ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210821 + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching SVr4 terminfo. + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an error in an expression (cf: 20201010). + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812). + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report by Florian Weimer) -TD + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes. + update config.sub
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 20200411 + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs() (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812). + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10 + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
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 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 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 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 20170617 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used (report by Allen Hewes). + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm to help with leak checking. + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak checking. + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal cannot be initialized.
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