X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=aca9d15815316e7f77e1b293b45d05ed6d983f79;hb=aed072e27e60c2abc5ac0ab8113aacf9b4908d50;hp=683354ab26808048c6a88a8d1bf975ea0534a2f4;hpb=06078d3fa68db669ed37178c01873546b4b28745;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 683354ab..aca9d158 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3004 2017/11/19 01:32:47 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3030 2017/12/23 21:44:36 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,54 @@ 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. +20171223 + + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with + PDCurses. + + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description, + e.g., if there is a permission problem. + + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2. + + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also + avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent + if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder, + OpenSuSE #1070450). + + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable. + +20171216 + + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111). + + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use + for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6. + + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs. + +20171209 + + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir + consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was + configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers + are. + + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented" + function in link_test.c + + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc. + + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case + LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU + linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah). + + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5 + +20171125 + + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr + before initialized. + + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap. + + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap. + + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by + Hosein Askari, Debian #882620). + + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses: + + it lacks the use_env() function. + + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol. + + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return + value to make it possible for most applications to check for an + error-return (report by Midolikawa H). + + additional manpage cleanup. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + 20171118 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability. + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.