X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=89fda20d2c789193c3c0c78dfc6931854fdd3975;hp=35342b53db7a20934009c44d54e39787d11558a6;hb=1165d1f8ac504fa9adbf46ed157333ed36642945;hpb=2e507e7570bd701b27ad8c65adfb612dbc087125 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 35342b53..89fda20d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2012,2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2013,2014 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 1.2104 2013/09/21 20:41:37 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2185 2014/03/23 21:01:15 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,172 @@ 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. +20140323 + + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD + +20140322 + + use types from in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc. + + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified + using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in + + add terminology entry -TD + + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD + + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD + +20140315 + + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's + top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is + on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer). + + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to + be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by + Soren Brinkmann). + +20140308 + + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where + NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li). + + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li). + + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not + allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215). + +20140301 + + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin). + +20140222 + + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c + + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD + + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm" + console -TD + +20140215 + + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without + allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment + variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by + discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs + when reading in an allocated console-buffer). + + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the + scrolling-stages. + + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken + html emitted by docbook. + +20140209 + + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if + _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10 + has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol + (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796). + +20140201 + + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate + which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values. + + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated + representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at + least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez). + + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope). + +20140125 + + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do + not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for + new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch + by Nicolas Boulenguez). + +20140118 + + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to + gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782). + +20131221 + + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html + manpages. See + ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html + +20131214 + + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be + suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option + --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for + termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian + Weisgerber). + + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber, + cf: 20061230). + + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings. + + updated llib-l* files. + +20131207 + + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as + well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute + Hope). + +20131123 + + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not + recognized by clang. + +20131116 + + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED + definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for + Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by + Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268). + + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore + strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing + together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to + 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for + gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman). + + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding + checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op + + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving + checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro, + and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and + -Wvarargs + + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing + work on cdk. + + update config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20131110 + + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail + +20131102 + + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD + + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD + + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c + (Debian #727119). + + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD + +20131027 + + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and + reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530). + + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make + them more consistent with other packages. + +20131019 + + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for + compiling ncurses-examples. + + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples. + +20131014 + + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov). + +20131012 + + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test. + + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's. + + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing + cross-compiles to MinGW. + + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to + MinGW using NSIS. + +20131005 + + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile. + + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6 + to MinGW. + +20130928 + + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though + it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet + addressed. + + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with + OpenBSD 5.3 + + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm. + + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by + nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header. + + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc + + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option. + 20130921 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831). + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report