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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3868 2022/10/15 19:45:12 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.
+20221224
+ + add mutex lock/unlock in a few places reported by thread-sanitizer
+ + add/use bracketed+paste to help identify terminals supporting this
+ xterm feature (prompted by discussion with Bram Moolenaar) -TD
+
+20221217
+ + install Ada95 sample programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
+ script to invoke those.
+
+20221210
+ + add minimal -h/-V getopt logic to the remaining test-programs.
+ + free new_pair() data in delscreen (report by "magiblot").
+ + add clarification of the scope of dynamic variables in terminfo(5).
+ + remove a stray '/' from description of %g in terminfo(5).
+
+20221203
+ + add -h usage and -V version options to the test-programs which use
+ getopt.
+ + use "command -v" rather than "type" in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in to fix
+ a portability issue (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
+ + update ncurses-howto, more documentation fixes along with corrections
+ to example programs.
+
+20221126
+ + fix an error in pathname of explain.txt (cf: 20200201).
+ + fix an error in "@" command in test/ncurses.c F-menu (cf: 20190121).
+ + improve formatting of ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html
+ + improve man/curs_clear.3x links to other pages
+
+20221119
+ + use static libraries for AdaCurses test-package for Mageia, since no
+ gprbuild package is available.
+ + updated test packages for Debian.
+
+20221112
+ + build-fixes for AdaCurses RPM test-package.
+
+20221105
+ + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221009
+ + modify "--with-manpage-format" to support bzip2 and xz compression
+ (prompted by discussion with Sam James).
+ + modify make-tar.sh scripts to make timestamps more predictable.
+
+20221029
+ + improve curs_slk.3x discussion of extensions and portability (report
+ by Bill Gray).
+
+20221023
+ + change man_db.renames to template, to handle ncurses*-config script
+ with the extra-suffix configure option.
+
20221015
+ fix another memory-leak in tic.
+ update install-sh script from autoconf, to fix install problem for