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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2425 2015/05/23 21:56:15 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.
+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
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