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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20160625
+ + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
+ + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
+ work (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20160618
+ + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
+ + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
+ to make it more readable.
+
+20160611
+ + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
+ + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
+ character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
+ better testing of function-keys.
+ + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
+ reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
+ + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
+ that could be returned -TD
+ + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
+
+20160604
+ + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
+ + add test/list_keys.c
+
+20160528
+ + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
+ + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
+
+20160521
+ + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
+ + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
+ cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
+ (report by Ola x Nilsson):
+ + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
+ + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
+ that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
+ + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
+ to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
+ cannot combine -c and -o options.
+
+20160514
+ + regenerate HTML manpages.
+ + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
+ might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
+ + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
+ + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
+ entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
+ + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
+
+20160507
+ + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
+ special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
+ cf: 20151017).
+ + modify test/ncurses.c:
+ + check return-value of putwin
+ + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
+ to keypad- and scroll-modes.
+ + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
+
+20160423
+ + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
+ color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
+ and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
+ + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
+ xterm -TD
+
+20160416
+ + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
+ PIC builds documented in
+ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
+ + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
+ due to program-transformation configure options.
+ + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
+
+20160409
+ + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
+ available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
+
+20160402
+ + regenerate HTML manpages.
+ + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
+ X/Open Curses.
+
+20160326
+ + regenerate HTML manpages.
+ + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
+ to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
+ O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
+ apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
+ can handle the event.
+
+20160319
+ + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
+ + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
+ that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
+ non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
+
+20160312
+ + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
+ polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
+ as responding to window size-changes.
+
+20160305
+ + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
+ does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
+
+20160220
+ + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
+ ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
+ in case weak symbols are used.
+ + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
+ rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
+ cf: 20061021).
+ + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
+ winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20160213
+ + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
+ in threaded configuration.
+ + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
+ since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
+
+20160206
+ + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
+ + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
+ override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
+ configuration.
+
20160130
+ improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
+ regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
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