X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d351f12248ff1926141c8bac3215dc0176d56af6;hp=8445a6729e303c3a6893dfe69cad7b35068c084d;hb=7d6371e47006c8aef4ac94f52998a35b03bf89cf;hpb=073e4446d2def7ebf1f0ff4f124f0c8d4af0b788;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8445a672..d351f122 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3105 2018/03/24 22:56:36 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3176 2018/08/25 23:32:32 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,10 +45,172 @@ 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. +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 + 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 @@ -2533,7 +2695,7 @@ 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. @@ -4054,7 +4216,6 @@ 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