+ modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given
screen.
+ amend portability note for delwin in manual page.
+ adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray.
+ account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration
+ split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about
pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol.
+ improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c
+ fixes to build with dietlibc:
+ add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner).
+ add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock,
and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner).
+ use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found
(adapted from patch by Georg Lehner).
+ trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc
files seen in Fedora 36+.
+ add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual.
+ improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c
+ improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen
(Debian #1015756).
+ build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw.
+ improve shell-scripts with shellcheck
+ fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke).
+ add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities.
+ use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and
response -TD
+ use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably
supported the u6-u9 extension -TD
+ add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD
+ improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results
for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic).
+ correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD
+ add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD
+ add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(),
needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521).
+ revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to
smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD
+ amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610,
att620, att730 -TD
+ modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when
merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy).
+ improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character.
+ add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x
+ remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD
+ set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD
+ improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs.
+ set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr().
+ modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to
copy_termtype().
+ modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and
also provide for focus in/out responses -TD
+ modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release
events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov).
+ improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo
syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'.
+ alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table
data rather than relying upon its callers.
+ use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure
it is initialized.
+ add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC.
+ add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp.
+ in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402).
+ fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir().
+ fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used.
+ add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data
(report/testcase by NCNIPC of China).
+ add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is
missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379).
+ add setlocale call to several test-programs.
+ allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on.
+ add xgterm -TD
+ correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by
Robert Lange)
+ add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange)
+ improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc.
+ add xterm+acs building-block -TD
+ add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD
+ add dec+sl to xterm-new, per patch #371 -TD
+ add mosh and mosh-256color -TD
+ replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to
work around build problems with gnat 12.
+ update external links in Ada95.html
+ trim unused return-value from canonical_name().
+ fix issues found with coverity:
+ rewrite canonical_name() function of infocmp to ensure buffer size
+ corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands
+ modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns
+ add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c
+ add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis.
+ enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding.
+ adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from
gcc 12.0.1
+ workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values
by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit.
+ improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap".
+ 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
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ 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).
+ 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.
+ improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
+ modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad,
rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit
its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou).
+ fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram
Moolenaar, cf: 20210821).
+ simplify some references to WINDOWS._flags using macros.
+ add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages.
+ build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp
+ corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10.
+ amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where
none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from
mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic).
+ check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case
a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by
Frank Tkalcevic).
+ build-fix for pmake with libtool.
+ improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up
shellcheck warnings.
+ add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc
+ revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual
search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug
(report by Pascal Pignard).
+ freeze ABI in ".map" files.
+ implement "+m" option in tabs program.
+ fill in some details for infoton -TD
+ fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD
+ use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD
+ modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other
than reset/init, e.g., for clear.
+ modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather
than the last.
+ improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp,
and smgbp (cf: 20020525).
+ correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow
special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407).
+ remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and
non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present
(cf: 20101002).
+ use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for
buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_").
+ modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to
match the documentation.
+ add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses.
+ make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when
those are used, rather than the underlying program's name.
+ improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating
tput-specific portions.
+ add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather
than binary.
+ further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from
the other BSDs.
+ add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD
+ add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the
"tabs" +m option -TD
+ build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward
reference of anonymous struct typedef.
+ modify tput to allow multiple commands per line.
+ minor fixes for tset manpage.
+ adjust ifdef in test_opaque.c to fix build with ncurses 5.7
+ add testing note for xterm-{hp|sco|sun} -TD
+ corrected description for ansi.sys-old -TD
+ add xterm+nopcfkeys, to fill in keys for xterm-hp, xterm-sun -TD
+ use hp+arrows in a few places -TD
+ use hp+pfk-cr in a few places -TD
+ modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by
kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD
+ add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color
manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4.
+ minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black).
+ amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh).
+ build-fix for compiling link_test
+ drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify
use (Debian #993179).
+ correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis
by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626).
+ apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list
parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list
(prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request).
+ modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE,
e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for
ncursesw.
+ improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables.
+ improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching
SVr4 terminfo.
+ move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h
+ add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile
+ corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD
+ add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an
error in an expression (cf: 20201010).
+ correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than
SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812).
+ fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report
by Florian Weimer) -TD
+ fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes.
+ update config.sub
+ ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files,
adapted from "distr1" patch.
+ add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports.
+ add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to
ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD
+ correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this
against Glink manual -TD
+ fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the
vt220 entry -TD
+ modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option
(report by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers
who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library.
+ build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque
curses structs.
+ improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball,
which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years.
+ improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs
Jansen).
+ further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of
the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree.
+ update config.sub
+ amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc.,
in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries.
+ modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
+ regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate
an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted
by discussion with Peter Farley).
+ add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
+ modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses
in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by
report/testcase by Bill Gray)
+ update config.guess, config.sub
+ improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by
report/testcase by Bill Gray).
is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by
+ modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first
calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization
is requires for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by
Sebastiano Vigna).
+ fix several warnings from clang --analyze
+ add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers
to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav
Lichvar, cf: 20210227).
+ add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the
build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html
There is no workaround for the other issue, a broken linker spec.
+ modify configure check for libtool to prevent accidental use of an
OpenBSD program which uses the same name.
+ update config.guess, config.sub
+ avoid using broken system macros for snprintf which interfere with
_nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks
configure option is enabled.
+ add a "all::" rule before the new "check" rule in test/Makefile.in
+ improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed
before linking to the target.
+ add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories.
+ build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports
by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum).
+ extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS
from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764).
+ fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
libraries and progs directory.
+ fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments
(patch by Hadrien Lacour).
+ fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and
progs directory.
+ improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x
+ improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes.
+ fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning
leak-checking off later in a set of options.
+ relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime
on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems.
+ call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is
called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
Lutter).
+ improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any
extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms
capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town,
cf: 20200531).
+ remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of
_nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD
+ add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger)
+ if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that
rather than gcc's attribute.
+ change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is
a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention.
+ add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck.
+ improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and
".pc" files, from dialog changes.
+ reduce dependency of math-library in test programs.
+ minor fixes for test_tparm.c (cf: 20210306)
+ mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by
Michal Bielinski).
+ improved test/test_tparm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities
+ improved test/test_parm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities
that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test.
+ improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in
man/curs_terminfo.3x
+ update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1
+ improve tic warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49 for xterm
compatible XT flag.
+ revert change to lib_addch.c in waddch_literal() from 20210130, since
the followup fix in PutCharLR() actually corrects the problem while
this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes
Altmanninger).
+ add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD
+ add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD
+ add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD
+ add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD
+ move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD
+ add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background
functions.
+ add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a
wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character.
+ improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries.
+ improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first
parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
+ provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd
(report/testcase by Anton Vidovic)
+ add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2"
option, from xterm #363 -TD
+ modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before
writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the
cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
+ correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused
scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower
right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg).
+ split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD
+ add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not
supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD
+ use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD
+ use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD
+ use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore
blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD
+ modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for
cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding
the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich).
+ minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around
quirks of pmake.
+ add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS
(report by Patrick McDermott) -TD
+ make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1,
adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
+ update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
exit_terminfo.
+ clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
(prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
+ amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031).
+ use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
consistency with other manpages.
+ suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
+ fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
by Chris Bennett).
+ amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
gprbuild (cf: 20200627).
+ eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
+ eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
Abendroth).
+ modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
(patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
+ add flash to mlterm3 -TD
+ add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
+ add rep to PuTTY -TD
+ add putty+keypad -TD
+ add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in
the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses
low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217).
+ modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its
-std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS,
do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases.
+ fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
+ add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang
(report by Steven Pitman).
+ fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
+ modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the
special case where short extended capability strings were not
converted from terminfo to termcap format.
+ modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case
when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
+ update kitty+common -TD
+ add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
+ explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely
upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
+ modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h>
before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
+ review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion
with Reuben Thomas).
+ improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to
ensure that the messages contain only printable text.
+ modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
Pitman).
needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
+ provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
+ fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with
Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
+ change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
needed in to tic's use-resolution work pad_char is cancelled
(report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
+ improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of
parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
Sebastian Herlim).
+ fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.