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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2239 2014/07/12 20:24:13 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.
+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
+ by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
+ + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
+ + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
+ for 256 colors -TD
+ + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
+ + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
+
+20150516
+ + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
+ may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
+ + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
+ ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
+ updates.
+ + regenerate html manpages.
+ + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
+ discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
+ Stack Overflow forum):
+
+20150509
+ + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
+ MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
+ + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
+ + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
+ + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
+ the tinfo library.
+
+20150502
+ + modify the configure script to allow different default values
+ for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
+ + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
+ + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
+ + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
+ Debian #783486) -TD
+ + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
+ + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
+ nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
+ (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
+ + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
+ #783806)
+ + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
+ + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
+ generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
+ ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
+ discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
+ + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
+ in /usr.
+ + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
+ + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
+ libraries.
+ + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
+ + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
+ been eliminated.
+ + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
+ the ncurses library aside from headers.
+ + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
+ + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
+ + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
+ found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20150425
+ + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
+ (report by Todd M Lewis).
+ + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
+ than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
+ + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
+ check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
+ frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
+ + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
+ rpath option.
+ + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
+ + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
+ keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
+ + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
+ + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
+ long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
+ + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
+
+20150418
+ + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
+ a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
+ + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
+ wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
+ + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
+ + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
+ with the shared libraries.
+ + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
+ ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
+ NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
+ adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
+ adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
+ + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
+ + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
+ inherit into new windows.
+
+20150404
+ + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
+ + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
+ const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
+ readonly text segment.
+
+20150329
+ + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
+ same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
+
+20150328
+ + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
+ the extended putwin/getwin.
+ + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
+ putwin/getwin.
+ + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
+ putwin/getwin.
+
+20150321
+ + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
+ getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
+ wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
+ for a magic code at the beginning:
+ 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
+
+20150307
+ + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
+ with John S Urban).
+ + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
+ and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
+
+20150228
+ + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
+ usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
+ (report by Grady Martin).
+
+20150221
+ + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
+ and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
+ the wide-character libraries.
+ + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
+ directory.
+ + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
+ by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
+
+20150214
+ + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
+ + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
+ for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
+ Fink).
+
+20150131
+ + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
+ the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
+
+20150124
+ + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
+ ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
+ least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
+ + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
+ ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
+
+20150117
+ + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
+ + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
+ configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20150110
+ + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
+ symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
+ + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
+ with FreeBSD ports.
+ + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
+ ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
+ all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
+ + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
+ use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
+ + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
+ cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
+ rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
+ + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
+ (report by Pavel Balaev).
+
+20150103
+ + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
+ + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
+ via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
+ + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
+ variations in ABI 6.
+
+20141227
+ + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
+ the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
+ Sven Joachim).
+
+20141221
+ + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
+ Sven Joachim).
+
+20141220
+ + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
+ + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
+ together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
+ the ABI 5 libraries.
+ + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
+ regenerate html-manpages.
+
+20141213
+ + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
+ when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
+ De Meo).
+ + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
+ ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
+ package for ncurses6.
+ + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
+ is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
+ + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
+ in the corresponding ".map" files.
+ + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
+ from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
+ Joachim).
+
+20141206
+ + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
+ the different library configurations has the same label. Some
+ review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
+ gcc introduced here:
+ https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
+ https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
+ (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
+ + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
+
+20141129
+ + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
+ ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
+ A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
+ symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
+ which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
+
+20141115
+ + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
+ curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
+ + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
+ used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
+ + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
+ the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
+ + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
+ symbol-versioning.
+
+20141101
+ + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
+ and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
+ not apply.
+
+20141025
+ + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
+ msys2 configuration.
+
+20141018
+ + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
+ the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
+ + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
+ correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
+ in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
+ in recent changes.
+ + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
+ (report by Mike Gran).
+
+20141011
+ + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
+ demonstration of its limitations.
+ + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
+ + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
+ + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
+ exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
+ + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
+ are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
+ to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
+ Greg Field).
+ + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
+ + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
+
+20140927
+ + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
+ + implement flash in win_driver.c
+ + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
+ focus.
+ + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
+ win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
+ window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
+ screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
+ + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
+ dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
+ for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
+ 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
+
+20140920
+ + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
+ + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
+ some older cross-compiler environments.
+ + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
+ (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
+ See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
+ which relates to the clarified guidelines.
+ + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
+ for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
+ + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
+ + update config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20140913
+ + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
+ C++ cross-compilers.
+ + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
+
+20140906
+ + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
+ NetBSD.
+ + minor compiler-warning fixes.
+
+20140831
+ + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
+ options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
+ a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
+
+20140823
+ + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
+ width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
+ cf: 20050813).
+
+20140816
+ + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
+ it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
+ + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
+
+20140809
+ + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
+ reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
+ in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
+ having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
+ which reverses cause/effect.
+ + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
+ have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
+ + fixes for win_driver.c:
+ + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
+ + implement beep().
+ + minor cleanup.
+
+20140802
+ + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
+ + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
+ + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
+ + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
+ "trace" feature:
+ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
+ + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
+ + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
+ typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
+ (cf: 20140726).
+
+20140726
+ + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
+ ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
+ discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
+ + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
+ + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
+ used to override the different treatment of justification for static
+ versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
+ + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
+ Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
+
+20140719
+ + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
+ + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
+ options, from xterm changes.
+
20140712
+ correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
+ build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
+ add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
20140614
- + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
+ + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
(cf: 20140524).
+ fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
overlap with sgr functionality.
+ remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
- + update xterm-new to patch #305 -TD
+ + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
+ change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
+ build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
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