+ modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
+ improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
variable.
+ update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
+ add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
+ update terminator entry -TD
+ remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
+ mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
+ mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
+ fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
+ add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
+ add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
+ corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
number of parameters.
+ improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
(report by Pavel Stehule).
+ add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
+ corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
+ check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
+ used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
+ corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
+ reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
+ add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
+ modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
+ add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
(report by Dennis Grevenstein).
+ check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
+ check for missing feature of locale.h
+ add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
+ add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
+ update config.guess, config.sub
+ move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
+ corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
those in compilable form.
+ use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
(report/patch by Werner Fink).
+ regenerate llib-* files.
+ modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
+ modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
+ fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
+ use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
which did not become accepted.
+ in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
capabilities in tic.
+ update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
+ corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
+ add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
user-defined capabilities.
+ amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
+ fix typo in adds200 -TD
+ add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
+ improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
xt, tbc and hts as clues.
+ replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
+ modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
+ modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
+ amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
+ change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
"%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
+ fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
+ eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
+ correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
+ add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
file in Slackware.
+ corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
on some of the BSDs.
+ updated "string-hacks" feature.
+ minor improvements to manpage typography.
+ corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
"Hudd").
+ add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
extended_color_content
+ add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
return values from the tested functions.
+ improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
extensions.
+ add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
+ override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
option was given.
+ change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
+ fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
Modinos).
+ add nsterm-direct -TD
+ use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
+ use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
+ add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
+ add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
building test-packages for Arch.
+ modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
+ update config.guess, config.sub
+ improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
+ modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
as a pipe/filter.
+ minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
discussion with Bryan Christ).
+ add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
+ modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
names.
+ several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
+ fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
+ add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
+ base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
+ updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
+ CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
_DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
+ CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
+ modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
+ add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
+ add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
different character pages.
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+ check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
+ add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
used.
+ build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
+ add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
that lets different curses implementations be compared.
+ modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
(report by Tomas Janousek).
+ ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
+ correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
the compiled-in search list.
+ several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
Ada95 tree.
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+ ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
from the infocmp -Q option.
+ allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
+ add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
+ apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
+ ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
if the terminal were resized.
+ add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
#1610681, cf: 20141011).
+ modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
+ document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
+ improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
+ amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
+ improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
implementations of sysconf().
+ improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
parameter.
+ define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
"too large".
+ update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
+ add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
+ add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
deb test-packages.
+ split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
+ drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final 20180818 updates.
+ build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
+ improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
+ modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
install (Debian #903790):
+ use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
static libraries.
+ modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
+ add "--disable-touching" option for using "install -p" option during
the install, e.g., so that header-files have a predictable timestamp.
+ improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ build-fixes for gcc8.
+ corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
+ add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
+ remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
+ 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).
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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.
+ modify generatesd 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.
+ 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
+ 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).
+ remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
+ repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
+ fix several minor Coverity warnings.
+ 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.
+ 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).
+ modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
+ modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
+ remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
+ also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
+ add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
+ clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
+ 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).
As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
values, e.g., keyname().
+ improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
+ amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
+ add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
+ fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
it should have.
+ add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
+ further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
+ reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
by Gyorgy Jeney).
+ modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
+ improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
+ modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
(report/patch by Werner Fink).
+ modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
+ add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
+ simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
+ add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
+ modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
compounded by repair in 20180121.
+ correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
+ fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
+ correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
+ improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
+ remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
+ correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
+ add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
+ improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report
Julien Cristau, Sven Cristau).
+ modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
+ deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
was needed, was standardized long ago.
+ add several development/experimental options to development packages.
+ minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
normally enabled.
+ minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
+ add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
+ add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
+ add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
+ updated release notes
+ amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
> terminfo changes:
+ trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
not suitable -TD
+ modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
+ mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
+ expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
+ use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
+ add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
+ add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
+ update vte to vte-2017 -TD
+ add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
+ add iterm2-direct -TD
+ updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
+ add mlterm-direct -TD
+ add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
> terminfo changes:
+ add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
blocks from xterm #331 -TD
+ add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
#331 -TD
+ modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
+ add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
+ modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
+ remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
+ add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
+ remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
direct-colors are wanted -TD
+ add vte-direct -TD
+ add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
Pierre Carru)
+ use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
+ use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
+ add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
> merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
+ support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
this feature.
+ the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
+ other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
ncurses library work as expected.
+ applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
+ in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
+ because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
+ the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
+ the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
wide-character configuration to 32768.
+ build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
+ add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
+ modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
+ work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
libraries.
+ bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
+ fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
+ modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
256-, etc., colors.
+ modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
as possible default values.
+ modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
handling of the curses/ncurses library.
+ modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
+ modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
configured to access it via weak symbols.
+ simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
behavior.
+ update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
+ modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
+ generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
(report by Jeffrey Walton).
+ build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
+ consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
+ set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
anticipated.
+ add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
+ modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
PDCurses.
+ modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
e.g., if there is a permission problem.
+ minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
+ assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
OpenSuSE #1070450).
+ minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
+ repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
+ improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
+ improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
+ modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
are.
+ modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
function in link_test.c
+ updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
+ modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
+ add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
+ modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
before initialized.
+ add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
+ add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
+ modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
+ build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
+ it lacks the use_env() function.
+ it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
+ add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
+ additional manpage cleanup.
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+ add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
+ add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
+ improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
+ improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
+ reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
+ add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
+ modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
account for xon -TD
+ correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
+ correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
+ build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
Vassili Courzakis).
+ check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
dots_xcurses.c
+ add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
+ add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
+ improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
(report by Midolikawa H).
+ fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
+ clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
drawing character is drawn.
+ make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
+ modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
+ add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
+ improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
directory-tree terminal databases.
+ repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
+ add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
+ modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
than in the test-program.
+ remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
+ add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
+ fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
+ minor cleanup to test/view.c:
+ eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
+ implement page up/down commands.
+ add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
terminal.
+ improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
attribute values which can be stored in those types.
+ correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
program.
+ modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
+ add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
+ add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
+ modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
+ review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
+ amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
+ correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
not slk_color().
+ regenerate man-html documentation.
+ fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
Solaris xpg4 curses.
+ add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
+ minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
tin.
+ improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
+ modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
+ modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
+ change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
two sets.
+ modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
+ build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
+ add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
+ improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
+ save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
+ modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
+ modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
+ additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
+ modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit
checks in some libraries.
+ fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
+ add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
+ fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
+ amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
+ modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
(Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
and tput.c
+ fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
+ corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
over missing/cancelled values.
+ add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
special key.
+ improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
cancelled string capabilities.
+ add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
+ add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
+ add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
as input (Redhat #1484274).
+ allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
+ add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
#1484284).
+ check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
+ reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
+ guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
+ correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
+ improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
X/Open Curses.
+ add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
panel libraries.
+ update "iterm" entry -TD
+ add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
+ regenerate llib-* files.
+ regenerate HTML manpages.
+ improve picsmap test-program:
+ reduce memory used for tsearch
+ add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
+ add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
(cf: 20130622).
+ add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
+ add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
+ improve usage messages for tset and tput.
+ minor fixes to "RDGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
+ improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
Stephane Chazelas).
+ add reset_color_pairs() function.
+ add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
by ncurses.
+ improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
+ modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
/usr/share/ncurses-examples
+ improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
+ minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
current screen is marked for clearing.
+ in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
loading image files.
+ modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
on demand up to the existing limit.
+ add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
improve color_content().
+ improve picsmap test-program:
+ if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
/usr/share/ncurses-examples
+ add "-l" option for logging
+ add "-d" option for debugging
+ add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
with time delay.
+ use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+ update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
+ use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
+ add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
+ move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
Williams) -TD
+ add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
+ improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
parameters for a capability and the actual.
+ amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
+ translate the character to the alternate character set when the
alternate character set is enabled.
+ do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
+ document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
tack for memory-leak checking.
+ add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
+ adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
extended capability arrays.
+ add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
+ improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
+ modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
term-driver configuration.
+ add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
files to allow each to be compiled separately.
+ add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
+ 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.
+ 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).
+ 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).
+ 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.