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 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 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 20211225 + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
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 6.0 - 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 6.0 - patch 20170218 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages. + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were treated as only absent. + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used, e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20140816 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705). + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
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
ncurses 5.6
ncurses 5.3