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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3244 2019/01/12 23:14:23 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3283 2019/03/03 01:12:40 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,69 @@ 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.
 
+20190302
+	+ corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
+	+ add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
+	  user-defined capabilities.
+	+ amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
+	  called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
+
+20190223
+	+ fix typo in adds200 -TD
+	+ add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
+	+ improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
+	  xt, tbc and hts as clues.
+	+ replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
+	  tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
+
+20190216
+	+ improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
+	+ add test/demo_tabs program.
+
+20190209
+	+ add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
+	  parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
+
+20190202
+	+ modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
+	  with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
+	+ modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
+	+ amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
+	  to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
+	  configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
+	  in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
+
+20190126
+	+ change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
+	  "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
+	+ fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
+	+ eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
+	+ correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
+	  being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
+	  Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
+
+20190121
+	+ add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
+	  file in Slackware.
+	+ corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
+	  on some of the BSDs.
+	+ updated "string-hacks" feature.
+	+ minor improvements to manpage typography.
+	+ corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
+	  "Hudd").
+	+ add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
+	  init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
+	  extended_color_content
+	+ add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
+	  return values from the tested functions.
+	+ improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
+	  extensions. 
+	+ add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
+	+ override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
+	  option was given.
+	+ change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
+	  warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
+
 20190112
 	+ fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
 	  Modinos).
@@ -9330,7 +9393,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 20000701 pre-release
 	+ change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
 	+ add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
-	  $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
+	  $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
 	+ add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
 	+ modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
 	  several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating