ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180908

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3173 2018/08/19 00:25:22 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3185 2018/09/08 23:29:00 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,35 @@ 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.
 
+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.
@@ -55,8 +84,6 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          + 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.
-       + add "--disable-touching" option for using "install -p" option during
-         the install, e.g., so that header-files have a predictable timestamp.
 
 20180804
        + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal