ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240120 + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + amend discussion of aliases in tput.1 + use ansi+sgrbold, ansi+sgrdim, ansi+sgrso, ansi+sgrul, ansi+tabs ecma+color, ecma+sgr, vt100+4bsd, vt100+pfkeys, vt220+pcedit xterm+256color, xterm+acs, xterm+nopcfkeys, xterm+pcf2 to trim -TD + modify configure scripts/makefiles to omit KEY_RESIZE if the corresponding SIGWINCH feature is disabled.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 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).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230506 > build-fixes related to configure-options and/or platform: + fix for --enable-fvisibility + fix for unusual values of --with-rel-version + fix for unusual values of --with-abi-version + fix for --disable-tcap-names + fix for termcap in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink).
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 6.2 - patch 20210925 + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD + add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the "tabs" +m option -TD + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward reference of anonymous struct typedef. + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line. + minor fixes for tset manpage.
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 20210828 + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626). + apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request). + modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE, e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for ncursesw. + improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables. + improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210605 + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210320 + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town, cf: 20200531). + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger) + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that rather than gcc's attribute. + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention. + add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200817 + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation warnings. + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated. + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds using the string-hacks option. + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200531 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang) + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron). + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes. + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
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 20190323 + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef. + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract those in compilable form. + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm, in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions (report/patch by Werner Fink).
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180609 + modify generatesd ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc., to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian #900839). + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw and vw_scanw, respectively.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180512 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition. + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead. + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180505 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older versions of tack. + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability. + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages. + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules for escaping regular expressions.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180407 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete, not part of X/Open Curses since 2007. + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007). As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return values, e.g., keyname().
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171125 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr before initialized. + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap. + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap. + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by Hosein Askari, Debian #882620). + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses: + it lacks the use_env() function. + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol. + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return value to make it possible for most applications to check for an error-return (report by Midolikawa H). + additional manpage cleanup. + update config.guess, config.sub from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170812 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by Stephane Chazelas). + add reset_color_pairs() function. + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used by ncurses. + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack. + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in /usr/share/ncurses-examples + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(), color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters. + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the current screen is marked for clearing. + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for loading image files. + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow on demand up to the existing limit. + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to improve color_content(). + improve picsmap test-program: + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM, checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat" suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g., /usr/share/ncurses-examples + add "-l" option for logging + add "-d" option for debugging + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images, with time delay. + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images. + update config.guess, config.sub from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170401 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic (discussion with Nicholas Marriott) + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent() cache. + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar() works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant calls to get original tty-modes. + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname(). + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is null, as documented. + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to reduce compiler warnings. + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits: + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(), wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set(). + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior, including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(), slk_color_off(), vid_attr(). + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(), extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(), init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.