X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=bb5e3ceda94f5d604bc564d0cb6472343029a82e;hp=d51ef3f9525cd22fec6d8c161da77e7e22659391;hb=a3725e39272393790e32a083fd7391aad607828d;hpb=db5f7f4f146a91ba8ec7f1df8e9d7f9d2d7c74fd diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d51ef3f9..bb5e3ced 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2437 2015/06/06 23:53:34 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2490 2015/09/05 21:14:36 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,10 +45,116 @@ 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. +20150905 + + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon + UTF-8. + + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress + all comments from the "tic -I" output. + + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from" + header. + + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled + form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64. + +20150822 + + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to + see unused letters. + + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option. + + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation. + + fix some compiler warnings from ports. + + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install + ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted by patch by + Joshua Root). + +20150815 + + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option, + overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex). + + update release notes in INSTALL. + + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes. + +20150810 + + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream + releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See + http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727 + +20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + +20150808 + + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h + + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX. + + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across + more than 200 snapshots. + + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement + page. + +20150725 + + updated llib-* files. + + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule. + + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by + Mikhail Peselnik). + + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD + + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text: + curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x, + curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x, + curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x + curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x + +20150719 + + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed"). + + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the + curs_initscr.3x page. + + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size + of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions + in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by + Coverity). + + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration, + e.g., ncursestw library. + +20150711 + + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads + configuration of ncurses6. + + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and + demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that + the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of + versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink) + + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink). + +20150704 + + fix a few problems reported by Coverity. + + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in + (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213). + +20150627 + + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when + building ABI 6. + + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to + map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be + suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610). + + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color + from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD + + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal + databases were found, as documented for setupterm. + + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the + setupterm and restartterm functions. + + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition + of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that + it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes + Schindelin). + +20150613 + + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630). + + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as + the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the + files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also + corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are + configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by + discussion with Sven Joachim). + + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim). + 20150606 pre-release + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the - "--with-abi=5" option. + "--with-abi-version=5" option. + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation. + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages. + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of @@ -714,8 +820,6 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 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