X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=cba4bc872ab6732640fb0238c029f382baccaa78;hp=be4ac3fb1c8cfe322fd7701f4367a41a5a2d6853;hb=97893bbc7248f5e4009f32c3afc7ca575172c5f3;hpb=5da4544722decdeb2bfd0c7c4581af0ea62148f9 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index be4ac3fb..cba4bc87 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2018,2019 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 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3150 2018/06/24 00:15:39 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3407 2019/11/16 20:48:27 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,537 @@ 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. +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. + + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because + treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in + use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001). + +20191015 + + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the + input string is shorter than expected. + > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen): + + check for missing character after backslash in write_it + + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap + syntax (cf: 980530). + +20191012 + + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out + Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516). + + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage. + + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and + _nc_find_name_entry. + > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"): + + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry. + + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry + + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one + mapping (cf: 20060415); + + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability, + overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007). + +20191005 + + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the + -I and -l options. + +20190928 + + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath + hack which differed between those files. + + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config + + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in + test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on + EINTR (cf: 20180922) + +20190921 + + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch + the screen's borders. + + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path + and version. + +20190914 + + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package + +20190907 + + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to + allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes + by Pascal Pignard). + + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when + the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary + warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim). + +20190831 + + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95, + noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without + libpanelw, etc. + +20190824 + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs. + +20190817 + + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few + details where it still differed from SVr4. + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs. + +20190810 + + fix a few more coverity warnings. + +20190803 + + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where + the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch + by Rob King). + + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry + and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD + + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD + + updated kitty entry & notes -TD + + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD + + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD + +20190728 + + fix a few more coverity warnings. + + more documentation updates based on tctest. + +20190727 + + fix a few coverity warnings. + + documentation updates based on tctest. + +20190720 + + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x + + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp + manual pages. + + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage + (report by Sven Joachim). + +20190713 + + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if + possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the + terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff). + + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c + +20190706 + + add domterm -TD + + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD + +20190630 + + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems + building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp. + + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin + + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless + filenames. + + add ms-terminal -TD + + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD + +20190623 + + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th + Edition versions of the tabs utility. + + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown + in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE + macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya + Ig Petrov). + + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent + data for the result from getenv(). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20190615 + + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page. + + regenerate HTML manpages. + +20190609 + + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff). + Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out, + to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0 + + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD + + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges, + to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names. + +20190601 + + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs + e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru). + + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE + variable. + +20190525 + + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8 + (report by Vincent Huisman). + +20190518 + + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD + + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD + + update terminator entry -TD + + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker) + + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page. + + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages. + +20190511 + + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse" + + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and + scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow. + + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the + row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio + Kuratomi, cf: 20170729). + + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus + number of parameters. + +20190504 + + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters + (report by Pavel Stehule). + + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension. + + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses. + +20190427 + + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented + infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name + but different types. + +20190420 + + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports. + +20190413 + + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script. + + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11 + + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh + + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do + not depend on order into Caps-ncurses. + +20190406 + + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle + split-up Caps-files. + + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled. + +20190330 + + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann) + + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD + + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1 + (report by Dennis Grevenstein). + + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works + + check for missing feature of locale.h + + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs + + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20190323 + + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef. + + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract + those in compilable form. + + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm, + in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions + (report/patch by Werner Fink). + +20190317 + + regenerate llib-* files. + + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info. + + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has + an unexpected type; ignore it in that case. + + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files. + + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made, + which did not become accepted. + +20190309 + + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined + capabilities in tic. + + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef" + data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302). + +20190302 + + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11 + + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some + user-defined capabilities. + + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was + called after initscr() (report by "Ampera"). + +20190223 + + fix typo in adds200 -TD + + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities. + + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using + xt, tbc and hts as clues. + + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using + tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott). + +20190216 + + improve manual page description of TABSIZE. + + add test/demo_tabs program. + +20190209 + + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of + parameters in the documented user-capability extensions. + +20190202 + + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict + with Redhat's package for ncurses6. + + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy. + + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile + to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not + configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also + in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills). + +20190126 + + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to + "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat. + + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter). + + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable. + + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from + being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by + Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924). + +20190121 + + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h + file in Slackware. + + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe + on some of the BSDs. + + updated "string-hacks" feature. + + minor improvements to manpage typography. + + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by + "Hudd"). + + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing + init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color, + extended_color_content + + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the + return values from the tested functions. + + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and + extensions. + + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter). + + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure + option was given. + + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a + warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci). + +20190112 + + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto + Modinos). + + add nsterm-direct -TD + + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD + + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD + + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker) + +20190105 + + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply + building test-packages for Arch. + + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature + that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some + packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20181229 + + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm + + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use + as a pipe/filter. + + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by + discussion with Bryan Christ). + + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c + + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for + obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names. + Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability + names. + +20181215 + + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings. + + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes). + + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter + as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD + + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD + + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm: + + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the + _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol. + + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is + supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array. + Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which + could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode. + +20181208 + + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4 + curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the + background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov). + +20181201 + + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen). + + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to + different character pages. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20181125 + + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim). + +20181124 + + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add + the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary. + + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is + used. + + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris. + + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form + that lets different curses implementations be compared. + + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006 + block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm + (report by Tomas Janousek). + +20181117 + + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing. + + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading + a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to + the compiled-in search list. + +20181110 + + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of + Ada95 tree. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20181027 + + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD + + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott + +20181020 + + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came + from the infocmp -Q option. + + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname + + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned + symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols. + + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to + wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681). + +20181013 + + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value + to make it an absolute path. + +20181006 + + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by + Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142). + + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825). + +20180929 + + fix typo in tvi955 -TD + + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD + + add alias n7900 -TD + + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD + + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD + + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD + + add bel to tvi950 -TD + + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD + + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD + + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD + +20180923 + + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report + by Chris Clayton). + +20180922 + + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g., + if the terminal were resized. + + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat + #1610681, cf: 20141011). + + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat, + since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature. + +20180908 + + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL. + + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is + marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the + character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII + fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505). + + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary + update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable + output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414). + + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken + implementations of sysconf(). + +20180901 + + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length + parameter. + + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or + "too large". + + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390). + +20180825 + + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the + terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks). + + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the + deb test-packages. + + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around + toolset breakage in Fedora 28. + + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final + 20180818 updates. + +20180818 + + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples. + + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS. + + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library + install (Debian #903790): + + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of + static libraries. + + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second + sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g., + in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution. + +20180804 + + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal + scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing + the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the + display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott). + +20180728 + + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h + + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens. + + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation. + +20180721 + + build-fixes for gcc8. + + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD + + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD + + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD + +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 @@ -9125,7 +9656,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20000701 pre-release + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for - $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm. + $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm. + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings ). + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating