ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231223 + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231217 + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean is unset in a base entry and set in a use'd chunk, i.e., if it was cancelled. + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which were already cancelled in a use'd chunk. + join two lines in infotocap.3x to eliminate a spurious "description" link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim). + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim). bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057651).
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 20231007 + improve loop-limit for get_position(). + improve manual description of immedok (Debian #1053603). + fix a few formatting issues with manpages (Debian #1053123). + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231001 + modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither environment variables or ioctl is used. The ncurses test-program with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature. + improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson). + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates. + fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230917 + improve formatting of manpages (integrated patches by Branden Robinson). + correct limit for name-length in write_entry.c (report/testcase by Luna Saphie Mittelbach). + limit delays to 30 seconds, i.e., padding delays in terminfo, as well as napms() and delay_output() functions. + improve a few pointer-checks. + improve parsing in _nc_msec_cost, allowing a single decimal point. + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson), for captoinfo.1m and terminfo.5
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230819 + various manpage-formatting fixes. + correct formatting of table header in curs_inopts.3x (Branden Robinson). + correct manpage description of panel_hidden (report by Benjamin Mordaunt).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230701 + fix mandoc warnings about unnecessary markup. + improve parameter check in tparm_setup()
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230617 + markup manpages with revision information (prompted by discussion with Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
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 6.3 - patch 20220212 + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency. + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211225 + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210626 + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to disallow most file-opens by setuid processes. + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler) + regenerate man-html documentation.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210619 + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such as --with-valgrind + trim trailing blanks from files
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20201219 + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3. + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report by Chris Bennett).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20201024 + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling. + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer. + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check, needed in to tic's use-resolution work pad_char is cancelled (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim) + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim). + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20201017 + improve manpage typography. + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display nonprintable characters. + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200321 + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables. + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg). + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for a corresponding demo of dup_field().
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 20191130 + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by discussion with Nick Black). + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch manpage. + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.