X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=130758dbd4153312edbac53c13a13ddc7002bfdd;hp=27e2f56a70d00f059be5a8ac62d210c82a2c1132;hb=6b4f5830b7910188b532d661f79775306715f67e;hpb=31418a0e4a6f75ceffc9fee20ddbe390209a4ef4 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 27e2f56a..130758db 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2018,2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3225 2018/12/01 20:59:08 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3275 2019/02/16 23:45:57 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,101 @@ 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. +20190216 + + improve manual page description of TABSIZE. + + add test/demo_tabs program. + +20190209 + + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of + parameters in the documented user-capability extensions. + +20190202 + + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict + with Redhat's package for ncurses6. + + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy. + + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile + to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not + configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also + in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills). + +20190126 + + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to + "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat. + + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter). + + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable. + + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from + being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by + Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924). + +20190121 + + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h + file in Slackware. + + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe + on some of the BSDs. + + updated "string-hacks" feature. + + minor improvements to manpage typography. + + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by + "Hudd"). + + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing + init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color, + extended_color_content + + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the + return values from the tested functions. + + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and + extensions. + + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter). + + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure + option was given. + + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a + warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci). + +20190112 + + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto + Modinos). + + add nsterm-direct -TD + + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD + + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD + + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker) + +20190105 + + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply + building test-packages for Arch. + + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature + that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some + packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20181229 + + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm + + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use + as a pipe/filter. + + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by + discussion with Bryan Christ). + + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c + + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for + obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names. + Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability + names. + +20181215 + + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings. + + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes). + + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter + as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD + + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD + + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm: + + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the + _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol. + + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is + supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array. + Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which + could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode. + +20181208 + + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4 + curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the + background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov). + 20181201 + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen). + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to @@ -9283,7 +9378,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20000701 pre-release + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for - $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm. + $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm. + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings ). + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating