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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4012 2023/10/07 23:07:35 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4081 2024/02/17 22:44:28 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20240217
+ + add vt100+noapp, vt100+noapp+pc, xterm+app+pc, xterm+decedit from
+ xterm #389 -TD
+ + fix inconsistent description of wmouse_trafo() (Debian #1059778).
+ + modify wenclose() to handle pads (Debian #1059783).
+ + improve manpage discussion of mouseinterval() (Debian #1058560).
+
+20240210
+ + compiler-warning fixes, while investigating an optimizer bug in
+ "gcc (MacPorts gcc13 13.2.0_4+stdlib_flag) 13.2.0"
+ which results in only the first byte of a multibyte character being
+ printed to the screen.
+
+20240203
+ + minor changes to tracing and locale-checks.
+
+20240127
+ + amend change to z39-a (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + use xterm+nopcfkeys, vt52-basic, dec+pp, dec+sl, vt52+arrows,
+ hp+pfk+cr, klone+acs, klone+color, klone+sgr, ncr160wy50+pp
+ to trim -TD
+ + NetBSD-related fixes for x68k and wsvt52 (patch by Thomas Klausner)
+
+20240120
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + amend discussion of aliases in tput.1
+ + use ansi+sgrbold, ansi+sgrdim, ansi+sgrso, ansi+sgrul, ansi+tabs
+ ecma+color, ecma+sgr, vt100+4bsd, vt100+pfkeys, vt220+pcedit
+ xterm+256color, xterm+acs, xterm+nopcfkeys, xterm+pcf2 to trim -TD
+ + modify configure scripts/makefiles to omit KEY_RESIZE if the
+ corresponding SIGWINCH feature is disabled.
+
+20240113
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + modify dist.mk to avoid passing developer's comments in manpages into
+ the generated html documentation.
+ + use ansi+local, ansi+local1, ansi+pp, ansi+rca, ansi+rca2, ansi+sgr
+ to trim -TD
+ + restore padding for wy520* and vt320-k311 (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20240106
+ + use ansi+arrows, ansi+apparrows, ansi+csr, ansi+erase, ansi+idc,
+ ansi+idc1, ansi+idl, ansi+idl1, ansi+inittabs to trim -TD
+ + minor manpage formatting changes for consistency.
+ + modify doc-html test package's install-directory, per lintian.
+ + add attr_get.3x to man_db.renames.in (patch by Sven Joachim).
+
+20231230
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + add ms-vt100-16color, winconsole -TD
+ + add rio, rio-direct -TD
+ + add mostlike -TD
+ + add wezterm, contour -TD
+
+20231223
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231217
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean
+ is unset in a base entry and set in a use'd chunk, i.e., if it was
+ cancelled.
+ + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which
+ were already cancelled in a use'd chunk.
+ + join two lines in infotocap.3x to eliminate a spurious "description"
+ link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20231209
+ + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels in use'd chunks
+ which are not mentioned in the top-level terminal description.
+ + remove xterm+sm+1006 from tmux (Debian #1057688).
+ + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
+ + updated man/edit_man.sh to allow for "\%" markers embedded after
+ bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057651).
+ + reduce compiler-warnings in configure checks
+
+20231202
+ + correct initial alignment of extended capabilities in infocmp, so
+ that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types.
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages, changing environment variables
+ to italics (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231125
+ + add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1
+ (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering
+ (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values
+ (report by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231121
+ + amend fix for Debian #1055882, correcting nul terminator check in
+ waddnstr (Debian #1056340).
+
+20231118
+ + improve description of length-parameter and error-returns in several
+ manpages: curs_addchstr.3x, curs_addstr.3x, curs_addwstr.3x,
+ curs_in_wch.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x, curs_inchstr.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x,
+ curs_insstr.3x, curs_instr.3x, curs_inwstr.3x
+ + amend parameter check for entire string versus specific length in
+ winsnstr() and wins_nwstr() to match Solaris.
+ + make similar correction to wins_nwstr().
+ + correct loop termination condition in waddnstr() and waddnwstr()
+ (Debian #1055882, cf: 20201205).
+
+20231111
+ + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
+ + add limit checks in infocmp needed when processing extended
+ capabilities with the "-u" option.
+ + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages.
+ + fix a few compiler warnings for Solaris 10.
+ + modify endwin() to return an error if it is called again without an
+ intervening screen update (report by Rajeev Pillai, NetBSD #57592).
+
+20231104
+ + modify reset command to avoid altering clocal if the terminal uses a
+ modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek,
+ OpenSUSE #1201384, Debian #60377).
+ + build-fixes for --with-caps variations.
+ + correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL.
+
+20231028
+ + move xterm focus mode 1004 from xterm+sm+1006 into xterm+focus as
+ fe/fd capabilities, like vim (vim-pr #13440).
+ + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make "libdir" the default,
+ as documented, rather than "auto" (report by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve messages from configure script (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231021
+ + use oldxterm+sm+1006 in vte-2014 (report by Benno Schulenberg) -TD
+ + add ansi+apparrows -TD
+ + change defaults for configure opaque and widec options (prompted by
+ discussion with Branden Robinson).
+ + minor cleanup of compiler- and manpage-warnings.
+
+20231016
+ + make the recent change to setupterm optional "--enable-check-size"
+ (Debian #1054022).
+
+20231014
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, for uClibc-ng
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
20231007
+ improve loop-limit for get_position().
+ improve manual description of immedok (Debian #1053603).
function pointer passed to tputs().
+ modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
- + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
+ + modify test/background.c, adding command-line options to demonstrate
assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
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