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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey --
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3446 2020/02/12 02:21:21 tom Exp $
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
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.
20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ update release notes
+ minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
20200208
+ modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
when cross-compiling.
+ drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
+ define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
20200202
+ reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
20200201
+ modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
collision handling for Caps-hpux11
+ add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
terminfo and termcap names.
+ fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
+ update a few comments about tack 1.07
+ use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
programs for explain.txt
20200118
+ expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
+ improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
+ add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
+ update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
Christian Durr) -TD
+ correct spelling errors found with codespell.
+ fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
20200111
+ improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
+ suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
+ update config.guess, config.sub
20200104
+ modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
"work", to help illustrate discussion in
https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
+ fix some warnings from autoheader-252
20191228
+ in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
+ improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
+ modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
20191221
+ correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
work with test-packages.
+ improve tracemunch:
+ keep track of TERMINAL* values
+ if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
+ ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
20191214
+ add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
leak-checking.
20191207
+ fix a few warnings for test-package builds
+ add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
20191130
+ add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
discussion with Nick Black).
+ improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
manpage.
+ improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
20191123
+ fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
+ workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
20191116
+ modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
packages.
+ drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
20191109
+ add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
+ drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
with old non-curses programs -TD
+ reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
+ use ansi+rep several places -TD
+ corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
cf: 20020901).
20191102
+ check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
+ check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
(report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
+ revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
+ add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
20191026
+ add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
+ improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
\0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
+ modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
20191019
+ modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
with address-sanitizer.
+ modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
20191015
+ improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
input string is shorter than expected.
> fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
+ check for missing character after backslash in write_it
+ check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
syntax (cf: 980530).
20191012
+ amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
+ clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
+ check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
_nc_find_name_entry.
> fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
+ check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
+ check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
+ check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
mapping (cf: 20060415);
+ check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
20191005
+ modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
-I and -l options.
20190928
+ amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
hack which differed between those files.
+ improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
+ improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
EINTR (cf: 20180922)
20190921
+ add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
the screen's borders.
+ modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
and version.
20190914
+ build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
20190907
+ 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
the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
20190831
+ build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
libpanelw, etc.
20190824
+ fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
20190817
+ amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
details where it still differed from SVr4.
+ fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
20190810
+ fix a few more coverity warnings.
20190803
+ improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
by Rob King).
+ amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
+ updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
+ updated kitty entry & notes -TD
+ updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
+ use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
20190728
+ fix a few more coverity warnings.
+ more documentation updates based on tctest.
20190727
+ fix a few coverity warnings.
+ documentation updates based on tctest.
20190720
+ fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
+ add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
manual pages.
+ correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
(report by Sven Joachim).
20190713
+ change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
+ correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
20190706
+ add domterm -TD
+ improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
20190630
+ add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
+ add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
+ correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
filenames.
+ add ms-terminal -TD
+ add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
20190623
+ improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
Edition versions of the tabs utility.
+ add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
Ig Petrov).
+ modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
data for the result from getenv().
+ update config.guess, config.sub
20190615
+ expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
+ regenerate HTML manpages.
20190609
+ add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
+ add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
+ modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
20190601
+ 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.
20190525
+ modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
(report by Vincent Huisman).
20190518
+ 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.
20190511
+ 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.
20190504
+ 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.
20190427
+ corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
but different types.
20190420
+ improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
20190413
+ 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.
20190406
+ modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle
split-up Caps-files.
+ build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
20190330
+ 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
20190323
+ 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).
20190317
+ 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.
20190309
+ 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).
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").
20190223
+ 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).
20190216
+ improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
+ add test/demo_tabs program.
20190209
+ add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
20190202
+ 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).
20190126
+ 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).
20190121
+ 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).
20190112
+ 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)
20190105
+ 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
20181229
+ 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.
20181215
+ 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.
20181208
+ 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).
20181201
+ 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
20181125
+ build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
20181124
+ 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).
20181117
+ 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.
20181110
+ 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
20181027
+ add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
+ add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
20181020
+ 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).
20181013
+ amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
to make it an absolute path.
20181006
+ improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
+ fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
20180929
+ fix typo in tvi955 -TD
+ corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
+ add alias n7900 -TD
+ corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
+ remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
+ added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
+ add bel to tvi950 -TD
+ add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
+ renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
+ add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
20180923
+ build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
by Chris Clayton).
20180922
+ 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.
20180908
+ 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().
20180901
+ 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).
20180825
+ 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.
20180818
+ 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.
20180804
+ 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).
20180728
+ improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
+ improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
+ formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
20180721
+ 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
20180714
+ add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
+ add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
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).
+ 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).
20180407
+ 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().
20180331
+ 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).
20180324
+ 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.
+ trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
+ trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
20180317
+ 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).
20180303
+ 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.
20180224
+ 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).
20180217
+ 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 by
Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
20180210
+ 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.
20180203
+ 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).
20180129
+ update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
20180127
+ 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
20180121 pre-release
> 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.
20180120
+ 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.
20180106
+ 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).
20171230
+ 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.
20171223
+ 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.
20171216
+ 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.
20171209
+ 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
20171125
+ 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
20171118
+ 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