X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b32e49ccf01d00032f5586f075ca859b5ff65d99;hp=5244cbb713cc5fa6c9320c22487f3d6ac3df54ed;hb=18f51bcf99101e5bf4c737239c44064227f34db8;hpb=5f288254c618ae86f3811f2797e4d942061c9101 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5244cbb7..b32e49cc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2018,2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey -- +-- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 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 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3396 2019/10/19 21:16:45 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3455 2020/02/29 23:15:52 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +46,157 @@ 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. +20200229 + + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option, + which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options. + > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by + "Maarten Anonymous"): + + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h + + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc + + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h + + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable + length array feature. + + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations + + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h + + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in + + use configured check for in a couple of places + + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c, + because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration. + + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol. + +20200222 + + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers + + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD + + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD + + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when + building out-of-tree. + + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in + + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers + include all of the required headers for the types used. + +20200215 + + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability + section as well as documenting error-returns. + + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh + + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from + FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725). + + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL. + +20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update release notes + + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts + +20200208 + + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result + when cross-compiling. + + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken. + + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used, + to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples. + +20200202 + + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ: + https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed + +20200201 + + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in + collision handling for Caps-hpux11 + + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for + terminfo and termcap names. + + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit(). + + update a few comments about tack 1.07 + + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample + programs for explain.txt + +20200118 + + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5 + + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD + + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages. + + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by + Christian Durr) -TD + + correct spelling errors found with codespell. + + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352. + +20200111 + + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header, + to accommodate recent MacOS changes. + + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20200104 + + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to + "work", to help illustrate discussion in + https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html + + fix some warnings from autoheader-252 + +20191228 + + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments + past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those + symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS. + + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs. + + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration + for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages. + +20191221 + + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to + work with test-packages. + + improve tracemunch: + + keep track of TERMINAL* values + + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to + show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway. + + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype + for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink). + +20191214 + + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for + leak-checking. + +20191207 + + fix a few warnings for test-package builds + + add curses_trace(), to replace trace(). + +20191130 + + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by + discussion with Nick Black). + + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch + manpage. + + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages. + +20191123 + + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package. + + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31. + +20191116 + + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes + to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test + packages. + + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c + defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName + from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503). + +20191109 + + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich. + + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility + with old non-curses programs -TD + + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD + + use ansi+rep several places -TD + + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner, + cf: 20020901). + +20191102 + + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative. + + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero + (report/patch by Anthony Sottile). + + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries. + + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD + +20191026 + + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the + line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black). + + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a + \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923). + + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in + early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci). + 20191019 + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building with address-sanitizer. @@ -999,7 +1151,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to consistently do this only if "-d" option is given. + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses: - + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit + + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit checks in some libraries. + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does not return ERR on the lower-right corner. @@ -3110,7 +3262,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for matching capability names. + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy - applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2 + applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725). 20130112 @@ -3628,7 +3780,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member + drop mk-dlls.sh script. + change recommended regular expression library. - + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton. + + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuration. + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used. 20111231 @@ -4248,7 +4400,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink). + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a - warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal + warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additional scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build tree (report by Werner Fink). + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form. @@ -9980,7 +10132,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. current directory (reported by Mike Castle ). + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller). - + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and + + document a special case of incompatibility between ncurses 4.2 and 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL. + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace(). @@ -10554,7 +10706,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for - PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD + PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatibility - TD + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with a given keycode. + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is @@ -10641,7 +10793,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is - intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used + intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425). + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's @@ -11122,7 +11274,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 980523 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov). - + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty + + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibility fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk). + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike @@ -11208,7 +11360,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by H.J.Lu). + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to - avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch + avoid ambiguous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). 980404 @@ -11658,7 +11810,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. > patch by Juergen Pfeifer: + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN - + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation + + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implementation + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages @@ -11869,7 +12021,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on navigation requests. + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in - case-insensitiva comparision routine. + case-insensitiva comparison routine. + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a forms field by index. + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus @@ -11980,7 +12132,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw keys 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar - 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm + 6. correctly handle the case of reception of KEY_MOUSE from gpm + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm @@ -12221,7 +12373,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov). + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). - + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL + + improve threshold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov). 970531 @@ -13456,7 +13608,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. * tset(1) added * mouse support for xterm. * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space. -* Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off. +* Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initially off. * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now. * tic can interpret ko capabilities now. * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library. @@ -13472,7 +13624,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1). * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux * terminfo.src 9.8.2 -* tweaks for compiling in seperate directories. +* tweaks for compiling in separate directories. * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries. * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX. @@ -13553,7 +13705,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo. * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console. It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets. -* initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if +* initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This will mostly happen if you try to run on an undefined terminal. * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome. @@ -13792,7 +13944,7 @@ Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include: * cleaned up vidputs() * general cleanup of the code * more attention to portability to other systems -* added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are +* added terminfos for hp70092 (won't work until changes to lib_update.c are made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers. Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.