ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190330

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3283 2019/03/03 01:12:40 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3300 2019/03/30 23:12:31 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,40 @@ 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.
 
+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