X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e598e3eadb705fa4c2fe32c991c2aaf9856bb5a1;hb=d90067f9008bb8338a77c1ed519bc108c275ed04;hp=0021d964d7590610fdbbffc149811e170afea81b;hpb=bcf02d3242f1c7d57224a95f7903fcf4b5e7695d;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0021d964..e598e3ea 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3964 2023/06/15 11:35:35 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4053 2023/12/17 23:18:40 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,204 @@ 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. +20231217 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean + is unset in a base entry and set in a use'd chunk, i.e., if it was + cancelled. + + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which + were already cancelled in a use'd chunk. + + join two lines in infotocap.3x to eliminate a spurious "description" + link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim). + + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim). + +20231209 + + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels in use'd chunks + which are not mentioned in the top-level terminal description. + + remove xterm+sm+1006 from tmux (Debian #1057688). + + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD + + updated man/edit_man.sh to allow for "\%" markers embedded after + bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057651). + + reduce compiler-warnings in configure checks + +20231202 + + correct initial alignment of extended capabilities in infocmp, so + that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types. + + improve formatting/style of manpages, changing environment variables + to italics (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20231125 + + add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1 + (patch by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering + (patches by Branden Robinson). + + modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values + (report by Branden Robinson). + +20231121 + + amend fix for Debian #1055882, correcting nul terminator check in + waddnstr (Debian #1056340). + +20231118 + + improve description of length-parameter and error-returns in several + manpages: curs_addchstr.3x, curs_addstr.3x, curs_addwstr.3x, + curs_in_wch.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x, curs_inchstr.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x, + curs_insstr.3x, curs_instr.3x, curs_inwstr.3x + + amend parameter check for entire string versus specific length in + winsnstr() and wins_nwstr() to match Solaris. + + make similar correction to wins_nwstr(). + + correct loop termination condition in waddnstr() and waddnwstr() + (Debian #1055882, cf: 20201205). + +20231111 + + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD + + add limit checks in infocmp needed when processing extended + capabilities with the "-u" option. + + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages. + + fix a few compiler warnings for Solaris 10. + + modify endwin() to return an error if it is called again without an + intervening screen update (report by Rajeev Pillai, NetBSD #57592). + +20231104 + + modify reset command to avoid altering clocal if the terminal uses a + modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek, + OpenSUSE #1201384, Debian #60377). + + build-fixes for --with-caps variations. + + correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL. + +20231028 + + move xterm focus mode 1004 from xterm+sm+1006 into xterm+focus as + fe/fd capabilities, like vim (vim-pr #13440). + + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make "libdir" the default, + as documented, rather than "auto" (report by Branden Robinson). + + improve messages from configure script (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20231021 + + use oldxterm+sm+1006 in vte-2014 (report by Benno Schulenberg) -TD + + add ansi+apparrows -TD + + change defaults for configure opaque and widec options (prompted by + discussion with Branden Robinson). + + minor cleanup of compiler- and manpage-warnings. + +20231016 + + make the recent change to setupterm optional "--enable-check-size" + (Debian #1054022). + +20231014 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, for uClibc-ng + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20231007 + + improve loop-limit for get_position(). + + improve manual description of immedok (Debian #1053603). + + fix a few formatting issues with manpages (Debian #1053123). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20231001 + + modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in + user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither + environment variables or ioctl is used. The ncurses test-program + with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature. + + improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates. + + fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by + copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott). + +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 @@ -5451,7 +5649,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. function pointer passed to tputs(). + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095). - + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate + + modify test/background.c, adding command-line options to demonstrate assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors(). 20110416 @@ -11186,7 +11384,7 @@ 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 @@ -12080,7 +12278,7 @@ 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