X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=79aadbaac56f534bbfcb4c2436d42353a2e88a22;hp=e8cbde59f01c10e112bbf8c2f34dfcf7382932bf;hb=76a479337308b4b5e749fa8c38b7b7f482998c5b;hpb=bcdff1f4b369c01b695ca2b73e9aaac54f9c4526 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e8cbde59..79aadbaa 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2575 2016/02/21 00:29:51 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2611 2016/05/29 00:37:27 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,88 @@ 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. +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, + 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.,