X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4538903da504ef01bc6f7f103fe9c00765151ec5;hp=d57faffaf85bd99e964a7cb6aef403fc9b1e21f7;hb=5dbe81a41e3c75806996cd762b9e55dcc9edb835;hpb=45766a7ed44677f18ccf230f9bd720862d7c69c8 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d57faffa..4538903d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2014,2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2015,2016 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 1.2547 2015/12/20 02:03:35 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2606 2016/05/15 01:20:32 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,130 @@ 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. +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, + cf: 20151017). + + modify test/ncurses.c: + + check return-value of putwin + + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes + to keypad- and scroll-modes. + + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran). + +20160423 + + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm + color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE + and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R. + + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for + xterm -TD + +20160416 + + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs + PIC builds documented in + https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages + + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages + due to program-transformation configure options. + + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset. + +20160409 + + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when + available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850. + +20160402 + + regenerate HTML manpages. + + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus + X/Open Curses. + +20160326 + + regenerate HTML manpages. + + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers + to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option + O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not + apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application + can handle the event. + +20160319 + + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso). + + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case + that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for + non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888). + +20160312 + + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that + polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well + as responding to window size-changes. + +20160305 + + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this + does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912). + +20160220 + + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of + ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g., + in case weak symbols are used. + + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath + rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732, + cf: 20061021). + + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in + winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt). + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20160213 + + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work + in threaded configuration. + + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h, + since they are not part of the suggested ABI6. + +20160206 + + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster. + + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to + override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded + configuration. + +20160130 + + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages + + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some + unwanted blank lines. + +20160123 + + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS + (report by Corey Minyard). + + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces. + +20160116 + + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by + Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD + + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode + for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani + Schenkel) -TD + + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters + as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents. + + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero + width. + + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of + error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped. + +20160102 + + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide + screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors. + + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of + SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities. + +20151226 + + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the + color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv. + + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0. + 20151219 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion with James Crippen).