ncurses 5.9 - patch 20141115

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2291 2014/10/19 01:19:36 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2300 2014/11/16 00:46:19 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,25 @@ 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.
 
+20141115
+       + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
+         curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
+       + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
+         used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
+       + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
+         the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
+       + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
+         symbol-versioning.
+
+20141101
+       + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
+         and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
+         not apply.
+
+20141025
+       + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
+         msys2 configuration.
+
 20141018
        + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions.  None of
          the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD