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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.
+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
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