X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=8eb99de70b6e2ee2b51f936135790bad0a6e24d9;hb=a28e782d7794ddeec23e7cb212dc455f0d93dc22;hp=86343ee1f31b76ff3ce683cfbea0f4be460b3a65;hpb=1f7a36fe16b11bb4aab51be89bbc1b0f75936b78;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 86343ee1..8eb99de7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3550 2020/08/30 00:55:34 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3610 2020/12/27 23:49:02 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. +20201227 + + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD + + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly. + +20201219 + + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address + regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3. + + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report + by Chris Bennett). + +20201212 + + improve manual pages for form field-types. + +20201205 + + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking + gprbuild (cf: 20200627). + + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen. + + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin + Abendroth). + + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout + (patch by Benno Schulenberg). + + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD + + add flash to mlterm3 -TD + +20201128 + + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr). + + add rep to PuTTY -TD + + add putty+keypad -TD + + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in + the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses + low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217). + + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its + -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS, + do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases. + +20201121 + + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver. + + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang + (report by Steven Pitman). + +20201114 + + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver. + + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the + special case where short extended capability strings were not + converted from terminfo to termcap format. + + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case + when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff). + +20201107 + + update kitty+common -TD + + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron). + + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely + upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas). + +20201031 + + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include + before (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas). + + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion + with Reuben Thomas). + + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to + ensure that the messages contain only printable text. + + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments + is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven + Pitman). + +20201024 + + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling. + + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with + Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer. + + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check, + needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled + (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim) + + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters + and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of + parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert + Sebastian Herlim). + + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick + Black), as well as some fixes via linklint. + +20201017 + + improve manpage typography. + + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display + nonprintable characters. + + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such + as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm. + +20201010 + + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD + + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154, + ncrvt100an -TD + + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by + discussion with Florian Weimer). + + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen + Pfeifer). + +20201003 + + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter). + + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) + + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD + + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas). + + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754) + + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for + checking consistency with tic. + +20200926 + + correct configure-check for gnurx library. + + regenerate llib-* files. + + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for + panel- and user-pointers. + +20200919 + + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD + +20200918 + + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated + curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545). + +20200912 + + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get + the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64. + + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration. + + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer). + +20200907 + + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by + Soren Tempel). + +20200906 + + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of + win32-driver. + + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs). + +20200831 + + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner + Fink). + 20200829 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten Anonymous". @@ -54,7 +190,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on mawk and lynx). - > errate for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer): + > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer): + correct icl6404 csr + correct ti916 cup + improve ndr9500 @@ -170,7 +306,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang) + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron). - + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl + + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes. + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters @@ -186,7 +322,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502) + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits - which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad + which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma). + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify @@ -474,7 +610,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package 20190907 - + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to + + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes by Pascal Pignard). + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when