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 1.1311 2008/10/12 23:06:21 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 +45,27 @@ 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
@@ -586,7 +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().
@@ -807,7 +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