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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2844 2017/05/21 00:24:14 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.
+20170603
+ + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
+ to xterm-256color.
+ + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
+ end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
+ (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
+ configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
+
+20170527
+ + improved test/picsmap.c:
+ + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
+ + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
+ + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
+
20170520
+ modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
+ modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the