ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231125 + add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1 (patch by Branden Robinson). + improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering (patches by Branden Robinson). + modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values (report by Branden Robinson).
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 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 20230701 + fix mandoc warnings about unnecessary markup. + improve parameter check in tparm_setup()
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230617 + markup manpages with revision information (prompted by discussion with Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
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 20201219 + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3. + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report by Chris Bennett).
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 20201017 + improve manpage typography. + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display nonprintable characters. + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200418 + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction. + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg). + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
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 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.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190121 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h file in Slackware. + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe on some of the BSDs. + updated "string-hacks" feature. + minor improvements to manpage typography. + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by "Hudd"). + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color, extended_color_content + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the return values from the tested functions. + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and extensions. + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter). + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure option was given. + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180728 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens. + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20180106 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin. + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-, 256-, etc., colors. + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99 as possible default values. + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the handling of the curses/ncurses library. + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files. + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when configured to access it via weak symbols. + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the behavior. + update URLs for ncurses website to use https. + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc. + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule (report by Jeffrey Walton).
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170506 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable. + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65. + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond). + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c