ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231223 + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231217 + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean is unset in a base entry and set in a use'd chunk, i.e., if it was cancelled. + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which were already cancelled in a use'd chunk. + join two lines in infotocap.3x to eliminate a spurious "description" link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim). + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim). bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057651).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231111 + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD + add limit checks in infocmp needed when processing extended capabilities with the "-u" option. + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages. + fix a few compiler warnings for Solaris 10. + modify endwin() to return an error if it is called again without an intervening screen update (report by Rajeev Pillai, NetBSD #57592).
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 20231007 + improve loop-limit for get_position(). + improve manual description of immedok (Debian #1053603). + fix a few formatting issues with manpages (Debian #1053123). + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231001 + modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither environment variables or ioctl is used. The ncurses test-program with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature. + improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson). + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates. + fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230923 + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + amend change to delscreen() to limit the windows which it creates to just those associated with the screen (report by Frederic Boiteux, cf: 20220813).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 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. + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson), for captoinfo.1m and terminfo.5
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230617 + markup manpages with revision information (prompted by discussion with Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220604 + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220212 + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency. + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211225 + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
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 20210102 + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares exit_terminfo. + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon). + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031). + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for consistency with other manpages.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200613 + update list of functions in ncurses.3x + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian #961097).
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 20200118 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages. + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by Christian Durr) -TD + correct spelling errors found with codespell. + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20191214 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for leak-checking.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190317 + regenerate llib-* files. + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info. + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has an unexpected type; ignore it in that case. + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files. + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made, which did not become accepted.