ncurses 5.8 - patch 20110226

[ncurses.git] / NEWS

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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1645 2011/02/21 01:42:08 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1651 2011/02/26 16:54:31 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,13 +45,24 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20110226
+       + update release notes, for 5.8.
+       + regenerated html manpages.
+       + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
+         with write_file().
+       + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
+         a new install of hashed database.
+       + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
+
 20110220
        + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
        + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
          configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
          wide-character configuration.
        + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
-       + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debina #607662).
+       + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
 
 20110212
        + regenerated html manpages.
@@ -3755,7 +3766,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 
 20030208
        + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
-       + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
+       + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
          which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
          Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
        + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent.  Before,
@@ -4474,7 +4485,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
          setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
          interrupted by that signal.
-       + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
+       + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
          not needed with autoconf 2.52
        + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
                autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)