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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.
+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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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