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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2751 2017/02/04 21:42:06 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.
+20170318
+ + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
+ applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
+ rather than using def_prog_mode().
+ + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
+ externals that are used by tack.
+ + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
+ + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
+ + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
+ Robinson).
+ + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
+ + regenerate man-html documentation.
+
+20170311
+ + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
+ (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
+ + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
+ than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
+ terminal emulators -TD
+ + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
+ + add fbterm -TD
+ + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
+ + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
+ 8-bit limit on colors
+ + add ncurses/new_pair.h
+ + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
+ free_pair() functions
+ + add test/demo_new_pair.c
+
+20170304
+ + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
+ + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
+ + improve description of endwin() in manual.
+ + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
+ error.
+ + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
+
+20170225
+ + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
+
+20170218
+ + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
+ + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
+ explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
+ treated as only absent.
+ + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
+ that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
+ e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
+
+20170212
+ + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
+ + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
+ + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
+ + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
+ + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
+ --enable-sp-funcs option.
+ + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
+ without modifying API/ABI.
+ + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
+ similar options for the other libraries.
+
20170204
+ trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
to db-iterator.
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