X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ccb3d108e02b4c53be1b20c724170350de32e37c;hp=01b809ce307aaf740ddf940d05c16521529c9df1;hb=0485620c03e69b1b58a6b12e5e45c98415fc7575;hpb=2e68dc325852af56f2ec6c315b323a4f9c3d62c9 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 01b809ce..ccb3d108 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2782 2017/03/25 23:37:12 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2920 2017/08/19 20:10:50 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,299 @@ 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. +20170819 + + update "iterm" entry -TD + + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD + + regenerate llib-* files. + + regenerate HTML manpages. + + improve picsmap test-program: + + reduce memory used for tsearch + + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage. + + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional + (cf: 20130622). + + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput. + + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855). + + improve usage messages for tset and tput. + + minor fixes to "RDGB" extension and reset_color_pairs(). + +20170812 + + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by + Stephane Chazelas). + + add reset_color_pairs() function. + + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used + by ncurses. + + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure + script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack. + + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in + /usr/share/ncurses-examples + + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(), + color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters. + + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the + current screen is marked for clearing. + + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for + loading image files. + + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow + on demand up to the existing limit. + + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to + improve color_content(). + + improve picsmap test-program: + + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM, + checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat" + suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g., + /usr/share/ncurses-examples + + add "-l" option for logging + + add "-d" option for debugging + + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images, + with time delay. + + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20170729 + + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD + + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard) + + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD + + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain + Williams) -TD + + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the + cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King). + + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by + tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of + parameters for a capability and the actual. + + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from + report/patch by Dick Wesseling): + + translate the character to the alternate character set when the + alternate character set is enabled. + + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255. + + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in + tack for memory-leak checking. + + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs" + configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but + a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is + installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds. + + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol + needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon + internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and + string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix + curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the + extended capability arrays. + + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722 + +20170722 + + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian + + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where + the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of + ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the + term-driver configuration. + + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header + files to allow each to be compiled separately. + + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program + using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack + versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the + dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected. + +20170715 + + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work + with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer. + + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328). + + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes + (Debian #868266). + + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates. + + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings. + +20170708 + + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options. + + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim). + +20170701 + + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment + variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an + application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux). + + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver + configuration; none is needed. + + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c + + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr, + fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did + not work (cf: 20160213). + + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently + reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer + reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports + showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is + addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer. + + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input + (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691). + + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer. + + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as + one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not + treated as the 2-character termcap short-name. + + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq). + + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names. + + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu() + + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes + (report by Allen Hewes). + +20170624 + + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and + throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler). + + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes + (report by Allen Hewes). + + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs. + + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was + not initialized, rather than returning an error. + + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal + has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963). + + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer, + assuming that --disable-leaks is configured. + + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined + behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta). + +20170617 + + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used + (report by Allen Hewes). + + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm + to help with leak checking. + + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak + checking. + + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal + cannot be initialized. + +20170610 + + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair(). + + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c + + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c + +20170603 + + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping + to xterm-256color. + + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the + end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo + (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various + configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not. + +20170527 + + improved test/picsmap.c: + + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt + + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files. + + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available. + +20170520 + + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files. + + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the + related files can be checked with lintian. + + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim). + +20170513 + + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots. + The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files. + + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is + changed (cf: 20170311). + + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names. + +20170506 + + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when + they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable. + + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x + + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65. + + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x + (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond). + + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html + + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c + +20170429 + + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM, + overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury). + + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages. + + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes. + + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is + null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer + for better compatibility with other implementations. + + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5 + + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the + value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau). + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20170422 + + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen). + + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics- + characters. + + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was + marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix + implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it. + On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature. + + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in + icl6402 and m2-nam -TD + + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc, + add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King). + + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus + a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number. + + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%". + + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c" + and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c', + avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap. + + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not + written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that. + + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check + when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control + characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable. + + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in + preference to "%02" on output. + + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and + "%3"; the result repeated the last character. + + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format. + +20170415 + + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from + help-screen used in test/edit_field.c + + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and + _nc_resolve_uses + + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025). + + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX. + + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation. + + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as + integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose. + + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs. + +20170408 + + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output + of mbstowcs(). + + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes. + + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs. + + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not + used by tack. + +20170401 + + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD + + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD + + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD + + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD + + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD + + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic + (discussion with Nicholas Marriott) + + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color + + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent() + cache. + + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar() + works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant + calls to get original tty-modes. + + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname(). + + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is + null, as documented. + + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to + reduce compiler warnings. + + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass + color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits: + + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(), + wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set(). + + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior, + including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(), + slk_color_off(), vid_attr(). + + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger + than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(), + extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(), + init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs. + 20170325 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).