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 20231223 + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
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 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 20230805 + fix a few manpages needing tbl marker, seen by lintian warning. + fixes for compiler-warnings. + minor grammatical fix for manpages (Branden Robinson).
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 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 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 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 6.1 - patch 20180428 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon Winter). + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions (report by Leon Winter). + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference: unfocus_current_field (form); form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION); (patch by Leon Winter).
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 20170624 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler). + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes (report by Allen Hewes). + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs. + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was not initialized, rather than returning an error. + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963). + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer, assuming that --disable-leaks is configured. + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).