Git 2.34 Release Notes
======================
Updates since Git 2.33
----------------------
Backward compatibility notes
* The "--preserve-merges" option of "git rebase" has been removed.
UI, Workflows & Features
* Pathname expansion (like "~username/") learned a way to specify a
location relative to Git installation (e.g. its $sharedir which is
$(prefix)/share), with "%(prefix)".
* The `ort` strategy is used instead of `recursive` as the default
merge strategy.
* The userdiff pattern for "java" language has been updated.
* "git rebase" by default skips changes that are equivalent to
commits that are already in the history the branch is rebased onto;
give messages when this happens to let the users be aware of
skipped commits, and also teach them how to tell "rebase" to keep
duplicated changes.
* The advice message that "git cherry-pick" gives when it asks
conflicted replay of a commit to be resolved by the end user has
been updated.
* After "git clone --recurse-submodules", all submodules are cloned
but they are not by default recursed into by other commands. With
submodule.stickyRecursiveClone configuration set, submodule.recurse
configuration is set to true in a repository created by "clone"
with "--recurse-submodules" option.
* The logic for auto-correction of misspelt subcommands learned to go
interactive when the help.autocorrect configuration variable is set
to 'prompt'.
* "git maintenance" scheduler learned to use systemd timers as a
possible backend.
* "git diff --submodule=diff" showed failure from run_command() when
trying to run diff inside a submodule, when the user manually
removes the submodule directory.
* "git bundle unbundle" learned to show progress display.
* In cone mode, the sparse-index code path learned to remove ignored
files (like build artifacts) outside the sparse cone, allowing the
entire directory outside the sparse cone to be removed, which is
especially useful when the sparse patterns change.
* Taking advantage of the CGI interface, http-backend has been
updated to enable protocol v2 automatically when the other side
asks for it.
* The credential-cache helper has been adjusted to Windows.
* The error in "git help no-such-git-command" is handled better.
* The unicode character width table (used for output alignment) has
been updated.
* The ref iteration code used to optionally allow dangling refs to be
shown, which has been tightened up.
* "git add", "git mv", and "git rm" have been adjusted to avoid
updating paths outside of the sparse-checkout definition unless
the user specifies a "--sparse" option.
* "git repack" has been taught to generate multi-pack reachability
bitmaps.
* "git fsck" has been taught to report mismatch between expected and
actual types of an object better.
* In addition to GnuPG, ssh public crypto can be used for object and
push-cert signing. Note that this feature cannot be used with
ssh-keygen from OpenSSH 8.7, whose support for it is broken. Avoid
using it unless you update to OpenSSH 8.8.
* "git log --grep=string --author=name" learns to highlight hits just
like "git grep string" does.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* "git bisect" spawned "git show-branch" only to pretty-print the
title of the commit after checking out the next version to be
tested; this has been rewritten in C.
* "git add" can work better with the sparse index.
* Support for ancient versions of cURL library (pre 7.19.4) has been
dropped.
* A handful of tests that assumed implementation details of files
backend for refs have been cleaned up.
* trace2 logs learned to show parent process name to see in what
context Git was invoked.
* Loading of ref tips to prepare for common ancestry negotiation in
"git fetch-pack" has been optimized by taking advantage of the
commit graph when available.
* Remind developers that the userdiff patterns should be kept simple
and permissive, assuming that the contents they apply are always
syntactically correct.
* The current implementation of GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS is broken in
that checking for the lack of a prerequisite would not work. Avoid
the use of "if ! test_have_prereq X" in a test script.
* The revision traversal API has been optimized by taking advantage
of the commit-graph, when available, to determine if a commit is
reachable from any of the existing refs.
* "git fetch --quiet" optimization to avoid useless computation of
info that will never be displayed.
* Callers from older advice_config[] based API has been updated to
use the newer advice_if_enabled() and advice_enabled() API.
* Teach "test_pause" and "debug" helpers to allow using the HOME and
TERM environment variables the user usually uses.
* "make INSTALL_STRIP=-s install" allows the installation step to use
"install -s" to strip the binaries as they get installed.
* Code that handles large number of refs in the "git fetch" code
path has been optimized.
* The reachability bitmap file used to be generated only for a single
pack, but now we've learned to generate bitmaps for history that
span across multiple packfiles.
* The code to make "git grep" recurse into submodules has been
updated to migrate away from the "add submodule's object store as
an alternate object store" mechanism (which is suboptimal).
* The tracing of process ancestry information has been enhanced.
* Reduce number of write(2) system calls while sending the
ref advertisement.
* Update the build procedure to use the "-pedantic" build when
DEVELOPER makefile macro is in effect.
* Large part of "git submodule add" gets rewritten in C.
* The run-command API has been updated so that the callers can easily
ask the file descriptors open for packfiles to be closed immediately
before spawning commands that may trigger auto-gc.
* An oddball OPTION_ARGUMENT feature has been removed from the
parse-options API.
* The mergesort implementation used to sort linked list has been
optimized.
* Remove external declaration of functions that no longer exist.
* "git multi-pack-index write --bitmap" learns to propagate the
hashcache from original bitmap to resulting bitmap.
* CI learns to run the leak sanitizer builds.
* "git grep --recurse-submodules" takes trees and blobs from the
submodule repository, but the textconv settings when processing a
blob from the submodule is not taken from the submodule repository.
A test is added to demonstrate the issue, without fixing it.
* Teach "git help -c" into helping the command line completion of
configuration variables.
* When "git cmd -h" shows more than one line of usage text (e.g.
the cmd subcommand may take sub-sub-command), parse-options API
learned to align these lines, even across i18n/l10n.
* Prevent "make sparse" from running for the source files that
haven't been modified.
* The code path to write a new version of .midx multi-pack index files
has learned to release the mmaped memory holding the current
version of .midx before removing them from the disk, as some
platforms do not allow removal of a file that still has mapping.
* A new feature has been added to abort early in the test framework.
Fixes since v2.33
-----------------
* Input validation of "git pack-objects --stdin-packs" has been
corrected.
* Bugfix for common ancestor negotiation recently introduced in "git
push" code path.
* "git pull" had various corner cases that were not well thought out
around its --rebase backend, e.g. "git pull --ff-only" did not stop
but went ahead and rebased when the history on other side is not a
descendant of our history. The series tries to fix them up.
* "git apply" miscounted the bytes and failed to read to the end of
binary hunks.
* "git range-diff" code clean-up.
* "git commit --fixup" now works with "--edit" again, after it was
broken in v2.32.
* Use upload-artifacts v1 (instead of v2) for 32-bit linux, as the
new version has a blocker bug for that architecture.
* Checking out all the paths from HEAD during the last conflicted
step in "git rebase" and continuing would cause the step to be
skipped (which is expected), but leaves MERGE_MSG file behind in
$GIT_DIR and confuses the next "git commit", which has been
corrected.
* Various bugs in "git rebase -r" have been fixed.
* mmap() imitation used to call xmalloc() that dies upon malloc()
failure, which has been corrected to just return an error to the
caller to be handled.
* "git diff --relative" segfaulted and/or produced incorrect result
when there are unmerged paths.
* The delayed checkout code path in "git checkout" etc. were chatty
even when --quiet and/or --no-progress options were given.
* "git branch -D <branch>" used to refuse to remove a broken branch
ref that points at a missing commit, which has been corrected.
* Build update for Apple clang.
* The parser for the "--nl" option of "git column" has been
corrected.
* "git upload-pack" which runs on the other side of "git fetch"
forgot to take the ref namespaces into account when handling
want-ref requests.
* The sparse-index support can corrupt the index structure by storing
a stale and/or uninitialized data, which has been corrected.
* Buggy tests could damage repositories outside the throw-away test
area we created. We now by default export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
to limit the damage from such a stray test.
* Even when running "git send-email" without its own threaded
discussion support, a threading related header in one message is
carried over to the subsequent message to result in an unwanted
threading, which has been corrected.
* The output from "git fast-export", when its anonymization feature
is in use, showed an annotated tag incorrectly.
* Recent "diff -m" changes broke "gitk", which has been corrected.
* The "git apply -3" code path learned not to bother the lower level
merge machinery when the three-way merge can be trivially resolved
without the content level merge. This fixes a regression caused by
recent "-3way first and fall back to direct application" change.
* The code that optionally creates the *.rev reverse index file has
been optimized to avoid needless computation when it is not writing
the file out.
* "git range-diff -I... <range> <range>" segfaulted, which has been
corrected.
* The order in which various files that make up a single (conceptual)
packfile has been reevaluated and straightened up. This matters in
correctness, as an incomplete set of files must not be shown to a
running Git.
* The "mode" word is useless in a call to open(2) that does not
create a new file. Such a call in the files backend of the ref
subsystem has been cleaned up.
* "git update-ref --stdin" failed to flush its output as needed,
which potentially led the conversation to a deadlock.
* When "git am --abort" fails to abort correctly, it still exited
with exit status of 0, which has been corrected.
* Correct nr and alloc members of strvec struct to be of type size_t.
* "git stash", where the tentative change involves changing a
directory to a file (or vice versa), was confused, which has been
corrected.
* "git clone" from a repository whose HEAD is unborn into a bare
repository didn't follow the branch name the other side used, which
is corrected.
* "git cvsserver" had a long-standing bug in its authentication code,
which has finally been corrected (it is unclear and is a separate
question if anybody is seriously using it, though).
* "git difftool --dir-diff" mishandled symbolic links.
* Sensitive data in the HTTP trace were supposed to be redacted, but
we failed to do so in HTTP/2 requests.
* "make clean" has been updated to remove leftover .depend/
directories, even when it is not told to use them to compute header
dependencies.
* Protocol v0 clients can get stuck parsing a malformed feature line.
* A few kinds of changes "git status" can show were not documented.
(merge d2a534c515 ja/doc-status-types-and-copies later to maint).
* The mergesort implementation used to sort linked list has been
optimized.
(merge c90cfc225b rs/mergesort later to maint).
* An editor session launched during a Git operation (e.g. during 'git
commit') can leave the terminal in a funny state. The code path
has updated to save the terminal state before, and restore it
after, it spawns an editor.
(merge 3d411afabc cm/save-restore-terminal later to maint).
* "git cat-file --batch" with the "--batch-all-objects" option is
supposed to iterate over all the objects found in a repository, but
it used to translate these object names using the replace mechanism,
which defeats the point of enumerating all objects in the repository.
This has been corrected.
(merge bf972896d7 jk/cat-file-batch-all-wo-replace later to maint).
* Recent sparse-index work broke safety against attempts to add paths
with trailing slashes to the index, which has been corrected.
(merge c8ad9d04c6 rs/make-verify-path-really-verify-again later to maint).
* The "--color-lines" and "--color-by-age" options of "git blame"
have been missing, which are now documented.
(merge 8c32856133 bs/doc-blame-color-lines later to maint).
* The PATH used in CI job may be too wide and let incompatible dlls
to be grabbed, which can cause the build&test to fail. Tighten it.
(merge 7491ef6198 js/windows-ci-path-fix later to maint).
* Avoid performance measurements from getting ruined by gc and other
housekeeping pauses interfering in the middle.
(merge be79131a53 rs/disable-gc-during-perf-tests later to maint).
* Stop "git add --dry-run" from creating new blob and tree objects.
(merge e578d0311d rs/add-dry-run-without-objects later to maint).
* "git commit" gave duplicated error message when the object store
was unwritable, which has been corrected.
(merge 4ef91a2d79 ab/fix-commit-error-message-upon-unwritable-object-store later to maint).
* Recent sparse-index addition, namely any use of index_name_pos(),
can expand sparse index entries and breaks any code that walks
cache-tree or existing index entries. One such instance of such a
breakage has been corrected.
* The xxdiff difftool backend can exit with status 128, which the
difftool-helper that launches the backend takes as a significant
failure, when it is not significant at all. Work it around.
(merge 571f4348dd da/mergetools-special-case-xxdiff-exit-128 later to maint).
* Improve test framework around unwritable directories.
(merge 5d22e18965 ab/test-cleanly-recreate-trash-directory later to maint).
* "git push" client talking to an HTTP server did not diagnose the
lack of the final status report from the other side correctly,
which has been corrected.
(merge c5c3486f38 jk/http-push-status-fix later to maint).
* Update "git archive" documentation and give explicit mention on the
compression level for both zip and tar.gz format.
(merge c4b208c309 bs/archive-doc-compression-level later to maint).
* Drop "git sparse-checkout" from the list of common commands.
(merge 6a9a50a8af sg/sparse-index-not-that-common-a-command later to maint).
* "git branch -c/-m new old" was not described to copy config, which
has been corrected.
(merge 8252ec300e jc/branch-copy-doc later to maint).
* Squelch over-eager warning message added during this cycle.
* Fix long-standing shell syntax error in the completion script.
(merge 46b0585286 re/completion-fix-test-equality later to maint).
* Teach "git commit-graph" command not to allow using replace objects
at all, as we do not use the commit-graph at runtime when we see
object replacement.
(merge 095d112f8c ab/ignore-replace-while-working-on-commit-graph later to maint).
* "git pull --no-verify" did not affect the underlying "git merge".
(merge 47bfdfb3fd ar/fix-git-pull-no-verify later to maint).
* One CI task based on Fedora image noticed a not-quite-kosher
construct recently, which has been corrected.
* "git pull --ff-only" and "git pull --rebase --ff-only" should make
it a no-op to attempt pulling from a remote that is behind us, but
instead the command errored out by saying it was impossible to
fast-forward, which may technically be true, but not a useful thing
to diagnose as an error. This has been corrected.
(merge 361cb52383 jc/fix-pull-ff-only-when-already-up-to-date later to maint).
* The way Cygwin emulates a unix-domain socket, on top of which the
simple-ipc mechanism is implemented, can race with the program on
the other side that wants to use the socket, and briefly make it
appear as a regular file before lstat(2) starts reporting it as a
socket. We now have a workaround on the side that connects to a
unix domain socket.
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge f188160be9 ab/bundle-remove-verbose-option later to maint).
(merge 8c6b4332b4 rs/close-pack-leakfix later to maint).
(merge 51b04c05b7 bs/difftool-msg-tweak later to maint).
(merge dd20e4a6db ab/make-compdb-fix later to maint).
(merge 6ffb990dc4 os/status-docfix later to maint).
(merge 100c2da2d3 rs/p3400-lose-tac later to maint).
(merge 76f3b69896 tb/aggregate-ignore-leading-whitespaces later to maint).
(merge 6e4fd8bfcd tz/doc-link-to-bundle-format-fix later to maint).
(merge f6c013dfa1 jc/doc-commit-header-continuation-line later to maint).
(merge ec9a37d69b ab/pkt-line-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 8650c6298c ab/fix-make-lint-docs later to maint).
(merge 1c720357ce ab/test-lib-diff-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 6b615dbece ks/submodule-add-message-fix later to maint).
(merge 203eb8381a jc/doc-format-patch-clarify-auto-base later to maint).
(merge 559664c792 ab/test-lib later to maint).
e16 1.0.24 - 2021-11-14
------------------------
- 1.0.24
- Update po
- Danish translation update
- pagers: Remember zoom setting when changed by pager menu
- Regular expression matching fix simplification
- Regular expression matching fixes
- systray: Change default icon size to 32
- Set _NET_WM_PID on WM check window
- Drop initial setting of _NET_WM_NAME = "e16" on the root window
- Refactor atoms handling
- Avoid using "delete"
- COMPLIANCE: Update
- Support _NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED
- Add _NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED to the EWHM atoms
- Only update _NET_WM_STATE and _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS when changed
- xprop.c: Do some sanity checks using static asserts if possible
- Shuffle some property stuff around
- session.c: Remove unused headers
- libhack: Add XGetWindowProperty interception
- libhack: Cosmetics
- Eliminate EGetGeometry()
- Change EXGetGeometry() to EXGetSize()
- x.c: Fix LTO warnings
- x.c: Deubug stuff cleanups
- x.c: Remove ancient unused ECreateFocusWindow()
- extinitwin: Fix parent/client synchronization
- Fix EImageDefineCursor() for window mode
- edox: Avoid LTO null pointer warning
- edox: Unifdef USE_XFONT
- Backgrounds: Fix trouble when deleting multiply referenced background
- Backgrounds: Fix bad list operation in CB_ConfigureDelBG()
- Groups: Avoid compiler warning in _DlgFillGroups()
- Drop animation in EwinSlideSizeTo() if there is no change
- Focus: Debug tweaks
- Focus: Fix focus on new clients requesting max size
- autofoo: Deal a bit more consistently with C[PP]FLAGS and LDADD
- French translation update (Philippe J. Guillaumie/Carla Sensa)
- Fix bad memory access during shutdown
- FX: Use xrender when available
- FX: Fix cleanup with compositing enabled
- FX: Fix clipping with compositing enabled
- FX: Make it work in regular compositing mode
- FX: Tweaks
- FX: Some refactoring
- FX: Fix waves cleanup
- FX: Remove "correct bugs" operation in waves
- Introduce HAVE_COMPOSITE_OVERLAY_WINDOW
- glwin.c: Fix incorrect config item size
- Sound: Enable changing engine at runtime
- Don't build disabled stuff
- Sound: Change some esd to esound
- Sound: Change some pa to pulse
- Sound: Header file tweaks
- Move Eexec() and friends to util.h
- Drop (v)snprintf() implementation
- Use installed gettext version, if possible
- Eliminate AM_LANGINFO_CODESET
- 1.0.23.000
- Fix version reported by e16 in release build
3.2.1
*New:*
- Add support for Django 3.2
*Bugfix:*
- Do not override signals receivers registered in a :meth:`~factory.django.mute_signals` context.
- Change the signature for :meth:`~factory.alchemy.SQLAlchemyModelFactory._save` and
:meth:`~factory.alchemy.SQLAlchemyModelFactory._get_or_create` to avoid argument names clashes with a field named
``session``.
1.0.0
Drop python < 3.6 support
Add type annotations to code
Remove external type annotations in pyi
Switch to poetry for packaging
Simplify internals and remove old compatability code
Switch to nox for testing
Lots of small project development changes
Same fix as for hercules4sdl.
No revbump needed since the change is limited to Darwin, where no built
package previously existed (at least for Darwin 20.6.0 which I tested).
Summary for 4.99.1 tcpdump release:
Source code:
Squelch some compiler warnings
ICMP: Update the snapend for some nested IP packets.
MACsec: Update the snapend thus the ICV field is not payload
for the caller.
EIGRP: Fix packet header fields
SMB: Disable printer by default in CMake builds
OLSR: Print the protocol name even if the packet is invalid
MSDP: Print ": " before the protocol name
ESP: Remove padding, padding length and next header from the buffer
DHCPv6: Update the snapend for nested DHCPv6 packets
OpenFlow 1.0: Get snapend right for nested frames.
TCP: Update the snapend before decoding a MPTCP option
Ethernet, IEEE 802.15.4, IP, L2TP, TCP, ZEP: Add bounds checks
ForCES: Refine SPARSEDATA-TLV length check.
ASCII/hex: Use nd_trunc_longjmp() in truncation cases
GeoNet: Add a ND_TCHECK_LEN() call
Replace ND_TCHECK_/memcpy() pairs with GET_CPY_BYTES().
BGP: Fix overwrites of global 'astostr' temporary buffer
ARP: fix overwrites of static buffer in q922_string().
Frame Relay: have q922_string() handle errors better.
Building and testing:
Rebuild configure script when building release
Fix "make clean" for out-of-tree autotools builds
CMake: add stuff from CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
Documentation:
man: Update a reference as www.cifs.org is gone. [skip ci]
man: Update DNS sections
Solaris:
Fix a compile error with Sun C
Summary for 4.99.0 tcpdump release
Improve the contents, wording and formatting of the man page.
Print unsupported link-layer protocol packets in hex.
Add support for new network protocols and DLTs: Arista, Autosar SOME/IP,
Broadcom LI and Ethernet switches tag, IEEE 802.15.9, IP-over-InfiniBand
(IPoIB), Linux SLL2, Linux vsockmon, MACsec, Marvell Distributed Switch
Architecture, OpenFlow 1.3, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), SSH, WHOIS,
ZigBee Encapsulation Protocol (ZEP).
Make protocol-specific updates for: AH, DHCP, DNS, ESP, FRF.16, HNCP,
ICMP6, IEEE 802.15.4, IPv6, IS-IS, Linux SLL, LLDP, LSP ping, MPTCP, NFS,
NSH, NTP, OSPF, OSPF6, PGM, PIM, PPTP, RADIUS, RSVP, Rx, SMB, UDLD,
VXLAN-GPE.
User interface:
Make SLL2 the default for Linux "any" pseudo-device.
Add --micro and --nano shorthands.
Add --count to print a counter only instead of decoding.
Add --print, to cause packet printing even with -w.
Add support for remote capture if libpcap supports it.
Display the "wireless" flag and connection status.
Flush the output packet buffer on a SIGUSR2.
Add the snapshot length to the "reading from file ..." message.
Fix local time printing (DST offset in timestamps).
Allow -C arguments > 2^31-1 GB if they can fit into a long.
Handle very large -f files by rejecting them.
Report periodic stats only when safe to do so.
Print the number of packets captured only as often as necessary.
With no -s, or with -s 0, don't specify the snapshot length with newer
versions of libpcap.
Improve version and usage message printing.
Building and testing:
Install into bindir, not sbindir.
autoconf: replace --with-system-libpcap with --disable-local-libpcap.
Require the compiler to support C99.
Better detect and use various C compilers and their features.
Add CMake as the second build system.
Make out-of-tree builds more reliable.
Use pkg-config to detect libpcap if available.
Improve Windows support.
Add more tests and improve the scripts that run them.
Test both with "normal" and "x87" floating-point.
Eliminate dependency on libdnet.
FreeBSD:
Print a proper error message about monitor mode VAP.
Use libcasper if available.
Fix failure to capture on RDMA device.
Include the correct capsicum header.
Source code:
Start the transition to longjmp() for packet truncation handling.
Introduce new helper functions, including GET_*(), nd_print_protocol(),
nd_print_invalid(), nd_print_trunc(), nd_trunc_longjmp() and others.
Put integer signedness right in many cases.
Introduce nd_uint*, nd_mac_addr, nd_ipv4 and nd_ipv6 types to fix
alignment issues, especially on SPARC.
Fix many C compiler, Coverity, UBSan and cppcheck warnings.
Fix issues detected with AddressSanitizer.
Remove many workarounds for older compilers and OSes.
Add a sanity check on packet header length.
Add and remove plenty of bounds checks.
Clean up pcap_findalldevs() call to find the first interface.
Use a short timeout, rather than immediate mode, for text output.
Handle DLT_ENC files *not* written on the same OS and byte-order host.
Add, and use, macros to do locale-independent case mapping.
Use a table instead of getprotobynumber().
Get rid of ND_UNALIGNED and ND_TCHECK().
Make roundup2() generally available.
Resync SMI list against Wireshark.
Fix many typos.
Summary for 1.10.1 libpcap release (so far!)
Packet filtering:
Fix "type XXX subtype YYY" giving a parse error
Source code:
Add PCAP_AVAILABLE_1_11.
Building and testing:
Rename struct bpf_aux_data to avoid NetBSD compile errors
Squelch some compiler warnings
Squelch some Bison warnings
Fix cross-builds with older kernels lacking BPF_MOD and BPF_XOR
Fix Bison detection for minor version 0.
Fix parallel build with FreeBSD make.
Get DLT_MATCHING_MAX right in gencode.c on NetBSD.
Define timeradd() and timersub() if necessary.
Fix Cygwin/MSYS target directories.
Fix symlinking with DESTDIR.
Fix generation of libpcap.pc with CMake when not building a shared
library.
Check for Arm64 as well as x86-64 when looking for packet.lib on
Windows.
Documentation:
Refine Markdown in README.md.
Improve the description of portrange in filters.
README.linux.md isn't Markdown, rename it just README.linux.
pcapng:
Support reading version 1.2, which some writers produce, and which
is the same as 1.0 (some new block types were added, but
that's not sufficient reason to bump the minor version number,
as code that understands those new block types can handle them
in a 1.0 file)
Linux:
Drop support for text-mode USB captures, as we require a 2.6.27
or later kernel (credit to Chaoyuan Peng for noting the
sscanf vulnerabilities in the text-mode code that got me to
realize that we didn't need this code any more)
Bluetooth: fix non-blocking mode.
Don't assume that all compilers used to build for Linux support
the __atomic builtins
Windows:
Add more information in "interface disappeared" error messages, in
the hopes of trying to figure out the cause.
Treat ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED as "device was removed".
Indicate in the error message which "device was removed" error
occurred.
Report the Windows error status if PacketSendPacket() fails.
Use %lu for ULONGs in error message formats.
Don't treat the inability to find airpcap.dll as an error.
Ignore spurious error reports by Microsoft Surface mobile
telephony modem driver
rpcap:
Clean up error checking and error messages for server address
lookup.
Summary for 1.10.0 libpcap release
Add support for capturing on DPDK devices
Label most APIs by the first release in which they're available
Fix some memory leaks, including in pcap_compile()
Add pcap_datalink_val_to_description_or_dlt()
Handle the pcap private data in a fashion that makes fewer
assumptions about memory layouts (might fix GitHub issue #940
on ARM)
Fix some thread safety issues
pcap_findalldevs(): don't sort interfaces by unit number
Always return a list of supported time-stamp types, even if only
host time stamps are supported
Increase the maximum snaplen for LINKTYPE_USBPCAP/DLT_USBPCAP
Report the DLT description in error messages
Add pcap_init() for first-time initialization and global option
setting; it's not required, but may be used
Remove (unused) SITA support
Capture file reading:
Correctly handle pcapng captures with more than one IDB with a
snspshot length greater than the supported maximum
Capture file writing:
Create the file in pcap_dump_open_append() if it doesn't exist
Packet filtering:
Fix "unknown ether proto 'aarp'"
Add a new filter "ifindex" for DLT_LINUX_SLL2 files on all
platforms and live Linux captures
Add a hack to the optimizer to try to catch certain optimizer
loops (should prevent GitHub issue #112)
Show special Linux BPF offsets symbolically in bpf_image() and
bpf_dump()
Added support for ICMPv6 types 1-4 as tokens with names
Remove undocumented and rather old "ether proto" protocols
Catch invalid IPv4 addresses in filters
Don't assume ARM supports unaligned accesses
Security and other issues found by analysis:
Fix various security issues reported by Charles Smith at Tangible
Security
Fix various security issues reported by Include Security
Fix some issues found by cppcheck.
Add some overflow checks in the optimizer
rpcap:
Support rpcap-over-TLS
Redo protocol version negotiation to avoid problems with old
servers (it still works with servers using the old negotiation,
as well as servers not supporting negotiation)
Error handling cleanups
Add some new authentication libpcap error codes for specific
errors
Fix some inetd issues in rpcapd
Fix rpcapd core dumps with invalid configuration file
On UN*X, don't have rpcapd tell the client why authentication
failed, so a brute-force attacker can't distinguish between
"unknown user name" and "known user name, wrong password"
Allow rpcapd to rebind more rapidly (GitHub issue #765)
Documentation:
Improve man pages, including adding backward compatibility notes
Building and testing:
Require, and assume, some level of C99 support in the C compiler
Require Visual Studio 2015 or later if using Visual Studio
Fix configure script issues, including with libnl on Linux
Fix CMake issues
Squelch complaints from Bison about "%define api.pure" being
deprecated
Fix compilation of pcap-tc.c
Linux:
Require PF_PACKET support, and kernel 2.6.27 or later
Handle systems without AF_INET or AF_UNIX socket support
Get rid of Wireless Extensions for turning monitor mode on
Proper memory sync for PACKET_MMAP (may prevent GitHub issue
#898)
Drop support for libnl 1 and 2.
Return error on interface going away, but not if it just went
down but is still present
Set socket protocol only after packet ring configured,
reducing bogus packet drop reports
Get ifdrop stats from sysfs.
When adjusting BPF programs, do not subtract the
SLL[2]_HDR_LEN if the location is negative (special metadata
offset), to preserve references to metadata; see
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/480#issuecomment-486827278
Report a warning for unknown ARPHRD types
Have pcap_breakloop() forcibly break out of a sleeping
capture loop
Add support for DSA data link types
For raw USB bus capture, use the snapshot length to set the
buffer size, and set the len field to reflect the length
in the URB (GitHub issue #808)
With a timeout of zero, wait indefinitely
Clean up support for some non-GNU libc C libraries
Add DLT_LINUX_SLL2 for cooked-mode captures
Probe CONFIGURATION descriptor of connected USB devices
Treat EPERM on ethtool ioctls as meaning "not supported", as
permissions checks are done before checking whether the
ioctl is supported at all
macOS:
Cope with getting EPWROFF from SIOCGIFMEDIA
Treat EPERM on SIOCGIFMEDIA as meaning "not supported", as
permissions checks are done before checking whether the
ioctl is supported at all
Treat ENXIO when reading packets as meaning "the interface
was removed"
Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
down", if the interface was removed during a capture
FreeBSD:
Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
down", if the interface was removed during a capture
NetBSD:
Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
down", if the interface was removed during a capture
OpenBSD:
Treat EIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
down", if the interface was removed during a capture
DragonFly BSD:
Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
down", if the interface was removed during a capture
Solaris:
Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
down", if the interface was removed during a capture
AIX:
Fix loading of BPF kernel extension
Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
down", if the interface was removed during a capture
Windows:
Make the snapshot length work even if pcap_setfilter()
isn't called
Fix compilation on Cygwin/MSYS
Add pcap_handle(), and deprecate pcap_fileno()
Report PCAP_ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE for a non-existent device
Return an appropriate error message for device removed or
device unusable due to a suspend/resume
Report a warning for unknown NdisMedium types
Have pcap_breakloop() forcibly break out of a sleeping
capture loop
Clean up building DLL
Handle CRT mismatch for pcap_dump_fopen()
Map NdisMediumWirelessWan to DLT_RAW
Add AirPcap support in a module, rather than using
WinPcap/Npcap's support for it
Report the system error for PacketSetHwFilter() failures
Add support for getting and setting packet time stamp types
with Npcap
Have pcap_init() allow selecting whether the API should use
local code page strings or UTF-8 strings (including error
messages)
Haiku:
Add capture support
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Advisory Database via the PyPI JSON API as a source of vulnerability
reports.
Since pip is a command-line-tool, it does not have an official,
supported, importable API.
However, this does not mean that people haven't tried to import
pip, usually to end up with much headache when pip's maintainers
do routine refactoring.
This project attempts to provide an importable pip API, which is
fully compliant with the recommended method of using pip from your
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TigerVNC 1.12.0 is now available. Lots of changes have been made
since the last release, but the highlights are:
* The native viewer now supports full screen over a subset of
monitors (e.g. 2 out of 3), and reacts properly to monitors
being added or removed
* Recent server history in the native viewer
* The native viewer now has an option to reconnect if the connection
is dropped
* Translations are now enabled on Windows and macOS for the native
viewer
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Better handling of accented keys in the Java viewer
* The Unix servers can now listen to both a Unix socket and a
TCP port at the same time
* The network code in both the servers and the native viewer has
been restructured to give a more responsive experience
* The vncserver service now correctly handles settings set to
"0"
* Fixed the clipboard Unicode handling in both the native viewer
and the servers
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Bazel
* Ensure that release archives contain everything needed for Bazel (#9131)
* Align dependency handling with Bazel best practices (#9165)
JavaScript
* Fix `ReferenceError: window is not defined` when getting the global object (#9156)
Ruby
* Fix memory leak in MessageClass.encode (#9150)
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.
GStreamer is a library that allows the construction of graphs of
media-handling components, ranging from simple mp3 playback to complex
audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology
transparently. Developers can add new codecs and filters by writing a
simple plugin with a clean, generic interface.
This package provides the OpenH264 plugin for GStreamer, which is an
encoder and decoder for Advanced Video Coding (AVC, or H.264) video.
