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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1614 2010/11/28 00:32:32 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1645 2011/02/21 01:42:08 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.
+20110220
+ + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
+ + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
+ configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
+ wide-character configuration.
+ + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
+ + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debina #607662).
+
+20110212
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
+ special case of trace configuration.
+
+20110205
+ + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
+ + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
+ support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
+ + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
+ extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
+ discussion).
+
+20110122
+ + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
+ + correct limit-checks in derwin().
+ + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
+ size (report by Garrett Cooper).
+ + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
+ Alcock).
+ + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
+ by discussion with Kevin Martin).
+
+20110115
+ + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
+ work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
+ + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
+ + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
+ + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
+ + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
+ + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
+ file configuration if that is used.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20110108
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
+ clang --analyze.
+ + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
+ + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
+
+20110101
+ + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
+ except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
+
+20101225
+ + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
+ allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
+ + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
+
+20101211
+ + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
+ R Sedeno).
+ + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
+ + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
+ characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
+ wide-character configuration.
+ + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
+ + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
+ referred to quitting with 'q'.
+
+20101204
+ + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
+ strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
+ version which works with termcap.
+ + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
+ (request by Sven Joachim).
+ + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
+ (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20101128
+ + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
+ case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
+ mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
+
20101127
+ miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
out-of-tree.
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