+20210213
+ + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background
+ functions.
+ + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a
+ wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character.
+ + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries.
+ + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first
+ parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
+
+20210206
+ + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd
+ (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic)
+ + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2"
+ option, from xterm #363 -TD
+ + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before
+ writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the
+ cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
+
+20210130
+ + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused
+ scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower
+ right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD
+ + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not
+ supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD
+ + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD
+ + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD
+ + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore
+ blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD
+
+20210123
+ + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for
+ cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding
+ the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich).
+ + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around
+ quirks of pmake.
+
+20210116
+ + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS
+ (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD
+ + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1,
+ adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
+
+20210109
+ + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates.
+ + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of
+ autoconf 2.52.20210105
+
+20210102
+ + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
+ exit_terminfo.
+ + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
+ defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
+ (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
+ + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
+ for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
+ types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031).
+ + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
+ consistency with other manpages.
+
+20201227
+ + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
+ + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
+
+20201219
+ + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
+ regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
+ + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
+ by Chris Bennett).
+
+20201212
+ + improve manual pages for form field-types.
+
+20201205
+ + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
+ gprbuild (cf: 20200627).
+ + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
+ + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
+ Abendroth).
+ + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
+ (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
+ + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
+
+20201128
+ + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
+ + add rep to PuTTY -TD
+ + add putty+keypad -TD
+ + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in
+ the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses
+ low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217).
+ + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its
+ -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS,
+ do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases.
+
+20201121
+ + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
+ + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang
+ (report by Steven Pitman).
+
+20201114
+ + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
+ + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the
+ special case where short extended capability strings were not
+ converted from terminfo to termcap format.
+ + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case
+ when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
+
+20201107
+ + update kitty+common -TD
+ + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
+ + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely
+ upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
+
+20201031
+ + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h>
+ before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
+ + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion
+ with Reuben Thomas).
+ + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to
+ ensure that the messages contain only printable text.
+ + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
+ is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
+ Pitman).
+
+20201024
+ + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
+ + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with
+ Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
+ + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
+ needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
+ (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
+ + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
+ and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of
+ parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
+ Sebastian Herlim).
+ + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
+ Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
+
+20201017
+ + improve manpage typography.
+ + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
+ nonprintable characters.
+ + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
+ as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
+
+20201010
+ + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
+ + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154,
+ ncrvt100an -TD
+ + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by
+ discussion with Florian Weimer).
+ + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
+ Pfeifer).
+
+20201003
+ + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
+ + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
+ + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
+ + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas).
+ + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
+ + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
+ checking consistency with tic.
+
+20200926
+ + correct configure-check for gnurx library.
+ + regenerate llib-* files.
+ + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for
+ panel- and user-pointers.
+
+20200919
+ + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD
+
+20200918
+ + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated
+ curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
+
+20200912
+ + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
+ the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
+ + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
+ + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
+
+20200907
+ + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by
+ Soren Tempel).
+
+20200906
+ + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
+ win32-driver.
+ + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
+
+20200831
+ + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner
+ Fink).
+
+20200829
+ + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
+ Anonymous".
+ + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
+ win32-driver.
+ + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
+ to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
+ mawk and lynx).
+ > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
+ + correct icl6404 csr
+ + correct ti916 cup
+ + improve ndr9500
+
+20200822
+ + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
+ + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
+ man_db.renames file.
+ + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
+ (report by Yue Tai).
+ + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
+ + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
+ option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
+ provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
+
+20200817
+ + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
+ warnings.
+ + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
+ + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
+ using the string-hacks option.
+ + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
+ option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20200816
+ + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
+ (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
+ + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
+ + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
+ (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
+
+20200808
+ + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
+ of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
+ + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
+ AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
+ --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
+ fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
+ (discussion with Keith Marshall).
+ + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
+ + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
+ parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
+ MinGW.
+
+20200801
+ + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
+ + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
+ (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
+ + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
+ reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
+ + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
+
+20200725
+ + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
+ "Maarten Anonymous")
+ + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
+ + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
+ Florian Weimer).
+
+20200718
+ + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
+ Studio C++.
+ + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
+ libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
+ > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
+ (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+ + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
+ the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
+ + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
+ + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
+
+20200711
+ + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
+ Bruckl).
+ + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
+ (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+ + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
+ Pfeifer).
+ + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
+ + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
+ buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
+ + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
+ trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
+
+20200704
+ + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
+ the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
+ > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
+ (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
+ declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
+
+20200627
+ + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
+ gprbuild.
+ + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
+
+20200613
+ + update list of functions in ncurses.3x
+ + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
+ in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
+ #961097).
+
+20200606
+ + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
+ in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
+ + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
+ screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
+ + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
+ + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
+
+20200531
+ + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
+ + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
+ + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
+ + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
+ + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes.
+ + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
+ handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
+ (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
+ save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
+ passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
+ (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
+ string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+
+20200523
+ + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
+ + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
+ + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
+ which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
+ is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
+ + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
+ generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
+ configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
+ to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
+ > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
+ "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
+ options into Visual Studio's dialect.
+ + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
+ work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
+
+20200516
+ + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x
+ + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
+
+20200509
+ + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
+ a performance comparison.
+ + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
+ use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
+
+20200502
+ + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
+ + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
+ + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
+ those to position reports.
+
+20200425
+ + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
+ + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
+
+20200418
+ + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
+ + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
+ check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
+ character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
+ + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
+
+20200411
+ + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
+ (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
+ + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
+ + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
+
+20200404
+ + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
+ > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
+ "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
+ + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
+ C++ preprocessor limitations.
+ + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
+ with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
+
+20200328
+ + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
+ + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
+ builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
+
+20200321
+ + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
+ + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
+ pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
+ a corresponding demo of dup_field().
+
+20200314
+ + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+ + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+ + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
+
+20200308
+ + update copyright notices in test-packages.
+ + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
+ + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
+ by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
+
+20200301
+ + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
+ background character, because it may be used in cases where the
+ corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
+ cf: 20181208).
+
+20200229
+ + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
+ which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
+ > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
+ "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
+ + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
+ + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
+ + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
+ length array feature.
+ + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
+ + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
+ + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
+ + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
+ + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
+ because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
+ + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
+
+20200222
+ + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
+ + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
+ + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
+ + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
+ building out-of-tree.
+ + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
+ + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
+ include all of the required headers for the types used.
+
+20200215
+ + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
+ section as well as documenting error-returns.
+ + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
+ + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
+ FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
+ + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
+
+20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ + update release notes
+ + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
+
+20200208
+ + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
+ when cross-compiling.
+ + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
+ + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
+ to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
+
+20200202
+ + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
+ https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
+
+20200201
+ + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
+ collision handling for Caps-hpux11
+ + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
+ terminfo and termcap names.
+ + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
+ + update a few comments about tack 1.07
+ + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
+ programs for explain.txt
+
+20200118
+ + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
+ + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
+ + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
+ + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
+ Christian Durr) -TD
+ + correct spelling errors found with codespell.
+ + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
+
+20200111
+ + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
+ to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
+ + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20200104
+ + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
+ "work", to help illustrate discussion in
+ https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
+ + fix some warnings from autoheader-252
+
+20191228
+ + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
+ past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
+ symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
+ + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
+ + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
+ for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
+
+20191221
+ + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
+ work with test-packages.
+ + improve tracemunch:
+ + keep track of TERMINAL* values
+ + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
+ show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
+ + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
+ for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20191214
+ + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
+ leak-checking.
+
+20191207
+ + fix a few warnings for test-package builds
+ + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
+
+20191130
+ + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
+ discussion with Nick Black).
+ + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
+ manpage.
+ + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
+
+20191123
+ + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
+ + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
+
+20191116
+ + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
+ to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
+ packages.
+ + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
+ defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
+ from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
+
+20191109
+ + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
+ + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
+ with old non-curses programs -TD
+ + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
+ + use ansi+rep several places -TD
+ + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
+ cf: 20020901).
+
+20191102
+ + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
+ + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
+ (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
+ + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
+ + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
+
+20191026
+ + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
+ line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
+ + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
+ \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
+ + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
+ early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
+
+20191019
+ + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
+ with address-sanitizer.
+ + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
+ treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
+ use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
+
+20191015
+ + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
+ input string is shorter than expected.
+ > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
+ + check for missing character after backslash in write_it
+ + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
+ syntax (cf: 980530).
+
+20191012
+ + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
+ Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
+ + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
+ + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
+ _nc_find_name_entry.
+ > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
+ + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
+ + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
+ + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
+ mapping (cf: 20060415);
+ + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
+ overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
+
+20191005
+ + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
+ -I and -l options.
+
+20190928
+ + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
+ hack which differed between those files.
+ + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
+ + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
+ test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
+ EINTR (cf: 20180922)
+
+20190921
+ + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
+ the screen's borders.
+ + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
+ and version.
+
+20190914
+ + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
+
+20190907
+ + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
+ allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
+ by Pascal Pignard).
+ + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
+ the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
+ warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20190831
+ + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
+ noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
+ libpanelw, etc.
+
+20190824
+ + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
+
+20190817
+ + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
+ details where it still differed from SVr4.
+ + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
+
+20190810
+ + fix a few more coverity warnings.
+
+20190803
+ + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
+ the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
+ by Rob King).
+ + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
+ and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
+ + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
+ + updated kitty entry & notes -TD
+ + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
+ + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
+
+20190728
+ + fix a few more coverity warnings.
+ + more documentation updates based on tctest.
+
+20190727
+ + fix a few coverity warnings.
+ + documentation updates based on tctest.
+
+20190720
+ + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
+ + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
+ manual pages.
+ + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
+ (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20190713
+ + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
+ possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
+ terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
+ + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
+
+20190706
+ + add domterm -TD
+ + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
+
+20190630
+ + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
+ building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
+ + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
+ + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
+ filenames.
+ + add ms-terminal -TD
+ + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
+
+20190623
+ + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
+ Edition versions of the tabs utility.
+ + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
+ in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
+ macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
+ Ig Petrov).
+ + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
+ data for the result from getenv().
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20190615
+ + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
+ + regenerate HTML manpages.
+
+20190609
+ + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
+ Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
+ to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
+ + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
+ + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
+ to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
+
+20190601
+ + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
+ e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
+ + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
+ variable.
+
+20190525
+ + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
+ (report by Vincent Huisman).
+
+20190518
+ + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
+ + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
+ + update terminator entry -TD
+ + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
+ + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
+ + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
+
+20190511
+ + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
+ + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
+ scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
+ + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
+ row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
+ Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
+ + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
+ number of parameters.
+
+20190504
+ + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
+ (report by Pavel Stehule).
+ + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
+ + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
+
+20190427
+ + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
+ infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
+ but different types.
+
+20190420
+ + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
+
+20190413
+ + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
+ + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
+ + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
+ + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
+ not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
+
+20190406
+ + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle
+ split-up Caps-files.
+ + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
+
+20190330
+ + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
+ + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
+ + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
+ (report by Dennis Grevenstein).
+ + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
+ + check for missing feature of locale.h
+ + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
+ + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20190323
+ + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
+ + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
+ those in compilable form.
+ + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
+ in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
+ (report/patch by Werner Fink).
+
+20190317
+ + regenerate llib-* files.
+ + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
+ + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
+ an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
+ + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
+ + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
+ which did not become accepted.
+
+20190309
+ + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
+ capabilities in tic.
+ + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
+ data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
+
+20190302
+ + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
+ + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
+ user-defined capabilities.
+ + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
+ called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
+
+20190223
+ + fix typo in adds200 -TD
+ + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
+ + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
+ xt, tbc and hts as clues.
+ + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
+ tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
+
+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.
+ + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
+ on some of the BSDs.
+ + updated "string-hacks" feature.
+ + minor improvements to manpage typography.
+ + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
+ "Hudd").
+ + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
+ init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
+ extended_color_content
+ + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
+ return values from the tested functions.
+ + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
+ extensions.
+ + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
+ + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
+ option was given.
+ + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
+ warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
+
+20190112
+ + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
+ Modinos).
+ + add nsterm-direct -TD
+ + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
+ + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
+ + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
+
+20190105
+ + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
+ building test-packages for Arch.
+ + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
+ that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
+ packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20181229
+ + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
+ + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
+ as a pipe/filter.
+ + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
+ discussion with Bryan Christ).
+ + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
+ + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
+ obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
+ Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
+ names.
+
+20181215
+ + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
+ + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
+ + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
+ as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
+ + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
+ + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
+ + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
+ _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
+ + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
+ supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
+ Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
+ could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
+
+20181208
+ + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
+ curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
+ background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
+
+20181201
+ + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
+ + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
+ different character pages.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20181125
+ + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
+
+20181124
+ + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
+ the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
+ + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
+ used.
+ + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
+ + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
+ that lets different curses implementations be compared.
+ + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
+ block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
+ (report by Tomas Janousek).
+
+20181117
+ + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
+ + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
+ a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
+ the compiled-in search list.
+
+20181110
+ + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
+ Ada95 tree.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20181027
+ + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
+ + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
+
+20181020
+ + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
+ from the infocmp -Q option.
+ + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
+ + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
+ symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
+ + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
+ wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
+
+20181013
+ + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
+ to make it an absolute path.
+
+20181006
+ + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
+ Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
+ + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
+
+20180929
+ + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
+ + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
+ + add alias n7900 -TD
+ + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
+ + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
+ + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
+ + add bel to tvi950 -TD
+ + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
+ + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
+ + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
+
+20180923
+ + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
+ by Chris Clayton).
+
+20180922
+ + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
+ if the terminal were resized.
+ + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
+ #1610681, cf: 20141011).
+ + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
+ since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
+
+20180908
+ + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
+ + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
+ marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
+ character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
+ fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
+ + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
+ update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
+ output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
+ + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
+ implementations of sysconf().
+
+20180901
+ + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
+ parameter.
+ + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
+ "too large".
+ + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
+
+20180825
+ + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
+ terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
+ + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
+ deb test-packages.
+ + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
+ toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
+ + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
+ 20180818 updates.
+
+20180818
+ + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
+ + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
+ + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
+ install (Debian #903790):
+ + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
+ static libraries.
+ + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
+ sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
+ in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
+
+20180804
+ + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
+ scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
+ the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
+ display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+
+20180728
+ + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
+ + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
+ + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
+
+20180721
+ + build-fixes for gcc8.
+ + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
+ + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
+ + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
+
+20180714
+ + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
+ + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
+
+20180707
+ + build-fixes for gcc8.
+ + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
+ report_offsets.
+ + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
+ empty (Debian #902630).
+
+20180630
+ + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
+ add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
+ + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
+ (Nicholas Marriott).
+ + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
+ + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
+ locale support.
+ + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
+
+20180623
+ + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
+ to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
+ compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
+ + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
+ updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
+ CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
+ CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
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