X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4c8eb8cb36dbef8c90eb37bba4ffa712bac02264;hp=a676b17f576ed2f4cb05935f83760f16850b9e7d;hb=4677e861e7e0127b8622b3340ceb6f1278b91244;hpb=acb4184f8f69fddd052a3daa8c8675f4bf8ce369;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a676b17f..4c8eb8cb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3244 2019/01/12 23:14:23 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3270 2019/02/03 01:19:58 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,46 @@ 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. +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).