X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ae5b43bf1d495fc0450d4693ac5740a40fda0f47;hp=4988f4aa0a6e4ca05c606fe21caa134158422d51;hb=8966d257503a5eb02998b885eb376d50d7e16eda;hpb=a1e63be290fce9e589bc57c9f753be09e8ac0cc7 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4988f4aa..ae5b43bf 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2010 2013/01/12 18:12:21 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2055 2013/05/11 20:22:04 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,166 @@ 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. +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). + + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path. + +20130126 + + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112), + needed to make test/dots_mvcur work. + + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to + help reduce flicker. + + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very + old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein) + + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch + by Dennis Grevenstein). + + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by + Dennis Grevenstein). + + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack + rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer + (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620). + +20130119 + + fixes for issues found by Coverity: + + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c + + add check for return-value in tty_update.c + + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c + + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c + + improve error-checking in copywin + + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469). + + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to + demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities. + + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for + matching capability names. + + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy + applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2 + termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725). + 20130112 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts. + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they @@ -2561,7 +2721,7 @@ 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 @@ -5127,7 +5287,7 @@ 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