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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3380 2019/09/28 12:57:39 tom Exp $
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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.
+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 ncurse*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
+ + 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