X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=cc91b40dcf60f49b0ac639c0285edfd877ffb3b9;hp=08ac63808507de93124b372a4852ff7ddda22b1c;hb=6662c1ccb49cb09d0f2cec2ec6150410a0fd0f7f;hpb=bc6feebe069006356c1d3075e8e67bd3178a2018 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 08ac6380..cc91b40d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey -- +-- Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey -- -- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3750 2021/11/21 16:19:20 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3836 2022/07/24 10:06:18 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,202 @@ 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. +20220724 + + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual. + + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c + + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen + (Debian #1015756). + +20220716 + + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw. + + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck + + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke). + +20220709 + + lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the + pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries). + +20220703 + + add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities. + + use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and + response -TD + + use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably + supported the u6-u9 extension -TD + + add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD + +20220625 + + improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results + for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic). + + correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD + + add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD + +20220618 + + add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(), + needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521). + + revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to + smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD + + amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610, + att620, att730 -TD + +20220612 + + modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when + merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy). + + improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character. + +20220604 + + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x + + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD + + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD + +20220529 + + expanded notes for teken/syscons -TD + + fix overlooked copying of extended string-heap in copy_termtype + (cf: 20220430). + + update config.guess + +20220521 + + improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs. + + set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr(). + + modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to + copy_termtype(). + +20220514 + + further improvements to test/test_mouse.c; compare with ncurses test + program menu A/a. + +20220507 + + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov). + + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks. + +20220501 + + build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton). + +20220430 + + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and + also provide for focus in/out responses -TD + + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release + events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov). + + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo + syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'. + + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table + data rather than relying upon its callers. + + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure + it is initialized. + + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC. + + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp. + +20220423 + + in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402). + + fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir(). + + fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used. + +20220416 + + add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data + (report/testcase by NCNIPC of China). + + add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is + missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379). + + add setlocale call to several test-programs. + + allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on. + +20220409 + + add test/test_unget_wch.c + +20220402 + + amend extended_captype(), returning CANCEL if a string is explicitly + cancelled. + + make description-fields distinct -TD + +20220326 + + update teken -TD + + add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD + + add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD + +20220319 + + add xgterm -TD + + correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by + Robert Lange) + + add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) + + improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc. + +20220312 + + add xterm+acs building-block -TD + + add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD + + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per xterm patch #371 -TD + + add mosh and mosh-256color -TD + +20220305 + + replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to + work around build problems with gnat 12. + + update external links in Ada95.html + + trim unused return-value from canonical_name(). + +20220226 + + fix issues found with coverity: + + rewrite canonical_name() function of infocmp to ensure buffer size + + corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands + + modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns + + add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c + + add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis. + + enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding. + + adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from + gcc 12.0.1 + +20220219 + + expanded description in man/resizeterm.3x + + additional workaround for ImageMagick in test/picsmap.c + +20220212 + + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency. + + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno + Schulenberg). + +20220205 + + workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values + by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit. + + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap". + +20220129 + + minor updates for test-packages + + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the + case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a + colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum, + cf: 20211113). + + update kitty -TD + +20220122 + + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script. + + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps" + does not exist. + + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on + format-warnings. + + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the + infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker. + +20220115 + + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse + state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by + Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022). + + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files. + +20220101 + + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and + curs_terminfo.3x manpages. + +20211225 + + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages + (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann). + +20211219 + + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper + script to invoke those. + + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c + +20211211 + + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters. + +20211204 + + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink). + 20211127 + fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD + add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD