X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=93d1e873aea52f7b04c19372eebb3f37db719476;hp=0cfca173b6470e164ba65e05307815ccdf570653;hb=a7de4c96cafdd45795ad605bec72dd77177534c9;hpb=eee1237c858e39ddc0970dfc5a44d0ec76e2d9e4 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0cfca173..93d1e873 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2020 2013/02/03 00:19:36 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2072 2013/06/15 21:16:04 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,179 @@ 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. +20130615 + + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable. + + 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". + + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by + not printing the full pathname of the program. + + add -V option for consistency with other utilities. + + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option + such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik). + +20130608 + + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well + as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback + function pointer. + + add test/dots_termcap.c + + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c + + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used. + + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths + into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later + expansion to free-format input/out demo. + + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file. + + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various + terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD + + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134, + cf: 20121117). + + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and + --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe). + +20130525 + + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses + library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content + of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated + it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in + the left margin of the display. + + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c + + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as + NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent + use of these symbols in term_entry.h + +20130518 + + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse + interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316). + + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since + 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056). + + regenerated html manpages. + + update doctype used for html documentation. + +20130511 + + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more + plausible "ansi consoles" -TD + + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD + + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix + prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data + (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534). + +20130504 + + fixes for issues found by Coverity: + + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to + display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets. + + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c + + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype(). + +20130427 + + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c + + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later. + +20130413 + + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr + (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira). + + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for + type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri + Gribenko). + + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2 + (report by Dmitri Gribenko). + + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in + c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko). + +20130406 + + improve parameter checking in copywin(). + + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to + choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro + to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use + in cross-compiling. + + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program + (Redhat #911540) + + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner + Fink). + + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script. + +20130324 + + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira + and Roumen Petrov). + +20130323 + + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature + (report by Christian Ebert). + + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency + with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD + + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler) + +20130316 + + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space. + + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in + + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color, + add bold for consistency with sgr, + change smso for consistency with sgr -TD + + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD + + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report + by Benjamin Sittler) + + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?" + operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability. + + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure + line split after "%;". + + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug + library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim). + +20130309 + + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that + there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324). + + regenerated html manpages. + + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302). + + updated some autoconf macros: + + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304 + + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217 + + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building + libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same + limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build + configuration (Redhat #911540). + + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily + shown in curses.h (Debian #689131). + +20130302 + + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities. + + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it + is obsolete. + + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are + treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are + printable. + + add some traces to the Windows console driver. + + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases + of raw input in MinGW port. + +20130218 + + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20130216 + + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for + pdcurses. + + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for + ncurses. + + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to + check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen + when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by + Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418). + + fixes for issues found by Coverity: + + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS() + + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer + use after free. + + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c + + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c + +20130209 + + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names + of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in + mingw environment. + + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is + no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default + value" for that part of the manpage substitution. + 20130202 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make an incorrect move (cf: 20001028). @@ -2597,7 +2770,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the --disable-echo option is used. + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected, - writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493). + writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493). + update config.guess, config.sub 20070707 @@ -5163,7 +5336,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore() modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat - #68199 dated 2002-07-07. + #68199. + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would