X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=bc5be49f32d04f1b144b206b0878d85a8c0ecbdf;hb=87c2c84cbd2332d6d94b12a1dcaf12ad1a51a938;hp=fe8fd9c8239387a9be57aa47c75a54381f5642a0;hpb=8bf8c836fe2c28238adbd62e71f03272efe155ad;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fe8fd9c8..bc5be49f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey -- +-- Copyright 2018-2022,2023 Thomas E. Dickey -- -- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3786 2022/03/12 19:32:10 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3919 2023/03/12 00:14:16 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,10 +46,338 @@ 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. +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 + + modify configure script check for pkg-config library directory to + take into account an older version 0.15.0 which used PKG_CONFIG_PATH + but not PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR + +20230121 + + correct limit-check when dumping tc/use clause via tic -I (report by + Gabriel Ravier). + + correct a check for manpage-alias in edit_man.sh, to work with out of + tree builds (report by Sven Joachim). + +20230114 + + change RV to XR/xr, to avoid conflict with pre-existing usage in vim, + to use RV/rv to denote DA2 and its response (discussion with Bram + Moolenaar) -TD + + add XF flag to xterm+focus so that termcap applications can be aware + of terminals which may support focus in/out -TD + + use xterm+focus in xterm-p370 and tmux -TD + + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings. + +20230107 + + add --with-abi-altered configure option (prompted by discussion with + Brian Inglis). + + add BSD erase2 to characters handled by tset/reset. + + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings. + + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221202 + + add RV report+version (suggested by Bram Moolenaar). + + add comment to bracketed+paste explaining that vim patch 9.0.1117 is + needed for use with the updated xterm descriptions (suggested by Bram + Moolenaar). + +20221231 6.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update release notes + + regenerate llib-* files. + + correct PS vs PE names in bracketed+paste (report by Bram Moolenaar) + -TD + +20221224 + + add mutex lock/unlock in a few places reported by thread-sanitizer + + add/use bracketed+paste to help identify terminals supporting this + xterm feature (prompted by discussion with Bram Moolenaar) -TD + +20221217 + + install Ada95 sample programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper + script to invoke those. + +20221210 + + add minimal -h/-V getopt logic to the remaining test-programs. + + free new_pair() data in delscreen (report by "magiblot"). + + add clarification of the scope of dynamic variables in terminfo(5). + + remove a stray '/' from description of %g in terminfo(5). + +20221203 + + add -h usage and -V version options to the test-programs which use + getopt. + + use "command -v" rather than "type" in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in to fix + a portability issue (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez). + + update ncurses-howto, more documentation fixes along with corrections + to example programs. + +20221126 + + fix an error in pathname of explain.txt (cf: 20200201). + + fix an error in "@" command in test/ncurses.c F-menu (cf: 20190121). + + improve formatting of ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html + + improve man/curs_clear.3x links to other pages + +20221119 + + use static libraries for AdaCurses test-package for Mageia, since no + gprbuild package is available. + + updated test packages for Debian. + +20221112 + + build-fixes for AdaCurses RPM test-package. + +20221105 + + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221009 + + modify "--with-manpage-format" to support bzip2 and xz compression + (prompted by discussion with Sam James). + + modify make-tar.sh scripts to make timestamps more predictable. + +20221029 + + improve curs_slk.3x discussion of extensions and portability (report + by Bill Gray). + +20221023 + + change man_db.renames to template, to handle ncurses*-config script + with the extra-suffix configure option. + +20221015 + + fix another memory-leak in tic. + + update install-sh script from autoconf, to fix install problem for + Ada95 with Arch; as noted in + https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-09/msg00005.html + there are unaddressed issues. + + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding GNU libc suffixes for abi64, abin32, + x32 (report by Sven Joachim): + + correct ifdef's for _nc_set_read_thread() (patch by Mikhail Korolev, + cf: 20220813). + +20221008 + + correct a switch-statement case in configure script to allow for test + builds with ABI=7. + + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to allow for the case where the library + directory does not yet exist, since this is processed before doing an + install (report by Michal Liszcz). + +20221001 + + modify configure/scripts to work around interference by GNU grep 3.8 + (report by Sam James). + + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding variants "gnueabi" and "gnueabihf" to + get _DEFAULT_SOURCE special case (report by Adam Sampson) + +20220924 + + modify configure macro CF_BUILD_CC to check if the build-compiler + works, rather than that it is different from the cross-compiler, e.g., + to accommodate a compiler which can be used for either purpose with + different flags (report by Mikhail Korolev). + + fix another memory-leak in tic. + + correct change for cppcheck in menu library (report/analysis by + "tuxway", cf: 20220903). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20220917 + + reduce memory-leak in tic by separating allocations for struct entry + from TERMTYPE2 (cf: 20220430). + + improve interaction between tic -v option and NCURSES_TRACE, by + processing the latter only when -v option does not set _nc_tracing. + + modify curses_trace() to show the trace-mask as symbols, e.g., + TRACE_ORDINARY, DEBUG_LEVEL(3). + +20220910 + + amend verbose-option change to make this affect level 3, e.g., using + "tic -cv3 terminfo". + + work around musl's nonstandard use of feature test macros by adding + a definition for NCURSES_WIDECHAR to the generated ".pc" and *-config + files (report by Sam James). + +20220903 + + modify verbose-option of infocmp, tic, toe to enable debug-tracing + if that is configured. + +20220827 + + modify configure scripts to use overlooked cases for LD and + PKG_CONFIG variables (report by Alan Webb, Gentoo #866398). + + modify nsterm to use xterm+alt1049 (report by Paul Handly) -TD + + modify putty to use xterm+alt1049 -TD + +20220820 + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++ + libraries and progs directory. + + add curses_trace to ifdef's for START_TRACE in test/test.priv.h + + update config.guess + +20220813 + + modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given + screen. + + amend portability note for delwin in manual page. + + adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray. + + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration + + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about + pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol. + + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c + +20220806 + + amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final + newline. + + check for non-textfiles to tic. + +20220729 + + fixes to build with dietlibc: + + add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner). + + add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock, + and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner). + + use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found + (adapted from patch by Georg Lehner). + + trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc + files seen in Fedora 36+. + +20220724 + + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual. + + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c + + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen + (Debian #1015756). + +20220716 + + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw. + + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck + + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke). + +20220709 + + lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the + pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries). + +20220703 + + add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities. + + use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and + response -TD + + use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably + supported the u6-u9 extension -TD + + add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD + +20220625 + + improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results + for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic). + + correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD + + add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD + +20220618 + + add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(), + needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521). + + revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to + smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD + + amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610, + att620, att730 -TD + +20220612 + + modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when + merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy). + + improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character. + +20220604 + + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x + + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD + + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD + +20220529 + + expanded notes for teken/syscons -TD + + fix overlooked copying of extended string-heap in copy_termtype + (cf: 20220430). + + update config.guess + +20220521 + + improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs. + + set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr(). + + modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to + copy_termtype(). + +20220514 + + further improvements to test/test_mouse.c; compare with ncurses test + program menu A/a. + +20220507 + + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov). + + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks. + +20220501 + + build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton). + +20220430 + + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and + also provide for focus in/out responses -TD + + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release + events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov). + + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo + syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'. + + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table + data rather than relying upon its callers. + + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure + it is initialized. + + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC. + + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp. + +20220423 + + in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402). + + fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir(). + + fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used. + +20220416 + + add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data + (report/testcase by NCNIPC of China). + + add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is + missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379). + + add setlocale call to several test-programs. + + allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on. + +20220409 + + add test/test_unget_wch.c + +20220402 + + amend extended_captype(), returning CANCEL if a string is explicitly + cancelled. + + make description-fields distinct -TD + +20220326 + + update teken -TD + + add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD + + add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD + +20220319 + + add xgterm -TD + + correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by + Robert Lange) + + add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) + + improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc. + 20220312 + add xterm+acs building-block -TD + add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD - + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per patch #371 -TD + + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per xterm patch #371 -TD + add mosh and mosh-256color -TD 20220305