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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3906 2023/01/28 23:31:29 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.
+20230418
+ + improve checks for limits on privileged execution:
+ + modify _nc_syserr_abort() to use _nc_env_access(), rather than
+ only checking root uid.
+ + use getauxval() when available, to improve setuid/setgid checks.
+ + modify test packages to disable root access/environ options.
+ + modify tgoto() to accept no-parameter capabilities, for joe editor
+ (OpenSUSE #1210485, Gentoo #904263).
+
+20230415
+ + configure script fixes:
+ + fix copy/paste error in configure option --disable-root-access
+ (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
+ + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro's amend default case to avoid
+ undefining _XOPEN_SOURCE if _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined.
+ + modify test_tparm to account for extended capabilities.
+ + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of numeric parameters,
+ overlooked in 20230408.
+ + fix errata in clear.1 and curs_terminfo.3x
+
+20230408
+ + document limitations of tparm, and error-returns in curs_terminfo.3x
+ + document limitations of tgoto, and error-returns in curs_termcap.3x
+ + add xterm+focus to alacritty+common (patch by Christian Duerr).
+ + add "-v" option to tput, to show warnings.
+ > improve checks for malformed terminfo data (report/analysis by
+ Jonathan Bar Or, Michael Pearse, Emanuele Cozzi).
+ + make the parameter type/count checks in _nc_tiparm() more stringent
+ + update tgoto() to account for _nc_tiparm() changes
+ + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of string parameters
+ + add special cases in tput to handle extensions Cs/Ms parameters
+ + ignore compiled-terminfo where the array sizes exceed the standard
+
+20230401
+ + modify experimental Windows driver to work with xterm mouse protocol.
+ + remove DECCOLM+DECSCLM from foot (patch by Daniel Ekloef).
+
+20230311
+ + improve manpage description for addch versus unctrl format used for
+ non-printable characters.
+ + modify version-check for gcc/g++, now works for msys2.
+ + modify check in _nc_write_entry() for multiply defined aliases to
+ report problems within the current runtime of tic rather than for
+ conflicts with pre-existing terminal descriptions.
+ + allow for MinGW32-/64-bit configurations to use _DEFAULT_SOURCE
+ + clarify interaction of -R option versus -C, -I and -r in infocmp
+ manpage.
+ + build-fix in lib_win32con.c (cf: 20230211).
+
+20230225
+ + build-fixes for rpm test-packages.
+ + add/use configure check for clock_gettime(), to supersede
+ gettimeofday().
+
+20230218
+ + configure-script improvements:
+ + recent msys2 headers work with _DEFAULT_SOURCE; amend check
+ + use $ac_includes_default in most cases where stdlib.h should work
+ + use #error consistently vs "make an error"
+ + add configure macro for gettimeofday vs inline check
+
+20230211
+ + set dwShareMode in calls to CreateConsoleScreenBuffer() (patch by
+ Hannes Domani).
+ + use CreateFile with "CONIN$", "CONOUT$" rather than GetStdHandle to
+ obtain a handle on the actual console, avoiding redirection in the
+ MinGW/Win32 configurations (adapted from patch by LIU Hao).
+
20230128
+ document XF, kxIN and kxOUT -TD
+ add note on sun/wscons/cmdtool/shelltool -TD
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