+ 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.
