+Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
+Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
+
+Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
+as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
+no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
+
+A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
+They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
+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.
+
+20090228
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+ + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
+ enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
+
+20090221
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090214
+ + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
+ extended functions.
+ + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
+ curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
+ some internals work is needed to complete these).
+ + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
+
+20090207
+ + update several configure macros from lynx changes
+ + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
+ + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
+ + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + make it work with $DESTDIR
+ + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
+
+20090124
+ + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
+ the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
+ Giaquinta).
+ + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
+ + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
+ gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
+
+20090117
+ + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
+ *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
+ dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
+ + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
+ character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
+ done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
+ multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
+ (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
+ http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
+
+20090110
+ + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
+ + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
+ directory.
+ + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
+ adacurses-config
+ + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
+ such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
+
+20090105
+ + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
+ prefix variable.
+ + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
+ --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
+ subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
+ (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20090104
+ + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
+ deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
+ for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
+ account.
+ + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
+ used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
+
+20090103
+ + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
+ CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
+ + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
+ with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
+ for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
+ + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
+ option.
+ + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
+ configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
+ options.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
+
+20081227
+ + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
+ + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
+ on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
+
+20081220
+ + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
+ --disable-ext-funcs is used.
+ + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
+ wrapping.
+ + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
+ + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
+
+20081213
+ + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
+ (GenToo #245370).
+ + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
+ the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
+ + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
+ GenToo #250454).
+ + fixes from NetBSD port at
+ http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
+ patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
+ patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
+ + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
+ by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
+ search-lists.
+ + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
+ OpenBSD documentation/6019),
+
+20081206
+ + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
+ work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
+ + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
+ set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
+ + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
+ than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
+ ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
+ was xterm's alternate screen feature).
+ + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
+ zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
+ adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
+
+20081129
+ + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
+ character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
+ obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
+ passing color or video attributes.
+ + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
+ display meta-characters.
+ + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
+ + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
+ + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
+ displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
+ Ricardo Cantu).
+
+20081122
+ + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
+ Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
+ by Mike Dennison).
+ + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
+
+20081115
+ + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
+ clear-all-tabs -TD
+ + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
+ + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
+
+20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20081025
+ + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
+ + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
+ does not work well on that platform).
+ + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
+
+20081018
+ + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
+ + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
+ in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
+ Nit Khair).
+ + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
+ --disable-database is used.
+ + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
+ to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
+ (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
+ + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
+ CF_LIBUTF8.
+
+20081012
+ + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
+ original to teraterm2.3 -TD
+ + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
+ + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
+ + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
+ + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
+ + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
+ overlooked til now.
+
+20081011
+ + update html documentation.
+ + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
+ the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
+ + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
+ + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
+ + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
+ + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
+ tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
+ 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
+
+20081004
+ + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
+ works for C/C++ parts).
+ + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
+ AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
+
+20080927
+ + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
+ strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
+ + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
+ + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
+ GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
+ + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
+ "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
+ that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
+ + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
+ Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
+ + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
+ + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
+ slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
+
+20080925
+ + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
+ Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20080920
+ + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
+ + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
+ + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
+ newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
+ + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
+ misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
+
+20080913
+ + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
+ + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
+
+20080907
+ + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
+ Meunier).
+
+20080906
+ + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
+ + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
+ use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
+ + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
+ Meunier).
+ + update test/configure script.
+ + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
+ is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
+ + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
+ test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
+ fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
+
+20080830
+ + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
+ + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
+ C-version.
+ + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
+ Mccreary).
+ + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
+ and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
+ + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
+ + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
+ + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
+ substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
+ (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
+
+20080823
+ + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
+ which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
+ + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
+ makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
+ + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
+ + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
+ possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
+ library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
+ + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
+ the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
+ + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
+ Debian #495815) -TD
+
+20080816
+ + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
+ + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
+ + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
+ applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
+ etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
+ Werner Fink).
+ + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
+ using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
+ + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
+ by comments by Samuel Thibault).
+ + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
+
+20080804
+ + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
+ + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
+ + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
+ + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
+ "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
+ + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
+ search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
+
+20080726
+ + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
+ thresholds).
+
+20080713
+ + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
+
+20080712
+ + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
+
+20080705
+ + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
+ make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
+ (cf: 20050205).
+ + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
+ + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
+ -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
+ not link.
+
+20080628
+ + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
+ + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
+ interface.
+ + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
+ by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
+ + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
+ + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
+
+20080621
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
+ menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
+ + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
+ def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
+ + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
+
+20080614
+ + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
+ + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
+ + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
+ by Poor Yorick).
+
+20080607
+ + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
+ window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
+ allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
+ some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
+ window which is being used in a wgetch().
+ + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
+
+20080531
+ + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
+ parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
+ use SP internally.
+ + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
+ + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
+ particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
+ + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
+ particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
+ + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
+ its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
+ + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
+ preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
+
+20080524
+ + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
+ screen which must be updated.
+ + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
+ always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
+ + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
+ Miroslav Lichvar)
+
+20080517
+ + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
+ --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
+ the ncurses ABI 5.
+ + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
+ Emanuele Giaquinta).
+ + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
+ (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20080503
+ + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
+ overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
+ + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
+ global SP.
+ + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
+ each_ripoff().
+
+20080426
+ + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
+ multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
+ + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
+
+20080419
+ + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
+ + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
+ being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
+ + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
+
+20080412
+ + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
+ + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
+ window parameters.
+ + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
+ pointer.
+ + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
+
+20080405
+ + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
+ used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
+ + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
+ discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
+ python-dev2 mailing list).
+
+20080329
+ + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
+ + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
+ are not associated with a particular screen.
+ + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
+ stdscr to the callback function.
+ + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
+ e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
+ (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+ + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
+ platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
+ the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+ + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
+ thread library.
+
+20080322
+ + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
+ waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
+ + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
+ for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
+ Sedeno).
+ + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
+ wide-characters with extended-colors.
+ + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
+ + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
+ + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
+
+20080308
+ + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
+ + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
+ that the 'F' accepts.
+ + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
+ are working concurrently.
+ + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
+ window.
+
+20080301
+ + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
+ recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
+ _nc_free_and_exit().
+
+20080223
+ + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
+ lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
+
+20080216
+ + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
+ is implemented to suspend the entire process.
+
+20080209
+ + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
+ comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
+ that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
+ implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
+
+20080203
+ + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
+ for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
+ but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
+ + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
+ using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
+ further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
+ Chernov).
+ + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
+ If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
+ sequence.
+
+20080126
+ + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
+ handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
+ or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
+
+20080119
+ + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
+ + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
+ + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
+
+20080112
+ + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
+ + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
+ adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
+ softkeys were used.
+
+20080105
+ + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
+ "link_test" builds properly.
+ + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
+ + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
+ (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
+ + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
+ soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
+ + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
+ cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
+ question).
+ + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
+
+20071222
+ + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
+ for delwin().
+
+20071215
+ + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
+ pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
+
+20071201
+ + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
+ INSTALL file.
+ + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
+ + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
+ applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
+
+20071124
+ + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
+ is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
+ pierre4d2 comments).
+ + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
+ used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
+ by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
+ + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
+ by Chris Lee).
+
+20071117
+ + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
+ generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
+ filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
+ configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
+ filenames.
+ + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
+ + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
+ it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
+ declared.
+
+20071103
+ + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
+ + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
+
+20071020
+ + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
+ for use_window().
+ + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
+ cursor keys -TD
+ + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
+ Rong-En Fan).
+
+20071013
+ + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
+ without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
+ that library.
+ + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
+ the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
+ + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
+ #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
+ the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
+
+20071006
+ + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
+ changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
+ cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
+ memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20070929
+ + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
+ calls within the ncurses library.
+ + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
+ the SCREEN.
+ + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
+ + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
+ it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
+20070915
+ + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
+ shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
+ + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
+ the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
+ + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
+
+20070908
+ + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
+ for threaded library (incomplete).
+ + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
+ creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
+ Rong-En Fan).
+
+20070901
+ + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
+ for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
+ + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
+ + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
+ + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
+ to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
+ + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
+ options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+
+20070825
+ + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
+ (cf: 971004).
+ + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
+ option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
+
+20070818
+ + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
+ + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
+ "\0" followed by a digit.
+ + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
+ This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
+ the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
+ + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
+ which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
+ which was introduced to fix "make -j".
+ + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
+ + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
+ when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
+
+20070812
+ + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
+ unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
+ + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
+ + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
+ _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
+ library.
+ + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
+ + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
+ _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
+ library.
+
+20070728
+ + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
+ _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
+ + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
+ + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
+ unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
+ use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
+ + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
+ internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
+ + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
+
+20070721
+ + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
+ + add test/test_get_wstr.c
+ + add test/test_getstr.c
+ + add test/test_inwstr.c
+ + add test/test_instr.c
+
+20070716
+ + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
+ is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
+ (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
+ cf: 20070310).
+
+20070714
+ + add test/savescreen.c test-program
+ + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
+ ".log" to the name and try again.
+ + add konsole-256color entry -TD
+ + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
+ + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
+ + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
+ --disable-echo option is used.
+ + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
+ writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20070707
+ + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
+ + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
+ taking into account some split characters on left/right window
+ boundaries.
+
+20070630
+ + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
+ problems with multi-column characters.
+ + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
+ which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
+ + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
+ multi-column extension bits are passed there.
+ + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
+ + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
+ report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
+
+20070623
+ + add test/demo_panels.c
+ + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
+
+20070612
+ + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
+ #226 -TD
+ + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
+ wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
+
+20070609
+ + add test/key_name.c
+ + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
+ + update test/configure
+ + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
+ + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
+ + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
+ cf: 20020901).
+
+20070602
+ + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
+ (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
+ + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
+ illustrate how to use mvcur().
+ + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
+ WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
+ is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
+ + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
+ + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
+
+20070526
+ + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
+ if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
+ initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
+ + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
+ + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
+ broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
+
+20070512
+ + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
+ problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
+ a fullwidth cell.
+ + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
+ ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
+ from patch by Clive Nicolson).
+ + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
+
+20070505
+ + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
+ become uninitialized in the "b" test.
+ + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
+ movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
+ generated html.
+ + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
+ memory-checking.
+ + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
+ from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
+ + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
+ Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
+ --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
+
+20070428
+ + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
+ quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
+ 3.x to 4.x.
+ + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
+ library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
+ + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
+ an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
+ reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
+ (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
+ + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
+ + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
+ + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
+ SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
+ + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
+
+20070421
+ + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
+ _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
+ + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
+ type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
+ in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
+ + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
+ to the libtool create- and link-operations.
+
+20070414
+ + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
+ the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
+ + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
+ Ada95 tree is not built.
+
+20070407
+ + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
+ + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
+ + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
+ FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
+ comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
+ + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
+ (cf: 20061209).
+ + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
+ > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
+ + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
+ + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
+ + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
+ + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
+ progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
+ > fixes based on Coverity report:
+ + remove dead code in test/bs.c
+ + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
+ + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
+ + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
+ + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
+ tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
+ + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
+ + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
+ + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
+ + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
+ + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
+ of V_BSD case.
+ + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
+ + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
+ + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
+ + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
+ + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
+ + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
+ + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
+ + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
+ + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
+
+20070331
+ + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
+ global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
+ + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
+ to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
+ + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
+ structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
+ + improved install-sh's quoting.
+ + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
+ other programs.
+
+20070324
+ + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
+ + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
+ --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
+ + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
+ NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
+ an opaque pointer.
+
+20070317
+ + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
+ the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
+ + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
+ in the configure script to an error.
+ + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
+ such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
+ + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
+ + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
+ + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
+ Vidiassov).
+ + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
+ of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
+
+20070311
+ + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
+ changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+
+20070310
+ + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
+ properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
+ Santoro).
+ + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
+ implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
+ + libraries are suffixed with "t"
+ + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
+ COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
+ functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
+ + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
+ i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
+
+20070303
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
+ opaque in selected configurations.
+ + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
+ running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
+ _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
+ identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
+ outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
+ only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
+ dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
+ installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
+ case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
+ Chua).
+ + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
+ (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
+
+20070224
+ + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
+ where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
+ ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
+ + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
+ (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
+ + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
+ + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
+ + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
+ Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
+ + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
+ + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
+
+20070217
+ + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
+ enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
+ disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
+ Adam J Richter).
+ + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
+ the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
+ programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
+ (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
+ which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
+ fixes.
+ + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
+ shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+
+20070210
+ + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
+ + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
+ Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
+ for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
+ regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
+
+20070203
+ + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
+ from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
+ Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
+ associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
+ Ricardo Cantu).
+ + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
+ + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
+ + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
+ to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
+ + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
+ no longer relies on it.
+ + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
+ --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
+ + remove tack from ncurses tree.
+
+20070128
+ + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
+ (report by Rong-En Fan).
+
+20070127
+ + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
+ to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
+ + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
+ it is removed from the ncurses tree.
+ + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
+ (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
+ + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
+ its license consistent with ncurses.
+ + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
+ the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
+ + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
+
+20070120
+ + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
+ term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
+ + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
+ + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+
+20070113
+ + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
+ _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
+ + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
+ ncurses build-tree.
+ + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
+ in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20070106
+ + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
+ + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
+ (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20061230
+ + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
+ (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
+ + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
+ defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
+ + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
+ lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
+ + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
+ names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
+ + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
+ to manpages as needed.
+ + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
+ + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
+
+20061223
+ + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
+ from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
+ + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
+ + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20061217
+ + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
+ definitions in <wchar.h>.
+ + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
+ correct nor portable.
+ + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
+ rpath on Solaris.
+ + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
+ not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
+ support.
+
+20061216
+ + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
+ i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
+ (requested by Bryan Henderson).
+ + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
+ + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
+ 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
+
+20061209
+ + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
+ + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
+ + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
+ exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
+ Solaris.
+ + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
+ Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
+ extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
+ comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
+ + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
+ from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
+ since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
+ but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
+
+20061202
+ + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
+ database configuration.
+ + updates for test/configure script.
+ + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
+ + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
+ cur_term in tic.c
+ + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
+ return usable results for an 8-bit character.
+ + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
+ + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
+ of printw, etc.
+ + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
+ _nc_printf_string().
+ + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
+ wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
+
+20061125
+ + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
+ above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
+ Simon Sasburg).
+ + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
+ varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
+ match X/Open).
+
+20061104
+ + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
+ touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
+ Gookin).
+ + add test/redraw.c
+ + add test/echochar.c
+ + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
+ menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
+
+20061028
+ + add AUTHORS file -TD
+ + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
+ option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
+ + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
+
+20061021
+ + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
+ platforms, e.g., Solaris.
+ + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
+ contributors.
+ + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
+ and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
+ + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
+ for rpath support in versions past 3.
+ + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
+ package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
+ Ralf S Engelschall).
+ + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
+ spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
+ + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
+ different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
+
+20061014
+ + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
+ + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
+ "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
+
+20061007
+ + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
+ and status line (Alain Bench).
+ + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
+ Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
+ objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
+ option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
+
+20060930
+ + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
+ + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
+ not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
+ + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
+ + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
+
+20060923
+ + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
+ + updated html documentation.
+ + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
+ + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
+
+20060916
+ + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
+ + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
+ (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
+ option (from lynx changes) -TD
+ + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
+ place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
+ + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
+ by report by Christopher Parker).
+ + update config.sub
+
+20060909
+ + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
+ + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
+ since it does not really do this -TD
+
+20060903
+ + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
+ against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
+ e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
+ (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
+
+20060902
+ + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
+ + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
+ embedded into a termcap description.
+ + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
+ when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
+ + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
+ buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
+ #202480)).
+ + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
+
+20060826
+ + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
+ terminal (mgt) -TD
+ + add test/foldkeys.c
+
+20060819
+ + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
+ source output (Debian #378783).
+ + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
+ rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
+ variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
+ + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
+ + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
+ (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
+
+20060805
+ + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
+ + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
+ e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
+
+20060729
+ + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
+ or as a text file if those are not available.
+ + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
+ + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
+ can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
+
+20060722
+ + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
+ than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
+ + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20060715
+ + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
+ and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
+ + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
+ + add test/chgat.c
+ + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
+ repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
+ McBrine).
+ + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
+ work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
+ + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
+ an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
+ + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
+ disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
+ Nigel Horne).
+ + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
+ to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
+ + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
+ it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20060708
+ + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
+ + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
+ checking of tic.
+
+20060701
+ + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
+ caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
+ in color mode.
+ + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
+ parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
+ + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
+ --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
+ + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
+ + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
+
+20060625
+ + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
+ + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
+ part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
+ + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
+ last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
+ freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
+ previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
+ + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
+ + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
+ + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
+
+20060617
+ + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
+ with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
+ + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
+ + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
+ symbols.
+ + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
+
+20060603
+ + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
+ + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
+ + minor copyright fixes.
+ + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
+
+20060527
+ + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
+ NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
+ lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
+ + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
+ NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
+ + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
+ to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
+ getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
+ wgetbkgrnd().
+ + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
+ definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
+ a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
+ these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
+ Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
+
+20060520
+ + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
+ wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
+ for hpterm.
+ + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
+ + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
+ + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
+ arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
+ Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
+ _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
+ making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
+ (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
+
+20060513
+ + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
+ + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
+ and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
+ suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
+ + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
+ infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+ + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
+ (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
+ appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
+ function is broken in that implementation.
+
+20060506
+ + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
+ + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
+
+20060422
+ + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
+ data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
+ Taylor).
+ + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
+ of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
+ by Bernd Rieke).
+ + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
+ reported to implement this feature -TD
+
+20060416
+ + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
+ broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20060415
+ + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
+ + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
+ due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
+ suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
+ was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
+ + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
+ such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
+ defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
+
+20060408
+ + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
+ entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
+ Alain Bench).
+ + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
+ escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
+
+20060401
+ + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
+ (report by Alain Bench).
+ + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
+ using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
+ + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
+ multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
+ Bench).
+ + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
+ option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
+ + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
+ McBrine).
+
+20060318
+ + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
+ and/or video attributes.
+ + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
+ a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
+
+20060312
+ + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
+
+20060311
+ + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
+ a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
+ + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
+ cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
+ in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
+ + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
+ region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
+ + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
+ stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
+
+20060225
+ + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
+ + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
+ + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
+
+20060218
+ + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
+ + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
+ + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
+ mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
+ + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
+ window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
+ + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
+ + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
+ for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
+ + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
+
+20060211
+ + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
+ + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
+ rather than delayed.
+ + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
+ screen.
+ + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
+ rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
+ terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
+
+20060204
+ + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
+ vendor curses.
+ + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
+ benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
+
+20060128
+ + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
+ should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
+
+20060121
+ + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
+ + suppress line-drawing
+ + implement max_attributes
+ tested with xterm.
+ + minor fixes for the database iterator.
+ + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
+ Debian #348117).
+
+20060114
+ + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
+ interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
+ databases.
+ + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
+ $HOME/.terminfo
+ + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
+ + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
+ etc., when allocating screens.
+
+20060111
+ + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
+ this in test/filter.c
+ + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
+ to fail.
+
+20060107
+ + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
+ at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
+ + add extension nofilter().
+ + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
+ + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
+ header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
+ file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
+ wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20051231
+ + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
+ test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
+ A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
+ of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
+ + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
+ calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
+ + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
+ values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
+ + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
+ PDCurses/X11.
+ + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
+ Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
+ curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
+ comparison.
+ + update config.guess and config.sub
+
+20051224
+ + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
+ an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
+ + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
+ TGETENT_YES, etc.
+ + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
+ + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
+ that was never built in that directory).
+ + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
+
+20051217
+ + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
+ feature.
+ + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
+ bool.
+
+20051210
+ + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
+ overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
+ attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
+ effect of the different functions.
+ + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
+ Victor Julien).
+
+20051203
+ + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
+ configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
+ Setzer).
+ + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
+ (Debian #341661).
+
+20051126
+ + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
+ to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
+ _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
+ included.
+ + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
+ + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
+ short equivalents.
+
+20051119
+ + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
+ + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
+ search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
+ by Andrea Govoni).
+ + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
+ + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
+ + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
+
+20051112
+ + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
+ + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
+ Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
+
+20051029
+ + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
+ + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
+ since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
+ #316663).
+ + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
+ a derived window (Debian #316663).
+
+20051022
+ + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
+ down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
+ terminals opened with newterm() as well.
+ + fix a memory leak in keyname().
+ + add test/demo_altkeys.c
+ + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
+ leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
+
+20051015
+ + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
+ f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
+ + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
+ found.
+ + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
+ --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
+ + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
+ that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
+ static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).