ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240302 + add configure check for MB_LEN_MAX, to provide warning as needed. + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + fix regression in tput which disallowed hex/octal parameters (report by Werner Fink, cf: 20230408) + update config.guess, config.sub
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240203 + minor changes to tracing and locale-checks.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231104 + modify reset command to avoid altering clocal if the terminal uses a modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek, OpenSUSE #1201384, Debian #60377). + build-fixes for --with-caps variations. + correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231016 + make the recent change to setupterm optional "--enable-check-size" (Debian #1054022).
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 20230729 + improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_wnstr(). + modify MinGW configuration to provide for running in MSYS/MSYS2 shells, assuming ConPTY support (patch by Pavel Fedin). + add assignment in CF_MAN_PAGES to fill in value for TERMINFO_DIRS in ncurses, terminfo and tic manpages (patch by Sven Joachim).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230624 + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai").
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220813 + modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given screen. + amend portability note for delwin in manual page. + adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray. + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol. + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220724 + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual. + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen (Debian #1015756).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220709 + lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211120 + add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD + deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar, cf: 20200531). + modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch. + if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use ${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross Burton).
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 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 20200912 + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64. + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration. + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200907 + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by Soren Tempel).
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 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 20191102 + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative. + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero (report/patch by Anthony Sottile). + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries. + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD