ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210703 + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc., in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries. + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
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 20210417 + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764). + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++ libraries and progs directory. + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments (patch by Hadrien Lacour).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210123 + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich). + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around quirks of pmake.
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 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 20161231 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe). + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath were combined (report by Thomas Klausner). + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work consistently. + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout. + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126). + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in 20161203. + update config.guess, config.sub from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20161224 + correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes() (patch by Leon Winter). + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by patch by Mihail Konev). + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20161022 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize. + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is not optional in tput. + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput. + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow for transformed names. + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20160806 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases. + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same strings. + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature with tput.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20160521 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size. + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options (report by Ola x Nilsson): + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro. + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that cannot combine -c and -o options.
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 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 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 20140726 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by discussion with Paul Gilmartin). + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be used to override the different treatment of justification for static versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter). + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20140524 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variable. + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping. + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded. + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD + correct padding in sbi entry -TD + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm() because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal stack (report by Corinna Vinschen). + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to activate additional checks which compare the results from running tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap expressions. + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton, cf: 20120324). > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez: + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings. + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes instead of <>. + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning was removed by an obsolete pragma. + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter, available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas. + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some compiler flags. + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure package. + removed C_Chtype and its conversions. + removed C_AttrType and its conversions. + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set. + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions. + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions. + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler to be consecutive anyway. + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza + only consider using a project for shared libraries. + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then". + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
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.