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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4019 2023/10/21 23:13:51 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.
+20231223
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231217
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean
+ is unset in a base entry and set in a use'd chunk, i.e., if it was
+ cancelled.
+ + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which
+ were already cancelled in a use'd chunk.
+ + join two lines in infotocap.3x to eliminate a spurious "description"
+ link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20231209
+ + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels in use'd chunks
+ which are not mentioned in the top-level terminal description.
+ + remove xterm+sm+1006 from tmux (Debian #1057688).
+ + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
+ + updated man/edit_man.sh to allow for "\%" markers embedded after
+ bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057651).
+ + reduce compiler-warnings in configure checks
+
+20231202
+ + correct initial alignment of extended capabilities in infocmp, so
+ that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types.
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages, changing environment variables
+ to italics (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231125
+ + add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1
+ (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering
+ (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values
+ (report by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231121
+ + amend fix for Debian #1055882, correcting nul terminator check in
+ waddnstr (Debian #1056340).
+
+20231118
+ + improve description of length-parameter and error-returns in several
+ manpages: curs_addchstr.3x, curs_addstr.3x, curs_addwstr.3x,
+ curs_in_wch.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x, curs_inchstr.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x,
+ curs_insstr.3x, curs_instr.3x, curs_inwstr.3x
+ + amend parameter check for entire string versus specific length in
+ winsnstr() and wins_nwstr() to match Solaris.
+ + make similar correction to wins_nwstr().
+ + correct loop termination condition in waddnstr() and waddnwstr()
+ (Debian #1055882, cf: 20201205).
+
+20231111
+ + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
+ + add limit checks in infocmp needed when processing extended
+ capabilities with the "-u" option.
+ + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages.
+ + fix a few compiler warnings for Solaris 10.
+ + modify endwin() to return an error if it is called again without an
+ intervening screen update (report by Rajeev Pillai, NetBSD #57592).
+
+20231104
+ + modify reset command to avoid altering clocal if the terminal uses a
+ modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek,
+ OpenSUSE #1201384, Debian #60377).
+ + build-fixes for --with-caps variations.
+ + correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL.
+
+20231028
+ + move xterm focus mode 1004 from xterm+sm+1006 into xterm+focus as
+ fe/fd capabilities, like vim (vim-pr #13440).
+ + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make "libdir" the default,
+ as documented, rather than "auto" (report by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve messages from configure script (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
20231021
+ use oldxterm+sm+1006 in vte-2014 (report by Benno Schulenberg) -TD
+ add ansi+apparrows -TD
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