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 20230617 + markup manpages with revision information (prompted by discussion with Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
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 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 6.0 - patch 20171125 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr before initialized. + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap. + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap. + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by Hosein Askari, Debian #882620). + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses: + it lacks the use_env() function. + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol. + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return value to make it possible for most applications to check for an error-return (report by Midolikawa H). + additional manpage cleanup. + update config.guess, config.sub from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130622 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790). + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated. + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example of sgr. + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi" (patch by Eric Raymond).
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 20101002 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads. + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for inconsistent printer-controls. + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized form is available -TD + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is ANSI -TD + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by Sven Joachim). + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD > patch by Juergen Pfeifer: + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven Joachim). + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored in mingw_arch
ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100911 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo- and form-libraries. + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre). + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004). + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old platforms.