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 20231202 + correct initial alignment of extended capabilities in infocmp, so that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types. + improve formatting/style of manpages, changing environment variables to italics (patches by Branden Robinson).
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 20230909 + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). > patches by Nicholas Marriott: + use string-hacks in alloc_entry.c, alloc_type.c and hardscroll.c, overlooked due to compiler changes in recent OpenBSD releases. + add "-6" option to ncu2openbsd script.
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 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 6.3 - 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 6.3 - patch 20211113 + minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437). + add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse Sundrup) -TD + improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes.
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 20180728 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens. + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180519 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation. + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes; fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR (report by C Anthony Risinger) + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171118 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability. + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads. + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H). + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551. + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors. + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to account for xon -TD + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan) + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently: jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b, dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an, st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171007 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible. + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno. + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen). + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but not slk_color(). + regenerate man-html documentation.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170819 + update "iterm" entry -TD + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD + regenerate llib-* files. + regenerate HTML manpages. + improve picsmap test-program: + reduce memory used for tsearch + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage. + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional (cf: 20130622). + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput. + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855). + improve usage messages for tset and tput. + minor fixes to "RDGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20161231 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe). + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath were combined (report by Thomas Klausner). + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work consistently. + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout. + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126). + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in 20161203. + update config.guess, config.sub from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git