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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3820 2022/06/18 20:44:04 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.
+20220813
+ + modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given
+ screen.
+ + amend portability note for delwin in manual page.
+ + adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray.
+ + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration
+ + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about
+ pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol.
+ + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c
+
+20220806
+ + amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final
+ newline.
+ + check for non-textfiles to tic.
+
+20220729
+ + fixes to build with dietlibc:
+ + add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner).
+ + add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock,
+ and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner).
+ + use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found
+ (adapted from patch by Georg Lehner).
+ + trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc
+ files seen in Fedora 36+.
+
+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).