CHANGELOG

Versioning

This library is versioned based on Semantic Versioning (SemVer).

The scope of what is covered by the version number excludes:

error messages; the text of the messages can change, unless specifically documented.

create a release branch
update the changelog below
update version and copyright-years in ./LICENSE.md and ./src/core.c (in module constants)
create a new rockspec and update the version inside the new rockspec:
cp luasystem-scm-0.rockspec ./rockspecs/luasystem-X.Y.Z-1.rockspec
clean and render the docs: run ldoc .
commit the changes as Release vX.Y.Z
push the commit, and create a release PR
after merging tag the release commit with vX.Y.Z
upload to LuaRocks:
luarocks upload ./rockspecs/luasystem-X.Y.Z-1.rockspec --api-key=ABCDEFGH
test the newly created rock:
luarocks install luasystem

Chore: add compiler error on Windows if Virtual Terminal Processing is unavailable.
Fix: fix the freebsd build

Feat: getconsoleflags and setconsoleflags for getting/setting the current console configuration flags on Windows
Feat: getconsolecp and setconsolecp for getting/setting the console codepage on Windows
Feat: getconsoleoutputcp and setconsoleoutputcp for getting/setting the console output codepage on Windows
Feat: tcgetattr and tcsetattr for getting/setting the current console configuration flags on Posix
Feat: getnonblock and setnonblock for getting/setting the non-blocking flag on Posix
Feat: bitflags: a support feature for the above flag type controls to facilitate bit manipulation without resorting to binary operations (to also support PuC Lua 5.1)
Feat: readkey reads a keyboard input from stdin in a non-blocking way (utf8, also on Windows)
Feat: readansi reads a keyboard input from stdin in a non-blocking way, parses ansi and utf8 sequences
Feat: termsize gets the current terminal size in rows and columns
Feat: utf8cwidth and utf8swidth for getting the display width (in columns) of respectively a single utf8 character, or a utf8 string
Feat: helpers; termbackup, termrestore, autotermrestore, and termwrap for managing the many terminal settings on all platforms.