ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240302 + add configure check for MB_LEN_MAX, to provide warning as needed. + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + fix regression in tput which disallowed hex/octal parameters (report by Werner Fink, cf: 20230408) + update config.guess, config.sub
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240120 + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + amend discussion of aliases in tput.1 + use ansi+sgrbold, ansi+sgrdim, ansi+sgrso, ansi+sgrul, ansi+tabs ecma+color, ecma+sgr, vt100+4bsd, vt100+pfkeys, vt220+pcedit xterm+256color, xterm+acs, xterm+nopcfkeys, xterm+pcf2 to trim -TD + modify configure scripts/makefiles to omit KEY_RESIZE if the corresponding SIGWINCH feature is disabled.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231209 + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels in use'd chunks which are not mentioned in the top-level terminal description. + remove xterm+sm+1006 from tmux (Debian #1057688). + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD + updated man/edit_man.sh to allow for "\%" markers embedded after bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057541). + reduce compiler-warnings in configure checks
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231125 + add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1 (patch by Branden Robinson). + improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering (patches by Branden Robinson). + modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values (report by Branden Robinson).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231028 + move xterm focus mode 1004 from xterm+sm+1006 into xterm+focus as fe/fd capabilities, like vim (vim-pr #13440). + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make "libdir" the default, as documented, rather than "auto" (report by Branden Robinson). + improve messages from configure script (patches by Branden Robinson).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231021 + use oldxterm+sm+1006 in vte-2014 (report by Benno Schulenberg) -TD + add ansi+apparrows -TD + change defaults for configure opaque and widec options (prompted by discussion with Branden Robinson). + minor cleanup of compiler- and manpage-warnings.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231016 + make the recent change to setupterm optional "--enable-check-size" (Debian #1054022).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 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
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230729 + improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_wnstr(). + modify MinGW configuration to provide for running in MSYS/MSYS2 shells, assuming ConPTY support (patch by Pavel Fedin). + add assignment in CF_MAN_PAGES to fill in value for TERMINFO_DIRS in ncurses, terminfo and tic manpages (patch by Sven Joachim).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230722 + add "auto" default for --with-xterm-kbs configure option.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230603 + add configure option --with-strip-program, to override program chosen by the install program for stripping executables (prompted by discussion with Aapo Rantalainen). + fix typo in INSTALL (report/patch by Aapo Rantalainen). + improve error-checks for isEILSEQ() + increase MB_CUR_MAX to 16, matching glibc's MB_LEN_MAX. + corrected mouse mask in test/testcurs.c + improve thread lock in lib_trace.c
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230514 + modify test-package "ncurses6-doc" to use manpage-aliases, which in turn required a change to the configure script to factor in the extra-suffix option when deriving alias names. + add mode 1004 to xterm+sm+1006 from xterm #380 -TD
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230506 > build-fixes related to configure-options and/or platform: + fix for --enable-fvisibility + fix for unusual values of --with-rel-version + fix for unusual values of --with-abi-version + fix for --disable-tcap-names + fix for termcap in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230423 + add tiscan_s() to help applications check formatting capabilities that would be passed to tiparm_s, etc. + add tiparm_s() to provide applications a way to tell ncurses what the expected parameters are for a capability (tmux #3531). + improve check in lib_tparm.c, ensuring that a char* fits into a TPARM_ARG. + add --disable-setuid-environ configure option (request by Sven Joachim). + drop compatibility with obsolete versions of tack, e.g., pre-1.08 (Debian #1034549, cf: 20170722).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230418 + improve checks for limits on privileged execution: + modify _nc_syserr_abort() to use _nc_env_access(), rather than only checking root uid. + use getauxval() when available, to improve setuid/setgid checks. + modify test packages to disable root access/environ options. + modify tgoto() to accept no-parameter capabilities, for joe editor (OpenSUSE #1210485, Gentoo #904263).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230415 + configure script fixes: + fix copy/paste error in configure option --disable-root-access (report/patch by Sven Joachim). + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro's amend default case to avoid undefining _XOPEN_SOURCE if _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined. + modify test_tparm to account for extended capabilities. + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of numeric parameters, overlooked in 20230408. + fix errata in clear.1 and curs_terminfo.3x
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230311 + improve manpage description for addch versus unctrl format used for non-printable characters. + modify version-check for gcc/g++, now works for msys2. + modify check in _nc_write_entry() for multiply defined aliases to report problems within the current runtime of tic rather than for conflicts with pre-existing terminal descriptions. + allow for MinGW32-/64-bit configurations to use _DEFAULT_SOURCE + clarify interaction of -R option versus -C, -I and -r in infocmp manpage. + build-fix in lib_win32con.c (cf: 20230211). + add/use configure check for clock_gettime(), to supersede
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230225 + build-fixes for rpm test-packages. + add/user configure check for clock_gettime(), to supersede gettimeofday().
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230218 + configure-script improvements: + recent msys2 headers work with _DEFAULT_SOURCE; amend check + use $ac_includes_default in most cases where stdlib.h should work + use #error consistently vs "make an error" + add configure macro for gettimeofday vs inline check
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230128 + document XF, kxIN and kxOUT -TD + add note on sun/wscons/cmdtool/shelltool -TD + modify configure script check for pkg-config library directory to take into account an older version 0.15.0 which used PKG_CONFIG_PATH but not PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR