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Subject:[kbd] [ANNOUNCE] kbd-2.3.0
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 20:18:30 +0200
From: Alexey Gladkov
Reply-To: Linux console tools development discussion
To: Linux console tools development discussion
kbd 2.3.0 Release Notes
===
The kbd-2.3.0 is available at
https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kbd/kbd-2.3.0.tar.xz
Changes
===
- New:
+ Added libkfont library (internal yet).
- Keymaps:
+ Added Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard map.
+ Added us1 that maps Right Alt to AltGr and Shift+Tab to Alt+Tab.
+ The dead_macron is used instead of macron in fi.map.
- Utilities:
+ Added retries when switching to the console (chvt, openvt).
+ Added option -d to double size of font (setfont).
+ Added long options, help messages.
- Fonts:
+ Added solar24x32 font.
+ Updated eurlatgr font.
- Docs:
+ Fixed problems with formatting man pages.
Git repository
==
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/legion/kbd.git
git://git.altlinux.org/people/legion/packages/kbd.git
https://github.com/legionus/kbd.git
Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.
Changelog
=
Alex Gladkov (4):
Use __attribute__ if __GNUC__ is defined
Fix build warining: expected 'char **' but argument is of type 'const
char **'
Limit the size of PIO_UNISCRNMAP argument to E_TABSZ
Use autoconf variables
Alexander Kanavin (1):
analyze.l: add missing string format
Alexey Gladkov (74):
libkbdfile: Do not stop on the first error
libkbdfile: Check compression suffix even if the suffix is part of filename
Add newline for error message without errno
Use autotest
Add e2e tests for some utilities
libkeymap: Fix the compatibility with the busybox's loadkmap
chvt: Add deadline to change virtual terminal
chvt: Fix build with musl
Fix more warnings from -Wdiscarded-qualifiers
Add --enable-werror to turn some warnings into errors
Travis: add arm64, ppc64le, s390x arches
libtswrap: fix -Wsign-conversion
Revert "chvt: Add deadline to change virtual terminal"
Add retries when switching to the console
libkeymap: Fix mk_mapname for the plain map
Add dead_macron
Update eurlatgr font
Update eurlatgr font
Move addpair and addseq to separate source
Add kfont_context
Make readpsffont() always return a code
Make writepsffont() always return a code
Make loadnewmap() always return a code
Make saveoldmap() always return a code
Make saveunicodemap() always return a code
Make loadunicodemap() always return a code
Make appendunicodemap() always return a code
Drop redefinition of MAXFONTSIZE
Functions saveoldfont, saveoldfontplusunicodemap, do_saveoldfont always
return a code
Function do_loadfont always return a code
Functions loadnewfonts, loadnewfont, do_loadtable always return a code
Add "kfont_" prefix
Add verbose field into kfont_context
Function readnewmapfromfile should close the mapfile before return
Function saveoldmap should close the mapfile before return
Drop memory helpers
Move font locations to kfont_context
loadunicodemap: Do not use global variables
Add overflow check when parsing a unsigned short
Add options for kfont
Move kernel font related functions to separate library
Add kfont_ prefix to all external functions
Split external and internal kfont functions
Add to kfont function to manipulate unicode tables
Check overflow in unicode parser
kfont: Drop obsolete header
Make kfont logging functions private
Make kfont_context private
showconsolefont: Fix -Wsign-conversion warnings
setkeycodes: Fix -Wsign-conversion, -Wconversion warnings
setlogcons: Add more checks for argument
getunimap: Use system wctomb by default
Fix -Wconversion wanings
kfont: Move into a separate function the part responsible for reading
the font
kfont: Add copyright information
Replace kfont_saveoldfont and kfont_saveoldfontplusunicodemap by
kfont_save_font
Rename kfont functions for better readability
Split different methods of getting a font into different functions
Split different methods of loading a font into different functions
Add long options, help messages
Refactor setleds utility
Fix problems with formatting man pages
Improve and unify error some messages
Update po
v2.2.90
Fix kbd_mode output
Upgrade gettext infrastructure
Remove autogenerated files
tests: Verify that dumpkeys generates a loadable keymap
Fix problems with formatting man pages
man: Update title line
po: Update translations (from translationproject.org)
Add us1 that maps Right Alt to AltGr and Shift+Tab to Alt+Tab
v2.3.0
Anthony Perkins (1):
Add Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard map
Aristo Grenelle (1):
Add solar24x32 font
Ben Pfaff (1):
setfont: Add option -d to double size of font.
Bjarni Ingi Gislason (5):
docs/man/man5: Fix warnings from "groff"
docs/man/man1misc: Fix a warning from "groff" and spaces
docs/man/man1: Fix warnings from "groff" and some other formatting
docs/man/man8: Fix a warning from "groff", fonts and a trailing s
