X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=fa2fa53446ad2fda7221874fc7f72cc636c94be3;hp=0d7b26fd040a6146255db6f5ba04fb1481b75f0a;hb=762520a7930d7f698d542628d3c04bc201f7dac2;hpb=0948e2c7ac34642a1f8a3a85000933bcbb258cff diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0d7b26fd..fa2fa534 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2260 2014/08/16 23:28:26 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2303 2014/11/29 20:12:50 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,104 @@ 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. +20141129 + + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds + ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results. + A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library + symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations + which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink). + +20141115 + + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in + curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen). + + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version + used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version + + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to + the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries. + + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for + symbol-versioning. + +20141101 + + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN + and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does + not apply. + +20141025 + + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the + msys2 configuration. + +20141018 + + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of + the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD + + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by + correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling + in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm" + in recent changes. + + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term + (report by Mike Gran). + +20141011 + + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a + demonstration of its limitations. + + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo. + + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test. + + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function + exported to help with debugging mouse changes. + + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there + are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need + to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by + Greg Field). + + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD + + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode. + +20140927 + + implement curs_set in win_driver.c + + implement flash in win_driver.c + + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses + focus. + + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of + win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the + window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum + screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode. + + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the + dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating + for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the + 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman). + +20140920 + + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts. + + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in + some older cross-compiler environments. + + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL + (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner). + See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples. + which relates to the clarified guidelines. + + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory + for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund). + + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes. + + update config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20140913 + + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working + C++ cross-compilers. + + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9 + +20140906 + + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to + NetBSD. + + minor compiler-warning fixes. + +20140831 + + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their + options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify + a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup. + +20140823 + + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single- + width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger, + cf: 20050813). + 20140816 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705). @@ -122,7 +220,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples. 20140614 - + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c + + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c (cf: 20140524). + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from reading empty "screen+italics" entry.