ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230527 + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck.
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20221210 + add minimal -h/-V getopt logic to the remaining test-programs. + free new_pair() data in delscreen (report by "magiblot"). + add clarification of the scope of dynamic variables in terminfo(5). + remove a stray '/' from description of %g in terminfo(5).
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20221203 + add -h usage and -V version options to the test-programs which use getopt. + use "command -v" rather than "type" in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in to fix a portability issue (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez). + update ncurses-howto, more documentation fixes along with corrections to example programs.
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210327 + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs, form and menu libraries.
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 20190817 + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few details where it still differed from SVr4. + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190728 + fix a few more coverity warnings. + more documentation updates based on tctest.
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190623 + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th Edition versions of the tabs utility. + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya Ig Petrov). + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent data for the result from getenv(). + update config.guess, config.sub
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 20170408 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output of mbstowcs(). + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes. + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs. + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not used by tack.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20160910 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with Leon Winter). + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual page (patch by Leon Winter). + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe). + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs. + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20160611 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128). + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow better testing of function-keys. + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses that could be returned -TD + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20160213 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work in threaded configuration. + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h, since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20160116 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents. + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero width. + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
ncurses 6.0 - patch 20151121 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron). + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron). + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.