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 6.3 - 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 20220507 + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov). + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks.
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220409 + add test/test_unget_wch.c
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211211 + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters.
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 20200531 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang) + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron). + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes. + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor"). + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
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 20190216 + improve manual page description of TABSIZE. + add test/demo_tabs program.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20181229 + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use as a pipe/filter. + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by discussion with Bryan Christ). + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names. Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability names.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20181124 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary. + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is used. + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris. + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form that lets different curses implementations be compared. + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm (report by Tomas Janousek).
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180203 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent. + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works. + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability. + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
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 20171014 + minor cleanup to test/view.c: + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file. + implement page up/down commands. + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a terminal. + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the attribute values which can be stored in those types. + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs program. + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar(). + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c. + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
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 20170513 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots. The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files. + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is changed (cf: 20170311). + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
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 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