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32 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
33 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
35 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
36 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
38 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
39 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
40 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
42 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
43 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
44 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
46 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
47 it is not possible to add this information.
50 + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
51 gprbuild (cf: 20200627).
52 + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
53 + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
55 + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
56 (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
57 + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
58 + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
61 + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
62 + add rep to PuTTY -TD
63 + add putty+keypad -TD
64 + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in
65 the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses
66 low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217).
67 + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its
68 -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS,
69 do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases.
72 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
73 + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang
74 (report by Steven Pitman).
77 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
78 + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the
79 special case where short extended capability strings were not
80 converted from terminfo to termcap format.
81 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case
82 when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
85 + update kitty+common -TD
86 + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
87 + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely
88 upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
91 + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h>
92 before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
93 + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion
95 + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to
96 ensure that the messages contain only printable text.
97 + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
98 is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
102 + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
103 + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with
104 Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
105 + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
106 needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
107 (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
108 + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
109 and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of
110 parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
112 + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
113 Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
116 + improve manpage typography.
117 + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
118 nonprintable characters.
119 + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
120 as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
123 + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
124 + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154,
126 + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by
127 discussion with Florian Weimer).
128 + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
132 + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
133 + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
134 + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
135 + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas).
136 + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
137 + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
138 checking consistency with tic.
141 + correct configure-check for gnurx library.
142 + regenerate llib-* files.
143 + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for
144 panel- and user-pointers.
147 + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD
150 + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated
151 curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
154 + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
155 the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
156 + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
157 + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
160 + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by
164 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
166 + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
169 + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner
173 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
175 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
177 + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
178 to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
180 > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
181 + correct icl6404 csr
186 + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
187 + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
189 + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
191 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
192 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
193 option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
194 provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
197 + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
199 + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
200 + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
201 using the string-hacks option.
202 + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
203 option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
206 + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
207 (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
208 + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
209 + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
210 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
213 + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
214 of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
215 + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
216 AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
217 --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
218 fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
219 (discussion with Keith Marshall).
220 + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
221 + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
222 parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
226 + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
227 + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
228 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
229 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
230 reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
231 + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
234 + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
236 + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
237 + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
241 + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
243 + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
244 libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
245 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
246 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
247 + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
248 the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
249 + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
250 + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
253 + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
255 + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
256 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
257 + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
259 + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
260 + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
261 buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
262 + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
263 trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
266 + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
267 the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
268 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
269 (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
270 + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
271 declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
274 + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
276 + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
279 + update list of functions in ncurses.3x
280 + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
281 in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
285 + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
286 in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
287 + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
288 screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
289 + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
290 + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
293 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
294 + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
295 + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
296 + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
297 + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes.
298 + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
299 handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
300 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
301 + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
302 save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
303 passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
304 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
305 + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
306 string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
309 + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
310 + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
311 + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
312 which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
313 is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
314 + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
315 generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
316 configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
317 to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
318 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
319 "Maarten Anonymous"):
320 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
321 options into Visual Studio's dialect.
322 + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
323 work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
326 + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x
327 + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
330 + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
331 a performance comparison.
332 + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
333 use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
336 + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
337 + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
338 + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
339 those to position reports.
342 + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
343 + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
346 + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
347 + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
348 check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
349 character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
350 + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
351 + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
354 + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
355 (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
356 + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
357 + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
360 + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
361 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
362 "Maarten Anonymous"):
363 + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
364 + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
365 C++ preprocessor limitations.
366 + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
367 with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
370 + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
371 + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
372 builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
375 + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
376 + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
377 pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
378 + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
379 a corresponding demo of dup_field().
382 + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
383 + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
384 + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
387 + update copyright notices in test-packages.
388 + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
389 + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
390 by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
393 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
394 background character, because it may be used in cases where the
395 corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
399 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
400 which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
401 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
402 "Maarten Anonymous"):
403 + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
404 + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
405 + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
406 + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
407 length array feature.
408 + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
409 + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
410 + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
411 + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
412 + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
413 because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
414 + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
417 + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
418 + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
419 + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
420 + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
421 building out-of-tree.
422 + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
423 + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
424 include all of the required headers for the types used.
427 + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
428 section as well as documenting error-returns.
429 + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
430 + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
431 FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
432 + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
434 20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
435 + update release notes
436 + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
439 + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
440 when cross-compiling.
441 + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
442 + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
443 to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
446 + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
447 https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
450 + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
451 collision handling for Caps-hpux11
452 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
453 terminfo and termcap names.
454 + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
455 + update a few comments about tack 1.07
456 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
457 programs for explain.txt
460 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
461 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
462 + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
463 + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
465 + correct spelling errors found with codespell.
466 + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
469 + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
470 to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
471 + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
472 + update config.guess, config.sub
475 + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
476 "work", to help illustrate discussion in
477 https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
478 + fix some warnings from autoheader-252
481 + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
482 past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
483 symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
484 + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
485 + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
486 for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
489 + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
490 work with test-packages.
491 + improve tracemunch:
492 + keep track of TERMINAL* values
493 + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
494 show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
495 + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
496 for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
499 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
503 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds
504 + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
507 + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
508 discussion with Nick Black).
509 + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
511 + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
514 + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
515 + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
518 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
519 to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
521 + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
522 defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
523 from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
526 + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
527 + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
528 with old non-curses programs -TD
529 + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
530 + use ansi+rep several places -TD
531 + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
535 + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
536 + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
537 (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
538 + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
539 + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
542 + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
543 line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
544 + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
545 \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
546 + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
547 early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
550 + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
551 with address-sanitizer.
552 + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
553 treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
554 use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
557 + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
558 input string is shorter than expected.
559 > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
560 + check for missing character after backslash in write_it
561 + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
565 + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
566 Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
567 + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
568 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
570 > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
571 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
572 + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
573 + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
574 mapping (cf: 20060415);
575 + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
576 overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
579 + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
583 + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
584 hack which differed between those files.
585 + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
586 + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
587 test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
591 + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
592 the screen's borders.
593 + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
597 + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
600 + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
601 allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
603 + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
604 the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
605 warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
608 + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
609 noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
613 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
616 + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
617 details where it still differed from SVr4.
618 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
621 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
624 + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
625 the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
627 + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
628 and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
629 + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
630 + updated kitty entry & notes -TD
631 + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
632 + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
635 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
636 + more documentation updates based on tctest.
639 + fix a few coverity warnings.
640 + documentation updates based on tctest.
643 + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
644 + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
646 + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
647 (report by Sven Joachim).
650 + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
651 possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
652 terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
653 + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
657 + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
660 + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
661 building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
662 + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
663 + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
665 + add ms-terminal -TD
666 + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
669 + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
670 Edition versions of the tabs utility.
671 + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
672 in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
673 macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
675 + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
676 data for the result from getenv().
677 + update config.guess, config.sub
680 + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
681 + regenerate HTML manpages.
684 + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
685 Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
686 to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
687 + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
688 + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
689 + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
690 to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
693 + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
694 e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
695 + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
699 + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
700 (report by Vincent Huisman).
703 + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
704 + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
705 + update terminator entry -TD
706 + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
707 + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
708 + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
711 + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
712 + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
713 scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
714 + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
715 row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
716 Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
717 + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
718 number of parameters.
721 + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
722 (report by Pavel Stehule).
723 + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
724 + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
727 + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
728 infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
732 + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
735 + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
736 + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
737 + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
738 + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
739 not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
742 + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle
744 + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
747 + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
748 + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
749 + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
750 (report by Dennis Grevenstein).
751 + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
752 + check for missing feature of locale.h
753 + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
754 + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
755 + update config.guess, config.sub
758 + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
759 + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
760 those in compilable form.
761 + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
762 in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
763 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
766 + regenerate llib-* files.
767 + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
768 + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
769 an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
770 + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
771 + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
772 which did not become accepted.
775 + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
777 + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
778 data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
781 + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
782 + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
783 user-defined capabilities.
784 + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
785 called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
788 + fix typo in adds200 -TD
789 + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
790 + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
791 xt, tbc and hts as clues.
792 + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
793 tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
796 + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
797 + add test/demo_tabs program.
800 + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
801 parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
804 + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
805 with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
806 + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
807 + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
808 to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
809 configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
810 in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
813 + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
814 "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
815 + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
816 + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
817 + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
818 being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
819 Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
822 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
824 + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
826 + updated "string-hacks" feature.
827 + minor improvements to manpage typography.
828 + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
830 + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
831 init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
832 extended_color_content
833 + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
834 return values from the tested functions.
835 + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
837 + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
838 + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
840 + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
841 warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
844 + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
846 + add nsterm-direct -TD
847 + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
848 + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
849 + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
852 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
853 building test-packages for Arch.
854 + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
855 that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
856 packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
857 + update config.guess, config.sub
860 + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
861 + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
863 + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
864 discussion with Bryan Christ).
865 + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
866 + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
867 obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
868 Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
872 + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
873 + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
874 + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
875 as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
876 + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
877 + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
878 + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
879 _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
880 + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
881 supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
882 Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
883 could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
886 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
887 curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
888 background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
891 + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
892 + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
893 different character pages.
894 + update config.guess, config.sub from
895 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
898 + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
901 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
902 the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
903 + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
905 + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
906 + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
907 that lets different curses implementations be compared.
908 + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
909 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
910 (report by Tomas Janousek).
913 + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
914 + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
915 a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
916 the compiled-in search list.
919 + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
921 + update config.guess, config.sub from
922 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
925 + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
926 + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
929 + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
930 from the infocmp -Q option.
931 + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
932 + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
933 symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
934 + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
935 wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
938 + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
939 to make it an absolute path.
942 + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
943 Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
944 + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
947 + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
948 + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
949 + add alias n7900 -TD
950 + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
951 + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
952 + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
953 + add bel to tvi950 -TD
954 + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
955 + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
956 + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
959 + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
963 + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
964 if the terminal were resized.
965 + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
966 #1610681, cf: 20141011).
967 + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
968 since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
971 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
972 + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
973 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
974 character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
975 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
976 + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
977 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
978 output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
979 + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
980 implementations of sysconf().
983 + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
985 + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
987 + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
990 + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
991 terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
992 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
994 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
995 toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
996 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
1000 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
1001 + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
1002 + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
1003 install (Debian #903790):
1004 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
1006 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
1007 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
1008 in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
1011 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
1012 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
1013 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
1014 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1017 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
1018 + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
1019 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1022 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1023 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
1024 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
1025 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
1028 + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
1029 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
1032 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1033 + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
1035 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
1036 empty (Debian #902630).
1039 + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
1040 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
1041 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
1042 (Nicholas Marriott).
1043 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
1044 + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
1046 + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
1049 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
1050 to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
1051 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
1052 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
1053 updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
1054 CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
1055 CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1056 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1057 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1060 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
1061 + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
1062 combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
1063 + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
1064 use of vsscanf and setenv.
1065 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
1069 + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
1070 to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
1072 + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
1073 and vw_scanw, respectively.
1076 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
1077 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
1080 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
1081 + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
1082 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
1084 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
1085 + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
1086 work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
1089 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1090 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
1091 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
1092 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
1093 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
1094 + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
1095 for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
1098 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
1099 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
1100 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
1103 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
1105 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
1106 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
1107 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
1108 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
1109 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1110 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
1111 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
1112 for escaping regular expressions.
1115 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
1117 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
1118 (report by Leon Winter).
1119 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
1120 unfocus_current_field (form);
1121 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
1122 (patch by Leon Winter).
1125 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
1126 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
1127 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
1128 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
1129 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
1130 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
1131 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
1132 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
1135 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
1136 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
1137 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
1138 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
1139 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
1140 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
1141 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
1142 values, e.g., keyname().
1145 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
1146 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
1147 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
1150 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
1151 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
1152 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
1153 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
1154 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
1157 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
1159 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
1160 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
1161 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1162 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
1163 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
1167 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
1168 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
1169 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
1170 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
1171 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
1172 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1173 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
1174 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
1175 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1176 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
1177 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
1178 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
1179 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
1180 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
1181 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
1184 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
1185 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
1186 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
1187 compounded by repair in 20180121.
1188 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
1189 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
1190 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1193 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
1194 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
1195 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
1196 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
1197 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
1200 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
1201 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
1202 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1203 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
1204 was needed, was standardized long ago.
1205 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
1206 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
1207 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
1211 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
1212 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
1213 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
1214 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
1215 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
1218 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
1220 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1223 + updated release notes
1224 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
1225 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
1227 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
1229 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1230 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
1231 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
1232 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
1233 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
1234 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
1235 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
1236 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
1237 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
1238 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
1239 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
1240 + add iterm2-direct -TD
1241 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
1242 + add mlterm-direct -TD
1243 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
1245 20180121 pre-release
1247 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
1248 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
1249 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
1251 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
1252 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
1253 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
1254 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
1255 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
1256 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
1257 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
1258 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
1259 direct-colors are wanted -TD
1260 + add vte-direct -TD
1261 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
1263 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
1264 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
1265 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
1266 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
1267 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
1268 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
1269 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
1270 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
1272 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
1273 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
1274 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
1275 ncurses library work as expected.
1276 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
1277 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
1278 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
1279 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
1280 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
1281 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
1282 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
1283 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
1284 wide-character configuration to 32768.
1287 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
1288 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
1289 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
1290 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
1291 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
1292 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
1294 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
1297 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
1298 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
1300 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
1301 as possible default values.
1302 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
1303 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
1304 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
1305 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
1306 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
1307 configured to access it via weak symbols.
1308 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
1309 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
1311 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
1312 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
1313 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
1314 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
1315 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
1316 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
1317 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
1318 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1321 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
1322 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
1323 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
1324 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
1325 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1326 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
1327 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
1329 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1330 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
1333 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
1335 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
1336 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
1337 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
1338 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
1339 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
1340 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
1342 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
1345 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
1346 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
1347 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
1348 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
1351 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
1352 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
1353 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
1355 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
1356 function in link_test.c
1357 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
1358 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
1359 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
1360 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
1361 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
1364 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
1366 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
1367 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
1368 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
1369 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
1370 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
1371 + it lacks the use_env() function.
1372 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
1373 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
1374 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
1375 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
1376 + additional manpage cleanup.
1377 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1378 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1381 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
1382 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
1383 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
1384 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
1385 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
1386 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
1387 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
1389 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
1390 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
1391 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
1392 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
1393 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
1394 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
1395 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
1396 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
1397 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
1398 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
1402 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
1403 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
1404 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
1405 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
1408 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
1410 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
1411 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
1412 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
1415 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
1416 (report by Midolikawa H).
1417 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
1418 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
1419 drawing character is drawn.
1420 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
1421 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
1422 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
1423 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
1424 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
1425 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
1426 directory-tree terminal databases.
1427 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
1428 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
1429 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
1432 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
1433 than in the test-program.
1434 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
1435 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
1436 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
1439 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
1440 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
1441 + implement page up/down commands.
1442 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
1444 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
1445 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
1446 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
1448 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
1449 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
1450 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
1451 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
1452 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
1453 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
1456 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
1457 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
1458 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
1459 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
1460 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
1461 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
1462 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
1463 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
1465 + regenerate man-html documentation.
1468 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
1469 Solaris xpg4 curses.
1470 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
1471 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
1472 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
1474 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
1475 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
1476 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
1477 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
1478 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
1479 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
1480 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
1481 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
1485 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
1486 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
1487 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
1490 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
1491 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
1494 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
1495 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
1496 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
1497 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
1498 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
1499 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
1500 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
1501 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
1502 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
1503 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit
1504 checks in some libraries.
1505 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
1506 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
1507 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
1508 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
1511 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
1512 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
1513 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
1514 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
1518 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
1521 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1522 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
1523 over missing/cancelled values.
1524 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
1526 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
1527 cancelled string capabilities.
1528 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
1529 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
1530 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
1531 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
1532 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
1533 as input (Redhat #1484274).
1534 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
1535 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
1537 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
1538 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
1539 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
1540 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
1541 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
1542 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
1544 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
1548 + update "iterm" entry -TD
1549 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1550 + regenerate llib-* files.
1551 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1552 + improve picsmap test-program:
1553 + reduce memory used for tsearch
1554 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
1555 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
1557 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
1558 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
1559 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
1560 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
1563 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
1565 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
1566 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
1568 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
1569 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
1570 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
1571 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
1572 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
1573 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
1574 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
1575 current screen is marked for clearing.
1576 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
1577 loading image files.
1578 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
1579 on demand up to the existing limit.
1580 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
1581 improve color_content().
1582 + improve picsmap test-program:
1583 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
1584 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
1585 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
1586 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
1587 + add "-l" option for logging
1588 + add "-d" option for debugging
1589 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
1591 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
1592 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1593 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1596 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
1597 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
1598 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
1599 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
1601 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
1602 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
1603 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
1604 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
1605 parameters for a capability and the actual.
1606 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
1607 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
1608 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
1609 alternate character set is enabled.
1610 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
1611 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
1612 tack for memory-leak checking.
1613 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
1614 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
1615 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
1616 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
1617 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
1618 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
1619 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
1620 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
1621 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
1622 extended capability arrays.
1623 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
1626 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
1627 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
1628 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
1629 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
1630 term-driver configuration.
1631 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
1632 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
1633 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
1634 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
1635 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
1636 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
1639 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
1640 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
1641 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
1642 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
1644 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
1645 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
1648 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
1649 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
1652 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
1653 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
1654 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
1655 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
1656 configuration; none is needed.
1657 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
1658 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
1659 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
1660 not work (cf: 20160213).
1661 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
1662 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
1663 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
1664 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
1665 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
1666 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
1667 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
1668 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
1669 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
1670 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
1671 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
1672 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
1673 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
1674 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
1675 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
1676 (report by Allen Hewes).
1679 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
1680 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
1681 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
1682 (report by Allen Hewes).
1683 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
1684 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
1685 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
1686 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
1687 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
1688 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
1689 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
1690 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
1691 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
1694 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
1695 (report by Allen Hewes).
1696 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
1697 to help with leak checking.
1698 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
1700 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
1701 cannot be initialized.
1704 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
1705 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
1706 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
1709 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
1711 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
1712 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
1713 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1714 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
1715 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
1718 + improved test/picsmap.c:
1719 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
1720 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
1721 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
1724 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
1725 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
1726 related files can be checked with lintian.
1727 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
1730 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
1731 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
1732 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
1733 changed (cf: 20170311).
1734 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
1737 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
1738 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
1739 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
1740 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
1741 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
1742 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
1743 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
1744 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
1747 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
1748 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
1749 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
1750 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
1751 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
1752 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
1753 for better compatibility with other implementations.
1754 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
1755 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
1756 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
1757 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1758 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1761 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
1762 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
1764 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
1765 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
1766 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
1767 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
1768 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
1769 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
1770 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
1771 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
1772 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
1773 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
1774 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
1775 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
1776 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
1777 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
1778 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
1779 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
1780 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
1781 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
1782 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
1783 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
1784 preference to "%02" on output.
1785 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
1786 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
1787 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
1790 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
1791 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
1792 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
1794 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
1795 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
1796 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
1797 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
1798 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
1799 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
1802 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
1804 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
1805 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
1806 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
1810 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
1811 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
1812 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
1813 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
1814 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
1815 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
1816 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
1817 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
1818 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
1820 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
1821 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
1822 calls to get original tty-modes.
1823 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
1824 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
1825 null, as documented.
1826 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
1827 reduce compiler warnings.
1828 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
1829 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
1830 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
1831 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
1832 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
1833 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
1834 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
1835 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
1836 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
1837 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
1838 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
1841 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
1842 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
1843 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
1845 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
1846 called (report by "Kau").
1847 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
1850 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
1851 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
1852 rather than using def_prog_mode().
1853 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
1854 externals that are used by tack.
1855 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
1856 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
1857 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
1859 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
1860 + regenerate man-html documentation.
1863 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
1864 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
1865 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
1866 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
1867 terminal emulators -TD
1868 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
1870 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
1871 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
1872 8-bit limit on colors
1873 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
1874 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
1875 free_pair() functions
1876 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
1879 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
1880 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
1881 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
1882 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
1884 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
1887 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
1890 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
1891 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
1892 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
1893 treated as only absent.
1894 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
1895 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
1896 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
1899 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
1900 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
1901 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
1902 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
1903 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
1904 --enable-sp-funcs option.
1905 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
1906 without modifying API/ABI.
1907 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
1908 similar options for the other libraries.
1911 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
1913 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
1914 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
1915 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
1916 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
1917 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
1918 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
1919 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
1920 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
1923 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
1924 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
1925 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
1926 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
1927 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1928 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
1929 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
1932 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
1933 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
1934 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
1935 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
1936 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
1937 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
1938 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
1940 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
1941 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
1944 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
1945 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
1946 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
1947 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
1948 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
1952 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
1953 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
1954 either reset- or init-strings.
1955 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
1956 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
1957 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
1958 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
1959 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
1960 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
1961 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
1962 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
1963 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
1964 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
1965 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
1966 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
1969 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
1970 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
1971 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
1972 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
1973 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
1974 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
1975 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
1976 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
1978 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
1979 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
1980 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
1981 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
1983 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1984 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1987 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
1988 (patch by Leon Winter).
1989 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
1990 patch by Mihail Konev).
1991 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
1992 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
1996 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
1997 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
1998 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
1999 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
2000 did not work after changes in 20130112.
2003 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
2004 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
2005 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
2006 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
2007 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
2008 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
2010 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
2013 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
2014 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
2017 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
2019 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
2020 reverse-video control -TD
2021 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
2022 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
2023 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
2024 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
2025 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
2026 video escape without using a delay.
2027 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
2028 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
2032 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
2033 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
2034 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
2035 by various discussions including
2036 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
2039 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
2040 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
2041 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
2042 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
2045 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
2046 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
2049 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
2052 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
2053 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
2054 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
2055 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
2056 not optional in tput.
2057 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
2058 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
2059 for transformed names.
2060 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
2061 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
2064 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
2065 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
2066 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
2067 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
2069 + regenerate llib-* files.
2070 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2071 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
2074 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
2075 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
2076 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
2079 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
2080 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
2081 a given line-length.
2082 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
2083 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
2086 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
2087 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
2088 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
2091 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
2092 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
2095 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
2097 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
2098 page (patch by Leon Winter).
2099 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
2100 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
2101 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
2102 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
2103 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
2106 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
2108 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
2109 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
2111 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
2112 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
2113 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
2114 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
2118 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
2120 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
2122 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
2123 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
2124 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
2125 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
2126 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
2127 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
2128 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2129 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2132 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
2133 modes by sharing functions with tset.
2134 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
2135 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
2136 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
2137 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
2139 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
2142 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
2143 handle a case of "configure && make install".
2144 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
2145 in sed (Debian #818067).
2148 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
2149 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
2150 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
2151 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
2153 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
2154 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
2158 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
2159 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
2160 output or error are redirected.
2161 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
2165 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
2166 redirected to a file or pipe.
2167 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
2170 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
2172 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
2173 for special keys, based on xterm.
2176 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
2179 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
2180 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
2181 work (report by Sven Joachim).
2184 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
2185 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
2186 to make it more readable.
2189 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
2190 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
2191 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
2192 better testing of function-keys.
2193 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
2194 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
2195 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
2196 that could be returned -TD
2197 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
2200 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
2201 + add test/list_keys.c
2204 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
2205 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
2208 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
2209 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
2210 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
2211 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
2212 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
2213 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
2214 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
2215 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
2216 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
2217 cannot combine -c and -o options.
2220 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2221 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
2222 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
2223 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
2224 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
2225 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
2226 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
2229 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
2230 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
2232 + modify test/ncurses.c:
2233 + check return-value of putwin
2234 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
2235 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
2236 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
2239 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
2240 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
2241 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
2242 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
2246 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
2247 PIC builds documented in
2248 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
2249 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
2250 due to program-transformation configure options.
2251 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
2254 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
2255 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
2258 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2259 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
2263 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2264 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
2265 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
2266 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
2267 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
2268 can handle the event.
2271 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
2272 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
2273 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
2274 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
2277 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
2278 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
2279 as responding to window size-changes.
2282 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
2283 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
2286 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
2287 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
2288 in case weak symbols are used.
2289 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
2290 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
2292 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
2293 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
2294 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2295 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2298 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
2299 in threaded configuration.
2300 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
2301 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
2304 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
2305 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
2306 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
2310 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
2311 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
2312 unwanted blank lines.
2315 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
2316 (report by Corey Minyard).
2317 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
2320 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
2321 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2322 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
2323 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
2325 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
2326 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
2327 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
2329 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
2330 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
2333 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
2334 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
2335 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
2336 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
2339 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
2340 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
2341 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
2344 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
2345 with James Crippen).
2346 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
2348 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
2349 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
2352 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
2353 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
2354 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
2355 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
2356 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
2357 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
2358 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
2359 drawing characters as double-width.
2362 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
2363 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2364 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
2365 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
2366 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
2367 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
2368 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
2369 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
2373 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
2375 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
2377 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
2378 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
2379 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
2380 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
2381 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
2384 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
2385 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
2386 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
2387 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
2390 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
2391 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
2392 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
2393 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
2394 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
2396 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
2397 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
2398 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
2399 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
2400 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
2403 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
2404 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
2405 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
2406 install time (cf: 20150822).
2407 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
2408 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
2409 empty "local" section.
2410 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
2411 to incorrect attribute-masking.
2414 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
2415 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
2416 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
2417 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
2418 did not display well.
2419 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
2420 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
2421 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
2422 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
2423 Normand, Novell #946048).
2424 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
2425 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
2426 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
2427 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
2428 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
2429 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
2430 Internet Archive -TD
2431 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2432 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2435 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
2436 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
2437 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
2438 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
2439 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
2440 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
2441 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
2442 + support building with libtool on OS/2
2443 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
2444 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
2447 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
2448 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
2449 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
2450 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
2452 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
2453 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
2454 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
2457 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
2459 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
2460 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
2463 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
2465 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
2466 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
2467 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
2468 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2471 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
2473 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
2474 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
2475 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
2476 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
2477 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
2478 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
2480 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
2483 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
2485 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
2486 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
2487 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
2489 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
2490 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
2493 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
2495 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
2496 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
2497 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
2498 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
2499 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
2503 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
2504 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
2505 + update release notes in INSTALL.
2506 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
2509 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
2510 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
2511 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
2513 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2516 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
2517 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
2518 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
2519 more than 200 snapshots.
2520 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
2524 + updated llib-* files.
2525 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
2526 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
2528 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2529 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
2530 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
2531 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
2532 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
2533 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
2534 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
2537 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
2538 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
2539 curs_initscr.3x page.
2540 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
2541 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
2542 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
2544 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
2545 e.g., ncursestw library.
2548 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
2549 configuration of ncurses6.
2550 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
2551 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
2552 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
2553 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
2554 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
2557 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
2558 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
2559 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
2562 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
2564 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
2565 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
2566 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
2567 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
2568 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
2569 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
2570 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
2571 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
2572 setupterm and restartterm functions.
2573 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
2574 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
2575 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
2579 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
2580 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
2581 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
2582 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
2583 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
2584 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
2585 discussion with Sven Joachim).
2586 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
2588 20150606 pre-release
2589 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
2590 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
2591 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
2592 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
2593 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
2594 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
2595 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
2596 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
2597 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
2598 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
2599 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
2600 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
2601 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
2602 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
2605 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
2606 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
2607 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
2608 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
2609 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
2610 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
2611 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
2612 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
2615 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
2616 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
2617 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
2618 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
2619 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
2621 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
2622 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
2625 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
2626 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
2627 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
2628 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
2630 + regenerate html manpages.
2631 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
2632 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
2633 Stack Overflow forum):
2636 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
2637 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
2638 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
2639 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
2640 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
2644 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
2645 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
2646 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
2647 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
2648 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
2650 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
2651 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2652 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
2653 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
2654 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
2655 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
2657 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
2658 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
2659 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
2660 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
2661 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
2662 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
2664 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
2665 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
2667 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
2668 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
2670 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
2671 the ncurses library aside from headers.
2672 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
2673 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
2674 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
2675 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
2676 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2677 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2680 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
2681 (report by Todd M Lewis).
2682 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
2683 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
2684 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
2685 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
2686 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
2687 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
2689 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
2690 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
2691 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
2692 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
2693 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
2694 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
2695 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
2698 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
2699 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
2700 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
2701 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
2702 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
2703 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
2704 with the shared libraries.
2705 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
2706 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
2707 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
2708 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
2709 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
2710 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
2711 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
2712 inherit into new windows.
2715 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
2716 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
2717 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
2718 readonly text segment.
2721 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
2722 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
2725 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
2726 the extended putwin/getwin.
2727 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
2729 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
2733 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
2734 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
2735 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
2736 for a magic code at the beginning:
2737 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
2740 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
2742 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
2743 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
2746 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
2747 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
2748 (report by Grady Martin).
2751 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
2752 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
2753 the wide-character libraries.
2754 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
2756 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
2757 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
2760 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
2761 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
2762 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
2766 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
2767 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
2770 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
2771 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
2772 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
2773 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
2774 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
2777 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
2778 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
2779 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
2782 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
2783 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
2784 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
2786 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
2787 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
2788 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
2789 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
2790 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
2791 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
2792 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
2793 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
2794 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
2795 (report by Pavel Balaev).
2798 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
2799 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
2800 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
2801 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
2802 variations in ABI 6.
2805 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
2806 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
2810 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
2814 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
2815 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
2816 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
2817 the ABI 5 libraries.
2818 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
2819 regenerate html-manpages.
2822 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
2823 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
2825 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
2826 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
2827 package for ncurses6.
2828 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
2829 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
2830 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
2831 in the corresponding ".map" files.
2832 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
2833 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
2837 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
2838 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
2839 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
2840 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
2841 gcc introduced here:
2842 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
2843 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
2844 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
2845 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
2848 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
2849 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
2850 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
2851 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
2852 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
2855 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
2856 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
2857 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
2858 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
2859 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
2860 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
2861 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
2865 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
2866 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
2870 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
2871 msys2 configuration.
2874 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
2875 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
2876 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
2877 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
2878 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
2880 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
2881 (report by Mike Gran).
2884 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
2885 demonstration of its limitations.
2886 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
2887 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
2888 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
2889 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
2890 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
2891 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
2892 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
2894 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
2895 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
2898 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
2899 + implement flash in win_driver.c
2900 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
2902 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
2903 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
2904 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
2905 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
2906 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
2907 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
2908 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
2909 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
2912 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
2913 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
2914 some older cross-compiler environments.
2915 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
2916 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
2917 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
2918 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
2919 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
2920 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
2921 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
2922 + update config.sub from
2923 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2926 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
2927 C++ cross-compilers.
2928 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
2931 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
2933 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
2936 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
2937 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
2938 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
2941 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
2942 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
2946 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
2947 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
2948 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
2951 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
2952 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
2953 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
2954 + regenerated html manpages.
2955 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
2956 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
2957 which reverses cause/effect.
2958 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
2959 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
2960 + fixes for win_driver.c:
2961 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
2966 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
2967 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
2968 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
2969 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
2971 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
2972 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
2973 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
2974 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
2978 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
2979 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
2980 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
2981 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
2982 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
2983 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
2984 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
2985 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
2986 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
2989 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
2990 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
2991 options, from xterm changes.
2994 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
2995 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
2999 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
3000 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
3003 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
3004 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
3005 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
3006 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
3007 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
3008 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
3009 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
3012 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
3013 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
3014 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
3015 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
3016 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
3017 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
3018 providing directly comparable screens.
3019 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
3022 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
3024 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
3025 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
3026 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
3027 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
3028 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
3029 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
3030 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
3033 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
3034 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3035 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
3036 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
3037 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
3040 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
3041 overlap with sgr functionality.
3042 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
3043 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
3044 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
3045 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
3046 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
3047 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
3048 older ncurses than 20131207.
3049 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
3050 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
3051 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
3052 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
3053 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
3056 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
3057 environment variable.
3058 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
3059 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
3060 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
3061 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
3062 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
3063 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
3064 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
3065 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
3066 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
3067 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
3068 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
3069 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
3070 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
3071 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
3073 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
3075 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
3076 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
3077 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
3079 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
3080 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
3081 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
3082 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
3083 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
3084 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
3085 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
3087 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
3089 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
3090 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
3091 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
3092 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
3093 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
3094 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
3095 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
3096 to be consecutive anyway.
3097 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
3098 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
3099 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
3100 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
3103 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
3104 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
3105 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
3108 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
3109 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
3110 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
3111 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3114 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
3116 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
3117 simplify later merging:
3118 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
3119 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
3120 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
3121 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
3122 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
3126 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3127 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3130 + modify configure script:
3131 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
3132 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
3133 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
3134 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
3135 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
3136 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
3137 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
3138 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
3139 "#win32console", and
3140 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
3141 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
3144 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
3145 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
3146 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
3147 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
3148 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
3149 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
3153 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3156 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
3157 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
3158 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
3159 + add terminology entry -TD
3160 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
3161 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
3164 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
3165 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
3166 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
3167 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
3168 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
3172 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
3173 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
3174 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
3175 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
3176 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
3179 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
3182 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
3183 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
3184 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
3188 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
3189 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
3190 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
3191 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
3192 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
3193 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
3195 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
3196 html emitted by docbook.
3199 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
3200 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
3201 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
3202 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
3205 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
3206 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
3207 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
3208 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
3209 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3210 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
3213 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
3214 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
3215 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
3216 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3219 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
3220 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
3223 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
3225 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
3228 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
3229 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
3230 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
3231 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
3233 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
3235 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
3236 + updated llib-l* files.
3239 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
3240 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
3244 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
3245 recognized by clang.
3248 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3249 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
3250 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
3251 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
3252 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
3253 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
3254 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
3255 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
3256 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
3257 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
3258 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
3259 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
3261 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
3263 + update config.sub from
3264 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3267 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
3270 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
3271 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
3272 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
3273 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
3275 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
3278 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
3279 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
3280 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
3281 them more consistent with other packages.
3284 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
3285 compiling ncurses-examples.
3286 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
3289 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
3292 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
3293 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
3294 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
3295 cross-compiles to MinGW.
3296 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
3300 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
3301 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
3305 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
3306 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
3308 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
3310 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
3311 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
3312 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
3313 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
3314 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
3317 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
3318 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
3319 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
3322 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
3324 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
3325 before/after Debian #700177.
3326 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
3327 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
3329 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
3330 of sort, improving portability.
3331 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
3332 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3333 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3336 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
3337 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
3339 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
3340 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
3341 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
3344 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
3345 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
3346 introduced by Debian #700177.
3347 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
3348 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
3351 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
3352 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
3354 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
3355 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
3356 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
3359 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
3360 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
3362 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
3363 cross-compile support packages.
3364 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
3367 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
3368 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
3369 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
3370 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
3371 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
3372 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
3373 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
3374 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
3375 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
3376 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
3377 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
3378 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
3381 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
3382 initialization of cur_term.
3385 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
3386 + minor compiler-warning fixes
3389 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
3390 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
3391 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
3392 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
3393 --enable-auto-import flag.
3394 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
3398 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
3399 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
3400 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
3401 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
3402 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
3404 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
3405 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
3406 (patch by Eric Raymond).
3409 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
3410 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
3411 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
3413 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
3414 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
3415 not printing the full pathname of the program.
3416 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
3417 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
3418 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
3421 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
3422 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
3424 + add test/dots_termcap.c
3425 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
3426 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
3427 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
3428 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
3429 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
3430 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
3431 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
3432 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
3433 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
3435 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
3436 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
3439 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
3440 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
3441 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
3442 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
3443 the left margin of the display.
3444 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
3445 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
3446 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
3447 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
3450 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
3451 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
3452 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
3453 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
3454 + regenerated html manpages.
3455 + update doctype used for html documentation.
3458 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
3459 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
3460 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
3461 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
3462 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
3463 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
3466 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
3467 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
3468 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
3469 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
3470 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
3473 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
3474 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
3477 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
3478 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
3479 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3480 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
3481 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
3483 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
3484 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
3485 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
3486 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
3489 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
3490 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
3491 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
3492 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
3494 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
3496 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
3498 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
3501 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
3505 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
3506 (report by Christian Ebert).
3507 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
3508 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
3509 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
3512 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
3513 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
3514 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
3515 add bold for consistency with sgr,
3516 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
3517 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
3518 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
3519 by Benjamin Sittler)
3520 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
3521 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
3522 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
3523 line split after "%;".
3524 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
3525 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
3528 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
3529 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
3530 + regenerated html manpages.
3531 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
3532 + updated some autoconf macros:
3533 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
3534 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
3535 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
3536 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
3537 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
3538 configuration (Redhat #911540).
3539 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
3540 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
3543 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
3544 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
3546 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
3547 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
3549 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
3550 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
3551 of raw input in MinGW port.
3554 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
3555 + update config.guess, config.sub
3558 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
3560 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
3562 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
3563 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
3564 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
3565 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
3566 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
3567 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
3568 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
3570 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
3571 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
3574 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
3575 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
3577 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
3578 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
3579 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
3582 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
3583 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
3584 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
3587 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
3588 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
3589 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
3590 help reduce flicker.
3591 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
3592 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
3593 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
3594 by Dennis Grevenstein).
3595 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
3596 Dennis Grevenstein).
3597 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
3598 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
3599 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
3602 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
3603 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
3604 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
3605 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
3606 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
3607 + improve error-checking in copywin
3608 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
3609 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
3610 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
3611 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
3612 matching capability names.
3613 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
3614 applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2
3615 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
3618 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
3619 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
3620 are unused in the current driver model.
3621 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
3623 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
3624 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
3625 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
3626 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
3629 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
3630 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
3632 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
3633 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
3634 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
3635 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
3636 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
3639 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
3640 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
3641 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
3645 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
3647 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
3648 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
3650 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
3651 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
3652 wide-character which can be used.
3655 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
3656 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
3657 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
3658 by Erwin Waterlander).
3659 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
3660 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3661 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
3662 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
3663 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
3664 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
3668 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
3669 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
3670 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
3671 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
3672 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
3673 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3674 + remove a few redundant checks.
3675 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
3677 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
3678 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
3679 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
3680 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
3682 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
3683 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
3684 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
3688 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
3689 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
3690 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
3694 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
3695 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
3696 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3697 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
3700 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3701 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
3702 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
3703 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
3704 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
3705 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
3706 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
3707 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
3709 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
3710 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
3711 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
3712 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
3715 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
3716 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
3717 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
3719 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
3720 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
3721 libraries or executables.
3724 + realign these related pages:
3729 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
3730 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
3731 (report by Reuben Thomas).
3732 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
3733 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
3734 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
3735 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
3736 based on testing with tack -TD
3737 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
3738 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
3741 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
3743 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
3744 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
3745 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
3748 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
3752 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
3753 (patch by Christian Persch).
3756 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
3758 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
3759 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
3760 has used that for a while.
3761 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
3762 for experimental use.
3763 + remove unused configure macros.
3764 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
3765 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
3766 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
3767 + update config.guess, config.sub
3770 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
3771 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
3772 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
3773 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
3774 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
3775 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
3776 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
3779 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
3780 to help with MinGW port.
3783 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
3785 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
3788 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
3791 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
3792 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
3793 might not be allocated.
3794 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
3797 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
3798 initial screen-sizes.
3799 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
3800 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
3804 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
3805 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
3809 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
3810 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
3811 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
3813 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
3814 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
3817 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
3818 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
3819 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
3820 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
3821 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
3822 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
3823 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
3827 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
3828 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
3829 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
3830 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
3831 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
3832 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
3833 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
3834 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
3838 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
3839 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
3840 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
3841 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
3842 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
3843 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
3846 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
3850 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
3852 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
3854 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
3855 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
3856 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
3857 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
3858 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
3859 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
3862 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
3864 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
3865 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
3866 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
3868 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
3869 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
3872 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
3873 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
3874 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
3877 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
3878 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
3880 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
3881 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
3883 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
3884 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
3887 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
3889 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
3890 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
3891 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
3892 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
3893 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
3894 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
3897 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
3898 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
3899 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
3900 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
3901 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
3902 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
3903 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
3904 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
3905 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
3907 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
3908 analysis by Martin Husemann).
3909 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
3910 Onno van der Linden).
3913 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
3915 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
3917 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
3918 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
3921 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
3922 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
3923 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
3924 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
3925 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
3926 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
3927 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
3930 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
3931 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
3932 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
3933 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
3934 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
3935 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
3936 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
3937 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
3938 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
3939 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
3940 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
3941 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
3942 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
3943 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
3944 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
3947 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
3948 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
3949 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
3950 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
3951 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
3952 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
3953 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
3954 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
3955 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
3956 are interpreted as key definitions.
3957 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
3958 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
3962 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
3963 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
3964 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
3965 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
3966 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
3967 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
3968 as building-blocks -TD
3969 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
3972 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
3973 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
3974 title is a status-line. -TD
3975 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
3976 of ordering and overrides -TD
3977 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
3978 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
3979 used in that file -TD
3982 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
3983 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
3984 definable capabilities.
3985 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
3986 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
3987 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
3988 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
3989 embedded in the description.
3990 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
3991 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
3992 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
3993 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
3994 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
3995 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
3998 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
3999 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
4000 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
4001 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
4002 Nicolas Boulenguez).
4003 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
4004 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
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