ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230527 + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck.
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20221210 + add minimal -h/-V getopt logic to the remaining test-programs. + free new_pair() data in delscreen (report by "magiblot"). + add clarification of the scope of dynamic variables in terminfo(5). + remove a stray '/' from description of %g in terminfo(5).
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 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 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).
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20181124 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary. + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is used. + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris. + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form that lets different curses implementations be compared. + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm (report by Tomas Janousek).
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180609 + modify generatesd ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc., to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian #900839). + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw and vw_scanw, respectively.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171223 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with PDCurses. + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description, e.g., if there is a permission problem. + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2. + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder, OpenSuSE #1070450). + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
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 20170624 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler). + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes (report by Allen Hewes). + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs. + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was not initialized, rather than returning an error. + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963). + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer, assuming that --disable-leaks is configured. + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
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 20170408 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output of mbstowcs(). + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes. + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs. + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not used by tack.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130504 + fixes for issues found by Coverity: + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets. + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20121215 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume. + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report by Erwin Waterlander). + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf > fixes based on Coverity report: + correct coloring in test/bs.c + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(). + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some test-programs.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20121026 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat #866989). + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts. + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120901 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825). + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array might not be allocated. + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120616 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings are enabled. + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to a new primary name. + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts. + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120204 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide better diagnostics.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120114 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on Linux Mint forum): + modify movement commands to make them continuous + rewrote the test for mvderwin + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X and OpenBSD. + regenerated html manpages. + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
ncurses 5.7 - patch 20101113 + compiler warning fixes for test programs. + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses. + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm #267 changes. + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.