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 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 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 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 20231014 + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, for uClibc-ng + update config.guess, config.sub
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 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 6.4 - 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 6.3 - 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 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 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