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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3131 2018/05/19 21:17:03 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.
+20180804
+ + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
+ scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
+ the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
+ display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+
+20180728
+ + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
+ + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
+ + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
+
+20180721
+ + build-fixes for gcc8.
+ + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
+ + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
+ + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
+
+20180714
+ + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
+ + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
+
+20180707
+ + build-fixes for gcc8.
+ + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
+ report_offsets.
+ + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
+ empty (Debian #902630).
+
+20180630
+ + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
+ add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
+ + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
+ (Nicholas Marriott).
+ + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
+ + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
+ locale support.
+ + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
+
+20180623
+ + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
+ to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
+ compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
+ + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
+ updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
+ CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
+ CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20180616
+ + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
+ + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
+ combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
+ + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
+ use of vsscanf and setenv.
+ + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
+ work on dialog.
+
+20180609
+ + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
+ to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
+ #900839).
+ + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
+ and vw_scanw, respectively.
+
+20180602
+ + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
+ + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
+
+20180526
+ + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
+ + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
+ files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
+ Pascual Monells).
+ + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
+ + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
+ work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
+
20180519
+ formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
+ trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
+ improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
20091114
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+ updated man/curs_trace.3x
+ limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
+ change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
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