+ correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
+ improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
+ further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
+ reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
help reduce flicker.
+ modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
+ add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
by Dennis Grevenstein).
+ restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
Dennis Grevenstein).
+ change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
(report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
+ fixes for issues found by Coverity:
+ fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
+ add check for return-value in tty_update.c
+ correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
+ add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
+ improve error-checking in copywin
+ add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
+ add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
+ updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
matching capability names.
+ modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
+ correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
+ drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
are unused in the current driver model.
+ modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
library.
+ modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
+ amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
+ add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
MinGW changes.
+ revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
+ add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
+ fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
+ add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
+ minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
numbers.
+ add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
for Mac OS builds.
+ add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
cf: 20011208).
+ improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
wide-character which can be used.
+ fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
+ correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
by Erwin Waterlander).
+ replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
> fixes based on Coverity report:
+ correct coloring in test/bs.c
+ correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
+ remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
+ add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
test-programs.
+ modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
+ modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
> fixes based on Coverity report:
+ remove a few redundant checks.
+ correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
ship.
+ check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
+ check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
+ fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
+ fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
terminal driver.
+ correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
+ set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
+ initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
used.
+ also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
+ modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
do not work.
+ correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
> fixes based on Coverity report:
+ delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
> fixes based on Coverity report:
+ add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
+ various fixes in test/ncurses.c
+ improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
+ correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
+ guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
+ fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
+ add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
test/inchs.c
+ fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
+ delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
+ modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
Vassili Courzakis).
+ modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
libraries or executables.
+ realign these related pages:
curs_add_wchstr.3x
curs_addchstr.3x
curs_addstr.3x
curs_addwstr.3x
and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
(report by Reuben Thomas).
+ remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
+ remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
+ cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
+ reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
based on testing with tack -TD
+ un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
+ 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
+ modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
+ modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
"#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
+ undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
to help with MinGW port.
+ modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
+ add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
+ fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
might not be allocated.
+ improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
+ increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
initial screen-sizes.
+ fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
Roumen Petrov).
+ change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
by Brian Bloniarz).
+ update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
(prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
+ improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
INSTALL file.
+ add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
+ remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
+ update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
+ improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
+ fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
by CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
+ modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
--enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
cf: 20110716).
+ correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
+ modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
+ separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
+ add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
+ parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
+ parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
Black).
+ 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 ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
Juergen Pfeifer).
+ clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
by Novell #769788).
+ modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
+ add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
Pfeifer).
+ update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
+ modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
llib-lncurses.
+ remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
+ add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
+ fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
+ 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 an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
(cf: 20120526).
+ corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
+ correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
+ add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
The resulting packages are used only for testing.
