X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=5368fecb376f8b649bbf945aef29d71398dd335d;hp=c8017897167eaf9a2d256c671e3a4ec5cc399e17;hb=b73ae15cdc71aecdfd306f85bd3c37f9fd5024f4;hpb=99e9dbb68454dfd137e179df2f87206b14ab92f6 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c8017897..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 1.3167 2018/08/04 16:18:03 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 +45,54 @@ 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. + + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library + install (Debian #903790): + + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of + static libraries. + + 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. + 20180804 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing