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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3964 2023/06/15 11:35:35 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.
+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").
+
+20230617
+ + markup manpages with revision information (prompted by discussion
+ with Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
+
20230615
+ modify _nc_read_file_entry() to show relevant filename in warnings.
+ improve checks in convert_string() for corrupt terminfo entry (report
+ add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
aixterm entries -TD
+ modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
- example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
+ example of an illegal ANSI response can be found using Microsoft's
Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
+ correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
+ add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
- parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
+ parametrizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
+ resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
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