ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230527 + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230121 + correct limit-check when dumping tc/use clause via tic -I (report by Gabriel Ravier). + correct a check for manpage-alias in edit_man.sh, to work with out of tree builds (report by Sven Joachim).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220122 + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script. + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps" does not exist. + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on format-warnings. + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
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 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 20210612 + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing. + update config.guess
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210418 + improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed before linking to the target. + add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories. + build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210417 + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764). + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++ libraries and progs directory. + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments (patch by Hadrien Lacour).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210403 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and progs directory. + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x + improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes. + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning leak-checking off later in a set of options. + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems. + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj Lutter).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210327 + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs, form and menu libraries.
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 20201227 + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20201114 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver. + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the special case where short extended capability strings were not converted from terminfo to termcap format. + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200711 + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo Bruckl). + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell). + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan). + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200704 + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard). > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"): + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport" declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
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 20191012 + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516). + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage. + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and _nc_find_name_entry. > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"): + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry. + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one mapping (cf: 20060415); + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability, overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007). + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190511 + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse" + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow. + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio Kuratomi, cf: 20170729). + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus number of parameters.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190420 + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190121 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h file in Slackware. + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe on some of the BSDs. + updated "string-hacks" feature. + minor improvements to manpage typography. + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by "Hudd"). + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color, extended_color_content + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the return values from the tested functions. + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and extensions. + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter). + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure option was given. + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).