ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231125 + add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1 (patch by Branden Robinson). + improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering (patches by Branden Robinson). + modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values (report by Branden Robinson).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230812 + add/use putty+cursor to reflect amending of modified cursor-keys in 2021 -TD + add ecma+strikeout to putty -TD + add functions to query tty-flags in SCREEN (request by Bill Gray).
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230424 + check return value of _nc_save_str(), in special case for tic where extended capabilities are processed but the terminal description was not initialized (report by Ziqiao Kong). + regenerate llib-* files.
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220813 + modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given screen. + amend portability note for delwin in manual page. + adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray. + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol. + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220604 + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220416 + add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data (report/testcase by NCNIPC of China). + add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379). + add setlocale call to several test-programs. + allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on.
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220409 + add test/test_unget_wch.c
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210306 + improved test/test_parm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test. + improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in man/curs_terminfo.3x + update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210213 + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background functions. + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character. + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries. + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20201219 + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3. + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report by Chris Bennett).
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200321 + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables. + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg). + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for a corresponding demo of dup_field().
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 20190121 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h file in Slackware. + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe on some of the BSDs. + updated "string-hacks" feature. + minor improvements to manpage typography. + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by "Hudd"). + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color, extended_color_content + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the return values from the tested functions. + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and extensions. + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter). + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure option was given. + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180609 + modify generatesd ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc., to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian #900839). + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw and vw_scanw, respectively.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20180106 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin. + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-, 256-, etc., colors. + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99 as possible default values. + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the handling of the curses/ncurses library. + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files. + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when configured to access it via weak symbols. + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the behavior. + update URLs for ncurses website to use https. + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc. + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule (report by Jeffrey Walton).
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171028 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c (report by Midolikawa H). + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim). + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line drawing character is drawn. + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen. + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs. + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923). + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for directory-tree terminal databases. + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909). + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170624 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler). + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes (report by Allen Hewes). + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs. + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was not initialized, rather than returning an error. + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963). + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer, assuming that --disable-leaks is configured. + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170401 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic (discussion with Nicholas Marriott) + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent() cache. + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar() works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant calls to get original tty-modes. + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname(). + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is null, as documented. + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to reduce compiler warnings. + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits: + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(), wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set(). + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior, including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(), slk_color_off(), vid_attr(). + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(), extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(), init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170311 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for terminal emulators -TD + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD + add fbterm -TD + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek). + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal 8-bit limit on colors + add ncurses/new_pair.h + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and free_pair() functions + add test/demo_new_pair.c
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20161203 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page. + update curs_trace.3x manual page.