ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200502

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3461 2020/03/08 14:28:23 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3482 2020/05/02 23:42:21 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,57 @@ 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.
 
+20200502
+       + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
+       + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
+       + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
+         those to position reports.
+
+20200425
+       + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
+       + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
+
+20200418
+       + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
+       + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
+         check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
+         character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+       + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
+       + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
+
+20200411
+       + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
+         (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
+       + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
+       + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
+
+20200404
+       + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
+       > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
+         "Maarten Anonymous"):
+       + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
+       + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
+         C++ preprocessor limitations.
+       + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
+         with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
+
+20200328
+       + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
+       + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
+         builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
+
+20200321
+       + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
+       + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
+         pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+       + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
+         a corresponding demo of dup_field().
+
+20200314
+       + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+       + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+       + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
+
 20200308
        + update copyright notices in test-packages.
        + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.