X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=75d054626ceacb9de5a99f53fd24c110fccbacfb;hp=6147071e1b20f698f88402280978111f20053a48;hb=b8cca229aaa89adcc41dbd7c7710515e983e60f2;hpb=6b96eb711cbf58da43002ff14b66d8a52c19a731 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6147071e..75d05462 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 1.2239 2014/07/12 20:24:13 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2327 2015/01/03 20:47:28 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,202 @@ 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. +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). + +20141220 + + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213 + + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms + together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from + the ABI 5 libraries. + + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one, + regenerate html-manpages. + +20141213 + + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory + when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty + De Meo). + + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of + ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test + package for ncurses6. + + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it + is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo). + + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local" + in the corresponding ".map" files. + + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash + from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven + Joachim). + +20141206 + + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across + the different library configurations has the same label. Some + review is needed to ensure these are really compatible. + + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of + gcc introduced here: + https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html + https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html + (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei). + + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes. + +20141129 + + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds + ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results. + A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library + symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations + which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink). + +20141115 + + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in + curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen). + + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version + used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version + + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to + the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries. + + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for + symbol-versioning. + +20141101 + + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN + and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does + not apply. + +20141025 + + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the + msys2 configuration. + +20141018 + + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of + the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD + + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by + correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling + in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm" + in recent changes. + + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term + (report by Mike Gran). + +20141011 + + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a + demonstration of its limitations. + + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo. + + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test. + + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function + exported to help with debugging mouse changes. + + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there + are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need + to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by + Greg Field). + + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD + + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode. + +20140927 + + implement curs_set in win_driver.c + + implement flash in win_driver.c + + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses + focus. + + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of + win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the + window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum + screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode. + + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the + dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating + for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the + 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman). + +20140920 + + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts. + + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in + some older cross-compiler environments. + + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL + (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner). + See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples. + which relates to the clarified guidelines. + + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory + for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund). + + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes. + + update config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20140913 + + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working + C++ cross-compilers. + + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9 + +20140906 + + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to + NetBSD. + + minor compiler-warning fixes. + +20140831 + + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their + options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify + a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup. + +20140823 + + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single- + width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger, + cf: 20050813). + +20140816 + + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing + it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705). + + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages. + +20140809 + + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use + reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void* + in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang). + + regenerated html manpages. + + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage, + having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file + which reverses cause/effect. + + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros + have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412). + + fixes for win_driver.c: + + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination. + + implement beep(). + + minor cleanup. + +20140802 + + minor portability fixes for MinGW: + + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers + + add check for gnatprep "-T" option + + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks + "trace" feature: + http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual + + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples. + + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are + typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package + (cf: 20140726). + +20140726 + + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and + ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by + discussion with Paul Gilmartin). + + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2 + + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be + used to override the different treatment of justification for static + versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter). + + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by + Leon Winter, cf: 20130608). + +20140719 + + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses. + + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L + options, from xterm changes. + 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 @@ -74,7 +270,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples. 20140614 - + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c + + 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. @@ -96,7 +292,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 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 + + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm 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