X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=da3b1d2692d3aa87e771391561cbe161c19a670f;hp=4c47bbb89db22eabc0004bc07dc85573de0c36c7;hb=9208e1bde56ebb9cc550fd93034f1d4650518b11;hpb=74137fec04e130a88ef25618cf730af988a4f51a diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4c47bbb8..da3b1d26 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3107 2018/03/31 22:45:41 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3127 2018/05/12 23:36:35 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,53 @@ 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. +20180512 + + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition. + + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead. + + fix several minor Coverity warnings. + +20180505 + + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older + versions of tack. + + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as + alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support + the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal + such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability. + + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename + conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages. + + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules + for escaping regular expressions. + +20180428 + + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon + Winter). + + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions + (report by Leon Winter). + + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference: + unfocus_current_field (form); + form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION); + (patch by Leon Winter). + +20180414 + + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field + edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter). + + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in + non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter). + + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function. + + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places + + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when + a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin). + +20180407 + + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete, + not part of X/Open Curses since 2007. + + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open + Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo + interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap + interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007). + As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return + values, e.g., keyname(). + 20180331 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended @@ -54,6 +101,8 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne). + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables. + + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD + + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD 20180317 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when @@ -2538,7 +2587,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. Waterlander regarding screen flicker). 20121229 - + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers. + + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers. + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning. + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report numbers.