X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=5ba46e9b300c6e062d1404917e08e23b178b4f76;hp=023649d235a1c3ef10838794b1908e7f9fa83493;hb=b025434573f466efe27862656a6a9d41dd2bd609;hpb=51a395aaa20e4aa687310bb8cb1616ccf8e8fd0d diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 023649d2..5ba46e9b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3332 2019/06/15 23:39:53 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3389 2019/10/12 21:17:50 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,121 @@ 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. +20191012 + + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out + Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516). + + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage. + + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and + _nc_find_name_entry. + > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"): + + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry. + + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry + + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one + mapping (cf: 20060415); + + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability, + overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007). + +20191005 + + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the + -I and -l options. + +20190928 + + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath + hack which differed between those files. + + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config + + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in + test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on + EINTR (cf: 20180922) + +20190921 + + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch + the screen's borders. + + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path + and version. + +20190914 + + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package + +20190907 + + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to + allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes + by Pascal Pignard). + + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when + the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary + warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim). + +20190831 + + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95, + noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without + libpanelw, etc. + +20190824 + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs. + +20190817 + + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few + details where it still differed from SVr4. + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs. + +20190810 + + fix a few more coverity warnings. + +20190803 + + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where + the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch + by Rob King). + + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry + and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD + + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD + + updated kitty entry & notes -TD + + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD + + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD + +20190728 + + fix a few more coverity warnings. + + more documentation updates based on tctest. + +20190727 + + fix a few coverity warnings. + + documentation updates based on tctest. + +20190720 + + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x + + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp + manual pages. + + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage + (report by Sven Joachim). + +20190713 + + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if + possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the + terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff). + + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c + +20190706 + + add domterm -TD + + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD + +20190630 + + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems + building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp. + + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin + + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless + filenames. + + add ms-terminal -TD + + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD + +20190623 + + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th + Edition versions of the tabs utility. + + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown + in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE + macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya + Ig Petrov). + + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent + data for the result from getenv(). + + update config.guess, config.sub + 20190615 + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page. + regenerate HTML manpages.