X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=fb960ab9095a527161f8ff8304b775cb36e648a3;hb=1559c1ba9c1d51764c46cb99be22a14deea5ce60;hp=6286091697f45425dc455a3346dd66c951aa81b4;hpb=027ae42953e3186daed8f3882da73de48291b606;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 62860916..fb960ab9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1056 2006/12/17 20:36:26 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1073 2007/01/28 00:38:53 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,9 +45,63 @@ 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. +20070127 + + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed + to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan). + + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after + it is removed from the ncurses tree. + + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines + (report by sci-fi@hush.ai). + + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making + its license consistent with ncurses. + + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in + the c++ binding for scanw() methods. + + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding. + +20070120 + + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from + term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency. + + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines. + + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav + Lichvar). + +20070113 + + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the + _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak). + + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the + ncurses build-tree. + + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions + in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20070106 + + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o + + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o + (patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20061230 + + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines + (report by sci-fi@hush.ai). + + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is + defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only) + + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c, + lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c + + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program + names, e.g., from --program-prefix. + + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes + to manpages as needed. + + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine). + + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory. + +20061223 + + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support + from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given. + + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs" + + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath. + + update config.guess, config.sub + 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org -20061217 +20061217 + add ifdef's for for HPUX, which has the corresponding definitions in . + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither @@ -3449,7 +3503,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20000923 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor - save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes. + save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes. The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson (see NetBSD misc/11052)). + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in