ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231111 + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD + add limit checks in infocmp needed when processing extended capabilities with the "-u" option. + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages. + fix a few compiler warnings for Solaris 10. + modify endwin() to return an error if it is called again without an intervening screen update (report by Rajeev Pillai, NetBSD #57592).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230527 + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230225 + build-fixes for rpm test-packages. + add/user configure check for clock_gettime(), to supersede gettimeofday().
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20221203 + add -h usage and -V version options to the test-programs which use getopt. + use "command -v" rather than "type" in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in to fix a portability issue (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez). + update ncurses-howto, more documentation fixes along with corrections to example programs.
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20221126 + fix an error in pathname of explain.txt (cf: 20200201). + fix an error in "@" command in test/ncurses.c F-menu (cf: 20190121). + improve formatting of ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html + improve man/curs_clear.3x links to other pages
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220226 + fix issues found with coverity: + rewrite canonical_name() function of infocmp to ensure buffer size + corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands + modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns + add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c + add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis. + enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding. + adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from gcc 12.0.1
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 20210522 + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley). + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar. + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by report/testcase by Bill Gray) + update config.guess, config.sub
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210508 + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization is requires for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by Sebastiano Vigna). + fix several warnings from clang --analyze + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar, cf: 20210227).
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 20200829 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten Anonymous". + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of win32-driver. + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on mawk and lynx). > errate for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer): + correct icl6404 csr + correct ti916 cup + improve ndr9500
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 20191214 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for leak-checking.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20191207 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190928 + amend the ncurse*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath hack which differed between those files. + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on EINTR (cf: 20180922)
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190907 + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes by Pascal Pignard). + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190831 + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95, noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without libpanelw, etc.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190824 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190810 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190420 + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.