X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f448df5f988191a0cf63ce003c294783ad6d792d;hp=29842435d90b73d42a42fe21b936a8b23978c365;hb=63e3cafac136d773331dee15633f1c9ef08c5493;hpb=683b593ffaeafaa191e701759b05cdba8086b6b1 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 29842435..f448df5f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2170 2014/02/15 23:47:41 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2191 2014/04/12 16:23:01 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,64 @@ 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. +20140412 + + modify configure script: + + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes. + + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building + with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports. + + improve initialization for MinGW port (patch by Juergen Pfeifer): + + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling, + + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers, + + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case, + + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to + "#win32console", and + + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g., + to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver. + +20140329 + + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc + + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency + with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf). + + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only + get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD + + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to + 0.4.1 -TD + +20140323 + + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD + +20140322 + + use types from in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc. + + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified + using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in + + add terminology entry -TD + + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD + + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD + +20140315 + + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's + top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is + on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer). + + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to + be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by + Soren Brinkmann). + +20140308 + + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where + NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li). + + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li). + + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not + allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215). + +20140301 + + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin). + +20140222 + + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c + + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD + + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm" + console -TD + 20140215 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment @@ -106,7 +164,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. recognized by clang. 20131116 - + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED + + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268). @@ -519,7 +577,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume. + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report by Erwin Waterlander). - + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf + + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf > fixes based on Coverity report: + correct coloring in test/bs.c + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(). @@ -608,7 +666,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc. 20121017 - + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory + + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory (Redhat #866989). 20121013 @@ -961,7 +1019,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to - give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730). + give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730). + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim). @@ -993,7 +1051,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + drop mk-dlls.sh script. + change recommended regular expression library. + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton. - + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used. + + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used. 20111231 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add @@ -4390,7 +4448,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors(). + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome, - konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637). + konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637). The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the new ones do not require this change. -TD