ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211106 + improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR + modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad, rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou). + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram Moolenaar, cf: 20210821).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210703 + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc., in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries. + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210619 + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such as --with-valgrind + trim trailing blanks from files
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210327 + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs, form and menu libraries.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210123 + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich). + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around quirks of pmake.
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 20190202 + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict with Redhat's package for ncurses6. + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy. + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
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 20180210 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton). + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what was needed, was standardized long ago. + add several development/experimental options to development packages. + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are normally enabled.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20180106 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin. + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-, 256-, etc., colors. + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99 as possible default values. + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the handling of the curses/ncurses library. + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files. + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when configured to access it via weak symbols. + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the behavior. + update URLs for ncurses website to use https. + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc. + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule (report by Jeffrey Walton).
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171230 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package. + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton). + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are anticipated. + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20160903 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report by Rich Coe). + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines of comments. + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS, leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report by Sven Joachim).
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20151101 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at install time (cf: 20150822). + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an empty "local" section. + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due to incorrect attribute-masking.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20150808 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX. + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across more than 200 snapshots. + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement page.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20140927 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c + implement flash in win_driver.c + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses focus. + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode. + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130805 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem rpm macros. + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building cross-compile support packages. + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120811 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander). + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the INSTALL file. + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120211 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for Linux versus most other systems.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120128 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault) + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730). + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.., using ${datadir}/tabset (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20111112 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin). + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and C++ header files. + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm", e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch by Robert Millan). + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code in older FreeBSD machines. + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or _POSIX_SOURCE are defined. + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.