ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240106 + use ansi+arrows, ansi+apparrows, ansi+csr, ansi+erase, ansi+idc, ansi+idc1, ansi+idl, ansi+idl1, ansi+inittabs to trim -TD + minor manpage formatting changes for consistency. + modify doc-html test package's install-directory, per lintian. + add attr_get.3x to man_db.renames.in (patch by Sven Joachim).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230107 + add --with-abi-altered configure option (prompted by discussion with Brian Inglis). + add BSD erase2 to characters handled by tset/reset. + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings. + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221202 + add RV report+version (suggested by Bram Moolenaar). + add comment to bracketed+paste explaining that vim patch 9.0.1117 is needed for use with the updated xterm descriptions (suggested by Bram Moolenaar).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20221119 + use static libraries for AdaCurses test-package for Mageia, since no gprbuild package is available. + updated test packages for Debian.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210102 + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares exit_terminfo. + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon). + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031). + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for consistency with other manpages.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200822 + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the man_db.renames file. + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function (report by Yue Tai). + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker). + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared" option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190907 + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes by Pascal Pignard). + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190105 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply building test-packages for Arch. + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049). + update config.guess, config.sub
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180526 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac Pascual Monells). + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525. + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20180120 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence. + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts. + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory. + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake, and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static libraries. + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20180106 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin. + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-, 256-, etc., colors. + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99 as possible default values. + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the handling of the curses/ncurses library. + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files. + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when configured to access it via weak symbols. + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the behavior. + update URLs for ncurses website to use https. + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc. + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule (report by Jeffrey Walton).
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171209 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers are. + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented" function in link_test.c + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc. + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah). + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
ncurses 6.0 - patch 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.