- * enable sigwinch handler by default.
- * turn on hashmap scrolling code by default
- * improved support for termcap applications
- + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to
- terminfo names.
- + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from
- terminfo data and using it as the padding character in tputs.
- + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it
- from the internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the
- baudrate reference for the delay_output and tputs functions.
- + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more
- than 2 characters.
- + add configure option --enable-tcap-names, which essentially
- allows users to define new capabilities as in termcap.
- * add mouse support to ncurses menus.
- * add mouse and dll support for OS/2 EMX
- * modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants
- * add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
- variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
- thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
- efficient.
- * modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
- orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
- uses them when they are available.
- * add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
- if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
- tabs).
- * modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to
- %{number}, since that is a little more efficient.
-
+ * added a new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better
+ control over the use of default colors. This is the principal
+ visible difference between ncurses 5.1 and preceding versions. The
+ new extension allows an application to specify what colors pair 0
+ uses.
+ NOTE: Pair 0 defaults to white on black unless you have invoked
+ use_default_colors() or set it via assume_default_colors(). An
+ application that calls start_colors() without setting the
+ background color will consistently have a black background no
+ matter what color your terminal's background actually is.
+ * made several fixes to the terminfo-to-termcap conversion, and have
+ been using the generated termcaps without further hand-tuning.
+ This builds on the extension use_extended_names() by adding
+ "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
+ + modified tic so that if extended names (i.e.,
+ configure --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic -x will
+ also write "obsolete" capabilities that are present in the
+ terminfo source.
+ + added screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to
+ applicable terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check
+ for a small improvement in setting default colors.
+ + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
+ capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g.,
+ captoinfo and infotocap.
+ * implemented limited support for UTF-8, useful with XFree86 xterm:
+ + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w'
+ to names of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to
+ avoid conflict with existing ncurses libraries.
+ + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental
+ wide-character support. If any of the environment variables
+ LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this
+ driver will be used to translate the output to UTF-8.
+ + modified view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text.
+ * modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which
+ affects stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD
+ * reordered tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to
+ run in xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also dropped
+ test for $DISPLAY in favor of the terminfo capability kmous=\E[M
+ or if $TERM environment variable contains "xterm".
+ * added configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, which provides for
+ fully indexing manpage entries by making symbolic links for the
+ aliases.
+ * changed unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
+ * add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
+ $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
+ * made the infocmp -F option less verbose.
+ * dropped support for gnat 3.10 (gnat 3.12 is current).
+
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