X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b461acde493d48a8249b223289782fd6aadb35db;hp=5aac7b72ac626e9cab4aec3316b1671e5e42327a;hb=88e7914acafc37f84af25b80f403eb4290e423d4;hpb=344194b55bff15ccedd626246a547de476b4d83c diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5aac7b72..b461acde 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3278 2019/02/23 22:52:48 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3314 2019/05/04 20:55:23 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,73 @@ 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. +20190504 + + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters + (report by Pavel Stehule). + + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension. + + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses. + +20190427 + + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented + infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name + but different types. + +20190420 + + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports. + +20190413 + + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script. + + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11 + + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh + + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do + not depend on order into Caps-ncurses. + +20190406 + + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle + split-up Caps-files. + + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled. + +20190330 + + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann) + + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD + + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1 + (report by Dennis Grevenstein). + + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works + + check for missing feature of locale.h + + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs + + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20190323 + + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef. + + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract + those in compilable form. + + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm, + in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions + (report/patch by Werner Fink). + +20190317 + + regenerate llib-* files. + + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info. + + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has + an unexpected type; ignore it in that case. + + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files. + + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made, + which did not become accepted. + +20190309 + + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined + capabilities in tic. + + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef" + data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302). + +20190302 + + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11 + + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some + user-defined capabilities. + + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was + called after initscr() (report by "Ampera"). + 20190223 + fix typo in adds200 -TD + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities. @@ -94,7 +161,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the return values from the tested functions. + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and - extensions. + extensions. + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter). + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure option was given. @@ -112,7 +179,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20190105 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply building test-packages for Arch. - + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature + + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049). + update config.guess, config.sub