ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180512

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3111 2018/04/08 00:56:30 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3127 2018/05/12 23:36:35 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,13 +45,50 @@ 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.
 
+20180512
+       + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
+       + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
+       + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
+
+20180505
+       + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
+         versions of tack.
+       + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
+         alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
+         the given graphic character.  This would happen in an older terminal
+         such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
+       + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
+         conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
+       + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
+         for escaping regular expressions.
+
+20180428
+       + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
+         Winter).
+       + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
+         (report by Leon Winter).
+       + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
+               unfocus_current_field (form);
+               form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
+         (patch by Leon Winter).
+
+20180414
+       + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
+         edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
+       + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
+         non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
+       + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
+       + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
+       + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
+         a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
+
 20180407
        + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
          not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
        + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
          Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
          interface.  Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
-         interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007). 
+         interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
          As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
          values, e.g., keyname().
 
@@ -2550,7 +2587,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
 
 20121229
-       + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
+       + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
        + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
        + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
          numbers.