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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2888 2017/07/15 22:29:41 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2916 2017/08/13 00:24:51 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,82 @@ 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.
 
+20170812
+	+ improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
+	  Stephane Chazelas).
+	+ add reset_color_pairs() function.
+	+ add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
+	  by ncurses.
+	+ improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
+	  script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
+	+ modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
+	  /usr/share/ncurses-examples
+	+ improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
+	  color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
+	+ minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
+	  current screen is marked for clearing.
+	+ in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
+	  loading image files.
+	+ modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
+	  on demand up to the existing limit.
+	+ add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
+	  improve color_content().
+	+ improve picsmap test-program:
+	  + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
+	    checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
+	    suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
+	    /usr/share/ncurses-examples
+	  + add "-l" option for logging
+	  + add "-d" option for debugging
+	  + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
+	    with time delay.
+	  + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
+	+ update config.guess, config.sub from
+		http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20170729
+	+ update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
+	+ use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
+	+ add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
+	+ move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
+	  Williams) -TD
+	+ add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
+	  cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
+	+ improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
+	  tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
+	  parameters for a capability and the actual.
+	+ amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
+	  report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
+	  + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
+	    alternate character set is enabled.
+	  + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
+	+ document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
+	  tack for memory-leak checking.
+	+ add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
+	  configure option.  Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
+	  a few packagers combine it during the build.  If term_entry.h is
+	  installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
+	+ adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
+	  needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree.  Rather than relying upon
+	  internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
+	  string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
+	  curses.  It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
+	  extended capability arrays.
+	+ add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
+
+20170722
+	+ improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
+	+ modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
+	  the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
+	  ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
+	  term-driver configuration.
+	+ add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
+	  files to allow each to be compiled separately.
+	+ add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
+	  using tic-library will have to supply this file.  Legacy tack
+	  versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
+	  dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
+
 20170715
 	+ modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
 	  with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.