ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230527 + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230520 + fixes for compiler warnings in MinGW environments.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230429 + revise recent change to _nc_write_entry to isolate it to a Cygwin bug (cf: 20230311) + amend fix for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to use cbreak mode unless raw mode was set (cf: 20210522). + fix a few warnings from cppcheck, etc. + correct copy/paste error in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220806 + amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final newline. + check for non-textfiles to tic.
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220507 + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov). + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks.
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220430 + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and also provide for focus in/out responses -TD + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov). + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'. + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table data rather than relying upon its callers. + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure it is initialized. + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC. + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20211009 + implement "+m" option in tabs program. + fill in some details for infoton -TD + fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD + use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD + modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other than reset/init, e.g., for clear. + modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather than the last. + improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp, and smgbp (cf: 20020525). + correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407). + remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present (cf: 20101002).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210904 + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4. + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black). + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh). + build-fix for compiling link_test + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify use (Debian #993179).
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 6.0 - patch 20170826 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip over missing/cancelled values. + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted special key. + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for cancelled string capabilities. + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries. + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic as input (Redhat #1484274). + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276). + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat #1484284). + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285) + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287). + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291). + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim). + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on X/Open Curses. + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and panel libraries.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170422 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen). + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics- characters. + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it. On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature. + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in icl6402 and m2-nam -TD + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc, add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King). + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number. + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%". + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c" and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c', avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap. + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that. + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable. + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in preference to "%02" on output. + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and "%3"; the result repeated the last character. + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
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 20160528 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link. + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20131116 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268). + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman). + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro, and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and -Wvarargs + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing work on cdk. + update config.sub from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20121208 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle. + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia). > fixes based on Coverity report: + remove a few redundant checks. + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of ship. + check return value from remove/unlink in tic. + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the terminal driver. + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro. + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic. + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are used.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120428 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring). + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities are interpreted as key definitions. + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined keys.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120407 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user definable capabilities. + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be embedded in the description. + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of the --with-xterm-kbs option. + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120324 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files, e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804). + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120225 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when cross-compiling. + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized. + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds. + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration (cf:20111231) + update config.guess, config.sub
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20111022 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed (cf: 20110917). + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when gnat does not work. + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses uses bool, which still produces these warnings.