X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=5368fecb376f8b649bbf945aef29d71398dd335d;hp=8d00334de14a2d4c1d4a0ee605de3ed3a735d412;hb=b73ae15cdc71aecdfd306f85bd3c37f9fd5024f4;hpb=df51c7005b77c6dcc78565d8cc87f8f68a8525c2 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8d00334d..5368fecb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3173 2018/08/19 00:25:22 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3190 2018/09/22 21:23:32 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,43 @@ 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. +20180922 + + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g., + if the terminal were resized. + + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat + #1610681, cf: 20141011). + + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat, + since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature. + +20180908 + + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL. + + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is + marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the + character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII + fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505). + + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary + update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable + output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414). + + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken + implementations of sysconf(). + +20180901 + + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length + parameter. + + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or + "too large". + + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390). + +20180825 + + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the + terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks). + + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the + deb test-packages. + + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around + toolset breakage in Fedora 28. + + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final + 20180818 updates. + 20180818 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples. + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS. @@ -55,8 +92,6 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g., in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution. - + add "--disable-touching" option for using "install -p" option during - the install, e.g., so that header-files have a predictable timestamp. 20180804 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal