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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3741 2021/11/06 23:43:40 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3774 2022/01/30 01:11:51 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.
+20220129
+ + minor updates for test-packages
+ + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the
+ case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a
+ colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum,
+ cf: 20211113).
+ + update kitty -TD
+
+20220122
+ + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script.
+ + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps"
+ does not exist.
+ + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on
+ format-warnings.
+ + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the
+ infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
+
+20220115
+ + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse
+ state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by
+ Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022).
+ + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files.
+
+20220101
+ + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
+ curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
+
+20211225
+ + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
+ (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+20211219
+ + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
+ script to invoke those.
+ + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
+
+20211211
+ + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters.
+
+20211204
+ + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20211127
+ + fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD
+ + add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD
+
+20211120
+ + add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD
+ + deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last
+ allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar,
+ cf: 20200531).
+ + modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch.
+ + if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use
+ ${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross
+ Burton).
+
+20211115
+ + fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE
+ #1192668, cf: 20211106),
+
+20211113
+ + minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437).
+ + add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse
+ Sundrup) -TD
+ + improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which
+ installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes.
+
20211106
+ improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
+ modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad,