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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2357 2015/03/07 23:38:25 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.
+20150418
+ + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
+ a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
+ + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
+ wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
+ + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
+ + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
+ with the shared libraries.
+ + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
+ ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
+ NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
+ adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
+ adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
+ + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
+ + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
+ inherit into new windows.
+
+20150404
+ + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
+ + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
+ const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
+ readonly text segment.
+
+20150329
+ + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
+ same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
+
+20150328
+ + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
+ the extended putwin/getwin.
+ + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
+ putwin/getwin.
+ + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
+ putwin/getwin.
+
+20150321
+ + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
+ getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
+ wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
+ for a magic code at the beginning:
+ 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
+
20150307
+ document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
with John S Urban).