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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bef656cb..342ae2a9 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.232 2021/07/17 16:30:27 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.237 2021/11/20 17:54:20 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -1143,7 +1143,21 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
 
     --with-pkg-config-libdir=[DIR]
 	If pkg-config was found, override the automatic check for its library
-	path.
+	path.  The configure script allows only a single directory, because
+	that is used as the directory in which to install ".pc" files.
+
+	The automatic check for the library path prefers the first directory
+	which currently exists.  If none of the directories listed by
+	pkg-config exist, the check prefers a pkgconfig directory under the
+	"libdir" set by the configure script (which may not be the system
+	default), or if pkg-config lists nothing suitable, the first one which
+	is listed by pkg-config is used.
+
+	Automatic selection is overridden by providing an option-value
+	beginning with "/".
+
+	If this option is omitted, the default directory for installing
+	".pc" files is ${libdir}/pkgconfig
 
     --with-profile
 	Generate profile-libraries These are named by adding "_p" to the root,
@@ -1397,6 +1411,38 @@ COMPATIBILITY WITH OLDER RELEASES:
     you may encounter when building a system with different versions of
     ncurses:
 
+    6.3 (Oct 21, 2021)
+	Interface changes:
+
+	+ the definition of TERMTYPE2 is now internal, not visible in the ABI,
+	  like the enclosing TERMINAL which was previously made opaque.  This
+	  was done to provide SCREEN-specific "static" variables in terminfo.
+
+	Added extensions:
+
+	+ add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
+
+	Added internal functions (other than "_sp" variants):
+
+	+ _nc_safe_fopen and _nc_safe_open3 limit privileges if possible when
+	  opening a file; otherwise disallow access for updating files.
+
+	+ _nc_tiparm is a variant of tiparm which is used when all of the
+	  parameters are known to be numbers rather than possibly strings.
+
+	+ _nc_reset_tparm improves tic's checks by resetting the terminfo
+	  "static variables" before calling functions which may update them.
+
+	Removed internal functions:
+
+	+ none
+
+	Modified internal functions:
+
+	+ _nc_trace_ttymode passes pointer to const data
+
+	+ _nc_tparm_analyze passes pointer to int*, not int[]
+
     6.2 (Feb 12, 2020)
 	Interface changes:
 
@@ -2167,7 +2213,7 @@ FOR SYSTEM INTEGRATORS:
 	Please pick a name unique to your console driver and set that up
 	in the /etc/inittab table or local equivalent.  Send the entry to the
 	terminfo maintainer (listed in the misc/terminfo file) to be included
-	in the terminfo file, if it's not already there.  See the
+	in the terminfo file, if it is not already there.  See the
 	term(7) manual page included with this distribution for more on
 	conventions for choosing type names.