X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=7d7d3d7da369339cc4028ed30aec49e5c4bca2ac;hp=1d0d1983fb9169e635959f68581540f7b86b989b;hb=91d451ffc473b358d8d74506d2da8871e44fbd7b;hpb=a5fe3726f7d4374e9b1551b535c8617b423996f2 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1d0d1983..7d7d3d7d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3653 2021/04/17 22:26:02 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3683 2021/07/10 22:55:59 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,88 @@ 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. +20210710 + + improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball, + which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years. + + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs + Jansen). + + further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of + the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree. + + update config.sub + +20210703 + + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc., + in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries. + + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature. + +20210626 + + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to + disallow most file-opens by setuid processes. + + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD + + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD + + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler) + + regenerate man-html documentation. + +20210619 + + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such + as --with-valgrind + + trim trailing blanks from files + +20210612 + + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing. + + update config.guess + +20210605 + + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h + (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray). + +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). @@ -64,7 +146,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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 + + 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).