X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=5169e74f8084fb752e1f37e390a42a7249d1b4d0;hp=71f1b8d5ec244db418d92cdd358d940e2933e8cb;hb=b3969973c9f5be7f45107ac2992bf4909b8541bc;hpb=b60a2772d9f149d8e900c1d5a09a53a56a0837a8 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 71f1b8d5..5169e74f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3272 2019/02/10 00:56:56 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3311 2019/04/21 12:57:18 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,79 @@ 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. +20190427 + + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented + infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name + but different types. + +20190420 + + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports. + +20190413 + + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script. + + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11 + + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh + + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do + not depend on order into Caps-ncurses. + +20190406 + + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle + split-up Caps-files. + + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled. + +20190330 + + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann) + + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD + + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1 + (report by Dennis Grevenstein). + + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works + + check for missing feature of locale.h + + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs + + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20190323 + + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef. + + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract + those in compilable form. + + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm, + in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions + (report/patch by Werner Fink). + +20190317 + + regenerate llib-* files. + + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info. + + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has + an unexpected type; ignore it in that case. + + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files. + + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made, + which did not become accepted. + +20190309 + + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined + capabilities in tic. + + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef" + data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302). + +20190302 + + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11 + + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some + user-defined capabilities. + + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was + called after initscr() (report by "Ampera"). + +20190223 + + fix typo in adds200 -TD + + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities. + + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using + xt, tbc and hts as clues. + + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using + tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott). + +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. @@ -82,7 +155,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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. + 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. @@ -100,7 +173,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 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 + + 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 @@ -9374,7 +9447,7 @@ 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