ncurses 6.4
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220205 + workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit. + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap".
ncurses 6.3
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210418 + improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed before linking to the target. + add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories. + build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum).
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 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 20150704 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity. + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
ncurses 5.6 - patch 20080712 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
ncurses 5.4
ncurses 5.3
ncurses 5.1
ncurses 4.1