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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3973 2023/07/01 17:55:50 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.
+20230918
+ + new tarball/errata (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20230917
+ + improve formatting of manpages (integrated patches by Branden
+ Robinson).
+ + correct limit for name-length in write_entry.c (report/testcase by
+ Luna Saphie Mittelbach).
+ + limit delays to 30 seconds, i.e., padding delays in terminfo, as well
+ as napms() and delay_output() functions.
+ + improve a few pointer-checks.
+ + improve parsing in _nc_msec_cost, allowing a single decimal point.
+
+20230909
+ + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson), for
+ captoinfo.1m and terminfo.5
+ > patches by Nicholas Marriott:
+ + use string-hacks in alloc_entry.c, alloc_type.c and hardscroll.c,
+ overlooked due to compiler changes in recent OpenBSD releases.
+ + add "-6" option to ncu2openbsd script.
+
+20230902
+ + improve description of search rules for terminal descriptions in
+ terminfo manpage (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20230826
+ + fixes for compiler-warnings.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20230819
+ + various manpage-formatting fixes.
+ + correct formatting of table header in curs_inopts.3x (Branden
+ Robinson).
+ + correct manpage description of panel_hidden (report by Benjamin
+ Mordaunt).
+
+20230812
+ + add/use putty+cursor to reflect amending of modified cursor-keys in
+ 2021 -TD
+ + add ecma+strikeout to putty -TD
+ + add functions to query tty-flags in SCREEN (request by Bill Gray).
+
+20230805
+ + fix a few manpages needing tbl marker, seen by lintian warning.
+ + fixes for compiler-warnings.
+ + minor grammatical fix for manpages (Branden Robinson).
+
+20230729
+ + improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_wnstr().
+ + modify MinGW configuration to provide for running in MSYS/MSYS2
+ shells, assuming ConPTY support (patch by Pavel Fedin).
+ + add assignment in CF_MAN_PAGES to fill in value for TERMINFO_DIRS in
+ ncurses, terminfo and tic manpages (patch by Sven Joachim).
+
+20230722
+ + add "auto" default for --with-xterm-kbs configure option.
+
+20230715
+ + correct wadd_wch_literal() when adding a non-spacing character to a
+ double-width character.
+ + improve manual page for curs_util.
+ + improve manual page for wadd_wch().
+
+20230708
+ + add linux+kbs for terminals which imitate xterm's behavior with
+ Linux -TD
+ + modify MinGW driver to return KEY_BACKSPACE when an unmodified
+ VK_BACK virtual key is entered (prompted by patch by Pavel Fedin,
+ Savannah #64292).
+ + disallow using $TERMINFO or $HOME/.terminfo when tic "-o" option is
+ used (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #1040048).
+
20230701
+ fix mandoc warnings about unnecessary markup.
+ improve parameter check in tparm_setup()