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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3717 2021/10/02 22:25:41 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3759 2021/12/19 11:24:57 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,102 @@ 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.
 
+20211219
+	+ install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
+	  script to invoke those.
+	+ add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
+
+20211211
+	+ add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters.
+
+20211204
+	+ improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20211127
+	+ fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD
+	+ add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD
+
+20211120
+	+ add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD
+	+ deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last
+	  allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar,
+	  cf: 20200531).
+	+ modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch.
+	+ if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use
+	  ${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross
+	  Burton).
+
+20211115
+	+ fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE
+	  #1192668, cf:  20211106),
+
+20211113
+	+ minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437).
+	+ add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse
+	  Sundrup) -TD
+	+ improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which
+	  installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes.
+
+20211106
+	+ improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
+	+ modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad,
+	  rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit
+	  its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou).
+	+ fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram
+	  Moolenaar, cf: 20210821).
+
+20211030
+	+ simplify some references to WINDOWS._flags using macros.
+	+ add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages.
+	+ build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp
+
+20211026
+	+ corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10.
+	+ amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where
+	  none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from
+	  mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic).
+
+20211021 6.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+	+ update release notes
+	+ add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD
+	  system to use a current ncurses release.
+
+20211018
+	+ check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case
+	  a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by
+	  Frank Tkalcevic).
+
+20211017
+	+ amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in
+	  the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci).
+
+20211016
+	+ build-fix for pmake with libtool.
+	+ improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up
+	  shellcheck warnings.
+	+ add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc
+	+ revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual
+	  search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug
+	  (report by Pascal Pignard).
+	+ freeze ABI in ".map" files.
+
+20211009
+	+ implement "+m" option in tabs program.
+	+ fill in some details for infoton -TD
+	+ fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD
+	+ use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD
+	+ modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other
+	  than reset/init, e.g., for clear.
+	+ modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather
+	  than the last.
+	+ improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp,
+	  and smgbp (cf: 20020525).
+	+ correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow
+	  special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407).
+	+ remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and
+	  non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present
+	  (cf: 20101002).
+
 20211002
 	+ use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for
 	  buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_").