+ 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.
+ improve manpage typography.
+ improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
nonprintable characters.
+ add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
+ correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
+ fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154,
ncrvt100an -TD
+ improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by
discussion with Florian Weimer).
+ set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
Pfeifer).
+ add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
+ remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
+ change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
+ simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
+ fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas).
+ add tmux-direct (tmux #2370)
+ add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
checking consistency with tic.
+ correct configure-check for gnurx library.
+ regenerate llib-* files.
+ modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for
panel- and user-pointers.
+ add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
+ build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
+ use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
+ remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
Anonymous".
+ merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
win32-driver.
+ modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
mawk and lynx).
> errate for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
+ correct icl6404 csr
+ correct ti916 cup
+ improve ndr9500
+ improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
+ make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
man_db.renames file.
+ correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
(report by Yue Tai).
+ add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
+ modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
+ reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
warnings.
+ mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
+ add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
using the string-hacks option.
+ prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
+ amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
(report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
+ improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
+ filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
(discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
+ improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
+ modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
--with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
(discussion with Keith Marshall).
+ other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
+ modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
MinGW.
+ remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
+ add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
(discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
+ modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
+ improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
+ set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
"Maarten Anonymous")
+ improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
+ improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
Florian Weimer).
+ reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
Studio C++.
+ define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
> additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
(reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+ modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
+ several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
+ change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
+ fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
Bruckl).
+ additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
(reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+ build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
Pfeifer).
+ fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
+ fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
+ update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
+ modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
> additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
(patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
+ update list of functions in ncurses.3x
+ move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
#961097).
+ add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
+ add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
+ use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
+ add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
+ correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
+ re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
+ add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
+ drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
+ add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes.
+ improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
(report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
(report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
+ fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
+ add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
+ add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
> fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
"Maarten Anonymous"):
+ modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
options into Visual Studio's dialect.
+ omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
+ add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
a performance comparison.
+ build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
+ add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
+ add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
+ modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
those to position reports.
+ improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
+ fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
+ improve see-also section of user_caps.5
+ fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
(report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
+ add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
+ update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
+ modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
> fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
"Maarten Anonymous"):
+ add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
+ define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
C++ preprocessor limitations.
+ modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
+ correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
+ remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
+ improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
+ improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
a corresponding demo of dup_field().
+ add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+ add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+ add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
+ update copyright notices in test-packages.
+ modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
+ add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
+ modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
background character, because it may be used in cases where the
corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
cf: 20181208).
+ modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
> fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
"Maarten Anonymous"):
+ check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
+ add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
+ add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
+ modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
length array feature.
+ add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
+ remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
+ remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
+ use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
+ conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
+ adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
+ expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
+ improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
+ add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
+ check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
building out-of-tree.
+ improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
+ add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
include all of the required headers for the types used.
