ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231104 + modify reset command to avoid altering clocal if the terminal uses a modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek, OpenSUSE #1201384, Debian #60377). + build-fixes for --with-caps variations. + correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231028 + move xterm focus mode 1004 from xterm+sm+1006 into xterm+focus as fe/fd capabilities, like vim (vim-pr #13440). + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make "libdir" the default, as documented, rather than "auto" (report by Branden Robinson). + improve messages from configure script (patches by Branden Robinson).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231021 + use oldxterm+sm+1006 in vte-2014 (report by Benno Schulenberg) -TD + add ansi+apparrows -TD + change defaults for configure opaque and widec options (prompted by discussion with Branden Robinson). + minor cleanup of compiler- and manpage-warnings.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231016 + make the recent change to setupterm optional "--enable-check-size" (Debian #1054022).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230722 + add "auto" default for --with-xterm-kbs configure option.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230617 + markup manpages with revision information (prompted by discussion with Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230603 + add configure option --with-strip-program, to override program chosen by the install program for stripping executables (prompted by discussion with Aapo Rantalainen). + fix typo in INSTALL (report/patch by Aapo Rantalainen). + improve error-checks for isEILSEQ() + increase MB_CUR_MAX to 16, matching glibc's MB_LEN_MAX. + corrected mouse mask in test/testcurs.c + improve thread lock in lib_trace.c
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230423 + add tiscan_s() to help applications check formatting capabilities that would be passed to tiparm_s, etc. + add tiparm_s() to provide applications a way to tell ncurses what the expected parameters are for a capability (tmux #3531). + improve check in lib_tparm.c, ensuring that a char* fits into a TPARM_ARG. + add --disable-setuid-environ configure option (request by Sven Joachim). + drop compatibility with obsolete versions of tack, e.g., pre-1.08 (Debian #1034549, cf: 20170722).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230418 + improve checks for limits on privileged execution: + modify _nc_syserr_abort() to use _nc_env_access(), rather than only checking root uid. + use getauxval() when available, to improve setuid/setgid checks. + modify test packages to disable root access/environ options. + modify tgoto() to accept no-parameter capabilities, for joe editor (OpenSUSE #1210485, Gentoo #904263).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230107 + add --with-abi-altered configure option (prompted by discussion with Brian Inglis). + add BSD erase2 to characters handled by tset/reset. + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings. + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221202 + add RV report+version (suggested by Bram Moolenaar). + add comment to bracketed+paste explaining that vim patch 9.0.1117 is needed for use with the updated xterm descriptions (suggested by Bram Moolenaar).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20221231 + update release notes + regenerate llib-* files. + correct PS vs PE names in bracketed+paste (report by Bram Moolenaar) -TD
ncurses 6.3 - patch 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).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 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).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211021 + update release notes + add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD system to use a current ncurses release.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 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.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210904 + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4. + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black). + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh). + build-fix for compiling link_test + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify use (Debian #993179).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210718 + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this against Glink manual -TD + fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the vt220 entry -TD + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option (report by Juergen Pfeifer). + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library. + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque curses structs.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210626 + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to disallow most file-opens by setuid processes. + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler) + regenerate man-html documentation.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210619 + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such as --with-valgrind + trim trailing blanks from files
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210417 + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764). + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++ libraries and progs directory. + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments (patch by Hadrien Lacour).