- <p>There are several new features:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/form_field_opts.3x.html">O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY</a>
- tells the form library to optionally delay cursor movement on
- a field edge/boundary</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/form_field_opts.3x.html">O_INPUT_FIELD</a>
- extension to form library allows a dynamic field to shrink if
- the new limit is smaller than the current field size.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>added <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_memleaks.3x.html">exit_curses</a> and
- <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_memleaks.3x.html">exit_terminfo</a> to
- replace internal symbols for leak-checking.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>added <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_trace.3x.html#h3-Functions">curses_trace</a>,
- to replace trace().</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>Additionally, to improve performance other changes (and
- extensions) are provided in this release:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>mouse decoding now handles shift/control/alt logic when
- decoding xterm's 1006 mode</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>ncurses now defines a limit for <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_getstr.3x.html">wgetnstr</a>, <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_get_wstr.3x.html">wgetn_wstr</a> when
- length is negative or “too large”.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>reordered loop-limit checks in <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_insstr.3x.html">winsnstr</a> in case the
- string has no terminating null and only the number of
- characters is used.</li>
-
- <li>
- <p>there is now no buffer-size limit when reading the
- <a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/ncurses.3x.html#h3-TERMCAP"><tt>$TERMCAP</tt></a>
- variable.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>the <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/ncurses.3x.html#h3-TERMCAP"><tt>$TERMCAP</tt></a>
- variable may be interpreted as a fallback to a terminfo
- entry</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html#h3-Output-Functions"><tt>
- mvcur</tt></a> now decides whether to use hard-tabs, using
- <strong><tt>xt</tt></strong>, <strong><tt>tbc</tt></strong>
- and <strong><tt>hts</tt></strong> as clues.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>extended colors are improved by modifying an internal call
- to <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html#h3-Output-Functions"><tt>
- vid_puts</tt></a> to pass extended color pairs e.g., from
- <tt>tty_update.c</tt> and <tt>lib_mvcur.c</tt></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p id="getenv-fixes">the initialization functions now avoid
- relying upon persistent data for the result from <a href=
- "#getenv-check"><tt>getenv</tt></a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>scrolling is improved:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>a limit check in <tt>newline_forces_scroll</tt> handles
- the case where the row is inside scroll-margins, but not at
- the end.</li>
-
- <li>
- <p>improved loop limits in <tt>_nc_scroll_window</tt>
- handle a case where the scrolled data is a pad which is
- taller than the window.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>