X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=f953ea86092c04d36f7cd7cd97abcc8772822947;hb=135d37072755704b8d018e5de74e62ff3f28c930;hp=b8147e206aae2d2de529c05dc95eebf59baa546e;hpb=f79c210479470378389aab5b8d4d42d4a7f3d9a4;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b8147e20..f953ea86 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3967 2023/06/17 17:17:42 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4025 2023/11/04 21:45:02 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,142 @@ 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. +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). + + fix a few formatting issues with manpages (Debian #1053123). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20231001 + + modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in + user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither + environment variables or ioctl is used. The ncurses test-program + with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature. + + improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates. + + fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by + copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott). + +20230923 + + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + amend change to delscreen() to limit the windows which it creates to + just those associated with the screen (report by Frederic Boiteux, + cf: 20220813). + +20230918 + + new tarball/errata (report by Sven Joachim). + +20230917 + + improve formatting of manpages (integrated patches by Branden + Robinson). + + correct limit for name-length in write_entry.c (report/testcase by + Luna Saphie Mittelbach). + + limit delays to 30 seconds, i.e., padding delays in terminfo, as well + as napms() and delay_output() functions. + + improve a few pointer-checks. + + improve parsing in _nc_msec_cost, allowing a single decimal point. + +20230909 + + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson), for + captoinfo.1m and terminfo.5 + > patches by Nicholas Marriott: + + use string-hacks in alloc_entry.c, alloc_type.c and hardscroll.c, + overlooked due to compiler changes in recent OpenBSD releases. + + add "-6" option to ncu2openbsd script. + +20230902 + + improve description of search rules for terminal descriptions in + terminfo manpage (report by Sven Joachim). + +20230826 + + fixes for compiler-warnings. + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20230819 + + various manpage-formatting fixes. + + correct formatting of table header in curs_inopts.3x (Branden + Robinson). + + correct manpage description of panel_hidden (report by Benjamin + Mordaunt). + +20230812 + + add/use putty+cursor to reflect amending of modified cursor-keys in + 2021 -TD + + add ecma+strikeout to putty -TD + + add functions to query tty-flags in SCREEN (request by Bill Gray). + +20230805 + + fix a few manpages needing tbl marker, seen by lintian warning. + + fixes for compiler-warnings. + + minor grammatical fix for manpages (Branden Robinson). + +20230729 + + improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_wnstr(). + + modify MinGW configuration to provide for running in MSYS/MSYS2 + shells, assuming ConPTY support (patch by Pavel Fedin). + + add assignment in CF_MAN_PAGES to fill in value for TERMINFO_DIRS in + ncurses, terminfo and tic manpages (patch by Sven Joachim). + +20230722 + + add "auto" default for --with-xterm-kbs configure option. + +20230715 + + correct wadd_wch_literal() when adding a non-spacing character to a + double-width character. + + improve manual page for curs_util. + + improve manual page for wadd_wch(). + +20230708 + + add linux+kbs for terminals which imitate xterm's behavior with + Linux -TD + + modify MinGW driver to return KEY_BACKSPACE when an unmodified + VK_BACK virtual key is entered (prompted by patch by Pavel Fedin, + Savannah #64292). + + disallow using $TERMINFO or $HOME/.terminfo when tic "-o" option is + used (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #1040048). + +20230701 + + fix mandoc warnings about unnecessary markup. + + improve parameter check in tparm_setup() + +20230625 + + adjust man/make_sed.sh to work with dates as the third field of TH. + + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai"). + +20230624 + + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai"). + 20230617 + markup manpages with revision information (prompted by discussion with Bjarni Ingi Gislason). @@ -5455,7 +5591,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 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(). 20110416