X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=6254ce4a091c3c97b720a2bfc381c8255e8c9e44;hp=e158c5396ada524987417e7f27b3eeaf4eb4246a;hb=5d8dbcdd9423bf9821db414fd9ec792ccf1f1027;hpb=dee978d1ba016c8f327516f684900f95ee7a2b30 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e158c539..6254ce4a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2855 2017/06/10 22:10:46 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2949 2017/09/09 22:32:34 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,216 @@ 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. +20170909 + + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c, + which was inconsistent with the normal implementation. + + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching + behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter). + + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens + using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a". + + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to + consistently do this only if "-d" option is given. + + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses: + + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit + checks in some libraries. + + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does + not return ERR on the lower-right corner. + + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses. + + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826). + +20170902 + + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older + logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722). + + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string + (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c + and tput.c + +20170827 + + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton). + +20170826 + + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD + + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip + over missing/cancelled values. + + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted + special key. + + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for + cancelled string capabilities. + + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the + name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries. + + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input + + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a + nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic + as input (Redhat #1484274). + + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276). + + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat + #1484284). + + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285) + + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287). + + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using + cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291). + + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim). + + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on + X/Open Curses. + + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and + panel libraries. + +20170819 + + update "iterm" entry -TD + + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD + + regenerate llib-* files. + + regenerate HTML manpages. + + improve picsmap test-program: + + reduce memory used for tsearch + + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage. + + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional + (cf: 20130622). + + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput. + + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855). + + improve usage messages for tset and tput. + + minor fixes to "RDGB" extension and reset_color_pairs(). + +20170812 + + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by + Stephane Chazelas). + + add reset_color_pairs() function. + + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used + by ncurses. + + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure + script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack. + + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in + /usr/share/ncurses-examples + + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(), + color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters. + + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the + current screen is marked for clearing. + + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for + loading image files. + + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow + on demand up to the existing limit. + + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to + improve color_content(). + + improve picsmap test-program: + + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM, + checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat" + suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g., + /usr/share/ncurses-examples + + add "-l" option for logging + + add "-d" option for debugging + + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images, + with time delay. + + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20170729 + + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD + + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard) + + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD + + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain + Williams) -TD + + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the + cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King). + + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by + tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of + parameters for a capability and the actual. + + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from + report/patch by Dick Wesseling): + + translate the character to the alternate character set when the + alternate character set is enabled. + + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255. + + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in + tack for memory-leak checking. + + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs" + configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but + a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is + installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds. + + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol + needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon + internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and + string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix + curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the + extended capability arrays. + + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722 + +20170722 + + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian + + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where + the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of + ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the + term-driver configuration. + + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header + files to allow each to be compiled separately. + + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program + using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack + versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the + dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected. + +20170715 + + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work + with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer. + + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328). + + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes + (Debian #868266). + + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates. + + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings. + +20170708 + + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options. + + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim). + +20170701 + + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment + variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an + application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux). + + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver + configuration; none is needed. + + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c + + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr, + fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did + not work (cf: 20160213). + + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently + reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer + reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports + showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is + addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer. + + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input + (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691). + + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer. + + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as + one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not + treated as the 2-character termcap short-name. + + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq). + + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names. + + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu() + + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes + (report by Allen Hewes). + +20170624 + + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and + throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler). + + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes + (report by Allen Hewes). + + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs. + + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was + not initialized, rather than returning an error. + + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal + has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963). + + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer, + assuming that --disable-leaks is configured. + + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined + behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta). + +20170617 + + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used + (report by Allen Hewes). + + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm + to help with leak checking. + + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak + checking. + + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal + cannot be initialized. + 20170610 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair(). + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c @@ -4262,7 +4472,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20080209 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for - comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses + comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open Curses that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).