X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=93a45ae49452ad028ef65124506394e147562e30;hp=0ab183bfe6f6b4585174f0acb3f55cd76513edee;hb=dc690a36a0e53e2c2ecd99c971cd749f78275fdc;hpb=5461fc336d03fbfea6b85ac21c6d49c528f6752d diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0ab183bf..93a45ae4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2015,2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 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 1.2722 2016/12/31 21:35:53 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2741 2017/01/21 23:40:19 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,42 @@ 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. +20170121 + + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application + provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone). + + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for + termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709). + + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which + omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations + (cf: 990123). + + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around + clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc. + +20170114 + + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs. + + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is + available only when ncurses is configured for tracing. + + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard + error after initializing the trace feature using the environment + variable. + +20170107 + + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program + is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends + either reset- or init-strings. + + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset, + to make it easier to see how they are similar and different. + + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals + + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl() + state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching + the behavior when using the term-driver configuration. + + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions + + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields, + and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib + compatibility (cf: 20120714). + + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and + use_tioctl() versus first trace calls. + 20161231 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe). + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath