ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220724

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3815 2022/06/04 23:17:01 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3836 2022/07/24 10:06:18 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,48 @@ 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.
 
+20220724
+       + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual.
+       + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c
+       + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen
+         (Debian #1015756).
+
+20220716
+       + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw.
+       + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck
+       + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke).
+
+20220709
+       + lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the
+         pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries).
+
+20220703
+       + add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities.
+       + use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and
+         response -TD
+       + use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably
+         supported the u6-u9 extension -TD
+       + add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD
+
+20220625
+       + improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results
+         for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic).
+       + correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD
+       + add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD
+
+20220618
+       + add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(),
+         needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521).
+       + revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to
+         smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD
+       + amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610,
+         att620, att730 -TD
+
+20220612
+       + modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when
+         merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy).
+       + improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character.
+
 20220604
        + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x
        + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD