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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3798 2022/04/23 23:26:44 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.
+20220813
+ + modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given
+ screen.
+ + amend portability note for delwin in manual page.
+ + adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray.
+ + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration
+ + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about
+ pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol.
+ + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c
+
+20220806
+ + amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final
+ newline.
+ + check for non-textfiles to tic.
+
+20220729
+ + fixes to build with dietlibc:
+ + add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner).
+ + add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock,
+ and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner).
+ + use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found
+ (adapted from patch by Georg Lehner).
+ + trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc
+ files seen in Fedora 36+.
+
+20220724
+ + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual.
+ + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c
+ + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen
+ (Debian #1015756).
+
+20220716
+ + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw.
+ + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck
+ + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke).
+
+20220709
+ + lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the
+ pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries).
+
+20220703
+ + add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities.
+ + use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and
+ response -TD
+ + use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably
+ supported the u6-u9 extension -TD
+ + add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD
+
+20220625
+ + improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results
+ for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic).
+ + correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD
+ + add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD
+
+20220618
+ + add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(),
+ needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521).
+ + revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to
+ smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD
+ + amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610,
+ att620, att730 -TD
+
+20220612
+ + modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when
+ merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy).
+ + improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character.
+
+20220604
+ + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x
+ + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD
+ + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD
+
+20220529
+ + expanded notes for teken/syscons -TD
+ + fix overlooked copying of extended string-heap in copy_termtype
+ (cf: 20220430).
+ + update config.guess
+
+20220521
+ + improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs.
+ + set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr().
+ + modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to
+ copy_termtype().
+
+20220514
+ + further improvements to test/test_mouse.c; compare with ncurses test
+ program menu A/a.
+
+20220507
+ + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov).
+ + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks.
+
+20220501
+ + build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton).
+
+20220430
+ + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and
+ also provide for focus in/out responses -TD
+ + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release
+ events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov).
+ + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo
+ syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'.
+ + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table
+ data rather than relying upon its callers.
+ + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure
+ it is initialized.
+ + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC.
+ + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp.
+
20220423
+ in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402).
+ fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir().