X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=2df834e68bf3b450c1a0dc2cf6534e6e4323aed9;hp=84da50c74ad406ac7920b321f923db98aaebbb74;hb=7087871f804c061d339994964269f3c20e88f547;hpb=ea40e3c5ce946583369749843ad134c3cb607fc7 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 84da50c7..2df834e6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2053 2013/05/04 23:03:37 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2083 2013/07/27 22:24:47 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,105 @@ 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. +20130727 + + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm: + + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options + + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message + + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw + dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../". + + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC} + rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support. + + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that + are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules. + + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed + + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses + the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229). + +20130720 + + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the + initialization of cur_term. + +20130713 + + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm. + + minor compiler-warning fixes + +20130706 + + add fallback defs for and (cf: 20120225). + + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of + wcwidth.h in MinGW port. + + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the + --enable-auto-import flag. + + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol + table issues. + +20130622 + + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended + capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by + Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790). + + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated. + + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example + of sgr. + + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages + + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi" + (patch by Eric Raymond). + +20130615 + + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable. + + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik): + + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined + tab-lists options. + + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d". + + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by + not printing the full pathname of the program. + + add -V option for consistency with other utilities. + + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option + such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik). + +20130608 + + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well + as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback + function pointer. + + add test/dots_termcap.c + + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c + + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used. + + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths + into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later + expansion to free-format input/out demo. + + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file. + + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various + terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD + + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134, + cf: 20121117). + + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and + --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe). + +20130525 + + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses + library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content + of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated + it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in + the left margin of the display. + + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c + + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as + NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent + use of these symbols in term_entry.h + +20130518 + + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse + interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316). + + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since + 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056). + + regenerated html manpages. + + update doctype used for html documentation. + +20130511 + + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more + plausible "ansi consoles" -TD + + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD + + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix + prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data + (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534). + 20130504 + fixes for issues found by Coverity: + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to @@ -156,7 +255,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20130209 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in - mingw environment. + MinGW environment. + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default value" for that part of the manpage substitution.