ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230624 + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai").
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230423 + add tiscan_s() to help applications check formatting capabilities that would be passed to tiparm_s, etc. + add tiparm_s() to provide applications a way to tell ncurses what the expected parameters are for a capability (tmux #3531). + improve check in lib_tparm.c, ensuring that a char* fits into a TPARM_ARG. + add --disable-setuid-environ configure option (request by Sven Joachim). + drop compatibility with obsolete versions of tack, e.g., pre-1.08 (Debian #1034549, cf: 20170722).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230418 + improve checks for limits on privileged execution: + modify _nc_syserr_abort() to use _nc_env_access(), rather than only checking root uid. + use getauxval() when available, to improve setuid/setgid checks. + modify test packages to disable root access/environ options. + modify tgoto() to accept no-parameter capabilities, for joe editor (OpenSUSE #1210485, Gentoo #904263).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210904 + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4. + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black). + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh). + build-fix for compiling link_test + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify use (Debian #993179).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210828 + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626). + apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request). + modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE, e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for ncursesw. + improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables. + improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210626 + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to disallow most file-opens by setuid processes. + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler) + regenerate man-html documentation.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200829 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten Anonymous". + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of win32-driver. + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on mawk and lynx). > errate for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer): + correct icl6404 csr + correct ti916 cup + improve ndr9500
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200711 + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo Bruckl). + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell). + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan). + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
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 5.9 - patch 20120901 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825). + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array might not be allocated. + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120225 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when cross-compiling. + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized. + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds. + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration (cf:20111231) + update config.guess, config.sub
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20110604 + fixes for MirBSD port: + set default prefix to /usr. + add support for shared libraries in configure script. + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions. + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test. + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20110528 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft). + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat #707344). + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null pointers, etc.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20110507 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers (report by Gunter Schaffler). + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib. + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid (report by Joachim Schmitz).
ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100123 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work. + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch by Miroslav Lichvar) + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
ncurses 5.7 - patch 20090411 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does part of the form library.
ncurses 5.6 - patch 20071117 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov). + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case filenames. + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee). + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are declared.
ncurses 5.6
ncurses 5.4