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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3431 2020/01/19 02:02:44 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3527 2020/07/25 23:08:42 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.
+20200725
+ + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
+ "Maarten Anonymous")
+ + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
+ + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
+ Florian Weimer).
+
+20200718
+ + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
+ Studio C++.
+ + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
+ libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
+ > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
+ (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+ + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
+ the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
+ + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
+ + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
+
+20200711
+ + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
+ Bruckl).
+ + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
+ (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+ + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
+ Pfeifer).
+ + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
+ + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
+ buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
+ + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
+ trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
+
+20200704
+ + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
+ the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
+ > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
+ (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
+ declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
+
+20200627
+ + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
+ gprbuild.
+ + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
+
+20200613
+ + update list of functions in ncurses.3x
+ + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
+ in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
+ #961097).
+
+20200606
+ + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
+ in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
+ + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
+ screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
+ + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
+ + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
+
+20200531
+ + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
+ + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
+ + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
+ + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
+ + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes.
+ + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
+ handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
+ (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
+ save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
+ passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
+ (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
+ string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+
+20200523
+ + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
+ + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
+ + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
+ which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
+ is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
+ + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
+ generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
+ configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
+ to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
+ > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
+ "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
+ options into Visual Studio's dialect.
+ + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
+ work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
+
+20200516
+ + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x
+ + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
+
+20200509
+ + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
+ a performance comparison.
+ + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
+ use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
+
+20200502
+ + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
+ + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
+ + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
+ those to position reports.
+
+20200425
+ + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
+ + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
+
+20200418
+ + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
+ + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
+ check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
+ character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
+ + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
+
+20200411
+ + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
+ (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
+ + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
+ + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
+
+20200404
+ + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
+ > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
+ "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
+ + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
+ C++ preprocessor limitations.
+ + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
+ with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
+
+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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