ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211106 + improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR + modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad, rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou). + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram Moolenaar, cf: 20210821).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210619 + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such as --with-valgrind + trim trailing blanks from files
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200926 + correct configure-check for gnurx library. + regenerate llib-* files. + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for panel- and user-pointers.
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 20200718 + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual Studio C++. + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++. > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling the main program, so the linker can find related objects. + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link. + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200704 + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard). > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"): + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport" declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200222 + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when building out-of-tree. + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers include all of the required headers for the types used.
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 6.0 - patch 20180120 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence. + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts. + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory. + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake, and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static libraries. + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170212 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart) + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used. + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries. + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the --enable-sp-funcs option. + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque without modifying API/ABI. + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and similar options for the other libraries.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20150815 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option, overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex). + update release notes in INSTALL. + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20150808 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX. + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across more than 200 snapshots. + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement page.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20150725 + updated llib-* files. + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule. + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by Mikhail Peselnik). + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text: curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x, curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x, curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20150502 + modify the configure script to allow different default values for ABI 5 versus ABI 6. + add wgetch-events to test-packages. + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README. + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Debian #783486) -TD + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel) + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian #783806) + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin. + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by discussion with Sylvain Bertrand). + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed in /usr. + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles. + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared libraries. + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have been eliminated. + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on the ncurses library aside from headers. + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors. + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim). + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies found by 20150425 changes for test-packages. + update config.guess, config.sub from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20141220 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from the ABI 5 libraries. + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one, regenerate html-manpages.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20141115 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen). + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries. + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for symbol-versioning.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130805 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem rpm macros. + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building cross-compile support packages. + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.