X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=50b5795887ebc2d64ad230abf6883880df70a53a;hp=1c2f43064a6988d5b3822e9caeb819e04bc632de;hb=d479dbaecb05c5d5fbd064835c930c468898c7b1;hpb=296420e1ec091e6dbd354cc13748638637690776;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1c2f4306..50b57958 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3322 2019/05/25 19:18:23 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3422 2019/12/25 23:16:49 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,224 @@ 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. +20191228 + + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments + past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those + symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS. + + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs. + + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration + for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages. + +20191221 + + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to + work with test-packages. + + improve tracemunch: + + keep track of TERMINAL* values + + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to + show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway. + + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype + for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink). + +20191214 + + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for + leak-checking. + +20191207 + + fix a few warnings for test-package builds + + add curses_trace(), to replace trace(). + +20191130 + + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by + discussion with Nick Black). + + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch + manpage. + + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages. + +20191123 + + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package. + + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31. + +20191116 + + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes + to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test + packages. + + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c + defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName + from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503). + +20191109 + + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich. + + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility + with old non-curses programs -TD + + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD + + use ansi+rep several places -TD + + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner, + cf: 20020901). + +20191102 + + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative. + + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero + (report/patch by Anthony Sottile). + + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries. + + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD + +20191026 + + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the + line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black). + + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a + \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923). + + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in + early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci). + +20191019 + + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building + with address-sanitizer. + + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because + treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in + use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001). + +20191015 + + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the + input string is shorter than expected. + > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen): + + check for missing character after backslash in write_it + + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap + syntax (cf: 980530). + +20191012 + + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out + Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516). + + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage. + + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and + _nc_find_name_entry. + > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"): + + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry. + + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry + + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one + mapping (cf: 20060415); + + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability, + overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007). + +20191005 + + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the + -I and -l options. + +20190928 + + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath + hack which differed between those files. + + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config + + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in + test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on + EINTR (cf: 20180922) + +20190921 + + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch + the screen's borders. + + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path + and version. + +20190914 + + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package + +20190907 + + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to + allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes + by Pascal Pignard). + + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when + the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary + warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim). + +20190831 + + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95, + noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without + libpanelw, etc. + +20190824 + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs. + +20190817 + + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few + details where it still differed from SVr4. + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs. + +20190810 + + fix a few more coverity warnings. + +20190803 + + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where + the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch + by Rob King). + + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry + and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD + + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD + + updated kitty entry & notes -TD + + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD + + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD + +20190728 + + fix a few more coverity warnings. + + more documentation updates based on tctest. + +20190727 + + fix a few coverity warnings. + + documentation updates based on tctest. + +20190720 + + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x + + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp + manual pages. + + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage + (report by Sven Joachim). + +20190713 + + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if + possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the + terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff). + + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c + +20190706 + + add domterm -TD + + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD + +20190630 + + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems + building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp. + + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin + + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless + filenames. + + add ms-terminal -TD + + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD + +20190623 + + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th + Edition versions of the tabs utility. + + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown + in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE + macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya + Ig Petrov). + + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent + data for the result from getenv(). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20190615 + + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page. + + regenerate HTML manpages. + +20190609 + + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff). + Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out, + to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0 + + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD + + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges, + to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names. + +20190601 + + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs + e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru). + + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE + variable. + 20190525 + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8 (report by Vincent Huisman).