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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2049 2013/04/27 21:56:59 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.
+20130727
+ + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
+ + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
+ + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
+ + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
+ dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
+ + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
+ rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
+ + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
+ are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
+ + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
+ + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
+ the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
+
+20130720
+ + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
+ initialization of cur_term.
+
+20130713
+ + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
+ + minor compiler-warning fixes
+
+20130706
+ + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
+ + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
+ wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
+ + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
+ --enable-auto-import flag.
+ + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
+ table issues.
+
+20130622
+ + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
+ capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
+ Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
+ + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
+ + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
+ of sgr.
+ + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
+ + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
+ (patch by Eric Raymond).
+
+20130615
+ + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
+ + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik):
+ + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
+ tab-lists options.
+ + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
+ + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
+ not printing the full pathname of the program.
+ + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
+ + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
+ such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
+
+20130608
+ + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
+ as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
+ function pointer.
+ + add test/dots_termcap.c
+ + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
+ + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
+ + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
+ into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
+ expansion to free-format input/out demo.
+ + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
+ + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
+ terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
+ + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
+ cf: 20121117).
+ + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
+ --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
+
+20130525
+ + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
+ library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
+ of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
+ it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
+ the left margin of the display.
+ + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
+ + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
+ NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
+ use of these symbols in term_entry.h
+
+20130518
+ + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
+ interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
+ + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
+ 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + update doctype used for html documentation.
+
+20130511
+ + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
+ plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
+ + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
+ + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
+ prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
+ (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
+
+20130504
+ + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
+ + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
+ display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
+ + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
+ + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
+
20130427
+ fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
+ drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
20130209
+ modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
- mingw environment.
+ MinGW environment.
+ if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
+ modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
--disable-echo option is used.
+ modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
- writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
+ writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
+ update config.guess, config.sub
20070707
+ modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
- #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
+ #68199.
+ add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would