+ add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
of OS/2 EMX.
+ modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
port.
+ modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
+ support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
+ various improvments for MinGW (patch by Juergen Pfeifer):
+ modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
+ drop mk-dlls.sh script.
+ change recommended regular expression library.
+ modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
+ modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
+ update release notes, for 5.8.
+ regenerated html manpages.
+ change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
with write_file().
+ modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
a new install of hashed database.
+ fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
+ add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
+ regenerated html manpages.
+ minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
+ add manpage for sp-funcs.
+ add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
+ add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
and form-libraries.
+ minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
+ modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
(sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
+ add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
platforms.
+ add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
by sharing linedata.h functions):
test/test_addstr.c
test/test_addwstr.c
test/test_addchstr.c
test/test_add_wchstr.c
+ correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
+ improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
+ minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
+ add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ 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
+ 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).
+ 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).
+ 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
+ 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).
+ 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().
+ 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).
