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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3755 2021/12/11 21:46:44 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3809 2022/05/21 21:10:54 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.
+20220521
+ + improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs.
+ + set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr().
+ + modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to
+ copy_termtype().
+
+20220514
+ + further improvements to test/test_mouse.c; compare with ncurses test
+ program menu A/a.
+
+20220507
+ + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov).
+ + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks.
+
+20220501
+ + build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton).
+
+20220430
+ + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and
+ also provide for focus in/out responses -TD
+ + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release
+ events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov).
+ + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo
+ syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'.
+ + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table
+ data rather than relying upon its callers.
+ + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure
+ it is initialized.
+ + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC.
+ + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp.
+
+20220423
+ + in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402).
+ + fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir().
+ + fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used.
+
+20220416
+ + add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data
+ (report/testcase by NCNIPC of China).
+ + add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is
+ missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379).
+ + add setlocale call to several test-programs.
+ + allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on.
+
+20220409
+ + add test/test_unget_wch.c
+
+20220402
+ + amend extended_captype(), returning CANCEL if a string is explicitly
+ cancelled.
+ + make description-fields distinct -TD
+
+20220326
+ + update teken -TD
+ + add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD
+ + add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD
+
+20220319
+ + add xgterm -TD
+ + correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by
+ Robert Lange)
+ + add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange)
+ + improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc.
+
+20220312
+ + add xterm+acs building-block -TD
+ + add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD
+ + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per xterm patch #371 -TD
+ + add mosh and mosh-256color -TD
+
+20220305
+ + replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to
+ work around build problems with gnat 12.
+ + update external links in Ada95.html
+ + trim unused return-value from canonical_name().
+
+20220226
+ + fix issues found with coverity:
+ + rewrite canonical_name() function of infocmp to ensure buffer size
+ + corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands
+ + modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns
+ + add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c
+ + add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis.
+ + enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding.
+ + adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from
+ gcc 12.0.1
+
+20220219
+ + expanded description in man/resizeterm.3x
+ + additional workaround for ImageMagick in test/picsmap.c
+
+20220212
+ + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency.
+ + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno
+ Schulenberg).
+
+20220205
+ + workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values
+ by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit.
+ + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap".
+
+20220129
+ + minor updates for test-packages
+ + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the
+ case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a
+ colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum,
+ cf: 20211113).
+ + update kitty -TD
+
+20220122
+ + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script.
+ + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps"
+ does not exist.
+ + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on
+ format-warnings.
+ + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the
+ infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
+
+20220115
+ + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse
+ state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by
+ Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022).
+ + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files.
+
+20220101
+ + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
+ curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
+
+20211225
+ + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
+ (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+20211219
+ + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
+ script to invoke those.
+ + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
+
20211211
+ add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters.
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