ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231014

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3995 2023/09/09 16:45:37 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4014 2023/10/14 19:43:34 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,8 +46,50 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
-20230909
+20231014
+       + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+       + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, for uClibc-ng
+       + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20231007
+       + improve loop-limit for get_position().
+       + improve manual description of immedok (Debian #1053603).
+       + fix a few formatting issues with manpages (Debian #1053123).
+       + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231001
+       + modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in
+         user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither
+         environment variables or ioctl is used.  The ncurses test-program
+         with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature.
+       + improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson).
+       + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+       + modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates.
+       + fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by
+         copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott).
+
+20230923
        + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+       + amend change to delscreen() to limit the windows which it creates to
+         just those associated with the screen (report by Frederic Boiteux,
+         cf: 20220813).
+
+20230918
+       + new tarball/errata (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20230917
+       + improve formatting of manpages (integrated patches by Branden
+         Robinson).
+       + correct limit for name-length in write_entry.c (report/testcase by
+         Luna Saphie Mittelbach).
+       + limit delays to 30 seconds, i.e., padding delays in terminfo, as well
+         as napms() and delay_output() functions.
+       + improve a few pointer-checks.
+       + improve parsing in _nc_msec_cost, allowing a single decimal point.
+
+20230909
+       + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson), for
+         captoinfo.1m and terminfo.5
        > patches by Nicholas Marriott:
          + use string-hacks in alloc_entry.c, alloc_type.c and hardscroll.c,
            overlooked due to compiler changes in recent OpenBSD releases.