ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230812 + add/use putty+cursor to reflect amending of modified cursor-keys in 2021 -TD + add ecma+strikeout to putty -TD + add functions to query tty-flags in SCREEN (request by Bill Gray).
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 6.2 - patch 20211016 + build-fix for pmake with libtool. + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up shellcheck warnings. + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug (report by Pascal Pignard). + freeze ABI in ".map" files.
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 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 20210522 + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley). + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar. + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by report/testcase by Bill Gray) + update config.guess, config.sub
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 20191214 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for leak-checking.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20191207 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
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 20190317 + regenerate llib-* files. + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info. + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has an unexpected type; ignore it in that case. + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files. + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made, which did not become accepted.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20181215 + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings. + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes). + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm: + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol. + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array. Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180203 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent. + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works. + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability. + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171230 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package. + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton). + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are anticipated. + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
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 20170415 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from help-screen used in test/edit_field.c + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and _nc_resolve_uses + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025). + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX. + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation. + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose. + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
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 20161029 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)