ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240113 + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + modify dist.mk to avoid passing developer's comments in manpages into the generated html documentation. + use ansi+local, ansi+local1, ansi+pp, ansi+rca, ansi+rca2, ansi+sgr to trim -TD + restore padding for wy520* and vt320-k311 (report by Sven Joachim).
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 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 20230819 + various manpage-formatting fixes. + correct formatting of table header in curs_inopts.3x (Branden Robinson). + correct manpage description of panel_hidden (report by Benjamin Mordaunt).
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 20210619 + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such as --with-valgrind + trim trailing blanks from files
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 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 20191130 + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by discussion with Nick Black). + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch manpage. + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
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 20171118 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability. + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads. + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H). + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551. + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors. + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to account for xon -TD + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan) + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently: jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b, dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an, st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171028 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c (report by Midolikawa H). + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim). + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line drawing character is drawn. + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen. + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs. + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923). + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for directory-tree terminal databases. + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909). + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171014 + minor cleanup to test/view.c: + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file. + implement page up/down commands. + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a terminal. + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the attribute values which can be stored in those types. + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs program. + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar(). + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c. + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
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).
ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100814 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp). + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch by Tim van der Molen). + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared library configuration. + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X. + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.