X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ccc1d43b6f3441af6985c14b96b49e3c364cc55e;hp=1c2f43064a6988d5b3822e9caeb819e04bc632de;hb=47d2fb4537d9ad5bb14f4810561a327930ca4280;hpb=296420e1ec091e6dbd354cc13748638637690776 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1c2f4306..ccc1d43b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2018,2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey -- +-- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 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 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3322 2019/05/25 19:18:23 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3446 2020/02/12 02:21:21 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +46,270 @@ 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. +20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update release notes + + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts + +20200208 + + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result + when cross-compiling. + + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken. + + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used, + to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples. + +20200202 + + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ: + https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed + +20200201 + + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in + collision handling for Caps-hpux11 + + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for + terminfo and termcap names. + + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit(). + + update a few comments about tack 1.07 + + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample + programs for explain.txt + +20200118 + + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5 + + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD + + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages. + + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by + Christian Durr) -TD + + correct spelling errors found with codespell. + + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352. + +20200111 + + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header, + to accommodate recent MacOS changes. + + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20200104 + + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to + "work", to help illustrate discussion in + https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html + + fix some warnings from autoheader-252 + +20191228 + + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments + past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those + symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS. + + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs. + + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration + for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages. + +20191221 + + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to + work with test-packages. + + improve tracemunch: + + keep track of TERMINAL* values + + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to + show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway. + + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype + for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink). + +20191214 + + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for + leak-checking. + +20191207 + + fix a few warnings for test-package builds + + add curses_trace(), to replace trace(). + +20191130 + + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by + discussion with Nick Black). + + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch + manpage. + + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages. + +20191123 + + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package. + + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31. + +20191116 + + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes + to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test + packages. + + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c + defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName + from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503). + +20191109 + + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich. + + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility + with old non-curses programs -TD + + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD + + use ansi+rep several places -TD + + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner, + cf: 20020901). + +20191102 + + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative. + + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero + (report/patch by Anthony Sottile). + + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries. + + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD + +20191026 + + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the + line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black). + + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a + \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923). + + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in + early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci). + +20191019 + + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building + with address-sanitizer. + + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because + treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in + use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001). + +20191015 + + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the + input string is shorter than expected. + > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen): + + check for missing character after backslash in write_it + + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap + syntax (cf: 980530). + +20191012 + + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out + Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516). + + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage. + + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and + _nc_find_name_entry. + > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"): + + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry. + + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry + + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one + mapping (cf: 20060415); + + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability, + overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007). + +20191005 + + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the + -I and -l options. + +20190928 + + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath + hack which differed between those files. + + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config + + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in + test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on + EINTR (cf: 20180922) + +20190921 + + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch + the screen's borders. + + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path + and version. + +20190914 + + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package + +20190907 + + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to + allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes + by Pascal Pignard). + + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when + the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary + warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim). + +20190831 + + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95, + noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without + libpanelw, etc. + +20190824 + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs. + +20190817 + + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few + details where it still differed from SVr4. + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs. + +20190810 + + fix a few more coverity warnings. + +20190803 + + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where + the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch + by Rob King). + + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry + and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD + + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD + + updated kitty entry & notes -TD + + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD + + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD + +20190728 + + fix a few more coverity warnings. + + more documentation updates based on tctest. + +20190727 + + fix a few coverity warnings. + + documentation updates based on tctest. + +20190720 + + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x + + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp + manual pages. + + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage + (report by Sven Joachim). + +20190713 + + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if + possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the + terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff). + + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c + +20190706 + + add domterm -TD + + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD + +20190630 + + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems + building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp. + + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin + + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless + filenames. + + add ms-terminal -TD + + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD + +20190623 + + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th + Edition versions of the tabs utility. + + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown + in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE + macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya + Ig Petrov). + + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent + data for the result from getenv(). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20190615 + + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page. + + regenerate HTML manpages. + +20190609 + + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff). + Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out, + to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0 + + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD + + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges, + to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names. + +20190601 + + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs + e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru). + + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE + variable. + 20190525 + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8 (report by Vincent Huisman). @@ -850,7 +1115,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to consistently do this only if "-d" option is given. + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses: - + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit + + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit checks in some libraries. + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does not return ERR on the lower-right corner. @@ -2961,7 +3226,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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 + applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725). 20130112 @@ -3479,7 +3744,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member + drop mk-dlls.sh script. + change recommended regular expression library. - + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton. + + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuration. + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used. 20111231 @@ -4099,7 +4364,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink). + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a - warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal + warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additional scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build tree (report by Werner Fink). + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form. @@ -9831,7 +10096,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. current directory (reported by Mike Castle ). + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller). - + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and + + document a special case of incompatibility between ncurses 4.2 and 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL. + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace(). @@ -10405,7 +10670,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for - PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD + PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatibility - TD + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with a given keycode. + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is @@ -10492,7 +10757,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is - intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used + intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425). + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's @@ -10973,7 +11238,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 980523 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov). - + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty + + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibility fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk). + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike @@ -11059,7 +11324,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by H.J.Lu). + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to - avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch + avoid ambiguous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). 980404 @@ -11509,7 +11774,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. > patch by Juergen Pfeifer: + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN - + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation + + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implementation + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages @@ -11720,7 +11985,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on navigation requests. + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in - case-insensitiva comparision routine. + case-insensitiva comparison routine. + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a forms field by index. + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus @@ -11831,7 +12096,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw keys 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar - 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm + 6. correctly handle the case of reception of KEY_MOUSE from gpm + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm @@ -12072,7 +12337,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov). + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). - + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL + + improve threshold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov). 970531 @@ -13307,7 +13572,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. * tset(1) added * mouse support for xterm. * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space. -* Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off. +* Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initially off. * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now. * tic can interpret ko capabilities now. * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library. @@ -13323,7 +13588,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1). * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux * terminfo.src 9.8.2 -* tweaks for compiling in seperate directories. +* tweaks for compiling in separate directories. * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries. * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX. @@ -13404,7 +13669,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo. * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console. It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets. -* initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if +* initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This will mostly happen if you try to run on an undefined terminal. * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome. @@ -13643,7 +13908,7 @@ Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include: * cleaned up vidputs() * general cleanup of the code * more attention to portability to other systems -* added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are +* added terminfos for hp70092 (won't work until changes to lib_update.c are made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers. Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.