X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=55f3cc74c33f720c94047d01d589a2eb91603d7a;hp=6a919665159cbdfa4de3e19d16a5d08ecda4ba9e;hb=f86cbeb5f9bd96ab041d34039c35749a14965039;hpb=82035cb9d3375b8c65b4a5a5d3bd89febdc7e201 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6a919665..55f3cc74 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2009,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1615 2010/11/28 16:43:28 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1651 2011/02/26 16:54:31 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,95 @@ 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. +20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + +20110226 + + update release notes, for 5.8. + + regenerated html manpages. + + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency + with write_file(). + + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is + a new install of hashed database. + + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk. + +20110220 + + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269. + + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses' + configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building + wide-character configuration. + + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install + + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662). + +20110212 + + regenerated html manpages. + + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with + special case of trace configuration. + +20110205 + + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD + + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not + support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD + + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an + extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list + discussion). + +20110122 + + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release. + + correct limit-checks in derwin(). + + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero + size (report by Garrett Cooper). + + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas + Alcock). + + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted + by discussion with Kevin Martin). + +20110115 + + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option + work without requiring the --with-ncurses option. + + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses. + + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage. + + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage. + + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze" + + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project + file configuration if that is used. + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20110108 + + regenerated html manpages. + + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with + clang --analyze. + + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen). + + update ncurses/llib-lncurses* + +20110101 + + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5, + except those dealing with function pointers, etc. + +20101225 + + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and + allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden. + + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library. + +20101211 + + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro + R Sedeno). + + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD + + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special + characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the + wide-character configuration. + + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506). + + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still + referred to quitting with 'q'. + +20101204 + + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab + strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced + version which works with termcap. + + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation + (request by Sven Joachim). + + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html + (report by Sven Joachim). + 20101128 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182): @@ -3677,7 +3766,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20030208 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping. - + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, + + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by Gerben Wierda ). + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before, @@ -4396,7 +4485,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be interrupted by that signal. - + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes + + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes not needed with autoconf 2.52 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)