ncurses 6.3 - patch 20221126 + fix an error in pathname of explain.txt (cf: 20200201). + fix an error in "@" command in test/ncurses.c F-menu (cf: 20190121). + improve formatting of ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html + improve man/curs_clear.3x links to other pages
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210904 + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4. + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black). + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh). + build-fix for compiling link_test + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify use (Debian #993179).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210123 + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich). + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around quirks of pmake.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200829 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten Anonymous". + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of win32-driver. + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on mawk and lynx). > errate for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer): + correct icl6404 csr + correct ti916 cup + improve ndr9500
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200808 + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall). + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall). + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW. + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with MinGW.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200212 + update release notes + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result when cross-compiling. + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken. + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used, to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples. + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in collision handling for Caps-hpux11 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for terminfo and termcap names. + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit(). + update a few comments about tack 1.07 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20200118 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages. + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by Christian Durr) -TD + correct spelling errors found with codespell. + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20191221 + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to work with test-packages. + improve tracemunch: + keep track of TERMINAL* values + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway. + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
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 20180707 + build-fixes for gcc8. + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in report_offsets. + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was empty (Debian #902630).
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 20170415 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from help-screen used in test/edit_field.c + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and _nc_resolve_uses + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025). + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX. + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation. + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose. + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20150808 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX. + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across more than 200 snapshots. + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement page.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20150725 + updated llib-* files. + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule. + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by Mikhail Peselnik). + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text: curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x, curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x, curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20140913 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working C++ cross-compilers. + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20140524 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variable. + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping. + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded. + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD + correct padding in sbi entry -TD + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm() because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal stack (report by Corinna Vinschen). + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to activate additional checks which compare the results from running tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap expressions. + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton, cf: 20120324). > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez: + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings. + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes instead of <>. + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning was removed by an obsolete pragma. + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter, available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas. + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some compiler flags. + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure package. + removed C_Chtype and its conversions. + removed C_AttrType and its conversions. + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set. + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions. + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions. + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler to be consecutive anyway. + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza + only consider using a project for shared libraries. + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then". + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.