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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3969 2023/06/24 22:59:35 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4111 2024/04/20 21:37:56 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.
+20240420
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + compiler warning/portability fixes.
+
+20240414
+ + build/bug-fix for check-size feature (reports by Sam James, Gabriele
+ Balducci).
+
+20240413
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + provide for padding in check-size feature, using new_prescr() to
+ pass interim SCREEN pointer.
+ + complete change for opaque options (Gentoo #928973, cf: 20231021).
+ + update package /debian/rules and related lintian overrides
+ + revise progs.priv.h to provide for NC_ISATTY reuse
+
+20240330
+ + remove masking of ISIG in cbreak() (report by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + modify test/test_mouse.c to use curses api for raw/noraw.
+ > improved configure macros from other program development:
+ + build-fix for clang on Solaris
+ + suppress filename/timestamp in gzip'd manpages (suggested for
+ byacc by Andrin Geiger)
+
+20240323
+ + modify tput/tset reset feature to avoid 1-second sleep if running in
+ a pseudo-terminal.
+ + modify check-size feature to avoid using it in a pseudoterminal
+ (cf: 20231016)
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + trim a space after some "-R" options, fixing builds for applications
+ built using clang and ncurses on Solaris.
+
+20240309
+ + modify xgterm to work around line-drawing bug -TD
+ + use CSI 3J in vte-2017 (report by Sven Joachim)
+
+20240302
+ + add configure check for MB_LEN_MAX, to provide warning as needed.
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + fix regression in tput which disallowed hex/octal parameters (report
+ by Werner Fink, cf: 20230408)
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20240224
+ + improve man/curs_mouse.3x style (Branden Robinson, Sven Joachim).
+ + provide for CCHARW_MAX greater than 1
+ + eliminate use of PATH_MAX in lib_trace.c
+ + work around misconfiguration of MacPorts gcc13, which exposes invalid
+ definition of MB_LEN_MAX in gcc's fallback copy of limits.h (MacPorts
+ #69374).
+
+20240217
+ + add vt100+noapp, vt100+noapp+pc, xterm+app+pc, xterm+decedit from
+ xterm #389 -TD
+ + fix inconsistent description of wmouse_trafo() (Debian #1059778).
+ + modify wenclose() to handle pads (Debian #1059783).
+ + improve manpage discussion of mouseinterval() (Debian #1058560).
+
+20240210
+ + compiler-warning fixes, while investigating an optimizer bug in
+ "gcc (MacPorts gcc13 13.2.0_4+stdlib_flag) 13.2.0"
+ which results in only the first byte of a multibyte character being
+ printed to the screen.
+
+20240203
+ + minor changes to tracing and locale-checks.
+
+20240127
+ + amend change to z39-a (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + use xterm+nopcfkeys, vt52-basic, dec+pp, dec+sl, vt52+arrows,
+ hp+pfk+cr, klone+acs, klone+color, klone+sgr, ncr160wy50+pp
+ to trim -TD
+ + NetBSD-related fixes for x68k and wsvt52 (patch by Thomas Klausner)
+
+20240120
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + amend discussion of aliases in tput.1
+ + use ansi+sgrbold, ansi+sgrdim, ansi+sgrso, ansi+sgrul, ansi+tabs
+ ecma+color, ecma+sgr, vt100+4bsd, vt100+pfkeys, vt220+pcedit
+ xterm+256color, xterm+acs, xterm+nopcfkeys, xterm+pcf2 to trim -TD
+ + modify configure scripts/makefiles to omit KEY_RESIZE if the
+ corresponding SIGWINCH feature is disabled.
+
+20240113
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + modify dist.mk to avoid passing developer's comments in manpages into
+ the generated html documentation.
+ + use ansi+local, ansi+local1, ansi+pp, ansi+rca, ansi+rca2, ansi+sgr
+ to trim -TD
+ + restore padding for wy520* and vt320-k311 (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20240106
+ + use ansi+arrows, ansi+apparrows, ansi+csr, ansi+erase, ansi+idc,
+ ansi+idc1, ansi+idl, ansi+idl1, ansi+inittabs to trim -TD
+ + minor manpage formatting changes for consistency.
+ + modify doc-html test package's install-directory, per lintian.
+ + add attr_get.3x to man_db.renames.in (patch by Sven Joachim).
+
+20231230
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + add ms-vt100-16color, winconsole -TD
+ + add rio, rio-direct -TD
+ + add mostlike -TD
+ + add wezterm, contour -TD
+
+20231223
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231217
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean
+ is unset in a base entry and set in a use'd chunk, i.e., if it was
+ cancelled.
+ + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which
+ were already cancelled in a use'd chunk.
+ + join two lines in infotocap.3x to eliminate a spurious "description"
+ link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20231209
+ + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels in use'd chunks
+ which are not mentioned in the top-level terminal description.
+ + remove xterm+sm+1006 from tmux (Debian #1057688).
+ + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
+ + updated man/edit_man.sh to allow for "\%" markers embedded after
+ bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057651).
+ + reduce compiler-warnings in configure checks
+
+20231202
+ + correct initial alignment of extended capabilities in infocmp, so
+ that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types.
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages, changing environment variables
+ to italics (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231125
+ + add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1
+ (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering
+ (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values
+ (report by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231121
+ + amend fix for Debian #1055882, correcting nul terminator check in
+ waddnstr (Debian #1056340).
+
+20231118
+ + improve description of length-parameter and error-returns in several
+ manpages: curs_addchstr.3x, curs_addstr.3x, curs_addwstr.3x,
+ curs_in_wch.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x, curs_inchstr.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x,
+ curs_insstr.3x, curs_instr.3x, curs_inwstr.3x
+ + amend parameter check for entire string versus specific length in
+ winsnstr() and wins_nwstr() to match Solaris.
+ + make similar correction to wins_nwstr().
+ + correct loop termination condition in waddnstr() and waddnwstr()
+ (Debian #1055882, cf: 20201205).
+
+20231111
+ + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
+ + add limit checks in infocmp needed when processing extended
+ capabilities with the "-u" option.
+ + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages.
+ + fix a few compiler warnings for Solaris 10.
+ + modify endwin() to return an error if it is called again without an
+ intervening screen update (report by Rajeev Pillai, NetBSD #57592).
+
+20231104
+ + modify reset command to avoid altering clocal if the terminal uses a
+ modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek,
+ OpenSUSE #1201384, Debian #60377).
+ + build-fixes for --with-caps variations.
+ + correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL.
+
+20231028
+ + move xterm focus mode 1004 from xterm+sm+1006 into xterm+focus as
+ fe/fd capabilities, like vim (vim-pr #13440).
+ + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make "libdir" the default,
+ as documented, rather than "auto" (report by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve messages from configure script (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231021
+ + use oldxterm+sm+1006 in vte-2014 (report by Benno Schulenberg) -TD
+ + add ansi+apparrows -TD
+ + change defaults for configure opaque and widec options (prompted by
+ discussion with Branden Robinson).
+ + minor cleanup of compiler- and manpage-warnings.
+
+20231016
+ + make the recent change to setupterm optional "--enable-check-size"
+ (Debian #1054022).
+
+20231014
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, for uClibc-ng
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20231007
+ + improve loop-limit for get_position().
+ + improve manual description of immedok (Debian #1053603).
+ + fix a few formatting issues with manpages (Debian #1053123).
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231001
+ + modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in
+ user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither
+ environment variables or ioctl is used. The ncurses test-program
+ with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature.
+ + improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates.
+ + fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by
+ copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott).
+
+20230923
+ + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + amend change to delscreen() to limit the windows which it creates to
+ just those associated with the screen (report by Frederic Boiteux,
+ cf: 20220813).
+
+20230918
+ + new tarball/errata (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20230917
+ + improve formatting of manpages (integrated patches by Branden
+ Robinson).
+ + correct limit for name-length in write_entry.c (report/testcase by
+ Luna Saphie Mittelbach).
+ + limit delays to 30 seconds, i.e., padding delays in terminfo, as well
+ as napms() and delay_output() functions.
+ + improve a few pointer-checks.
+ + improve parsing in _nc_msec_cost, allowing a single decimal point.
+
+20230909
+ + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson), for
+ captoinfo.1m and terminfo.5
+ > patches by Nicholas Marriott:
+ + use string-hacks in alloc_entry.c, alloc_type.c and hardscroll.c,
+ overlooked due to compiler changes in recent OpenBSD releases.
+ + add "-6" option to ncu2openbsd script.
+
+20230902
+ + improve description of search rules for terminal descriptions in
+ terminfo manpage (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20230826
+ + fixes for compiler-warnings.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20230819
+ + various manpage-formatting fixes.
+ + correct formatting of table header in curs_inopts.3x (Branden
+ Robinson).
+ + correct manpage description of panel_hidden (report by Benjamin
+ Mordaunt).
+
+20230812
+ + add/use putty+cursor to reflect amending of modified cursor-keys in
+ 2021 -TD
+ + add ecma+strikeout to putty -TD
+ + add functions to query tty-flags in SCREEN (request by Bill Gray).
+
+20230805
+ + fix a few manpages needing tbl marker, seen by lintian warning.
+ + fixes for compiler-warnings.
+ + minor grammatical fix for manpages (Branden Robinson).
+
+20230729
+ + improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_wnstr().
+ + modify MinGW configuration to provide for running in MSYS/MSYS2
+ shells, assuming ConPTY support (patch by Pavel Fedin).
+ + add assignment in CF_MAN_PAGES to fill in value for TERMINFO_DIRS in
+ ncurses, terminfo and tic manpages (patch by Sven Joachim).
+
+20230722
+ + add "auto" default for --with-xterm-kbs configure option.
+
+20230715
+ + correct wadd_wch_literal() when adding a non-spacing character to a
+ double-width character.
+ + improve manual page for curs_util.
+ + improve manual page for wadd_wch().
+
+20230708
+ + add linux+kbs for terminals which imitate xterm's behavior with
+ Linux -TD
+ + modify MinGW driver to return KEY_BACKSPACE when an unmodified
+ VK_BACK virtual key is entered (prompted by patch by Pavel Fedin,
+ Savannah #64292).
+ + disallow using $TERMINFO or $HOME/.terminfo when tic "-o" option is
+ used (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #1040048).
+
+20230701
+ + fix mandoc warnings about unnecessary markup.
+ + improve parameter check in tparm_setup()
+
+20230625
+ + adjust man/make_sed.sh to work with dates as the third field of TH.
+ + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai").
+
20230624
+ fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai").
function pointer passed to tputs().
+ modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
- + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
+ + modify test/background.c, adding command-line options to demonstrate
assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
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