X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=563125537ff4bc8e5d5cefa39c08b3603ea025c6;hp=13e67f39974b17bd6e3ba82ea57a544aab775eae;hb=ad14e224ecf8bc5e6faeffeecd44c3cfa31827e4;hpb=1f474475aab29bc166012819129d46c70320efdc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 13e67f39..56312553 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey -- +-- Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey -- -- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3730 2021/10/18 22:51:28 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3790 2022/03/26 22:01:51 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,146 @@ 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. +20220326 + + update teken -TD + + add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD + + add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD + +20220319 + + add xgterm -TD + + correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by + Robert Lange) + + add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) + + improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc. + +20220312 + + add xterm+acs building-block -TD + + add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD + + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per xterm patch #371 -TD + + add mosh and mosh-256color -TD + +20220305 + + replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to + work around build problems with gnat 12. + + update external links in Ada95.html + + trim unused return-value from canonical_name(). + +20220226 + + fix issues found with coverity: + + rewrite canonical_name() function of infocmp to ensure buffer size + + corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands + + modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns + + add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c + + add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis. + + enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding. + + adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from + gcc 12.0.1 + +20220219 + + expanded description in man/resizeterm.3x + + additional workaround for ImageMagick in test/picsmap.c + +20220212 + + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency. + + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno + Schulenberg). + +20220205 + + workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values + by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit. + + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap". + +20220129 + + minor updates for test-packages + + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the + case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a + colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum, + cf: 20211113). + + update kitty -TD + +20220122 + + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script. + + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps" + does not exist. + + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on + format-warnings. + + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the + infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker. + +20220115 + + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse + state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by + Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022). + + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files. + +20220101 + + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and + curs_terminfo.3x manpages. + +20211225 + + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages + (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann). + +20211219 + + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper + script to invoke those. + + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c + +20211211 + + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters. + +20211204 + + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink). + +20211127 + + fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD + + add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD + +20211120 + + add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD + + deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last + allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar, + cf: 20200531). + + modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch. + + if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use + ${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross + Burton). + +20211115 + + fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE + #1192668, cf: 20211106), + +20211113 + + minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437). + + add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse + Sundrup) -TD + + improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which + installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes. + +20211106 + + improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR + + modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad, + rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit + its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou). + + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram + Moolenaar, cf: 20210821). + +20211030 + + simplify some references to WINDOWS._flags using macros. + + add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages. + + build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp + +20211026 + + corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10. + + amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where + none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from + mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic). + +20211021 6.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update release notes + + add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD + system to use a current ncurses release. + 20211018 + check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by