X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=a0bb102f5d7abd89f422bac67c4e7de148f2acd5;hp=e158c5396ada524987417e7f27b3eeaf4eb4246a;hb=a20e6eb464be80b9cd8cae7ce925d27fe9c209ed;hpb=dee978d1ba016c8f327516f684900f95ee7a2b30 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e158c539..a0bb102f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2855 2017/06/10 22:10:46 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2916 2017/08/13 00:24:51 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,147 @@ 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. +20170812 + + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by + Stephane Chazelas). + + add reset_color_pairs() function. + + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used + by ncurses. + + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure + script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack. + + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in + /usr/share/ncurses-examples + + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(), + color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters. + + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the + current screen is marked for clearing. + + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for + loading image files. + + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow + on demand up to the existing limit. + + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to + improve color_content(). + + improve picsmap test-program: + + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM, + checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat" + suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g., + /usr/share/ncurses-examples + + add "-l" option for logging + + add "-d" option for debugging + + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images, + with time delay. + + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20170729 + + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD + + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard) + + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD + + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain + Williams) -TD + + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the + cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King). + + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by + tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of + parameters for a capability and the actual. + + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from + report/patch by Dick Wesseling): + + translate the character to the alternate character set when the + alternate character set is enabled. + + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255. + + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in + tack for memory-leak checking. + + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs" + configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but + a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is + installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds. + + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol + needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon + internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and + string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix + curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the + extended capability arrays. + + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722 + +20170722 + + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian + + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where + the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of + ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the + term-driver configuration. + + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header + files to allow each to be compiled separately. + + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program + using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack + versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the + dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected. + +20170715 + + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work + with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer. + + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328). + + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes + (Debian #868266). + + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates. + + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings. + +20170708 + + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options. + + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim). + +20170701 + + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment + variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an + application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux). + + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver + configuration; none is needed. + + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c + + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr, + fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did + not work (cf: 20160213). + + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently + reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer + reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports + showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is + addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer. + + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input + (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691). + + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer. + + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as + one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not + treated as the 2-character termcap short-name. + + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq). + + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names. + + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu() + + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes + (report by Allen Hewes). + +20170624 + + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and + throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler). + + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes + (report by Allen Hewes). + + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs. + + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was + not initialized, rather than returning an error. + + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal + has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963). + + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer, + assuming that --disable-leaks is configured. + + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined + behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta). + +20170617 + + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used + (report by Allen Hewes). + + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm + to help with leak checking. + + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak + checking. + + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal + cannot be initialized. + 20170610 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair(). + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c