+20240922
+ + add a few null-pointer checks in ncurses
+ + improve test-driver in ncurses/link_test.c
+ + restore background character in manpages as described in X/Open
+ Curses section 3.3.6, and add option "-c" to test programs to
+ illustrate a non-blank character in the window background property.
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + modify ncurses*-config to add -I option in --cflag where needed for
+ --disable-overwrite to match ".pc" files.
+ + disallow directories and block/character devices in safe-open.
+ + amend scr_restore() and scr_init() to remove the target window only
+ after validating the source window which will replace the target
+ (report by Zixi Liu).
+
+20240914
+ + modify _nc_flush() to also flush stderr to help the flash capability
+ to work in bash (patch by Harm te Hennepe, cf: 20201128)
+ + omit -g and -fXXX flags from CFLAGS in misc/ncurses-config.in
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve examples in NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
+ + update comments in terminfo.src -TD
+
+20240831
+ + build-fix for a case in msys2 where gettimeofday() was available but
+ the fallback was partly configured.
+ > patch by Rafael Kitover:
+ + separate the _NC_WINDOWS platform macro into _NC_WINDOWS_NATIVE,
+ for MinGW and other native Win32 support, and _NC_WINDOWS, to make
+ some Win32 features available under the Cygwin runtime, in this case
+ the term-driver.
+ + make some minor adjustments to allow
+ ./configure --enable-term-driver
+ to also work on Cygwin platforms such as Cygwin and MSYS2.
+
+20240824
+ + modify infocmp and tabs to use actual name in usage and header.
+ + modify test/demo_keyok.c to accept ^Q for quit, for consistency.
+
+20240817
+ + review/update foot for 1.18.1 -TD
+ + add a note about DomTerm 3.2.0 -TD
+ + add new glob-expressions variables to list in config.status script
+ (patch by Werner Fink).
+ + add --enable-install-prefix to modify behavior of $DESTDIR to merge
+ or replace the value set by --prefix (adapted from suggestion by
+ Eli Zaretskii).
+
+20240810
+ + modify misc/Makefile.in and misc/run_tic.in so that $DESTDIR is set
+ and used only in the makefile.
+ + modify CF_WITH_PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to allow for pkg-config using
+ DOS/Windows pathname syntax (report by Eli Zaretskii).
+ + improve glob-expressions in configure script
+ + remove unused Get_Menu_Screen() macro from menu.priv.h
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20240727
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck.
+ + modify wattron/wattroff calls in form/m_post.c to call wattr_on and
+ wattr_off to omit cast used in the former for X/Open compatibility
+ (patch by Bill Gray).
+ + modify wezterm, omitting its broken left/right margin feature (report
+ by Thayne McCombs) -TD
+
+20240720
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + modify configure script and misc/Makefile to accept glob expressions
+ that include Windows/DOS drive-letters (report by Eli Zaretskii).
+ + fix misspelled ifdef and correct return-value of _nc_mingw_tcflush in
+ win_driver.c (report/patch by Eli Zaretskii).
+
+20240713
+ + modify misc/ncurses-config.in, improved match with pkg-config output.
+
+20240706
+ + update configure script to use macro changes from dialog.
+ + modify CF_NCURSES_PTHREADS to avoid equating package and library
+ names.
+
+20240629
+ + build-fix for ncurses-examples with newer PDCurses, which no longer
+ has stubs for unimplemented features.
+ + add help-popup for test_instr.c, test_inwstr.c
+ + modify checks in delwin to avoid checking if the window is a pad
+ until first checking if it is still on the active window-list
+ (cf: 20211115).
+ + improve -t option of test/gdc.c, allowing hours only, or hours and
+ minutes only.
+
+20240622
+ + improve test/gdc.c (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + adjust naming of mingw *-config scripts to match the pkg-config names
+ + widen pattern in pc/*-config scripts to disallow more linker options
+ + add --cflags-only-I and --cflags-only-other options to
+ misc/ncurses-config.in
+ + revert change to CF_BUILD_CC macro (report by Vassili Courzakis,
+ cf: 20240518).
+
+20240615
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + review/update modules files.
+ + improve install-rules in Ada95 makefiles (report by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages in test-directory.
+
+20240608
+ + change winwstr to return wide character count instead of OK (patch
+ by Branden Robinson).
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + rename testing dpkg's for ncurses6 to resolve a naming conflict with
+ Debian's ncurses packages.
+
+20240601
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + change Ada95/configure to use --with-screen option rather than
+ --enable-widec, to provide more choices of underlying curses library
+
+20240525
+ + build-fix for configure option --disable-ext-funcs
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + review/update iTerm2 for 3.5.0 -TD
+
+20240519
+ + update Ada95/configure to match change for -DTRACE
+ + revert change to include/ncurses_defs, which caused build failure if
+ tracing was not enabled (report by Branden Robinson).
+
+20240518
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + move makefile's -DTRACE into include/ncurses_cfg.h, to simplify use
+ of CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS.
+ + improve check for clock_gettime(), from xterm.
+ + modify configure script to work around broken gnatgcc script found in
+ gcc-13 builds.
+
+20240511
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + limit value from ESCDELAY environment variable to 30 seconds, like
+ other delay limits.
+ + limit values from LINES and COLUMNS environment variables to 512
+ (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20240504
+ + update ncurses/wcwidth.c, for MinGW ports, from xterm.
+ + trim obsolete comment about tack from INSTALL.
+
+20240427 6.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ + update announcement
+ + fixes/corrections for manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + fix redefinition of CASTxPTR, for legacy Unix.
+
+20240420
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + compiler warning/portability fixes.
+
+20240414
+ + build/bug-fix for check-size feature (reports by Sam James, Gabriele
+ Balducci).
+
+20240413
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + provide for padding in check-size feature, using new_prescr() to
+ pass interim SCREEN pointer.
+ + complete change for opaque options (Gentoo #928973, cf: 20231021).
+ + update package /debian/rules and related lintian overrides
+ + revise progs.priv.h to provide for NC_ISATTY reuse
+
+20240330
+ + remove masking of ISIG in cbreak() (report by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + modify test/test_mouse.c to use curses api for raw/noraw.
+ > improved configure macros from other program development:
+ + build-fix for clang on Solaris
+ + suppress filename/timestamp in gzip'd manpages (suggested for
+ byacc by Andrin Geiger)
+
+20240323
+ + modify tput/tset reset feature to avoid 1-second sleep if running in
+ a pseudo-terminal.
+ + modify check-size feature to avoid using it in a pseudoterminal
+ (cf: 20231016)
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + trim a space after some "-R" options, fixing builds for applications
+ built using clang and ncurses on Solaris.
+
+20240309
+ + modify xgterm to work around line-drawing bug -TD
+ + use CSI 3J in vte-2017 (report by Sven Joachim)
+
+20240302
+ + add configure check for MB_LEN_MAX, to provide warning as needed.
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + fix regression in tput which disallowed hex/octal parameters (report
+ by Werner Fink, cf: 20230408)
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20240224
+ + improve man/curs_mouse.3x style (Branden Robinson, Sven Joachim).
+ + provide for CCHARW_MAX greater than 1
+ + eliminate use of PATH_MAX in lib_trace.c
+ + work around misconfiguration of MacPorts gcc13, which exposes invalid
+ definition of MB_LEN_MAX in gcc's fallback copy of limits.h (MacPorts
+ #69374).
+
+20240217
+ + add vt100+noapp, vt100+noapp+pc, xterm+app+pc, xterm+decedit from
+ xterm #389 -TD
+ + fix inconsistent description of wmouse_trafo() (Debian #1059778).
+ + modify wenclose() to handle pads (Debian #1059783).
+ + improve manpage discussion of mouseinterval() (Debian #1058560).
+
+20240210
+ + compiler-warning fixes, while investigating an optimizer bug in
+ "gcc (MacPorts gcc13 13.2.0_4+stdlib_flag) 13.2.0"
+ which results in only the first byte of a multibyte character being
+ printed to the screen.
+
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