X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=01b53f33387a2c253cc9d0852db7507e98f0b71c;hp=4948668c7535424526b17fa93f9d4a5f3f2ed03b;hb=60cbc89987842cf6036aabced6618988b5117810;hpb=e506fcb22913defb36b205cd5e84257c915d0e5e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4948668c..01b53f33 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3660 2021/05/01 21:55:29 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3706 2021/09/05 17:01:19 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,138 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names. Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions; it is not possible to add this information. +20210905 + + correct logic in filtering of redefinitions (report by Sven Joachim, + cf: 20210828). + +20210904 + + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by + kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD + + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color + manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4. + + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black). + + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh). + + build-fix for compiling link_test + + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify + use (Debian #993179). + +20210828 + + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis + by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626). + + apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list + parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list + (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request). + + modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE, + e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for + ncursesw. + + improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables. + + improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson). + +20210821 + + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching + SVr4 terminfo. + + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h + + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile + + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD + + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an + error in an expression (cf: 20201010). + + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than + SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812). + + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report + by Florian Weimer) -TD + + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes. + + update config.sub + +20210814 + + add workaround for broken pcre2 package in Debian 10, from xterm #369. + +20210807 + + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files, + adapted from "distr1" patch. + + add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports. + +20210731 + + add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal, + but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD + + add foot and foot-direct -TD + +20210724 + + add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to + ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + + review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD + +20210718 + + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this + against Glink manual -TD + + fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the + vt220 entry -TD + + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option + (report by Juergen Pfeifer). + + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers + who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library. + + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque + curses structs. + +20210710 + + improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball, + which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years. + + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs + Jansen). + + further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of + the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree. + + update config.sub + +20210703 + + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc., + in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries. + + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature. + +20210626 + + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to + disallow most file-opens by setuid processes. + + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD + + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD + + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler) + + regenerate man-html documentation. + +20210619 + + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such + as --with-valgrind + + trim trailing blanks from files + +20210612 + + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing. + + update config.guess + +20210605 + + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h + (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray). + +20210522 + + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate + an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted + by discussion with Peter Farley). + + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar. + + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses + in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by + report/testcase by Bill Gray) + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20210515 + + improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by + report/testcase by Bill Gray). + +20210508 + + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first + calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization + is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by + Sebastiano Vigna). + + fix several warnings from clang --analyze + + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers + to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav + Lichvar, cf: 20210227). + 20210501 + add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here: @@ -86,7 +218,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems. - + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is + + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj Lutter).