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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2291 2014/10/19 01:19:36 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.
+20150117
+ + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
+ + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
+ configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20150110
+ + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
+ symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
+ + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
+ with FreeBSD ports.
+ + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
+ ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
+ all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
+ + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
+ use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
+ + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
+ cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
+ rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
+ + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
+ (report by Pavel Balaev).
+
+20150103
+ + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
+ + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
+ via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
+ + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
+ variations in ABI 6.
+
+20141227
+ + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
+ the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
+ Sven Joachim).
+
+20141221
+ + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
+ Sven Joachim).
+
+20141220
+ + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
+ + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
+ together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
+ the ABI 5 libraries.
+ + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
+ regenerate html-manpages.
+
+20141213
+ + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
+ when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
+ De Meo).
+ + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
+ ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
+ package for ncurses6.
+ + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
+ is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
+ + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
+ in the corresponding ".map" files.
+ + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
+ from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
+ Joachim).
+
+20141206
+ + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
+ the different library configurations has the same label. Some
+ review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
+ gcc introduced here:
+ https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
+ https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
+ (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
+ + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
+
+20141129
+ + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
+ ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
+ A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
+ symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
+ which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
+
+20141115
+ + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
+ curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
+ + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
+ used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
+ + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
+ the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
+ + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
+ symbol-versioning.
+
+20141101
+ + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
+ and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
+ not apply.
+
+20141025
+ + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
+ msys2 configuration.
+
20141018
+ reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
overlap with sgr functionality.
+ remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
- + update xterm-new to patch #305 -TD
+ + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
+ change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
+ build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for