ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240224 + improve man/curs_mouse.3x style (Brandon Robinson, Sven Joachim). + provide for CCHARW_MAX greater than 1 + eliminate use of PATH_MAX in lib_trace.c + work around misconfiguration of MacPorts gcc13, which exposes invalid definition of MB_LEN_MAX in gcc's fallback copy of limits.h (MacPorts #69374).
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 20231202 + correct initial alignment of extended capabilities in infocmp, so that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types. + improve formatting/style of manpages, changing environment variables to italics (patches 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 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 6.4 - patch 20230610 + improve manpages discussing file descriptors in low-level functions. + modify flushinp to use file descriptors in SCREEN, rather than from TERMINAL, and check if they are for a terminal, like SVr4. + modify mcprint to use file descriptor in SCREEN, for consistency. + add xterm+focus to foot+base (patch by Daniel Ekloef). + correct definition of Charable() for non-wide ncurses library (report and test-case by Zbigniew Baniewski).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220724 + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual. + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen (Debian #1015756).
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 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 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 6.1 - 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 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).