ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240203 + minor changes to tracing and locale-checks.
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 20220724 + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual. + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen (Debian #1015756).
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 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 20210206 + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic) + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2" option, from xterm #363 -TD + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
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 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 20190623 + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th Edition versions of the tabs utility. + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya Ig Petrov). + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent data for the result from getenv(). + update config.guess, config.sub
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190601 + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru). + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE variable.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190504 + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters (report by Pavel Stehule). + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension. + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190302 + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11 + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some user-defined capabilities. + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180908 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL. + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505). + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414). + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken implementations of sysconf().
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180505 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older versions of tack. + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability. + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages. + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules for escaping regular expressions.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170902 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722). + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c and tput.c
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170827 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
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 20170729 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard) + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain Williams) -TD + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King). + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of parameters for a capability and the actual. + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from report/patch by Dick Wesseling): + translate the character to the alternate character set when the alternate character set is enabled. + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255. + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in tack for memory-leak checking. + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs" configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds. + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the extended capability arrays. + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170722 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the term-driver configuration. + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header files to allow each to be compiled separately. + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.