ncurses 6.3 - patch 20221008 + correct a switch-statement case in configure script to allow for test builds with ABI=7. + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to allow for the case where the library directory does not yet exist, since this is processed before doing an install (report by Michal Liszcz).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220827 + modify configure scripts to use overlooked cases for LD and PKG_CONFIG variables (report by Alan Webb, Gentoo #866398). + modify nsterm to use xterm+alt1049 (report by Paul Handly) -TD + modify putty to use xterm+alt1049 -TD
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220729 + fixes to build with dietlibc: + add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner). + add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock, and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner). + use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found (adapted from patch by Georg Lehner). + trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc files seen in Fedora 36+.
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220716 + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw. + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210807 + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files, adapted from "distr1" patch. + add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210417 + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764). + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++ libraries and progs directory. + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments (patch by Hadrien Lacour).
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 20200523 + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502) + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma). + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg). > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"): + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker options into Visual Studio's dialect. + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200308 + update copyright notices in test-packages. + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table. + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
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 20191228 + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS. + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs. + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20191012 + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516). + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage. + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and _nc_find_name_entry. > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"): + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry. + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one mapping (cf: 20060415); + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability, overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007). + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20191005 + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the -I and -l options.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190928 + amend the ncurse*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath hack which differed between those files. + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on EINTR (cf: 20180922)
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180609 + modify generatesd ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc., to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian #900839). + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw and vw_scanw, respectively.
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 20150704 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity. + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20150516 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502). + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package updates. + regenerate html manpages. + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20150509 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later. + cleanup format of debian/copyright files + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages. + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of the tinfo library.