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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3347 2019/07/13 23:10:57 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4109 2024/04/14 09:43:45 tom Exp $
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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.
+20240414
+ + build/bug-fix for check-size feature (reports by Sam James, Gabriele
+ Balducci).
+
+20240413
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + provide for padding in check-size feature, using new_prescr() to
+ pass interim SCREEN pointer.
+ + complete change for opaque options (Gentoo #928973, cf: 20231021).
+ + update package /debian/rules and related lintian overrides
+ + revise progs.priv.h to provide for NC_ISATTY reuse
+
+20240330
+ + remove masking of ISIG in cbreak() (report by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + modify test/test_mouse.c to use curses api for raw/noraw.
+ > improved configure macros from other program development:
+ + build-fix for clang on Solaris
+ + suppress filename/timestamp in gzip'd manpages (suggested for
+ byacc by Andrin Geiger)
+
+20240323
+ + modify tput/tset reset feature to avoid 1-second sleep if running in
+ a pseudo-terminal.
+ + modify check-size feature to avoid using it in a pseudoterminal
+ (cf: 20231016)
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + trim a space after some "-R" options, fixing builds for applications
+ built using clang and ncurses on Solaris.
+
+20240309
+ + modify xgterm to work around line-drawing bug -TD
+ + use CSI 3J in vte-2017 (report by Sven Joachim)
+
+20240302
+ + add configure check for MB_LEN_MAX, to provide warning as needed.
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + fix regression in tput which disallowed hex/octal parameters (report
+ by Werner Fink, cf: 20230408)
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20240224
+ + improve man/curs_mouse.3x style (Branden Robinson, Sven Joachim).
+ + provide for CCHARW_MAX greater than 1
+ + eliminate use of PATH_MAX in lib_trace.c
+ + work around misconfiguration of MacPorts gcc13, which exposes invalid
+ definition of MB_LEN_MAX in gcc's fallback copy of limits.h (MacPorts
+ #69374).
+
+20240217
+ + add vt100+noapp, vt100+noapp+pc, xterm+app+pc, xterm+decedit from
+ xterm #389 -TD
+ + fix inconsistent description of wmouse_trafo() (Debian #1059778).
+ + modify wenclose() to handle pads (Debian #1059783).
+ + improve manpage discussion of mouseinterval() (Debian #1058560).
+
+20240210
+ + compiler-warning fixes, while investigating an optimizer bug in
+ "gcc (MacPorts gcc13 13.2.0_4+stdlib_flag) 13.2.0"
+ which results in only the first byte of a multibyte character being
+ printed to the screen.
+
+20240203
+ + minor changes to tracing and locale-checks.
+
+20240127
+ + amend change to z39-a (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + use xterm+nopcfkeys, vt52-basic, dec+pp, dec+sl, vt52+arrows,
+ hp+pfk+cr, klone+acs, klone+color, klone+sgr, ncr160wy50+pp
+ to trim -TD
+ + NetBSD-related fixes for x68k and wsvt52 (patch by Thomas Klausner)
+
+20240120
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + amend discussion of aliases in tput.1
+ + use ansi+sgrbold, ansi+sgrdim, ansi+sgrso, ansi+sgrul, ansi+tabs
+ ecma+color, ecma+sgr, vt100+4bsd, vt100+pfkeys, vt220+pcedit
+ xterm+256color, xterm+acs, xterm+nopcfkeys, xterm+pcf2 to trim -TD
+ + modify configure scripts/makefiles to omit KEY_RESIZE if the
+ corresponding SIGWINCH feature is disabled.
+
+20240113
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + modify dist.mk to avoid passing developer's comments in manpages into
+ the generated html documentation.
+ + use ansi+local, ansi+local1, ansi+pp, ansi+rca, ansi+rca2, ansi+sgr
+ to trim -TD
+ + restore padding for wy520* and vt320-k311 (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20240106
+ + use ansi+arrows, ansi+apparrows, ansi+csr, ansi+erase, ansi+idc,
+ ansi+idc1, ansi+idl, ansi+idl1, ansi+inittabs to trim -TD
+ + minor manpage formatting changes for consistency.
+ + modify doc-html test package's install-directory, per lintian.
+ + add attr_get.3x to man_db.renames.in (patch by Sven Joachim).
+
+20231230
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + add ms-vt100-16color, winconsole -TD
+ + add rio, rio-direct -TD
+ + add mostlike -TD
+ + add wezterm, contour -TD
+
+20231223
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231217
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean
+ is unset in a base entry and set in a use'd chunk, i.e., if it was
+ cancelled.
+ + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which
+ were already cancelled in a use'd chunk.
+ + join two lines in infotocap.3x to eliminate a spurious "description"
+ link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20231209
+ + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels in use'd chunks
+ which are not mentioned in the top-level terminal description.
+ + remove xterm+sm+1006 from tmux (Debian #1057688).
+ + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
+ + updated man/edit_man.sh to allow for "\%" markers embedded after
+ bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057651).
+ + reduce compiler-warnings in configure checks
+
+20231202
+ + correct initial alignment of extended capabilities in infocmp, so
+ that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types.
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages, changing environment variables
+ to italics (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231125
+ + add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1
+ (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering
+ (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values
+ (report by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231121
+ + amend fix for Debian #1055882, correcting nul terminator check in
+ waddnstr (Debian #1056340).
+
+20231118
+ + improve description of length-parameter and error-returns in several
+ manpages: curs_addchstr.3x, curs_addstr.3x, curs_addwstr.3x,
+ curs_in_wch.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x, curs_inchstr.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x,
+ curs_insstr.3x, curs_instr.3x, curs_inwstr.3x
+ + amend parameter check for entire string versus specific length in
+ winsnstr() and wins_nwstr() to match Solaris.
+ + make similar correction to wins_nwstr().
+ + correct loop termination condition in waddnstr() and waddnwstr()
+ (Debian #1055882, cf: 20201205).
+
+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).
+
+20231104
+ + modify reset command to avoid altering clocal if the terminal uses a
+ modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek,
+ OpenSUSE #1201384, Debian #60377).
+ + build-fixes for --with-caps variations.
+ + correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL.
+
+20231028
+ + move xterm focus mode 1004 from xterm+sm+1006 into xterm+focus as
+ fe/fd capabilities, like vim (vim-pr #13440).
+ + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make "libdir" the default,
+ as documented, rather than "auto" (report by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve messages from configure script (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231021
+ + use oldxterm+sm+1006 in vte-2014 (report by Benno Schulenberg) -TD
+ + add ansi+apparrows -TD
+ + change defaults for configure opaque and widec options (prompted by
+ discussion with Branden Robinson).
+ + minor cleanup of compiler- and manpage-warnings.
+
+20231016
+ + make the recent change to setupterm optional "--enable-check-size"
+ (Debian #1054022).
+
+20231014
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, for uClibc-ng
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20231007
+ + improve loop-limit for get_position().
+ + improve manual description of immedok (Debian #1053603).
+ + fix a few formatting issues with manpages (Debian #1053123).
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231001
+ + modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in
+ user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither
+ environment variables or ioctl is used. The ncurses test-program
+ with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature.
+ + improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates.
+ + fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by
+ copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott).
+
+20230923
+ + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + amend change to delscreen() to limit the windows which it creates to
+ just those associated with the screen (report by Frederic Boiteux,
+ cf: 20220813).
+
+20230918
+ + new tarball/errata (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20230917
+ + improve formatting of manpages (integrated patches by Branden
+ Robinson).
+ + correct limit for name-length in write_entry.c (report/testcase by
+ Luna Saphie Mittelbach).
+ + limit delays to 30 seconds, i.e., padding delays in terminfo, as well
+ as napms() and delay_output() functions.
+ + improve a few pointer-checks.
+ + improve parsing in _nc_msec_cost, allowing a single decimal point.
+
+20230909
+ + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson), for
+ captoinfo.1m and terminfo.5
+ > patches by Nicholas Marriott:
+ + use string-hacks in alloc_entry.c, alloc_type.c and hardscroll.c,
+ overlooked due to compiler changes in recent OpenBSD releases.
+ + add "-6" option to ncu2openbsd script.
+
+20230902
+ + improve description of search rules for terminal descriptions in
+ terminfo manpage (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20230826
+ + fixes for compiler-warnings.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20230819
+ + various manpage-formatting fixes.
+ + correct formatting of table header in curs_inopts.3x (Branden
+ Robinson).
+ + correct manpage description of panel_hidden (report by Benjamin
+ Mordaunt).
+
+20230812
+ + add/use putty+cursor to reflect amending of modified cursor-keys in
+ 2021 -TD
+ + add ecma+strikeout to putty -TD
+ + add functions to query tty-flags in SCREEN (request by Bill Gray).
+
+20230805
+ + fix a few manpages needing tbl marker, seen by lintian warning.
+ + fixes for compiler-warnings.
+ + minor grammatical fix for manpages (Branden Robinson).
+
+20230729
+ + improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_wnstr().
+ + modify MinGW configuration to provide for running in MSYS/MSYS2
+ shells, assuming ConPTY support (patch by Pavel Fedin).
+ + add assignment in CF_MAN_PAGES to fill in value for TERMINFO_DIRS in
+ ncurses, terminfo and tic manpages (patch by Sven Joachim).
+
+20230722
+ + add "auto" default for --with-xterm-kbs configure option.
+
+20230715
+ + correct wadd_wch_literal() when adding a non-spacing character to a
+ double-width character.
+ + improve manual page for curs_util.
+ + improve manual page for wadd_wch().
+
+20230708
+ + add linux+kbs for terminals which imitate xterm's behavior with
+ Linux -TD
+ + modify MinGW driver to return KEY_BACKSPACE when an unmodified
+ VK_BACK virtual key is entered (prompted by patch by Pavel Fedin,
+ Savannah #64292).
+ + disallow using $TERMINFO or $HOME/.terminfo when tic "-o" option is
+ used (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #1040048).
+
+20230701
+ + fix mandoc warnings about unnecessary markup.
+ + improve parameter check in tparm_setup()
+
+20230625
+ + adjust man/make_sed.sh to work with dates as the third field of TH.
+ + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai").
+
+20230624
+ + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai").
+
+20230617
+ + markup manpages with revision information (prompted by discussion
+ with Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
+
+20230615
+ + modify _nc_read_file_entry() to show relevant filename in warnings.
+ + improve checks in convert_string() for corrupt terminfo entry (report
+ and test-case by Gregory James Duck).
+
+20230610
+ + improve manpages discussing file descriptors in low-level functions.
+ + modify flushinp to use file descriptors in SCREEN, rather than from
+ TERMINAL, and check if they are for a terminal, like SVr4.
+ + modify mcprint to use file descriptor in SCREEN, for consistency.
+ + add xterm+focus to foot+base (patch by Daniel Ekloef).
+ + correct definition of Charable() for non-wide ncurses library (report
+ and test-case by Zbigniew Baniewski).
+
+20230603
+ + add configure option --with-strip-program, to override program
+ chosen by the install program for stripping executables (prompted
+ by discussion with Aapo Rantalainen).
+ + fix typo in INSTALL (report/patch by Aapo Rantalainen).
+ + improve error-checks for isEILSEQ()
+ + increase MB_CUR_MAX to 16, matching glibc's MB_LEN_MAX.
+ + corrected mouse mask in test/testcurs.c
+ + improve thread lock in lib_trace.c
+
+20230527
+ + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck.
+
+20230520
+ + fixes for compiler warnings in MinGW environments.
+
+20230514
+ + modify test-package "ncurses6-doc" to use manpage-aliases, which in
+ turn required a change to the configure script to factor in the
+ extra-suffix option when deriving alias names.
+ + add mode 1004 to xterm+sm+1006 from xterm #380 -TD
+
+20230506
+ > build-fixes related to configure-options and/or platform:
+ + fix for --enable-fvisibility
+ + fix for unusual values of --with-rel-version
+ + fix for unusual values of --with-abi-version
+ + fix for --disable-tcap-names
+ + fix for termcap in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20230429
+ + revise recent change to _nc_write_entry to isolate it to a Cygwin bug
+ (cf: 20230311)
+ + amend fix for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to use cbreak mode unless raw
+ mode was set (cf: 20210522).
+ + fix a few warnings from cppcheck, etc.
+ + correct copy/paste error in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20230424
+ + check return value of _nc_save_str(), in special case for tic where
+ extended capabilities are processed but the terminal description was
+ not initialized (report by Ziqiao Kong).
+ + regenerate llib-* files.
+
+20230423
+ + add tiscan_s() to help applications check formatting capabilities
+ that would be passed to tiparm_s, etc.
+ + add tiparm_s() to provide applications a way to tell ncurses what
+ the expected parameters are for a capability (tmux #3531).
+ + improve check in lib_tparm.c, ensuring that a char* fits into a
+ TPARM_ARG.
+ + add --disable-setuid-environ configure option (request by Sven
+ Joachim).
+ + drop compatibility with obsolete versions of tack, e.g., pre-1.08
+ (Debian #1034549, cf: 20170722).
+
+20230418
+ + improve checks for limits on privileged execution:
+ + modify _nc_syserr_abort() to use _nc_env_access(), rather than
+ only checking root uid.
+ + use getauxval() when available, to improve setuid/setgid checks.
+ + modify test packages to disable root access/environ options.
+ + modify tgoto() to accept no-parameter capabilities, for joe editor
+ (OpenSUSE #1210485, Gentoo #904263).
+
+20230415
+ + configure script fixes:
+ + fix copy/paste error in configure option --disable-root-access
+ (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
+ + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro's amend default case to avoid
+ undefining _XOPEN_SOURCE if _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined.
+ + modify test_tparm to account for extended capabilities.
+ + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of numeric parameters,
+ overlooked in 20230408.
+ + fix errata in clear.1 and curs_terminfo.3x
+
+20230408
+ + document limitations of tparm, and error-returns in curs_terminfo.3x
+ + document limitations of tgoto, and error-returns in curs_termcap.3x
+ + add xterm+focus to alacritty+common (patch by Christian Duerr).
+ + add "-v" option to tput, to show warnings.
+ > improve checks for malformed terminfo data (report/analysis by
+ Jonathan Bar Or, Michael Pearse, Emanuele Cozzi).
+ + make the parameter type/count checks in _nc_tiparm() more stringent
+ + update tgoto() to account for _nc_tiparm() changes
+ + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of string parameters
+ + add special cases in tput to handle extensions Cs/Ms parameters
+ + ignore compiled-terminfo where the array sizes exceed the standard
+
+20230401
+ + modify experimental Windows driver to work with xterm mouse protocol.
+ + remove DECCOLM+DECSCLM from foot (patch by Daniel Ekloef).
+
+20230311
+ + improve manpage description for addch versus unctrl format used for
+ non-printable characters.
+ + modify version-check for gcc/g++, now works for msys2.
+ + modify check in _nc_write_entry() for multiply defined aliases to
+ report problems within the current runtime of tic rather than for
+ conflicts with pre-existing terminal descriptions.
+ + allow for MinGW32-/64-bit configurations to use _DEFAULT_SOURCE
+ + clarify interaction of -R option versus -C, -I and -r in infocmp
+ manpage.
+ + build-fix in lib_win32con.c (cf: 20230211).
+
+20230225
+ + build-fixes for rpm test-packages.
+ + add/use configure check for clock_gettime(), to supersede
+ gettimeofday().
+
+20230218
+ + configure-script improvements:
+ + recent msys2 headers work with _DEFAULT_SOURCE; amend check
+ + use $ac_includes_default in most cases where stdlib.h should work
+ + use #error consistently vs "make an error"
+ + add configure macro for gettimeofday vs inline check
+
+20230211
+ + set dwShareMode in calls to CreateConsoleScreenBuffer() (patch by
+ Hannes Domani).
+ + use CreateFile with "CONIN$", "CONOUT$" rather than GetStdHandle to
+ obtain a handle on the actual console, avoiding redirection in the
+ MinGW/Win32 configurations (adapted from patch by LIU Hao).
+
+20230128
+ + document XF, kxIN and kxOUT -TD
+ + add note on sun/wscons/cmdtool/shelltool -TD
+ + modify configure script check for pkg-config library directory to
+ take into account an older version 0.15.0 which used PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+ but not PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
+
+20230121
+ + correct limit-check when dumping tc/use clause via tic -I (report by
+ Gabriel Ravier).
+ + correct a check for manpage-alias in edit_man.sh, to work with out of
+ tree builds (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20230114
+ + change RV to XR/xr, to avoid conflict with pre-existing usage in vim,
+ to use RV/rv to denote DA2 and its response (discussion with Bram
+ Moolenaar) -TD
+ + add XF flag to xterm+focus so that termcap applications can be aware
+ of terminals which may support focus in/out -TD
+ + use xterm+focus in xterm-p370 and tmux -TD
+ + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings.
+
+20230107
+ + add --with-abi-altered configure option (prompted by discussion with
+ Brian Inglis).
+ + add BSD erase2 to characters handled by tset/reset.
+ + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings.
+ + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221202
+ + add RV report+version (suggested by Bram Moolenaar).
+ + add comment to bracketed+paste explaining that vim patch 9.0.1117 is
+ needed for use with the updated xterm descriptions (suggested by Bram
+ Moolenaar).
+
+20221231 6.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ + update release notes
+ + regenerate llib-* files.
+ + correct PS vs PE names in bracketed+paste (report by Bram Moolenaar)
+ -TD
+
+20221224
+ + add mutex lock/unlock in a few places reported by thread-sanitizer
+ + add/use bracketed+paste to help identify terminals supporting this
+ xterm feature (prompted by discussion with Bram Moolenaar) -TD
+
+20221217
+ + install Ada95 sample programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
+ script to invoke those.
+
+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).
+
+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.
+
+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
+
+20221119
+ + use static libraries for AdaCurses test-package for Mageia, since no
+ gprbuild package is available.
+ + updated test packages for Debian.
+
+20221112
+ + build-fixes for AdaCurses RPM test-package.
+
+20221105
+ + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221009
+ + modify "--with-manpage-format" to support bzip2 and xz compression
+ (prompted by discussion with Sam James).
+ + modify make-tar.sh scripts to make timestamps more predictable.
+
+20221029
+ + improve curs_slk.3x discussion of extensions and portability (report
+ by Bill Gray).
+
+20221023
+ + change man_db.renames to template, to handle ncurses*-config script
+ with the extra-suffix configure option.
+
+20221015
+ + fix another memory-leak in tic.
+ + update install-sh script from autoconf, to fix install problem for
+ Ada95 with Arch; as noted in
+ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-09/msg00005.html
+ there are unaddressed issues.
+ + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding GNU libc suffixes for abi64, abin32,
+ x32 (report by Sven Joachim):
+ + correct ifdef's for _nc_set_read_thread() (patch by Mikhail Korolev,
+ cf: 20220813).
+
+20221008
+ + correct a switch-statement case in configure script to allow for test
+ builds with ABI=7.
+ + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to allow for the case where the library
+ directory does not yet exist, since this is processed before doing an
+ install (report by Michal Liszcz).
+
+20221001
+ + modify configure/scripts to work around interference by GNU grep 3.8
+ (report by Sam James).
+ + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding variants "gnueabi" and "gnueabihf" to
+ get _DEFAULT_SOURCE special case (report by Adam Sampson)
+
+20220924
+ + modify configure macro CF_BUILD_CC to check if the build-compiler
+ works, rather than that it is different from the cross-compiler, e.g.,
+ to accommodate a compiler which can be used for either purpose with
+ different flags (report by Mikhail Korolev).
+ + fix another memory-leak in tic.
+ + correct change for cppcheck in menu library (report/analysis by
+ "tuxway", cf: 20220903).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20220917
+ + reduce memory-leak in tic by separating allocations for struct entry
+ from TERMTYPE2 (cf: 20220430).
+ + improve interaction between tic -v option and NCURSES_TRACE, by
+ processing the latter only when -v option does not set _nc_tracing.
+ + modify curses_trace() to show the trace-mask as symbols, e.g.,
+ TRACE_ORDINARY, DEBUG_LEVEL(3).
+
+20220910
+ + amend verbose-option change to make this affect level 3, e.g., using
+ "tic -cv3 terminfo".
+ + work around musl's nonstandard use of feature test macros by adding
+ a definition for NCURSES_WIDECHAR to the generated ".pc" and *-config
+ files (report by Sam James).
+
+20220903
+ + modify verbose-option of infocmp, tic, toe to enable debug-tracing
+ if that is configured.
+
+20220827
+ + modify configure scripts to use overlooked cases for LD and
+ PKG_CONFIG variables (report by Alan Webb, Gentoo #866398).
+ + modify nsterm to use xterm+alt1049 (report by Paul Handly) -TD
+ + modify putty to use xterm+alt1049 -TD
+
+20220820
+ + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
+ libraries and progs directory.
+ + add curses_trace to ifdef's for START_TRACE in test/test.priv.h
+ + update config.guess
+
+20220813
+ + modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given
+ screen.
+ + amend portability note for delwin in manual page.
+ + adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray.
+ + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration
+ + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about
+ pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol.
+ + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c
+
+20220806
+ + amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final
+ newline.
+ + check for non-textfiles to tic.
+
+20220729
+ + fixes to build with dietlibc:
+ + add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner).
+ + add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock,
+ and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner).
+ + use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found
+ (adapted from patch by Georg Lehner).
+ + trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc
+ files seen in Fedora 36+.
+
+20220724
+ + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual.
+ + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c
+ + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen
+ (Debian #1015756).
+
+20220716
+ + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw.
+ + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck
+ + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke).
+
+20220709
+ + lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the
+ pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries).
+
+20220703
+ + add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities.
+ + use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and
+ response -TD
+ + use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably
+ supported the u6-u9 extension -TD
+ + add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD
+
+20220625
+ + improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results
+ for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic).
+ + correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD
+ + add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD
+
+20220618
+ + add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(),
+ needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521).
+ + revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to
+ smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD
+ + amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610,
+ att620, att730 -TD
+
+20220612
+ + modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when
+ merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy).
+ + improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character.
+
+20220604
+ + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x
+ + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD
+ + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD
+
+20220529
+ + expanded notes for teken/syscons -TD
+ + fix overlooked copying of extended string-heap in copy_termtype
+ (cf: 20220430).
+ + update config.guess
+
+20220521
+ + improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs.
+ + set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr().
+ + modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to
+ copy_termtype().
+
+20220514
+ + further improvements to test/test_mouse.c; compare with ncurses test
+ program menu A/a.
+
+20220507
+ + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov).
+ + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks.
+
+20220501
+ + build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton).
+
+20220430
+ + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and
+ also provide for focus in/out responses -TD
+ + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release
+ events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov).
+ + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo
+ syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'.
+ + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table
+ data rather than relying upon its callers.
+ + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure
+ it is initialized.
+ + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC.
+ + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp.
+
+20220423
+ + in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402).
+ + fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir().
+ + fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used.
+
+20220416
+ + add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data
+ (report/testcase by NCNIPC of China).
+ + add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is
+ missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379).
+ + add setlocale call to several test-programs.
+ + allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on.
+
+20220409
+ + add test/test_unget_wch.c
+
+20220402
+ + amend extended_captype(), returning CANCEL if a string is explicitly
+ cancelled.
+ + make description-fields distinct -TD
+
+20220326
+ + update teken -TD
+ + add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD
+ + add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD
+
+20220319
+ + add xgterm -TD
+ + correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by
+ Robert Lange)
+ + add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange)
+ + improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc.
+
+20220312
+ + add xterm+acs building-block -TD
+ + add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD
+ + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per xterm patch #371 -TD
+ + add mosh and mosh-256color -TD
+
+20220305
+ + replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to
+ work around build problems with gnat 12.
+ + update external links in Ada95.html
+ + trim unused return-value from canonical_name().
+
+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
+
+20220219
+ + expanded description in man/resizeterm.3x
+ + additional workaround for ImageMagick in test/picsmap.c
+
+20220212
+ + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency.
+ + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno
+ Schulenberg).
+
+20220205
+ + workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values
+ by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit.
+ + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap".
+
+20220129
+ + minor updates for test-packages
+ + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the
+ case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a
+ colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum,
+ cf: 20211113).
+ + update kitty -TD
+
+20220122
+ + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script.
+ + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps"
+ does not exist.
+ + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on
+ format-warnings.
+ + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the
+ infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
+
+20220115
+ + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse
+ state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by
+ Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022).
+ + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files.
+
+20220101
+ + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
+ curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
+
+20211225
+ + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
+ (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+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
+ pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
+ a corresponding demo of dup_field().
+
+20200314
+ + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+ + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+ + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
+
+20200308
+ + update copyright notices in test-packages.
+ + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
+ + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
+ by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
+
+20200301
+ + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
+ background character, because it may be used in cases where the
+ corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
+ cf: 20181208).
+
+20200229
+ + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
+ which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
+ > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
+ "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
+ + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
+ + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
+ + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
+ length array feature.
+ + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
+ + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
+ + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
+ + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
+ + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
+ because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
+ + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
+
+20200222
+ + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
+ + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
+ + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
+ + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
+ building out-of-tree.
+ + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
+ + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
+ include all of the required headers for the types used.
+
+20200215
+ + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
+ section as well as documenting error-returns.
+ + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
+ + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
+ FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
+ + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
+
+20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ + update release notes
+ + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
+
+20200208
+ + 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.
+
+20200202
+ + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
+ https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
+
+20200201
+ + 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
+
+20200118
+ + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
+ + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
+ + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
+ + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
+ Christian Durr) -TD
+ + correct spelling errors found with codespell.
+ + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
+
+20200111
+ + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
+ to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
+ + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20200104
+ + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
+ "work", to help illustrate discussion in
+ https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
+ + fix some warnings from autoheader-252
+
+20191228
+ + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
+ past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
+ symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
+ + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
+ + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
+ for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
+
+20191221
+ + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
+ work with test-packages.
+ + improve tracemunch:
+ + keep track of TERMINAL* values
+ + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
+ show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
+ + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
+ for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20191214
+ + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
+ leak-checking.
+
+20191207
+ + fix a few warnings for test-package builds
+ + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
+
+20191130
+ + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
+ discussion with Nick Black).
+ + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
+ manpage.
+ + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
+
+20191123
+ + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
+ + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
+
+20191116
+ + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
+ to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
+ packages.
+ + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
+ defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
+ from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
+
+20191109
+ + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
+ + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
+ with old non-curses programs -TD
+ + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
+ + use ansi+rep several places -TD
+ + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
+ cf: 20020901).
+
+20191102
+ + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
+ + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
+ (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
+ + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
+ + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
+
+20191026
+ + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
+ line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
+ + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
+ \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
+ + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
+ early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
+
+20191019
+ + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
+ with address-sanitizer.
+ + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
+ treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
+ use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
+
+20191015
+ + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
+ input string is shorter than expected.
+ > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
+ + check for missing character after backslash in write_it
+ + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
+ syntax (cf: 980530).
+
+20191012
+ + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
+ Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
+ + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
+ + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
+ _nc_find_name_entry.
+ > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
+ + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
+ + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
+ + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
+ mapping (cf: 20060415);
+ + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
+ overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
+
+20191005
+ + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
+ -I and -l options.
+
+20190928
+ + amend the ncurses*-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)
+
+20190921
+ + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
+ the screen's borders.
+ + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
+ and version.
+
+20190914
+ + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
+
+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).
+
+20190831
+ + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
+ noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
+ libpanelw, etc.
+
+20190824
+ + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
+
+20190817
+ + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
+ details where it still differed from SVr4.
+ + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
+
+20190810
+ + fix a few more coverity warnings.
+
+20190803
+ + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
+ the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
+ by Rob King).
+ + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
+ and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
+ + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
+ + updated kitty entry & notes -TD
+ + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
+ + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
+
+20190728
+ + fix a few more coverity warnings.
+ + more documentation updates based on tctest.
+
+20190727
+ + fix a few coverity warnings.
+ + documentation updates based on tctest.
+
+20190720
+ + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
+ + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
+ manual pages.
+ + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
+ (report by Sven Joachim).
+
20190713
+ change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
+ 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
+ + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence 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.
+ updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
matching capability names.
+ modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
- applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
+ applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2
termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
20130112
+ modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
+ drop mk-dlls.sh script.
+ change recommended regular expression library.
- + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
+ + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuration.
+ modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
20111231
function pointer passed to tputs().
+ modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
- + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
+ + modify test/background.c, adding command-line options to demonstrate
assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
20110416
when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
+ modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
- warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
+ warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additional
scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
tree (report by Werner Fink).
+ fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
+ add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
aixterm entries -TD
+ modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
- example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
+ example of an illegal ANSI response can be found using Microsoft's
Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
+ modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
- + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
+ + document a special case of incompatibility between ncurses 4.2 and
5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
+ add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
+ resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
- PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
+ PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatibility - TD
+ add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
a given keycode.
+ modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
+ correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
+ add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
- parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
- intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
+ parametrizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
+ intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
+ resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
+ minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
980523
+ correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
(patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
- + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
+ + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibility
fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
+ modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
+ remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
H.J.Lu).
+ insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
- avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
+ avoid ambiguous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
by Juergen Pfeifer).
980404
> patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
+ clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
- + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
+ + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implementation
+ minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
+ fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
+ Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
navigation requests.
+ Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
- case-insensitiva comparision routine.
+ case-insensitiva comparison routine.
+ Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
forms field by index.
+ Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
keys
5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
- 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
+ 6. correctly handle the case of reception of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
+ correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
+ correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
(patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
- + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
+ + improve threshold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
(patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
970531
* tset(1) added
* mouse support for xterm.
* most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
-* Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
+* Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initially off.
* tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
* tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
* integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
* Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
* HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
* terminfo.src 9.8.2
-* tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
+* tweaks for compiling in separate directories.
* Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
* Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
* more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
* tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
* The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
-* initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
+* initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This will mostly happen if
you try to run on an undefined terminal.
* I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
* cleaned up vidputs()
* general cleanup of the code
* more attention to portability to other systems
-* added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
+* added terminfos for hp70092 (won't work until changes to lib_update.c are
made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
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