ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211219 + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper script to invoke those. + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210424 + avoid using broken system macros for snprintf which interfere with _nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks configure option is enabled. + add a "all::" rule before the new "check" rule in test/Makefile.in
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 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 20190105 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply building test-packages for Arch. + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049). + update config.guess, config.sub
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20180120 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence. + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts. + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory. + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake, and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static libraries. + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170909 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c, which was inconsistent with the normal implementation. + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter). + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a". + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to consistently do this only if "-d" option is given. + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses: + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit checks in some libraries. + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does not return ERR on the lower-right corner. + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses. + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170812 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by Stephane Chazelas). + add reset_color_pairs() function. + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used by ncurses. + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack. + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in /usr/share/ncurses-examples + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(), color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters. + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the current screen is marked for clearing. + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for loading image files. + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow on demand up to the existing limit. + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to improve color_content(). + improve picsmap test-program: + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM, checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat" suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g., /usr/share/ncurses-examples + add "-l" option for logging + add "-d" option for debugging + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images, with time delay. + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images. + update config.guess, config.sub from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20150502 + modify the configure script to allow different default values for ABI 5 versus ABI 6. + add wgetch-events to test-packages. + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README. + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Debian #783486) -TD + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel) + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian #783806) + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin. + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by discussion with Sylvain Bertrand). + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed in /usr. + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles. + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared libraries. + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have been eliminated. + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on the ncurses library aside from headers. + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors. + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim). + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies found by 20150425 changes for test-packages. + update config.guess, config.sub from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
ncurses 5.7 - patch 20101106 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as a separate package. + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate package.
ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100403 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc. + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna). + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose. + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the extended-colors configuration. + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs. + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
ncurses 5.6 - patch 20070120 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency. + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines. + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar). in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
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