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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.

Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.

Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses).  Changes with
no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).

A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.

Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.

20181020
        + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
          from the infocmp -Q option.
        + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
        + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
          symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
        + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
          wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).

20181013
        + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
          to make it an absolute path.

20181006
        + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
          Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
        + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).

20180929
        + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
        + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
        + add alias n7900 -TD
        + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
        + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
        + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
        + add bel to tvi950 -TD
        + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
        + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
        + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD

20180923
        + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
          by Chris Clayton).

20180922
        + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
          if the terminal were resized.
        + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
          #1610681, cf: 20141011).
        + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
          since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.

20180908
        + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
        + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
          marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
          character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
          fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
        + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
          update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
          output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
        + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
          implementations of sysconf().

20180901
        + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
          parameter.
        + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
          "too large".
        + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).

20180825
        + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
          terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
        + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
          deb test-packages.
        + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
          toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
        + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
          20180818 updates.

20180818
        + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
        + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
        + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
          install (Debian #903790):
          + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
            static libraries.
          + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
            sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
            in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.

20180804
        + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
          scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
          the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
          display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).

20180728
        + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
        + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
        + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.

20180721
        + build-fixes for gcc8.
        + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
        + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
        + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD

20180714
        + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
        + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.

20180707
        + build-fixes for gcc8.
        + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
          report_offsets.
        + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
          empty (Debian #902630).

20180630
        + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
          add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
        + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
          (Nicholas Marriott).
        + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
          + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
            locale support.
          + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations

20180623
        + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
          to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
          compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
        + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
          updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
          CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
          CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
        + update config.guess, config.sub from
                http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git

20180616
        + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
        + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
          combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
        + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
          use of vsscanf and setenv.
        + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
          work on dialog.

20180609
        + modify generated 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.

20180602
        + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
        + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.

20180526
        + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
        + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
          files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
          Pascual Monells).
        + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
        + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
          work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c

20180519
        + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
        + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
          fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
          (report by C Anthony Risinger)
        + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
        + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
          for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).

20180512
        + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
        + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
        + fix several minor Coverity warnings.

20180505
        + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
          versions of tack.
        + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
          alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
          the given graphic character.  This would happen in an older terminal
          such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
        + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
          conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
        + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
          for escaping regular expressions.

20180428
        + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
          Winter).
        + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
          (report by Leon Winter).
        + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
                unfocus_current_field (form);
                form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
          (patch by Leon Winter).

20180414
        + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
          edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
        + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
          non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
        + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
        + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
        + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
          a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).

20180407
        + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
          not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
        + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
          Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
          interface.  Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
          interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
          As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
          values, e.g., keyname().

20180331
        + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
          extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
          string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).

20180324
        + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
          0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
        + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
        + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
        + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD

20180317
        + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
          it should have.
        + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
          different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
        + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
        + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
          terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
          by Gyorgy Jeney).

20180303
        + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
          avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
        + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
        + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
          verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
          (report/patch by Werner Fink).
        + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
          on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
          better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
        + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
          for threads to make the report more readable.  Reorganized the
          structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
        + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
        + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
          how similar the different tinfo configurations are.

20180224
        + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
          a "use=" clause of extended capabilities.  The problem was seen in a
          defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
          compounded by repair in 20180121.
        + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
        + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
        + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).

20180217
        + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
        + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
        + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
        + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
          Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).

20180210
        + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
          the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
          is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
        + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
          was needed, was standardized long ago.
        + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
        + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
          and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
          normally enabled.

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).

20180129
        + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.

20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org

20180127
        + updated release notes
        + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
          of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
        > terminfo changes:
        + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
          not suitable -TD
        + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
        + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
          konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
        + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
          imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
        + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
          support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
        + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
        + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
        + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
        + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
        + add iterm2-direct -TD
        + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
        + add mlterm-direct -TD
        + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD

20180121 pre-release
        > terminfo changes:
        + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
          blocks from xterm #331 -TD
        + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
          #331 -TD
        + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
          color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
        + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
        + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
          match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
        + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
        + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
        + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
          direct-colors are wanted -TD
        + add vte-direct -TD
        + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
          Pierre Carru)
        + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
        + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
          mode does not work with those programs.  konsole is debatable -TD
        + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
        > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
        + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
          numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer.  The test programs
          such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
          this feature.
        + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
          tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
        + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
          ncurses library work as expected.
        + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
          read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
        + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
          term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
        + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
          a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
        + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
        + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
          wide-character configuration to 32768.

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.

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).

20171230
        + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
          reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
        + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
          script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
          directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
        + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files.  While there are
          some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
          anticipated.
        + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
          conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.

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.

20171216
        + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
        + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
          for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
        + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.

20171209
        + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
          consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
          configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
          are.
        + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
          function in link_test.c
        + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
        + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
          LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
          linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
        + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5

20171125
        + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
          before initialized.
        + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
        + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
        + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
          Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
        + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
          + it lacks the use_env() function.
          + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
        + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
          value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
          error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
        + additional manpage cleanup.
        + update config.guess, config.sub from
                http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git

20171118
        + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
        + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
        + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
        + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
        + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
        + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
        + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
          account for xon -TD
        + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
          rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
        + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
          those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
          otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
          jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
          dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
          st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
        + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
          of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
          Vassili Courzakis).

20171111
        + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
        + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
        + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
        + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.

20171104
        + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
          dots_xcurses.c
        + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
        + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
          test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.

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

20171021
        + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
          than in the test-program.
        + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
        + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
        + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.

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.

20171007
        + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
          the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
        + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
          with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
        + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
          database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
          terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
        + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
          not slk_color().
        + regenerate man-html documentation.

20170930
        + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
          Solaris xpg4 curses.
        + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
          Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
        + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
          tin.
        + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
        + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
          signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
        + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
        + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
          documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
          values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
          short.  Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
          two sets.

20170923
        + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
        + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
        + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.

20170916
        + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
        + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.

20170909
        + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
          which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
        + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
          behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
        + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
          using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
        + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
          consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
        + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
          + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit
            checks in some libraries.
          + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
            not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
        + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
        + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).

20170902
        + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
          logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
        + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
          (Debian #873746).  Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
          and tput.c

20170827
        + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).

20170826
        + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
        + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
          over missing/cancelled values.
        + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
          special key.
        + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
          cancelled string capabilities.
        + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
          name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
        + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
          + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
            nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
            as input (Redhat #1484274).
          + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
          + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
            #1484284).
          + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
          + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
          + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
            cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
        + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
        + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
          X/Open Curses.
        + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
          panel libraries.

20170819
        + update "iterm" entry -TD
        + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
        + regenerate llib-* files.
        + regenerate HTML manpages.
        + improve picsmap test-program:
          + reduce memory used for tsearch
          + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
        + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
          (cf: 20130622).
        + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
        + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
        + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
        + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().

20170812
        + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
          Stephane Chazelas).
        + add reset_color_pairs() function.
        + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
          by ncurses.
        + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
          script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
        + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
          /usr/share/ncurses-examples
        + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
          color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
        + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
          current screen is marked for clearing.
        + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
          loading image files.
        + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
          on demand up to the existing limit.
        + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
          improve color_content().
        + improve picsmap test-program:
          + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
            checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
            suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
            /usr/share/ncurses-examples
          + add "-l" option for logging
          + add "-d" option for debugging
          + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
            with time delay.
          + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
        + update config.guess, config.sub from
                http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git

20170729
        + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
        + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
        + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
        + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
          Williams) -TD
        + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
          cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
        + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
          tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
          parameters for a capability and the actual.
        + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
          report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
          + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
            alternate character set is enabled.
          + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
        + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
          tack for memory-leak checking.
        + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
          configure option.  Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
          a few packagers combine it during the build.  If term_entry.h is
          installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
        + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
          needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree.  Rather than relying upon
          internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
          string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
          curses.  It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
          extended capability arrays.
        + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722

20170722
        + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
        + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
          the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
          ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
          term-driver configuration.
        + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
          files to allow each to be compiled separately.
        + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
          using tic-library will have to supply this file.  Legacy tack
          versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
          dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.

20170715
        + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
          with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
        + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
        + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
          (Debian #868266).
        + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
        + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.

20170708
        + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
        + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).

20170701
        + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
          variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
          application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
        + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
          configuration; none is needed.
        + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
        + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
          fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
          not work (cf: 20160213).
        + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
          reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
          reproducible.  Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
          showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
          addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
        + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
          (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
          + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
          + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
            one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
            treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
        + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
        + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
        + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
        + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
          (report by Allen Hewes).

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).

20170617
        + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
          (report by Allen Hewes).
        + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
          to help with leak checking.
        + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
          checking.
        + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
          cannot be initialized.

20170610
        + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
        + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
        + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c

20170603
        + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
          to xterm-256color.
        + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
          end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
          (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
        + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
          configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.

20170527
        + improved test/picsmap.c:
          + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
          + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
          + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.

20170520
        + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
        + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
          related files can be checked with lintian.
        + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).

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.

20170506
        + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
          they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
        + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
        + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
        + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
          (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
        + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
        + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c

20170429
        + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
          overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
        + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
        + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
        + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
          null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
          for better compatibility with other implementations.
        + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
        + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
          value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
        + update config.guess, config.sub from
                http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git

20170422
        + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
        + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
          characters.
        + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
          marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
          implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
          On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
        + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
          icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
        + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
          add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
        + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
          a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
        + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
        + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
          and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
          avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
        + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
          written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
        + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
          when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
          characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
        + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
          preference to "%02" on output.
        + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
          "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
        + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.

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.

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.

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.

20170325
        + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
          (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
        + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
          checks.
        + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
          called (report by "Kau").
        + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.

20170318
        + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque.  Some
          applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
          rather than using def_prog_mode().
        + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
          externals that are used by tack.
        + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
        + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
        + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
          Robinson).
        + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
        + regenerate man-html documentation.

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

20170304
        + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
        + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
        + improve description of endwin() in manual.
        + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
          error.
        + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).

20170225
        + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).

20170218
        + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
        + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
          explicitly cancelled.  Before this fix, the result was that all were
          treated as only absent.
        + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
          that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
          e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".

20170212
        + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
          + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
          + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
          + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
        + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
          --enable-sp-funcs option.
        + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
          without modifying API/ABI.
        + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
          similar options for the other libraries.

20170204
        + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
          to db-iterator.
        + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
          instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
        + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
        + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
          as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
        + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
          "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
        + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.

20170128
        + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
        + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
        + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
          reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
          (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
        + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
        + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD

20170121
        + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
        + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
          provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
        + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
          termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
        + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
          omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
          (cf: 990123).
        + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
          clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.

20170114
        + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
        + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
          available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
        + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
          error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
          variable.

20170107
        + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
          is run as "reset", like tset.  Likewise, ensure that tset sends
          either reset- or init-strings.
        + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
          to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
        + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
        + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
          state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
          the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
        + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
        + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
          and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
          compatibility (cf:  20120714).
        + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
          use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.

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

20161224
        + correct parameters 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.

20161217
        + add tput-colorcube demo script.
        + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
        + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
          e.g., when called via putp.  This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
          did not work after changes in 20130112.

20161210
        + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
          where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
          development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
          the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
          Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
        + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
          from a data file.
        + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.

20161203
        + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
        + update curs_trace.3x manual page.

20161126
        + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
          ncv capability -TD
        + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
          reverse-video control -TD
        + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
          entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping.  The reset
          feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
        + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
          when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
          video escape without using a delay.
        + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
        + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
          Shwartz).

20161119
        + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
          proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
        + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
          by various discussions including
          http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer

20161112
        + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
          + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
          + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
          + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line

20161105
        + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
        + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.

20161029
        + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)

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.

20161015
        + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
          affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations.  While
          merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
          "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
          doupdate.
        + regenerate llib-* files.
        + regenerate HTML manpages.
        + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.

20161008
        + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
        + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
        + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.

20161001
        + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap.  This is
          in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
          a given line-length.
        + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
        + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD

20160924
        + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
          percent sign, to work with minitel change.
        + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).

20160917
        + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
        + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).

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.

20160903
        + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
          by Rich Coe).
        + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
          all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
          of comments.
        + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
          preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
          leaving the residue in CC.  That happens to work for gcc's various
          "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
          by Sven Joachim).

20160827
        + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
          values.
        + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
          lib_baudrate.c
        + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
          + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
          + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
            (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
        + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
          as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
        + update config.guess, config.sub from
                http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git

20160820
        + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
          modes by sharing functions with tset.
        + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
          command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
        + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
          "-a" option.  When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
          alternate screen.
        + correct a typo in interix entry -TD

20160813
        + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
          handle a case of "configure && make install".
        + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
          in sed (Debian #818067).

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.

20160730
        + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
          standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
          output or error are redirected.
        + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
          manual pages.

20160723
        + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
          redirected to a file or pipe.
        + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x

20160709
        + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
          building link_test.
        + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
          for special keys, based on xterm.

20160702
        + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.

20160625
        + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
        + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
          work (report by Sven Joachim).

20160618
        + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
        + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
          to make it more readable.

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

20160604
        + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
        + add test/list_keys.c

20160528
        + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
        + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.

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.

20160514
        + regenerate HTML manpages.
        + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
          might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
        + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
        + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
          entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
        + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).

20160507
        + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
          special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
          cf: 20151017).
        + modify test/ncurses.c:
          + check return-value of putwin
          + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
            to keypad- and scroll-modes.
        + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).

20160423
        + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
          color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
          and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
        + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
          xterm -TD

20160416
        + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
          PIC builds documented in
                  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
        + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
          due to program-transformation configure options.
        + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.

20160409
        + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
          available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.

20160402
        + regenerate HTML manpages.
        + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
          X/Open Curses.

20160326
        + regenerate HTML manpages.
        + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
          to switch the active menu.  This requires a new extension option
          O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
          apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
          can handle the event.

20160319
        + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
        + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
          that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
          non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).

20160312
        + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
          polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
          as responding to window size-changes.

20160305
        + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
          does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).

20160220
        + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
          ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
          in case weak symbols are used.
        + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
          rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
          cf: 20061021).
        + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
          winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
        + update config.guess, config.sub from
                http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git

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.

20160206
        + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
        + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
          override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
          configuration.

20160130
        + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
        + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
          unwanted blank lines.

20160123
        + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
          (report by Corey Minyard).
        + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.

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.

20160102
        + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
          screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
        + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
          SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.

20151226
        + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
          color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
        + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.

20151219
        + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
          with James Crippen).
        + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
          check into account.
        + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
          characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.

20151212
        + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
          needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
          does not work.  Also modified the test program to ensure that if
          building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
          normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
        + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
          in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
          drawing characters as double-width.

20151205
        + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
          function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
        + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
          rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
          listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
          listed in the NAME section.  The latter is used to reduce clutter,
          e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
          feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
          Jason McIntyre).

20151128
        + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
          Leon Winter).
        + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
          (Debian #805618).
        + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
        + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
        + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
          backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
        + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).

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.

20151107
        + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
          which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
          name.  That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
          tset from termcap to terminfo.  The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
          this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
          Burridge).
        + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
          are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
        + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
          renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
          normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).

20151101
        + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
          valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
          actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
          install time (cf: 20150822).
        + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
          clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
          empty "local" section.
        + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
          to incorrect attribute-masking.

20151024
        + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
          to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
        + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
          annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
          did not display well.
        + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
        + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
        + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
          the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
          Normand, Novell #946048).
        + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
          FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
        + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
          minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
        + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
        + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
          Internet Archive -TD
        + update config.guess, config.sub from
                http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git

20151017
        + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
          (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
        + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
          data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
          (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
        > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
        + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
        + support building with libtool on OS/2
        + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
        + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2

20151010
        + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
        + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
        + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
        + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
          change.
        + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
          fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
          (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).

20150926
        + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
          than clean.
        + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
        + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.

20150919
        + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
          stream.
        + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
          read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
        + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
          configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)

20150912
        + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
          William Gallafent).
          + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
            solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
            of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
          + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
            "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
          + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
            library.
          + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS

20150905
        + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
          UTF-8.
        + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
          all comments from the "tic -I" output.
        + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
          header.
        + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
          form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.

20150822
        + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
          see unused letters.
        + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
        + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
        + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
        + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
          ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
          Joshua Root).

20150815
        + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
          overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
        + update release notes in INSTALL.
        + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.

20150810
        + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
          releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim).  See
                https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727

20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org

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.

20150725
        + updated llib-* files.
        + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
        + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
          Mikhail Peselnik).
        + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
        + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
        + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
          curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
          curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
          curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
          curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x

20150719
        + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
        + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
          curs_initscr.3x page.
        + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
          of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
          in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
          Coverity).
        + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
          e.g., ncursestw library.

20150711
        + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
          configuration of ncurses6.
        + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
          demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
          the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
          versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
        + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).

20150704
        + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
        + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
          (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf:  20141213).

20150627
        + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
          building ABI 6.
        + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
          map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
          suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
        + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
          from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
        + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
          databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
        + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
          setupterm and restartterm functions.
        + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
          of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
          it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
          Schindelin).

20150613
        + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
        + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
          the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files.  That makes the
          files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols.  This also
          corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
          configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
          discussion with Sven Joachim).
        + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).

20150606 pre-release
        + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
          intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
          "--with-abi-version=5" option.
        + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
        + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
        + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
          Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
        + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
          ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
          lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
        + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
          "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
        + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
          CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.

20150530
        + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
          mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
        + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
        + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
        + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
          have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
        + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
          cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).

20150523
        + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
        + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
          by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
        + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
        + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
          for 256 colors -TD
        + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
        + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.

20150516
        + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
          may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
        + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
          ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
          updates.
        + regenerate html manpages.
        + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
          discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
          Stack Overflow forum):

20150509
        + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
          MinGW test-packages.  These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
        + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
        + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
        + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
          the tinfo library.

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

20150425
        + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
          (report by Todd M Lewis).
        + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
          than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
        + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
          check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
          frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
        + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
          rpath option.
        + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
        + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
          keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
        + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
        + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
          long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
        + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).

20150418
        + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
          a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
        + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
          wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
        + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
        + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
          with the shared libraries.
        + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
          ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
          NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
                  adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
                  adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
        + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
        + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
          inherit into new windows.

20150404
        + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
        + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
          const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
          readonly text segment.

20150329
        + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
          same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)

20150328
        + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
          the extended putwin/getwin.
        + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
          putwin/getwin.
        + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
          putwin/getwin.

20150321
        + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
          getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
          wide/normal ncurses configurations.  These are text files, except
          for a magic code at the beginning:
          0       string          \210\210        Screen-dump (ncurses)

20150307
        + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
          with John S Urban).
        + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
          and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.

20150228
        + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
          usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
          (report by Grady Martin).

20150221
        + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
          and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
          the wide-character libraries.
        + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
          directory.
        + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
          by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).

20150214
        + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
        + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
          for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
          Fink).

20150131
        + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
          the combinations of configure options used at each stage.

20150124
        + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
          ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_".  On at
          least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
        + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
          ncurses/Makefile.in (cf:  20130706).

20150117
        + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
        + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
          configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).

20150110
        + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
          symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
        + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
          with FreeBSD ports.
        + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
          ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
          all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
        + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
          use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
        + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
          cross-compiles.  Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
          rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
        + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
          (report by Pavel Balaev).

20150103
        + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
        + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
          via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
        + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
          variations in ABI 6.

20141227
        + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
          the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
          Sven Joachim).

20141221
        + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
          Sven Joachim).

20141220
        + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
        + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
          together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
          the ABI 5 libraries.
        + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
          regenerate html-manpages.

20141213
        + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
          when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
          De Meo).
        + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
          ".pc" files and the corresponding library.  Use this in the test
          package for ncurses6.
        + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
          is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
        + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
          in the corresponding ".map" files.
        + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
          from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
          Joachim).

20141206
        + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
          the different library configurations has the same label.  Some
          review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
        + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
          gcc introduced here:
                  https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
                  https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
          (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
        + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.

20141129
        + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
          ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
          A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
          symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
          which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).

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.

20141101
        + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
          and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
          not apply.

20141025
        + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
          msys2 configuration.

20141018
        + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions.  None of
          the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
        + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
          correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
          in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
          in recent changes.
        + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
          (report by Mike Gran).

20141011
        + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
          demonstration of its limitations.
        + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
        + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
        + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
          exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
        + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
          are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
          to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
          Greg Field).
        + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
        + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.

20140927
        + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
        + implement flash in win_driver.c
        + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
          focus.
        + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
          win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
          window-size to eliminate the scrollback.  Also enforce a minimum
          screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
        + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
          dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
          for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
          20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).

20140920
        + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
        + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
          some older cross-compiler environments.
        + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
          (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
          See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
          which relates to the clarified guidelines.
        + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
          for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
        + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
        + update config.sub from
                http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git

20140913
        + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
          C++ cross-compilers.
        + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9

20140906
        + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
          NetBSD.
        + minor compiler-warning fixes.

20140831
        + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
          options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
          a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.

20140823
        + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
          width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
          cf: 20050813).

20140816
        + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
          it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
        + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.

20140809
        + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
          reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
          in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
        + regenerated html manpages.
        + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
          having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
          which reverses cause/effect.
        + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
          have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
        + fixes for win_driver.c:
          + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
          + implement beep().
          + minor cleanup.

20140802
        + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
          + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
          + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
          + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
            "trace" feature:
            http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
        + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
        + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
          typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
          (cf: 20140726).

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).

20140719
        + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
        + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
          options, from xterm changes.

20140712
        + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
        + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
          without sp-funcs.

20140705
        + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
          video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.

20140629
        + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
          NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
        + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
          subwindows.  This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
          fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
        + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
          compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).

20140621
        + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
          conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
        + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
          upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
        + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
          total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
          providing directly comparable screens.
        + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.

20140614
        + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
          (cf: 20140524).
        + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
          reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
        + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
        + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
        + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
        + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
        + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD

20140609
        > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
          Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
        + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
        + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
          screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD

20140607
        + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
          overlap with sgr functionality.
        + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
          option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
        + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
        + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
          packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
        + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
          older ncurses than 20131207.
        + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
        + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
        + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
        + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
        + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.

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.

20140510
        + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
        + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
          which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.

20140503
        + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
        + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
          ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
          (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).

20140426
        + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
          Pfeifer).
        + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
          simplify later merging:
          + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
          + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
          + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
        + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
          the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
          cf: 20090927).

20140419
        + update config.guess, config.sub from
                http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git

20140412
        + modify configure script:
          + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
          + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
            with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
        + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
          + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
          + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
          + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
          + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
            "#win32console", and
          + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
            to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.

20140329
        + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
        + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
          with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
        + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
          get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
        + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
          0.4.1 -TD

20140323
        + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD

20140322
        + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
        + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
          using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
        + add terminology entry -TD
        + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
        + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD

20140315
        + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
          top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
          on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
        + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
          be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
          Soren Brinkmann).

20140308
        + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
          NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
        + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
        + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
          allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).

20140301
        + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).

20140222
        + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
        + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
        + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
          console -TD

20140215
        + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
          allocating a console-buffer.  This uses a pre-existing environment
          variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
          discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
          when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
        + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
          scrolling-stages.
        + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
          html emitted by docbook.

20140209
        + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
          _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined.  g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
          has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
          (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).

20140201
        + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
          which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
        + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
          representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
          least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
        + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).

20140125
        + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
          not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
          new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
          by Nicolas Boulenguez).

20140118
        + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
          gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).

20131221
        + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
          manpages.  See
          ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html

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.

20131207
        + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
          well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
          Hope).

20131123
        + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
          recognized by clang.

20131116
        + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
          definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
          Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
          Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
        + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
          strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
          together initialization- or reset-strings.  The problem dates to
          1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
          gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
        + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
          checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
          and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
          -Wvarargs
        + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
          work on cdk.
        + update config.sub from
                http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git

20131110
        + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail

20131102
        + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
        + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
        + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
          http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
          (Debian #727119).
        + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD

20131027
        + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
          reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
        + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
          them more consistent with other packages.

20131019
        + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
          compiling ncurses-examples.
        + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.

20131014
        + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).

20131012
        + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
        + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
        + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
          cross-compiles to MinGW.
        + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
          MinGW using NSIS.

20131005
        + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
        + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
          to MinGW.

20130928
        + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
          it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
          addressed.
        + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
          OpenBSD 5.3
        + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
        + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
          nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
        + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
        + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.

20130921
        + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
        + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
          by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).

20130907
        + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
          Alexey Pavlov).
        + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
          before/after Debian #700177.
        + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
        + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
          Alexey Pavlov).
        + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
          of sort, improving portability.
        + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
        + update config.guess, config.sub from
                http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git

20130831
        + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
          attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
          italics test.
        + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
          character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
        + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).

20130824
        + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
        + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
          introduced by Debian #700177.
        + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
          was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).

20130816
        + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
          addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
          generic_type.
        + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
        + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
          port when tic and other programs are not needed.

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.

20130727
        + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
          + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
          + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
          + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
            dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
          + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
            rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
          + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
            are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
          + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
        + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
          the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).

20130720
        + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
          initialization of cur_term.

20130713
        + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
        + minor compiler-warning fixes

20130706
        + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
        + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
          wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
        + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
          --enable-auto-import flag.
        + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
          table issues.

20130622
        + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
          capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
          Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
        + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
        + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
          of sgr.
        + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
        + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
          (patch by Eric Raymond).

20130615
        + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
        + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
          + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
            tab-lists options.
          + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
          + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
            not printing the full pathname of the program.
          + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
        + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
          such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).

20130608
        + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
          as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
          function pointer.
        + add test/dots_termcap.c
        + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
        + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
        + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
          into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
          expansion to free-format input/out demo.
        + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
        + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
          terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
        + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
          cf: 20121117).
        + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
          --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).

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

20130518
        + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
          interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
        + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
          20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
        + regenerated html manpages.
        + update doctype used for html documentation.

20130511
        + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
          plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
        + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
        + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
          prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
          (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).

20130504
        + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
          + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
            display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
          + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
          + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().

20130427
        + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
        + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.

20130413
        + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
          (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
        + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
        + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
          type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
          Gribenko).
        + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
          (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
        + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
          c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).

20130406
        + improve parameter checking in copywin().
        + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
          choose glibtool instead.  At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
          to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
          in cross-compiling.
        + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
          (Redhat #911540)
        + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
          Fink).
        + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.

20130324
        + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
          and Roumen Petrov).

20130323
        + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
          (report by Christian Ebert).
        + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
          with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
        + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)

20130316
        + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
        + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
        + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
          add bold for consistency with sgr,
          change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
        + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
        + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
          by Benjamin Sittler)
        + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
          operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
        + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
          line split after "%;".
        + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
          library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).

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).

20130302
        + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
        + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
          is obsolete.
        + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
          treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
          printable.
        + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
        + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
          of raw input in MinGW port.

20130218
        + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by  Werner Fink).
        + update config.guess, config.sub

20130216
        + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
          pdcurses.
        + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
          ncurses.
        + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
          check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error.  This can happen
          when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
          Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
        + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
          + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
          + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
            use after free.
          + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
          + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c

20130209
        + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
          of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
          MinGW environment.
        + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
          no corresponding compiled-in value for that.  Fill in "no default
          value" for that part of the manpage substitution.

20130202
        + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
          an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
        + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.

20130126
        + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
          needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
        + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
          help reduce flicker.
        + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
          old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
        + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
          by Dennis Grevenstein).
        + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
          Dennis Grevenstein).
        + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
          rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
          (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).

20130119
        + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
          + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
          + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
          + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
          + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
          + improve error-checking in copywin
        + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
        + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
          demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
        + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
          matching capability names.
        + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
          applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
          termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).

20130112
        + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
        + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
          are unused in the current driver model.
        + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
          library.
        + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
        + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
          putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
          The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).

20130105
        + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
          mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
          MinGW changes.
        + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
        + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
          screen updates.  This does not yet work with double-width characters,
          so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
          Waterlander regarding screen flicker).

20121229
        + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
        + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
        + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
          numbers.

20121222
        + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
          for Mac OS builds.
        + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
          available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
          cf: 20011208).
        + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
          that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
          wide-character which can be used.

20121215
        + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
          a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
        + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
          by Erwin Waterlander).
        + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
        > fixes based on Coverity report:
        + correct coloring in test/bs.c
        + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
        + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
        + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
          test-programs.

20121208
        + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
          each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
          Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
        + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
          the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
        > fixes based on Coverity report:
        + remove a few redundant checks.
        + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
          ship.
        + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
        + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
        + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
        + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
          terminal driver.
        + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
        + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
        + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
          used.

20121201
        + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
        + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
          regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
          do not work.

20121124
        + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
          test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
        > fixes based on Coverity report:
        + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.

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.

20121110
        + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
          local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
          options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
          Vassili Courzakis).
        + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
          the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
          libraries or executables.

20121102
        + realign these related pages:
            curs_add_wchstr.3x
            curs_addchstr.3x
            curs_addstr.3x
            curs_addwstr.3x
          and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
          length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
          (report by Reuben Thomas).
        + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
        + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
        + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
        + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
          based on testing with tack -TD
        + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
          starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD

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.

20121017
        + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
          (Redhat #866989).

20121013
        + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
          (patch by Christian Persch).

20121006
        + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
          --version message.
        + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
          + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
            has used that for a while.
          + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
            for experimental use.
          + remove unused configure macros.
        + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
          for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
        + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
        + update config.guess, config.sub

20120922
        + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
          for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
        + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
          use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
          "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
        + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
          older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).

20120908
        + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
          to help with MinGW port.

20120903
        + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
          there.
        + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.

20120902
        + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).

20120901
        + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
        + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
          might not be allocated.
        + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.

20120826
        + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
          initial screen-sizes.
        + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
          after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
          Roumen Petrov).

20120825
        + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
          rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
          by Brian Bloniarz).

20120811
        + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
          (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
        + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
          INSTALL file.
        + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
        + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD

20120804
        + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
        + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
        + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
          for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
          Sven Joachim, cf:  20120317).
        + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
          --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
          cf: 20110716).

20120728
        + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
          is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
        + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
        + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
        + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
        + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
        + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
          in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc.  (patch by Nick
          Black).

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().

20120714
        + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
          Novell #769788):

20120707
        + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
          Juergen Pfeifer).
        + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
          by Novell #769788).
        + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
          if screensize is unchanged.  Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
          KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
          resizeterm().  These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
          received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
          dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).

20120630
        + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
          Pfeifer).
        + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
        + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
          some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
          llib-lncurses.
        + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
          cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).

20120622
        + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
        + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
          Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).

20120616
        + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
          warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
          are enabled.
        + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
          by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
          a new primary name.
        + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
        + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).

20120608
        + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
          (cf: 20120526).
        + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
          by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
        + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
          is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
        + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
          The resulting packages are used only for testing.

20120602
        + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
        + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
        + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
        + add dl to simpleterm -TD
        + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
          controls, and insert/delete-char keys
        + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
          duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
          entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
          command-line.
        + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
          analysis by Martin Husemann).
        + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
          Onno van der Linden).

20120526
        + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
          entries.
        + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
          two are given.
        + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
          freebsd-hackers mailing list).

20120512
        + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
        + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
          holding a colored ACS_HLINE.  The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
          the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
        + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
          unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
        + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD

20120505
        + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
        + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
        + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
        + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
        + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
        + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
        + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
          configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.

20120428
        + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
        + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
        + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
        + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
        + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
        + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
        + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
        + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
        + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
          are interpreted as key definitions.
        + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
          capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
          keys.

20120421
        + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
        + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
        + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
        + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
        + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
          capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
          as building-blocks -TD
        + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD

20120414
        + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
          applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
          title is a status-line.  -TD
        + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
          of ordering and overrides -TD
        + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
        + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
          used in that file -TD

20120407
        + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
          non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
          definable capabilities.
        + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
          followed by terminfo capabilities.  Previously the description had to
          be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
          between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
          embedded in the description.
        + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
          the --with-xterm-kbs option.
        + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
        + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
          override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
          default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).

20120331
        + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
        + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
        + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
          is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
          Nicolas Boulenguez).
        + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
          the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
          using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)

20120324
        + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
          e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
        + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
          a character device.  Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
          the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
          Joachim) (cf: 20000923).

20120317
        + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
          can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
        + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
          (cf: 20040327).
        + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
        + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
          reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
        + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.

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):

20120303
        + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
          regarding mapping of \0 to \200
        + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
          loops.
        + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
          calls to setupterm().
        + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
          debug-trace.
        > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
        + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
        + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
          runtime linker
        + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
          fallback entries

20120228
        + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).

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

20120218
        + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
          the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
        + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
          mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
        + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
          broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
        + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
        + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
          depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).

20120211
        + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
        + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
          Linux versus most other systems.

20120204
        + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
          better diagnostics.

20120128
        + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
        + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
        + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
        + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
        + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
        + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
          give verbose warnings (cf:  20110730).
        + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
          consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
          (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).

20120121
        + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
          of OS/2 EMX.
        + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
          port.
        + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
          path is a directory or file, according to the need.  Checking for
          directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
        + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).

20120114
        + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
          Linux Mint forum):
          + modify movement commands to make them continuous
          + rewrote the test for mvderwin
          + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
        + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
        + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
          and OpenBSD.
        + regenerated html manpages.

20120107
        + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
          + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
          + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
          + change recommended regular expression library.
          + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
          + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.

20111231
        + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
          a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
        + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
        + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
          caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
        + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
          given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
          by Sven Joachim).

20111224
        + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
          with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
          analysis.
        + add putty-sco entry -TD

20111217
        + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
          was not being used.
        + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
          could use.
        + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
          are all enabled.  The terminal driver depends on a few features in
          the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
          and termlib.
        + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
          enabled.
        + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.

20111210
        + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
          pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
        + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
          for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
          _SGI_SOURCE.
        + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
          tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
        + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.

20111203
        + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
          copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
          Debian #646977).
        + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.

20111126
        + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
          (cf: 20111001).
        + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
          absolute pathname.
        + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
          use.
        + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
        + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
          generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
          been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
        + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
          ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
          from patch by Mike Frysinger).

20111119
        + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
          from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
          (cf: 20110416)
        + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
          i.e., the database iterator was not initialized.  This case is needed
          to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
          database (cf:  20111001).

20111112
        + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
        + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
          600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
          C++ header files.
        + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
          e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
          by Robert Millan).
        + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
          in older FreeBSD machines.
        + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
          _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
        + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.

20111030
        + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
          directory as an existing "terminfo" directory.  This fixes a case
          where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
          new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
          root's home directory.
        + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
          config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
        + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
          accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
        + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
          interdependencies.
        + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
          compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
          This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
          binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
          incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
          (report by Peter Kruse).

20111022
        + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
          events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
          (cf: 20110917).
        + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
          gnat does not work.
        + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
          internal functions of libncurses.  The external interface of courses
          uses bool, which still produces these warnings.

20111015
        + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
          clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
          option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
        + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
          "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
        + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.

20111008
        + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
        + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
        + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
          of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
          other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).

20111001
        + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
          source-output.  That allows the same flag to control the parser for
          input and output of termcap source.
        + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
          making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
        + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
          text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
        + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
          conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
          normally following in the source file.  Also improved the warning
          message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
        + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.

20110925
        + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().

20110924
        + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
          filesystem.
        + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
        + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
          TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
          to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
          Alcock aka "Nix").
        + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).

20110917
        + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
        + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
          Guibouret).
        + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
          (patch by Damien Guibouret).

20110910
        + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
          the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
          (cf: 20110716).
        + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
          of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
          cf: 20100102).
        + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
        + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
          the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
          the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
          Meunier).
        + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
          FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
        + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
          show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
          is used.
        + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
          --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).

20110903
        + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
          increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
          by Tim van der Molen, cf:  20020713).
        + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).

20110820
        + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
          not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
        + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
        + add terminator entry -TD
        + add simpleterm entry -TD
        + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
          null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
          (cf: 20110528).

20110813
        + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
        + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
          database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
        + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
          entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
          guaranteed to be unique.  Also ignore these aliases when reporting
          the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
        + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
          accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
        + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
          error-return.

20110807
        + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
          variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
        + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
        + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
        + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
        + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
          from tic/infocmp.
        + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
          field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
        + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
          use a single line.
        + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.

20110730
        + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
          directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
          around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
        + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
          for termcap output.
        + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
          "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
          features:
          + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
          + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
            termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
          + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
        + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
          there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
        + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
        + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
          freed memory.
        + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
          values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
          positive.
        + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
          feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
          tctest (cf: 19991211).
        + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
          from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
        + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
          a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
        + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
          translating to termcap.
        + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
          getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.

20110723
        + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
          extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
        + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
          the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
        + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
        + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
          (Yuri Pankov).
        + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
          to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
          regarding Schilling's test program):
          + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
          + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
          + use \040 rather than \s
          + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
        + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.

20110716
        + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
          pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
        + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
          PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
        + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
        + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
        + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
        + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
        + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
        + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
        + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
          definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).

20110702
        + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
          are not used in the $CC variable.
        + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
          7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
        + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
        + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
          works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
          at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).

20110626
        + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
          is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
          Sven Joachim).

20110625
        + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
          exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
          comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
        + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
          tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
          Sergio NNX).
        + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
        + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
          ripoffline().
        + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.

20110611
        + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
        + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).

20110604
        + fixes for MirBSD port:
          + set default prefix to /usr.
          + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
          + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
        + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
        + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.

20110528
        + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
        + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
          not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
          to the library.  Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
          #707344).
        + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
          with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
          pointers, etc.

20110521
        + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"

20110514
        + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
        + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
        + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
          configure script:
          + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
            test-expression to be omitted from executable.
          + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
            help work around weak-symbol issues.

20110507
        + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
          script is used automatically via the configured makefiles.  However
          there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
          (report by Gunter Schaffler).
        + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
          "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
        + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
          configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
          ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
        + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
          (report by Joachim Schmitz).

20110430
        + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
          is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
          Boulenguez):
        + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc.  This
          undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
          to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
          warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).

20110423
        + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
        + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
          as different types on some Unix systems.
        + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
          function pointer passed to tputs().
        + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
          assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
        + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
          assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().

20110416
        + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
          the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
          and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
        + update config.guess, config.sub

20110409
        + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
          Kolesen).
        + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
          some ncurses packages.
        + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
        + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
          test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.

20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org

20110402
        + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
        + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
          packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
          the in-tree build of sample programs.
        + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
          needed for rpm script.
        + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
          making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
          options if building a shared library with gnat.

20110329
        > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
        + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat.  This is
          needed for the "rain" sample program.  If SIGINT does not work, omit
          that sample program.
        + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
        + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
          which were added in 5.7 and later.
        + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
          upon GNU sed.

20110326
        + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
          code.
        + regen Ada html documentation.
        + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
        + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
          builds.
        + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
          CF_X_ATHENA_LIBS.
        + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
          libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
        + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
        + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
        + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
          package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
          Pavlu).
        > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
        + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
          pragmas.
        + suppress unreferenced warnings.
        + make all dereferences in binding explicit.

20110319
        + regen Ada html documentation.
        + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
          --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
          is listed first.
        + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
        + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
          Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
          distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
        + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
          CFLAGS for the build has these options.
        + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
          and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
          thread in comp.lang.ada).
        + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
        + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
        > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
        + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
        + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
          The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
          implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
        + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
        + add Library_Options to library.gpr
        + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild

20110307
        + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
        > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
        + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
          conform to form.h.
        + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
          fieldtype(3FORM).
        + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
          explain.txt is not found.

20110305
        + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
        + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
          for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
        + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
          needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5

20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org

20110226
        + update release notes, for 5.8.
        + regenerated html manpages.
        + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
          with write_file().
        + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
          a new install of hashed database.
        + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.

20110220
        + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
        + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
          configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
          wide-character configuration.
        + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
        + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).

20110212
        + regenerated html manpages.
        + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
          special case of trace configuration.

20110205
        + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
        + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
          support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
        + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
          extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
          discussion).

20110122
        + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
        + correct limit-checks in derwin().
        + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
          size (report by Garrett Cooper).
        + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
          Alcock).
        + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
          by discussion with Kevin Martin).

20110115
        + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
          work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
        + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
        + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
        + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
        + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
        + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
          file configuration if that is used.
        + update config.guess, config.sub

20110108
        + regenerated html manpages.
        + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
          clang --analyze.
        + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
        + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*

20110101
        + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
          except those dealing with function pointers, etc.

20101225
        + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
          allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
        + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.

20101211
        + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
          R Sedeno).
        + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
        + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
          characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
          wide-character configuration.
        + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
        + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
          referred to quitting with 'q'.

20101204
        + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
          strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
          version which works with termcap.
        + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
          (request by Sven Joachim).
        + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
          (report by Sven Joachim).

20101128
        + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
          case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
                mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make

20101127
        + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
          out-of-tree.
        + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
        + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt

20101120
        + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
          changes.
        + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
          e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
          rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
        + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
          for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
          library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
          since 2003 -TD

20101113
        + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
        + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
        + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
          #267 changes.
        + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.

20101106
        + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
          a separate package.
        + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
          package.

20101023
        + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
          Philip Ganchev).
        + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
          when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
          more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
        + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
          warning if not found.  This makes it simpler to use additonal
          scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
          tree (report by Werner Fink).
        + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
        + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
          which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
          (report by John P. Hartmann)
        + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).

20101009
        + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
          entry (Novell #644831) -TD
        + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
          gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
        + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
          external package "cindent".

20101002
        + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
          pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
        + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
          inconsistent printer-controls.
        + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
          form is available -TD
        + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
          ANSI -TD
        + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
          Sven Joachim).
        + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
        > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
        + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
        + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
        + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
          Joachim).
        + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
          distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts.  The result is stored
          in mingw_arch

20100925
        + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
          xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
          special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
        > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
        + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
          README.MinGW).
        + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain

20100918
        + regenerated html manpages.
        + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
        + add manpage for sp-funcs.
        + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.

20100911
        + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
          and form-libraries.
        + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
        + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
          (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
        + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
          platforms.

20100904
        + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
          programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).

20100828
        + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
        + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
          message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
          description (prompted by Debian #593920).
        + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
          descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
        + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
          Sittler).

20100814
        + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
          the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
          (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
        + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
          by Tim van der Molen).
        + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
          tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
          library configuration.
        + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
          directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
        + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.

20100807
        + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
          (cf: 20100724)
        + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
          used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
          e.g., for cross-compiling.
        + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
        + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.

20100731