X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=de87c9aef5f6af5e3765da13b550bf352579b235;hp=e46fcb924d69fcd5f41a310dee1e48fa75b8607a;hb=f3ec084eb66ba14feb6357b674fb85dd474933d8;hpb=a90dd7b66fa711acd24d8181ea20e4f57d4b36cd diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e46fcb92..de87c9ae 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3453 2020/02/23 01:08:47 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3466 2020/03/22 00:28:35 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,48 @@ 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. +20200321 + + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables. + + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual + pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg). + + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for + a corresponding demo of dup_field(). + +20200314 + + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for and + + add history note to curs_printw.3x for and + + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding + +20200308 + + update copyright notices in test-packages. + + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table. + + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted + by discussion with Thomas Klausner). + +20200301 + + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the + background character, because it may be used in cases where the + corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte, + cf: 20181208). + +20200229 + + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option, + which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options. + > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by + "Maarten Anonymous"): + + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h + + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc + + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h + + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable + length array feature. + + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations + + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h + + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in + + use configured check for in a couple of places + + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c, + because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration. + + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol. + 20200222 + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD