X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0d840d404be1dbe0e50ed771081bec62df5c7edd;hp=48e246172cded45d5705d10c5d6ab9c753c6863a;hb=64f44b13d30e0a7bc2921a9d43755423f81564fd;hpb=c2ed42e6ca28e6c2703548274dc2a777be27f580 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 48e24617..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 1.1919 2012/06/22 23:10:32 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 +45,210 @@ 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. + + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit + use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to + "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that. + + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with + older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728). + +20120908 + + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time, + to help with MinGW port. + +20120903 + + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed + there. + + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable. + +20120902 + + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901). + +20120901 + + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825). + + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array + might not be allocated. + + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables. + +20120826 + + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small + initial screen-sizes. + + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed + after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci, + Roumen Petrov). + +20120825 + + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses + rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report + by Brian Bloniarz). + +20120811 + + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir + (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander). + + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the + INSTALL file. + + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD + + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD + +20120804 + + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library. + + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink). + + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated + for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by + Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317). + + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the + --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim, + cf: 20110716). + +20120728 + + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build + is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov). + + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD + + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD + + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD + + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD + + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h + in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick + Black). + +20120721 + + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name(). + + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c + + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and + use_tioctl(TRUE) are called. + + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate + use_env() versus use_tioctl(). + +20120714 + + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink, + Novell #769788): + +20120707 + + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by + Juergen Pfeifer). + + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted + by Novell #769788). + + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even + if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a + KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call + resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is + received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen + dimensions did not change (Novell #769788). + +20120630 + + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen + Pfeifer). + + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes. + + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though + some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update + llib-lncurses. + + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from + cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim). + 20120622 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by