ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210710

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3656 2021/04/18 18:13:32 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3683 2021/07/10 22:55:59 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,81 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+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.
@@ -71,7 +146,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + 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 
+       + 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).