X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=7965543cd3365f96db994b4859bb35e1c9dc01a5;hb=03458b9d8a76a97247cff021a2af649a853b41ee;hp=d0761de89690526ab0022fedf1788d8d96d1d5ec;hpb=5b82f41330b8d9fdc4c9b9aa0edd4e0b7515020c;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d0761de8..7965543c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3906 2023/01/28 23:31:29 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3975 2023/07/09 00:08:03 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,168 @@ 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. +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). + +20230615 + + modify _nc_read_file_entry() to show relevant filename in warnings. + + improve checks in convert_string() for corrupt terminfo entry (report + and test-case by Gregory James Duck). + +20230610 + + improve manpages discussing file descriptors in low-level functions. + + modify flushinp to use file descriptors in SCREEN, rather than from + TERMINAL, and check if they are for a terminal, like SVr4. + + modify mcprint to use file descriptor in SCREEN, for consistency. + + add xterm+focus to foot+base (patch by Daniel Ekloef). + + correct definition of Charable() for non-wide ncurses library (report + and test-case by Zbigniew Baniewski). + +20230603 + + add configure option --with-strip-program, to override program + chosen by the install program for stripping executables (prompted + by discussion with Aapo Rantalainen). + + fix typo in INSTALL (report/patch by Aapo Rantalainen). + + improve error-checks for isEILSEQ() + + increase MB_CUR_MAX to 16, matching glibc's MB_LEN_MAX. + + corrected mouse mask in test/testcurs.c + + improve thread lock in lib_trace.c + +20230527 + + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck. + +20230520 + + fixes for compiler warnings in MinGW environments. + +20230514 + + modify test-package "ncurses6-doc" to use manpage-aliases, which in + turn required a change to the configure script to factor in the + extra-suffix option when deriving alias names. + + add mode 1004 to xterm+sm+1006 from xterm #380 -TD + +20230506 + > build-fixes related to configure-options and/or platform: + + fix for --enable-fvisibility + + fix for unusual values of --with-rel-version + + fix for unusual values of --with-abi-version + + fix for --disable-tcap-names + + fix for termcap in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink). + +20230429 + + revise recent change to _nc_write_entry to isolate it to a Cygwin bug + (cf: 20230311) + + amend fix for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to use cbreak mode unless raw + mode was set (cf: 20210522). + + fix a few warnings from cppcheck, etc. + + correct copy/paste error in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink). + +20230424 + + check return value of _nc_save_str(), in special case for tic where + extended capabilities are processed but the terminal description was + not initialized (report by Ziqiao Kong). + + regenerate llib-* files. + +20230423 + + add tiscan_s() to help applications check formatting capabilities + that would be passed to tiparm_s, etc. + + add tiparm_s() to provide applications a way to tell ncurses what + the expected parameters are for a capability (tmux #3531). + + improve check in lib_tparm.c, ensuring that a char* fits into a + TPARM_ARG. + + add --disable-setuid-environ configure option (request by Sven + Joachim). + + drop compatibility with obsolete versions of tack, e.g., pre-1.08 + (Debian #1034549, cf: 20170722). + +20230418 + + improve checks for limits on privileged execution: + + modify _nc_syserr_abort() to use _nc_env_access(), rather than + only checking root uid. + + use getauxval() when available, to improve setuid/setgid checks. + + modify test packages to disable root access/environ options. + + modify tgoto() to accept no-parameter capabilities, for joe editor + (OpenSUSE #1210485, Gentoo #904263). + +20230415 + + configure script fixes: + + fix copy/paste error in configure option --disable-root-access + (report/patch by Sven Joachim). + + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro's amend default case to avoid + undefining _XOPEN_SOURCE if _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined. + + modify test_tparm to account for extended capabilities. + + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of numeric parameters, + overlooked in 20230408. + + fix errata in clear.1 and curs_terminfo.3x + +20230408 + + document limitations of tparm, and error-returns in curs_terminfo.3x + + document limitations of tgoto, and error-returns in curs_termcap.3x + + add xterm+focus to alacritty+common (patch by Christian Duerr). + + add "-v" option to tput, to show warnings. + > improve checks for malformed terminfo data (report/analysis by + Jonathan Bar Or, Michael Pearse, Emanuele Cozzi). + + make the parameter type/count checks in _nc_tiparm() more stringent + + update tgoto() to account for _nc_tiparm() changes + + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of string parameters + + add special cases in tput to handle extensions Cs/Ms parameters + + ignore compiled-terminfo where the array sizes exceed the standard + +20230401 + + modify experimental Windows driver to work with xterm mouse protocol. + + remove DECCOLM+DECSCLM from foot (patch by Daniel Ekloef). + +20230311 + + improve manpage description for addch versus unctrl format used for + non-printable characters. + + modify version-check for gcc/g++, now works for msys2. + + modify check in _nc_write_entry() for multiply defined aliases to + report problems within the current runtime of tic rather than for + conflicts with pre-existing terminal descriptions. + + allow for MinGW32-/64-bit configurations to use _DEFAULT_SOURCE + + clarify interaction of -R option versus -C, -I and -r in infocmp + manpage. + + build-fix in lib_win32con.c (cf: 20230211). + +20230225 + + build-fixes for rpm test-packages. + + add/use configure check for clock_gettime(), to supersede + gettimeofday(). + +20230218 + + configure-script improvements: + + recent msys2 headers work with _DEFAULT_SOURCE; amend check + + use $ac_includes_default in most cases where stdlib.h should work + + use #error consistently vs "make an error" + + add configure macro for gettimeofday vs inline check + +20230211 + + set dwShareMode in calls to CreateConsoleScreenBuffer() (patch by + Hannes Domani). + + use CreateFile with "CONIN$", "CONOUT$" rather than GetStdHandle to + obtain a handle on the actual console, avoiding redirection in the + MinGW/Win32 configurations (adapted from patch by LIU Hao). + 20230128 + document XF, kxIN and kxOUT -TD + add note on sun/wscons/cmdtool/shelltool -TD @@ -11048,7 +11210,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5, aixterm entries -TD + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An - example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's + example of an illegal ANSI response can be found using Microsoft's Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx terminal or XFree86 xterm with: XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450 @@ -11942,7 +12104,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller). + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This - parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is + parametrizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425). + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches