ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231230 + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + add ms-vt100-16color, winconsole -TD + add rio, rio-direct -TD + add mostlike -TD + add wezterm, contour -TD
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231202 + correct initial alignment of extended capabilities in infocmp, so that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types. + improve formatting/style of manpages, changing environment variables to italics (patches by Branden Robinson).
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 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 20210821 + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching SVr4 terminfo. + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an error in an expression (cf: 20201010). + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812). + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report by Florian Weimer) -TD + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes. + update config.sub
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 20201024 + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling. + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer. + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check, needed in to tic's use-resolution work pad_char is cancelled (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim) + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim). + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200212 + update release notes + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result when cross-compiling. + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken. + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used, to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples. + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in collision handling for Caps-hpux11 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for terminfo and termcap names. + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit(). + update a few comments about tack 1.07 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180127 + updated release notes + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description. > terminfo changes: + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was not suitable -TD + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting konsole's removal in 2008 -TD + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet support xterm's 1006 mode -TD + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD + update vte to vte-2017 -TD + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD + add iterm2-direct -TD + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD + add mlterm-direct -TD + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20150808 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX. + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across more than 200 snapshots. + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement page.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130518 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316). + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056). + regenerated html manpages. + update doctype used for html documentation.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20110910 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0" (cf: 20110716). + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret, cf: 20100102). + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W Meunier). + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus). + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option is used. + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20110404
ncurses 5.8 - patch 20110226 + update release notes, for 5.8. + regenerated html manpages. + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency with write_file(). + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is a new install of hashed database. + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk. + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
ncurses 5.7 - patch 20101204 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced version which works with termcap. + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation (request by Sven Joachim). + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html (report by Sven Joachim).
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