X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9ff78cf5186e00839f917d0fd0872eec12857bc4;hp=a2deff1fc41c10b40bcd9b4f77d763981ac6277b;hb=8d00601178f9d92b95a91c93f74547517d93168b;hpb=fe6abf09238512f5a902bc1aeab2263d1e997396 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a2deff1f..9ff78cf5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2363 2015/03/28 21:50:39 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2417 2015/05/09 18:19:39 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,95 @@ 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. +20150509 + + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the + MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later. + + cleanup format of debian/copyright files + + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages. + + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of + the tinfo library. + +20150502 + + modify the configure script to allow different default values + for ABI 5 versus ABI 6. + + add wgetch-events to test-packages. + + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README. + + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor, + Debian #783486) -TD + + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD + + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add + nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX + (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel) + + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian + #783806) + + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin. + + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the + generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when + ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by + discussion with Sylvain Bertrand). + + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed + in /usr. + + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles. + + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared + libraries. + + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config + + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have + been eliminated. + + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on + the ncurses library aside from headers. + + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors. + + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim). + + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies + found by 20150425 changes for test-packages. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20150425 + + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page + (report by Todd M Lewis). + + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather + than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts. + + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to + check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since + frequently pkg-config configurations are broken. + + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the + rpath option. + + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel) + + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured + keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel) + + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418). + + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo + long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header. + + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404). + +20150418 + + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with + a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke). + + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using + wide characters (report by Werner Fink). + + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm. + + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link + with the shared libraries. + + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting + ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts. + NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames + adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and + adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config + + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6". + + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not + inherit into new windows. + +20150404 + + improve description of start_color() in the manual. + + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow + const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the + readonly text segment. + +20150329 + + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the + same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov) + 20150328 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging the extended putwin/getwin.