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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 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
50 + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
51 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
52 character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
53 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
54 + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
55 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
56 output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
57 + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
58 implementations of sysconf().
61 + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
63 + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
65 + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
68 + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
69 terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
70 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
72 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
73 toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
74 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
78 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
79 + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
80 + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
81 install (Debian #903790):
82 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
84 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
85 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
86 in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
89 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
90 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
91 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
92 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
95 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
96 + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
97 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
100 + build-fixes for gcc8.
101 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
102 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
103 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
106 + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
107 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
110 + build-fixes for gcc8.
111 + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
113 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
114 empty (Debian #902630).
117 + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
118 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
119 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
121 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
122 + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
124 + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
127 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
128 to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
129 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
130 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
131 updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
132 CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
134 + update config.guess, config.sub from
135 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
138 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
139 + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
140 combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
141 + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
142 use of vsscanf and setenv.
143 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
147 + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
148 to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
150 + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
151 and vw_scanw, respectively.
154 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
155 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
158 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
159 + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
160 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
162 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
163 + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
164 work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
167 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
168 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
169 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
170 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
171 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
172 + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
173 for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
176 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
177 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
178 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
181 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
183 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
184 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
185 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
186 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
187 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
188 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
189 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
190 for escaping regular expressions.
193 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
195 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
196 (report by Leon Winter).
197 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
198 unfocus_current_field (form);
199 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
200 (patch by Leon Winter).
203 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
204 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
205 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
206 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
207 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
208 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
209 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
210 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
213 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
214 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
215 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
216 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
217 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
218 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
219 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
220 values, e.g., keyname().
223 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
224 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
225 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
228 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
229 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
230 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
231 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
232 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
235 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
237 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
238 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
239 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
240 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
241 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
245 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
246 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
247 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
248 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
249 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
250 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
251 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
252 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
253 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
254 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
255 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
256 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
257 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
258 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
259 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
262 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
263 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
264 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
265 compounded by repair in 20180121.
266 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
267 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
268 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
271 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
272 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
273 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
274 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
275 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
278 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
279 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
280 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
281 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
282 was needed, was standardized long ago.
283 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
284 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
285 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
289 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
290 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
291 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
292 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
293 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
296 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
298 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
301 + updated release notes
302 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
303 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
305 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
307 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
308 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
309 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
310 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
311 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
312 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
313 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
314 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
315 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
316 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
317 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
318 + add iterm2-direct -TD
319 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
320 + add mlterm-direct -TD
321 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
325 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
326 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
327 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
329 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
330 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
331 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
332 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
333 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
334 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
335 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
336 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
337 direct-colors are wanted -TD
339 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
341 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
342 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
343 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
344 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
345 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
346 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
347 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
348 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
350 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
351 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
352 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
353 ncurses library work as expected.
354 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
355 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
356 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
357 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
358 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
359 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
360 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
361 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
362 wide-character configuration to 32768.
365 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
366 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
367 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
368 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
369 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
370 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
372 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
375 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
376 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
378 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
379 as possible default values.
380 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
381 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
382 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
383 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
384 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
385 configured to access it via weak symbols.
386 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
387 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
389 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
390 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
391 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
392 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
393 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
394 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
395 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
396 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
399 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
400 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
401 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
402 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
403 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
404 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
405 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
407 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
408 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
411 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
413 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
414 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
415 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
416 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
417 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
418 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
420 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
423 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
424 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
425 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
426 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
429 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
430 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
431 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
433 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
434 function in link_test.c
435 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
436 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
437 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
438 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
439 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
442 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
444 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
445 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
446 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
447 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
448 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
449 + it lacks the use_env() function.
450 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
451 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
452 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
453 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
454 + additional manpage cleanup.
455 + update config.guess, config.sub from
456 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
459 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
460 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
461 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
462 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
463 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
464 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
465 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
467 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
468 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
469 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
470 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
471 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
472 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
473 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
474 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
475 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
476 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
480 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
481 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
482 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
483 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
486 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
488 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
489 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
490 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
493 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
494 (report by Midolikawa H).
495 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
496 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
497 drawing character is drawn.
498 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
499 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
500 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
501 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
502 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
503 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
504 directory-tree terminal databases.
505 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
506 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
507 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
510 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
511 than in the test-program.
512 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
513 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
514 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
517 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
518 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
519 + implement page up/down commands.
520 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
522 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
523 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
524 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
526 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
527 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
528 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
529 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
530 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
531 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
534 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
535 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
536 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
537 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
538 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
539 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
540 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
541 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
543 + regenerate man-html documentation.
546 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
548 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
549 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
550 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
552 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
553 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
554 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
555 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
556 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
557 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
558 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
559 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
563 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
564 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
565 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
568 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
569 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
572 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
573 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
574 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
575 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
576 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
577 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
578 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
579 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
580 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
581 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit
582 checks in some libraries.
583 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
584 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
585 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
586 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
589 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
590 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
591 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
592 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
596 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
599 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
600 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
601 over missing/cancelled values.
602 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
604 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
605 cancelled string capabilities.
606 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
607 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
608 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
609 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
610 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
611 as input (Redhat #1484274).
612 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
613 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
615 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
616 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
617 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
618 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
619 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
620 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
622 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
626 + update "iterm" entry -TD
627 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
628 + regenerate llib-* files.
629 + regenerate HTML manpages.
630 + improve picsmap test-program:
631 + reduce memory used for tsearch
632 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
633 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
635 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
636 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
637 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
638 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
641 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
643 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
644 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
646 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
647 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
648 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
649 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
650 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
651 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
652 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
653 current screen is marked for clearing.
654 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
656 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
657 on demand up to the existing limit.
658 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
659 improve color_content().
660 + improve picsmap test-program:
661 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
662 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
663 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
664 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
665 + add "-l" option for logging
666 + add "-d" option for debugging
667 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
669 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
670 + update config.guess, config.sub from
671 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
674 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
675 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
676 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
677 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
679 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
680 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
681 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
682 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
683 parameters for a capability and the actual.
684 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
685 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
686 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
687 alternate character set is enabled.
688 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
689 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
690 tack for memory-leak checking.
691 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
692 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
693 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
694 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
695 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
696 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
697 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
698 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
699 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
700 extended capability arrays.
701 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
704 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
705 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
706 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
707 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
708 term-driver configuration.
709 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
710 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
711 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
712 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
713 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
714 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
717 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
718 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
719 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
720 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
722 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
723 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
726 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
727 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
730 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
731 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
732 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
733 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
734 configuration; none is needed.
735 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
736 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
737 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
738 not work (cf: 20160213).
739 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
740 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
741 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
742 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
743 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
744 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
745 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
746 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
747 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
748 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
749 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
750 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
751 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
752 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
753 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
754 (report by Allen Hewes).
757 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
758 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
759 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
760 (report by Allen Hewes).
761 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
762 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
763 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
764 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
765 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
766 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
767 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
768 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
769 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
772 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
773 (report by Allen Hewes).
774 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
775 to help with leak checking.
776 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
778 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
779 cannot be initialized.
782 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
783 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
784 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
787 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
789 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
790 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
791 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
792 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
793 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
796 + improved test/picsmap.c:
797 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
798 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
799 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
802 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
803 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
804 related files can be checked with lintian.
805 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
808 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
809 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
810 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
811 changed (cf: 20170311).
812 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
815 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
816 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
817 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
818 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
819 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
820 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
821 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
822 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
825 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
826 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
827 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
828 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
829 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
830 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
831 for better compatibility with other implementations.
832 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
833 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
834 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
835 + update config.guess, config.sub from
836 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
839 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
840 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
842 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
843 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
844 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
845 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
846 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
847 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
848 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
849 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
850 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
851 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
852 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
853 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
854 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
855 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
856 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
857 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
858 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
859 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
860 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
861 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
862 preference to "%02" on output.
863 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
864 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
865 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
868 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
869 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
870 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
872 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
873 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
874 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
875 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
876 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
877 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
880 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
882 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
883 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
884 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
888 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
889 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
890 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
891 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
892 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
893 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
894 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
895 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
896 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
898 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
899 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
900 calls to get original tty-modes.
901 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
902 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
904 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
905 reduce compiler warnings.
906 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
907 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
908 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
909 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
910 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
911 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
912 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
913 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
914 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
915 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
916 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
919 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
920 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
921 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
923 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
924 called (report by "Kau").
925 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
928 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
929 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
930 rather than using def_prog_mode().
931 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
932 externals that are used by tack.
933 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
934 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
935 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
937 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
938 + regenerate man-html documentation.
941 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
942 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
943 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
944 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
945 terminal emulators -TD
946 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
948 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
949 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
950 8-bit limit on colors
951 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
952 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
953 free_pair() functions
954 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
957 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
958 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
959 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
960 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
962 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
965 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
968 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
969 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
970 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
971 treated as only absent.
972 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
973 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
974 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
977 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
978 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
979 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
980 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
981 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
982 --enable-sp-funcs option.
983 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
984 without modifying API/ABI.
985 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
986 similar options for the other libraries.
989 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
991 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
992 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
993 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
994 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
995 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
996 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
997 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
998 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
1001 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
1002 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
1003 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
1004 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
1005 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1006 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
1007 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
1010 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
1011 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
1012 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
1013 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
1014 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
1015 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
1016 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
1018 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
1019 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
1022 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
1023 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
1024 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
1025 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
1026 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
1030 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
1031 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
1032 either reset- or init-strings.
1033 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
1034 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
1035 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
1036 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
1037 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
1038 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
1039 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
1040 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
1041 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
1042 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
1043 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
1044 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
1047 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
1048 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
1049 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
1050 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
1051 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
1052 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
1053 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
1054 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
1056 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
1057 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
1058 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
1059 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
1061 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1062 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1065 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
1066 (patch by Leon Winter).
1067 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
1068 patch by Mihail Konev).
1069 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
1070 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
1074 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
1075 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
1076 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
1077 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
1078 did not work after changes in 20130112.
1081 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
1082 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
1083 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
1084 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
1085 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
1086 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
1088 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
1091 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
1092 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
1095 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
1097 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
1098 reverse-video control -TD
1099 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
1100 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
1101 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
1102 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
1103 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
1104 video escape without using a delay.
1105 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
1106 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
1110 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
1111 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
1112 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
1113 by various discussions including
1114 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
1117 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
1118 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
1119 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
1120 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
1123 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
1124 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
1127 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
1130 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
1131 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
1132 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
1133 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
1134 not optional in tput.
1135 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
1136 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
1137 for transformed names.
1138 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
1139 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
1142 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
1143 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
1144 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
1145 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
1147 + regenerate llib-* files.
1148 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1149 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
1152 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
1153 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
1154 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
1157 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
1158 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
1159 a given line-length.
1160 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
1161 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
1164 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
1165 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
1166 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
1169 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
1170 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
1173 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
1175 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
1176 page (patch by Leon Winter).
1177 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
1178 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
1179 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
1180 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
1181 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
1184 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
1186 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
1187 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
1189 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
1190 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
1191 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
1192 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
1196 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
1198 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
1200 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
1201 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
1202 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
1203 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
1204 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
1205 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
1206 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1207 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1210 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
1211 modes by sharing functions with tset.
1212 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
1213 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
1214 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
1215 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
1217 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
1220 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
1221 handle a case of "configure && make install".
1222 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
1223 in sed (Debian #818067).
1226 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
1227 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
1228 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
1229 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
1231 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
1232 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
1236 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
1237 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
1238 output or error are redirected.
1239 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
1243 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
1244 redirected to a file or pipe.
1245 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
1248 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
1250 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
1251 for special keys, based on xterm.
1254 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
1257 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
1258 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
1259 work (report by Sven Joachim).
1262 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
1263 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
1264 to make it more readable.
1267 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
1268 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
1269 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
1270 better testing of function-keys.
1271 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
1272 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
1273 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
1274 that could be returned -TD
1275 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
1278 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
1279 + add test/list_keys.c
1282 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
1283 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
1286 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
1287 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
1288 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
1289 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
1290 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
1291 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
1292 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
1293 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
1294 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
1295 cannot combine -c and -o options.
1298 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1299 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
1300 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
1301 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
1302 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
1303 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
1304 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
1307 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
1308 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
1310 + modify test/ncurses.c:
1311 + check return-value of putwin
1312 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
1313 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
1314 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
1317 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
1318 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
1319 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
1320 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
1324 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
1325 PIC builds documented in
1326 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
1327 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
1328 due to program-transformation configure options.
1329 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
1332 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
1333 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
1336 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1337 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
1341 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1342 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
1343 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
1344 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
1345 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
1346 can handle the event.
1349 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
1350 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
1351 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
1352 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
1355 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
1356 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
1357 as responding to window size-changes.
1360 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
1361 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
1364 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
1365 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
1366 in case weak symbols are used.
1367 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
1368 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
1370 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
1371 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
1372 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1373 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1376 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
1377 in threaded configuration.
1378 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
1379 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
1382 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
1383 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
1384 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
1388 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
1389 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
1390 unwanted blank lines.
1393 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
1394 (report by Corey Minyard).
1395 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
1398 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
1399 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1400 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
1401 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
1403 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
1404 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
1405 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
1407 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
1408 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
1411 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
1412 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
1413 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
1414 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
1417 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
1418 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
1419 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
1422 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
1423 with James Crippen).
1424 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
1426 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
1427 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
1430 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
1431 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1432 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
1433 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
1434 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
1435 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
1436 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
1437 drawing characters as double-width.
1440 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
1441 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1442 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
1443 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
1444 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
1445 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
1446 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
1447 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
1451 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
1453 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
1455 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
1456 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
1457 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
1458 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
1459 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
1462 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
1463 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
1464 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
1465 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
1468 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
1469 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
1470 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
1471 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
1472 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
1474 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
1475 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
1476 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
1477 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
1478 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
1481 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
1482 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
1483 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
1484 install time (cf: 20150822).
1485 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
1486 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
1487 empty "local" section.
1488 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
1489 to incorrect attribute-masking.
1492 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
1493 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
1494 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
1495 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
1496 did not display well.
1497 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
1498 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
1499 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
1500 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
1501 Normand, Novell #946048).
1502 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
1503 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
1504 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
1505 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
1506 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
1507 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
1508 Internet Archive -TD
1509 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1510 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1513 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
1514 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
1515 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
1516 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
1517 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
1518 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
1519 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
1520 + support building with libtool on OS/2
1521 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
1522 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
1525 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
1526 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
1527 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
1528 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
1530 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
1531 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
1532 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
1535 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
1537 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
1538 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
1541 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
1543 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
1544 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
1545 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
1546 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1549 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
1551 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
1552 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
1553 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
1554 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
1555 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
1556 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
1558 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
1561 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
1563 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
1564 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
1565 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
1567 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
1568 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
1571 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
1573 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
1574 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
1575 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
1576 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
1577 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
1581 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
1582 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
1583 + update release notes in INSTALL.
1584 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
1587 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
1588 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
1589 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
1591 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1594 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
1595 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
1596 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
1597 more than 200 snapshots.
1598 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
1602 + updated llib-* files.
1603 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
1604 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
1606 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1607 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
1608 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
1609 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
1610 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
1611 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
1612 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
1615 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
1616 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
1617 curs_initscr.3x page.
1618 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
1619 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
1620 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
1622 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
1623 e.g., ncursestw library.
1626 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
1627 configuration of ncurses6.
1628 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
1629 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
1630 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
1631 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
1632 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1635 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
1636 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
1637 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
1640 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
1642 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
1643 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
1644 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
1645 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
1646 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
1647 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
1648 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
1649 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
1650 setupterm and restartterm functions.
1651 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
1652 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
1653 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
1657 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
1658 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
1659 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
1660 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
1661 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
1662 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
1663 discussion with Sven Joachim).
1664 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1666 20150606 pre-release
1667 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
1668 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
1669 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
1670 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
1671 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
1672 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
1673 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
1674 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
1675 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
1676 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
1677 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
1678 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
1679 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
1680 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
1683 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
1684 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
1685 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
1686 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
1687 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
1688 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
1689 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
1690 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
1693 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
1694 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
1695 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
1696 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
1697 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
1699 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
1700 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
1703 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
1704 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
1705 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
1706 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
1708 + regenerate html manpages.
1709 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
1710 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
1711 Stack Overflow forum):
1714 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
1715 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
1716 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
1717 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
1718 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
1722 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
1723 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
1724 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
1725 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
1726 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
1728 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
1729 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1730 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
1731 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
1732 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
1733 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
1735 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
1736 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
1737 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
1738 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
1739 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
1740 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
1742 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
1743 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
1745 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
1746 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
1748 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
1749 the ncurses library aside from headers.
1750 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
1751 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
1752 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
1753 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
1754 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1755 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1758 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
1759 (report by Todd M Lewis).
1760 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
1761 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
1762 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
1763 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
1764 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
1765 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
1767 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1768 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
1769 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1770 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
1771 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
1772 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
1773 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
1776 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
1777 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
1778 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
1779 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
1780 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
1781 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
1782 with the shared libraries.
1783 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
1784 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
1785 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
1786 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
1787 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
1788 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
1789 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
1790 inherit into new windows.
1793 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
1794 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
1795 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
1796 readonly text segment.
1799 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
1800 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
1803 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
1804 the extended putwin/getwin.
1805 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
1807 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
1811 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
1812 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
1813 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
1814 for a magic code at the beginning:
1815 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
1818 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
1820 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
1821 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
1824 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
1825 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
1826 (report by Grady Martin).
1829 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
1830 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
1831 the wide-character libraries.
1832 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
1834 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
1835 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
1838 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
1839 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
1840 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
1844 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
1845 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
1848 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
1849 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
1850 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
1851 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
1852 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
1855 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
1856 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
1857 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
1860 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
1861 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
1862 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
1864 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
1865 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
1866 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
1867 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
1868 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
1869 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
1870 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
1871 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
1872 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
1873 (report by Pavel Balaev).
1876 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
1877 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
1878 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
1879 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
1880 variations in ABI 6.
1883 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
1884 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
1888 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
1892 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
1893 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
1894 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
1895 the ABI 5 libraries.
1896 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
1897 regenerate html-manpages.
1900 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
1901 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
1903 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
1904 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
1905 package for ncurses6.
1906 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
1907 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
1908 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
1909 in the corresponding ".map" files.
1910 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
1911 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
1915 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
1916 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
1917 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
1918 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
1919 gcc introduced here:
1920 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
1921 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
1922 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
1923 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
1926 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
1927 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
1928 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
1929 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
1930 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
1933 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
1934 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
1935 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
1936 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
1937 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
1938 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
1939 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
1943 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
1944 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
1948 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
1949 msys2 configuration.
1952 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
1953 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
1954 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
1955 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
1956 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
1958 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
1959 (report by Mike Gran).
1962 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
1963 demonstration of its limitations.
1964 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
1965 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
1966 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
1967 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
1968 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
1969 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
1970 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
1972 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
1973 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
1976 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
1977 + implement flash in win_driver.c
1978 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
1980 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
1981 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
1982 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
1983 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
1984 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
1985 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
1986 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
1987 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
1990 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
1991 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
1992 some older cross-compiler environments.
1993 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
1994 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
1995 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
1996 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
1997 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
1998 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
1999 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
2000 + update config.sub from
2001 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2004 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
2005 C++ cross-compilers.
2006 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
2009 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
2011 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
2014 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
2015 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
2016 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
2019 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
2020 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
2024 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
2025 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
2026 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
2029 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
2030 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
2031 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
2032 + regenerated html manpages.
2033 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
2034 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
2035 which reverses cause/effect.
2036 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
2037 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
2038 + fixes for win_driver.c:
2039 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
2044 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
2045 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
2046 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
2047 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
2049 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
2050 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
2051 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
2052 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
2056 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
2057 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
2058 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
2059 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
2060 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
2061 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
2062 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
2063 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
2064 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
2067 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
2068 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
2069 options, from xterm changes.
2072 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
2073 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
2077 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
2078 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
2081 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
2082 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
2083 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
2084 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
2085 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
2086 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
2087 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
2090 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
2091 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
2092 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
2093 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
2094 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
2095 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
2096 providing directly comparable screens.
2097 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
2100 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
2102 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
2103 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
2104 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
2105 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
2106 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
2107 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
2108 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
2111 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
2112 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
2113 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
2114 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
2115 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
2118 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
2119 overlap with sgr functionality.
2120 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
2121 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
2122 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
2123 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
2124 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
2125 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
2126 older ncurses than 20131207.
2127 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
2128 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
2129 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
2130 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
2131 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
2134 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
2135 environment variable.
2136 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
2137 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
2138 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
2139 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
2140 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
2141 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
2142 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
2143 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
2144 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
2145 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
2146 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
2147 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
2148 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
2149 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
2151 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
2153 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
2154 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
2155 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
2157 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
2158 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
2159 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
2160 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
2161 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
2162 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
2163 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
2165 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
2167 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
2168 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
2169 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
2170 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
2171 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
2172 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
2173 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
2174 to be consecutive anyway.
2175 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
2176 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
2177 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
2178 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
2181 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
2182 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
2183 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
2186 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
2187 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
2188 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
2189 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2192 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
2194 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
2195 simplify later merging:
2196 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
2197 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
2198 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
2199 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
2200 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
2204 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2205 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2208 + modify configure script:
2209 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
2210 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
2211 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
2212 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
2213 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
2214 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
2215 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
2216 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
2217 "#win32console", and
2218 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
2219 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
2222 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
2223 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
2224 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
2225 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
2226 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
2227 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
2231 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
2234 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
2235 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
2236 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
2237 + add terminology entry -TD
2238 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
2239 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
2242 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
2243 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
2244 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
2245 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
2246 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
2250 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
2251 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
2252 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
2253 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
2254 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
2257 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
2260 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
2261 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
2262 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
2266 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
2267 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
2268 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
2269 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
2270 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
2271 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
2273 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
2274 html emitted by docbook.
2277 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
2278 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
2279 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
2280 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
2283 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
2284 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
2285 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
2286 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
2287 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2288 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
2291 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
2292 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
2293 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
2294 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2297 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
2298 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
2301 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
2303 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
2306 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
2307 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
2308 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
2309 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
2311 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
2313 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
2314 + updated llib-l* files.
2317 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
2318 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
2322 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
2323 recognized by clang.
2326 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
2327 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
2328 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
2329 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
2330 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
2331 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
2332 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
2333 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
2334 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
2335 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
2336 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
2337 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
2339 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
2341 + update config.sub from
2342 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2345 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
2348 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
2349 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
2350 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
2351 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
2353 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
2356 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
2357 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
2358 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
2359 them more consistent with other packages.
2362 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
2363 compiling ncurses-examples.
2364 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
2367 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
2370 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
2371 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
2372 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
2373 cross-compiles to MinGW.
2374 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
2378 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
2379 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
2383 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
2384 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
2386 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
2388 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
2389 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
2390 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
2391 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
2392 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
2395 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
2396 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
2397 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
2400 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
2402 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
2403 before/after Debian #700177.
2404 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
2405 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
2407 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
2408 of sort, improving portability.
2409 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
2410 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2411 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2414 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
2415 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
2417 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
2418 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
2419 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
2422 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
2423 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
2424 introduced by Debian #700177.
2425 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
2426 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
2429 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
2430 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
2432 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
2433 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
2434 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
2437 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
2438 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
2440 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
2441 cross-compile support packages.
2442 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
2445 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
2446 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
2447 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
2448 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
2449 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
2450 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
2451 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
2452 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
2453 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
2454 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
2455 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
2456 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
2459 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
2460 initialization of cur_term.
2463 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
2464 + minor compiler-warning fixes
2467 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
2468 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
2469 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
2470 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
2471 --enable-auto-import flag.
2472 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
2476 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
2477 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
2478 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
2479 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
2480 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
2482 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
2483 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
2484 (patch by Eric Raymond).
2487 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
2488 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
2489 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
2491 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
2492 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
2493 not printing the full pathname of the program.
2494 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
2495 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
2496 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
2499 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
2500 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
2502 + add test/dots_termcap.c
2503 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
2504 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
2505 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
2506 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
2507 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
2508 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
2509 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
2510 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
2511 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
2513 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
2514 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
2517 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
2518 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
2519 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
2520 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
2521 the left margin of the display.
2522 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
2523 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
2524 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
2525 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
2528 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
2529 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
2530 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
2531 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
2532 + regenerated html manpages.
2533 + update doctype used for html documentation.
2536 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
2537 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
2538 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
2539 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
2540 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
2541 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
2544 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2545 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
2546 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
2547 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
2548 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
2551 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
2552 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
2555 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
2556 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
2557 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2558 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
2559 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
2561 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
2562 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2563 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
2564 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2567 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
2568 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
2569 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
2570 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
2572 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
2574 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
2576 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
2579 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
2583 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
2584 (report by Christian Ebert).
2585 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
2586 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
2587 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
2590 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
2591 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
2592 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
2593 add bold for consistency with sgr,
2594 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
2595 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
2596 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
2597 by Benjamin Sittler)
2598 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
2599 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
2600 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
2601 line split after "%;".
2602 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
2603 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
2606 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
2607 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
2608 + regenerated html manpages.
2609 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
2610 + updated some autoconf macros:
2611 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
2612 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
2613 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
2614 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
2615 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
2616 configuration (Redhat #911540).
2617 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
2618 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
2621 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
2622 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
2624 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
2625 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
2627 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
2628 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
2629 of raw input in MinGW port.
2632 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
2633 + update config.guess, config.sub
2636 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
2638 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
2640 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
2641 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
2642 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
2643 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
2644 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2645 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
2646 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
2648 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
2649 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
2652 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
2653 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
2655 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
2656 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
2657 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
2660 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
2661 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
2662 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
2665 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
2666 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
2667 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
2668 help reduce flicker.
2669 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
2670 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
2671 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
2672 by Dennis Grevenstein).
2673 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
2674 Dennis Grevenstein).
2675 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
2676 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
2677 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
2680 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2681 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
2682 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
2683 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
2684 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
2685 + improve error-checking in copywin
2686 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
2687 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
2688 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
2689 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
2690 matching capability names.
2691 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
2692 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
2693 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
2696 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
2697 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
2698 are unused in the current driver model.
2699 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
2701 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
2702 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
2703 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
2704 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
2707 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
2708 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
2710 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
2711 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
2712 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
2713 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
2714 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
2717 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
2718 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
2719 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
2723 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
2725 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
2726 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
2728 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
2729 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
2730 wide-character which can be used.
2733 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
2734 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
2735 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
2736 by Erwin Waterlander).
2737 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
2738 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2739 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
2740 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
2741 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
2742 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
2746 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
2747 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
2748 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
2749 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
2750 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
2751 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2752 + remove a few redundant checks.
2753 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
2755 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
2756 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
2757 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
2758 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
2760 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
2761 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
2762 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
2766 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
2767 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
2768 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
2772 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
2773 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
2774 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2775 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
2778 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2779 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
2780 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
2781 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
2782 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
2783 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
2784 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
2785 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
2787 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
2788 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
2789 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
2790 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
2793 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
2794 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
2795 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
2797 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
2798 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
2799 libraries or executables.
2802 + realign these related pages:
2807 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
2808 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
2809 (report by Reuben Thomas).
2810 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
2811 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
2812 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
2813 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
2814 based on testing with tack -TD
2815 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
2816 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
2819 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
2821 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
2822 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
2823 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
2826 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
2830 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
2831 (patch by Christian Persch).
2834 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
2836 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
2837 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
2838 has used that for a while.
2839 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
2840 for experimental use.
2841 + remove unused configure macros.
2842 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
2843 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
2844 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
2845 + update config.guess, config.sub
2848 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
2849 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
2850 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
2851 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
2852 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
2853 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
2854 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
2857 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
2858 to help with MinGW port.
2861 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
2863 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
2866 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
2869 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
2870 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
2871 might not be allocated.
2872 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
2875 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
2876 initial screen-sizes.
2877 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
2878 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
2882 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
2883 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
2887 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
2888 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
2889 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
2891 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
2892 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
2895 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
2896 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
2897 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
2898 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
2899 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
2900 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
2901 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
2905 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
2906 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2907 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
2908 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
2909 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
2910 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
2911 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
2912 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
2916 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
2917 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
2918 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
2919 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
2920 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
2921 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
2924 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
2928 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
2930 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
2932 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
2933 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
2934 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
2935 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
2936 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
2937 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
2940 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
2942 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
2943 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
2944 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
2946 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
2947 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
2950 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
2951 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
2952 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
2955 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
2956 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
2958 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
2959 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
2961 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
2962 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
2965 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
2967 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
2968 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
2969 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
2970 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
2971 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
2972 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
2975 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
2976 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
2977 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
2978 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
2979 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
2980 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
2981 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
2982 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
2983 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
2985 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
2986 analysis by Martin Husemann).
2987 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
2988 Onno van der Linden).
2991 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
2993 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
2995 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
2996 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
2999 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
3000 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
3001 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
3002 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
3003 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
3004 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
3005 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
3008 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
3009 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
3010 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
3011 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
3012 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
3013 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
3014 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
3015 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
3016 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
3017 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
3018 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
3019 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
3020 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
3021 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
3022 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
3025 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
3026 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
3027 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
3028 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
3029 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
3030 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
3031 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
3032 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
3033 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
3034 are interpreted as key definitions.
3035 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
3036 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
3040 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
3041 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
3042 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
3043 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
3044 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
3045 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
3046 as building-blocks -TD
3047 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
3050 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
3051 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
3052 title is a status-line. -TD
3053 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
3054 of ordering and overrides -TD
3055 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
3056 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
3057 used in that file -TD
3060 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
3061 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
3062 definable capabilities.
3063 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
3064 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
3065 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
3066 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
3067 embedded in the description.
3068 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
3069 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
3070 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
3071 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
3072 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
3073 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
3076 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
3077 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
3078 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
3079 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
3080 Nicolas Boulenguez).
3081 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
3082 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
3083 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
3086 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
3087 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
3088 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
3089 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
3090 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
3091 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
3094 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
3095 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
3096 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
3098 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
3099 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
3100 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
3101 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
3104 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
3105 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
3106 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
3109 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
3110 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
3111 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
3113 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
3114 calls to setupterm().
3115 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
3117 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
3118 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
3119 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
3121 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
3125 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
3128 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
3130 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
3131 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
3132 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
3133 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
3134 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
3135 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
3137 + update config.guess, config.sub
3140 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
3141 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
3142 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
3143 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
3144 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
3145 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
3146 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
3147 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
3148 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
3151 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
3152 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
3153 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
3154 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
3155 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
3156 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
3157 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
3158 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
3159 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
3160 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
3161 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
3162 Linux versus most other systems.
3165 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
3169 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
3170 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
3171 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
3172 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
3173 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
3174 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
3175 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
3176 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
3177 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
3178 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
3179 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
3180 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
3181 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
3182 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
3185 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
3187 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
3189 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
3190 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
3191 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
3192 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
3195 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
3197 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
3198 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
3199 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
3200 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
3201 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
3203 + regenerated html manpages.
3206 + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
3207 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
3208 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
3209 + change recommended regular expression library.
3210 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
3211 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
3214 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
3215 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
3216 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
3217 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
3218 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
3219 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
3220 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
3224 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
3225 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
3227 + add putty-sco entry -TD
3230 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
3232 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
3234 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
3235 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
3236 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
3238 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
3240 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
3243 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
3244 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
3245 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
3246 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
3248 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
3249 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
3250 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
3253 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
3254 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
3256 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
3259 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
3261 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
3263 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
3265 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
3266 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
3267 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
3268 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3269 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
3270 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
3271 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
3274 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
3275 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
3277 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
3278 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
3279 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
3280 database (cf: 20111001).
3283 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
3284 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
3285 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
3287 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
3288 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
3290 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
3291 in older FreeBSD machines.
3292 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
3293 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
3294 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
3297 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
3298 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
3299 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
3300 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
3301 root's home directory.
3302 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
3303 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
3304 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
3305 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
3306 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
3308 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
3309 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
3310 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
3311 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
3312 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
3313 (report by Peter Kruse).
3316 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
3317 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
3319 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
3321 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
3322 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
3323 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
3326 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
3327 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
3328 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
3329 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
3330 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
3331 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
3334 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
3335 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
3336 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
3337 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
3338 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
3341 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
3342 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
3343 input and output of termcap source.
3344 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
3345 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
3346 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
3347 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
3348 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
3349 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
3350 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
3351 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
3352 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
3355 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
3358 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
3360 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
3361 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
3362 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
3363 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
3365 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
3368 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
3369 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
3371 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
3372 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
3375 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
3376 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
3378 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
3379 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
3381 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
3382 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
3383 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
3384 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
3386 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
3387 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
3388 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
3389 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
3391 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
3392 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
3395 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
3396 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
3397 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
3398 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
3401 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
3402 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
3403 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
3404 + add terminator entry -TD
3405 + add simpleterm entry -TD
3406 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
3407 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
3411 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
3412 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
3413 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
3414 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
3415 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
3416 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
3417 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
3418 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
3419 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
3420 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
3424 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
3425 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
3426 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
3427 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
3428 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
3429 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
3431 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
3432 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
3433 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
3435 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
3438 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
3439 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
3440 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
3441 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
3443 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
3444 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
3446 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
3447 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
3448 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
3449 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
3450 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
3451 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
3452 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
3453 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
3455 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
3456 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
3458 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
3459 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
3460 tctest (cf: 19991211).
3461 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
3462 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
3463 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
3464 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
3465 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
3466 translating to termcap.
3467 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
3468 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
3471 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
3472 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
3473 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
3474 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
3475 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
3476 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
3478 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
3479 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
3480 regarding Schilling's test program):
3481 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
3482 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
3483 + use \040 rather than \s
3484 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
3485 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
3488 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
3489 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
3490 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
3491 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3492 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
3493 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
3494 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
3495 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
3496 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
3497 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
3498 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
3499 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
3502 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
3503 are not used in the $CC variable.
3504 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
3505 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
3506 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
3507 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
3508 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
3509 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3512 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
3513 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
3517 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
3518 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
3519 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
3520 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
3521 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
3523 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
3524 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
3526 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
3529 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
3530 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
3533 + fixes for MirBSD port:
3534 + set default prefix to /usr.
3535 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
3536 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
3537 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
3538 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
3541 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
3542 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
3543 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
3544 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
3546 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
3547 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
3551 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
3554 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
3555 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
3556 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
3558 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
3559 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
3560 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
3561 help work around weak-symbol issues.
3564 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
3565 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
3566 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
3567 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
3568 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
3569 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
3570 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
3571 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
3572 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
3573 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
3574 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
3577 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
3578 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
3580 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
3581 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
3582 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
3583 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3586 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
3587 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
3588 as different types on some Unix systems.
3589 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
3590 function pointer passed to tputs().
3591 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
3592 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
3593 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
3594 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
3597 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
3598 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3599 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
3600 + update config.guess, config.sub
3603 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
3605 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
3606 some ncurses packages.
3607 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
3608 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
3609 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
3611 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3614 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
3615 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
3616 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
3617 the in-tree build of sample programs.
3618 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
3619 needed for rpm script.
3620 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
3621 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
3622 options if building a shared library with gnat.
3625 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
3626 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
3627 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
3628 that sample program.
3629 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
3630 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
3631 which were added in 5.7 and later.
3632 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
3636 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
3638 + regen Ada html documentation.
3639 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
3640 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
3642 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
3644 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
3645 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
3646 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
3647 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
3648 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
3649 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
3651 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3652 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
3654 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
3655 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
3658 + regen Ada html documentation.
3659 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
3660 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
3662 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
3663 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
3664 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
3665 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3666 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
3667 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
3668 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
3669 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
3670 thread in comp.lang.ada).
3671 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
3672 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
3673 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3674 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
3675 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
3676 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
3677 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
3678 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
3679 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
3680 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
3683 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
3684 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3685 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
3687 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
3689 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
3690 explain.txt is not found.
3693 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3694 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
3695 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3696 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
3697 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
3699 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3702 + update release notes, for 5.8.
3703 + regenerated html manpages.
3704 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
3706 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
3707 a new install of hashed database.
3708 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
3711 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
3712 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
3713 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
3714 wide-character configuration.
3715 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
3716 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
3719 + regenerated html manpages.
3720 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
3721 special case of trace configuration.
3724 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
3725 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
3726 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
3727 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
3728 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
3732 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
3733 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
3734 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
3735 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
3736 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
3738 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
3739 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
3742 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
3743 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
3744 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
3745 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3746 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3747 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
3748 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
3749 file configuration if that is used.
3750 + update config.guess, config.sub
3753 + regenerated html manpages.
3754 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
3756 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3757 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
3760 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
3761 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
3764 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
3765 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
3766 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3769 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
3771 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
3772 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
3773 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
3774 wide-character configuration.
3775 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
3776 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
3777 referred to quitting with 'q'.
3780 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
3781 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
3782 version which works with termcap.
3783 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
3784 (request by Sven Joachim).
3785 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
3786 (report by Sven Joachim).
3789 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
3790 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
3791 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
3794 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
3796 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
3797 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
3800 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
3802 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
3803 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
3804 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
3805 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
3806 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
3807 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
3811 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
3812 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
3813 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
3815 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
3818 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
3820 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
3824 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
3826 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
3827 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
3828 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
3829 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
3830 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
3831 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
3832 tree (report by Werner Fink).
3833 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
3834 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
3835 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
3836 (report by John P. Hartmann)
3837 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
3840 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
3841 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
3842 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
3843 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
3844 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
3845 external package "cindent".
3848 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
3849 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
3850 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
3851 inconsistent printer-controls.
3852 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
3853 form is available -TD
3854 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
3856 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
3858 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
3859 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3860 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
3861 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
3862 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
3864 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
3865 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
3869 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
3870 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
3871 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
3872 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3873 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
3875 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
3878 + regenerated html manpages.
3879 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
3880 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
3881 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
3884 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
3886 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3887 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
3888 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
3889 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
3893 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
3894 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
3897 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
3898 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
3899 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
3900 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
3901 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
3902 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
3903 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
3907 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
3908 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
3909 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
3910 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
3911 by Tim van der Molen).
3912 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
3913 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
3914 library configuration.
3915 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
3916 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
3917 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
3920 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
3922 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
3923 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
3924 e.g., for cross-compiling.
3925 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
3926 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
3929 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
3930 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
3931 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
3932 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
3933 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
3934 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
3935 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
3936 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
3939 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
3940 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
3941 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
3942 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
3943 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
3944 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
3945 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
3946 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
3949 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
3950 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
3951 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
3952 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
3955 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3956 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
3957 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
3960 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3961 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
3962 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
3965 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3966 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
3967 + move Ada95-related logic into
projects / ncurses.git / blob