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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3261 2019/01/21 22:51:52 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20190216
+ + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
+ + add test/demo_tabs program.
+
+20190209
+ + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
+ parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
+
+20190202
+ + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
+ with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
+ + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
+ + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
+ to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
+ configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
+ in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
+
+20190126
+ + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
+ "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
+ + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
+ + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
+ being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
+ Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
+
20190121
+ add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
file in Slackware.
20000701 pre-release
+ change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
+ add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
- $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
+ $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
+ add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
+ modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating