ncurses 5.6 - patch 20080419

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1209 2008/03/01 20:02:41 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1228 2008/04/19 23:03:52 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,63 @@ 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.
 
+20080419
+       + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
+       + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
+         being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
+       + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
+
+20080412
+       + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
+       + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
+         window parameters.
+       + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
+         pointer.
+       + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
+
+20080405
+       + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
+         used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
+       + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
+         discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
+         python-dev2 mailing list).
+
+20080329
+       + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
+       + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
+         are not associated with a particular screen.
+       + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
+         stdscr to the callback function.
+       + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
+         e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
+         (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+       + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
+         platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
+         the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+       + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
+         thread library.
+
+20080322
+       + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
+         waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
+       + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
+         for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
+         Sedeno).
+       + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
+         wide-characters with extended-colors.
+       + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
+       + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
+       + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
+
+20080308
+       + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
+       + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
+         that the 'F' accepts.
+       + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
+         are working concurrently.
+       + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
+         window.
+
 20080301
        + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
          recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from