X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0d840d404be1dbe0e50ed771081bec62df5c7edd;hp=44818dfa7dd074f5d1e529ace751237289ecb312;hb=64f44b13d30e0a7bc2921a9d43755423f81564fd;hpb=cabcc699fe87c3982b795dabea1ba6970b4faa90;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 44818dfa..0d840d40 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1957 2012/09/22 20:11:31 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1992 2012/12/09 00:24:36 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,108 @@ 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. +20121208 + + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for + each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow + Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle. + + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for + the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia). + > fixes based on Coverity report: + + remove a few redundant checks. + + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of + ship. + + check return value from remove/unlink in tic. + + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c + + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc + + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the + terminal driver. + + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro. + + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic. + + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are + used. + +20121201 + + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar(). + + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using + regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc() + do not work. + +20121124 + + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the + test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c + > fixes based on Coverity report: + + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs. + +20121117 + > fixes based on Coverity report: + + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places. + + various fixes in test/ncurses.c + + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c + + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c + + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c + + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h + + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c, + test/inchs.c + + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c, + test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c + + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c, + test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return. + +20121110 + + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the + local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I + options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by + Vassili Courzakis). + + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from + the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared + libraries or executables. + +20121102 + + realign these related pages: + curs_add_wchstr.3x + curs_addchstr.3x + curs_addstr.3x + curs_addwstr.3x + and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1 + length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line + (report by Reuben Thomas). + + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy(). + + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup(). + + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec + + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect + based on testing with tack -TD + + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented + starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD + +20121026 + + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat + #866989). + + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts. + + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The + first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc. + +20121017 + + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory + (Redhat #866989). + +20121013 + + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome + (patch by Christian Persch). + +20121006 + + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc + --version message. + + improve configure macros as done in byacc: + + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port + has used that for a while. + + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e., + for experimental use. + + remove unused configure macros. + + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning + for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable. + + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable. + + update config.guess, config.sub + 20120922 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.