X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f542d35497b590c88e376ce8633bf1c258f01d5f;hp=1811e57b7fdfd1d810df339db74abc18f0721837;hb=746490c7ab9f66c7521c500684e65eca223c551c;hpb=b93d96b78ac5250135975df892cee793dc3c0797 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1811e57b..f542d354 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3115 2018/04/14 21:22:06 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3156 2018/07/07 23:38:46 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,99 @@ 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. +20180707 + + build-fixes for gcc8. + + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in + report_offsets. + + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was + empty (Debian #902630). + +20180630 + + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous) + add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD + + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works + (Nicholas Marriott). + + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow: + + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking + locale support. + + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations + +20180623 + + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols + to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both + compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir). + + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e., + updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS, + CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and + CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20180616 + + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526). + + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE + combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987). + + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address + use of vsscanf and setenv. + + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from + work on dialog. + +20180609 + + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc., + to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian + #900839). + + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw + and vw_scanw, respectively. + +20180602 + + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples". + + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6. + +20180526 + + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h + + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary + files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac + Pascual Monells). + + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525. + + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but + work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c + +20180519 + + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation. + + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes; + fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR + (report by C Anthony Risinger) + + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD + + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks + for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658). + +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). @@ -61,7 +154,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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). + 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(). @@ -2560,7 +2653,7 @@ 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. @@ -4081,7 +4174,6 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT. 20091114 - + updated man/curs_trace.3x + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740). + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which