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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2021 2013/02/09 22:39:26 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.
+20130608
+ + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
+ as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
+ function pointer.
+ + add test/dots_termcap.c
+ + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
+ + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
+ + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
+ into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
+ expansion to free-format input/out demo.
+ + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
+ + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
+ terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
+ + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
+ cf: 20121117).
+ + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
+ --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
+
+20130525
+ + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
+ library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
+ of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
+ it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
+ the left margin of the display.
+ + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
+ + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
+ NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
+ use of these symbols in term_entry.h
+
+20130518
+ + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
+ interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
+ + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
+ 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + update doctype used for html documentation.
+
+20130511
+ + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
+ plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
+ + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
+ + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
+ prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
+ (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
+
+20130504
+ + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
+ + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
+ display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
+ + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
+ + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
+
+20130427
+ + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
+ + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
+
+20130413
+ + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
+ (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
+ + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
+ type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
+ Gribenko).
+ + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
+ (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
+ + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
+ c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
+
+20130406
+ + improve parameter checking in copywin().
+ + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
+ choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
+ to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
+ in cross-compiling.
+ + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
+ (Redhat #911540)
+ + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
+ Fink).
+ + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
+
+20130324
+ + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
+ and Roumen Petrov).
+
+20130323
+ + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
+ (report by Christian Ebert).
+ + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
+ with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
+ + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
+
+20130316
+ + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
+ + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
+ + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
+ add bold for consistency with sgr,
+ change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
+ + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
+ + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
+ by Benjamin Sittler)
+ + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
+ operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
+ + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
+ line split after "%;".
+ + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
+ library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20130309
+ + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
+ there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
+ + updated some autoconf macros:
+ + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
+ + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
+ + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
+ libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
+ limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
+ configuration (Redhat #911540).
+ + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
+ shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
+
+20130302
+ + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
+ + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
+ is obsolete.
+ + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
+ treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
+ printable.
+ + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
+ + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
+ of raw input in MinGW port.
+
+20130218
+ + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20130216
+ + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
+ pdcurses.
+ + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
+ ncurses.
+ + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
+ check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
+ when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
+ Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
+ + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
+ + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
+ + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
+ use after free.
+ + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
+ + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
+
20130209
+ modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
+ modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
--disable-echo option is used.
+ modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
- writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
+ writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
+ update config.guess, config.sub
20070707
+ modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
- #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
+ #68199.
+ add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
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