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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
42 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
50 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
53 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
54 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
55 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
56 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
57 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
58 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
59 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
60 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
61 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
62 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit
63 checks in some libraries.
64 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
65 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
66 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
67 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
70 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
71 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
72 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
73 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
77 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
80 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
81 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
82 over missing/cancelled values.
83 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
85 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
86 cancelled string capabilities.
87 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
88 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
89 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
90 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
91 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
92 as input (Redhat #1484274).
93 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
94 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
96 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
97 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
98 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
99 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
100 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
101 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
103 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
107 + update "iterm" entry -TD
108 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
109 + regenerate llib-* files.
110 + regenerate HTML manpages.
111 + improve picsmap test-program:
112 + reduce memory used for tsearch
113 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
114 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
116 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
117 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
118 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
119 + minor fixes to "RDGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
122 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
124 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
125 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
127 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
128 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
129 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
130 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
131 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
132 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
133 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
134 current screen is marked for clearing.
135 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
137 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
138 on demand up to the existing limit.
139 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
140 improve color_content().
141 + improve picsmap test-program:
142 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
143 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
144 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
145 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
146 + add "-l" option for logging
147 + add "-d" option for debugging
148 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
150 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
151 + update config.guess, config.sub from
152 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
155 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
156 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
157 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
158 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
160 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
161 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
162 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
163 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
164 parameters for a capability and the actual.
165 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
166 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
167 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
168 alternate character set is enabled.
169 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
170 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
171 tack for memory-leak checking.
172 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
173 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
174 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
175 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
176 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
177 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
178 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
179 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
180 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
181 extended capability arrays.
182 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
185 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
186 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
187 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
188 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
189 term-driver configuration.
190 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
191 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
192 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
193 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
194 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
195 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
198 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
199 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
200 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
201 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
203 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
204 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
207 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
208 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
211 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
212 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
213 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
214 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
215 configuration; none is needed.
216 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
217 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
218 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
219 not work (cf: 20160213).
220 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
221 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
222 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
223 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
224 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
225 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
226 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
227 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
228 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
229 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
230 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
231 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
232 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
233 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
234 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
235 (report by Allen Hewes).
238 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
239 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
240 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
241 (report by Allen Hewes).
242 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
243 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
244 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
245 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
246 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
247 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
248 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
249 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
250 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
253 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
254 (report by Allen Hewes).
255 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
256 to help with leak checking.
257 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
259 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
260 cannot be initialized.
263 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
264 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
265 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
268 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
270 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
271 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
272 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
273 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
274 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
277 + improved test/picsmap.c:
278 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
279 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
280 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
283 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
284 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
285 related files can be checked with lintian.
286 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
289 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
290 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
291 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
292 changed (cf: 20170311).
293 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
296 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
297 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
298 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
299 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
300 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
301 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
302 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
303 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
306 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
307 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
308 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
309 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
310 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
311 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
312 for better compatibility with other implementations.
313 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
314 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
315 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
316 + update config.guess, config.sub from
317 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
320 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
321 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
323 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
324 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
325 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
326 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
327 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
328 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
329 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
330 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
331 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
332 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
333 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
334 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
335 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
336 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
337 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
338 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
339 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
340 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
341 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
342 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
343 preference to "%02" on output.
344 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
345 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
346 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
349 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
350 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
351 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
353 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
354 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
355 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
356 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
357 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
358 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
361 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
363 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
364 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
365 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
369 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
370 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
371 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
372 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
373 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
374 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
375 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
376 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
377 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
379 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
380 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
381 calls to get original tty-modes.
382 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
383 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
385 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
386 reduce compiler warnings.
387 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
388 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
389 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
390 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
391 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
392 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
393 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
394 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
395 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
396 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
397 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
400 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
401 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
402 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
404 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
405 called (report by "Kau").
406 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
409 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
410 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
411 rather than using def_prog_mode().
412 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
413 externals that are used by tack.
414 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
415 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
416 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
418 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
419 + regenerate man-html documentation.
422 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
423 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
424 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
425 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
426 terminal emulators -TD
427 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
429 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
430 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
431 8-bit limit on colors
432 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
433 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
434 free_pair() functions
435 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
438 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
439 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
440 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
441 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
443 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
446 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
449 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
450 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
451 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
452 treated as only absent.
453 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
454 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
455 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
458 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
459 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
460 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
461 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
462 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
463 --enable-sp-funcs option.
464 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
465 without modifying API/ABI.
466 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
467 similar options for the other libraries.
470 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
472 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
473 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
474 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
475 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
476 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
477 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
478 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
479 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
482 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
483 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
484 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
485 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
486 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
487 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
488 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
491 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
492 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
493 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
494 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
495 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
496 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
497 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
499 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
500 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
503 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
504 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
505 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
506 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
507 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
511 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
512 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
513 either reset- or init-strings.
514 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
515 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
516 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
517 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
518 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
519 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
520 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
521 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
522 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
523 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
524 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
525 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
528 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
529 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
530 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
531 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
532 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
533 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
534 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
535 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
537 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
538 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
539 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
540 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
542 + update config.guess, config.sub from
543 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
546 + correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
547 (patch by Leon Winter).
548 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
549 patch by Mihail Konev).
550 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
551 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
555 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
556 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
557 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
558 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
559 did not work after changes in 20130112.
562 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
563 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
564 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
565 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
566 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
567 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
569 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
572 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
573 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
576 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
578 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
579 reverse-video control -TD
580 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
581 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
582 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
583 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
584 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
585 video escape without using a delay.
586 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
587 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
591 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
592 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
593 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
594 by various discussions including
595 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
598 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
599 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
600 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
601 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
604 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
605 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
608 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
611 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
612 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
613 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
614 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
615 not optional in tput.
616 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
617 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
618 for transformed names.
619 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
620 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
623 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
624 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
625 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
626 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
628 + regenerate llib-* files.
629 + regenerate HTML manpages.
630 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
633 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
634 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
635 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
638 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
639 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
641 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
642 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
645 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
646 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
647 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
650 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
651 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
654 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
656 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
657 page (patch by Leon Winter).
658 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
659 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
660 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
661 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
662 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
665 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
667 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
668 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
670 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
671 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
672 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
673 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
677 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
679 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
681 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
682 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
683 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
684 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
685 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
686 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
687 + update config.guess, config.sub from
688 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
691 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
692 modes by sharing functions with tset.
693 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
694 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
695 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
696 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
698 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
701 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
702 handle a case of "configure && make install".
703 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
704 in sed (Debian #818067).
707 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
708 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
709 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
710 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
712 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
713 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
717 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
718 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
719 output or error are redirected.
720 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
724 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
725 redirected to a file or pipe.
726 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
729 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
731 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
732 for special keys, based on xterm.
735 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters areg given.
738 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
739 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
740 work (report by Sven Joachim).
743 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
744 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
745 to make it more readable.
748 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
749 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
750 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
751 better testing of function-keys.
752 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
753 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
754 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
755 that could be returned -TD
756 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
759 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
760 + add test/list_keys.c
763 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
764 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
767 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
768 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
769 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
770 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
771 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
772 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
773 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
774 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
775 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
776 cannot combine -c and -o options.
779 + regenerate HTML manpages.
780 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
781 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
782 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
783 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
784 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
785 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
788 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
789 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
791 + modify test/ncurses.c:
792 + check return-value of putwin
793 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
794 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
795 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
798 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
799 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
800 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
801 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
805 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
806 PIC builds documented in
807 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
808 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
809 due to program-transformation configure options.
810 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
813 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
814 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
817 + regenerate HTML manpages.
818 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
822 + regenerate HTML manpages.
823 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
824 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
825 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
826 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
827 can handle the event.
830 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
831 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
832 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
833 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
836 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
837 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
838 as responding to window size-changes.
841 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
842 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
845 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
846 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
847 in case weak symbols are used.
848 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
849 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
851 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
852 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
853 + update config.guess, config.sub from
854 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
857 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
858 in threaded configuration.
859 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
860 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
863 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
864 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
865 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
869 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
870 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
871 unwanted blank lines.
874 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
875 (report by Corey Minyard).
876 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
879 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
880 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
881 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
882 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
884 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
885 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
886 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
888 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
889 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
892 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
893 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
894 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
895 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
898 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
899 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
900 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
903 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
905 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
907 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
908 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
911 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
912 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
913 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
914 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
915 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
916 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
917 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
918 drawing characters as double-width.
921 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
922 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
923 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
924 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
925 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
926 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
927 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
928 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
932 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
934 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
936 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
937 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
938 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
939 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
940 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
943 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
944 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
945 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
946 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
949 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
950 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
951 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
952 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
953 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
955 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
956 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
957 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
958 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
959 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
962 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
963 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
964 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
965 install time (cf: 20150822).
966 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
967 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
968 empty "local" section.
969 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
970 to incorrect attribute-masking.
973 + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
974 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
975 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
976 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
977 did not display well.
978 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
979 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
980 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
981 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
982 Normand, Novell #946048).
983 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
984 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
985 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
986 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
987 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
988 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
990 + update config.guess, config.sub from
991 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
994 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
995 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
996 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
997 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
998 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
999 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
1000 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
1001 + support building with libtool on OS/2
1002 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
1003 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
1006 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
1007 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
1008 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
1009 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
1011 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
1012 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
1013 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
1016 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
1018 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
1019 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
1022 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
1024 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
1025 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
1026 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
1027 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1030 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
1032 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
1033 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
1034 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
1035 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
1036 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
1037 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
1039 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
1042 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
1044 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
1045 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
1046 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
1048 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
1049 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
1052 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
1054 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
1055 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
1056 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
1057 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
1058 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
1062 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
1063 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
1064 + update release notes in INSTALL.
1065 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
1068 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
1069 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
1070 http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
1072 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1075 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
1076 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
1077 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
1078 more than 200 snapshots.
1079 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
1083 + updated llib-* files.
1084 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
1085 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
1087 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1088 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
1089 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
1090 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
1091 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
1092 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
1093 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
1096 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
1097 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
1098 curs_initscr.3x page.
1099 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
1100 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
1101 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
1103 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
1104 e.g., ncursestw library.
1107 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
1108 configuration of ncurses6.
1109 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
1110 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
1111 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
1112 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
1113 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1116 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
1117 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
1118 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
1121 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
1123 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
1124 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
1125 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
1126 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
1127 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
1128 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
1129 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
1130 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
1131 setupterm and restartterm functions.
1132 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
1133 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
1134 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
1138 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
1139 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
1140 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
1141 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
1142 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
1143 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
1144 discussion with Sven Joachim).
1145 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1147 20150606 pre-release
1148 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
1149 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
1150 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
1151 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
1152 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
1153 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
1154 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
1155 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
1156 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
1157 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
1158 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
1159 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
1160 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
1161 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
1164 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
1165 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
1166 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
1167 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
1168 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
1169 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
1170 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
1171 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
1174 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
1175 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
1176 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
1177 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
1178 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
1180 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
1181 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
1184 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
1185 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
1186 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
1187 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
1189 + regenerate html manpages.
1190 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
1191 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
1192 Stack Overflow forum):
1195 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
1196 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
1197 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
1198 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
1199 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
1203 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
1204 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
1205 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
1206 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
1207 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
1209 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
1210 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1211 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
1212 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
1213 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
1214 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
1216 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
1217 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
1218 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
1219 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
1220 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
1221 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
1223 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
1224 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
1226 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
1227 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
1229 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
1230 the ncurses library aside from headers.
1231 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
1232 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
1233 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
1234 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
1235 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1236 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1239 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
1240 (report by Todd M Lewis).
1241 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
1242 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
1243 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
1244 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
1245 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
1246 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
1248 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1249 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
1250 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1251 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
1252 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
1253 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
1254 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
1257 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
1258 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
1259 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
1260 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
1261 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
1262 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
1263 with the shared libraries.
1264 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
1265 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
1266 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
1267 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
1268 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
1269 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
1270 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
1271 inherit into new windows.
1274 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
1275 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
1276 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
1277 readonly text segment.
1280 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
1281 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
1284 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
1285 the extended putwin/getwin.
1286 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
1288 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
1292 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
1293 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
1294 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
1295 for a magic code at the beginning:
1296 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
1299 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
1301 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
1302 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
1305 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
1306 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
1307 (report by Grady Martin).
1310 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
1311 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
1312 the wide-character libraries.
1313 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
1315 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
1316 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
1319 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
1320 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
1321 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
1325 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
1326 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
1329 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
1330 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
1331 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
1332 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
1333 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
1336 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
1337 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
1338 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
1341 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
1342 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
1343 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
1345 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
1346 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
1347 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
1348 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
1349 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
1350 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
1351 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
1352 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
1353 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
1354 (report by Pavel Balaev).
1357 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
1358 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
1359 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
1360 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
1361 variations in ABI 6.
1364 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
1365 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
1369 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
1373 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
1374 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
1375 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
1376 the ABI 5 libraries.
1377 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
1378 regenerate html-manpages.
1381 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
1382 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
1384 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
1385 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
1386 package for ncurses6.
1387 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
1388 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
1389 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
1390 in the corresponding ".map" files.
1391 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
1392 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
1396 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
1397 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
1398 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
1399 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
1400 gcc introduced here:
1401 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
1402 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
1403 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
1404 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
1407 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
1408 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
1409 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
1410 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
1411 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
1414 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
1415 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
1416 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
1417 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
1418 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
1419 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
1420 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
1424 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
1425 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
1429 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
1430 msys2 configuration.
1433 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
1434 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
1435 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
1436 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
1437 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
1439 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
1440 (report by Mike Gran).
1443 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
1444 demonstration of its limitations.
1445 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
1446 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
1447 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
1448 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
1449 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
1450 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
1451 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
1453 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
1454 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
1457 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
1458 + implement flash in win_driver.c
1459 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
1461 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
1462 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
1463 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
1464 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
1465 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
1466 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
1467 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
1468 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
1471 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
1472 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
1473 some older cross-compiler environments.
1474 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
1475 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
1476 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
1477 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
1478 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
1479 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
1480 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
1481 + update config.sub from
1482 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1485 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
1486 C++ cross-compilers.
1487 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
1490 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
1492 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
1495 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
1496 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
1497 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
1500 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
1501 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
1505 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
1506 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
1507 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
1510 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
1511 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
1512 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
1513 + regenerated html manpages.
1514 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
1515 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
1516 which reverses cause/effect.
1517 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
1518 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
1519 + fixes for win_driver.c:
1520 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
1525 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
1526 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
1527 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
1528 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
1530 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
1531 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
1532 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
1533 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
1537 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
1538 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
1539 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
1540 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
1541 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
1542 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
1543 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
1544 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
1545 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
1548 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
1549 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
1550 options, from xterm changes.
1553 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
1554 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
1558 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
1559 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
1562 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
1563 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
1564 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
1565 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
1566 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
1567 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
1568 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
1571 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
1572 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
1573 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
1574 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
1575 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
1576 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
1577 providing directly comparable screens.
1578 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
1581 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
1583 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
1584 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
1585 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
1586 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
1587 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
1588 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
1589 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
1592 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
1593 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1594 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
1595 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
1596 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
1599 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
1600 overlap with sgr functionality.
1601 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
1602 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
1603 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
1604 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
1605 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
1606 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
1607 older ncurses than 20131207.
1608 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
1609 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
1610 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
1611 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
1612 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
1615 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
1616 environment variable.
1617 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
1618 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
1619 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
1620 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
1621 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
1622 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
1623 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
1624 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
1625 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
1626 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
1627 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
1628 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
1629 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
1630 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
1632 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
1634 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
1635 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
1636 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
1638 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
1639 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
1640 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
1641 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
1642 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
1643 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
1644 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
1646 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
1648 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
1649 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
1650 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
1651 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
1652 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
1653 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
1654 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
1655 to be consecutive anyway.
1656 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
1657 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
1658 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
1659 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
1662 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
1663 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
1664 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
1667 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
1668 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
1669 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
1670 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1673 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
1675 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
1676 simplify later merging:
1677 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
1678 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
1679 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
1680 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
1681 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
1685 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1686 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1689 + modify configure script:
1690 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
1691 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
1692 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
1693 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
1694 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
1695 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
1696 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
1697 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
1698 "#win32console", and
1699 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
1700 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
1703 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
1704 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
1705 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
1706 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
1707 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
1708 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
1712 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1715 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
1716 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
1717 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
1718 + add terminology entry -TD
1719 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
1720 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
1723 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
1724 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
1725 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
1726 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
1727 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
1731 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
1732 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
1733 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
1734 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
1735 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
1738 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
1741 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
1742 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
1743 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
1747 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
1748 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
1749 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
1750 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
1751 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
1752 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
1754 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
1755 html emitted by docbook.
1758 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
1759 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
1760 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
1761 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
1764 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
1765 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
1766 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
1767 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
1768 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1769 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
1772 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
1773 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
1774 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
1775 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1778 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
1779 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
1782 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
1784 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
1787 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
1788 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
1789 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
1790 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
1792 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
1794 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
1795 + updated llib-l* files.
1798 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
1799 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
1803 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
1804 recognized by clang.
1807 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1808 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
1809 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
1810 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
1811 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
1812 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
1813 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
1814 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
1815 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
1816 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
1817 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
1818 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
1820 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
1822 + update config.sub from
1823 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1826 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
1829 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
1830 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1831 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
1832 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
1834 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
1837 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
1838 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
1839 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
1840 them more consistent with other packages.
1843 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
1844 compiling ncurses-examples.
1845 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
1848 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
1851 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
1852 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
1853 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
1854 cross-compiles to MinGW.
1855 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
1859 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
1860 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
1864 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
1865 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
1867 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
1869 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
1870 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
1871 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
1872 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
1873 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
1876 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
1877 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
1878 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
1881 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
1883 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
1884 before/after Debian #700177.
1885 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
1886 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
1888 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
1889 of sort, improving portability.
1890 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
1891 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1892 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1895 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
1896 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
1898 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
1899 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
1900 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
1903 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
1904 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
1905 introduced by Debian #700177.
1906 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
1907 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
1910 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
1911 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
1913 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
1914 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
1915 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
1918 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
1919 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
1921 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
1922 cross-compile support packages.
1923 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
1926 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
1927 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
1928 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
1929 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
1930 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
1931 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
1932 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
1933 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
1934 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
1935 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
1936 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
1937 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
1940 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
1941 initialization of cur_term.
1944 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
1945 + minor compiler-warning fixes
1948 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
1949 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
1950 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
1951 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
1952 --enable-auto-import flag.
1953 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
1957 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
1958 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
1959 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
1960 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
1961 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
1963 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
1964 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
1965 (patch by Eric Raymond).
1968 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
1969 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
1970 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
1972 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
1973 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
1974 not printing the full pathname of the program.
1975 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
1976 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
1977 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
1980 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
1981 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
1983 + add test/dots_termcap.c
1984 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
1985 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
1986 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
1987 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
1988 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
1989 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
1990 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
1991 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
1992 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
1994 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
1995 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
1998 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
1999 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
2000 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
2001 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
2002 the left margin of the display.
2003 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
2004 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
2005 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
2006 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
2009 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
2010 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
2011 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
2012 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
2013 + regenerated html manpages.
2014 + update doctype used for html documentation.
2017 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
2018 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
2019 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
2020 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
2021 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
2022 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
2025 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2026 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
2027 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
2028 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
2029 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
2032 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
2033 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
2036 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
2037 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
2038 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2039 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
2040 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
2042 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
2043 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2044 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
2045 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2048 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
2049 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
2050 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
2051 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
2053 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
2055 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
2057 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
2060 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
2064 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
2065 (report by Christian Ebert).
2066 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
2067 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
2068 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
2071 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
2072 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
2073 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
2074 add bold for consistency with sgr,
2075 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
2076 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
2077 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
2078 by Benjamin Sittler)
2079 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
2080 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
2081 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
2082 line split after "%;".
2083 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
2084 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
2087 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
2088 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
2089 + regenerated html manpages.
2090 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
2091 + updated some autoconf macros:
2092 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
2093 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
2094 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
2095 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
2096 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
2097 configuration (Redhat #911540).
2098 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
2099 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
2102 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
2103 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
2105 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
2106 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
2108 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
2109 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
2110 of raw input in MinGW port.
2113 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
2114 + update config.guess, config.sub
2117 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
2119 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
2121 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
2122 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
2123 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
2124 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
2125 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2126 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
2127 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
2129 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
2130 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
2133 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
2134 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
2136 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
2137 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
2138 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
2141 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
2142 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
2143 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
2146 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
2147 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
2148 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
2149 help reduce flicker.
2150 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
2151 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
2152 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
2153 by Dennis Grevenstein).
2154 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
2155 Dennis Grevenstein).
2156 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
2157 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
2158 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
2161 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2162 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
2163 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
2164 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
2165 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
2166 + improve error-checking in copywin
2167 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
2168 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
2169 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
2170 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
2171 matching capability names.
2172 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
2173 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
2174 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
2177 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
2178 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
2179 are unused in the current driver model.
2180 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
2182 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
2183 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
2184 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
2185 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
2188 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
2189 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
2191 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
2192 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
2193 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
2194 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
2195 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
2198 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
2199 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
2200 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
2204 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
2206 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
2207 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
2209 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
2210 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
2211 wide-character which can be used.
2214 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
2215 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
2216 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
2217 by Erwin Waterlander).
2218 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
2219 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2220 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
2221 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
2222 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
2223 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
2227 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
2228 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
2229 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
2230 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
2231 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
2232 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2233 + remove a few redundant checks.
2234 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
2236 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
2237 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
2238 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
2239 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
2241 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
2242 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
2243 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
2247 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
2248 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
2249 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
2253 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
2254 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
2255 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2256 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
2259 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2260 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
2261 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
2262 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
2263 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
2264 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
2265 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
2266 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
2268 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
2269 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
2270 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
2271 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
2274 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
2275 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
2276 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
2278 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
2279 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
2280 libraries or executables.
2283 + realign these related pages:
2288 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
2289 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
2290 (report by Reuben Thomas).
2291 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
2292 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
2293 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
2294 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
2295 based on testing with tack -TD
2296 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
2297 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
2300 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
2302 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
2303 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
2304 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
2307 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
2311 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
2312 (patch by Christian Persch).
2315 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
2317 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
2318 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
2319 has used that for a while.
2320 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
2321 for experimental use.
2322 + remove unused configure macros.
2323 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
2324 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
2325 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
2326 + update config.guess, config.sub
2329 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
2330 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
2331 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
2332 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
2333 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
2334 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
2335 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
2338 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
2339 to help with MinGW port.
2342 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
2344 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
2347 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
2350 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
2351 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
2352 might not be allocated.
2353 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
2356 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
2357 initial screen-sizes.
2358 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
2359 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
2363 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
2364 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
2368 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
2369 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
2370 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
2372 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
2373 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
2376 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
2377 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
2378 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
2379 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
2380 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
2381 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
2382 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
2386 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
2387 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2388 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
2389 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
2390 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
2391 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
2392 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
2393 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
2397 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
2398 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
2399 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
2400 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
2401 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
2402 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
2405 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
2409 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
2411 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
2413 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
2414 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
2415 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
2416 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
2417 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
2418 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
2421 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
2423 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
2424 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
2425 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
2427 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
2428 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
2431 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
2432 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
2433 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
2436 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
2437 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
2439 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
2440 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
2442 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
2443 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
2446 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
2448 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
2449 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
2450 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
2451 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
2452 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
2453 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
2456 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
2457 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
2458 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
2459 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
2460 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
2461 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
2462 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
2463 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
2464 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
2466 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
2467 analysis by Martin Husemann).
2468 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
2469 Onno van der Linden).
2472 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
2474 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
2476 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
2477 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
2480 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
2481 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
2482 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
2483 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
2484 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
2485 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
2486 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
2489 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
2490 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
2491 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
2492 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
2493 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
2494 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
2495 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
2496 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
2497 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
2498 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
2499 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
2500 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
2501 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
2502 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
2503 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
2506 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
2507 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
2508 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
2509 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
2510 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
2511 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
2512 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
2513 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
2514 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
2515 are interpreted as key definitions.
2516 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
2517 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
2521 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
2522 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
2523 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
2524 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
2525 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
2526 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
2527 as building-blocks -TD
2528 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
2531 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
2532 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
2533 title is a status-line. -TD
2534 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
2535 of ordering and overrides -TD
2536 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
2537 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
2538 used in that file -TD
2541 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
2542 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
2543 definable capabilities.
2544 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
2545 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
2546 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
2547 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
2548 embedded in the description.
2549 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
2550 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
2551 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
2552 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
2553 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
2554 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
2557 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
2558 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
2559 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
2560 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
2561 Nicolas Boulenguez).
2562 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
2563 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
2564 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2567 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
2568 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
2569 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
2570 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
2571 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
2572 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
2575 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
2576 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
2577 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
2579 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
2580 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
2581 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
2582 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
2585 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
2586 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
2587 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
2590 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
2591 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
2592 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
2594 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
2595 calls to setupterm().
2596 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
2598 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
2599 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
2600 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
2602 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
2606 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
2609 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
2611 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
2612 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
2613 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
2614 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
2615 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
2616 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
2618 + update config.guess, config.sub
2621 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
2622 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
2623 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
2624 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
2625 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
2626 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
2627 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
2628 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
2629 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
2632 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
2633 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
2634 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
2635 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
2636 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
2637 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
2638 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
2639 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
2640 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
2641 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
2642 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
2643 Linux versus most other systems.
2646 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
2650 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
2651 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
2652 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
2653 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
2654 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
2655 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
2656 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
2657 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
2658 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
2659 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
2660 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
2661 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
2662 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
2663 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
2666 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
2668 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
2670 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
2671 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
2672 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
2673 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
2676 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
2678 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
2679 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
2680 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
2681 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
2682 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
2684 + regenerated html manpages.
2687 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
2688 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
2689 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
2690 + change recommended regular expression library.
2691 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
2692 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
2695 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
2696 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
2697 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
2698 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
2699 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
2700 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
2701 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
2705 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
2706 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
2708 + add putty-sco entry -TD
2711 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
2713 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
2715 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
2716 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
2717 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
2719 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
2721 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
2724 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
2725 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
2726 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
2727 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
2729 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
2730 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
2731 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
2734 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
2735 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
2737 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
2740 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
2742 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
2744 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
2746 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
2747 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
2748 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
2749 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2750 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
2751 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
2752 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
2755 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
2756 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
2758 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
2759 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
2760 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
2761 database (cf: 20111001).
2764 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
2765 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
2766 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
2768 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
2769 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
2771 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
2772 in older FreeBSD machines.
2773 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
2774 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
2775 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
2778 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
2779 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
2780 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
2781 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
2782 root's home directory.
2783 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
2784 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
2785 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
2786 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
2787 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
2789 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
2790 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
2791 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
2792 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
2793 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
2794 (report by Peter Kruse).
2797 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
2798 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
2800 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
2802 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
2803 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
2804 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
2807 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
2808 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
2809 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
2810 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
2811 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
2812 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
2815 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
2816 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
2817 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
2818 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
2819 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
2822 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
2823 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
2824 input and output of termcap source.
2825 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
2826 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
2827 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
2828 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
2829 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
2830 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
2831 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
2832 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
2833 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
2836 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
2839 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
2841 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
2842 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
2843 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
2844 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
2846 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
2849 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
2850 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
2852 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
2853 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
2856 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
2857 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
2859 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
2860 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
2862 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
2863 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
2864 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
2865 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
2867 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
2868 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
2869 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
2870 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
2872 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
2873 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
2876 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
2877 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
2878 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
2879 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
2882 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
2883 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
2884 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
2885 + add terminator entry -TD
2886 + add simpleterm entry -TD
2887 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
2888 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
2892 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
2893 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
2894 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
2895 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
2896 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
2897 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
2898 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
2899 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
2900 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
2901 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
2905 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
2906 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
2907 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
2908 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
2909 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
2910 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
2912 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
2913 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
2914 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
2916 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
2919 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
2920 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
2921 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
2922 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
2924 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
2925 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
2927 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
2928 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
2929 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
2930 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
2931 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
2932 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
2933 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
2934 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
2936 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
2937 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
2939 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
2940 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
2941 tctest (cf: 19991211).
2942 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
2943 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
2944 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
2945 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
2946 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
2947 translating to termcap.
2948 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
2949 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
2952 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
2953 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
2954 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
2955 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
2956 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
2957 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
2959 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
2960 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
2961 regarding Schilling's test program):
2962 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
2963 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
2964 + use \040 rather than \s
2965 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
2966 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
2969 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
2970 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
2971 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
2972 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2973 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
2974 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
2975 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
2976 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
2977 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
2978 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
2979 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
2980 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
2983 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
2984 are not used in the $CC variable.
2985 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
2986 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
2987 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
2988 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
2989 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
2990 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2993 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
2994 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
2998 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
2999 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
3000 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
3001 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
3002 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
3004 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
3005 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
3007 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
3010 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
3011 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
3014 + fixes for MirBSD port:
3015 + set default prefix to /usr.
3016 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
3017 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
3018 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
3019 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
3022 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
3023 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
3024 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
3025 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
3027 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
3028 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
3032 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
3035 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
3036 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
3037 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
3039 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
3040 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
3041 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
3042 help work around weak-symbol issues.
3045 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
3046 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
3047 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
3048 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
3049 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
3050 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
3051 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
3052 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
3053 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
3054 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
3055 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
3058 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
3059 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
3061 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
3062 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
3063 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
3064 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3067 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
3068 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
3069 as different types on some Unix systems.
3070 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
3071 function pointer passed to tputs().
3072 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
3073 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
3074 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
3075 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
3078 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
3079 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3080 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
3081 + update config.guess, config.sub
3084 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
3086 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
3087 some ncurses packages.
3088 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
3089 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
3090 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
3092 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3095 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
3096 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
3097 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
3098 the in-tree build of sample programs.
3099 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
3100 needed for rpm script.
3101 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
3102 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
3103 options if building a shared library with gnat.
3106 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
3107 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
3108 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
3109 that sample program.
3110 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
3111 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
3112 which were added in 5.7 and later.
3113 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
3117 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
3119 + regen Ada html documentation.
3120 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
3121 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
3123 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
3125 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
3126 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
3127 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
3128 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
3129 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
3130 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
3132 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3133 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
3135 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
3136 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
3139 + regen Ada html documentation.
3140 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
3141 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
3143 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
3144 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
3145 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
3146 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3147 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
3148 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
3149 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
3150 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
3151 thread in comp.lang.ada).
3152 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
3153 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
3154 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3155 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
3156 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
3157 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
3158 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
3159 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
3160 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
3161 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
3164 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
3165 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3166 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
3168 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
3170 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
3171 explain.txt is not found.
3174 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3175 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
3176 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3177 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
3178 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
3180 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3183 + update release notes, for 5.8.
3184 + regenerated html manpages.
3185 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
3187 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
3188 a new install of hashed database.
3189 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
3192 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
3193 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
3194 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
3195 wide-character configuration.
3196 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
3197 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
3200 + regenerated html manpages.
3201 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
3202 special case of trace configuration.
3205 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
3206 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
3207 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
3208 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
3209 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
3213 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
3214 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
3215 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
3216 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
3217 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
3219 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
3220 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
3223 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
3224 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
3225 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
3226 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3227 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3228 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
3229 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
3230 file configuration if that is used.
3231 + update config.guess, config.sub
3234 + regenerated html manpages.
3235 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
3237 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3238 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
3241 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
3242 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
3245 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
3246 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
3247 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3250 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
3252 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
3253 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
3254 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
3255 wide-character configuration.
3256 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
3257 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
3258 referred to quitting with 'q'.
3261 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
3262 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
3263 version which works with termcap.
3264 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
3265 (request by Sven Joachim).
3266 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
3267 (report by Sven Joachim).
3270 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
3271 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
3272 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
3275 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
3277 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
3278 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
3281 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
3283 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
3284 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
3285 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
3286 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
3287 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
3288 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
3292 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
3293 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
3294 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
3296 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
3299 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
3301 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
3305 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
3307 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
3308 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
3309 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
3310 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
3311 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
3312 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
3313 tree (report by Werner Fink).
3314 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
3315 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
3316 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
3317 (report by John P. Hartmann)
3318 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
3321 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
3322 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
3323 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
3324 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
3325 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
3326 external package "cindent".
3329 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
3330 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
3331 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
3332 inconsistent printer-controls.
3333 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
3334 form is available -TD
3335 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
3337 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
3339 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
3340 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3341 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
3342 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
3343 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
3345 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
3346 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
3350 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
3351 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
3352 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
3353 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3354 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
3356 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
3359 + regenerated html manpages.
3360 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
3361 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
3362 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
3365 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
3367 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3368 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
3369 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
3370 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
3374 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
3375 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
3378 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
3379 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
3380 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
3381 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
3382 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
3383 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
3384 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
3388 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
3389 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
3390 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
3391 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
3392 by Tim van der Molen).
3393 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
3394 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
3395 library configuration.
3396 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
3397 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
3398 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
3401 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
3403 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
3404 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
3405 e.g., for cross-compiling.
3406 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
3407 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
3410 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
3411 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
3412 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
3413 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
3414 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
3415 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
3416 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in