Original release date: 01/16/2022

cgdb-0.8.0 (01/16/2022)

• Fix issue #298 - CGDB now exits when gdb exits
  Previously if gdb exited but the inferior, or child of the inferior
  was still running, cgdb would possibly continue running in a
  non responsive state. Now cgdb exits when gdb does.

• Fix issue #278, Single stepping through disassembly without debug
  symbols does not move arrow in source window. Now the arrow moves in
  the source window as expected.

• Fix issue #135 CGDB freezes when pressing "o" to open the file dialog
  Previously, if you attempted to open the file dialog, cgdb would
  sometimes hang, due to a gdbwire parsing bug from the gdb response.
  This has been resolved.

• Fix issue #152, breakpoint handling is broken in disasembly view
  Previously, if you set a breakpoint in the source view, it would not
  be reflected in the disassembly view, and vice versa. Now if you set
  a breakpoint in either view, it should be reflected in the other.

• Fix issue #260, CGDB would not process commands after F5, F6, etc
  If F5, F6, F7, F8, F10 were hit, CGDB would no longer process GDB
  commands, like setting breakpoints, etc. Now CGDB works as expected.

• CGDB implements a virtual terminal in the GDB window

  • The GDB scroller is now a virtual terminal (using libvterm)
  • The scrollback buffer has been reimplemented using libvterm
    The cursor row/col position is now known, rather than just the row
  • Searching in the scrollback buffer is improved
  • The scrollback buffer size is configurable with a new option,
    scrollbackbuffersize (sbbs) and is defaulted to 10000.
  • Mark commands in the GDB scroller have been removed
  • Unicode is now fully supported in the gdb window
  • libvterm does not support reflow yet, so resizing the terminal or
    switching the window orientation (winsplitorientation) after startup
    may cause the text in the GDB window to not be as expected
  • Colors in the GDB window are not fully supported yet.
    Ncurses is difficult to work with, considering switching.
    RGB vterm colors are unsupported at the moment.
    Fix the following github issues
  • When I use set wso=vertical, I use the GDB window to print the
    variable value, which will overflow the rightboundary #274
  • Long lines from GDB output are not wrapped #265
  • Some characters in the editor are incorrect #261
  • Setting prompt to unicode character doesn't work as expected #257
  • cgdb prints '[?2004h' in xfce4 terminal #256
  • [regression] prefixing "04h" characters in the gdb prompt since
    fixing #255
  • GDB console does not display color #251
  • gdb ANSI escape codes only in cgdb #189
  • Cursor offset gets lost when typing UTF-8 characters in the
    gdb window #121

• CGDB implements GDB/MI in favor of GDB/Annotations

  • CGDB now communicates with GDB using MI only (instead of Annotations)
    using the new-ui GDB command
  • CGDB now requires GDB 7.12 or newer
  • CGDB now fully supports the GDB console, including readline and
    communicating with the inferior (the program being debugged)
  • CGDB no longer uses the inferior tty option to talk to the inferior

  Fix the following github issues

  • Messed up input with latest gdb #247
  • press T, it cannot open I/O window #244 (no longer necessary)
  • Support disabling the inferior pty #241
  • Any plan to add tty window back? #209
  • Debugging a forking program fails on first run #204
  • Ctrl - T doesn't seem to work (cgdb 0.7.0) #193
  • inputrc enable-keypad messing with readline #190
  • GDB command-line options not working #160
  • Logging output uses machine interface? #158
  • Pagination of long output is not properly handled #145
  • cgdb stucks on fgets #130
  • Autocompletion on directories failes to append '/' #96
  • GDB Prompt Hangs after Pressing Tab in a "Command List" #67

• Add the nexti and stepi configuration commands

• Fix issue #239, ANSI escape issues with GDB-9
  Color sequences like, [?1l,[?1h,=,>" are now ignored by CGDB rather
  than producing garbage looking text in the gdb terminal.

• Fix auto source reload issue, issue #235 and #221
  Occasionally, CGDB would not properly reload source files when they
  had changed. Now CGDB will reload them on change.

• CGDB works again with newer versions of GDB (gdb 8.3 and above)
  CGDB annotation support was broken by the following GDB issue,
  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25190
  Changing CGDB from 'set height 0' to 'set pagination off' works
  around the issue, even though I thought they were identical commands.

• CGDB now supports a configurable home directory. If the environment
  variable 'CGDB_DIR' is set to a directory name, CGDB will use the
  specified directory instead of '~/.cgdb/'.

• Fix issue #219 - CGDB users on Gentoo were experiencing segfaults at startup
  due to mismatched wide-character support between the ncurses and tinfo
  libraries. The build system has been updated to correctly pair the versions
  of these libraries.

Original release date: 08/04/2019

cgdb-0.7.1 (08/04/2019)

• Status bar messages are now displayed properly in veritical mode.
  The message is now truncated according to the status bar width instead
  of the width of the terminal.
• Fix spurious error from CGDB on shutdown. You may have seen,
  CGDB had unexpected results. Search the logs for more details.
  In the log there was a waitpid error. CGDB was using the API wrong.
• Fix issue #161 - CGDB would lock up when doing a regex search from
  the status bar if the file was just opened from the file dialog and
  the search did not match any text in the file. Now the search fails
  to match text as expected.
• Status bar commands and gdb console commands now both show gdb
  output in the gdb window (instead of only the gdb console commands).
  This fixed issue #154 on github.
• Fixed issue where typing F8 would do a 'next', 'step' and
  screen refresh instead of just doing a 'next' command.
• Fix issue #139 - Show appropriate logos when color disabled
  Previously, if the user had colors disabled, CGDB would still show
  logos that had ansi escape color sequences in them.
• Fixed :highlight regression introduced in 0.7.0.
  In 0.6.8, if the user entered a :highlight command from the CGDB
  status bar, for instance:
  :highlight Comment ctermfg=Blue
  CGDB would updated the currently displayed source file
  with the requested highlighting changes. In 0.7.0 this would not occur.
  Both versions honored :highlight in the .cgdbrc file.
• Fix issue #125 - CGDB can cross compile again.
• The rust syntax highlighter is now case sensitive instead of case
  insensitive.
• Fix issue #129. CGDB with old versions of ncurses (5.6 or before)
  would not display colors. Now it will display colors, but will
  not support ansi colors in the GDB window.
• Fix issue #137. rustlexer.lpp fails to compile with some versions
  of GNU autotools.
• Fix issue #135. CGDB would "freeze" when opening the file
  dialog if the number of files was very large. Updating the
  gdbwire parser resolved the issue.
• Add support for readline's backward-kill-word and kill-word at gdb prompt

Original release date: 03/21/2017

cgdb-0.7.0 (03/21/2017)

• Remove help2man dependency. CGDB has a good info page which
  should suffice.
• The hlsearch option has been added to CGDB. This improves the
  searching and displaying of searching functionality within CGDB.
  By default the option is off. When enabled, and there exists a
  previous search, CGDB will display the search results using
  the Search highlighting group. The IncSearch highlighting group
  is used to display the active search. The hlsearch option
  highlights previous searches in the source window, the gdb window
  when in scroll mode and the file dialog window.
• CGDB now supports showing assembly code! By default, CGDB will
  display source code when it is available and assembly code
  when no source code is available. The option 'set disasm'
  allows you to show mixed source/assembly when both are available.
• Add support to enable/disable showing assembly code in CGDB.
  The default is disabled. The 'set disasm' enables showing
  mixed assembly mode by default. See the documentation for more
  information.
• Add the :logo command to cgdb. This tells CGDB to display a logo
  in the source window.
• Add an initial Rust syntax highlighter.
• Support vi type j and k motions. Previously only
  typing j or k with out a number was supported.
• Add support for marks. m[a-z] will set a local file mark and
  m[A-Z] will set a global mark. '[a-z] will jump to the
  corresponding local mark and '[A-Z] will jump to the corresponding
  global mark. As an added bonus '' will jump to the last jump location
  and '. will jump to the last executing line.
  The showmarks option was introduced to show the marks in the source
  window. It defaults to true. You can disable the viewing of marks
  using 'set noshowmarks'.
• Add support to enable or disable color in the source window.
  The default is enabled. See the documentation for more information.
• Add support for showing colors in the debug window. If gdb or the
  program being debugged output an ansi escape code representing color,
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors
  then CGDB will display the corresponding color instead of the escape
  code. This option is configurable with the set debugwincolor option.
• Add the winminwidth option to CGDB. It controls the minimum width
  that a window can be resized. It corresponds to the winminheight
  option. This was introduced now that CGDB can have vertically split
  windows.
• Add support for vertical or horizontal splitting of the CGDB/GDB
  windows. Thanks to Daniel Cohen for the original implementation
  of this idea! You can change the window orientation by using the
  command 'set winsplitorientation=horizontal or vertical'.
  horizontal is the default orientation. Type Ctrl-w to switch between
  vertical and horizontal viewing.
• Remove the TTY mode and TTY window from CGDB. This previously allowed
  you to send input to the program being debugged through the TTY
  window in CGDB. It is better for the user to run their program in
  one terminal and attach to it with CGDB from another terminal in
  order to get terminal input and terminal output working correctly.
• Add the -w command line option to CGDB. It directs CGDB to wait
  to start until either a debugger is attached to it, or until a key
  is written to it's stdin. This helps simplify debugging CGDB itself.
• Added GDB scroll mode in addition to the existing GDB command mode.
  To enter scroll mode, type 'page up' when in GDB mode and to exit
  type 'q', 'i' or 'Enter'. In scroll mode, you can scroll through
  the GDB output. You can also search the GDB output with the /, ?, n
  and N keys. Marks are also supported. You can set a mark by typing
  m[a-z] and you can jump to a mark by typing '[a-z]. See the
  documentation for more details.
• Extended support for the G command when in CGDB mode. The new supported
  syntax is []G, allowing users to jump to a specific line within
  the source file, rather than just the end of the source file. This is
  identical to the : command.
• Added support for 'executinglinedisplay' and 'selectedlinedisplay'
  configuration options. See documentation for full explanation.
  This allows you to configure how CGDB displays both the currently
  executing line and the currently selected line.
  The default for executing line is set to longarrow.
  The default for selected line is set to block.
  The 'arrowstyle' option has been deprecated (but still supported)
  and users should use the 'executinglinedisplay' option instead.
• CGDB now only supports ncurses. Support for curses was removed.
  The curses support was previously very out of date and untested.
  If curses support is needed, please let us know.

Original release date: 11/13/2014

cgdb-0.6.8 (11/13/2014)

• Fix issue #40, the map commands were adding additional new lines
  to the mappings. For instance, 'imap a b' in the ~/.cgdb/cgdbrc
  file would cause a to map to 'b' instead of just 'b'.

• Added feature from issue #29, added 'until' command to CGDB.

• Updated autotools configuration files to satisfy warnings and
  recommendations produced by autotools when run.

• Fix issue #49, a gcc compiler warning.

• Fixed a hang consuming 100% CPU usage on OS X Mavericks (github #48).

• Fixed a hang when quitting cgdb while inferior is running
  (github #1 and #5 and #46). This was believed to be fixed in the last
  release but I've finally reproduced the issue and fixed it for good.

Original release date: 01/14/2013

cgdb-0.6.7 (01/14/2013)

• Changed documentation license from GFDL to GPL (github #6).
• Fixed a hang on MacOS when quitting cgdb while inferior is running
  (github #1 and #5).
• Fixed a crash when pressing 'n' in source window (github #5).
• Fixed a bug opening files (and toggling breakpoints in files) with
  special characters (e.g. space) in their names.

Original release date: 09/06/2011

cgdb-0.6.6 (09/06/2011)

• Fixed a compile error on Cygwin 1.7 (signature for path conversion
  functions changed).
• Fixed a segfault on 64-bit systems in rline.c due to a missing
  prototype of cgdb_malloc. Thanks to Pietro Cerutti for reporting
  and diagnosing this one!
• Fixed a bug in the file dialog. When searching for a file,
  and you hit enter to select it, CGDB would sometimes skip to
  the next file that matches and open that file instead.
• CGDB should now build out of the box on Cygwin again.
  CGDB used to only support building against curses.h. Now
  it also supports building against ncurses/curses.h.
• No longer set the prompt to (gdb) on startup.