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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey -- +-- Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey -- -- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3446 2020/02/12 02:21:21 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3732 2021/10/20 22:49:51 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,772 @@ 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. +20211021 6.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update release notes + + add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD + system to use a current ncurses release. + +20211018 + + check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case + a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by + Frank Tkalcevic). + +20211017 + + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in + the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci). + +20211016 + + build-fix for pmake with libtool. + + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up + shellcheck warnings. + + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc + + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual + search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug + (report by Pascal Pignard). + + freeze ABI in ".map" files. + +20211009 + + implement "+m" option in tabs program. + + fill in some details for infoton -TD + + fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD + + use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD + + modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other + than reset/init, e.g., for clear. + + modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather + than the last. + + improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp, + and smgbp (cf: 20020525). + + correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow + special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407). + + remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and + non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present + (cf: 20101002). + +20211002 + + use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for + buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_"). + + modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to + match the documentation. + + add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses. + + make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when + those are used, rather than the underlying program's name. + + improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating + tput-specific portions. + + add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather + than binary. + + further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from + the other BSDs. + +20210925 + + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD + + add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the + "tabs" +m option -TD + + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward + reference of anonymous struct typedef. + + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line. + + minor fixes for tset manpage. + +20210911 + + adjust ifdef in test_opaque.c to fix build with ncurses 5.7 + + add testing note for xterm-{hp|sco|sun} -TD + + corrected description for ansi.sys-old -TD + + add xterm+nopcfkeys, to fill in keys for xterm-hp, xterm-sun -TD + + use hp+arrows in a few places -TD + + use hp+pfk-cr in a few places -TD + +20210905 + + correct logic in filtering of redefinitions (report by Sven Joachim, + cf: 20210828). + +20210904 + + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by + kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD + + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color + manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4. + + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black). + + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh). + + build-fix for compiling link_test + + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify + use (Debian #993179). + +20210828 + + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis + by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626). + + apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list + parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list + (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request). + + modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE, + e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for + ncursesw. + + improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables. + + improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson). + +20210821 + + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching + SVr4 terminfo. + + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h + + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile + + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD + + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an + error in an expression (cf: 20201010). + + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than + SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812). + + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report + by Florian Weimer) -TD + + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes. + + update config.sub + +20210814 + + add workaround for broken pcre2 package in Debian 10, from xterm #369. + +20210807 + + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files, + adapted from "distr1" patch. + + add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports. + +20210731 + + add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal, + but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD + + add foot and foot-direct -TD + +20210724 + + add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to + ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + + review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD + +20210718 + + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this + against Glink manual -TD + + fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the + vt220 entry -TD + + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option + (report by Juergen Pfeifer). + + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers + who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library. + + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque + curses structs. + +20210710 + + improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball, + which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years. + + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs + Jansen). + + further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of + the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree. + + update config.sub + +20210703 + + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc., + in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries. + + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature. + +20210626 + + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to + disallow most file-opens by setuid processes. + + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD + + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD + + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler) + + regenerate man-html documentation. + +20210619 + + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such + as --with-valgrind + + trim trailing blanks from files + +20210612 + + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing. + + update config.guess + +20210605 + + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h + (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray). + +20210522 + + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate + an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted + by discussion with Peter Farley). + + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar. + + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses + in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by + report/testcase by Bill Gray) + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20210515 + + improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by + report/testcase by Bill Gray). + +20210508 + + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first + calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization + is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by + Sebastiano Vigna). + + fix several warnings from clang --analyze + + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers + to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav + Lichvar, cf: 20210227). + +20210501 + + add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the + build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here: + https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html + There is no workaround for the other issue, a broken linker spec. + + modify configure check for libtool to prevent accidental use of an + OpenBSD program which uses the same name. + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20210424 + + avoid using broken system macros for snprintf which interfere with + _nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks + configure option is enabled. + + add a "all::" rule before the new "check" rule in test/Makefile.in + +20210418 + + improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed + before linking to the target. + + add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories. + + build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports + by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum). + +20210417 + + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS + from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764). + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++ + libraries and progs directory. + + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments + (patch by Hadrien Lacour). + +20210403 + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and + progs directory. + + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x + + improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes. + + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning + leak-checking off later in a set of options. + + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to + accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime + on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems. + + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is + called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN + pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj + Lutter). + +20210327 + + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh + + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs, + form and menu libraries. + +20210323 + + add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn, making the _Noreturn + keyword optional to ease transition (prompted by report by + Rajeev V Pillai). + +20210320 + + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any + extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms + capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town, + cf: 20200531). + + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of + _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD + + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger) + + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that + rather than gcc's attribute. + + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is + a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention. + + add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck. + +20210313 + + improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and + ".pc" files, from dialog changes. + + reduce dependency of math-library in test programs. + + minor fixes for test_tparm.c (cf: 20210306) + + mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by + Michal Bielinski). + +20210306 + + improved test/test_tparm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities + that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test. + + improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in + man/curs_terminfo.3x + + update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1 + +20210227 + + modify tic/infocmp to eliminate unnecessary "\" to escape ":" in + terminfo format. + + add check in tic for duplicate "use=" clauses. + +20210220 + + improve tic warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49 for xterm + compatible XT flag. + + revert change to lib_addch.c in waddch_literal() from 20210130, since + the followup fix in PutCharLR() actually corrects the problem while + this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes + Altmanninger). + + add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD + + add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD + + add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD + + add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD + + move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD + +20210213 + + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background + functions. + + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a + wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character. + + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries. + + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first + parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1". + +20210206 + + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd + (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic) + + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2" + option, from xterm #363 -TD + + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before + writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the + cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130). + +20210130 + + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused + scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower + right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg). + + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD + + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not + supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD + + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD + + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD + + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore + blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD + +20210123 + + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for + cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding + the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich). + + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around + quirks of pmake. + +20210116 + + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS + (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD + + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1, + adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate. + +20210109 + + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates. + + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of + autoconf 2.52.20210105 + +20210102 + + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares + exit_terminfo. + + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is + defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes + (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon). + + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required + for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for + types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031). + + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for + consistency with other manpages. + +20201227 + + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD + + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly. + +20201219 + + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address + regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3. + + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report + by Chris Bennett). + +20201212 + + improve manual pages for form field-types. + +20201205 + + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking + gprbuild (cf: 20200627). + + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen. + + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin + Abendroth). + + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout + (patch by Benno Schulenberg). + + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD + + add flash to mlterm3 -TD + +20201128 + + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr). + + add rep to PuTTY -TD + + add putty+keypad -TD + + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in + the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses + low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217). + + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its + -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS, + do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases. + +20201121 + + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver. + + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang + (report by Steven Pitman). + +20201114 + + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver. + + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the + special case where short extended capability strings were not + converted from terminfo to termcap format. + + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case + when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff). + +20201107 + + update kitty+common -TD + + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron). + + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely + upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas). + +20201031 + + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h> + before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas). + + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion + with Reuben Thomas). + + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to + ensure that the messages contain only printable text. + + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments + is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven + Pitman). + +20201024 + + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling. + + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with + Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer. + + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check, + needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled + (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim) + + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters + and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of + parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert + Sebastian Herlim). + + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick + Black), as well as some fixes via linklint. + +20201017 + + improve manpage typography. + + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display + nonprintable characters. + + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such + as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm. + +20201010 + + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD + + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154, + ncrvt100an -TD + + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by + discussion with Florian Weimer). + + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen + Pfeifer). + +20201003 + + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter). + + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) + + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD + + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas). + + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754) + + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for + checking consistency with tic. + +20200926 + + correct configure-check for gnurx library. + + regenerate llib-* files. + + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for + panel- and user-pointers. + +20200919 + + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD + +20200918 + + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated + curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545). + +20200912 + + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get + the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64. + + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration. + + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer). + +20200907 + + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by + Soren Tempel). + +20200906 + + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of + win32-driver. + + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs). + +20200831 + + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner + Fink). + +20200829 + + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten + Anonymous". + + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of + win32-driver. + + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS + to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on + mawk and lynx). + > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer): + + correct icl6404 csr + + correct ti916 cup + + improve ndr9500 + +20200822 + + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh + + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the + man_db.renames file. + + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function + (report by Yue Tai). + + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker). + + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared" + option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to + provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai). + +20200817 + + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation + warnings. + + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated. + + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds + using the string-hacks option. + + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure + option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink). + +20200816 + + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence + (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808). + + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck + + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++ + (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous"). + +20200808 + + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part + of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall). + + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use + AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and + --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using + fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling + (discussion with Keith Marshall). + + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW. + + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as + parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with + MinGW. + +20200801 + + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006). + + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration + (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous"). + + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to + reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings. + + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure + +20200725 + + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by + "Maarten Anonymous") + + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT. + + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by + Florian Weimer). + +20200718 + + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual + Studio C++. + + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static + libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++. + > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling + the main program, so the linker can find related objects. + + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link. + + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs. + +20200711 + + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo + Bruckl). + + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen + Pfeifer). + + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell). + + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the + buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan). + + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a + trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen). + +20200704 + + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in + the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard). + > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"): + + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport" + declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++. + +20200627 + + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with + gprbuild. + + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h + +20200613 + + update list of functions in ncurses.3x + + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case + in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian + #961097). + +20200606 + + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage + in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD + + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for + screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron). + + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron). + + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron). + +20200531 + + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x + + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang) + + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron). + + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl + + add test/test_tparm.c, for checking tparm changes. + + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to + handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters + (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's + save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function + passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier + (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed + string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + +20200523 + + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x + + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502) + + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits + which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad + is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma). + + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the + generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify + configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants + to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg). + > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by + "Maarten Anonymous"): + + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker + options into Visual Studio's dialect. + + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to + work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation. + +20200516 + + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x + + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD + +20200509 + + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting + a performance comparison. + + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers + use different names than SVr4 or ncurses. + +20200502 + + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD + + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD + + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert + those to position reports. + +20200425 + + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD + + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols". + +20200418 + + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction. + + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not + check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth + character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg). + + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD + + improve see-also section of user_caps.5 + +20200411 + + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs() + (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812). + + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10 + + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x + +20200404 + + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++ + > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by + "Maarten Anonymous"): + + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature + + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio + C++ preprocessor limitations. + + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work + with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming. + +20200328 + + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field(). + + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree + builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren). + +20200321 + + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables. + + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual + pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg). + + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for + a corresponding demo of dup_field(). + +20200314 + + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h> + + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h> + + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h> + +20200308 + + update copyright notices in test-packages. + + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table. + + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted + by discussion with Thomas Klausner). + +20200301 + + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the + background character, because it may be used in cases where the + corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte, + cf: 20181208). + +20200229 + + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option, + which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options. + > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by + "Maarten Anonymous"): + + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h + + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc + + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h + + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable + length array feature. + + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations + + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h + + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in + + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places + + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c, + because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration. + + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol. + +20200222 + + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers + + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD + + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD + + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when + building out-of-tree. + + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in + + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers + include all of the required headers for the types used. + +20200215 + + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability + section as well as documenting error-returns. + + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh + + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from + FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725). + + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL. + 20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + update release notes + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts @@ -212,7 +978,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package 20190907 - + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to + + 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 |