X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=5b7594b442d08a97fb5121899d1a6f148fcd10a5;hp=acb7e9101312041afd733b67761aec4a8164fe90;hb=aabb3a65ee5d88949abe529b5131adedb9cfab84;hpb=596d5db3cda5749733f9803a4c2477c2ec9e3a33 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index acb7e910..5b7594b4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2013,2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2014,2015 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 1.2320 2014/12/21 17:32:58 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2425 2015/05/23 21:56:15 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,201 @@ 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. +20150523 + + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color. + + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted + by comment on Stack Overflow forum): + + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD + + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations + for 256 colors -TD + + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD + + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option. + +20150516 + + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which + may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502). + + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and + ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package + updates. + + regenerate html manpages. + + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was + discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on + Stack Overflow forum): + +20150509 + + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the + MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later. + + cleanup format of debian/copyright files + + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages. + + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of + the tinfo library. + +20150502 + + modify the configure script to allow different default values + for ABI 5 versus ABI 6. + + add wgetch-events to test-packages. + + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README. + + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor, + Debian #783486) -TD + + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD + + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add + nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX + (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel) + + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian + #783806) + + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin. + + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the + generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when + ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by + discussion with Sylvain Bertrand). + + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed + in /usr. + + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles. + + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared + libraries. + + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config + + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have + been eliminated. + + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on + the ncurses library aside from headers. + + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors. + + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim). + + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies + found by 20150425 changes for test-packages. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20150425 + + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page + (report by Todd M Lewis). + + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather + than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts. + + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to + check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since + frequently pkg-config configurations are broken. + + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the + rpath option. + + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel) + + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured + keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel) + + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418). + + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo + long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header. + + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404). + +20150418 + + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with + a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke). + + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using + wide characters (report by Werner Fink). + + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm. + + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link + with the shared libraries. + + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting + ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts. + NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames + adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and + adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config + + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6". + + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not + inherit into new windows. + +20150404 + + improve description of start_color() in the manual. + + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow + const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the + readonly text segment. + +20150329 + + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the + same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov) + +20150328 + + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging + the extended putwin/getwin. + + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended + putwin/getwin. + + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended + putwin/getwin. + +20150321 + + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and + getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the + wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except + for a magic code at the beginning: + 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses) + +20150307 + + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion + with John S Urban). + + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values + and graphic characters can be restored using getwin. + +20150228 + + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more + usable in an application which may/may not need the console window + (report by Grady Martin). + +20150221 + + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check + and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for + the wide-character libraries. + + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config + directory. + + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report + by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426). + +20150214 + + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm. + + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting + for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner + Fink). + +20150131 + + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing + the combinations of configure options used at each stage. + +20150124 + + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the + ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at + least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols. + + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from + ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706). + +20150117 + + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option. + + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to + configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink). + +20150110 + + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining + symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node. + + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found + with FreeBSD ports. + + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like + ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at + all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii). + + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations + use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files. + + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify + cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library + rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592). + + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type() + (report by Pavel Balaev). + +20150103 + + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad). + + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used + via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks. + + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded- + variations in ABI 6. + +20141227 + + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use + the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by + Sven Joachim). + 20141221 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by Sven Joachim).