ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240302 + add configure check for MB_LEN_MAX, to provide warning as needed. + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + fix regression in tput which disallowed hex/octal parameters (report by Werner Fink, cf: 20230408) + update config.guess, config.sub
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231217 + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean is unset in a base entry and set in a use'd chunk, i.e., if it was cancelled. + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which were already cancelled in a use'd chunk. + join two lines in infotocap.3x to eliminate a spurious "description" link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim). + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim). bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057651).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231209 + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels in use'd chunks which are not mentioned in the top-level terminal description. + remove xterm+sm+1006 from tmux (Debian #1057688). + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD + updated man/edit_man.sh to allow for "\%" markers embedded after bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057541). + reduce compiler-warnings in configure checks
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231111 + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD + add limit checks in infocmp needed when processing extended capabilities with the "-u" option. + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages. + fix a few compiler warnings for Solaris 10. + modify endwin() to return an error if it is called again without an intervening screen update (report by Rajeev Pillai, NetBSD #57592).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231104 + modify reset command to avoid altering clocal if the terminal uses a modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek, OpenSUSE #1201384, Debian #60377). + build-fixes for --with-caps variations. + correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL.
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231001 + modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither environment variables or ioctl is used. The ncurses test-program with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature. + improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson). + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates. + fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott).
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 6.4 - patch 20230408 + document limitations of tparm, and error-returns in curs_terminfo.3x + document limitations of tgoto, and error-returns in curs_termcap.3x + add xterm+focus to alacritty+common (patch by Christian Duerr). + add "-v" option to tput, to show warnings. > improve checks for malformed terminfo data (report/analysis by Jonathan Bar Or, Michael Pearse, Emanuele Cozzi). + make the parameter type/count checks in _nc_tiparm() more stringent + update tgoto() to account for _nc_tiparm() changes + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of string parameters + add special cases in tput to handle extensions Cs/Ms parameters + ignore compiled-terminfo where the array sizes exceed the standard
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230107 + add --with-abi-altered configure option (prompted by discussion with Brian Inglis). + add BSD erase2 to characters handled by tset/reset. + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings. + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221202 + add RV report+version (suggested by Bram Moolenaar). + add comment to bracketed+paste explaining that vim patch 9.0.1117 is needed for use with the updated xterm descriptions (suggested by Bram Moolenaar).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220924 + modify configure macro CF_BUILD_CC to check if the build-compiler works, rather than that it is different from the cross-compiler, e.g., to accommodate a compiler which can be used for either purpose with different flags (report by Mikhail Korolev). + fix another memory-leak in tic. + correct change for cppcheck in menu library (report/analysis by "tuxway", cf: 20220903). + update config.guess, config.sub
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220917 + reduce memory-leak in tic by separating allocations for struct entry from TERMTYPE2 (cf: 20220430). + improve interaction between tic -v option and NCURSES_TRACE, by processing the latter only when -v option does not set _nc_tracing. + modify curses_trace() to show the trace-mask as symbols, e.g., TRACE_ORDINARY, DEBUG_LEVEL(3).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220910 + amend verbose-option change to make this affect level 3, e.g., using "tic -cv3 terminfo". + work around musl's nonstandard use of feature test macros by adding a definition for NCURSES_WIDECHAR to the generated ".pc" and *-config files (report by Sam James).