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 6.3 - patch 20220917 + reduce memory-leak in tic by separating allocations for struct entry from TERMTYPE2 (cf: 20220430). + improve interaction between tic -v option and NCURSES_TRACE, by processing the latter only when -v option does not set _nc_tracing. + modify curses_trace() to show the trace-mask as symbols, e.g., TRACE_ORDINARY, DEBUG_LEVEL(3).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220903 + modify verbose-option of infocmp, tic, toe to enable debug-tracing if that is configured.
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 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 20191207 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190720 + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp manual pages. + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage (report by Sven Joachim).
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190309 + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined capabilities in tic. + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef" data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180505 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older versions of tack. + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability. + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages. + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules for escaping regular expressions.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20180121 > terminfo changes: + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title blocks from xterm #331 -TD + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm #331 -TD + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if direct-colors are wanted -TD + add vte-direct -TD + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by Pierre Carru) + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features: + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use this feature. + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767. + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character ncurses library work as expected. + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767. + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in term.h still uses signed 16-bit values. + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format, a new magic value is provided for the "file" program. + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format. + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the wide-character configuration to 32768.
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.
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 6.0 - patch 20170204 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed to db-iterator. + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted. + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader. + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format. + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905). + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120317 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications can again use napms() (cf: 20110604). + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN (cf: 20040327). + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure. + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206). + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120218 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie). + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles. + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X. + add configure option --with-tparm-arg + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20111008 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak. + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20110730 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work around updates to the variables used by tic during an install. + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility for termcap output. + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these features: + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc. + expand "\:" as "\072" on output. + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker. + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent. + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to freed memory. + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be positive. + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>" feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by tctest (cf: 19991211). + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710) + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS. + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when translating to termcap. + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
ncurses 5.7 - patch 20090808 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from implementation details of hash function.
ncurses 5.7 - patch 20090711 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic. + minor fixes for memory-leak checking. + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap