + + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128). + + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape + character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow + better testing of function-keys. + + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to + reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD + + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses + that could be returned -TD + + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD + +20160604 + + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c + + add test/list_keys.c + +20160528 + + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link. + + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library. + +20160521 + + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size. + + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which + cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options + (report by Ola x Nilsson): + + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro. + + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure + that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS + + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared + to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that + cannot combine -c and -o options. + +20160514 + + regenerate HTML manpages. + + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they + might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426). + + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD + + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0 + entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD + + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran). + 20160507 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,