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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3096 2018/03/03 22:07:39 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20180630
+ + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
+ add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
+ + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
+ (Nicholas Marriott).
+ + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
+ + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
+ locale support.
+ + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
+
+20180623
+ + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
+ to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
+ compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
+ + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
+ updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
+ CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
+ CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20180616
+ + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
+ + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
+ combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
+ + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
+ use of vsscanf and setenv.
+ + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
+ work on dialog.
+
+20180609
+ + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
+ to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
+ #900839).
+ + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
+ and vw_scanw, respectively.
+
+20180602
+ + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
+ + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
+
+20180526
+ + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
+ + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
+ files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
+ Pascual Monells).
+ + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
+ + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
+ work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
+
+20180519
+ + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
+ + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
+ fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
+ (report by C Anthony Risinger)
+ + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
+ + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
+ for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
+
+20180512
+ + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
+ + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
+ + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
+
+20180505
+ + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
+ versions of tack.
+ + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
+ alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
+ the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
+ such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
+ + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
+ conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
+ + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
+ for escaping regular expressions.
+
+20180428
+ + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
+ Winter).
+ + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
+ (report by Leon Winter).
+ + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
+ unfocus_current_field (form);
+ form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
+ (patch by Leon Winter).
+
+20180414
+ + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
+ edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
+ non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
+ + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
+ + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
+ a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
+
+20180407
+ + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
+ not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
+ + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
+ Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
+ interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
+ interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
+ As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
+ values, e.g., keyname().
+
+20180331
+ + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
+ extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
+ string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
+
+20180324
+ + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
+ 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
+ + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
+ + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
+ + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
+
+20180317
+ + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
+ it should have.
+ + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
+ different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
+ + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
+ + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
+ terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
+ by Gyorgy Jeney).
+
20180303
+ modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
20121229
- + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
+ + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
+ add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
+ minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
numbers.
+ improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
20091114
-
+ updated man/curs_trace.3x
+ limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
+ change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
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