X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e4f683c251b706e52935102a705325e75380256d;hp=bd187cac0d6914f1f030b6368f3585915f276f86;hb=a8dfaf0998c91b39c5c0a4913987cd67ca622bff;hpb=5c2245b6fc619f8d96ce940281dfbf13b5b8900b diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bd187cac..e4f683c2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 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 1.2935 2017/08/26 21:33:48 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3351 2019/07/21 00:33:00 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,884 @@ 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. +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 + 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 + it should have. + + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using + different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab. + + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin). + + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no + terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch + by Gyorgy Jeney). + +20180303 + + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to + avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace. + + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages. + + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first + verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols + (report/patch by Werner Fink). + + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width + on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look + better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin). + + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t" + for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the + structures reported to make the categories more apparent. + + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors. + + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show + how similar the different tinfo configurations are. + +20180224 + + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging + a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a + defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111, + compounded by repair in 20180121. + + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD + + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD + + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim). + +20180217 + + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek). + + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean. + + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan). + + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by + Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim). + +20180210 + + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case + the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall + is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton). + + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what + was needed, was standardized long ago. + + add several development/experimental options to development packages. + + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded + and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are + normally enabled. + +20180203 + + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent. + + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works. + + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability. + + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate + package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401). + +20180129 + + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming. + +20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + +20180127 + + updated release notes + + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse + of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description. + > terminfo changes: + + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was + not suitable -TD + + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD + + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting + konsole's removal in 2008 -TD + + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed + imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD + + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet + support xterm's 1006 mode -TD + + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD + + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD + + update vte to vte-2017 -TD + + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD + + add iterm2-direct -TD + + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD + + add mlterm-direct -TD + + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD + +20180121 pre-release + > terminfo changes: + + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title + blocks from xterm #331 -TD + + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm + #331 -TD + + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of + color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD + + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD + + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to + match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD + + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD + + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD + + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if + direct-colors are wanted -TD + + add vte-direct -TD + + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by + Pierre Carru) + + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD + + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006 + mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD + + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD + > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features: + + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores + numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs + such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use + this feature. + + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of + tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767. + + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character + ncurses library work as expected. + + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will + read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767. + + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in + term.h still uses signed 16-bit values. + + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format, + a new magic value is provided for the "file" program. + + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format. + + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the + wide-character configuration to 32768. + +20180120 + + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence. + + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts. + + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory. + + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking + gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake, + and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static + libraries. + + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5. + +20180106 + + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin. + + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-, + 256-, etc., colors. + + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99 + as possible default values. + + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the + extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the + handling of the curses/ncurses library. + + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files. + + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when + configured to access it via weak symbols. + + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker + checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the + behavior. + + update URLs for ncurses website to use https. + + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the + ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the + standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is + needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and + would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc. + + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule + (report by Jeffrey Walton). + +20171230 + + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for + reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package. + + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure + script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than + directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton). + + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are + some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are + anticipated. + + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename + conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages. + +20171223 + + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with + PDCurses. + + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description, + e.g., if there is a permission problem. + + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2. + + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also + avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent + if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder, + OpenSuSE #1070450). + + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable. + +20171216 + + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111). + + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use + for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6. + + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs. + +20171209 + + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir + consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was + configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers + are. + + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented" + function in link_test.c + + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc. + + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case + LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU + linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah). + + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5 + +20171125 + + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr + before initialized. + + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap. + + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap. + + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by + Hosein Askari, Debian #882620). + + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses: + + it lacks the use_env() function. + + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol. + + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return + value to make it possible for most applications to check for an + error-return (report by Midolikawa H). + + additional manpage cleanup. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20171118 + + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability. + + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads. + + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H). + + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551. + + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c + + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors. + + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to + account for xon -TD + + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code + rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan) + + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making + those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but + otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently: + jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b, + dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an, + st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD + + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions + of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by + Vassili Courzakis). + +20171111 + + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD + + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD + + reviewed st 0.7 -TD + + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build. + +20171104 + + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c, + dots_xcurses.c + + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens. + + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better + test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions. + +20171028 + + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c + (report by Midolikawa H). + + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim). + + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line + drawing character is drawn. + + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are + available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen. + + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs. + + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in + recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923). + + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for + directory-tree terminal databases. + + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent + port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909). + + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c + +20171021 + + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather + than in the test-program. + + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE. + + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs. + + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs. + +20171014 + + minor cleanup to test/view.c: + + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file. + + implement page up/down commands. + + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a + terminal. + + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the + attribute values which can be stored in those types. + + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs + program. + + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar(). + + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for + extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c. + + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory + delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions + for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly. + +20171007 + + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain + the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible. + + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit + with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno. + + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the + database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable + terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen). + + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but + not slk_color(). + + regenerate man-html documentation. + +20170930 + + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with + Solaris xpg4 curses. + + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with + Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm(). + + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and + tin. + + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit(). + + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing + signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not. + + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit. + + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open + documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different + values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned + short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the + two sets. + +20170923 + + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen. + + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin + + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc. + +20170916 + + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case. + + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set. + +20170909 + + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c, + which was inconsistent with the normal implementation. + + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching + behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter). + + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens + using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a". + + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to + consistently do this only if "-d" option is given. + + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses: + + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit + checks in some libraries. + + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does + not return ERR on the lower-right corner. + + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses. + + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826). + +20170902 + + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older + logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722). + + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string + (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c + and tput.c + +20170827 + + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton). + 20170826 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip @@ -85,7 +963,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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(). + + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs(). 20170812 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by @@ -512,7 +1390,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git 20161224 - + correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes() + + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes() (patch by Leon Winter). + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by patch by Mihail Konev). @@ -701,7 +1579,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. for special keys, based on xterm. 20160702 - + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters areg given. + + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given. 20160625 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule. @@ -939,7 +1817,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. to incorrect attribute-masking. 20151024 - + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename + + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements. + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support @@ -1036,7 +1914,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20150810 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See - http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727 + https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org @@ -1750,7 +2628,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20131221 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html manpages. See - ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html + ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html 20131214 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be @@ -2164,7 +3042,7 @@ 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. @@ -2653,7 +3531,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + regenerated html manpages. 20120107 - + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer): + + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer): + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member + drop mk-dlls.sh script. + change recommended regular expression library. @@ -3685,7 +4563,6 @@ 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 @@ -5104,7 +5981,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this. - + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option. + + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvements to "-f" option. + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting. 20060923 @@ -5708,7 +6585,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by Stanislav Ievlev). + regenerated html documentation for ada binding. - see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml + see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml 20050507 + regenerated html documentation for manpages. @@ -8654,7 +9531,7 @@ 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