+ 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++.
+ 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).
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ update release notes
+ minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
+ 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.
+ reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
+ 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
+ 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.
+ 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
+ change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
"%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
+ fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
+ eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
+ correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
+ add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
file in Slackware.
+ corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
on some of the BSDs.
+ updated "string-hacks" feature.
+ minor improvements to manpage typography.
+ corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
"Hudd").
+ add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
extended_color_content
+ add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
return values from the tested functions.
+ improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
extensions.
+ add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
+ override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
option was given.
+ change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
+ 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.
+ 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().
+ 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).
+ 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.
+ improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
+ save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
+ modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
+ modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
+ additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
+ modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit
checks in some libraries.
+ fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
+ add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
+ fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
+ change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
of mbstowcs().
+ correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
+ fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
+ further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
used by tack.
+ modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
(report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
+ add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
terminal emulators -TD
+ correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
+ add fbterm -TD
+ fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
+ changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
8-bit limit on colors
+ add ncurses/new_pair.h
+ add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
free_pair() functions
+ add test/demo_new_pair.c
+ build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
+ accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
+ modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
+ add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
+ let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
--enable-sp-funcs option.
+ mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
without modifying API/ABI.
+ add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
similar options for the other libraries.
+ correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
(patch by Leon Winter).
+ improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
patch by Mihail Konev).
+ modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
padding work.
+ add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
(Debian #805618).
+ add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
+ add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
+ fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
+ fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
+ disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
+ update release notes in INSTALL.
+ regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
+ build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
+ build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
+ update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
more than 200 snapshots.
+ minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
page.
+ updated llib-* files.
+ build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
+ use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
Mikhail Peselnik).
+ add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
+ review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
+ modify the configure script to allow different default values
for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
+ add wgetch-events to test-packages.
+ add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
+ fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
Debian #783486) -TD
+ remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
+ add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
(discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
+ add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
#783806)
+ add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
+ modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
+ modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
in /usr.
+ add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
+ make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
libraries.
+ modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
+ move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
been eliminated.
+ corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
the ncurses library aside from headers.
+ reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
+ fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
+ use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+ improve description of start_color() in the manual.
+ modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
readonly text segment.
+ add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
+ improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
with FreeBSD ports.
+ modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
+ add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
+ avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
+ fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
(report by Pavel Balaev).
+ updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
+ tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
the ABI 5 libraries.
+ replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
regenerate html-manpages.
+ improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
+ add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
+ add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
+ add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
symbol-versioning.
+ implement curs_set in win_driver.c
+ implement flash in win_driver.c
+ fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
focus.
+ improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
+ modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
+ eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
+ modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
+ add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
used to override the different treatment of justification for static
versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
+ add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
+ correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
+ reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
+ correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
+ modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
+ add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
+ add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
+ modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
_XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
(report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
+ modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
--with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
Weisgerber).
+ correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
cf: 20061230).
+ fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
+ updated llib-l* files.
+ fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
+ change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
introduced by Debian #700177.
+ discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
+ minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
rpm macros.
+ add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
cross-compile support packages.
+ add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
+ modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
+ clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
+ updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
of sgr.
+ fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
+ remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
(patch by Eric Raymond).
+ amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
+ regenerated html manpages.
+ fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
+ updated some autoconf macros:
+ CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
+ CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
+ add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
configuration (Redhat 911540).
+ modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
+ improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
#866989).
+ add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
+ updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
+ improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
--version message.
+ improve configure macros as done in byacc:
+ drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
has used that for a while.
+ add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
for experimental use.
+ remove unused configure macros.
+ modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
+ modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
+ update config.guess, config.sub
+ improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
+ eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
+ extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
+ modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
use_env() versus use_tioctl().
+ add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
are enabled.
+ improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
a new primary name.
+ fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
+ further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
+ fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
+ use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
+ improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
+ modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
cross-compiling.
+ add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
+ add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
+ build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
(cf:20111231)
+ update config.guess, config.sub
+ fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
+ improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
Guibouret).
+ correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
(patch by Damien Guibouret).
