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 6.3 - patch 20220430 + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and also provide for focus in/out responses -TD + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov). + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'. + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table data rather than relying upon its callers. + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure it is initialized. + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC. + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20211002 + use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_"). + modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to match the documentation. + add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses. + make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when those are used, rather than the underlying program's name. + improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating tput-specific portions. + add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather than binary. + further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from the other BSDs.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210508 + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization is requires for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by Sebastiano Vigna). + fix several warnings from clang --analyze + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar, cf: 20210227).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210213 + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background functions. + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character. + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries. + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200531 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang) + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron). + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes. + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
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 20191221 + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to work with test-packages. + improve tracemunch: + keep track of TERMINAL* values + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway. + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
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 20181229 + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use as a pipe/filter. + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by discussion with Bryan Christ). + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names. Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability names.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180519 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation. + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes; fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR (report by C Anthony Risinger) + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180303 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace. + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages. + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols (report/patch by Werner Fink). + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin). + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t" for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the structures reported to make the categories more apparent. + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors. + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171028 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c (report by Midolikawa H). + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim). + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line drawing character is drawn. + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen. + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs. + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923). + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for directory-tree terminal databases. + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909). + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170819 + update "iterm" entry -TD + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD + regenerate llib-* files. + regenerate HTML manpages. + improve picsmap test-program: + reduce memory used for tsearch + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage. + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional (cf: 20130622). + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput. + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855). + improve usage messages for tset and tput. + minor fixes to "RDGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170812 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by Stephane Chazelas). + add reset_color_pairs() function. + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used by ncurses. + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack. + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in /usr/share/ncurses-examples + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(), color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters. + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the current screen is marked for clearing. + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for loading image files. + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow on demand up to the existing limit. + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to improve color_content(). + improve picsmap test-program: + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM, checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat" suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g., /usr/share/ncurses-examples + add "-l" option for logging + add "-d" option for debugging + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images, with time delay. + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images. + update config.guess, config.sub from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170513 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots. The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files. + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is changed (cf: 20170311). + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170401 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic (discussion with Nicholas Marriott) + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent() cache. + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar() works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant calls to get original tty-modes. + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname(). + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is null, as documented. + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to reduce compiler warnings. + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits: + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(), wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set(). + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior, including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(), slk_color_off(), vid_attr(). + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(), extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(), init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170311 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for terminal emulators -TD + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD + add fbterm -TD + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek). + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal 8-bit limit on colors + add ncurses/new_pair.h + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and free_pair() functions + add test/demo_new_pair.c
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20160507 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland, cf: 20151017). + modify test/ncurses.c: + check return-value of putwin + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes to keypad- and scroll-modes. + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20151017 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha). + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors (patch by Denis Tikhomirov). > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun) + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c + support building with libtool on OS/2 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2