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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2509 2015/10/17 22:02:46 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.
+20160130
+ + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
+ + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
+ unwanted blank lines.
+
+20160123
+ + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
+ (report by Corey Minyard).
+ + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
+
+20160116
+ + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
+ Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
+ + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
+ for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
+ Schenkel) -TD
+ + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
+ as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
+ + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
+ width.
+ + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
+ error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
+
+20160102
+ + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
+ screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
+ + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
+ SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
+
+20151226
+ + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
+ color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
+ + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
+
+20151219
+ + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
+ with James Crippen).
+ + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
+ check into account.
+ + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
+ characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
+
+20151212
+ + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
+ needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
+ does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
+ building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
+ normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
+ + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
+ in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
+ drawing characters as double-width.
+
+20151205
+ + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
+ function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
+ + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
+ rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
+ listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
+ listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
+ e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
+ feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
+ Jason McIntyre).
+
+20151128
+ + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
+ Leon Winter).
+ + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
+ (Debian #805618).
+ + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
+ + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
+ + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
+ backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
+ + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
+
+20151121
+ + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
+ + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
+ + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
+ + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
+
+20151107
+ + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
+ which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
+ name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
+ tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
+ this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
+ Burridge).
+ + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
+ are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
+ + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
+ renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
+ normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
+
+20151101
+ + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
+ valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
+ actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
+ install time (cf: 20150822).
+ + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
+ clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
+ empty "local" section.
+ + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
+ to incorrect attribute-masking.
+
+20151024
+ + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
+ to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
+ + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
+ annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
+ did not display well.
+ + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
+ + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
+ + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
+ the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
+ Normand, Novell #946048).
+ + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
+ FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
+ + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
+ minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
+ + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
+ + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
+ Internet Archive -TD
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
20151017
+ modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
(Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
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