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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3721 2021/10/09 22:22:17 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3764 2022/01/01 23:59:36 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.
+20220101
+ + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
+ curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
+
+20211225
+ + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
+ (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+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