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 20210619 + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such as --with-valgrind + trim trailing blanks from files
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 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 20171209 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers are. + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented" function in link_test.c + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc. + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah). + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20150425 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page (report by Todd M Lewis). + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts. + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since frequently pkg-config configurations are broken. + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the rpath option. + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel) + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel) + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418). + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header. + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20150418 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke). + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using wide characters (report by Werner Fink). + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm. + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link with the shared libraries. + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts. NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6". + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not inherit into new windows.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20150221 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for the wide-character libraries. + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config directory. + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20121110 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by Vassili Courzakis). + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared libraries or executables.
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