X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b7d74b376f537b09a90c9f5961601bd72d3244c0;hp=073422d0ccfd2266560d3ac8d45640ae7fa0657b;hb=32345daa97e69f66b554f02faef53cfd02739bdc;hpb=e33150410925e7858dacebb585a9bd90db683d86 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 073422d0..b7d74b37 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3061 2018/01/16 09:15:38 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3159 2018/07/14 23:25:22 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,265 @@ 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. +20180714 + + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms + + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port. + +20180707 + + build-fixes for gcc8. + + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in + report_offsets. + + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was + empty (Debian #902630). + +20180630 + + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous) + add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD + + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works + (Nicholas Marriott). + + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow: + + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking + locale support. + + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations + +20180623 + + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols + to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both + compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir). + + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e., + updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS, + CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and + CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20180616 + + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526). + + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE + combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987). + + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address + use of vsscanf and setenv. + + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from + work on dialog. + +20180609 + + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc., + to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian + #900839). + + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw + and vw_scanw, respectively. + +20180602 + + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples". + + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6. + +20180526 + + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h + + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary + files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac + Pascual Monells). + + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525. + + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but + work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c + +20180519 + + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation. + + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes; + fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR + (report by C Anthony Risinger) + + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD + + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks + for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658). + +20180512 + + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition. + + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead. + + fix several minor Coverity warnings. + +20180505 + + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older + versions of tack. + + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as + alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support + the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal + such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability. + + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename + conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages. + + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules + for escaping regular expressions. + +20180428 + + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon + Winter). + + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions + (report by Leon Winter). + + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference: + unfocus_current_field (form); + form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION); + (patch by Leon Winter). + +20180414 + + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field + edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter). + + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in + non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter). + + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function. + + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places + + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when + a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin). + +20180407 + + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete, + not part of X/Open Curses since 2007. + + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open + Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo + interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap + interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007). + As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return + values, e.g., keyname(). + +20180331 + + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the + extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended + string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources). + +20180324 + + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range + 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne). + + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables. + + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD + + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD + +20180317 + + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when + it should have. + + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using + different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab. + + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin). + + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no + terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch + by Gyorgy Jeney). + +20180303 + + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to + avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace. + + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages. + + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first + verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols + (report/patch by Werner Fink). + + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width + on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look + better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin). + + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t" + for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the + structures reported to make the categories more apparent. + + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors. + + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show + how similar the different tinfo configurations are. + +20180224 + + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging + a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a + defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111, + compounded by repair in 20180121. + + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD + + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD + + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim). + +20180217 + + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek). + + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean. + + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan). + + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by + Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim). + +20180210 + + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case + the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall + is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton). + + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what + was needed, was standardized long ago. + + add several development/experimental options to development packages. + + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded + and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are + normally enabled. + +20180203 + + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent. + + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works. + + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability. + + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate + package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401). + +20180129 + + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming. + +20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + +20180127 + + updated release notes + + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse + of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description. + > terminfo changes: + + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was + not suitable -TD + + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD + + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting + konsole's removal in 2008 -TD + + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed + imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD + + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet + support xterm's 1006 mode -TD + + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD + + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD + + update vte to vte-2017 -TD + + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD + + add iterm2-direct -TD + + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD + + add mlterm-direct -TD + + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD + +20180121 pre-release + > terminfo changes: + + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title + blocks from xterm #331 -TD + + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm + #331 -TD + + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of + color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD + + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD + + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to + match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD + + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD + + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD + + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if + direct-colors are wanted -TD + + add vte-direct -TD + + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by + Pierre Carru) + + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD + + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006 + mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD + + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD + > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features: + + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores + numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs + such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use + this feature. + + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of + tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767. + + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character + ncurses library work as expected. + + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will + read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767. + + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in + term.h still uses signed 16-bit values. + + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format, + a new magic value is provided for the "file" program. + + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format. + + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the + wide-character configuration to 32768. + 20180120 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence. + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts. @@ -2398,7 +2657,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. Waterlander regarding screen flicker). 20121229 - + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers. + + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers. + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning. + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report numbers. @@ -3919,7 +4178,6 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT. 20091114 - + updated man/curs_trace.3x + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740). + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which