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 6.2 - patch 20210925 + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD + add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the "tabs" +m option -TD + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward reference of anonymous struct typedef. + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line. + minor fixes for tset manpage.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210821 + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching SVr4 terminfo. + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an error in an expression (cf: 20201010). + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812). + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report by Florian Weimer) -TD + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes. + update config.sub
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210320 + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town, cf: 20200531). + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger) + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that rather than gcc's attribute. + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention. + add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20201031 + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h> before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas). + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas). + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to ensure that the messages contain only printable text. + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven Pitman). needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200906 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of win32-driver. + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200531 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang) + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron). + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes. + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
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 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 20191214 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for leak-checking.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190413 + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script. + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11 + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190302 + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11 + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some user-defined capabilities. + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180623 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir). + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e., updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS, CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE. + update config.guess, config.sub from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180407 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete, not part of X/Open Curses since 2007. + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007). As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return values, e.g., keyname().
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 20170408 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output of mbstowcs(). + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes. + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs. + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not used by tack.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170318 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it rather than using def_prog_mode(). + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are externals that are used by tack. + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability. + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden Robinson). + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation. + regenerate man-html documentation.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130816 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or generic_type. + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm. + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW port when tic and other programs are not needed.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130525 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in the left margin of the display. + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent use of these symbols in term_entry.h
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20110625 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott). + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by Sergio NNX). + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis). + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and ripoffline(). + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.