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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3431 2020/01/19 02:02:44 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3469 2020/03/28 23:33:04 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.
+20200328
+ + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
+ + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
+ builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
+
+20200321
+ + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
+ + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
+ pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
+ a corresponding demo of dup_field().
+
+20200314
+ + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+ + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+ + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
+
+20200308
+ + update copyright notices in test-packages.
+ + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
+ + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
+ by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
+
+20200301
+ + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
+ background character, because it may be used in cases where the
+ corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
+ cf: 20181208).
+
+20200229
+ + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
+ which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
+ > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
+ "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
+ + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
+ + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
+ + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
+ length array feature.
+ + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
+ + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
+ + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
+ + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
+ + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
+ because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
+ + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
+
+20200222
+ + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
+ + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
+ + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
+ + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
+ building out-of-tree.
+ + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
+ + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
+ include all of the required headers for the types used.
+
+20200215
+ + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
+ section as well as documenting error-returns.
+ + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
+ + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
+ FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
+ + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
+
+20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ + update release notes
+ + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
+
+20200208
+ + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
+ when cross-compiling.
+ + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
+ + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
+ to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
+
+20200202
+ + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
+ https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
+
+20200201
+ + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
+ collision handling for Caps-hpux11
+ + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
+ terminfo and termcap names.
+ + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
+ + update a few comments about tack 1.07
+ + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
+ programs for explain.txt
+
20200118
+ expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
+ improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
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