X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f43ab93694c5239d8533c610813ad9e2fd783130;hp=abc1f01b7963ce097252e746de27255c2bcea83a;hb=fae162795e065e5901068152e91f2962b6b247f3;hpb=3e91848cbe3dad23fdb60962fa9b678592591c34 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index abc1f01b..f43ab936 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey -- +-- Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey -- -- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3477 2020/04/18 23:57:32 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3631 2021/02/13 22:39:42 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,375 @@ 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. +20210213 + + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background + functions. + + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a + wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character. + + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries. + + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first + parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1". + +20210206 + + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd + (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic) + + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2" + option, from xterm #363 -TD + + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before + writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the + cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130). + +20210130 + + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused + scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower + right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg). + + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD + + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not + supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD + + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD + + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD + + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore + blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD + +20210123 + + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for + cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding + the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich). + + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around + quirks of pmake. + +20210116 + + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS + (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD + + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1, + adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate. + +20210109 + + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates. + + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of + autoconf 2.52.20210105 + +20210102 + + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include which declares + exit_terminfo. + + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is + defined in , and remove it from the list of prototypes + (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon). + + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that is required + for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for + types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031). + + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for + consistency with other manpages. + +20201227 + + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD + + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly. + +20201219 + + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address + regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3. + + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report + by Chris Bennett). + +20201212 + + improve manual pages for form field-types. + +20201205 + + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking + gprbuild (cf: 20200627). + + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen. + + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin + Abendroth). + + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout + (patch by Benno Schulenberg). + + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD + + add flash to mlterm3 -TD + +20201128 + + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr). + + add rep to PuTTY -TD + + add putty+keypad -TD + + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in + the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses + low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217). + + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its + -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS, + do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases. + +20201121 + + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver. + + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang + (report by Steven Pitman). + +20201114 + + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver. + + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the + special case where short extended capability strings were not + converted from terminfo to termcap format. + + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case + when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff). + +20201107 + + update kitty+common -TD + + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron). + + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely + upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas). + +20201031 + + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include + before (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas). + + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion + with Reuben Thomas). + + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to + ensure that the messages contain only printable text. + + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments + is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven + Pitman). + +20201024 + + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling. + + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with + Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer. + + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check, + needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled + (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim) + + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters + and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of + parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert + Sebastian Herlim). + + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick + Black), as well as some fixes via linklint. + +20201017 + + improve manpage typography. + + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display + nonprintable characters. + + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such + as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm. + +20201010 + + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD + + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154, + ncrvt100an -TD + + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by + discussion with Florian Weimer). + + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen + Pfeifer). + +20201003 + + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter). + + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) + + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD + + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas). + + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754) + + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for + checking consistency with tic. + +20200926 + + correct configure-check for gnurx library. + + regenerate llib-* files. + + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for + panel- and user-pointers. + +20200919 + + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD + +20200918 + + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated + curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545). + +20200912 + + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get + the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64. + + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration. + + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer). + +20200907 + + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by + Soren Tempel). + +20200906 + + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of + win32-driver. + + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs). + +20200831 + + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner + Fink). + +20200829 + + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten + Anonymous". + + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of + win32-driver. + + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS + to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on + mawk and lynx). + > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer): + + correct icl6404 csr + + correct ti916 cup + + improve ndr9500 + +20200822 + + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh + + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the + man_db.renames file. + + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function + (report by Yue Tai). + + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker). + + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared" + option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to + provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai). + +20200817 + + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation + warnings. + + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated. + + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds + using the string-hacks option. + + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure + option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink). + +20200816 + + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence + (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808). + + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck + + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++ + (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous"). + +20200808 + + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part + of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall). + + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use + AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and + --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using + fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling + (discussion with Keith Marshall). + + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW. + + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as + parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with + MinGW. + +20200801 + + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006). + + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration + (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous"). + + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to + reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings. + + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure + +20200725 + + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by + "Maarten Anonymous") + + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT. + + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by + Florian Weimer). + +20200718 + + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual + Studio C++. + + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static + libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++. + > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling + the main program, so the linker can find related objects. + + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link. + + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs. + +20200711 + + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo + Bruckl). + + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen + Pfeifer). + + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell). + + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the + buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan). + + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a + trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen). + +20200704 + + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in + the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard). + > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"): + + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport" + declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++. + +20200627 + + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with + gprbuild. + + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h + +20200613 + + update list of functions in ncurses.3x + + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case + in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian + #961097). + +20200606 + + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage + in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD + + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for + screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron). + + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron). + + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron). + +20200531 + + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x + + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang) + + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron). + + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl + + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes. + + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to + handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters + (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's + save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function + passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier + (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed + string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + +20200523 + + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x + + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502) + + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits + which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad + is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma). + + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the + generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify + configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants + to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg). + > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by + "Maarten Anonymous"): + + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker + options into Visual Studio's dialect. + + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to + work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation. + +20200516 + + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x + + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD + +20200509 + + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting + a performance comparison. + + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers + use different names than SVr4 or ncurses. + +20200502 + + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD + + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD + + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert + those to position reports. + +20200425 + + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD + + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols". + 20200418 + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction. + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not @@ -301,7 +670,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package 20190907 - + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to + + 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