X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=6147071e1b20f698f88402280978111f20053a48;hp=9f3ff1d1a982163cb3ff230fac598fd89fcf5c49;hb=6b96eb711cbf58da43002ff14b66d8a52c19a731;hpb=b8da182f141a5d0e6bd6a7758a1c100ba4172610;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9f3ff1d1..6147071e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2155 2014/01/18 23:59:51 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2239 2014/07/12 20:24:13 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,231 @@ 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. +20140712 + + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters. + + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or + without sp-funcs. + +20140705 + + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of + video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings. + +20140629 + + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when + NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503). + + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into + subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode + fullwidth characters in the test-screens. + + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for + compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616). + +20140621 + + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding + conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz). + + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for + upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option. + + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the + total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by + providing directly comparable screens. + + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples. + +20140614 + + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c + (cf: 20140524). + + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from + reading empty "screen+italics" entry. + + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD + + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD + + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD + + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD + + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD + +20140609 + > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian + Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD + + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD + + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around + screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD + +20140607 + + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not + overlap with sgr functionality. + + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I + option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard). + + update xterm-new to patch #305 -TD + + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples + packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907). + + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for + older ncurses than 20131207. + + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage. + + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure. + + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing. + + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524). + + corrected usage message in adacurses-config. + +20140524 + + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE + environment variable. + + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x + + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping. + + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded. + + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in + terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD + + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD + + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD + + correct padding in sbi entry -TD + + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm() + because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal + stack (report by Corinna Vinschen). + + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to + activate additional checks which compare the results from running + tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap + expressions. + + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton, + cf: 20120324). + > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez: + + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings. + + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes + instead of <>. + + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning + was removed by an obsolete pragma. + + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter, + available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also + replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas. + + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows + some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some + compiler flags. + + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure + package. + + removed C_Chtype and its conversions. + + removed C_AttrType and its conversions. + + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set. + + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions. + + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions. + + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it + was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler + to be consecutive anyway. + + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza + + only consider using a project for shared libraries. + + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then". + + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS. + +20140510 + + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port. + + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0, + which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility. + +20140503 + + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran) + + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an + ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window + (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + +20140426 + + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen + Pfeifer). + + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to + simplify later merging: + + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library + + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver + + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's + + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only + the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein, + cf: 20090927). + +20140419 + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20140412 + + modify configure script: + + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes. + + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building + with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports. + + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer): + + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling, + + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers, + + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case, + + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to + "#win32console", and + + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g., + to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver. + +20140329 + + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc + + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency + with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf). + + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only + get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD + + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to + 0.4.1 -TD + +20140323 + + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD + +20140322 + + use types from in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc. + + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified + using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in + + add terminology entry -TD + + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD + + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD + +20140315 + + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's + top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is + on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer). + + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to + be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by + Soren Brinkmann). + +20140308 + + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where + NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li). + + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li). + + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not + allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215). + +20140301 + + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin). + +20140222 + + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c + + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD + + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm" + console -TD + +20140215 + + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without + allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment + variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by + discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs + when reading in an allocated console-buffer). + + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the + scrolling-stages. + + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken + html emitted by docbook. + +20140209 + + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if + _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10 + has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol + (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796). + +20140201 + + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate + which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values. + + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated + representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at + least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez). + + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope). + +20140125 + + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do + not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for + new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch + by Nicolas Boulenguez). + 20140118 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782). @@ -75,7 +300,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. recognized by clang. 20131116 - + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED + + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268). @@ -239,7 +464,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20130615 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable. - + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik): + + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik). + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined tab-lists options. + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d". @@ -488,7 +713,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume. + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report by Erwin Waterlander). - + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf + + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf > fixes based on Coverity report: + correct coloring in test/bs.c + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(). @@ -577,7 +802,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc. 20121017 - + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory + + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory (Redhat #866989). 20121013 @@ -930,7 +1155,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to - give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730). + give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730). + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim). @@ -962,7 +1187,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + drop mk-dlls.sh script. + change recommended regular expression library. + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton. - + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used. + + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used. 20111231 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add @@ -1334,7 +1559,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress - warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez): + warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez). 20110423 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen. @@ -2021,7 +2246,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings. + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application - (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223). + (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223). 20091017 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in @@ -2101,7 +2326,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20090815 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys, - broken in 20090509 merging. + broken in 20090510 merging. + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch). + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to @@ -2140,7 +2365,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20090718 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from - 20070704 changes. + 20090704 changes. + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing. + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible. @@ -2246,7 +2471,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then using that in the libtool link-commands. + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk - from 2009031 changes. + from 20090321 changes. + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib, termlib) is to be linked. @@ -4359,7 +4584,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors(). + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome, - konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637). + konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637). The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the new ones do not require this change. -TD @@ -8956,7 +9181,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap (reported by Andreas Jaeger ). - (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a). + (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a). + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround @@ -9425,7 +9650,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration does not have getttynam(). + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function. - + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function. + + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function. + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated, which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov). + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down