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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3219 2018/11/24 22:39:15 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3266 2019/01/27 00:23:49 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.
+20190126
+ + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
+ "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
+ + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
+ + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
+ being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
+ Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
+
+20190121
+ + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
+ file in Slackware.
+ + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
+ on some of the BSDs.
+ + updated "string-hacks" feature.
+ + minor improvements to manpage typography.
+ + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
+ "Hudd").
+ + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
+ init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
+ extended_color_content
+ + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
+ return values from the tested functions.
+ + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
+ extensions.
+ + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
+ option was given.
+ + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
+ warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
+
+20190112
+ + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
+ Modinos).
+ + add nsterm-direct -TD
+ + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
+ + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
+ + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
+
+20190105
+ + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
+ building test-packages for Arch.
+ + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
+ that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
+ packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20181229
+ + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
+ + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
+ as a pipe/filter.
+ + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
+ discussion with Bryan Christ).
+ + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
+ + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
+ obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
+ Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
+ names.
+
+20181215
+ + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
+ + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
+ + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
+ as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
+ + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
+ + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
+ + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
+ _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
+ + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
+ supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
+ Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
+ could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
+
+20181208
+ + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
+ curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
+ background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
+
+20181201
+ + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
+ + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
+ different character pages.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20181125
+ + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
+
20181124
+ check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
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