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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3076 2018/02/04 01:14:28 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.
+20180505
+ + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
+ versions of tack.
+ + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
+ alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
+ the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
+ such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
+ + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
+ conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
+ + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
+ for escaping regular expressions.
+
+20180428
+ + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
+ Winter).
+ + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
+ (report by Leon Winter).
+ + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
+ unfocus_current_field (form);
+ form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
+ (patch by Leon Winter).
+
+20180414
+ + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
+ edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
+ non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
+ + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
+ + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
+ a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
+
+20180407
+ + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
+ not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
+ + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
+ Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
+ interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
+ interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
+ As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
+ values, e.g., keyname().
+
+20180331
+ + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
+ extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
+ string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
+
+20180324
+ + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
+ 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
+ + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
+ + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
+ + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
+
+20180317
+ + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
+ it should have.
+ + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
+ different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
+ + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
+ + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
+ terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
+ by Gyorgy Jeney).
+
+20180303
+ + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
+ avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
+ + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
+ + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
+ verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
+ (report/patch by Werner Fink).
+ + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
+ on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
+ better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
+ + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
+ for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
+ structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
+ + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
+ + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
+ how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
+
+20180224
+ + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
+ a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
+ defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
+ compounded by repair in 20180121.
+ + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
+ + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
+ + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20180217
+ + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
+ + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
+ + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
+ + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
+ Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
+
+20180210
+ + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
+ the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
+ is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
+ + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
+ was needed, was standardized long ago.
+ + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
+ + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
+ and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
+ normally enabled.
+
20180203
+ minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
+ add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.