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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3600 2020/11/28 23:32:30 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3692 2021/08/07 21:38:44 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.
+20210807
+ + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files,
+ adapted from "distr1" patch.
+ + add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports.
+
+20210731
+ + add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal,
+ but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD
+ + add foot and foot-direct -TD
+
+20210724
+ + add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to
+ ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD
+
+20210718
+ + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this
+ against Glink manual -TD
+ + fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the
+ vt220 entry -TD
+ + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option
+ (report by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers
+ who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library.
+ + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque
+ curses structs.
+
+20210710
+ + improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball,
+ which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years.
+ + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs
+ Jansen).
+ + further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of
+ the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree.
+ + update config.sub
+
+20210703
+ + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc.,
+ in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries.
+ + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
+
+20210626
+ + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to
+ disallow most file-opens by setuid processes.
+ + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD
+ + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD
+ + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler)
+ + regenerate man-html documentation.
+
+20210619
+ + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such
+ as --with-valgrind
+ + trim trailing blanks from files
+
+20210612
+ + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing.
+ + update config.guess
+
+20210605
+ + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h
+ (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray).
+
+20210522
+ + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate
+ an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted
+ by discussion with Peter Farley).
+ + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
+ + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses
+ in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by
+ report/testcase by Bill Gray)
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20210515
+ + improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by
+ report/testcase by Bill Gray).
+
+20210508
+ + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first
+ calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization
+ is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by
+ Sebastiano Vigna).
+ + fix several warnings from clang --analyze
+ + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers
+ to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav
+ Lichvar, cf: 20210227).
+
+20210501
+ + add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the
+ build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here:
+ https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html
+ There is no workaround for the other issue, a broken linker spec.
+ + modify configure check for libtool to prevent accidental use of an
+ OpenBSD program which uses the same name.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20210424
+ + avoid using broken system macros for snprintf which interfere with
+ _nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks
+ configure option is enabled.
+ + add a "all::" rule before the new "check" rule in test/Makefile.in
+
+20210418
+ + improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed
+ before linking to the target.
+ + add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories.
+ + build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports
+ by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum).
+
+20210417
+ + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS
+ from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764).
+ + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
+ libraries and progs directory.
+ + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments
+ (patch by Hadrien Lacour).
+
+20210403
+ + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and
+ progs directory.
+ + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x
+ + improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes.
+ + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning
+ leak-checking off later in a set of options.
+ + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
+ accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime
+ on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems.
+ + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is
+ called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
+ pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
+ Lutter).
+
+20210327
+ + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh
+ + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs,
+ form and menu libraries.
+
+20210323
+ + add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn, making the _Noreturn
+ keyword optional to ease transition (prompted by report by
+ Rajeev V Pillai).
+
+20210320
+ + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any
+ extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms
+ capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town,
+ cf: 20200531).
+ + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of
+ _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD
+ + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger)
+ + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that
+ rather than gcc's attribute.
+ + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is
+ a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention.
+ + add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck.
+
+20210313
+ + improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and
+ ".pc" files, from dialog changes.
+ + reduce dependency of math-library in test programs.
+ + minor fixes for test_tparm.c (cf: 20210306)
+ + mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by
+ Michal Bielinski).
+
+20210306
+ + improved test/test_tparm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities
+ that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test.
+ + improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in
+ man/curs_terminfo.3x
+ + update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1
+
+20210227
+ + modify tic/infocmp to eliminate unnecessary "\" to escape ":" in
+ terminfo format.
+ + add check in tic for duplicate "use=" clauses.
+
+20210220
+ + improve tic warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49 for xterm
+ compatible XT flag.
+ + revert change to lib_addch.c in waddch_literal() from 20210130, since
+ the followup fix in PutCharLR() actually corrects the problem while
+ this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes
+ Altmanninger).
+ + add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD
+ + add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD
+ + add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD
+ + add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD
+ + move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD
+
+20210213
+ + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background
+ functions.
+ + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a
+ wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character.
+ + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries.
+ + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first
+ parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
+
+20210206
+ + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd
+ (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic)
+ + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2"
+ option, from xterm #363 -TD
+ + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before
+ writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the
+ cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
+
+20210130
+ + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused
+ scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower
+ right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD
+ + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not
+ supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD
+ + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD
+ + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD
+ + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore
+ blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD
+
+20210123
+ + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for
+ cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding
+ the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich).
+ + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around
+ quirks of pmake.
+
+20210116
+ + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS
+ (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD
+ + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1,
+ adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
+
+20210109
+ + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates.
+ + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of
+ autoconf 2.52.20210105
+
+20210102
+ + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
+ exit_terminfo.
+ + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
+ defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
+ (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
+ + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
+ for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
+ types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031).
+ + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
+ consistency with other manpages.
+
+20201227
+ + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
+ + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
+
+20201219
+ + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
+ regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
+ + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
+ by Chris Bennett).
+
+20201212
+ + improve manual pages for form field-types.
+
+20201205
+ + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
+ gprbuild (cf: 20200627).
+ + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
+ + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
+ Abendroth).
+ + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
+ (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
+ + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
+
20201128
+ add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
+ add rep to PuTTY -TD
+ correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
+ re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
+ add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
- + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
- + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes.
+ + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
+ + add test/test_tparm.c, for checking tparm changes.
+ improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
(report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
+ fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
+ add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
- which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
+ which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
+ add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
+ build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
20190907
- + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
+ + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
by Pascal Pignard).
+ modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
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