ncurses 5.9 - patch 20110723

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1731 2011/07/02 21:05:53 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1743 2011/07/23 22:02:25 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,37 @@ 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.
 
+20110723
+       + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
+         extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
+       + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
+         the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
+       + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
+       + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
+         (Yuri Pankov).
+       + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
+         to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
+         regarding Schilling's test program):
+         + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
+         + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
+         + use \040 rather than \s
+         + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
+       + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
+
+20110716
+       + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
+         pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
+       + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
+         PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+       + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
+       + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
+       + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
+       + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
+       + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
+       + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
+       + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
+         definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
+
 20110702
        + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
          are not used in the $CC variable.