ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231028

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4001 2023/09/17 22:41:20 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4022 2023/10/28 18:20:39 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,52 @@ 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.
 
+20231028
+       + move xterm focus mode 1004 from xterm+sm+1006 into xterm+focus as
+         fe/fd capabilities, like vim (vim-pr #13440).
+       + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make "libdir" the default,
+         as documented, rather than "auto" (report by Branden Robinson).
+       + improve messages from configure script (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231021
+       + use oldxterm+sm+1006 in vte-2014 (report by Benno Schulenberg) -TD
+       + add ansi+apparrows -TD
+       + change defaults for configure opaque and widec options (prompted by
+         discussion with Branden Robinson).
+       + minor cleanup of compiler- and manpage-warnings.
+
+20231016
+       + make the recent change to setupterm optional "--enable-check-size"
+         (Debian #1054022).
+
+20231014
+       + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+       + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, for uClibc-ng
+       + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20231007
+       + improve loop-limit for get_position().
+       + improve manual description of immedok (Debian #1053603).
+       + fix a few formatting issues with manpages (Debian #1053123).
+       + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231001
+       + modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in
+         user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither
+         environment variables or ioctl is used.  The ncurses test-program
+         with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature.
+       + improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson).
+       + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+       + modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates.
+       + fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by
+         copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott).
+
+20230923
+       + improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+       + amend change to delscreen() to limit the windows which it creates to
+         just those associated with the screen (report by Frederic Boiteux,
+         cf: 20220813).
+
 20230918
        + new tarball/errata (report by Sven Joachim).
 
@@ -5538,7 +5584,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          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
+       + modify test/background.c, adding command-line options to demonstrate
          assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
 
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