X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4c47bbb89db22eabc0004bc07dc85573de0c36c7;hp=325753d66c279e1b8ebc4dade5304a9b270ea5e7;hb=74137fec04e130a88ef25618cf730af988a4f51a;hpb=79695a2ff354087dca5006351286f741ee8c82c4 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 325753d6..4c47bbb8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3080 2018/02/10 20:36:21 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3107 2018/03/31 22:45:41 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,59 @@ 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. +20180331 + + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the + extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended + string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources). + +20180324 + + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range + 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne). + + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables. + +20180317 + + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when + it should have. + + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using + different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab. + + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin). + + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no + terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch + by Gyorgy Jeney). + +20180303 + + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to + avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace. + + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages. + + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first + verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols + (report/patch by Werner Fink). + + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width + on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look + better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin). + + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t" + for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the + structures reported to make the categories more apparent. + + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors. + + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show + how similar the different tinfo configurations are. + +20180224 + + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging + a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a + defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111, + compounded by repair in 20180121. + + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD + + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD + + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim). + +20180217 + + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek). + + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean. + + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan). + + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by + Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim). + 20180210 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall