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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1225 2008/04/12 19:41:26 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.
+20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20081025
+ + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
+ + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
+ does not work well on that platform).
+ + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
+
+20081018
+ + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
+ + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
+ in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
+ Nit Khair).
+ + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
+ --disable-database is used.
+ + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
+ to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
+ (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
+ + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
+ CF_LIBUTF8.
+
+20081012
+ + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
+ original to teraterm2.3 -TD
+ + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
+ + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
+ + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
+ + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
+ + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
+ overlooked til now.
+
+20081011
+ + update html documentation.
+ + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
+ the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
+ + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
+ + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
+ + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
+ + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
+ tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
+ 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
+
+20081004
+ + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
+ works for C/C++ parts).
+ + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
+ AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
+
+20080927
+ + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
+ strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
+ + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
+ + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
+ GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
+ + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
+ "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
+ that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
+ + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
+ Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
+ + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
+ + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
+ slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
+
+20080925
+ + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
+ Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20080920
+ + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
+ + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
+ + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
+ newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
+ + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
+ misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
+
+20080913
+ + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
+ + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
+
+20080907
+ + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
+ Meunier).
+
+20080906
+ + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
+ + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
+ use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
+ + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
+ Meunier).
+ + update test/configure script.
+ + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
+ is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
+ + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
+ test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
+ fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
+
+20080830
+ + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
+ + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
+ C-version.
+ + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
+ Mccreary).
+ + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
+ and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
+ + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
+ + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
+ + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
+ substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
+ (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
+
+20080823
+ + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
+ which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
+ + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
+ makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
+ + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
+ + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
+ possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
+ library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
+ + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
+ the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
+ + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
+ Debian #495815) -TD
+
+20080816
+ + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
+ + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
+ + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
+ applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
+ etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
+ Werner Fink).
+ + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
+ using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
+ + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
+ by comments by Samuel Thibault).
+ + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
+
+20080804
+ + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
+ + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
+ + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
+ + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
+ "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
+ + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
+ search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
+
+20080726
+ + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
+ thresholds).
+
+20080713
+ + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
+
+20080712
+ + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
+
+20080705
+ + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
+ make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
+ (cf: 20050205).
+ + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
+ + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
+ -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
+ not link.
+
+20080628
+ + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
+ + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
+ interface.
+ + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
+ by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
+ + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
+ + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
+
+20080621
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
+ menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
+ + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
+ def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
+ + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
+
+20080614
+ + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
+ + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
+ + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
+ by Poor Yorick).
+
+20080607
+ + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
+ window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
+ allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
+ some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
+ window which is being used in a wgetch().
+ + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
+
+20080531
+ + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
+ parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
+ use SP internally.
+ + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
+ + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
+ particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
+ + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
+ particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
+ + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
+ its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
+ + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
+ preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
+
+20080524
+ + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
+ screen which must be updated.
+ + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
+ always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
+ + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
+ Miroslav Lichvar)
+
+20080517
+ + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
+ --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
+ the ncurses ABI 5.
+ + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
+ Emanuele Giaquinta).
+ + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
+ (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20080503
+ + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
+ overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
+ + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
+ global SP.
+ + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
+ each_ripoff().
+
+20080426
+ + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
+ multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
+ + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
+
+20080419
+ + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
+ + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
+ being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
+ + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
+
20080412
+ change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
+ add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
(report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+ override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
- platforms such as AIX where libtool supports only static libraries
- (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+ platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
+ the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+ add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
thread library.
20070609
+ add test/key_name.c
- + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
+ + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
+ update test/configure
+ correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
+ null-terminate result of wunctrl().
shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
20070210
- + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
+ + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
+ remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
Lichvar).
+ fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
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