ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240323 + modify tput/tset reset feature to avoid 1-second sleep if running in a pseudo-terminal. + modify check-size feature to avoid using it in a pseudoterminal (cf: 20231016) + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + trim a space after some "-R" options, fixing builds for applications built using clang and ncurses on Solaris.
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 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 20201212 + improve manual pages for form field-types.
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 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 20200328 + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field(). + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
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 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 20100731 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov). + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent() is called (patch by Roumen Petrov). + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage. + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
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