X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=bd488acad62cbb0c2dc65f8c57612dca1e5d971a;hb=0eedaa5673ff8181abe51e3a6fadca3820f90c46;hp=08fdee8d6b52183600ef6a40751504f2436a4075;hpb=67ea6645053c80c6eea47a4ff6d9153da83ac2ac;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 08fdee8d..bd488aca 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 1.3831 2022/07/16 18:43:58 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4004 2023/09/23 23:48:03 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,423 @@ 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. +20230923 + + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + amend change to delscreen() to limit the windows which it creates to + just those associated with the screen (report by Frederic Boiteux, + cf: 20220813). + +20230918 + + new tarball/errata (report by Sven Joachim). + +20230917 + + improve formatting of manpages (integrated patches by Branden + Robinson). + + correct limit for name-length in write_entry.c (report/testcase by + Luna Saphie Mittelbach). + + limit delays to 30 seconds, i.e., padding delays in terminfo, as well + as napms() and delay_output() functions. + + improve a few pointer-checks. + + improve parsing in _nc_msec_cost, allowing a single decimal point. + +20230909 + + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson), for + captoinfo.1m and terminfo.5 + > patches by Nicholas Marriott: + + use string-hacks in alloc_entry.c, alloc_type.c and hardscroll.c, + overlooked due to compiler changes in recent OpenBSD releases. + + add "-6" option to ncu2openbsd script. + +20230902 + + improve description of search rules for terminal descriptions in + terminfo manpage (report by Sven Joachim). + +20230826 + + fixes for compiler-warnings. + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20230819 + + various manpage-formatting fixes. + + correct formatting of table header in curs_inopts.3x (Branden + Robinson). + + correct manpage description of panel_hidden (report by Benjamin + Mordaunt). + +20230812 + + add/use putty+cursor to reflect amending of modified cursor-keys in + 2021 -TD + + add ecma+strikeout to putty -TD + + add functions to query tty-flags in SCREEN (request by Bill Gray). + +20230805 + + fix a few manpages needing tbl marker, seen by lintian warning. + + fixes for compiler-warnings. + + minor grammatical fix for manpages (Branden Robinson). + +20230729 + + improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_wnstr(). + + modify MinGW configuration to provide for running in MSYS/MSYS2 + shells, assuming ConPTY support (patch by Pavel Fedin). + + add assignment in CF_MAN_PAGES to fill in value for TERMINFO_DIRS in + ncurses, terminfo and tic manpages (patch by Sven Joachim). + +20230722 + + add "auto" default for --with-xterm-kbs configure option. + +20230715 + + correct wadd_wch_literal() when adding a non-spacing character to a + double-width character. + + improve manual page for curs_util. + + improve manual page for wadd_wch(). + +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 + + 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 @@ -10862,7 +11279,7 @@ 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 @@ -11756,7 +12173,7 @@ 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