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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2708 2016/12/11 00:24:06 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2741 2017/01/21 23:40:19 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.
+20170121
+ + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
+ provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
+ + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
+ termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
+ + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
+ omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
+ (cf: 990123).
+ + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
+ clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
+
+20170114
+ + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
+ + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
+ available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
+ + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
+ error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
+ variable.
+
+20170107
+ + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
+ is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
+ either reset- or init-strings.
+ + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
+ to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
+ + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
+ + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
+ state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
+ the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
+ + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
+ + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
+ and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
+ compatibility (cf: 20120714).
+ + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
+ use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
+
+20161231
+ + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
+ + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
+ were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
+ + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
+ + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
+ between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
+ + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
+ setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
+ consistently.
+ + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
+ + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
+ utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
+ + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
+ 20161203.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20161224
+ + correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
+ (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
+ patch by Mihail Konev).
+ + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
+ descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
+ padding work.
+
+20161217
+ + add tput-colorcube demo script.
+ + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
+ + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
+ e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
+ did not work after changes in 20130112.
+
20161210
+ add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6