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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2421 2015/05/16 20:29:02 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.
+20151017
+ + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
+ (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
+ + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
+ data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
+ (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
+ > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
+ + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
+ + support building with libtool on OS/2
+ + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
+ + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
+
+20151010
+ + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
+ + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
+ + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
+ + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
+ change.
+ + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
+ fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
+ (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
+
+20150926
+ + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
+ than clean.
+ + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
+ + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
+
+20150919
+ + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
+ stream.
+ + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
+ read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
+ + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
+ configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
+
+20150912
+ + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
+ William Gallafent).
+ + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
+ solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
+ of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
+ + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
+ "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
+ + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
+ library.
+ + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
+
+20150905
+ + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
+ UTF-8.
+ + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
+ all comments from the "tic -I" output.
+ + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
+ header.
+ + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
+ form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
+
+20150822
+ + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
+ see unused letters.
+ + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
+ + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
+ + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
+ + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
+ ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
+ Joshua Root).
+
+20150815
+ + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
+ overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
+ + update release notes in INSTALL.
+ + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
+
+20150810
+ + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
+ releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
+ http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
+
+20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20150808
+ + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
+ + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
+ + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
+ more than 200 snapshots.
+ + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
+ page.
+
+20150725
+ + updated llib-* files.
+ + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
+ + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
+ Mikhail Peselnik).
+ + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
+ + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
+ curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
+ curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
+ curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
+ curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
+
+20150719
+ + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
+ + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
+ curs_initscr.3x page.
+ + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
+ of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
+ in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
+ Coverity).
+ + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
+ e.g., ncursestw library.
+
+20150711
+ + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
+ configuration of ncurses6.
+ + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
+ demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
+ the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
+ versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
+ + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
+
+20150704
+ + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
+ + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
+ (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
+
+20150627
+ + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
+ building ABI 6.
+ + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
+ map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
+ suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
+ + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
+ from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
+ + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
+ databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
+ + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
+ setupterm and restartterm functions.
+ + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
+ of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
+ it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
+ Schindelin).
+
+20150613
+ + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
+ + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
+ the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
+ files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
+ corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
+ configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
+ discussion with Sven Joachim).
+ + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20150606 pre-release
+ + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
+ intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
+ "--with-abi-version=5" option.
+ + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
+ + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
+ + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
+ Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
+ + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
+ ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
+ lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
+ + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
+ "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
+ + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
+ CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
+
+20150530
+ + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
+ mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
+ + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
+ + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
+ + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
+ have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
+ + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
+ cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
+
+20150523
+ + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
+ + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
+ by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
+ + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
+ + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
+ for 256 colors -TD
+ + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
+ + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
+
20150516
+ amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
- + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
- checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
+ updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
+ modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
- + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
+ + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
20120114
+ several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
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