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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2540 2015/12/05 23:45:23 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.
+20160514
+ + regenerate HTML manpages.
+ + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
+ might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
+ + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
+ + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
+ entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
+ + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
+
+20160507
+ + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
+ special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
+ cf: 20151017).
+ + modify test/ncurses.c:
+ + check return-value of putwin
+ + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
+ to keypad- and scroll-modes.
+ + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
+
+20160423
+ + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
+ color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
+ and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
+ + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
+ xterm -TD
+
+20160416
+ + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
+ PIC builds documented in
+ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
+ + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
+ due to program-transformation configure options.
+ + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
+
+20160409
+ + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
+ available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
+
+20160402
+ + regenerate HTML manpages.
+ + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
+ X/Open Curses.
+
+20160326
+ + regenerate HTML manpages.
+ + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
+ to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
+ O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
+ apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
+ can handle the event.
+
+20160319
+ + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
+ + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
+ that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
+ non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
+
+20160312
+ + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
+ polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
+ as responding to window size-changes.
+
+20160305
+ + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
+ does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
+
+20160220
+ + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
+ ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
+ in case weak symbols are used.
+ + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
+ rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
+ cf: 20061021).
+ + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
+ winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20160213
+ + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
+ in threaded configuration.
+ + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
+ since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
+
+20160206
+ + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
+ + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
+ override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
+ configuration.
+
+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).
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