X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=130758dbd4153312edbac53c13a13ddc7002bfdd;hp=2d8d043b6350876a4c92c2154f2322a285d14a43;hb=6b4f5830b7910188b532d661f79775306715f67e;hpb=6941ed1e8bfdfc7634a57655dc71e7a7ed02a6e8;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2d8d043b..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 1.3162 2018/07/21 21:42:07 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 +45,232 @@ 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 + different character pages. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20181125 + + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim). + +20181124 + + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add + the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary. + + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is + used. + + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris. + + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form + that lets different curses implementations be compared. + + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006 + block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm + (report by Tomas Janousek). + +20181117 + + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing. + + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading + a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to + the compiled-in search list. + +20181110 + + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of + Ada95 tree. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20181027 + + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD + + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott + +20181020 + + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came + from the infocmp -Q option. + + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname + + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned + symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols. + + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to + wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681). + +20181013 + + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value + to make it an absolute path. + +20181006 + + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by + Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142). + + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825). + +20180929 + + fix typo in tvi955 -TD + + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD + + add alias n7900 -TD + + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD + + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD + + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD + + add bel to tvi950 -TD + + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD + + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD + + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD + +20180923 + + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report + by Chris Clayton). + +20180922 + + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g., + if the terminal were resized. + + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat + #1610681, cf: 20141011). + + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat, + since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature. + +20180908 + + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL. + + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is + marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the + character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII + fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505). + + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary + update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable + output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414). + + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken + implementations of sysconf(). + +20180901 + + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length + parameter. + + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or + "too large". + + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390). + +20180825 + + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the + terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks). + + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the + deb test-packages. + + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around + toolset breakage in Fedora 28. + + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final + 20180818 updates. + +20180818 + + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples. + + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS. + + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library + install (Debian #903790): + + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of + static libraries. + + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second + sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g., + in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution. + +20180804 + + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal + scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing + the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the + display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott). + +20180728 + + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h + + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens. + + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation. + 20180721 + build-fixes for gcc8. + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD @@ -9152,7 +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