X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ab79acb6367ae659fdc22b5d923fd33cce92b672;hp=f0e3a472635d7f6f04c836c94361619701ca2f85;hb=17d9459c7aecedecbfc59b8ba5d29279a01e9003;hpb=34d602f272c394e9a980438e636e1ce4d355f83b diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f0e3a472..ab79acb6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2209 2014/05/24 21:40:16 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2262 2014/08/23 19:28:39 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,121 @@ 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. +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 + 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.