X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e0248d8514d38df678ccc9415e1cfe14fdb88f87;hp=6a983cadc0317ef80070b09d8e9157aa6c335b44;hb=56f1e8cd80dfb926f74e1739bf969489b0cfa56f;hpb=c72b2c2c48ade76b5b4090b0f54b619a4fd483d9 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6a983cad..e0248d85 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2583 2016/03/19 23:00:31 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2609 2016/05/21 23:21:18 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,69 @@ 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. +20160521 + + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size. + + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which + cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options + (report by Ola x Nilsson): + + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro. + + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure + that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS + + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared + to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that + cannot combine -c and -o options. + +20160514 + + regenerate HTML manpages. + + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they + might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426). + + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD + + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0 + entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD + + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran). + +20160507 + + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the + special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland, + cf: 20151017). + + modify test/ncurses.c: + + check return-value of putwin + + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes + to keypad- and scroll-modes. + + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran). + +20160423 + + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm + color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE + and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R. + + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for + xterm -TD + +20160416 + + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs + PIC builds documented in + https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages + + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages + due to program-transformation configure options. + + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset. + +20160409 + + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when + available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850. + +20160402 + + regenerate HTML manpages. + + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus + X/Open Curses. + +20160326 + + regenerate HTML manpages. + + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers + to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option + O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not + apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application + can handle the event. + 20160319 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso). + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case