ncurses 5.7

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1296 2008/09/20 21:45:57 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1320 2008/11/02 00:56:22 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,76 @@ 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.
 
+20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20081025
+       + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
+       + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
+         does not work well on that platform).
+       + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
+
+20081018
+       + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
+       + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
+         in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
+         Nit Khair).
+       + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
+         --disable-database is used.
+       + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
+         to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
+         (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
+       + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
+         CF_LIBUTF8.
+
+20081012
+       + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
+         original to teraterm2.3 -TD
+       + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
+       + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
+       + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
+       + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
+       + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
+         overlooked til now.
+
+20081011
+       + update html documentation.
+       + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
+         the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
+       + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
+       + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
+       + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
+       + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
+         tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
+         20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
+
+20081004
+       + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
+         works for C/C++ parts).
+       + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
+         AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
+
+20080927
+       + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
+         strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
+       + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
+       + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
+         GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
+       + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
+         "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
+         that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
+       + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
+         Miroslav Lichvar).
+       + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
+       > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+       + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
+       + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
+       + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
+         slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
+
+20080925
+       + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
+         Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
+
 20080920
        + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
        + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
@@ -537,7 +607,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 
 20070609
        + add test/key_name.c
-       + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
+       + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
        + update test/configure
        + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
        + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
@@ -758,7 +828,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
 
 20070210
-       + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
+       + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
        + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
          Lichvar).
        + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by