X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=feeb7e9c4efe684cd5a104da51144f0c5dbbcb72;hp=55a109d755783f2b162764d25add49f48debbb5b;hb=a2016785091d241ca289fbac5b40bfc7f0432737;hpb=3e7e5f8b5c4e8e499f682a1c414c576c16d47532 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 55a109d7..feeb7e9c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2866 2017/06/24 22:16:43 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2888 2017/07/15 22:29:41 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,46 @@ 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. +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).