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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.
+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
+
20180616
+ build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
+ reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
work on dialog.
20180609
- + modify generatesd ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
+ + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
#900839).
+ marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
20000701 pre-release
+ change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
+ add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
- $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
+ $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
+ add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
+ modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
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