- * modified infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated
- fallback.c type for Booleans agrees with term.h
- * documented a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2
- and 5.0, added a section for this in INSTALL.
- * corrected tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
- negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
- to wait indefinitely.
- * made 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
- delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo
- to specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud
- rate could mislead ncurses into producing too few padding
- characters.
- * modified lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
- corner, rather than displaying only the first character written
- until the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can
- update the lower-right corner, and behave this way.
- * modified echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
- carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
- * corrected offsets used for subwindows in wresize()
- * modified configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined
- to a warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++
- compiler without requiring user to add --without-cxx option
- * corrected logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM
- mouse support when poll() is used rather than select().
- * made several fixes for buffer overflows, unchecked recursion,
- improvements in performance, etc. See the NEWS file for details.
+ * add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined
+ capabilities (this is needed for current konsole terminfo entry).
+ * modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
+ installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
+ case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh.
+ * correct check for notimeout() in wgetch().
+ * fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function.
+ * change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line.
+ * make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
+ * fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line.
+ * fill in extended-color pair to make colors work for
+ wide-characters using extended-colors.
+ * improve refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
+ taking into account split characters on left/right window
+ boundaries.
+ * modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
+ for each multi-column character.
+ * improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
+ using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to
+ append further bytes to make up a valid sequence.
+ * restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh()
+ * modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called,
+ or if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
+ initscr() or newterm().
+ * modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
+ If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
+ sequence.
+ * improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting
+ the soft-keys.
+ * modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
+ in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris.
+ * use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc.,
+ to make those work properly with the --enable-ext-mouse
+ configuration
+ * correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return
+ value from C where none was returned.
+ * reviewed/fixed issues reported by Coverity and Klocwork tools.
+
+ Portability:
+ * configure script:
+ + new options:
+
+ --disable-big-strings
+ control whether static string tables are generated
+ as single large strings (to improve startup
+ performance), or as array of individual strings.
+
+ --disable-relink
+ control whether shared libraries are relinked
+ (during install) when rpath is enabled.
+
+ --disable-tic-depends
+ make explicit whether tic library depends on
+ ncurses/ncursesw library.
+
+ --enable-mixed-case
+ override the configure script's check if the
+ filesystem supports mixed-case filenames. This
+ allows one to control how the terminal database
+ maps to the filesystem. For filesystems that do not
+ support mixed-case, the library uses generate
+ 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level
+ of the filesystem terminfo database
+
+ --enable-reentrant
+ builds a different flavor of the ncurses library
+ (ncursest) which improves reentrant use of the
+ library by reducing global and static variables
+ (see the "--with-pthread" option for the threaded
+ support).
+
+ --enable-weak-symbols
+ use weak-symbols for linking to the POSIX thread
+ library, and use the same soname for the ncurses
+ shared library as the normal library (caveat: the
+ ABI is for the threaded library, which makes global
+ data accessed via functions).
+
+ --with-pthread
+ build with the POSIX thread library (tested with
+ AIX, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HPUX, IRIX64,
+ Solaris, Tru64).
+
+ --with-ticlib
+ build/install the tic-support functions in a
+ separate library
+
+ + improved options:
+
+ --enable-ext-colors
+ requires the wide-character configuration.
+
+ --with-chtype
+ ignore option value "unsigned" is always added to
+ the type in curses.h; do the same for
+ --with-mmask-t.
+
+ --with-dmalloc
+ build-fix for redefinition of strndup.
+
+ --with-hashed-db
+ accepts a parameter which is the install-prefix of
+ a given Berkeley Database.
+
+ --with-hashed-db
+ the $LIBS environment variable overrides the search
+ for the db library.
+
+ --without-hashed-db
+ assumed when "--disable-database" is used.
+
+ * other configure/build issues:
+ + build-fixes for LynxOS
+ + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use
+ rpath.
+ + build-fix for FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface.
+ + build-fixes for AIX with libtool.
+ + build-fixes for Darwin and libtool.
+ + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku.
+ + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on
+ Solaris and IRIX64.
+ + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath
+ work.
+ + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
+ + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating
+ source-files to force earlier exit if the build environment
+ fails unexpectedly.
+ + add support for shared libraries for QNX.
+ + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
+ substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to
+ digraphs.
+ * library:
+ + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris.
+ This is used in the form library to determine the length of
+ the buffer needed by field_buffer.
+ + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the
+ corresponding type for data manipulated by signal handlers.
+ + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
+ + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to
+ contain "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its
+ assertion to terminals that it might handle, e.g., within
+ "screen" in xterm.
+ + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library.
+ * test programs:
+ + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses
+ for comparisons.
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