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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3173 2018/08/19 00:25:22 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.
+20180901
+ + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
+ parameter.
+ + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
+ "too large".
+ + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
+
+20180825
+ + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
+ terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
+ + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
+ deb test-packages.
+ + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
+ toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
+ + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
+ 20180818 updates.
+
20180818
+ build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
+ improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
+ modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
- + add "--disable-touching" option for using "install -p" option during
- the install, e.g., so that header-files have a predictable timestamp.
20180804
+ improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
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