ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230701 + fix mandoc warnings about unnecessary markup. + improve parameter check in tparm_setup()
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220903 + modify verbose-option of infocmp, tic, toe to enable debug-tracing if that is configured.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20211009 + implement "+m" option in tabs program. + fill in some details for infoton -TD + fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD + use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD + modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other than reset/init, e.g., for clear. + modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather than the last. + improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp, and smgbp (cf: 20020525). + correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407). + remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present (cf: 20101002).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20211002 + use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_"). + modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to match the documentation. + add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses. + make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when those are used, rather than the underlying program's name. + improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating tput-specific portions. + add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather than binary. + further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from the other BSDs.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210925 + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD + add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the "tabs" +m option -TD + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward reference of anonymous struct typedef. + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line. + minor fixes for tset manpage.
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 20210403 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and progs directory. + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x + improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes. + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning leak-checking off later in a set of options. + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems. + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj Lutter).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210320 + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town, cf: 20200531). + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger) + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that rather than gcc's attribute. + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention. + add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck.
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 20181117 + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing. + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to the compiled-in search list.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171223 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with PDCurses. + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description, e.g., if there is a permission problem. + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2. + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder, OpenSuSE #1070450). + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
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 5.9 - patch 20131214 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian Weisgerber). + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber, cf: 20061230). + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings. + updated llib-l* files.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130525 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in the left margin of the display. + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent use of these symbols in term_entry.h
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130309 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324). + regenerated html manpages. + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302). + updated some autoconf macros: + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build configuration (Redhat 911540). + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20121117 > fixes based on Coverity report: + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places. + various fixes in test/ncurses.c + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c, test/inchs.c + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c, test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c, test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20121026 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat #866989). + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts. + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120721 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name(). + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and use_tioctl(TRUE) are called. + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate use_env() versus use_tioctl().
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120310 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits. + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303). + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120225 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when cross-compiling. + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized. + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds. + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration (cf:20111231) + update config.guess, config.sub