X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=feeb7e9c4efe684cd5a104da51144f0c5dbbcb72;hp=ef4cabd286ae491cc3c4fed08e45d2690db73ace;hb=a2016785091d241ca289fbac5b40bfc7f0432737;hpb=5eb177874dea59107a1a2ea44f5d8f5bb99550b2 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ef4cabd2..feeb7e9c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2779 2017/03/18 19:17:44 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2888 2017/07/15 22:29:41 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,217 @@ 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. +20170715 + + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work + with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer. + + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328). + + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes + (Debian #868266). + + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates. + + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings. + +20170708 + + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options. + + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim). + +20170701 + + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment + variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an + application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux). + + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver + configuration; none is needed. + + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c + + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr, + fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did + not work (cf: 20160213). + + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently + reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer + reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports + showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is + addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer. + + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input + (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691). + + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer. + + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as + one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not + treated as the 2-character termcap short-name. + + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq). + + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names. + + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu() + + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes + (report by Allen Hewes). + +20170624 + + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and + throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler). + + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes + (report by Allen Hewes). + + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs. + + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was + not initialized, rather than returning an error. + + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal + has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963). + + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer, + assuming that --disable-leaks is configured. + + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined + behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta). + +20170617 + + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used + (report by Allen Hewes). + + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm + to help with leak checking. + + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak + checking. + + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal + cannot be initialized. + +20170610 + + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair(). + + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c + + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c + +20170603 + + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping + to xterm-256color. + + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the + end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo + (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various + configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not. + +20170527 + + improved test/picsmap.c: + + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt + + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files. + + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available. + +20170520 + + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files. + + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the + related files can be checked with lintian. + + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim). + +20170513 + + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots. + The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files. + + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is + changed (cf: 20170311). + + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names. + +20170506 + + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when + they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable. + + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x + + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65. + + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x + (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond). + + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html + + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c + +20170429 + + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM, + overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury). + + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages. + + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes. + + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is + null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer + for better compatibility with other implementations. + + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5 + + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the + value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau). + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20170422 + + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen). + + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics- + characters. + + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was + marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix + implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it. + On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature. + + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in + icl6402 and m2-nam -TD + + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc, + add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King). + + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus + a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number. + + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%". + + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c" + and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c', + avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap. + + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not + written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that. + + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check + when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control + characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable. + + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in + preference to "%02" on output. + + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and + "%3"; the result repeated the last character. + + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format. + +20170415 + + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from + help-screen used in test/edit_field.c + + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and + _nc_resolve_uses + + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025). + + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX. + + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation. + + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as + integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose. + + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs. + +20170408 + + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output + of mbstowcs(). + + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes. + + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs. + + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not + used by tack. + +20170401 + + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD + + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD + + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD + + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD + + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD + + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic + (discussion with Nicholas Marriott) + + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color + + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent() + cache. + + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar() + works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant + calls to get original tty-modes. + + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname(). + + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is + null, as documented. + + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to + reduce compiler warnings. + + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass + color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits: + + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(), + wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set(). + + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior, + including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(), + slk_color_off(), vid_attr(). + + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger + than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(), + extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(), + init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs. + +20170325 + + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens + (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486). + + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer + checks. + + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not + called (report by "Kau"). + + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions. + 20170318 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it