X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=887a56c02bc42ee784d6b4327986d40a1eee7827;hp=ae34c501d72578dcf996612ea77e45f009f58963;hb=7b2974498fac39a3ffde257c92f572234d529239;hpb=5a9c046f10f72b47ad32801a8e54fe3d05aa8051 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ae34c501..887a56c0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2007 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 1.1109 2007/04/01 00:30:22 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1137 2007/06/12 20:37:41 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,132 @@ 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. +20070612 + + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm + #226 -TD + + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon + wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan). + +20070609 + + add test/key_name.c + + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c + + update test/configure + + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar(). + + null-terminate result of wunctrl(). + + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair, + cf: 20020901). + +20070602 + + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library + (discussion with Clive Nicolson). + + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to + illustrate how to use mvcur(). + + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the + WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it + is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo). + + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo). + + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman). + +20070526 + + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or + if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via + initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604). + + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x + + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications + broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230). + +20070512 + + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a + problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of + a fullwidth cell. + + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to + ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted + from patch by Clive Nicolson). + + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x + +20070505 + + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to + become uninitialized in the "b" test. + + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent + movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the + generated html. + + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with + memory-checking. + + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value + from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout(). + + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with + Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options + --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib + +20070428 + + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to + quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from + 3.x to 4.x. + + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses + library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol. + + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that + an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is + reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms + (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney). + + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e., + + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming + + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of + SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries. + + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421). + +20070421 + + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and + _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage. + + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding + type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments + in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup). + + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static + to the libtool create- and link-operations. + +20070414 + + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in + the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro). + + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when + Ada95 tree is not built. + +20070407 + + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x + + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used. + + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from + FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by + comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup). + + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler + (cf: 20061209). + + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh + > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report: + + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements + + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss() + + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c + + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in + progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case. + > fixes based on Coverity report: + + remove dead code in test/bs.c + + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c + + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c + + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset() + + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420 + tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon. + + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist() + + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF. + + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c + + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes + + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling + of V_BSD case. + + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin() + + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr() + + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try() + + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist() + + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try() + + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c + + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c + + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c + + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc + 20070331 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).