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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.
+20211219
+ + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
+ script to invoke those.
+ + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
+
+20211211
+ + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters.
+
+20211204
+ + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20211127
+ + fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD
+ + add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD
+
+20211120
+ + add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD
+ + deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last
+ allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar,
+ cf: 20200531).
+ + modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch.
+ + if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use
+ ${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross
+ Burton).
+
+20211115
+ + fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE
+ #1192668, cf: 20211106),
+
+20211113
+ + minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437).
+ + add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse
+ Sundrup) -TD
+ + improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which
+ installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes.
+
+20211106
+ + improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
+ + modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad,
+ rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit
+ its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou).
+ + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram
+ Moolenaar, cf: 20210821).
+
+20211030
+ + simplify some references to WINDOWS._flags using macros.
+ + add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages.
+ + build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp
+
+20211026
+ + corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10.
+ + amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where
+ none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from
+ mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic).
+
+20211021 6.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ + update release notes
+ + add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD
+ system to use a current ncurses release.
+
+20211018
+ + check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case
+ a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by
+ Frank Tkalcevic).
+
+20211017
+ + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in
+ the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci).
+
+20211016
+ + build-fix for pmake with libtool.
+ + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up
+ shellcheck warnings.
+ + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc
+ + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual
+ search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug
+ (report by Pascal Pignard).
+ + freeze ABI in ".map" files.
+
+20211009
+ + implement "+m" option in tabs program.
+ + fill in some details for infoton -TD
+ + fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD
+ + use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD
+ + modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other
+ than reset/init, e.g., for clear.
+ + modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather
+ than the last.
+ + improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp,
+ and smgbp (cf: 20020525).
+ + correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow
+ special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407).
+ + remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and
+ non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present
+ (cf: 20101002).
+
+20211002
+ + use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for
+ buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_").
+ + modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to
+ match the documentation.
+ + add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses.
+ + make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when
+ those are used, rather than the underlying program's name.
+ + improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating
+ tput-specific portions.
+ + add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather
+ than binary.
+ + further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from
+ the other BSDs.
+
+20210925
+ + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD
+ + add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the
+ "tabs" +m option -TD
+ + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward
+ reference of anonymous struct typedef.
+ + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line.
+ + minor fixes for tset manpage.
+
+20210911
+ + adjust ifdef in test_opaque.c to fix build with ncurses 5.7
+ + add testing note for xterm-{hp|sco|sun} -TD
+ + corrected description for ansi.sys-old -TD
+ + add xterm+nopcfkeys, to fill in keys for xterm-hp, xterm-sun -TD
+ + use hp+arrows in a few places -TD
+ + use hp+pfk-cr in a few places -TD
+
+20210905
+ + correct logic in filtering of redefinitions (report by Sven Joachim,
+ cf: 20210828).
+
+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).
+
+20210828
+ + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis
+ by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626).
+ + apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list
+ parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list
+ (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request).
+ + modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE,
+ e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for
+ ncursesw.
+ + improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables.
+ + improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson).
+
+20210821
+ + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching
+ SVr4 terminfo.
+ + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h
+ + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile
+ + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD
+ + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an
+ error in an expression (cf: 20201010).
+ + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than
+ SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812).
+ + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report
+ by Florian Weimer) -TD
+ + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes.
+ + update config.sub
+
+20210814
+ + add workaround for broken pcre2 package in Debian 10, from xterm #369.
+
+20210807
+ + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files,
+ adapted from "distr1" patch.
+ + add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports.
+
+20210731
+ + add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal,
+ but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD
+ + add foot and foot-direct -TD
+
+20210724
+ + add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to
+ ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD
+
+20210718
+ + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this
+ against Glink manual -TD
+ + fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the
+ vt220 entry -TD
+ + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option
+ (report by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers
+ who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library.
+ + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque
+ curses structs.
+
+20210710
+ + improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball,
+ which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years.
+ + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs
+ Jansen).
+ + further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of
+ the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree.
+ + update config.sub
+
+20210703
+ + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc.,
+ in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries.
+ + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
+
+20210626
+ + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to
+ disallow most file-opens by setuid processes.
+ + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD
+ + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD
+ + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler)
+ + regenerate man-html documentation.
+
+20210619
+ + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such
+ as --with-valgrind
+ + trim trailing blanks from files
+
+20210612
+ + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing.
+ + update config.guess
+
+20210605
+ + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h
+ (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray).
+
+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
+
+20210515
+ + improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by
+ report/testcase by Bill Gray).
+
+20210508
+ + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first
+ calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization
+ is required 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).
+
+20210501
+ + add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the
+ build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here:
+ https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html
+ There is no workaround for the other issue, a broken linker spec.
+ + modify configure check for libtool to prevent accidental use of an
+ OpenBSD program which uses the same name.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+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
+
+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).
+
+20210417
+ + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS
+ from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764).
+ + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
+ libraries and progs directory.
+ + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments
+ (patch by Hadrien Lacour).
+
+20210403
+ + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and
+ progs directory.
+ + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x
+ + improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes.
+ + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning
+ leak-checking off later in a set of options.
+ + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
+ accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime
+ on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems.
+ + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is
+ called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
+ pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
+ Lutter).
+
+20210327
+ + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh
+ + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs,
+ form and menu libraries.
+
+20210323
+ + add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn, making the _Noreturn
+ keyword optional to ease transition (prompted by report by
+ Rajeev V Pillai).
+
+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.
+
+20210313
+ + improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and
+ ".pc" files, from dialog changes.
+ + reduce dependency of math-library in test programs.
+ + minor fixes for test_tparm.c (cf: 20210306)
+ + mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by
+ Michal Bielinski).
+
+20210306
+ + improved test/test_tparm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities
+ that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test.
+ + improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in
+ man/curs_terminfo.3x
+ + update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1
+
+20210227
+ + modify tic/infocmp to eliminate unnecessary "\" to escape ":" in
+ terminfo format.
+ + add check in tic for duplicate "use=" clauses.
+
+20210220
+ + improve tic warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49 for xterm
+ compatible XT flag.
+ + revert change to lib_addch.c in waddch_literal() from 20210130, since
+ the followup fix in PutCharLR() actually corrects the problem while
+ this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes
+ Altmanninger).
+ + add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD
+ + add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD
+ + add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD
+ + add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD
+ + move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD
+
+20210213
+ + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background
+ functions.
+ + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a
+ wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character.
+ + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries.
+ + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first
+ parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
+
+20210206
+ + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd
+ (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic)
+ + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2"
+ option, from xterm #363 -TD
+ + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before
+ writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the
+ cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
+
+20210130
+ + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused
+ scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower
+ right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD
+ + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not
+ supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD
+ + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD
+ + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD
+ + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore
+ blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD
+
+20210123
+ + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for
+ cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding
+ the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich).
+ + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around
+ quirks of pmake.
+
+20210116
+ + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS
+ (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD
+ + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1,
+ adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
+
+20210109
+ + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates.
+ + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of
+ autoconf 2.52.20210105
+
+20210102
+ + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
+ exit_terminfo.
+ + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
+ defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
+ (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
+ + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
+ for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
+ types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031).
+ + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
+ consistency with other manpages.
+
+20201227
+ + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
+ + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
+
+20201219
+ + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
+ regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
+ + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
+ by Chris Bennett).
+
+20201212
+ + improve manual pages for form field-types.
+
+20201205
+ + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
+ gprbuild (cf: 20200627).
+ + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
+ + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
+ Abendroth).
+ + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
+ (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
+ + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
+
+20201128
+ + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
+ + add rep to PuTTY -TD
+ + add putty+keypad -TD
+ + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in
+ the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses
+ low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217).
+ + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its
+ -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS,
+ do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases.
+
+20201121
+ + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
+ + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang
+ (report by Steven Pitman).
+
+20201114
+ + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
+ + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the
+ special case where short extended capability strings were not
+ converted from terminfo to termcap format.
+ + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case
+ when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
+
+20201107
+ + update kitty+common -TD
+ + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
+ + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely
+ upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
+
+20201031
+ + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h>
+ before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
+ + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion
+ with Reuben Thomas).
+ + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to
+ ensure that the messages contain only printable text.
+ + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
+ is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
+ Pitman).
+
+20201024
+ + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
+ + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with
+ Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
+ + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
+ needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
+ (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
+ + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
+ and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of
+ parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
+ Sebastian Herlim).
+ + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
+ Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
+
+20201017
+ + improve manpage typography.
+ + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
+ nonprintable characters.
+ + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
+ as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
+
+20201010
+ + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
+ + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154,
+ ncrvt100an -TD
+ + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by
+ discussion with Florian Weimer).
+ + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
+ Pfeifer).
+
+20201003
+ + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
+ + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
+ + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
+ + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas).
+ + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
+ + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
+ checking consistency with tic.
+
+20200926
+ + correct configure-check for gnurx library.
+ + regenerate llib-* files.
+ + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for
+ panel- and user-pointers.
+
+20200919
+ + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD
+
+20200918
+ + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated
+ curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
+
+20200912
+ + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
+ the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
+ + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
+ + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
+
+20200907
+ + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by
+ Soren Tempel).
+
+20200906
+ + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
+ win32-driver.
+ + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
+
+20200831
+ + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner
+ Fink).
+
+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).
+ > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
+ + correct icl6404 csr
+ + correct ti916 cup
+ + improve ndr9500
+
+20200822
+ + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
+ + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
+ man_db.renames file.
+ + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
+ (report by Yue Tai).
+ + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
+ + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
+ option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
+ provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
+
+20200817
+ + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
+ warnings.
+ + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
+ + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
+ using the string-hacks option.
+ + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
+ option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20200816
+ + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
+ (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
+ + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
+ + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
+ (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
+
+20200808
+ + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
+ of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
+ + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
+ AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
+ --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
+ fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
+ (discussion with Keith Marshall).
+ + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
+ + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
+ parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
+ MinGW.
+
+20200801
+ + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
+ + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
+ (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
+ + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
+ reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
+ + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
+
+20200725
+ + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
+ "Maarten Anonymous")
+ + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
+ + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
+ Florian Weimer).
+
+20200718
+ + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
+ Studio C++.
+ + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
+ libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
+ > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
+ (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+ + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
+ the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
+ + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
+ + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
+
+20200711
+ + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
+ Bruckl).
+ + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
+ (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+ + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
+ Pfeifer).
+ + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
+ + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
+ buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
+ + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
+ trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
+
+20200704
+ + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
+ the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
+ > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
+ (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
+ declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
+
+20200627
+ + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
+ gprbuild.
+ + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
+
+20200613
+ + update list of functions in ncurses.3x
+ + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
+ in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
+ #961097).
+
+20200606
+ + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
+ in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
+ + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
+ screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
+ + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
+ + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
+
+20200531
+ + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
+ + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
+ + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
+ + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
+ + add test/test_tparm.c, for checking tparm changes.
+ + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
+ handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
+ (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
+ save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
+ passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
+ (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
+ string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+
+20200523
+ + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
+ + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
+ + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
+ which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
+ is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
+ + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
+ generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
+ configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
+ to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
+ > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
+ "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
+ options into Visual Studio's dialect.
+ + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
+ work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
+
+20200516
+ + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x
+ + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
+
+20200509
+ + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
+ a performance comparison.
+ + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
+ use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
+
+20200502
+ + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
+ + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
+ + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
+ those to position reports.
+
+20200425
+ + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
+ + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
+
+20200418
+ + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
+ + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
+ check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
+ character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
+ + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
+
+20200411
+ + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
+ (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
+ + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
+ + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
+
+20200404
+ + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
+ > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
+ "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
+ + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
+ C++ preprocessor limitations.
+ + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
+ with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
+
+20200328
+ + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
+ + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
+ builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
+
20200321
+ improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
+ improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
+ build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
20190907
- + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
+ + 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
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